PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1. I mean that in both senses.....an important part of Western Civiliation's history.....and, that it is over.
At least the America that my parents came to be part of.
2. How to put together that so may 'Americans' subscribe to this:
full-blown anti-white racism,
socialism,
infanticide,
opposition to free speech,
standing with criminals and felons rather than law-abiding citizens
substituting illegal alien voters for the American citizenry,
support for rioters, arsonists, murderers, and anarchists,
accepting payment from Communist China for future considerations,
and anti-Semitism… the knuckle-dragging, atavistic pagan party.
3. This was an American, celebrated in history:
September 22 1776 Connecticut schoolteacher and Yale graduate, Nathan Hale was captured by the British (betrayed by Colonel Robert Rogers, who had been playing both sides) and charged with spying. Taken to NYCity, hanged, without trial, on September 24, at the age of 20. Before his death, Nathan Hale’s celebrated last words, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” echoes a remark by Cato, “What a pity it is that we can die but once to save our country.”Hale repeated a passage from Joseph Addison’s (1713)Cato:
How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country.
4. An echo of this:
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
‘To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,
Horatius at the Bridge by Lord Macaulay
At least the America that my parents came to be part of.
2. How to put together that so may 'Americans' subscribe to this:
full-blown anti-white racism,
socialism,
infanticide,
opposition to free speech,
standing with criminals and felons rather than law-abiding citizens
substituting illegal alien voters for the American citizenry,
support for rioters, arsonists, murderers, and anarchists,
accepting payment from Communist China for future considerations,
and anti-Semitism… the knuckle-dragging, atavistic pagan party.
3. This was an American, celebrated in history:
September 22 1776 Connecticut schoolteacher and Yale graduate, Nathan Hale was captured by the British (betrayed by Colonel Robert Rogers, who had been playing both sides) and charged with spying. Taken to NYCity, hanged, without trial, on September 24, at the age of 20. Before his death, Nathan Hale’s celebrated last words, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” echoes a remark by Cato, “What a pity it is that we can die but once to save our country.”Hale repeated a passage from Joseph Addison’s (1713)Cato:
How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country.
4. An echo of this:
Then out spoke brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate:
‘To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods,
Horatius at the Bridge by Lord Macaulay
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