tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post8027842067600354629..comments2024-03-24T20:59:22.275-04:00Comments on Marash Girl: Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action, November 17, 2011 -- Marash Girl marches with OCCUPY WALL STREET's Day of Action in NYCMarash Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17039340567144001321noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post-16977910907594502402011-11-18T08:47:22.494-05:002011-11-18T08:47:22.494-05:00To DC: the last sentence is the pregnant one. it i...To DC: the last sentence is the pregnant one. it is to the advantage, and I believe design of the elite in power to sustain that high unemployment rate, so that the 'change' that was heralded at the beginning of the administration can realize its fulfillment in a complete overthrow of the existing order. the new order, this new world order, a term, by the way, coined by Adolf Hitler in the 'thirties', will have a gravitas that will make the order it replaced, seem ethereal by comparison. Further, all democracies lead to mob rule, and then to dictatorships, which is why the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us NOT a democracy, but a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. get it? however, the Founders recognized that the viability of a democratic republic rested on the moral and ethical character of the citizenry. this is why they acknowledged that a resonating, genuine biblical judea-christian ethos was the necessary foundation to the viability of the Republic. The Ten Commandments are stripped from the public, as they are from the classrooms. the Sermon on the MOunt, is mocked, as is Jesus by the intellectual/artistic elites. I challenge the reader of this comment to read both, one in the old testament and one in the new testament (Matthew 5), and you will realize what it is we have vilified and surrendered to the forces of darkness and destruction, and why the conversation that DC above desires will never and can never take place with any justice. the very idea of justice has been purloined by the relativists, who now dominate virtually every sector of our culture. <br />To continue: once the underlying ethical and moral imperatives of that religious inheritance waned, so would the viability of the Republic. the religious ethos has been under attack from within the faith and from without. the 'sixties' were our French Revolution, because the 'sex and drug revolution', the handmaiden of the illegal and fraudulent war in Vietnam, was a self-conscious repudiation of the jewish-christian inheritance of our country. stripped of that internal gyroscope of right and wrong, we are left to inherit a tsunami of a citizenry girded by moral relativism. the morality of the protesters is no different than the morality of our political leaders; they bear the same brand, the same tattoo of self-indulgence, mendacity, mediocrity, and 'if it feels good, do it'. 'Crony Capitalism' is the bastard child that springs from the loins of such a vitiated culture. all social and political and economic systems are an outworking of the substratum of religious belief, which is why in a broader sense, 'the people get what they deserve'. Nothing for nothing.petersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-668302614039424658.post-2699363163102630992011-11-18T07:35:13.286-05:002011-11-18T07:35:13.286-05:00The USA has serious problems and the USA needs ser...The USA has serious problems and the USA needs serious people to solve them. I doubt any of this country’s current leaders are up for that challenge. These problems will not get solved in ten second sound-bites or bumper sticker slogans or before the next election cycle (or, for that matter, in this comment space). Overcoming these challenges will involve difficult conversations that focus on short-term, medium-term and long-term solutions. Whatever your political persuasion, if the unemployment rate remains elevated over the next several years, the discontent will grow.DCnoreply@blogger.com