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We Are A Nation In Denial.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  April 3rd, 2011 at 05:30 AM  | 

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Maybe it’s something that they’ve been slipping into the water… maybe it’s in those cross-hatched contrails we keep seeing… but that’s a conspiracy theory for another day. I hear a lot of blather about how the the Tea Party Patriot movement has fired its bolt and may now retire to the obscurity that the lame stream media has been working so diligently to convince us is our lot. They’re going to be sorely disappointed.

What I see going on out here, now that I’m able to fully return my attention to the tapestry of world events, is an extremely active and motivated Patriot Movement. And what most of us are focused on is the really miserable mess in our nation’s Capitol. There’s a lot of disappointment out there… it’s discontent bordering on anger and, in some cases, it’s just outright anger.

If the Republican establishment leadership thinks it can survive, much less succeed, without the full support of the American Patriot Movement they’d better have another think. What’s really funny (or sad, depending on your outlook), is that these people have fairly convinced themselves that it was their brilliant strategic grasp of the mood of the nation that swept them to victory.

Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy and the others were given a sacred trust from well over 60% of the voters of this country. That trust came with a mandate to go to war on the deficit and the Marxist policies that are threatening to destroy our civil society. Many, if not most of us in the Patriot Movement, have been more than a little upset at the leadership’s apparent inability to frame the argument through the white noise of the left’s continual cries of Republicans wanting to force Grannie to eat dog food if we do anything at all to stem the economic disaster waiting in the hall. Let them. The American people have them figured out.

If this country is to survive we are going to have to change the ways in which we define the perils which this country faces. We are in the grip of a world conflict and we cannot even get our government to acknowledge that simple fact in spite of overwhelming evidence.

Absence of definition is the breeding ground of denial. It’s time to start calling things as they are, and stop pecking around the issues like a bunch of nervous hens.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2011

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  • chbroussard

    You’re right. The Patriot movement is not dead. It may not be as publicly vocal, it may not draw the same large crowds to rallies, but that’s not because we’ve given up or given in. If anything, I’ve become even more angry over the last year. I don’t attend the rallies like before mainly because I feel that has become an exercise in futility.

    We had rallies that drew thousands and even hundreds of thousands, but our so-called leaders continue to ignore us. We handed them a huge victory in the U.S. House of Representatives, and they continue to ignore us. So, many Patriots are switching to a different plan of action.

    Cold Warrior’s precinct chairman plan is one of the best ways. Since I already have a conservative precinct chairman where I live, I will be spending my dollars and energy working for individual candidates in my state. All the rallies in the world won’t change things unless we have the right people in office. I think that has been made perfectly clear. The only way to truly turn things around is to rid ourselves of these spineless leaders.

    • usadying

      The left responded with trashing the capital and recall petitions. Even worse, they are using a stacked court system, and throwing tons of money at defeating Judge Presser. Please donate to Wisconsin Club for Growth, who is airing ads for the judge.

      What is demoralizing is that we are succeeding through elections, but the stacked court system is negating them. Obama has made congress irrelevant with executive orders, czars, and regulation. Our military is “volunteered” by the Arab League and the UN. When half our population is on the government dole, demanding more and more from the other half who pays the bills, I do not see a good ending for our country.

      • chbroussard

        Obama HAS made congress irrelevant and congressmen have stood by and let it happen with barely a peep. If they had a spine, they would not confirm those radical judges, cut off the salaries for the czars, and raise holy hell when the executive branch steps out of bounds. We would be well-served by a few more Allen Wests in congress. Barring that, we are on a very slippery slope.

    • Flagstaff

      The plea was made at our Tea Party meeting last night that everybody, each one of us, write at least one letter per week to SOME official that we want to pay attention to our opinions. That doesn’t sound like much, but if each of us wrote just that one letter each week, in a year’s time it’s a lot of letters.

      It beats the alternative–shouting at the TV set.

  • Ann_W

    I hope the tea party will stick in there. I don’t want our country to be the late great USA.

  • YnotNOW

    so that all the public understands how rediculous their charges of “extreme” are. Like when she says:

    “In one of the bills before us, six million seniors are deprived of meals — homebound seniors are deprived of meals.

  • Common_Cents

    The talking heads are out in full force with their coordinated “blame the tea party for govt shutdown” rhetoric. It is comical(at the same time, scary) once you realize it. Hopefully someone will do the video compilations of all the left wing robots saying the same thing and stitch them all together.

    They are going even as far as saying (establishment) Republicans aren’t even to blame because the left knows that the R squishes will fall in line for the most part. To that point there isn’t a dimes worth of difference as far as those that don’t want the DC elite cocktail party fantasy to end. Yes, there are plenty on our side who fall into that category.

    This battle by the tea party movement is going to have to be waged on two fronts, vs. the left and vs. the establishment R’s to revamp the Rep party. A tough task. We need all the help we can get.

  • ScottRM

    We’ll see how the 60% mandate works out soon enough. I predict a huge blowback. Look what happened to democrats when they talked about mandates after obama won big after the Bush debacle. The normal people of this country are just plain scared and Ryan’s budget is downright frightening to these folks. It is a budget for protecting wealthy interests during a time of national economic and social decline. There is no justification for it and there are much better options. Voters had no idea what republicans would do to the budget since they intentionally gave no details prior to the vote. It is the same mistake Scott Walker and other govs made by forcing major ideological legislation that was never a part of their platform. Nationally, police and firefighters (generally supporters of republicans) are pissed to say the least. At least Obama talked about healthcare reform for months before the election. His was no surprise cram job. The Tea party’s big mistake is thinking that they are elected representatives, when they are not. They are just the conservative republican base who are trying to force their positions on the swing voters by imposing backroom legislation after the vote. Maybe I am wrong but I think voters will not take kindly to this tactic.