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Neither shall the Donkeys desire your house, or field, or anything that belongs to you, above or below $250,000.

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Too little emphasis on the founders and the their thoughts these days. I’m trying to figure out how to make them relevant for the uneducated of today. Last night I was kept awake by trying to put together a diary in my head titled “Maintenance of the Republic”. If I can get all these contracts on my plate done, maybe I can compose it today.

Thanks.

from our minds.

Great diary.

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The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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All I can say is, “I wish I’d said that!”

Very nicely done. It seems that a lot of quality gets lost these days.

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She was concerned that there were so many nonwhite teenagers incarcerated in New York City.

She has a bit of a point; as a society, what can be done to minimize crime and the causes of crime?

But she misses the cause of incarceration of teenagers in almost all cases. In virtually every case, the real reason that a teenager is incarcerated is that that particular teenager chose to commit a crime. Individuals ARE responsible for their actions.

Probably the biggest thing society can do to reduce crime and incarceration is to teach individual responsibility and right vs wrong instead of nuanced morality.

It is the reason for their unrelenting attacks on religion and morality in general. They know that it will be impossible to destroy capitalism and this country and to impose their marxist tyranny so long as moral absolutes continue to exist.

Political correctness, revisionist history and the deconstruction of our words and their meanings are all tools being marshalled against us in the left’s effort to destroy our country. See Orwell.

Make no mistake. This is the key battleground in the war for the survival of our republic!

You are to be commended for pointing this out once again AG!

Ive been reading Gibbons, and he puts forth the argument that when the higher orders of society started to abandon what he calls “Roman Manners” the lower orders followed.

My slight disagreement with you is when you put forth: Indeed it is not the place of the Government to set or enforce a specific moral code but rather the responsibility of those who wish to employ self governance, to adhere and promote a moral life despite the government.

My disagreement doesnt come from the theory, but rather from practice. Although you should be right, it should be up to the citizens and not the government to promogulate their system of morality, we often see that this is not the case. When we start relaxing the discipline on people through concepts like “situational ethics”, which you rightly noted, what invariably happens? People slip into barbarism.

To put it another way, I would posit that when the elites of society have embraced the noxious standard of the day, in ours its this leftwing antigod (read antipurpose) prodeath culture, the policy of the nation changes, and this change, I would posit, poisons the nation. Again, to try to be clear, I think it comes from the Top Down.

I freely admit I may be wrong, but I dont think I am. In my own country of Canada, we have an example of this. When Trudeau was elected, he divorced the country from its history of Judeo Christian morality, using government policy as his instrument of war. The support of Trudeau, by elites of my country, who believed in Trudeaus vision long before their was a Trudeau (which probably enabled him to even seek office) was essential. Far more essential then the support of non nobles like me.

And with the Rome analogy, I do understand that I am somewhat comparing apples and oranges (a Republic to a military dictatorship) but I think the top down example of how manners where (are?) spread is illustrative.

Im thinking it over, just now, and I guess your right in the sense that it should be up to the people who make up the elites and government to have a moral standard independent of government
(ie a knowledge of right and wrong). But again, we often see those with a corrupt standard use the government as a vehicle to debase the nation.

Not to get to crazy with it, I know this post should end, but an example of this is abortion. If we were to be perfectly honest, we would acknowledge in the case of an unwanted pregnancy the healthiest choice for the woman involved and the nation itself would be adoption, not the murder of the child. We have seen the government go out of its way (and in my country it is far far worse) to enable people to kill their child. And the results on the fabric of society, I think, are obvious. The government essentially gave a moral sanction to the barbarous practice. I think the government ok preceeds the rise of the abortion bubble, not the abortion bubble coming before the sanction. Again, top down.

is stealing from your kids.