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    Default Waking up in an American nightmare

    February 22, 2019

    Waking up in an American nightmare

    By Robert Arvay


    I woke up this morning expecting to smell the aroma of bacon wafting from the kitchen and my mother's voice calling me to "get ready for school." I expected to see my homework (arithmetic and spelling) already done and my Mighty Mouse lunchbox nearby.

    But sixty years have passed since I was eleven, and I am mortified to see what has become of the America I knew, the America where Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best were two of the most popular television shows, where the raciest jokes on air were only hinted at by a slyly grinning Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life.
    I remember waiting at the school bus stop where the sleaziest boys spoke in profanities — but cleaned up their act as soon as the first girls approached. That was back when even the sleaze-bags actually had manners.
    Today, I saw a televised news report about the Democratic Party's top politicians. The screen was covered with the pictures of about twenty of them, including one with a college degree in economics who has not the slightest clue as to how wealth is created; a radical Islamist, anti-American Jew-hater who in her childhood was rescued from abject circumstances but now hates us; and a foul-mouthed congresswoman who publicly used a vile obscenity to threaten the president. All the pictures constituted a rogue's gallery of socialist, communist no-borders advocates, of liars, tax cheats, and authoritarian would-be dictators who despise ordinary working Americans.
    I awoke today in a world that not even George Orwell could have seriously predicted. It is a world where sexual virtues are ridiculed, while sexual perversions are publicly celebrated; where freedom of speech is redefined as the shouting down of conservative viewpoints; where the nonexistent right not to be offended overrides the constitutional right of free speech; where violent illegal aliens are bussed into neighborhoods far from the gated communities of those who bus them.
    It is a world where every event is interpreted by propagandist impostors (posing as journalists) in the worst possible light, for example to condemn teenage high school boys who were accosted by bigoted leftists and who responded with courtesy and restraint. One of the boys was accused by an interviewer, who equated his standing still with a form of aggression.
    There are climatologists who soberly analyze the facts of climate change, without supporting the radical leftist proposal of confiscating your property to (somehow) cool the Earth. Those climatologists are called "deniers," a veiled synonym for Nazis, and have been threatened with revocation of their professional licenses.

    One wonders how it is that a nation supposedly governed by constitutional principles could have fallen under the boot of those who so brazenly defy those principles — but that question was answered a long time ago.
    "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." —John Adams
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...nightmare.html
    ”The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” - Margaret Thatcher

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    I've been asking myself this a lot lately, what happened to the america I was born into, 1949 was not that long ago

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    Quote Originally Posted by Achilles View Post


    One wonders how it is that a nation supposedly governed by constitutional principles could have fallen under the boot of those who so brazenly defy those principles — but that question was answered a long time ago.


    Quote Originally Posted by always learning View Post
    I've been asking myself this a lot lately, what happened to the america I was born into, 1949 was not that long ago


    A nation governed by a secular humanist constitution was destined to fail.

    It was able to survive and prosper as long as the majority of its people were European Christians... and the majority of its laws were based on God's Biblical laws. Neither is true today.

    The irony is... most of the abominations enacted in the past 70 years have been the result of the US Supreme Court, the secular humanist voice of the secular humanist constitution.


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    agreed the SCOTUS has been one of the pit falls of our government for a long time, again completely out of it's original intent and inflitrated by so called progressives

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingsX View Post
    A nation governed by a secular humanist constitution was destined to fail.

    It was able to survive and prosper as long as the majority of its people were European Christians... and the majority of its laws were based on God's Biblical laws. Neither is true today.
    I think you could have left out the "European" in your comment and been closer to what the point of the article's good thoughts was....
    "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." —John Adams
    unless you are saying that only Europeans are Christians?

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    I refer to European Christians who originally founded the country and European Christian pioneers who expanded it from sea to sea.

    When the founding demographics of a country are changed, the country morphs into something totally different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmatic View Post
    I think you could have left out the "European" in your comment and been closer to what the point of the article's good thoughts was.... unless you are saying that only Europeans are Christians?
    That only Europeans can be Christians is the bedrock of KingsX's eschatology. To her and those who share this belief God created non Whites for the ultimate goal of suffering everlasting damnation in the fires of hell, all for His eternal amusement and edification.
    Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
    I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bezukhov View Post


    That only Europeans can be Christians is the bedrock of KingsX's eschatology. To her and those who share this belief God created non Whites for the ultimate goal of suffering everlasting damnation in the fires of hell, all for His eternal amusement and edification.


    Those who engage in personal attacks only expose themselves.

    Your post does NOT reflect my Biblical beliefs. So in the future please do not assume you can speak for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingsX View Post
    Those who engage in personal attacks only expose themselves.

    Your post does NOT reflect my Biblical beliefs. So in the future please do not assume you can speak for me.

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    Can non Europeans be Christians? Can they be Saved?
    Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
    I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
    Gandalf the Grey

    People with ethics have little use for the state. Conversely, the state has little use for people with ethics.

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    As I told Bezukhov previously on another topic... I don't respond to obviously hostile posters.

    But I find it interesting that Jesus was likewise constantly followed around and attacked by His enemies.

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