Comments on: The Reality of the Situation

By: KP

KP — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:54:04 +0000

That is a whole lot to think about. Thanks.

By: For the Good of the Party » Political Realities

For the Good of the Party » Political Realities — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:42:29 +0000

[...] entire Washington Establishment, is something republican Mother works tirelessly trying to teach. “The Reality of the Situation,” she notes, is that: [W]e have two factions in America, both being played by the same planners in [...]

By: theCL

theCL — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:02:14 +0000

Politics is not about one side dominating the other, and subjugating their political “enemies” to their will.

Politics in America has gone wrong in so many ways, but I think they all revolve around two key problems, both of which boil down to partisanship: 1) the “Democrat vs. Republican” game has pitted neighbor against neighbor; and 2) we’ve lost our ability as freemen to be skeptical of those in power (because we’re only skeptical of the “other side”).

You, me, and my Democratic neighbor may see things a different way. We may even argue and debate. And that’s okay, we can work things out, we have to live together so nobody’s gonna bring a gun. But it’s different when it comes to government, isn’t it? They fight fully-armed, and won’t hesitate to kidnap you and throw you in a cage … for simply disobeying an arbitrary edict.

Just as it was with our forefathers, our own government is enemy #1. But it’s a lot easier to blame those damn Democrats, than it is to admit the folly of our civic religion.

By: republican Mother

republican Mother — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:54:41 +0000

Yes, the purpose of this post is to get us thinking about the larger movement of collectivism, which exists in both parties, apparently.

I’m more afraid of Washington DC than I am of “threats out there”. The folks in DC have the ability to SWAT team me to death like they did Marine Jose Guerna. Could foreigners do the same? Yeah, but the odds are that the corrupt, domestic government will get me is way more likely. Like everything in life, you got to prioritize. My priorities are most definitely not those the the upper eschelons of the federal government.

By: silverfiddle

silverfiddle — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:24:11 +0000

I had heard that the quote could not be sourced, but regardless of that, progressives do not like personal liberty. It’s messy, everyone making their own decisions willy-nilly!

As to defense, there are foxes in every government hen house, not just defense, and there really are threats out there, so we’ve got to keep our heads screwed on straight even as we ferret out abuses.

By: republican mother

republican mother — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:22:01 +0000

Yes, these are exactly my points. For a long time, I was brainwashed into not listening to a word of what a liberal had to say to me. Why? Because I assumed that they were trying to brainwash ME and the way to prevent that was not to process what they were saying. For the record, I don’t believe that government can solve much of anything, but I do wish that I was more open-minded when they spoke of corporate corruption. I did not realize how much the government and these large corporations overlapped and interlocked, to the point of being fascist. Likewise, the liberal can’t hear the conservative tell them of government corruption, rationalizing that just the right program will fix it.

If conservatives and liberals would trade notes on what they see wrong in this country, then we might get somewhere, as the same names pop up over and over. Name-calling and belittlement is what keeps the corrupt elements out of the limelight and busy dismantling our nation.

I will agree that the lawmakers are just trying to hang on to their jobs by going along to get along. I do think that they rationalize and compartmentalize everything to avoid looking at the large picture that those of us out here in flyover country are witnessing. But I maintain that there are most certainly villains at work here, those described by Frederic C Howe as the monopolists who have “gone political” to make society work for them. The plan described by Col. House is monstrous in my opinion, to level of being demonic. I do believe that there is evil in the world, and it advances on the wings of ignorance.

By: Jack Camwell

Jack Camwell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:09:26 +0000

Good article, although I think political discourse in this country will never progress so long as we maintain the “us against them,” and political heroes and villains mentality.

The whole point of republican government, as articulated by the Founding Fathers, is that diversity in political thought is a welcomed thing. In fact, it’s essential in order to avoid the tyranny of the majority.

Politics is not about one side dominating the other, and subjugating their political “enemies” to their will. When you call the other side the “enemy,” and wish to make it so their voices are not heard, and no compromise is made to meet some of their needs, then you’re really advocating for a system that is little better than Nazi Germany or Stalin’s USSR.

They’re not trying to destroy America, nor are they trying to make the people their slaves. They’re trying to maintain their political careers, and many of them believe that what they’re doing is simply the right thing.

Isn’t that what you believe–that your ideology is the right thing? If anything is going to change, if government is going to function in any meaningful way, then you have to have rational discourse with your opposition. Do you really expect them to listen to you if you’re calling them America’s “enemies”?