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Facing Up to the
Enormity of Our Problem

American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu

Original Article

Posted By:Desert Fox, 11/30/2012 7:39:46 PM

There will be no short term solution to the problem now facing Western civilization in general, and America in particular. Modern leftist authoritarians and their intellectual progenitors have created a special historical circumstance from which recovery must be painful, slow, and often heartbreaking -- namely, the complete breakdown of the shared birthright of reason and character which has traditionally allowed nations to forge ahead on common ground in the aftermath of even the most violent eruptions. There is a fond hope in some conservative circles that the inevitable destructiveness of Obama´s second

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: toinee, 11/30/2012 7:41:25 PM     (No. 9042114)

He nails it. I think this should be a must read.


Reply 2 - Posted by: 49 Ford, 11/30/2012 7:54:26 PM     (No. 9042127)

Absolutely must be made a Must Read. Best article I´ve run across since 11/6. Very hard stuff presented here, but the presentation is airtight.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: curious1, 11/30/2012 8:01:19 PM     (No. 9042138)

FTA: " Rather, this time the war is between reason and irrationality themselves, virtue and vice themselves. There is no common spiritual ground to guarantee resolution and reunion after the dust settles. "
Exactly - you cannot reason with libtards, negotiate with libtards or trust libtards. You can only destroy libtards - they are a constant threat to the Republic.

As for his summary:
FTA:" Two fundamentally opposed views of life are represented, and the side of reason and decency is by far the outnumbered force."
I disagree - the capture of the media and education systems enable libtards to make it ´appear´ they are in the majority, but in reality they are only a third of the population: ~220 million potential voters, and ~61 million voted the libtards back into power.


Reply 4 - Posted by: veritasmatters, 11/30/2012 8:04:43 PM     (No. 9042142)

Excellent -not for the lazy-mind (nothing soothing here) - absolutely a must read!


Reply 5 - Posted by: sooznews, 11/30/2012 8:10:05 PM     (No. 9042148)

WOW!


Reply 6 - Posted by: escaped commieny, 11/30/2012 8:27:36 PM     (No. 9042160)

Definite Must Read, Must Save and Must forward to everyone you know, especially those with grandchildren.
FTA:The modern left´s anti-rational, anti-virtuous, anti-individualist superstructure must be destroyed, mercilessly and thoroughly. It took generations for this brilliant scheme of reassuring repression -- soft despotism -- to be wound around the West, like spider´s silk around its paralyzed prey. It might take generations to unravel it. The alternative to this fight, however, is to sit passively by as the world enters a new dark age.

This is going to be hard, and it is going to take much longer than the American Revolutionary War, for reasons I have explained above. But we can win, and we will win. Time is not on our side; but truth is.



Reply 7 - Posted by: Teleologicus, 11/30/2012 9:15:30 PM     (No. 9042232)

Our universities are the problem. They not only do not teach and transmit American history and values, they are systematically indoctrinating students into anti-Americanism. This spreads into the media, popular entertainment, primary and secondary schools. Unless something is done about the universities the outlook is not good - though for some reason I am not as pessimistic as the author of this thoughtful column. But he could well be right. We are in a real mess. I don´t think we can count on it to correct itself, though it just might do that and surprise the prophets of doom. But what to do meantime? American universities were seized and taken over at gunpoint in the Sixties. Is that the answer now? Should all those angry old white men who are embittered and clinging to their guns and religion emulate the Sixties Radicals, including the Black Panthers, Eric Holder, William Ayres, etc and march and occupy university buildings at gun point and start issuing demands? Would that work this time the way it worked then? I have some doubts that it would. But it did work in the Sixties. The university administrators met with the armed radicals, negotiated with them, gave in to their demands. That´s how "Black Studies" got started. More dumbing down quickly followed. Universities lost their educational function. How can they ever get it back?


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Timber Queen, 11/30/2012 10:36:49 PM     (No. 9042322)

The best I´ve read since the election, and touches on much that has been on my mind. This is an existential crisis between reason and insanity, good and evil. The author is correct that we are facing it with a society that has abandoned virtue for ´values´ and religious morals for ´spiritual´ relativism.

I jumped in 100% for the Tea Party Movement because I was convinced that the ´silent majority´ really was the majority. On election night I found out that I was wrong.

The only thing I fault in the article is the seemingly mandatory exhortation to keep fighting, without a hint of how. More emails and phone calls to political leaders who are collaborating with the Lefties? For years commentators have railed that we must take over the media, academia, entertainment and yet the powerful movers and shakers who are supossed to be on our side do nothing.

Its all rotted out from the inside. Let it fall. For me; its my God, my family, my church, my community. My focus is shifting from the things of this earth to the things of heaven.


Reply 9 - Posted by: stablemoney, 12/1/2012 12:11:59 AM     (No. 9042383)

There is no way to regain reason with liberals. The only solution is withdraw from the U.S.


Reply 10 - Posted by: doctorfixit, 12/1/2012 2:05:43 AM     (No. 9042444)

I have given up fantasizing about some kind of revolution happening. What I recommend now is saving your family and moving to a place where people have similar values. If you live in a state like California, it´s hopeless. Between the leftwingers, the illegals, the gangs, and the meth addicts, you are outnumbered 100 to 1. I don´t even know what ´America´ is anymore, nor do I much care. I have more important concerns.


Reply 11 - Posted by: billa, 12/1/2012 2:13:36 AM     (No. 9042447)

I will add that affirmative action, the intolerance (PC) toward more conservative views and the label that any one who disagrees with a liberal is a nazi, racist or ignorant. Of course, more particular and current reasons for the difficulty in identifying the "how" to fight the ursurpation and subjugation by the left.

Definitely a "Must Read".


Reply 12 - Posted by: KTWO, 12/1/2012 3:04:57 AM     (No. 9042464)

Ditto. Worth reading carefully.

I was glad to see him demolish the idea that the history of the USSR or other socialist regimes tells us much about what will happen in the US. It does not.

Many of my friends seem to still regard our present difficulties as a setback, a big setback perhaps, but nothing an election victory and two or four years of wise leadership can´t fix.

I am with Jonescu. It will take decades. And the universe is coldly indifferent about who wins.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: ocjim, 12/1/2012 6:33:19 AM     (No. 9042521)

Fine article.
Obama is not the cause but the effect of over 40 years of Leftist takeover of key power and influence points in our nation. Most notably, higher education and the moribund news media turned Leftist propaganda arm. The Leftists are a distinct minority using an attractive but false narrative along with political judo to obtain and retain power. Again, this is 40 years in the making... Had it not been Obama, it would have been Hillary who would have boiled us slower, but nevertheless boiled us.
Restoration of America, its principles, its promise and its inimitable Dream will take far more than a couple encouraging election cycles.



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