tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post5010512132201433089..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: More on the gun control messPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90594263896005413692013-01-19T19:49:31.881-06:002013-01-19T19:49:31.881-06:00The entire last four years was based around an age...The entire last four years was based around an agenda that had nothing to do with giving people free stuff, but used that to manipulate them into furthering the agenda by reelecting the donor. It's the agenda, stupid!trailbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06830065132795330618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60038318913325352932013-01-18T16:08:34.726-06:002013-01-18T16:08:34.726-06:00I tell people to be very worried when government t...I tell people to be very worried when government tells them what they "need" or "don't need." Even some liberals get nervous when you start telling them about Stalin and the Kulaks. Big government has never, ever been benevolent in the long run and often not even in the short run.Cranky Old Dudenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18253653321977412732013-01-18T13:01:27.034-06:002013-01-18T13:01:27.034-06:00The recent election was lost for several reasons. ...The recent election was lost for several reasons. Yes many Conservatives stayed home. However, Bayou is correct in indicating 2012 America ain't the same as 1960 America when a Democrat (JFK) was elected.<br /><br />Demographics has a lot to do with it. Many college kids way back when I was 18 back in the 1950's accepted and even welcomed military service as a ritual of attaining the American dream and preserving the American way.<br /><br />Lots of today's kids live in a bubble where they are the center of the universe and have no allegiance to America and Conservative values. All they want is a smart cellphone and figure the best form of government is one that gives them everything on a Silver platter and wipes their asses.<br /><br />Deprivation builds character. Yea, it may hurt but human nature dictates that when you don't have to work for something you fall into the dependence pit.<br /><br />African-Americans voted almost 90% for Obama because he's black (despite actually being half-white) and he promised to fulfill their desire for instant gratification (getting something NOW without making an effort to work for it). The Hispanic population is reaching to overtake the Anglo majority in the near future. They see Obama and the Liberals as the key to opening the immigration door and legalizing the status of their undocumented La hermanos & hermanas. Liberals see Obama as the paragon of their rabid, albeit naive desire to make America into a Socialist Shangri-La. One thing all these very powerful groups see as an impediment to their progress in American society is the White, Conservative, Anglo majority. <br /><br />So you have witnessed the "perfect Sociological Storm", which had its seeds planted by FDR before WW-II then after WW-II by avowed Communists, nurtured by anarchist educators in the 1950's, 60's 70's abetted by the catalyst of Johnson's "Great Society" and finally boiling over into an unstoppable Social tsunami.<br /><br />My analysis may sound defeatist and pessimistic, but I see the change of American values as a reality. I may detest that reality and even work to halt its progress but as a Conservative I have to recognize the fact that nothing is forever. America, I fear, has had its day and this 70 year old man has had the fortune to enjoy its bounty and freedoms at the peak of a dream fostered by its founding fathers. <br />Toejamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10848591976270307402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-42351348173847025682013-01-18T09:39:42.988-06:002013-01-18T09:39:42.988-06:00" We are now in a minority in America. The l..." We are now in a minority in America. The last election proved that." OK first I agree with everything else in your post, we have to reach out to new folks about freedom (we always had to) but I can't agree with this at all. The presidential election was lost because conservatives stayed home. They didn't cease to exist, we just have to find a way (while we also reach out to new folks) to pop them out of the couch cushions. I think Obama will help... <br />I don't want to cast rays of optimism at all, this is serious business. But, the -election- was lost by the people who couldn't be bothered to vote let alone -do- something like http://www.nraila.org/actioncenter/GetInvolvedLocally/ IMHOBoyd Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520276593686491417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-63857509272331450862013-01-17T23:47:15.316-06:002013-01-17T23:47:15.316-06:00i agree with everything said here but i want to ad...i agree with everything said here but i want to add something.<br /><br />i can't explain it and please don't think i'm a gloom and boom conspiracy guy, but it really feels like a kind of cliff is coming. all this talk about guns and terrorist kidnapped oil workers in Africa. no one is talking about the fiscal cliff.<br /><br />quite honestly it seems like this is another social issue being used by the Administration to divide the American people so we won't agree that this guy is wrecking the economy and causing our standing in the world to go down. if we can blunt their first series of votes...give the Republicans a boost to make it till the fiscal cliff talks then events will take over and real---hard issues will finally be aired. additionally we'll be closer to Obama care going into effect, people will still be smarting over taxes being taken out of paychecks. we might be able to win on their over reach. Pride goeth before the fall. this guy is extremely prideful.Solomonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05980277484445749796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-75943215196992919052013-01-17T23:29:33.492-06:002013-01-17T23:29:33.492-06:00Texas is a great place to locate a business. No s...Texas is a great place to locate a business. No state income tax, lower cost real estate and a lot of folks who would welcome more gun manufacturers.The Great and Powerful Ozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379953300283048280noreply@blogger.com