(10-24-2020, 05:26 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:Quote:But for all of us, we will have lost a little of ourselves. That thing that once used to make us a Great Nation above all the rest.... Determination and resolve and our propensity to display charity to one another.
Nope! Not me.
We are still, and will continue to be, a great nation above all the rest because Trump is going to win. There might be some cheating in a few democrat-held areas, but I think the votes are going to be so huge for Trump that it will be impossible for the other side to use fake votes to overcome him. There won't be enough registered voters left to claim Biden the winner without showing fraud.
I believe Trump will win as well, barring some nefarious sort of voter fraud, but that will just be kicking the can down the road for future generations to have to deal with.
The Socialist forces arrayed against the bastion of freedom that the US used to be are pretty powerful, and they have the long view of history much like Islam. We thought we had them whipped in the late 80's and early 90's, when the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations collapsed, yet here they are right now, rearing their ugly heads in the homeland, apparently alive and well.
They will not stop trying to destroy freedom, ever, as long as they draw breath. A Trump win now will merely drive them back underground, only to pop back out again at some future date, for our children and grand children to have to deal with.. but eventually, someone will HAVE to deal with them, or succumb. They are like rabid dogs. They just keep coming until they are put down.
Eventually, it will be us or them. Both cannot exist simultaneously forever - one side demanding freedom, the other demanding the former's slavery. We will not be enslaved, and they cannot stand for us to be free.
There will eventually have to be a reckoning.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’