It’s unbelievable to me that in the 21st Century there are people still seriously considering socialism as a viable option despite all the evidence of its destructive and corruptive nature.
It is an ideology rooted in envy and resentment and hatred. It can only produce hell.
A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...
The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.
All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."
After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.
The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.
As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.
The average of the second test was 6.
When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.
The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?
@MJTruthUltra It’s sad when a government has been so consistently dishonest for decades that no one believes anything at face value anymore.
It’s like trusting a compulsive liar. It may well be Graham died of a heart attack. Simplest explanation. But believing it feels like being gullible.
Let’s make patriotism popular again. Loving your country doesn’t mean hating anyone else’s country. It’s not a zero-sum game.
Love begets more love.
Every nation should be “[Nation] First.” Not “[Nation] Only” but “[Nation] First.” THEN, help others out of love and abundance.
Here is what the left expected to happen during the World Cup: Europeans were supposed to smirk at us. They were supposed to mock our religion and our guns. They were supposed to turn away in righteous disgust at our abundance and free refills and buffet lines and big trucks and big houses. They were supposed to shake their heads at our supposed lack of culture. They were supposed to see a racist behind every tree and under every rock. They were supposed to catch a glimpse of discord and poverty and hate and perpetual ignorance. And they were supposed to leave here hating this country even more so than when they arrived.
But they didn’t.
They fell in love with us. And by “us,” I mean the real, everyday America. They didn’t go to the Met Gala; they went to Walmart. They didn’t dine at the French Laundry; they ate at Waffle House. They didn’t scoff at bigger portions; they consumed them with glee. They weren’t impressed by Priuses; they were impressed by Ford F-150s. They didn’t sniffily order some 25-syllabled cup of pretention from the local fair trade cafe; they drank American beer, listened to American country music, and ate American bar food. They don’t marvel at inner-city legal drug zones; they marvel at the wide open expanses of American beauty.
They love ranch dressing. They love the military flyovers. They love the gas stations. They love the 24/7 business hours. They love the huge American flags.
In short, everything our visitors love about America is everything the left hates about America. The leftists watch this in paralyzing horror. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Foreigners were supposed to return to their homelands and report that America is exactly what Barack Obama, Michael Moore, and Sasha Baron Cohen told them it was.
But that’s not going to happen now. Because our foreign guests realize that everything their "elites" told them about us has been a disgusting lie. Just like everything our "elites" tell us about ourselves is a disgusting lie.
But the most important lesson I hope the Europeans take home with them is this. Patriotism is a moral virtue. It’s good to be proud of your country. And despite what the government, the public schools, the universities, Hollywood, social media, the elite globalists, and both the domestic and foreign media tell us, Americans are proud of their country. And if visiting Europeans can see through the lie they’ve been sold about America, I hope they can see the lie they’ve been told about themselves.
(Source: A.J. Christopher, PJ Media)
@SunTzusWar Don’t judge the whole nation due to the actions of a few corrupt elite, and the weakness of the leftist mindset. England has a long, rich history, and they’re our kinsmen.
Many Americans trace their heritage to England, which is something to be proud of, despite its faults.
@HistorianUSA1 Kid sounds like a psycho, Not only was the kid being extremely disrespectful, it was borderline predatory. He’s old enough to know exactly what he was doing. The husband needs to ask himself how he expects his wife to respond to another man undressing her without consent.
@THEDuaneCates@OG_DrC@drawandstrike And as a follow up—while I don’t always agree with Kirk’s positions—he was a very positive person who operated in the level of “power” as Dr. Hawkins described it. And that’s why those in the level of “force” hated him and slandered him so much. Even in death, he won the debate.
@THEDuaneCates@OG_DrC@drawandstrike Based on this post, you might be interested in the work of Dr. David Hawkins, who wrote extensively on the levels of consciousness, starting with “Power vs Force.” His work offers a greater insight into sources and levels of truth and awareness. His work changed my life.
It’s a shame how so many spiteful, hateful so-called Americans hate America right now.
Sure, we have our faults, and we will keep working on those.
But despite our faults, we are the greatest, most prosperous, and most free nation the world has ever seen.
Happy 250th!
My father cried.
I had never seen it. Not once in my life.
70 years old. Post-war generation. He hated America with everything he had.
60 years. Not one kind word. Not one.
Then March 2011 came.
He sat in front of the TV. Every day. Silent. Fists on his knees.
Your Marines digging black mud with their bare hands for Japanese strangers.
Your 19-year-old sailors sleeping on cold steel floors so our grandmothers could have beds.
Your carrier sailing INTO the radiation while the whole world ran out.
He watched all of it. And said nothing.
Then one night I passed his room and I froze.
Behind that door, my father, the strongest and most stubborn man I ever knew, was sobbing like a child.
I couldn't move. I just stood there in the dark hallway, listening, crying with him.
Then he said it. One sentence. It tore 60 years apart:
"I was wrong about them."
Do you understand what that took?
A lifetime of hatred. Gone.
Destroyed by soldiers carrying soup to strangers.
America, you didn't just save our towns.
You reached inside my father's chest and healed a wound he swore would never close.
He passed away believing in you.
Happy 250th. 🇺🇸🇯🇵
An old man who hated you died loving you. My father.
@MJTruthUltra 0–It’s amazing what kind of peace reveals itself when you let go of all outcomes, trust in God as you understand him, and trust that what happens is exactly what needs to happen for the greatest good of all.
@athenaeumbc I’m all about the personal library. That’s been my #1 dream feature in a dream home my whole life. But I do have a pretty decent living room library in my apartment. Can’t complain.
@AwakenedOutlaw Sending you prayers. I highly recommend “Letting Go” by Dr. David Hawkins. Often chronic conditions are cured, or at least find relief, in complete surrender. That book changed my life. I’m working through his body of work, but if you pick one, that’s one to read.
@AwakenedOutlaw It’s pseudo-intellectualism. Intellectualism is actually a good thing when its virtue is the proper development of the mind through reason and honest pursuit of truth. But intellectual dishonesty clothed in intellectual-sounding babble is just foolishness dressed up to look nice
@adrenaIinIendnz Some animals are capable of love, like dogs and cats. Reptiles aren’t among them. Any animal that doesn’t rear its young doesn’t experience love. It only knows what it knows. You have to respect it as an unloving opportunistic force of nature.
@PaulAnleitner Every sane person is tired of the jaded nihilism in Hollywood movies. Story telling can be a powerful medium for inspiring us to higher awareness and virtue.
Instead, most movies nowadays are pure propaganda pushing a worldview devoid of positivity or even hope.