Bonzi
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People under 50 (maybe even 60) have largely forgotten the “American values” that were inherent in this country’s culture prior to the 1960’s. They see old movies and hear about historical incidents, and to them it is like they describe life on another planet. Thousands of American soldiers gave their lives to capture a little island in the South Pacific from the Japanese? Are you kidding me? It COULD NOT HAPPEN today. An insidious combination of Progressives in our courts and liberals in academe and in “Hollywood” has conspired to devolve American culture into the figurative toilet.
People who work hard, try to stay out of trouble, and achieve success are ridiculed as freaks and ostracized. The culture pretends that great success (other than in entertainment and sports) is always the result of either inheritance or some nefarious activities, completely discounting the NORMAL case where people succeed because of a combination of intelligence, talent, hard work, and careful risk-taking. Neither film nor television exalts people who achieve success by hard work; it’s always the guy who has a 200 IQ and a photographic memory, and doesn’t have to do any actual work to succeed. Not surprisingly, very few people in the Political Class or in Entertainment have ever actually had a real job.
The true idols of this generation are those who achieve outrageous financial success with minimal effort and no talent (hip-hop “artists,”, Miley C, the Car-dashboardians, etc). They make me want to vomit – figuratively speaking.
The personal qualities of modesty, humility, tact, politeness, and being considerate of others are deemed to be indications of weakness or even neurosis. People are expected to do whatever is necessary to draw attention to themselves and their own wonderfulness (see Facebook). Fat, homely girls have acres of their flesh decorated with mindless tattoos and body piercings. Athletes are expected to belittle their opponents and expound on their own greatness in a way never done before (except by professional “wrestlers”).
Being a “victim” has become our greatest growth industry. “He said you have a nice ASS???!!! Sue the bastard! Let’s have a protest march against this intolerable oppression by the male power structure!” And so on.
Making school kids feel good and not hurting their feelings has trumped education in our schools. “Failure” has been re-defined and eroded continually for the past several decades, to the point where it is a valid question whether a typical high school graduate is capable of understanding a simple newspaper article or balancing a checkbook. Good thing they have the right to vote, eh?
People who hold traditional views on morality are literally under siege. Military chaplains who truthfully teach that same-sex sodomy is sinful are threatened with expulsion. Anyone suggesting placing limits on internet (and other) porn are deemed fanatics and Fascists. People who advocate the enforcement of existing immigration laws are called, “racist” (which doubly perverse, since most of the immigrants in question are Caucasian). People who suggest that sexual promiscuity or even adultery are “wrong” are nowhere in evidence in the popular media, except as the object of ridicule.
When courts overturn hundreds of years (or thousands of years) of legal and cultural precedents, using twisted and specious “interpretations” of the U.S. Constitution, there is no public outrage. No one complains that the Courts are taking the issues out of the hands of the People or their elected representatives, it is considered a “good thing.”
Any mention of the “values” of previous generations is peppered with accusations of supervening evil (“Yeah, but did you know that Thomas Jefferson had SLAVES!”). Marginal problems of previous generations are magnified to be universal horrors. The two or three women a year who were seriously harmed by botched abortions before 1973 is deemed a “reasonable” justification for killing hundreds of thousands of babies in the womb each year through legalized abortion.
To paraphrase Pogo, we are the enemy. If any foreign power had done this to us, we would be justified in nuking them.
The title is accurate but it is not speaking of dogs as in animals but rather what Christ referred to as those who are destined for hell. Yes, that is what America has gone to and that is why America is under the judgment of God. A nation divided against itself cannot stand. It is destined to fall.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Revelations 2:15
I knew what he meant J, but wanted to get my rant in about people and their dogs...........