A Freeper surrenders! The End is Hear! Hugh and Series!!!

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Thu Mar-05-09 10:57 PM
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A Freeper surrenders! The End is Hear! Hugh and Series!!!

My dear fellows and you socialists lurking out there.

This is not uplifting. I do wish someone could convince me that I am wrong and that there is cause for hope. If you suspect that this is a demoralizing plant by the left you would be wrong. It is however the most heart felt struggle to understand why this has happened to us all i can write.

I am not alone. I looked to my Senator, whom I respect very much, to provide some encouragement that this wave of destruction could at least be held back and moderated...he gave no such encouragement. His letter back to me was as vacant as this one.

I read this article headline 'Thousands Rally in New York" and was pleased for but an instant and then read on. My hope turned to despair.

I must sadly declare that I feel we are very near the end of the Republic. The tide has turned from one of vision and incentive to one of entitlement. It began when the vote was given to all. It was then that the safeguard against those who have less having the capacity to vote themselves a raise from the treasury ended.

The fact that these have less people can flood the streets and demand the de facto confiscation of the remaining possessions of those they envy justifies my position. We are overwhelmed and nothing short of total destruction and rebuilding will ever change the situation. In spite of our sometimes heroic efforts last week to organize the little tea parties we could only muster a fraction of the number demonstrating in New York today.

This path to destruction, begun long ago and with one compromise built upon another, has led us to where we are today. Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter, Clinton...each left a radically changed country in his path. Laws and programs that came to be in an instant that "couldn't be undone"...something I have never understood...were left in their wake.

After each of them the Republicans came along and tried to patch things up within the confines of the rule-of-law. Don't get me wrong, Republicans have been some of the biggest scalliwags ever but, for the most part, they tried to return some order within what they saw as the will of at least part of the people who deserved their say. This is one set of actions that has led to the demise of the United States, compromise. Compromise with the fair minded belief that no good could come of repeated cycles of building and destruction. Compromise that came from the high minded but foolish belief that if one did the right thing the others would rise to the challenge of meeting it. The stupid belief that you could make good from bad.

One after another we allowed "interests" to strip away the things our nation was built upon until we now stand for nothing. It was not enough that we preserved the right for all to express themselves freely or that we respected all religions and non-religions, we also allowed our foundations to be destroyed by those who disagreed or were offended. We allowed our own freedoms of expression and belief to be destroyed by the very persons we were protecting.

To add to this we created an entitlement class who were taught that anybody who has more than you do got it in spite of you...at your expense. They came by their prosperity by deceit and crookedness.

Never mind that those who have more worked harder and took more risks. This ethos was not taught or celebrated. Sure there are exceptions to every rule but for the most part those who lived well did so by earning their place.

Add to this that we destroyed much of the foundation upon which good hard-working true middle class families could be built. Greed of business did this. Greed and globalization. I do wonder if it was inevitable though when the rest of the world could make what we made for less and they no longer needed our goods...we became non-competitive and no longer had the edge that supported our unique middle-class.

And so we find ourselves where we are today. A communist elected or selected president and a gaggle of mindless senators and congressmen who have not yet figured out that in the long run we are all screwed. "Statesmanship" and power for sale to the highest bidder and the bid is the vote. A time when becoming winner as a result of half the people means that the other half loses and loses big. The consequences do not matter so long as the power is retained by the few who hold it.

This may be over simplified to some. I hope someone will take the time, inclination and effort to successfully convince me there is a way out of this.

I have said my piece and await our fate. If a leader of Right emerges I will follow but I can't lead from my lowly place. I am too old and too tired.

Finished

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