[NFB-Idaho] Rant

Mon Jan 23 23:23:04 UTC 2023

How many ways can one guy be blind?

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Today's Topics:

   1. Some thoughts from an old blind guy (Carlton King)

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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:48:23 -0700
From: Carlton King <advantage707 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [NFB-Idaho] Some thoughts from an old blind guy
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 This essay needs no introduction!

Men, like nations, think they're eternal.  What man in his 20s or 30s
doesn't believe, at least subconsciously, that he'll live forever? In the
springtime of youth, an endless summer beckons. As you pass 70, it's harder
to hide from reality.... as you lose friends and relatives.

Nations also have seasons: Imagine a Roman of the 2nd century contemplating
an empire that stretched from Britain to the Near East, thinking: This will
endure forever. Forever was about 500 years, give or take.... not bad, but
gone!!

France was pivotal in the 17th and 18th centuries; now the land of Charles
Martel is on its way to becoming part of the Muslim ummah.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the sun never set on the British
empire; now Albion exists in perpetual twilight. Its 96-year-old sovereign
is a fitting symbol for a nation in terminal decline.

In the 1980s, Japan seemed poised to buy the world.  Business schools
taught Japanese management techniques. Today, its birth rate is so low and
its population aging so rapidly that an industry has sprung up to remove
the remains of elderly Japanese who die alone.

I was born in 1945, almost at the midpoint of the 20th century - the
American century. America's prestige and influence were never greater.
Thanks to the 'Greatest Generation,' we won a World War fought throughout
most of Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. We reduced Germany to rubble and put
the rising sun to bed.  It set the stage for almost half a century of
unprecedented prosperity.

We stopped the spread of communism in Europe and Asia and fought
international terrorism. We rebuilt our enemies and lavished foreign aid on
much of the world. We built skyscrapers and rockets to the moon. We
conquered Polio and now COVID. We explored the mysteries of the Universe
and the wonders of DNA...the blueprint of life.

But where is the glory that once was Rome? America has moved from a
relatively free economy to socialism - which has worked so well NOWHERE in
the world.

We've gone from a republican government guided by a constitution to a
regime of revolving elites. We have less freedom with each passing year.
Like a signpost to the coming reign of terror, the cancel culture is
everywhere. We've traded the American Revolution for the Cultural
Revolution.

The pathetic creature in the White House is an empty vessel filled by his
handlers. At the G-7 Summit, 'Dr. Jill' had to lead him like a child. In
1961, when we were young and vigorous, our leader was too. Now a feeble
nation is technically led by the oldest man to ever serve in the presidency.

We can't defend our borders, our history (including monuments to past
greatness) or our streets. Our cities have become anarchist playgrounds. We
are a nation of dependents, mendicants, and misplaced charity. Homeless
veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.

The president of the United States can't even quote the beginning of the
Declaration of Independence ('You know - The Thing') correctly. Ivy League
graduates routinely fail history tests that 5th graders could pass a
generation ago. Crime rates soar and we blame the 2nd Amendment and slash
police budgets.

Our culture is certifiably insane. Men who think they're women. People who
fight racism by seeking to convince members of one race that they're
inherently evil, and others that they are perpetual victims. A psychiatrist
lecturing at Yale said she fantasizes about 'unloading a revolver into the
head of any white person.'

We slaughter the unborn in the name of freedom, while our birth rate dips
lower year by year. Our national debt is so high that we can no longer even
pretend that we will repay it one day. It's a $30-trillion monument to our
improvidence and refusal to confront reality. Our 'entertainment' is
sadistic, nihilistic, and as enduring as a candy bar wrapper thrown in the
trash. Our music is noise that spans the spectrum from annoying to
repulsive.

Patriotism is called an insurrection, treason celebrated, and perversion
sanctified. A man in blue gets less respect than a man in a dress. We're
asking soldiers to fight for a nation our leaders no longer believe in,
while meekly most of us submitted to Fauci-ism (the regime of face masks,
lockdowns, and hand sanitizers) shows the impending death of the American
spirit.

How do nations slip from greatness to obscurity?

* Fighting endless wars they can't or won't win

* Accumulating massive debt far beyond their ability to repay

* Refusing to guard their borders, allowing the nation to be inundated  by
an alien horde

* Surrendering control of their cities to mob rule

* Allowing indoctrination of the young

* Moving from a republican form of government to an oligarchy

* Losing national identity

* Indulging indolence

* Abandoning faith and family - the bulwarks of social order.

In America, every one of these symptoms is pronounced, indicating an
advanced stage of the disease.  Even if the cause seems hopeless, do we not
have an obligation to those who sacrificed so much to give us what we had?
I'm surrounded by ghosts urging me on: the Union soldiers who held Cemetery
Ridge at Gettysburg, the battered bastards of Bastogne, those who served in
the cold hell of Korea, the guys who went to the jungles of Southeast
Asia and came home to be reviled or neglected.

This is the nation that took in my immigrant grandparents, whose uniform my
father and most of my uncles wore in the Second World War. I don't want to
imagine a world without America, even though it becomes increasingly likely.

During Britain's darkest hour, when its professional army was trapped at
Dunkirk and a German invasion seemed imminent, Churchill reminded his
countrymen, 'Nations that go down fighting rise again, and those that
surrender tamely are finished.'

The same might be said of causes. If we let America slip through our
fingers, if we lose without a fight, what will posterity say of us?  While
the prognosis is far from good, only God knows if America's day in the sun
is over."

Read it and weep, forward or erase it! I read it and am now forwarding it
to you, believing that we in America are at the moment in time to stand up,
or let it fall! We now may soon be at the next step in our country's
future. I believe that it might be closer than we think.

*Regards from your old blind friend,*

*Carlton*

*[PS: It only takes 3.5% of us to rise up to make the change...!]*

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