Political Blindness, a Call to Reclaim America

Have the book and it's excellent. You might also want to mention that the book also contains Thomas Paine's original "Common Sense".

I hate to admit it, but I was one of the ones who bought into the whole "Republicans good, Democrats bad" mentality.

It wasn't until about 2005 that I realized that the Republicans have completely abandoned the principles that made them great and that now, the Republicans and Democrats are just two sides of the same coin.

I'm now an independent.

 

I have been looking into them myself.

 

I don't want to align myself with one party, but I did vote for Chuck Baldwin.

 

If the Republican Party had stuck to the principles outlined in 1994 by Newt Gingrich then we would not be having the problems we are having now.

I still believe there is a great difference between the republican and democrat parties. The liberal democrats politicians are tearing this country apart. That has been their goal for many years. They are basically of the same mindset as communists. In a former time these people were politely called fellow travelers. Unfortunately they are being supported by many of the populace including some RINO's!

 

>The other theme is a call to action to get rid of the two parties, realize how far down the road they have taken us from the Constitution, and what we the people need to do to get this country governed by the Constitution again.

I don't think it can happen without a shooting revolution for these reasons:

1. The young people seldom vote and the old people alway vote.

2. The old people control the money.

3. Old people including myself feel that we had paid our dues and are entitled to the promises made to us regarding retirement that were made to us during our 40 or 50 years of working and paying taxes.

4. Most people may prefer the Rs or Ds but know they will do OK under either party. The devil we know is preferred to the devil we don't know.

5. The US is still the best place in the world for the working class. (Generally) A person who can't do OK in THIS decade of the US would be a loser any time, any place. A person who is a loser in the US now would be a loser under any system.

 

Seeing as how I haven't read this book and I don't view Glenn Beck as a straight arrow to begin with I have two questions.

1. Is Beck calling for an organized movemnet of some sort?

2. Why not just read Paine's "common sense" and save yourself some hard earned fiat currency?

"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom." Thomas Paine

 

Newt was all talk OR. His contract with America and all of that was just talk. Whose house do you think produced the legislation that Clinton signed which is getting him blamed for the housing market crash? Clinton didn't write the legislation, he just signed it into law.

You bought into it OR. You've been hoodwinked. Both parties sell government. One to the corporations and the other to the unions and blue collar workers. They have the same destination just a different route. One says let's tax corporations (take from the rich) and give to the poor. The other says lets reform welfare (take from the poor) and cut taxes for corporations (give to the rich).

Now I will give the Democrats some credit, they make no disguise for running up the deficit where as the GOP call themselves "fiscally responsible" and run up the deficit. Don't believe me, you do know our current budget was made by Bush? You do know that, right? You know Bush bought Fannie, Freddy, GM and the banks don't you?

Both parties are the same, they have backers which drive their ultimate agenda. All that money that was made by off shoring out jobs didn't just evaporate and it wasn't just the corporate exec's that got the money. You beat politicians made out good for passing the legislation that made it all possible. Like was said, they are clearly opposite sides of the same coin.

 

Its windy over here too.

 

Thomas Paine was not a Christian~maybe Beck will do a remake of Age of Reason?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason

 

Which is why a lot of folks rail so hard against reforming our health care insurance system.

 

I voted for Baldwin too, the last election. My first time ever voting for third party. I was more of the mindset "Democrats evil, Republicans less bad" but I have seen over the last few years that most Republican politicians have abandoned whatever true conservative ideals the party might have had and just go along with the status quo. Many (in both parties) just want to be a lifetime poltician, be as insulated as possible from the "real world" that most of us live in and say whatever will get them re-elected.

 

You're quoting from the Declaration of Independence, a great document which supports freedom for all but NOT THE BIBLE. Where in the Bible do you find support for this statement?

 

That fallacious tripe doesn't merit response!

 

Well ...... well .... I consider Glenn Beck a half-way interesting entertainer, but not a serious political thinker.

The idea of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" comes from the French Enlightenment philosophers, not the Bible.

On the second paragraph, how many parties would, in your opinion, make a good government?

 

Your statement was:

The two major themes of the book are that our rights come from our Creator, and they include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Any power the government has is lent to them by the people. We do not get our God given rights from the government.

I asked where in the Bible does it say God gave us these rights? You seem to habve the problem of mixing US government and religion. I didn't claim this YOU DID.