tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post3482441171327571792..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: The REAL Americamark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-72505583644929339692020-12-30T06:58:15.109-06:002020-12-30T06:58:15.109-06:00I have to disagree with you on "American Exce...I have to disagree with you on "American Exceptionalism"; I believe that it is real and that I have witnessed it, and even participated in it in a small way. Like so much that is good in life, it is a simple thing, and I never really noticed it until I worked overseas. I didn't even have a name for it after recognizing the phenomenon, until I found it described in a book I read (Iknuckledraggertechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582595548812121733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-90777451334005347352020-12-29T18:40:38.277-06:002020-12-29T18:40:38.277-06:00There is no one generation at fault. We all are a...There is no one generation at fault. We all are at fault.<br /><br />The NewNeo has a post about self censorship. The SSRN paper it ultimately was based on shows that micro concerns (family and friends) appear to be the driving factor in this phenomenon and that it is more pronounced with the higher level of education you have.<br /><br />Problem is, though, this phenomenon is now a lot TexasDudehttps://tdnew10.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-46156439718535888842020-12-29T15:39:10.357-06:002020-12-29T15:39:10.357-06:00I know how this sounds, but I suggest having intel...I know how this sounds, but I suggest having intellectual conversations around what HAS happened (incredulous disbelief) no longer serves us. <br /><br />Just my opinion, but its time for conservatives to CREATE our own reality with action, and by ANY means necessary as has been done by The Left. <br /><br />We as Conservatives no longer have Agency, or if we do, its on life support...and that Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-46777896641346785032020-12-29T11:04:05.513-06:002020-12-29T11:04:05.513-06:00I was matriculating through UC Berkeley as the Vie...I was matriculating through UC Berkeley as the Vietnam war wound down (1969-1973). I was as intellectually radical as one would expect of a man-child who didn't want his low draft number to land him in a run through the jungle. My parents argued strenuously with their four college age children about the war, but never had a chance. Our young grad student TA's reinforced our cowardice PD Quighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00454197219107241444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-61100914158037034392020-12-29T09:23:31.546-06:002020-12-29T09:23:31.546-06:00In some ways the 2020 election was a blessing. Th...In some ways the 2020 election was a blessing. The Extortionists have removed hope from the table for millions. Many will cease to be Stockdale's "optimists", forever looking forward to being delivered by the next election when, in fact, that game has been rigged at least since Wendell Wilkie ran.<br /><br />For me this is for my grandchildren, who are just coming into the world, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-27263586628686392592020-12-29T08:38:11.240-06:002020-12-29T08:38:11.240-06:00lol nah
Some of us grieved decades ago when we sa...lol nah<br /><br />Some of us grieved decades ago when we say this happening and had eyes to see and ears to hear.<br /><br />Some of us are at stage 6 Pissed and ready to die to keep the treasure we have.PubliusFlaviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05431926738381135044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-5077130780863458712020-12-29T08:35:35.762-06:002020-12-29T08:35:35.762-06:00Yes, Mark, we are all taking a very hard look in t...Yes, Mark, we are all taking a very hard look in the mirror now.<br /><br />But let's be very clear about what we are seeing and what we are up against. Surber is right. Biden represents something like the head of a mafia crime family. But only one. To understand this we need to reference the CCP which is in essence a conglomerate of a few hundred crime families wielding state power for theirTschifty Mccoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145718212696956164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-44088734448004413852020-12-29T08:09:20.190-06:002020-12-29T08:09:20.190-06:00@ devilman
Fear and anger, or righteous indignati...@ devilman<br /><br />Fear and anger, or righteous indignation are opposite emotions. fear causes us to retreat and accept. Anger mobilizes us to act. There is a time for every purpose under heaven. The time for righteous indignation is NOW!<br />Aletheia<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-43327980261598514262020-12-29T07:54:24.999-06:002020-12-29T07:54:24.999-06:00For the non-coastal cities... lamp post and overpa...For the non-coastal cities... lamp post and overpass decorations.<br /><br />DJLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-50070354819496397712020-12-29T06:55:26.373-06:002020-12-29T06:55:26.373-06:00Caught me by surprise too. The fact that half the...Caught me by surprise too. The fact that half the country wants to be slaves of the elites boggles my mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-62340611978841487762020-12-29T02:25:54.182-06:002020-12-29T02:25:54.182-06:00Fellow contributors in reading this thread I think...Fellow contributors in reading this thread I think most have hit stage four in the cycle of grieving. <br /><br />We need not go to stage 5 please.<br /><br />I have no doubt whatsoever that this all ends in the worst possible way. We see it coming and all know it. However we should also not simply accept what is happening. <br /><br />It's painful to look at the truths of our nation's devilmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256049667739001018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-44206118177015066442020-12-29T00:33:09.507-06:002020-12-29T00:33:09.507-06:00There is, I believe, plenty of blame to go around,...There is, I believe, plenty of blame to go around, if anyone thinks that affixing blame is somehow salutary. Mostly it was pride. Pride in knowledge rather than trust of wisdom. Pride of place rather than humility before God and men. Pride in righteousness, in being unerringly on the right side of history. Each generation has made a fulsome contribution.<br /><br />I have been rereading the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-66272882622134644162020-12-28T23:24:34.048-06:002020-12-28T23:24:34.048-06:00Elites.....long walk, short pier. Coming soon to a...Elites.....long walk, short pier. Coming soon to a city near you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-82275350766037350262020-12-28T22:15:47.593-06:002020-12-28T22:15:47.593-06:00The 60s and 70s hippies were a relatively small gr...The 60s and 70s hippies were a relatively small group of relatively privileged kids. Not everyone went to college, and the high schools were still very decent. Lots of old maid school teachers who taught classic texts and took no guff from smart alecs. Home life was better then, too. Most families practiced some religion. Intact families, lots of stay at home moms happy to be home. Kids played Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-34371526440193227502020-12-28T21:27:27.001-06:002020-12-28T21:27:27.001-06:00"Within that oath is the obligation to protec..."Within that oath is the obligation to protect the nation from all enemies, both foreign and domestic."<br /><br />Yes, but if you've been brainwashed and propagandized for 4 years that Trump is Hitler, then you would feel righteous in doing whatever you could, even lying and cheating, to get rid of him.<br /><br />I blame the media most of all, and behind the media sit the ClintonsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-35445627217255964842020-12-28T21:19:36.783-06:002020-12-28T21:19:36.783-06:00I can't believe how far I've come in despi...I can't believe how far I've come in despising our ruling elite. I begin to sound like my Marxist brother.<br /><br />Difference is, he hates what this country was designed to be, whereas I cannot abide what it has become.mistcrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-22924717076498433972020-12-28T21:16:09.360-06:002020-12-28T21:16:09.360-06:00@mso, agreed.
For all the well-publicized failing...@mso, agreed.<br /><br />For all the well-publicized failings of the Boomers, their parents raised them.<br /><br />These things don't happen in a vacuum.mistcrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-19417330482964002652020-12-28T21:12:55.831-06:002020-12-28T21:12:55.831-06:00Oaths are like the constitution: as strong as our ...Oaths are like the constitution: as strong as our will and as weak as the paper they're written on.mistcrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-88994207496243771132020-12-28T21:10:58.751-06:002020-12-28T21:10:58.751-06:00You're right. But it really doesn't take m...You're right. But it really doesn't take much.<br /><br />Remember: places like Philly, Detroit, and Atlanta already have reputations for substantial fraud. So their political machines are already fully operational, from leadership down to minion, with corresponding levels of need-to-know.<br /><br />All it took was a very small handful of people at the national level - an Elias and his mistcrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-57053528275196529872020-12-28T20:20:05.887-06:002020-12-28T20:20:05.887-06:00Never would have crossed my mind that the powerful...Never would have crossed my mind that the powerful, the elites, the politicians would create a microcosm of the world and the U.S. and use it to govern the rest. Until recently, I never thought it was possible for a bipartisan "ruling class". Boy was I wrong. Keeps me thinking of "The Matrix". AmericanCardiganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07905240590569993870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-50873158855233984852020-12-28T19:50:16.282-06:002020-12-28T19:50:16.282-06:00It was the Lost Generation and the Greatest Genera...It was the Lost Generation and the Greatest Generation who lost this nation. The six million boomers who fought in Viet Nam came home to watch our congress abandon those for whom we fought.<br /><br />We boomers were voting for out first President then and barely having an impact on desegregation. It was the earlier generations who surrendered our universities to the students, who surrendered ourAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-75680812850324092302020-12-28T19:06:05.269-06:002020-12-28T19:06:05.269-06:00same here, sigh. Unfortunately, we lost many of t...same here, sigh. Unfortunately, we lost many of the good guys in our generation in Nam and those that came back weren't the same...<br />Methinks on a smaller scale, what Vietnam did to us was similar to what the Great War did to the cream of the English crop so long ago...geez, such a waste in retrospectHotlanta Hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019546809736756263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-91000790398235960302020-12-28T18:13:08.003-06:002020-12-28T18:13:08.003-06:00Yeah, Mark, but some Boomers had *much* more power...Yeah, Mark, but some Boomers had *much* more power than others.<br />Many months ago, I posted here a link, to J. Kotkin, on the Clerisy vs. the Yeomanry, at <br />https://quillette.com/2020/02/27/the-two-middle-classes/ .<br />And, I've also posted on writings of J.M. Greer, esp. <br />https://archdruidmirror.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-hate-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html (on class hate), aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-23762588075787063082020-12-28T17:16:11.564-06:002020-12-28T17:16:11.564-06:00"You'd have to be suffering from dementia..."You'd have to be suffering from dementia to believe it."<br /><br />Or a Doctor. Not a Doctor Doctor, the other kind. ;-)<br />Tom S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-7202156110478935742020-12-28T17:12:59.061-06:002020-12-28T17:12:59.061-06:00You are right. The whole narrative is insanely abs...You are right. The whole narrative is insanely absurd. You'd have to be suffering from dementia to believe it.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.com