(06-03-2023, 07:48 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: I will agree with the 10-15 years time table though maybe sooner as time seems to be speeding up like water circling the drain. Honestly I'm not sure if I would rather be alive to witness it all or to be gone from this world before the last drops fall. I fear tremendously for our grandchildren and it saddens me to imagine what their futures hold.
The destruction of an empire and rebuilding on the ashes anew can be a double edged sword. On the one hand, if we allow "them" to guide the reconstruction, then their rules will prevail. On the other hand, if "we" - the people already on the ground in any particular patch - deny that reconstruction and set our own foundations in place first, then WE will set the rules.
Every ending is a new beginning, but that benefits only those who recognize that fact and are willing - and bold enough - to get their hands dirty enough to bring their own vision to fruition.
Whenever a door opens, it allows passage in both directions. What matters is just WHO gets into that doorway first and blocks passage from the other direction.
SO - "they" win only if "we" allow them to do so. This is OUR ground, not theirs, and it will remain that way until such time as we roll over and let them take it. The futures of our grandchildren are in our own hands at this juncture, and NO ONE else's hands. What "they" want matters nary a whit if "we" do not allow it.
That's the only reason this web site even exists. Some folks decided they were not going to let someone else at another site set THEIR rules, and had enough fortitude and will power to make it happen, to make their vision become a reality.
Likewise, that's also the only reason The United States ever came to be in the first place, replacing "British Colonial America". Enough people with enough fortitude and enough vision set their foot down and said "NO!". We can do it again... if we will.
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