Dear Democrats,
President Obama has said that the Republicans’ ideas are from the previous century; many are.
Conservatives fought for the end of Slavery, they fought for Civil Rights, and they fought for equality for all. Very few Americans would want to see those re-instated. But on some issues, yes, we would like to return to many of the ideals, mores, and beliefs of the past.
I would like to see school children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. As American citizens, there is nothing wrong with voicing this pledge and teaching our children to understand and believe the words. There is Pride and Unity in them.
What is wrong with standing and placing your hand or hat over your heart, or saluting when The Star Spangled Banner is played? What is wrong with singing along? What would be wrong with teaching our children ALL of the verses?
Women in the workplace are wonderful, and there have been women with jobs outside of the home for centuries; and they should get equal compensation for equal work. In most cases where the work is truly equal, they do; but many positions are relative, and even men don’t get equal pay for the same job. In most areas, there are many levels of pay dependent on factors such as time on the job, position, performance, attendance, and so on; so equal pay is difficult to judge. The only time that you will see true equality of pay for anyone is in an instance where the starting position pays minimum (either government or company decreed) wage.
I have worked for most of my adult life, but the best years were those when I could stay home and spend time with my daughter. Back in the day, when women stayed home and men worked outside of the home, families were more of a partnership. He took care of the money, and she took care of everything else. Even then, when women had outside jobs, there was a partnership. She took care of the inside, and he took care of the outside. He did repairs; she did laundry. He took care of the lawn; she took care of the house. And don’t forget the kids. They had chores fit for their ages. They cleaned and dusted, took out trash, cleaned their rooms, did dishes, helped with the lawn, and put their dirty clothes in the hamper and clean clothes in their dresser and closet. The family was a unit and functioned as one.
During the Great Depression, people didn’t want to go on welfare; most fought it tooth and nail, and they tried to get off the “dole” as soon as possible. Doctors were often paid on the barter system. People took what jobs were available and lived according to their means. It was great to have a wealthy person in your town as then there was work to be done and an income to receive. There were tough times, but the people worked through them with the knowledge that this great country would recover and win.
Unmarried girls and women tried not to get pregnant, mostly through abstinence. If you did, the boy would most times make good, and a family would be created. The divorce rate was lower, and most children grew up in a family atmosphere. There were exceptions, but most families worked at the marriage through the hard times and didn’t just give up. There was reason to create and save a good marriage.
People took pride in themselves and their families. Women didn’t run around dressed in pajamas, children wore clean and pressed clothes, and men combed their hair and trimmed their beards. Families dressed up for church and sat together while they worshipped. Families sat down at the dinner table together and didn’t watch TV (I’m guilty of that one, big time). Children did their homework, and the parents checked it. Parents joined the PTA and went to the meetings. They expected to be a part of their children’s education. Abusive parents have been around for years, but they are in the minority; now, parents are afraid of correcting or punishing bad behavior. Teachers would ‘fail’ a student if they didn’t learn and give them a second chance the nest year. Most students who graduated to the next grade were at least partially proficient in the last one. You took tests to get into college and were placed in classes that fit your knowledge level.
People believed in the words “In God We Trust” on our currency, and so did the rest of the world. We are the only country that will honor any bill ever issued by the federal government for face value. We may have changed the way it looks, but it is still legal tender. We have never cancelled our currency and reissued a new one, making the old worthless.
Americans took responsibility for themselves and for America. John Fitzgerald Kennedy said it best.
“Ask not what your Country can do for you; ask what you can do for your Country”
I must admit, he was a Democrat. But not of the same ilk we have today.
Illegal immigrants were ousted and told to enter legally. America was created by those choosing to come to this country. Most worked hard to get here and harder to make it here. There was self- pride, independence, and a drive to make a better life. They weren’t looking for a handout; they were looking for a hand-up. A way out of tyranny, poverty, subjugation, and persecution; not a way toward dependence, but independence. Immigrants studied and were proud to become American citizens. They didn’t want to be citizens of the country they had escaped. They wanted the life of an American and didn’t want America to become what they had left.
This country’s laws were founded on the Ten Commandments and the Magna Carta. We have freedom to worship as we choose without the government telling us which church to attend, and there are certain “inalienable rights” to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Prior to “Free Love”, anti-establishment era of the 70’s, Americans had pride and honor. They worked hard to get ahead and reveled in America’s advances and their own. During this period, America began to change drastically. The commune became popular with promiscuity and drugs, with irresponsibility being the main focus. Anyone over 30 was not revered for their wisdom and experience but reviled for their beliefs. Many grew up and joined civilization. Many are the leaders of today, for better or worse. The ideals of youth did not mature with experience as the experience was a lack of ethics and morality. Parents not wanting to suppress their children’s free will therefore did not teach them to be constructive members of society. Parents who believed that their parents were wrong in their ethics taught none to their children.
Punishment is not allowed, self responsibility is frowned upon, and working hard and succeeding is demonized.
So, yes, Republicans have ideas and ideals from the last century. Thank God! And may God continue to Bless the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Noel Singer
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Those were the good Ole days. I soooooooooooo miss it
This is exactly how I feel about the good old days and I wouldn’t mind going back. Every day there is news of things so gross happening that I can’t comprehend it. A mother doing oral sex on her baby and letting her boyfriend tape it. Just how far down are we going to go. Just like what has been said, democrats are a platform of Godlessness.
“Conservatives fought for the end of Slavery”. Wrong! Nobody in America fought for the end of slavery. The War of Northern Aggression was not over slavery, as stated by Lincoln himself, and a U.S. Resolution that stated as much. The Radical Republican Party of Lincoln was anything but conservative. The Marxism that floods through our government today had its roots in the Lincoln administration. Both parties today are branches of the same socialist tree. Neither follow the Constitution, and neither believe that THEY work for US. The writer of this article is just another product of the government/communist school system in this country, initiated during “Reconstruction” to peddle its propaganda and brainwash the masses, which it has been quite successful at doing. Neither party cares about anything but staying in power and controling every aspect of our lives. If you saw how the Paul delegates were treated at the RNC you can’t believe that there is a dime’s worth of difference in the two parties.
I was wondering as I read down your post if you were an extremist leftie or wacked out Libertarian. Well
your last sentence confirmed which. 1.) Read your history to alleviate your mistaken slams written here.
2.) Get over Paul not getting the nomination. Yes, he does have some good points but he just didn’t have
enough support behind those ideas. As for the RNC rules, I agree with you. But it was done for a purpose and you know very well what that purpose was. Be honest, Ron Paul was the Republcan Party’s Dennis Kucinich!
wATCHING THE TWIN CIRCUSES REMINDS ME THAT……
ONLY FOOLS CAN NEVER RECOGNIZE A FOOL.
You are right about the intents of the Civil war but the slaves were still freed by a Republican president. Since then, the black hating Southern democrats like Byrd, Gore and others, figured they could get more votes by using our tax money to fund entitlements for the people they actually hated.
As for the public schools being used to brainwash our kids with our tax money—it’s the Democrats that are in bed with the left wing atheists and the unions that are doing this!
Then there are the Libertarians that are mostly of the Repub party because they would NEVER be accepted by the Democrats! How many libertarians went to the DNC convention? None that I know of. Wayne Allen Root, the nominee for the Libertarian VP just switched to the Repub party and will vote for Romney. So did Rand Paul! The reality is that we have the lesser of three evils to vote for and that would be Romney!
so sorry you are so bitter . It must be a lonely life to hate everything around you. Mitt romney is known for keeping his word. Everybody should vote to end this tyrant hold on our nation. you will wake up with nothing to eat, but you will have obama medicaid along with all the amnesty people who are here lawfully that makes them elgible for medicaid,. but our country will be busted and no one will loan us any money. and the state will not be able to give you welfare because obama medicaid causesthe states to pay 40% for the medicaid so the state cant afford medicaid and welfare. the government comes first.
cheer up maybe Romney will be elected.
yo ! idiot ! I dont think they were talking about the civil war ! they were talking about how the republivcans fought against the democrats ideas on slavery , and subjugating the blacks and other minorities ! it was`nt the democrats who gave equal rights to blacks and women , in fact the KKK was started as the terrorist wing of the democratic party ! check your history ! and the next time you dont really know the truth , keep your mouth shut , and prove you are`nt the fool you`ve made of yourself here !
To Freedixie:
As the old saying goes,,,,,”Tis better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt”.
Nuff said.
The DemonRats claim that the Republicans want to take us backwards. Well, they and obozo want to take us backwards to the time of Stalin and Hitler — dictatorship. And they are gonna continue to lie and slander and brainwash the vulnerable, “stupid” part of the American population — the morons amongst us. Just remember, Democrats, God NEVER changes — He’s the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. And that’s what the Republicans want to take us back to; to a never-changing God and His Laws. That’s what we, the people want. That’s the only thing that will save America and you know it. That’s why you hate God so much. Because, you want to destroy anything of God even this great, God-given country. I pray to God that you will forever fail in your efforts to destroy this country, so help us GOD!! See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com page 3 for the politicians in the U.S. Hall of Shame (mostly Democrats), page 4 will tell where they need to go.
The Democratic Party of the “old days” is gone….they should change their name to the Marxist Party….it would be much more accurate!!! The marxists have nothing else to say….we want to return to the past century??? (that’s only 12 years ago) You bet we do regarding values and traditions. However, I don’t want to give up my computer, cell phone or any of the technology advances, but I think you can have all that stuff and still have traditional values. I want to see personal responsibility by a lot more people, and teachers teaching our children HOW to think, not WHAT to think!!! I think we can start this return with Romney/Ryan….we sure can’t with the current “administration” !!!
@freedixie
Abraham Lincoln’s position on slavery was one of the central issues in American history.
Abraham Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in both public and private.[1] Initially, Lincoln expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by proposing compensated emancipation (an offer Congress applied to Washington, D.C) in his early presidency. Lincoln stood by the Republican Party platform in 1860, which stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories. Lincoln believed that the extension of slavery in the South, Mid-west, and Western lands would inhibit “free labor on free soil”. In the 1850′s, Lincoln was politically attacked as an abolitionist, but he did not consider himself one; he did not call for the immediate end of slavery everywhere in the U.S. until the proposed 13th Amendment became part of his party platform for the 1864 election.[2]
In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd, daughter of a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky.[3] Lincoln returned to the political stage as a result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and soon became a leading opponent of the “Slaveocracy”–that is the political power of the southern slave owners. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, included language, designed by Stephen A. Douglas,[4] which allowed the settlers to decide whether they would or would not accept slavery in their region. Lincoln saw this as a repeal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise which had outlawed slavery above the 36-30′ parallel.
During the American Civil War, Lincoln used the war powers of the presidency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free” but exempted border states and those areas of slave states already under Union control. As a practical matter, at first the Proclamation could only be enforced to free those slaves that had already escaped to the Union side. However, millions more were freed as more areas of the South came under Union control.
RevJoe ; You are totally correct . The only fact you left out was NOT ONE democrat voted to end slavery .
That’s true, Rev. Joe. And Abraham Lincoln was a man of God and he saved the Union and freed the slaves because of his faith in God. He’s been unjustly slandered and character assassinated by misguided people. And he was a Republican. But, the Republican Party of today contains many RINOs (Republicans in name only) and they are complict with the DemonRats, unfortunately. But, I think we can bring the Repubs back to the way they were if we try hard enough. I think the DemonRats are a hopeless bunch. After seeing the pitiful, sad, sad DNC I don’t know if there is any hope for them. It’s an outright disgrace how every one of their speakers lied, lied and lied some more. And the biggest liar of all was the so-called Commander-in-Chief (Cheat).
What would Lincoln say about today’s GOP?
By Augustin Stucker, Special to HLN
updated 7:41 AM EDT, Fri April 27, 2012
NEED TO KNOW
Author Augustin Stucker says there are political parallels between 2012 and 1860
Stucker says Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t even recognize his Republican Party
Editor’s Note: Augustin Stucker has been studying President Abraham Lincoln for most of his life. He believes there are a number of comparisons that can be made between today’s politics and the era of Lincoln. In his new book, “Lincoln & Davis,” Stucker says the stark political events of their era are being replayed across today’s America.
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today he might not even recognize the Republican Party.
When Lincoln first joined the GOP it was led by men — then considered radicals — whose primary agenda was to free the slaves. Lincoln guided it towards being a moderate progressive party with a wide appeal to the majority of Americans, which helped him win the 1860 presidential election. Of course, he was also inadvertently aided by the 1860 Democrats splitting when conservative Southern Democrats attempted to hijack their party in demanding slavery be allowed to expand nationwide.
In observing the Democrats’ split, Lincoln became very aware of the dangers of a group seizing control of an entire party. When Radical Republicans frequently attempted to strong-arm Lincoln into following their policies alone and demonized conservative Republicans, Lincoln made it very clear he and the party were responsible to all Americans:
“The radicals and conservatives, each agree with me in some things, and disagree in others… I do not question their right… I hold whoever commands… responsible to me, and not to either radicals or conservatives,” Lincoln said, according to Don E. Fehrenbacher, author of “Abraham Lincoln Speeches and Writings 1859-1865.”
He refused to bow to anyone’s threats, telling an aide, “I will not do anything contrary to my convictions to please these men, earnest and powerful as they may be,” according to the book “Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay.”
What he might say about today’s GOP
Lincoln might warn today’s Republicans to avoid making similar mistakes as the Democrats in 1860. He would acknowledge the conservative Tea Party movement and listen to them — “It is my duty to hear all,” he said, according Fehrenbacher.
At the same time, as the Republicans unite behind Mitt Romney, Lincoln would caution against allowing the conservatives to upset the apple cart come convention time. Polls show the majority of Americans disagree with the Tea Party ideals, and Lincoln knew it is the majority to whom politicians are responsible.
Lincoln would also be appalled by all modern legislative assaults on human and civil rights. He would equate all recent attempts by various states ranging from denying civil rights for gays, to telling women what they could or could not do with their bodies, and repudiation of equal pay for equal work, as ill-disguised attempts to subjugate minorities and women.
Any form of subjugation was intolerable to Lincoln.
Prior to the Civil War, he warned Southern Democrats of their attitudes in promoting and maintaining slavery.
“[They] deny his manhood; deny, or dwarf to insignificance, the wrong of his bondage; so far as possible, crush all sympathy for him, and cultivate and execute hatred and disgust against him and call the indefinite outspreading of his bondage ‘a sacred right of self-government,’” Lincoln said, according to Fehrenbacher.
Further, Lincoln said of any black slave woman, it was “her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others.” He would consider any limitation on civil rights, human rights, or legislation subjecting any citizen to “second-class” status just as loathsome today as it was then.
Finally, Lincoln would advise Republicans to start working with each other instead of engaging in endless bickering, as well as returning to the negotiating table with the Democrats. Lincoln knew successful American politics has always involved compromise, starting with the Founding Fathers creating the Constitution. And certainly Lincoln would testify if he could successfully negotiate and comprise in the midst of the greatest internal crisis our country has ever faced, so can and should the leaders of today’s Republican Party.
2016 THE MOVIE;; best exposes the reasons for obama’s disrespect and hatred for America;; two reasons 1.] he did not grow up steeped in our traditions 2.] he was mentored by people who hated this nation for many reasons; in short, he was a poor choice for a President of the great nation.
What a wonderful article. It is soo sad that we have become a country without values, without morals, and without TRUE knowledge of the REAL history of this nation. Our govt. doesn’t want us to spank our kids, they take away the “want to” in learning by degrading the grading system. The govt. doesn’t even want our kids WORKING on our farms and learning about life and business. Now the govt. is going to pay for our health care….further taking away more free enterprise. Instead of working with Medical Equipment makers and pharmaceutical companies to lower costs…they enact a TAX on them, making them MORE expensive. Anyway….This article needs to put on EVERYONE’s FB page! I am starting with Mine!
Obama has no problem with maintaining US policy on enslaving the black population of West Papua, enjoying the profits of mining the colony, or enjoying support of the USINDO.org lobby. Obama praised Indonesia for it’s treatment of Christians and others, yet human rights organizations call it one of the most repressive and corrupt nations in the world.
You can tell a lot by a person’s friends.
Obama hates this great nation. 2016 is a great movie that explains why. No one has accused him of being honest. Just one of his great lies is of him saving the auto industry. The tsumani in Japan saved the auto industry, not Obama. Japan could not react.to the sales of millions of cars, and trucks. I work in manufacturing, and we had to scramble to get U.S. machine shops, and vendors to furnish our needs. This also created jobs that Obama took credit for. He needs to be run out on a rail, and a one way ticket to where he came from. We are to respect the office of president, however we do not have to respect the man.
re:JFK being a Democrat, I believe he would be somewhat to the right of Romney.
“Ask not what your Country can do for you; ask what you can do for your Country”, Yes John Kennedy said this and he was a Democrat, but in those days the Democratic Party was the party of the American People and the Republicans were the Richmen. It is sad that Caroline Kennedy compared her father John in the 1960 election with Obama here in 2012 because there couldn’t possibly be more diference in the beliefs of the two men. I voted for JFK in my first ever election where I was old enough to vote. It is obvious that Caroline didn’t ever really know her father. The Democrats of today are not the same caliber of Democrats we had in 1960. The last Democrat I voted for was Jimmy Carter, and after that it became obvious that what the Democrats stood for was no longer what the regular American people wanted or believed in. Carter was the last real Christian Democrat, but like Obama, he was a failure. The biggest difference was that the Democrats stopped being Christians after Carter. I voted for Ronald Reagan and Republican in the 1980 because things had changed. JFK would not have been a Democrat after the 1980 election. Like many, including Senator Shelby of Alabama, men who were once Democrats began to turn to the Republican party for the values that had once been championed by the Democrats, but were no more. JFK was a Catholic, like me. We can not back an administration that would allow HHS to force the Church to act against their faith. If Caroline had been to Mass lately she would know that HHS has challenged the Catholic Church on issues of Abortion, Contraception and Same Sex Marriage. No Good Catholic would support this Obama Administration, and as the EWTN commercial says, this will be recorded in Eternity.
Lincoln was not a “man of God”. He never went to church and did not pray. He freed no slaves. It took an act of congress in December of 1865, where newly repariated senators were not allowed to vote. Lincoln was praised by Marxist’s the world over for removing the power of the people and bringing bloodshed to our soil….620,000 American lives……its what they do.