A regular listener to my Constitution Radio with Douglas V. Gibbs radio program on KCAA AM1050, listens Online in Orlando, Florida. He regularly sends me emails, more often than not to criticize me, and every once in a while, I feel compelled to send him a lengthy response. Tonight was one of those moments. First, I give you the highlights of his email, and then my full response. . .
Doug,
Your co-host Alex hates the democrats so much he chooses to be blind to the fact the republicans are just as, if not more evil. He stated "the liberal wants to get away from cars, but want wants a high speed rail." Please tell him to name 1 democrat that has that policy and has given their life to it ? It is a republican policy and republicans who have given their life to accomplish. Alex sounds like a very sincere man,but he has a cult mentality for the GOP. Please forward my opinion as I welcome his response. I really hope he is just simply ignorant of what he has been taught.
Doug,on your boat example,I think it is clear America is past the point of no return.The only way we can be turned around will be by GOD doing it,and that depending on us Repenting and we submitting to His Word.Alex sure does not have the answer in the GOP.The Republicans are the problem.Now if you are going to get optimistic on me,you need to produce some facts, like prove what I have stated an error.Please name the democrats on the high speed rail and then show me their efforts lacking to the republicans ? Alex needs to look into the Romney's investment in the voting machines when he charges the democrats of election fraud.He has no idea of Rush's Operation Chaos that got Obama elected,and the republican's congressional primary and no senate debate that got Rubio elected with 84%.The republicans can do election fraud,but they are the good guys.The GOP is Alex's religion.
Doug on the 4 millionaires turning Colorado,Tom Tangredo saw that and tried to get on talk show to alert people of it and was ignored.I had mentioned it several host you know on radio and Internet shows and few would have him on.This is the supposed friends of America ? my take on it is you have to understand most the the "right" are Socialist and saw it as not important.
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And now my response:
Nathan,
High Speed Rail is not a republican policy. Maybe in Florida it is, but not elsewhere in the nation. In California, for example, in addition to Democrat California Governor Jerry Brown being a huge proponent of high speed rail, almost every democrat in the State Legislature in California is pushing for rail and is trying to get us out of our cars with their environmental positions. The republicans are pretty united against rail. Both California Senators (Boxer and Feinstein), which are democrats, are for rail, as are the local democrat Congressmen that I follow the votes of (such as Maxine Waters and Raul Ruiz). The local republican congressmen are all against high speed rail. Mary Bono Mack was for rail, before she was dislodged by an even more liberal democrat, but called herself a progressive republican, so it was no surprise to anyone.
Your "cult mentality" comment is uncalled for. Neither Alex or me are cult followers of the GOP, and using that kind of language makes you no different than the liberal left with their hysterics and their outrageous accusations. Like me, Alex recognizes the reality and logic of the situation.
Rush's Operation Chaos did not affect the Presidential Election, it was done during the primaries. It was designed to draw out the Democrat Primaries so that the fighting would intensify in the hopes the democrats would destroy each other so bad that it would be easier for the GOP candidate to win in the general election.
The belief that Romney invested in voting machines is false. It has been debunked, and only liberal left conspiracy theorists have hung on to it, rejecting the evidence that says otherwise. Business Insider has a great story about it, http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-investment-in-voting-machines-2012-10 as does the very liberal website Think Progress, that not only dispels the myth, but explains why it would make no sense for Romney to take that kind of risk (for example, the voting machines in question are only used in two counties in Ohio). http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/22/1059171/why-romney-isnt-rigging-the-voting-machines/# ...
Again, your rhetoric more often makes me think you are a liberal plant, more than that you are a conservative.
As for your comment about us being past the point of return, that is purely subjective. I don't believe we have. This nation has been through worse storms than this. Besides, with God, if it is in His Will, all things are possible. But, if I wanted to join you in thinking the end of days will come before we could ever stop this madness, my response is, "You never give up, even when the odds are against you." In the military I faced death, and I pulled out of it even though all odds were against me, and even the doctors had given up hope on me. My wife never gave up, nor did my family, and nor did I. Hope is always worth hanging on to. Besides, even if it is too late, never forget Cicero.
Cicero was a lawyer that was around less than 100 years before Christ in Rome. Remember, Rome did not begin as an empire, but as a republic. But, as the statists gained control, and made the legislature irrelevant, Cicero rejected that Rome would turn its back on honest government, and did as I do, and preached the principles of honest government and the need for Rome to return to its roots as a republic. For his troubles, Cicero was exiled.
While living in a country outside the empire, Cicero wrote a book on honest government, but his publisher mocked him, saying "who will read a book by an exiled man?"
One of the readers of Cicero's book, and a man who appreciated what Cicero had to say in it, was Thomas Jefferson. The principles in Cicero's book were very important in the founding of our nation. Cicero may not have been able to save Rome, but his efforts were not wasted.
As for the four millionaires that flipped Colorado, I do believe Tancredo tried to alert folks about it. I like Tancredo, though I haven't spoken to him in many years (I was given that opportunity on the Andrea Shea King show back in 2008). I don't believe the conservative media refused to listen because they are socialists, or that the GOP refused to listen because they are socialists. They refused to listen because they thought it was a bunch of poppy-cock. They view the world through the lens of politics, so they often don't get a grip on what the grass roots folks see, or believe. They are not sinister, they just don't know what they don't know. Granted, some of the republicans are leftists, and I want nothing more than to get them out of the party. But even those republicans that are not conservative, like John McCain, are not socialists like the democrats. They lean to the left because they don't understand the Constitution, they don't embrace limited government in a way like those that support the Constitution does, and in many ways they foolishly don't see the harm in government doing certain things - they are unable to see the big picture enough to recognize the harm, and in some cases they have fallen for some of the language used in the propaganda.
It's like Ken Calvert's staffer trying to explain to me that she was told Common Core was good, because it would raise test scores. She was going by what she was told by a teacher, and when myself, and a couple other folks in the meeting, provided her with material to the contrary, she was shocked. She had not heard such things before. She found it inconceivable that these people would lie to her. She promised she would do some research. We meet again with her in a couple weeks at Calvert's local congressional district office. We'll see if she learned, was willing to do the research, or was not interested at all in seeking the truth.
What is shocking, is that you are so convinced they are all sinister, and that they all have a plan to destroy the nation, that you have completely disregarded the fact that they, like you and I, have a flawed human nature. They have become so entrenched in the system that they can't see the forest through the trees, not because of some devious socialist republican plan, but simply because they don't know what they don't know. They believe the rhetoric, or as a friend of mine likes to say, they believe their own bull crap. Hence, why I believe in educating these people. Of course, I won't win them all, but winning some is better than none. And, if you you are right, and it is too late because they are all just a bunch of socialists, at least I tried, and perhaps my efforts will be like Cicero's, and be an integral part of erecting the next great civilization.
I leave you with the words of Winston Churchill, who didn't need evidence to be optimistic. He only needed to realize that he was on the side of virtue. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Blessings,
Douglas V. Gibbs
Constitution Radio, KCAA AM1050
Author, 25 Myths of the United States Constitution
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