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Unread 02-12-2017, 09:35 AM
Charlie Southerland Charlie Southerland is offline
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Andrew and Jim, Politicians aren't to be trusted. None of them. That is not fatalism. Power does wonky things to them. It takes a good man or woman and defiles them. It takes bad men and women and makes them badder.

We've had very few populist leaning presidents in our history. We certainly haven't had one in the mold of Trump. I think Teddy Roosevelt was the last one. Teddy would say and did say that he was a Progressive. Progressivism has taken sharp turns to the left in the political arena. It was always meant to do so. The turn always goes toward the government can do more for you than you can do for yourself. Its proponents are almost always rich and aloof.

I suspect Trump will head in that direction and please the Left before he is out of office. I'm surprised at how the Left has went after him so hard. He is not a Republican, he doesn't seem to be a deeply spiritual man, does not seem to be intellectually curious, and he seems to shun war like the plague. Does he love the country? I believe so, which is where he deviates from the Left, in that, they, Progressive Democrats, are always hating our founding, our way of life, our total freedom to do as we please. They think that humanity must be regulated and controlled by the State because the people are too stupid to govern themselves.

To be honest, the Left has a good many unwittingly willing sycophants. This is borne of ease, not sacrifice of self to achieve better things. Academia leads this charge, has nearly always led it in the past 125 years. Most of Academia hates the very thought of God, the supreme higher power that claims control over mankind's destiny. It is a doctrine filled with pride and hubris. It has been taught now, this Godless pride and hubris for many years, indoctrinating children from an early age well into their twenties. This has always been the fight for the country. Nothing else is so important. Those of us who are Believers in God follow a book that foretells our end and our eternity. Those who don't believe this Way scoff and fight tooth and nail to destroy the faith. I understand why, it's no mystery. Believers follow a God that cannot be seen or proven to exist. That makes no sense to the Left, for the most part. There are a few Believers scattered among them but few who are hardcore about it. I believe God is Sovereign. That does not make me a fatalist, contrarily, it makes me an eternal optimist in the most literal sense. It is what drives some of you crazy. I get it. If I were in your shoes, I'd be right there with you.

Jim, I can tell you in a few short words what I think of Obama. I think he was mostly true to his Leftist beliefs which have been detrimental to this country. It doesn't matter what I think of the man personally, since I never met him.

It's the same with Trump. I don't have the luxury of looking back on a Trump administration. I haven't met the man to get a grasp on who or what he truly is.

I have no more or less concerns with him than I did Obama or Bush or Clinton or any other president. History permits me to opine. It seems what is going on here is that you guys want to prevent history from taking place as it was meant to be. Tsk,tsk. That is always the way the Left Progressive mindset works when they have an itch.
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