That would be nice, but it won’t happen. They aren’t going to vote for politicians who will make them pay their fare or get off the train. There are now more of “them” than of “us”. The liberal politicians have built up a very dependable voter base by buying their votes with the tax money from those of us who work and pay the bills. These are people who have no morals, no ethical standards, and openly defy God. What is it about “Thou shalt not steal”.that they don’t understand? Nothing, of course. They simply choose to steal from those who keep this country from completely coming apart at the seams.

It simply will not happen.

We can clearly see what needs to be done. In order for that to happen, there must be a massive cultural shift in the opposite direction from where it has been heading. I do all I can to try to make that happen, but I am not naive enough to think it really will. I am afraid that people will not wake up and see the folly of their ways until they are left with virtually nothing and turn to the God of The Bible rather than to their idols in Hollywood.

You are correct that there are competing cultures within America fighting for political power [as there always has and will be]. Our best hope is that libertarians and the religious right will continue to ally themselves, witness the Tea Party [using the Republican Party as a vehicle is acceptable] to thwart the secular, socialist, Anti-traditional Americans who control the Democrat Party.

We in the South must be willing to ally ourselves with those in the North, particularly in the lower MidWest, who most closely share our conservative values. While secession does seem like a good idea [just leave us alone!] it isn’t and never will be practical or lasting. Someone is going to control the continent politically, economically, and militarily and no, because of the Mississippi River and long coastline, the South can’t be like Canada. For better or worse, our fate is shared with people in New England, the upper Midwest, and on the West Coast. Our best hope, our only hope, is to find common ground with enough people in the North to prevent the national government from exercising tyranny over our folkways, our culture, our property, and our freedom. In other words, to divide and figuratively speaking, “conquer” the North/West Coast, and not be divided and conquered ourselves. This means we, here in the South, will have to resist the temptation to use Washington D.C. as a means of aggrandizement, both regionally and personally—-do you hear us TRENT LOTT and LINDSEY GRAHAM!!! If we sell out to Washington D.C. again as we did during the New Deal and Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, we really will be, “Gone with the Wind.”

Your points, however, are still just as valid and I have used them as a “borrowed thought” in the Passing Thoughts section of my site.

Thanks for your help.

Peter Kelley