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Originally Posted by cabo35
...The issue is much larger than that.
For decades, radicals, socialists and Communists in America have been in relentless pursuit of destroying capitalism and replacing it with a Marxist system that changes everything that made this country great. They have used violence to facilitate change. They have attacked religion. They have infiltrated our schools and college campuses cloaked as "progressives". They have to a significant extent controlled the media. In spite of all these efforts, in many cases they could not alter the will of a substantial component of the electorate and accordingly many of the legislators the people put in office. The old red state/blue state maps come to mind. With insidious and calculated cunning they turned to the courts to circumvent the will of the people on issues they could not achieve a majority consensus or legislative initiative on. Obama himself was looking for a candidate with empathy which is code for overriding law when it is inconvenient to the political agenda. Sotomayor fills that criteria...
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I sure can't disagree that much of this has happened...an awfully sad and disturbing admission. The answer of how and why it has happened is equally clear.
WE LET IT HAPPEN.
For whatever reason, our culture has changed. The core values that we so important to most of us--the older generation, I have to admit--seem to have been abandoned by those that are following. Whether it be because they're so busy making money, acquiring "things", entertaining themselves, even using a wide array of chemicals to induce good feelings...times have changed. Collectively, Americans have become careless...we seem to CARE LESS about all those things you mentioned.
Now the question before us is "do we have the collective will to change it back?"
Based on the daily cat fights we see from those we elect to govern us...the high-paid people that make outrageous statements that we permit to form our opinions...our willingness limit our effort to only taking a few minutes every now and then to argue back and forth among one another...it sure doesn't look promising that the people who call themselves Americans have the collective will, the energy, and the knowledge to begin to change our culture back to what we remember as "the good old days".
That's an even sadder statement that what you observed in your earlier post. I hope I'm not being too negative. I really want to see some light at the end of this tunnel. But so far, it's pretty dark in here.