Gentlemen I am a new member to the forum. have watched from the shadows for years and thought at some point I should get involved. My children are all out of the house. Revolution is relative to time. Revolution can be contained and march slowly or it can go quickly and be explosive. When it marches slowly it is called "progressive" I have target shot for years and I acquired my first AR about a year and a half ago feeling this coming.
I was a business major in college with a minor in history. Always liked to try to figure out the catalyst for change both good and bad in society. What we are experiencing here is a shift in culture. /it starts in are formative years. Years ago we were indoctrinated as "rugged survivalist" We read "Old man and the sea and such. We were taught to be self reliant and to be reverent of authority. Government was not either good or bad.
But with the fear generated by the great depression people were willing to give up some freedom in order to feel safe. Social Security and such. After WWII there was still much in this nation that needed to be addressed in particular the aspect of race and most of us supported activities to end racism and do as Martin Luther King suggested not judge a man by the color of his skin but rather by his character. However progressive saw this as a weakness in our position and used it to promote a ever broadening scope of government regulation and intervention to solve societies problems.
Unlike Dr. Martin Luther King who sought resolution be uniting us under God. The politicians have taken to winning based upon dividing us. They have divided us into smaller and smaller groups and pit one against the other. All the while they promote government as the answer to protecting us from ourselves. As I eluded to education earlier the young are not indoctrinated with lesson on rugged individualism but rather on collectivism. Collectivism is good and bring out the best in us. People who are individualist are evil.
So the young grow up willing to accept collectivist values because they see them as good, and individual activity as bad. Politician feed on this. They are merely reflections of society. Politicians only take advantage of public sentiment to stay in power. If you listened to President Obama"s acceptance speech in Denver it was all to telling about his mission. It was titled" The American Promise" and for 45 minutes he went on and on about promise this promise that. You just could have swapped entitled for every "promise" It was a list of entitlements. Collectivism at its best.
Sort of like the Pied Piper of Hamlin as he leads the Lemmings of the cliffs. What a great tune. Sounds great. Problem is as it always has over thousand of years, collectivism or socialism or Marxism does not work. The real question is as the Government get more powerful redistributing wealth and entitling more and more people, how does it end. With Rome it ended in Social and Economic collapse. In Russia it ended with economic and social collapse.
It ma not be the case in the United states though. Problem is people are to educated. Yes the music sounds great but when we get to the edge of the cliffs will we refuse to jump. I think the Affordable care act is just that. We are huddled at the edge of the cliff and while there are many winners in the Affordable Care Act (Laugh) there are way to many losers. So if they all refuse to follow the reality before them to which the music has led them, that is revolution.
I believe we are there. We are about to witness a revolution. Of course if we renounce these ideas and appoint politicians that reflect this thinking we are saved for at least a while. The question is do the youth who see this happening see this as only a small thing or does it make them wake up and say" Wow almost went over that one" Not going there again.
We shall see. It depends on as many of us as there are voicing this to our colleges friend s and family. If it is a small whimper then this will only be a small pit stop as it were on the march towards progressivism. If it is a roar? There is hope in can be attenuated.
I was a business major in college with a minor in history. Always liked to try to figure out the catalyst for change both good and bad in society. What we are experiencing here is a shift in culture. /it starts in are formative years. Years ago we were indoctrinated as "rugged survivalist" We read "Old man and the sea and such. We were taught to be self reliant and to be reverent of authority. Government was not either good or bad.
But with the fear generated by the great depression people were willing to give up some freedom in order to feel safe. Social Security and such. After WWII there was still much in this nation that needed to be addressed in particular the aspect of race and most of us supported activities to end racism and do as Martin Luther King suggested not judge a man by the color of his skin but rather by his character. However progressive saw this as a weakness in our position and used it to promote a ever broadening scope of government regulation and intervention to solve societies problems.
Unlike Dr. Martin Luther King who sought resolution be uniting us under God. The politicians have taken to winning based upon dividing us. They have divided us into smaller and smaller groups and pit one against the other. All the while they promote government as the answer to protecting us from ourselves. As I eluded to education earlier the young are not indoctrinated with lesson on rugged individualism but rather on collectivism. Collectivism is good and bring out the best in us. People who are individualist are evil.
So the young grow up willing to accept collectivist values because they see them as good, and individual activity as bad. Politician feed on this. They are merely reflections of society. Politicians only take advantage of public sentiment to stay in power. If you listened to President Obama"s acceptance speech in Denver it was all to telling about his mission. It was titled" The American Promise" and for 45 minutes he went on and on about promise this promise that. You just could have swapped entitled for every "promise" It was a list of entitlements. Collectivism at its best.
Sort of like the Pied Piper of Hamlin as he leads the Lemmings of the cliffs. What a great tune. Sounds great. Problem is as it always has over thousand of years, collectivism or socialism or Marxism does not work. The real question is as the Government get more powerful redistributing wealth and entitling more and more people, how does it end. With Rome it ended in Social and Economic collapse. In Russia it ended with economic and social collapse.
It ma not be the case in the United states though. Problem is people are to educated. Yes the music sounds great but when we get to the edge of the cliffs will we refuse to jump. I think the Affordable care act is just that. We are huddled at the edge of the cliff and while there are many winners in the Affordable Care Act (Laugh) there are way to many losers. So if they all refuse to follow the reality before them to which the music has led them, that is revolution.
I believe we are there. We are about to witness a revolution. Of course if we renounce these ideas and appoint politicians that reflect this thinking we are saved for at least a while. The question is do the youth who see this happening see this as only a small thing or does it make them wake up and say" Wow almost went over that one" Not going there again.
We shall see. It depends on as many of us as there are voicing this to our colleges friend s and family. If it is a small whimper then this will only be a small pit stop as it were on the march towards progressivism. If it is a roar? There is hope in can be attenuated.
