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1. pewf2003 on March 9th, 2008

   I appreciate humor; we need humor. Unfortunately, America, the American way of life, and the unique ability of Americans to position their children to be better off than we were is at risk. Blame it on campaign finance reform, the media, or whatever you like, but the election of 2008 is now between the most left-wing choices in our nation’s history. Republicans are sounding more and more like Democrats; and Democrats are increasingly becoming indistinguishable from Socialists. In the end, no one is out there representing the taxpayer. This country was founded on the principles of limited government: “…the government that governs least governs best” and “…government is at best a necessary evil, and at worst an intolerable one.” We know that every time tax rates are lowered, tax revenues increase; it happens every time it’s tried. Raising the money is not the problem; we need politicians to be better managers, and held accountable. We know that government programs return less than thirty cents on the dollar, and produce bureaucracies that are more interested in increasing their budgets every year than solving the problem they were set up to fix. We know that illegal aliens are by definition, illegal. We know that the murder rate is higher in some US cities than in Iraq, yet incumbent politicians survive. Humor is fine, but what are we going to do about it? We cannot launch an idiotic third party initiative that splits the vote and guarantees victory for liberals. Can the Republican Party be saved before the Democratic Party does irreparable damage? Liberalism is lunacy, and patently un-American; yet it thrives. We need a strategy to counter it, and the courage to implement it. We live in a world where “Chicken Little” can win the Nobel Prize; we live in a country where a significant number of voters think liberals deserve equal intellectual credibility. Humor is fine, but I hope to God we get our act together.

2. An American First on March 9th, 2008

   Thanks for the great response - it sounds like you would fit right in as an AAF contributor! The blog is still finding its way. I am not a writer by trade and therefore cannot devote the time that many fine writers do to some of the more prominent blogs. So, I take the approach of being an average American with an opinion who writes when possible. Sardonic is a fellow writer with more of an education in History than I and has a slightly more cynical, but just as humorous take on things. The humor is sometimes the product of frustration. Your question “What are we going to do about it?” is the cause. You are right though - humor is good, but insufficient to influence the leftward lean that threatens to capsize this country.

   I have considered changing the site to be more like the “American Thinker” blog, which always has very indepth and insightful content and doing less humor, but then again, life (happily) gets in the way of the effort it would take to pull that off. And what of the effect? Would it be worth it?

   I’ve often wished there were a place where average like-minded (yet free) Americans could truly discuss and consider ways to become more active and effective in preserving the character and heritage that has made the United States truly great.

   I hope you continue to read, and if you do write somewhere, I would be happy to link to your content.

3. Sardonic on March 9th, 2008

   I think that the question “What are we going to do about it?” is great. I ask it all the time. Unfortunately, I haven’t a good answer to that.

   It is very (painfully) easy to point out the absurdities of our society at this point because they’ve become so extremely blatant. It’s unfortunate. The fact is, however, that it may be that this all is quite inevitable. Civilizations rise and fall as a matter of course. This cycle of rising and falling may be in fact accelerated by technology because the effects that undermine or enhance are more easily spread across society, and have a more pervasive effect than in former times.

   The pattern goes something like this… a society as at its most energetic at the beginning. It is in child-growth stage, and people are optimistic, hard working, and feel connected to the society and it’s ideals. The society then grows and because of this energy and enthusiasm and good will the society prospers. Now in the case of American democracy there are two basic requirements - a moral foundation based on Christian ideals, and an education system that causes the citizens to understand their unique place in history, and comprehend both their privileges and responsibilities.

   The Liberals have spent a huge amount of energy undermining both of these elements and so it is no surprise that we are now seeing the decay of society, which the Liberals brilliantly then turn around and blame the Conservatives for. It is very much like watching petulant children ruining things out of the more craven elements of human nature - jealousy, greed, and stupidity.

   And so what happens is that the very prosperity of one generation can easily lead to the spoiling of the next, with all the attendant failures that we are now seeing today. And so I think this is what is happening to our society today. The WWII generation basically spoiled their children, and that spoiling has resulted in the disease we call Liberalism. It is a self-loathing. A desire for Parental Authority (where the government becomes the Parent, which we sometimes call “the nanny state”).

   There is another factor which we’ve seen time and again come into play with democratic forms of government which also tend in the same direction towards Socialism (which can be defined simply as the stealing of the prosperity of the productive for re-distribution to the unproductive by the government in the name of “Fairness” and “Equality”).

   The way these work together is that the spoiled children of the successful hard working generation want things for free without having to work for them. They come to expect to be given things for free. They begin to feel it is “unfair” to have to work hard. They instill this concept into their children, and so the education (which requires hard work on the part of the students) system is steadily undermined. The first plank of successful democratic government is thereby destroyed.

   The next step is the undermining of morality because on a personal level morality become inconvenient to those who do not wish to work hard for what they obtain. As morality itself is undermined (in our case morality is embodied in the Christian ideals which is why Christianity is the primary focus of the ire of the Socialists) the politicians become aware that their position no longer requires that they be moral. There is a downward spiral at this point. People vote in leaders who are immoral because it helps to justify their own immoral behavior. They then look at the immoral deeds of their leaders and say “well if they do it then so can I”, and further justify the next level of descent. This spiraling downward process decays the foundations of society.

   This is what I see as the root of our problems. And it is the reason why I suspect that there is no “answer” to what we can do about it. It is like looking at a house whose foundation has been chewed out by termites, and seeing it begin to tilt, ask “Well, what can we do about that?”. The answer is, at some point, … nothing anymore. I think we hit that point in the 1980’s. We are now seeing the resulting collapse of morality and education because it suits the spoiled public that it be so.

   The only thing that could potentially reverse this process would be a strong and persuasive message that says the following to the people:

   “You people are collectively driving us all into ruin because you want things for free and you want to allow yourselves to be lazy and grab what is not rightfully yours because some corrupt politician is telling you it is ok to do that when it is not. Instead you should work hard at getting yourself educated and build up your understanding that you still yet have a mighty and great and beautiful nation build upon the principals of individual freedom via your free market economy which has brought you and the world so many benefits. You stand currently to lose all of those benefits and collapse into immorality, slavery and destruction at the hands of those barbarians who wish to destroy you. What is making you vulnerable is that you are spoiled, and refuse to accept your responsibilities. If you fail to heed this basic message and begin to work towards the good of the nation then the end will come, and you will have yourselves to blame for it.”

   But who, I ask you, is going to deliver that message in a meaningful way that will cause the people to realise the calamity we face and reverse course, oppose the Socialists and build up, rather than tear down, the moral and spiritual foundations of our nation?

   Who? Hillary? Please don’t make me laugh so hard! It hurts.

4. An American First on March 10th, 2008

   Here’s an idea. We live in a “soundbite” society. Reading books and studying history, which is crucial to gaining a contemporary perspective is beyond the grasp of many - which is precisely why PowerPoint movies and YouTube propaganda is so effective among the neo-left. I think it would be extremely effective to produce what I would term ’silhouette’ pieces. A small video that uses silhouetted characters acting out what is being said by a voice-over. The VO would alternate between visions of the Founding Fathers and the silhouetted character, who is diametrically opposed to the Founding Fathers. Now here’s the rub - you make people think you are talking about Bush, or some other prominent conservative - and at the end you reveal those who actually are subverting our heritage. I think we are going to need a forum, or a more collaborative environment to work some of these things out…

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