tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post8575048179513970470..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: “Bring Back Our Country!”Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-8457207644292132752016-12-04T07:05:04.257-05:002016-12-04T07:05:04.257-05:00I'm of the same era, and you have described my...I'm of the same era, and you have described my childhood well.<br />I remember the scandal that erupted when one of the neighborhood's family domestic crisis leaked out. There was none of this "You go, girl!" attitude. The ladies thought she had lost her mind - they also expressed their skepticism about her morality (long in question, this hardened their attitudes).<br />My mother - really, one of the most kindly women I've ever known - bucked the group to befriend a neighbor, who was a 36-year old divorced woman raising her teenage brother. Now, I'm sure that my mother might have suspected that the young man was the woman's illegitimate son, not a brother. Nonetheless, as she had observed that - other than her non-standard living arrangements - the woman was a good neighbor, she made a determined effort to include her in events. Eventually, the woman became part of the social circle.<br />Same in the next neighborhood, where we landed after my grandparents moved to Florida, and they needed someone to rent their house. Good people - neighborhood more sedate (more elderly people), but shared values. Didn't matter what the religion, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim (yes, one of the families was of that faith). They shared values and mores.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-55786827124810538962016-12-04T04:16:39.835-05:002016-12-04T04:16:39.835-05:00Neither have I Fran. Been a conservative Roman Cat...Neither have I Fran. Been a conservative Roman Catholic all my life. Where these folks get the idea of blaming the "eternal" Jew is ludicrous. Anyone who's devoted a serious amount of scholarship studying the world's historical ills will tell you it's the Irish.Old Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-26448625704695015312016-12-03T18:45:19.427-05:002016-12-03T18:45:19.427-05:00That's correct, Al, I didn't. I have no pa...That's correct, Al, I didn't. I have no patience for anti-Semitism.Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-67669419594307523272016-12-03T18:05:38.351-05:002016-12-03T18:05:38.351-05:00Well, you didn't publish my comment, but WRSA ...Well, you didn't publish my comment, but WRSA did.<br />https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/porretto-bring-back-our-country/#comments Al Liguorihttp://judaism.isnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-33267495558414397452016-12-03T14:32:47.407-05:002016-12-03T14:32:47.407-05:00Many fine comments here.
Your description of Ora...Many fine comments here. <br /><br />Your description of Orangeburg is poignant, Fran. I had a taste of that normality in the southern African hinterlands as a boy but saw nothing like it afterwards back in the States, only new suburbs and impersonal cities. There's an emotional dearth that people grow up in in urban and even suburban areas. I think the left is as successful as it is because righteous calls for personal responsibility do not also reflect an understanding of that hole in many lives. As Mary Baker Eddy observed even long ago, "give us this day our daily bread" can be paraphrased as "feed the famished affections." Of course, the progressives and other modern zealots do nothing of the sort providing all kinds of FX and stim but filling no hearts in the process. As ridiculous as "safe spaces" are it may be that even such an absurd concept succeeds at a very basic level because of lives being lived in spiritual wastelands. Art could be used to uplift and build understanding of the human condition but, as we know, it's used to degrade, titillate, and deceive.<br /><br />There's an interesting essay on the Rockland State Hospital <a href="http://untappedcities.com/2015/06/25/once-a-bustling-state-hospital-the-abandoned-rockland-psychiatric-center-is-now-the-stuff-of-nightmares/" rel="nofollow">here</a> though it's not relevant to your story. Just tempis fugit stuff.<br /><br />Bill Whittle has his usual interesting take on things. He talks about how to fight the tide of leftist malevolence <a href="https://www.billwhittle.com/commentary/plan" rel="nofollow">here</a>. He says that the coming battles will be media battles.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-75367399244669804732016-12-03T14:13:24.301-05:002016-12-03T14:13:24.301-05:00"Each vision is founded on a conception of a ..."Each vision is founded on a conception of a past America."<br /><br />I'm not so certain that's true, Fran. From Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America to this year's riots against an election, I believe the left and the 50% of its American followers are not voting for - or believing in - a past America. They are hoping and dreaming of the "next step."<br /><br />It doesn't matter what that next step is. It looks ugly and despotic to 30% or more of the people in this country. And whether they are white, or conservative or Republicans doesn't matter. If push comes to shove, they won't be fighting "for America," I believe.<br /><br />They'll be fighting for their lives and beliefs. And "America" will be just a memory to them. Something already gone. Something buried in diversity and social justice. <br /><br />They may be on the same continent as their adversaries. But *where* they are - or go - won't matter nearly as much as how they get there. And yes, weapons - even nukes - will be part of the equation. Because it's always been thus. "Don't fuck with me or I'll shoot your goddamned ass. Now leave me alone and get OUT."<br /><br />America will be a footnote, like Athens or Rome. What those people create may look nothing like a democracy or a republic. It will be the best their thinkers of the time can create.<br /><br />But even if it's a small resistance movement in the hills of Appalachia, it will be the best hope for mankind. George Soros and the Frankfurt School and the Council on Foreign Relations be damned to eternal hell, forever.<br /><br />And yeah, repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.Tim Turnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-32561675408636770482016-12-03T13:14:08.889-05:002016-12-03T13:14:08.889-05:00It was much the same in NC, except Protestant rath...It was much the same in NC, except Protestant rather than Catholic, and all conservative Democrats that "Liked Ike". Sunday "blue laws" for business, Black middle class businesses that prospered from segregation, "Race" mattered, but not on an Individual basis, as Blacks and Whites were overwhelmingly polite with each other, and was how I was raised to behave.<br />"Manners" are the glue that holds a society together, and was the focus of the 60's progreSSive resurgence from it's earlier demise in the early 1900's.<br />This election is the last stand of the remnants of a long dead Republic.<br />In our rush to the future from the 50's we definitely "threw out the baby with the bathwater." GenEarlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-68437379620125255462016-12-03T13:07:18.423-05:002016-12-03T13:07:18.423-05:00I am glad that I got see the America described, an...I am glad that I got see the America described, and that I will probably check out before the competing agends come to fruition.<br />_revjen45Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-8892802774971675972016-12-03T12:40:32.469-05:002016-12-03T12:40:32.469-05:00I too grew up in the 50's. What a wonderful ti...I too grew up in the 50's. What a wonderful time to be a kid.<br /><br />It is all gone. The last straw was on New Year’s Eve 2011 when Obama quietly signed the McCain/Republican NDAA. The ‘tree of liberty’ was taken to the saw mill. I said, ‘We need a divorce’.<br /><br />Now 15 years later it is much worse. DC and the Blue Cities are pockets of gangrene. It is triage time. We need new Republic(s). Or we can kick the can down the road and soon no one will be left who remembers what we lost.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-46341964935135767542016-12-03T11:49:45.578-05:002016-12-03T11:49:45.578-05:00Your description of life in Orangeburg reminds me ...Your description of life in Orangeburg reminds me of my own experiences at around age 10 in Merrill, Wisconsin. People with German, French and Scandinavian backgrounds, more Catholic than not, some R's, more D's, but all conservative. I spent a lot of time on my own exploring all over that town and in the surrounding woods, even in the depths of the hard winters there.<br /><br />It's amazing how intolerant the left has gotten, while they still somehow imagine themselves paragons of tolerance.<br /><br />I just wrote this article, that fits somewhat into what you have written here.<br />http://strike-the-root.com/to-manage-and-steer-peonsPaul Bonneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279129269584372919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-28088140999771717242016-12-03T11:19:49.024-05:002016-12-03T11:19:49.024-05:00I'm of the same boomer cohort and feel blessed...I'm of the same boomer cohort and feel blessed to have known that America. It is exactly as you have described. I well remember my excitement and apprehension when receiving the envelope which would tell me if I passed or failed the competitive entrance exam to attend St. John's College High School in Washington, D.C. in 1963. It was a source of pride not only to me but for my family as well. Ah, yes. Family. There's the rub. The glue that held it all together. The idea that the current generation owed a debt to the previous generation and paid it forward to the next generation. The crux of Western Civilization. Long before we learned of muslim Revolutionary War soldiers and muslim settlers crossing the Great Salt Desert in wagon trains. You have to hand it to the communists. There is no such thing as too great a lie.Old Mikenoreply@blogger.com