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VDH's astute and insightful commentary lays out just what has happened to bring us (the U.S.) to a point of "no return." I'm no scholar but I've been studying and observing politics for many years ... and I do not see a way out. Some will say I am just negative. No, I am not negative; I am just positive we are on the brink of the precipice https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/08/a-culture-in-collapse/FWIW. L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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I really like Mr. Hanson, he’s pretty spot-on with every news interview I’ve seen him give. memtb
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His last sentence of that treatise is "In sum, American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable."
This indicates that we're on a collision course but doesn't necessarily spell doom.
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His last sentence of that treatise is "In sum, American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable."
This indicates that we're on a collision course but doesn't necessarily spell doom. I agree. It means a lot of good people will be forced to do lots of bad things.
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Well considered article, thanks.
I am..........disturbed.
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We became fat, dumb and happy and put our Congress on auto pilot and then one day we found out it's not going to work but it was too late to stop the train.
VDH is correct, we are on a collision course and if we are lucky we can pull ourselves back together and maybe survive until the political left devises a new way to destroy America all in the name of Marxism.
We have to lose some weight and smarten up and get the Congress back under our control. If we are lucky, the right people will die and the good Americans will be the victors.
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Thanks Obammy and those who voted for him.
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If we are lucky, the right people will die and the good Americans will be the victors.
kwg A couple of hundred of the right ones would save countless thousands of lives.
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Thanks Obammy and those who voted for him. He is part of it. But he isn't who brought this to our door.
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"...the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one." 1 John 5:19
The only hope is Jesus.
By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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Thanks Obammy and those who voted for him. He is part of it. But he isn't who brought this to our door. You're right. It started more than one hundred years ago. The power plays actually began in the late 1880s, when the "powers" of industry, manufacturing, banking, transportation, etc., joined together to become the "rulers" of America. That power has been being cemented ever since. Many years ago, the great novelist, Mark Twain, wrote a novel about it: The Gilded Age. Very prescient. L.W.
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In my many years of experience, when everyone is preaching doom and gloom there is only one right move - buy stocks.
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In my many years of experience, when everyone is preaching doom and gloom there is only one right move - buy stocks. Yep - then chipsNdips and a pepsi
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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JeffO approves of this.... as does BuzzH, Eric308 and all of our other resident commies
Originally Posted by Judman PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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I've read many of VDH's books. He's a brilliant guy and also very rooted in the common sense that comes from having been a farmer as well as an academic. I can't disagree with this essay.
We haven't gone over the cliff yet, but we're getting pretty close. Let's hope the American people have enough sense and will to make the changes needed to recover from the insanity and chaos.
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... and I do not see a way out. .... I am just positive we are on the brink of the precipice We are on The Brink for sure, but watch what happens............
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This piece is very well reasoned and sweeping in its scope- the examples so accurate and powerful. It is not that many have not recently noted various aspects illuminated there by Hanson - some on this site have addressed and discussed such things quite well - but this article seems to far surpass past alarms. How may people known to you and I will be truly interested in reading and understanding it - and invest the time and effort needed to do so?
Upon digesting it, how could any freedom loving, thoughtful and sensible American not be further shaken to the point of action? What percentage of the people you (and I) know would not be so moved? Those answers are ultra important.
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This piece is very well reasoned and sweeping in its scope- the examples so accurate and powerful. It is not that many have not recently noted various aspects illuminated there by Hanson - some on this site have addressed and discussed such things quite well - but this article seems to far surpass past alarms. How may people known to you and I will be truly interested in reading and understanding it - and invest the time and effort needed to do so?
Upon digesting it, how could any freedom loving, thoughtful and sensible American not be further shaken to the point of action? What percentage of the people you (and I) know would not be so moved? Those answers are ultra important. Brother this very site is full of normies that haven't a clue.... I try to fight with them...
Originally Posted by Judman PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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Very good article that hits home.
What is the solution?
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Very good article that hits home.
What is the solution? Good question! Thing is we let the left control the narrative and language. They sit in their circle jerk of like minded liberal sheep repeating talking points and virtue signaling over them and never getting challenged..... so it's our job to challenge them, best to do it in public, on a forum or before a crowd! Speak the truth, don't be afraid!!!
Originally Posted by Judman PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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