tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post8191860700748536137..comments2023-09-01T09:38:54.262-04:00Comments on Dumb Looks Still Free: The Worst Wars of AllA Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-12606750528610489402007-09-18T09:36:00.000-04:002007-09-18T09:36:00.000-04:00JD - My thanks!I am trying to state clearly what ...JD - My thanks!<BR/><BR/>I am trying to state clearly what I have always 'known' and followed as my course. No one taught me the law of nations, no one taught me how to examine such activities as we see today and no on taught me how to look at what makes this Nation so special. Our founders knew it and that kept on being moved forward to our modern times. But between then and now, we have stopped teaching what it means to have a Nation... not just the US but *any* Nation.<BR/><BR/>I am quite afraid that our ancestors would label our current outlooks on the world to be: degenerate and debased. When a person cannot even trace out what makes civilized action civilized, and what it upholds for civilization, then you are on the brink of savagery and barbarism.<BR/><BR/>Tracing back to the sources of our strong culture, even in its current state, goes in many ways... not just to Rome and Athens, but to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Constantinople, Alexandria, Baghdad, Bombay, Nanking and places unnamed in the western hemisphere amongst the Iriquois, Cheyenne, and tribes too numerous to mention. The interactions have not always been good, or healthy, but they do forge together and let us understand the defects and rectify them as best we can. When you start to only see defects and try to deepen them, that is destroying civilization. Over-compensate in views and you step from driving out problems to forcing them to become larger and more endemic over time.<BR/><BR/>I push my ideas out to no political 'side' as neither 'side' can represent these things. By becoming didactic, polarized and treading the same ideological battles over and over, these 'sides' have degenerated into destruction of our culture and nation. What I put forth cuts across 'sides' and does not gain easy label. Is it 'liberal' to say that trade and economic activity must be held to the needs of the nation so as to support it *first*? Is it 'liberal' to want those companies that break our laws with respect to foreigners to be closed and shuttered for breaking with our constitution and society? Is it 'conservative' to put forth that the Westphalian State is the greatest boon to mankind in giving each individual the right to have religious freedom, and that we must abide by that, also? Is it 'conservative' to say that our Friends and Allies must be held and supported more dearly than outreach to any enemy, as it is our Friends and Allies that enrich and support us and we are damned if we do not show our gratitude for that?<BR/><BR/>Where do these fall in America?<BR/><BR/>The Left can't espouse these things because they do put forth Transnationalism that is killing us and that our values as a Nation do not need to be paramount in our dealings with the world.<BR/><BR/>The Right can't pick these up as it puts actual restriction on industry and channels it for the good of the Nation to support its friends and allies *first* and above all else, so that we may be better protected.<BR/><BR/>There is no easy saying for these things... it cannot be boiled down to soundbites. Yet there are Americans that understand this instinctively by growing up in America and seeing her history and loving its basic ideals.<BR/><BR/>America has had too much of Red and Blue and anonymous Purple for its politics. Where is the third color of the flag? The beautiful Stars of the Union? Where is the white that is not race, but the guideposts of the stars by which we make our course in the world? That course can veer left and right and backwards, but it strives ever forward not to a side, but to that shining middle course of human liberty and freedom.<BR/><BR/>Where is that part of America that holds the truths to be self-evident and for that we have a Nation separate from others? Our defining is not in how we should be like others, but showing others that we can be ourselves and achieve great things worth doing by being free. I don't hear that from the political parties, from candidates... so I must say it on my own as a free American.<BR/><BR/>And I offer what I say free for all to use, without reservation.<BR/><BR/>I cannot and do not want to lead... but I do show the path I follow and how to see those following that path. I follow that set of stars that speak of liberty and freedom for this Nation and to be a the constellation that shows how others may also guide to freedom. I seek to give that back to my Nation.<BR/><BR/>The Stars of the Union in the clear, crisp beauty of that third color of White. The ever fixed stars of our flag and our hearts in Union as a Nation. I see many say words on liberty and freedom, but they point left or right... yet my path is straight and fixed on the stars. I march that way... and ask others if lifting your heads up to see the stars is so very difficult?A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20372724.post-19425177918039471272007-09-18T08:49:00.000-04:002007-09-18T08:49:00.000-04:00A Jack,Every time I visit your web site I seem to ...A Jack,<BR/><BR/>Every time I visit your web site I seem to have my eyes opened a little more. How is it that your seemingly logical take on things is not followed by at least some of our elected leaders?JDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10547127815404639435noreply@blogger.com