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This past Wednesday marked another observation of 9-11, the events of 11 September 2001. While there were the usual tributes to the fallen, the observation seemed quite muted.
Perhaps we can chalk it up to the anniversary falling a Wednesday, the day of the week least-suited to hosting holidays both celebratory and reflective. I suspect, however, that there is more to our forgetful ennui than the inconvenience of Wednesdays.
Consider that President Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt earlier this summer. Has anything really changed since then? Has the Left and its media toned down its murderous rhetoric?
Instead, they’ve ludicrously claimed that he brought it upon himself—or that his team coordinated a fake assassination attempt. Given the totally lax and inexperienced Secret Service detail, as well as the peeling away of President Trump’s most accomplished agents to cover some asinine speech from “Dr.” Jill Biden, these excuses smack of lame psychological projection.
Regardless of the hypocrisy of the Left—which isn’t going to change no matter how much we point it out—it’s clear that modern Americans have a woefully short memory about major events. If we’ve already moved on from the failed assassination attempt against a President and presidential candidate, how can we be bothered to remember a series of devastating terrorist attacks from twenty-three years ago?
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Like many major events, people always forget them in due time which is totally ludicrous, Tyler. Young Americans just don’t seem to give a crap about things like this and instead focus on me me me! It’s no wonder that our country is on the slippery slope to an end. That’s just what the Democraps want of course.
Destroy America and it’s Constitution so that we (they) can create the hell they are looking for. Sorry, I’ve been here a while and am sick of watching my country being dismantled by people who should be in a federal prison for the remainder of their natural lives for un-American activities.
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I’d take your hellhole over ours any day of the week. At least you have strong red states which can ignore the idiocy of central government. Our constituencies, here in England, don’t have that luxury.
Our government are making us insecure, poorer and to top it off, continue to send money to all the wrong places – Ukraine, aiding illegal migrants – to the tune of tens of billions while telling the people that they need to plug a fiscal black hole that to all intents and purposes doesn’t exist.
The US might be in an awful place but if you want to see how bad it could get, look at England.
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Wow, I am sorry to hear that your government is doing the same BS as ours, Pontiac. Very sad.
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I’d be interested to know about American tax law. We have loads of taxes here, many downright cruel, and a lot of them are rising. Food prices have gone up, energy prices have gone up, fuel costs have gone up. The disparity between rich and poor has never been wider. I hear it’s the same in America though I am interested to know whether your country has inheritance and gift taxes.
Away from the normal problems, our establishment has the people believing in all things, like men are women and vice versa and that men can get pregnant. Every day feels like dinner at the Mad Hatter’s table. It’s good to stay away from the news and online forums from time to time to maintain one’s sanity.
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I don’t watch the so-called news anymore, it’s all a pack of lies regardless of who is at the microphone. We do have gift and inheritance taxes which is vile.
It seems to me that the reason people left the UK and came here long ago was to get away from a terrible king and terrible taxation. Today, we have all of that back and more.
I see us as being the same people in many ways regardless of the borders. I do love my country but know that the Democrat party in it’s entirety needs to move to North Korea or China where their anti-American ways will fit in nicely.
These people are trying to dismantle America and shred our Constitution! They simply do not belong here. They have zero love of country.
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I hear you. To me, it seems that one of the major differences between our countries is your Republican Party is still, by and large, conservative whereas our so called Conservative Party is a far left mess. That should give you some idea about how extreme our incumbents are.
It’s a shame Tina is wedded to this country. If it had been up to me, we’d have left long ago.
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Yes, our Republicans can be considered Conservative but I take that Conservative thinking much further and call myself a far-right Conservative. I am 63 and grew up in a very different Americ.,
Today’s America is a sad mess of people who identify ans this and that and don’t realise that there are just two sexes. The devil is doing a fine job of confusing and dividing people here and everywhere on the planet. Sorry, who is Tina?
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My heart.
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Republican voters are often quite conservative, and some of the Republican politicians are. Trump breathed new life into the Republican Party, which was something of a shambolic corpse when he came along. His great service to the GOP is weeding out the RINOs.
It’s hard to leave your homeland. Even if it sucks, it’s still home.
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Too bad the Tenth Amendment has been gutted and abused since at least 1860.
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We’re taxed far more heavily than we ever were as part of the British Empire. Taxes are pretty wild here, but not too bad here in the South.
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Merry Old England isn’t quite so merry these days, sadly.
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Thank God for federalism and States’ Rights!
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Agreed. How can we respect the sacrifices our ancestors made to give us our freedoms, when can’t be bothered to remember a major event 20 years ago or an assassination attempt just recently? I have a post scheduled for Monday, which is tapping the same vein. We, as Americans, really need to start caring. We need to do better.
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Good luck with that. You respect your nation and you care but an awful lot of people have been brainwashed into thinking that your achievements have all come from a bad place and to eradicate or wash your hands clean of it means dividing the country into the guilty and the innocent, certainly from the perspective of those wishing to change the landscape.
The same is happening here and I reckon in a lot of large nations. It’ll take a lot to alter that thinking and propaganda.
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You’re absolutely right! With the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, the propaganda has ramped up and it out-of-control. That’s why I volunteer with Daughters of the American Revolution and focus my efforts on teaching elementary kids about the Constitution, the history of our great country. I don’t know if it’s making a difference, but I think educating children is our best hope for changing the trajectory.
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The left use that word too – education – except there’s a vast difference in how it is taught. I imagine you discuss, open the floor, as it were, to opinions, views, questions. For the left, it’s about indoctrination and closing the door to ideas.
It sounds like the children you teach will grow up well rounded and that’s what we all want.
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Yes, “education” is flagrantly abused, as are the concepts of “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Look at who is championing these concepts. Any time the Left gets ahold of an idea, you know it’s going to be perverted and twisted into some lurid mockery of the original.
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Gosh, I know, I would never allow my kids into a public school. I’m not a teacher myself, but just visit classrooms a few times per year to open up those discussions about our rights and our history.
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Agree 100%. I came up in public schools and they were fine back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Now, putting your kid in a public school is basically sacrificing your child to Moloch.
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Thanks for bringing Smith-Mundt to my attention. If I’m reading between the lines correctly, the S-MMA (2012) basically allows for government propaganda meant to be disseminated overseas can now be spread in the United States; essentially, State Department propaganda intended to disrupt totalitarian regimes abroad can now be made to reinforce the totalitarian regime the elites are attempting to construct here. Yes?
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You’ve got it! It’s the biggest news of the last decade(ish), but no one is aware. Our government and the MSM with government approval is allow to propagandize us on our own soil. All the rampant “fake news” make more sense within the context of the S-MMA, right?
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Reading the abstract of the bill, it makes it seem so benign. One thing I’ve learned is that nothing the federal government does in the name of transparency is ever benign. Who benefits? The feds!
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Right! And whatever the title of the bill, just assume it’s intention is just the opposite.
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That one is so true.
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Ah, my crusty English friend, you’ve shared with us your people’s characteristic pessimism once again.
But I think you’re partially correct. That said, I’m seeing some encouraging signs. It seems that a lot of formerly complacent people have woken up.
I have to remind myself, too, that it’s always darkest before the dawn.
As for England, I don’t know what the future holds, but I agree that it doesn’t look good. American politics and English politics tend to follow each other pretty closely (see also: 2016).
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Encouraging in America maybe but it’s easy to be pessimistic here. Aside from a partial fling with the Liberal Democrats, this country has always voted for the same parties, now essentially one party. No matter how bad it gets, how controlling the system is, how dangerous the country gets or how poor the people get, our electorate lack the courage and imagination to change things.
You can see why I post less often nowadays, articles and comments. It gets too depressing sometimes. I suppose nature and TV/films/games help with that.
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I hear you, my friend. England does seem depressing these days, which is heartbreaking, both for my English friends (like you and Tina) and because it’s a nation that fostered Liberty. How far it has fallen from such lofty heights.
Long-term, I fear America will head in the same direction, but it’s going to be a long, slow decline, punctuated with periods of revival bordering on new golden ages. It’s going to be a Roman Empire process.
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It’s an uphill battle, but I do see the tide turning.
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