“Whatever is hidden will be revealed; nothing will remain unavenged.” (Quidquid latet, apparebit; nil inultum remanebit.)
“Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.” Friedrich Hayek
“What was wrong with communism wasn’t aberrant leadership; it was communism.” William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Such a disappointment when you defend someone for so long, thinking they are different, and they turn out to be just like what everyone said.”Khayri R.R. Woulfe
“We shall have no real hope to survive the enemies arranged against us until we hang the traitors lurking among us.” Thomas Paine.
“Curiously, the failures of Communism are more often treated as a joke than as a tragedy.” William F. Buckley, Jr.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.” Will Rogers
Me and the kid next door hated each other. Constant fights, bloody noses, gouges, smacks, punches, drop kicks. I think the parents got along and hoped we would, too. No avail. Arch enemies thrust together and told to play nice. Mom would face us, two ruffians bandaged and gauzed, and demand we look at what we did to each other. Right up until kindergarten, when society sent us our separate ways. We had three arrests together: trespassing in a sawmill, trespassing in a railyard, unaccompanied minors heading for the highway.
Mom sent me updates for a while, oh Cynthia is doing this, oh Cynthia is doing that. Parents are a wee bit delusional themselves.
Sure, we “made it.” But we were, perhaps, too busy “making it,” to realize that what was being done to us and to our nation was destroying everything. We stupidly took it for granted that life the way it was “back then” would somehow continue in the same way, propelled by its own inertia, without any diligence, any curiosity or questioning, any critical thinking, probing, contemplating, learning, reading, or any effort of any kind, on our parts.
The increasingly quoted FACT, as stated by Ronald Reagan says it better than I ever could:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
We have squandered everything those who have gone on before us fought for. Rather than patting ourselves on the back for having “made it,” we should hang our heads in shame.
We have not survived this decade.
We did too!!!
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