A Boring 2024

[Jolly]

Exciting is how you get Castro...

www.discoursemagazine.com/p/to-my-friends-across-the-political

[Ozarks Tom]

A nice series of thoughts, and a good deal more forgiving of those who would rule over us than I can be. Supposing that those who disagree with us are benign in their agendas to me is naive.

We have to go back to the Wilson administration to locate the beginnings of the "we know best, so shut up" method of governing. Wilson, being the miserable SOB that he was, was so full of himself that he was the first of our Presidents to start the "experts and academics" should rule agenda. We've had several since, and we can mark the continued steps toward devolution of this country's political system from each of them.

Rather than a kumbaya year, I'd rather have a very contentious year, with our supposed representatives in the republican party growing spines and getting rid of their pleas for "bipartisanship". The democrat party of Truman, and even Kennedy is long gone, replaced by the party of Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, and Barack Obama. As socialist as FDR was, he couldn't hold a candle to the likes of our current crop of democrats. They need to be fought to the bitter end, and with the ignorance of so many Americans, I'm afraid it will indeed be a bitter end.

[joebill]

One side can NEVER make peace. One side can only either make war or surrender when the opposition insists upon making war.

I have observed, mostly from afar, that recently this is problematic for a society of moral/religious men and women, in that peace is generally accepted as a higher moral state than justice and/or liberty. Obviously, this is a philosophy that has been drummed into our soft heads over several generations.

Our founders mostly considered a state of rebellion against tyranny to be not only highly moral but often a moral imperative, and as it turned out they were even more right than they could have possibly known.

The state of mankind has immeasurably improved world wide since they made their stand, and only backslides when men recoil from standing their ground against tyranny. Currently we are sliding backwards at something nearing a "terminal velocity".

I am old enough to recall the lengths we have gone to in order to justify what should have required no justification other than the obvious. During out high school aptitude testing, those who seemed to handle the language fairly well were invited to show an interest in government "propaganda" programs, justifying our behavior towards our enemies, which at the time seemed dishonest, since we had not yet observed people's reluctance to treat our enemies like....well, like enemies.

Later, I saw some guys reading "GI JOE" comics, and saw how the comic book portrayals of Germans and Japanese made them look like other-worldly monsters.

This seemed like over-justification to me, because "to hell with what they LOOKED LIKE.....just look what they had DONE!"

A half century later, things have not improved much, since we render political cartoons displaying our political enemies as looking like villains, making that seem more important than their actions.

Ours is a world that is governed by the threat and/or use of force, and if we rigidly decline both options, before long we will have no voice in that governance at all....Joe

[Txsteader]

When you ban a candidate’s name from the ballot to preserve “our democracy,” you sound, frankly, like you have gone nuts. And believe me: It will come back to haunt you.

This is the problem we're currently facing; we're not dealing with rational people. So how do you find common ground with people who no longer live in reality? How do you find common ground with people who literally despise your existence and right to disagree, the people who want to rule over the country yet call 1/2 the population 'a bunch of deplorables'?

Nah. I'll never find common ground with Marxists/communists - because they're eventually going to attack my religious beliefs, my right to practice my religious beliefs......the very thing that brought the first settlers to these shores.

[Ozarks Tom]

I have a premonition that with Biden's poll numbers indicating he's toast, the dem election bosses across the country are going to pull out all stops to "fortify" their chances, to the point of "in your face, what are you going to do about it?" 2020 was nothing compared to what we'll see in '24.

Then it comes down to several scenarios, none of them peaceful, and none of them leaving this country in any shape to deal with world affairs.

A couple days ago Biden gave yet another speech denigrating anyone who didn't think he's the best thing since sliced bread, to the point of accusing those who see reality as it is as enemies of "our democracy". That's just another rendition of their long espoused hatred for those who aren't going to stand for their version of socialism. More and more I'm getting the feeling we (conservatives) are being baited into giving the neo-Marxists a reason to declare martial law. That mindset overlooks and dismisses what real Americans hold dear.

Throughout history oppression has bred opposition. Many of those examples of oppression vs opposition were played out in countries where the opposition was for the most part disarmed, and oppression won. We're in an entirely different situation in this country, where the 2nd Amendment has given the opposition a position of power unknown to previous oppressors. The Japanese Admiral Yamamoto prior to WWII advised against an invasion of this country as "there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass". The Marxists ruling us now should take his warning in heed.

[joebill]

No grass here, but only God almighty could count the rifles....Joe

[blackfeather]

I think Ramaswamy is right, the elite that normally push democrat politicians are pushing Niki Haley. This headline ..

Dems Hatch "Republicans For A Day" Scheme To Boost Haley Vs. Trump In Iowa Caucuses

www.zerohedge.com/political/dems-hatch-republicans-day-scheme-boost-haley-vs-trump-iowa-caucuses

Knowing the Democrats have no one, they are going to get a Rino warmonger to challenge Trump in his own party. There is too much money to be made by forever wars, so they are going to support that person who will give them the profits.

[Tricky Grama]

Happened to catch a little FOX yesterday eve talk about Repub bashing-quite like Hillary's 'basket of deplorables'. Firmly believe Rs will win but NOT firm on my beliefs of fair election...Rs can't seem to control that.

[sunny225]

R's can't seem to control much of anything.