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Race Bannon · 06-29-2021, 09:13 AM

(06-29-2021, 08:08 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:
(06-29-2021, 08:00 AM)Race Bannon Wrote: I think they need to quit playing the Anthem. It is clear that a high percentage of athlete's hate America, and a high percentage of Americans agree with them. Why are they even putting us through this spectacle anymore? America is not the country it once was, and we should stop pretending there's enough consensus to perform rituals like the Anthem anymore.

It's a chunk of land with a Government now. People like me, flying the flag with pride , getting choked up during the Anthem? We're still around in big numbers. But we're a subculture. We're the out group. We will work to preserve our way of life, but it's a joke and a lie that the athlete culture is like that.

I disagree that a high percentage of Americans agree with them. The MSM and social media amplify the minority.

It will take some type of "event" to unite the country unfortunately.

I think it is a high percentage. Not a majority, mind you. But a big chunk. A majority love the country, love the flag, and hate to see this kind of thing.

But the hallways of power -- the administrative government, the media, the universities, the public schools, the big corporations, etc. -- have adopted a woker power--recipe that is conformist in its thinking. And that conformist thinking requires praise and acceptance of ritual denunciations of America. The sub-culture that is the "out group" is huge, but it does not control America.

You touched upon things -- I've come to believe two things that I did not used to think were true. One, national elections matter -- it will take a Reagan-like dynasty (DeSantis?) to turn the tide of the culture. (Trump was a foreshadowing echo, a statement that America needs to change course). Two, I'm not sure renewal of the country can happen apart from Christian revival. I used to believe they were separate things. But looking at all ancient, medieval, and modern civilizations -- there's a common theme of birthrates, high esteem for their own culture, and a religious faith that unifies them. China is trying this with a sort of chi-comm nationalist/fascist recipe. The next 500 years are likely the ascendancy of Asian civilization. But it's hard to figure where America fits because we're so huge and so chock-full of good families.