The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Signing Off Until Sunday...
I am leaving town for my Grandmother's funeral. I'm taking my computer, but I seriously doubt I will have much of an opportunity to post until Sunday night.
In the meantime I want to thank everyone who has dropped in lately, and also to those readers who have offered their kind words. Shoot, I truly appreciate the fact that even one person is interested in what one Texas contrarian has to say. But the fact that so many of you continue to come back for more really does mean more to me than I can possibly express. I hope some of it resonates, because I obviously believe it passionately.
Unfortunately I am also pessimistic enough to think that a large portion of our public is similar to those kids who were shot execution style, (apparently..) without resisting at Virginia Tech: only in this case the "massacre" in progress is of the very idea of the United States that our brilliant Founders conceived, and of Western Civilization itself. The hour for our country and the West is late and our enemies are at the gates. But we can--and we must--still win this dual-front war: the one for the soul of our Nation and the other for keeping our World from plunging head first into a Dark Age that could make the previous Dark Ages pale in comparison...
There are evil, but intelligent and highly dedicated people out there who are determined to send most or all of us to a hell on earth that would make Dante cringe. Too, there are power-hungry hypocritical sociopaths in the halls of power in our Congress that would--in an instant--send us collectively down the same "toilet" in which Europe is presently being flushed unceremoniously as a bankrupt cultural experiment--yes, we too can go bankrupt: as did the Soviet Union; and as the welfare state in Europe is about to do.
And then there is the much larger group of well-meaning people out there who in their naive and Utopian dream world are in the process of unwittingly destroying the very foundations of the United States of America and all it stands for. The Generals in this War against all that is good about this nation have names like Pelosi and Reid and Sharpton and Jackson and Leahy and Murtha and Kucinich. Names destined to go down in history as "the destroyers", that is if we cannot win enough hearts and minds to turn this tide. But the foot soldiers are friends of ours, only they for whatever reason are not seeing the world as it IS. They are seeing an illusory dream. I am convinced that if we do not turn these people around--so that these "Generals" who would destroy us no longer have any support from any reasonable American--our country and the World as we know it will cease to exist.
So yes, it is not even in question: losing is not an option. We MUST win; there can be nothing more important for the future of this planet (and that definitely includes Global Warming...).
I could go on and on but it is late: I could plagiarize a great man and talk about fighting them in the hills and on the beaches and about this being "their finest hour", but unfortunately I am neither English enough nor articulate enough to fit into that man's shoes; however I will evoke the words of Lombardi: because--over the next 2-10 years in the United States--winning isn't merely everything--it must be the only thing in the minds of each one of us--if we are to prevail.
The good news: it is not impossible--we can do it. We've overcome greater odds before. Read David McCullough's 1776. An amazing book about amazing men. And think about how far we have come since that bleakest of winters.
Read The Federalist Papers and The Wealth of Nations--and ponder the unbridled, sheer genius of Hamilton, Jay, and Smith. Read about Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (and Lincoln's address about it). Read about Bastogne and the answer of the besieged American troops to the incredulous Nazis demanding their surrender. And then sit there and try and tell me we can't do it. Bullshit; we HAVE to do it; we have traveled to damn far and it is way too late to turn back now.
Anyway, God willing, I will see everyone again on Sunday evening. But now it is time for me to go say goodbye to a special lady.
Fight on.
In the meantime I want to thank everyone who has dropped in lately, and also to those readers who have offered their kind words. Shoot, I truly appreciate the fact that even one person is interested in what one Texas contrarian has to say. But the fact that so many of you continue to come back for more really does mean more to me than I can possibly express. I hope some of it resonates, because I obviously believe it passionately.
Unfortunately I am also pessimistic enough to think that a large portion of our public is similar to those kids who were shot execution style, (apparently..) without resisting at Virginia Tech: only in this case the "massacre" in progress is of the very idea of the United States that our brilliant Founders conceived, and of Western Civilization itself. The hour for our country and the West is late and our enemies are at the gates. But we can--and we must--still win this dual-front war: the one for the soul of our Nation and the other for keeping our World from plunging head first into a Dark Age that could make the previous Dark Ages pale in comparison...
There are evil, but intelligent and highly dedicated people out there who are determined to send most or all of us to a hell on earth that would make Dante cringe. Too, there are power-hungry hypocritical sociopaths in the halls of power in our Congress that would--in an instant--send us collectively down the same "toilet" in which Europe is presently being flushed unceremoniously as a bankrupt cultural experiment--yes, we too can go bankrupt: as did the Soviet Union; and as the welfare state in Europe is about to do.
And then there is the much larger group of well-meaning people out there who in their naive and Utopian dream world are in the process of unwittingly destroying the very foundations of the United States of America and all it stands for. The Generals in this War against all that is good about this nation have names like Pelosi and Reid and Sharpton and Jackson and Leahy and Murtha and Kucinich. Names destined to go down in history as "the destroyers", that is if we cannot win enough hearts and minds to turn this tide. But the foot soldiers are friends of ours, only they for whatever reason are not seeing the world as it IS. They are seeing an illusory dream. I am convinced that if we do not turn these people around--so that these "Generals" who would destroy us no longer have any support from any reasonable American--our country and the World as we know it will cease to exist.
So yes, it is not even in question: losing is not an option. We MUST win; there can be nothing more important for the future of this planet (and that definitely includes Global Warming...).
I could go on and on but it is late: I could plagiarize a great man and talk about fighting them in the hills and on the beaches and about this being "their finest hour", but unfortunately I am neither English enough nor articulate enough to fit into that man's shoes; however I will evoke the words of Lombardi: because--over the next 2-10 years in the United States--winning isn't merely everything--it must be the only thing in the minds of each one of us--if we are to prevail.
The good news: it is not impossible--we can do it. We've overcome greater odds before. Read David McCullough's 1776. An amazing book about amazing men. And think about how far we have come since that bleakest of winters.
Read The Federalist Papers and The Wealth of Nations--and ponder the unbridled, sheer genius of Hamilton, Jay, and Smith. Read about Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (and Lincoln's address about it). Read about Bastogne and the answer of the besieged American troops to the incredulous Nazis demanding their surrender. And then sit there and try and tell me we can't do it. Bullshit; we HAVE to do it; we have traveled to damn far and it is way too late to turn back now.
Anyway, God willing, I will see everyone again on Sunday evening. But now it is time for me to go say goodbye to a special lady.
Fight on.
Labels: Blogging, Culture War, The Long War
