Originally Posted by
osan
Ah... OK... utterly lost on me. It didn't read at all as sarcasm, but then again I'm not the sharpest bulb in the drawer, so don't go by me.
Meh... he says lots of things that leave me wondering, which contributes to my inability to come to trust him. I still say leave him to a second term. It could be no worse than anything Biden, Sanders, Warren, or the Butt man would try to foist on us. Either way we would be faced with a very unpleasant decision, much as are the people of VA this very day, so I say give him a whirl. I will be the first to toss Trump under the bus if he makes a clear move against our rights. Yeah, I know about the bumpstock thing, but it was a policy change and we do not quite know what he may have purchased with it, so I'm not yet ready to condemn him. He has demonstrated an ability, a will, and a habit of playing a longer game than any of his predecessors, at least back to Reagan, so this could all be part of the game. Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, I choose to focus on the current mood of fed-upness because THAT is where the most opportunities lay. Placing our hopes in yet another personality is precisely how we have gone from the American political circumstance of 1789, to now. It is our most unfortunate proclivity to want to pimp OUR responsibilities onto the shoulders of others that got us here and it is only the repression of that worst of habits that presents even the slimmest hope of extrication from under the tyrant's boot-heel.
In a sense Trump may have been the worst thing because the recoveries stand to not only fill our pockets with token increases in our fortunes, but to put us right back to sleep under the false sense that all is well, in good hands, and that we can now relax... yet another indicator of the deep corruption with which most Americans choose over the status of free individuals.
I'm not on anyone's bandwagon, but I am willing to give credit due.
Until we become a warrior people in truth and not just in self-aggrandizing name, a very bad habit we have acquired, we will never be reasonably safe from tyrannical predation of our freedoms.
Part of becoming true warriors is first to become smart enough to tell virtuous conditions from rot, freedom from slavery, and to then become utterly and non-forgivingly intolerant of the intolerable, to the utter horror of all "lefties" and other pretty-slavery types. We need to drive Saul Alinsky and all of his ilk not just into their graves, but to spinning like out-of-control lathes in them. It is only until we reach a critical mass of vicious intolerance of tyranny, not just by our... ERM... "leaders", but our slave-neighbors as well, that we will be able to even begin to honestly and credibly abel ourselves as free men. Until then, we stand not very much better than the rest.
But as is the case with most humanity, we like to talk big and do small. A people, once corrupted, becomes nearly impossible to bring back from their fallen condition. The attraction of that which leads to our corruption seems nearly insurmountable. Asking people to turn their backs to it is like asking a fresh new heroin addict to "just say no".
Cheers.
Connect With Us