I don't think we can afford to leave all those other red states out of it. We need an updated alignment of Constitutionalists that are prepared to stand firm for American Principles, and, if required, do what is necessary to preserve them.
The way things are going, I'm not sure the United States of America, as currently constituted will be able to return to our roots and to the great ideals upon which this nation was founded. We have wandered so far, and our leaders are rushing to perdition, dragging all of us with them.
We may have to do what has been considered the unthinkable in order to reclaim our patrimony.
More to come.
The Gunslinger
I already live in Little Dixie, so I guess it wouldn't be too much of a change... would we get more Southern food joints? Verandas and sweet tea would be welcome, too.
ReplyDeleteSomeone correct me if I'm wrong, but what's left of Dixie culture is the only culture left in America...
Oh I'm glad I'm in the land of cotton...
Funny, my liberal sister thinks there's no American Culture, too.
ReplyDeleteShe thinks only foreigners have "cultures" to protect and defend.
Like fish vis a vis water...you're immersed in it, so you don't see it.
Like local accents...you speak with it every day, so you don't "hear" it.
When I was a kid, I complained to my mother than we didn't have accents like other parts of the country. She wisely told me that it would only seem like an accent when I went somewhere that people didn't sound like me, and they would immediately know where I was from by the way I talked. I was duly mollified.
Okay, she stretched it a little, because I grew up in California, the one place in the world that every English speaker acknowledges has no accent...even the British!
But you get the point.
America is chock full of culture and tradition and history...we're just so used to it, it's not exotic and noticeable, until we're somewhere else, and we find we miss it.
No, I agree America has had culture in the past, and great ones at that, but the sad thing is that it is slipping away from us and being replaced by generic consumerism with no regard to virtue or purpose. And it's a shame that we are losing our traditions, and if you can't see that I don't know what to tell you... that's "the culture" that we're losing. And it's very nearly gone.
ReplyDeleteOh I see. Yes I agree. It was that culture I was talking about.
ReplyDeleteThe Cowboy independent, hardworking, shoot from the hip, straight-talking, honest free citizen...whose word was his bond, who sealed deals with a handshake, who believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Who loved America, who got choked up when he heard the Star Spangled Banner, whose kids were Scouts, whose wife made cupcakes for school, who drove a big American car, who went to church on Sunday, and had chicken for Sunday dinner—for the whole family, who expected his daughter to be a virgin on her wedding night, who expected his son to fight his own battles, and taught him how...both morally and physically, who never forgot that Christmas was Jesus' birthday, who respected women, and didn't swear around them, who could fix things, who saved money, who didn't necessarily expect his kids to go to college, who respected people who worked with their hands, who judged people by their actions, who gave to the widows and orphans but not the town wino, who distrusted government and politicians.
That's what I'm talking about...