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"The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history"

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BBJ, I saw my first 2016 presidential bumper sticker today and immediately thought of Hegel who said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." Shortly later when I was standing in line at CVS to pick up a prescription, I saw the National Geographic special issue of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by the counter. I told a man standing next to me that one day the National Geographic will have a special issue of the Rise and Fall of America. Not knowing the man's political affiliation, I didn't say anything else until he asked me if I was a conservative. When I acknowledged that I was, he said, "You can't out conservative me. Fortunately for me, he wasn't offended with what I had said and gave me encouraging words on his departure. Despite what you might think, I rarely ever talk politics to people who I don't know but just seeing that Hillary bumper sticker made me come out and say what I said. The truth of the matter, Obama has brought this country to its knees and Hillary will finish it off. So Hegel was absolutely correct when he said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." So sad.

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Originally posted by nashvillegoldenflash:
BBJ, I saw my first 2016 presidential bumper sticker today and immediately thought of Hegel who said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." Shortly later when I was standing in line at CVS to pick up a prescription, I saw the National Geographic special issue of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by the counter. I told a man standing next to me that one day the National Geographic will have a special issue of the Rise and Fall of America. Not knowing the man's political affiliation, I didn't say anything else until he asked me if I was a conservative. When I acknowledged that I was, he said, "You can't out conservative me. Fortunately for me, he wasn't offended with what I had said and gave me encouraging words on his departure. Despite what you might think, I rarely ever talk politics to people who I don't know but just seeing that Hillary bumper sticker made me come out and say what I said. The truth of the matter, Obama has brought this country to its knees and Hillary will finish it off. So Hegel was absolutely correct when he said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." So sad.

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Flash, yes, it's sadly true that we never learn from our mistakes. Just look at Israel. How many times throughout history have they experienced periods of blessings and protection from God when they followed Him, only to experience periods of tragedy and destruction when they turned away from Him? Did they ever learn from their mistakes? Of course they didn't, and we're now on the same path to destruction with our country's current state of affairs. We could surely turn this around if we would only fall to our knees in prayer, repent of our sins, and turn our lives over to Jesus Christ.
 
On "Fox News Sunday," Dr. Ben Carson said there is "certainly the potential" for widespread anarchy in the United States within the next couple of years.

When host Chris Wallace asked Dr. Carson about a previous statement he made that America could see widespread anarchy Carson said, "Well, I hope that's not going to be the case, but certainly there is the potential. You have to recognize we have a rapidly increasing national debt, a very unstable financial foundation.



"You have all these things going on like the ISIS crisis that could very rapidly change things that are going on in our nation. Unless we begin to deal with these things in a comprehensive way, and in a logical way, there is no telling what could happen in just a matter of a couple years. Particular his in a situation where we have a Senate and Senate leader who has 300 bills sitting on his desk thereby thwarting the will of the people.



"This country was supposed to be a country where the government conformed to the will of the people, not the people conforming to the will of the government."

BBJ, I realize there are people who cannot possibly understand how America could fall like the Roman Empire but political anarchy, as Dr. Carson suggests, is the precursor of either dictatorship or destruction. History is proof of that and America will not be any different when anarchy ensues.

The potential of widespread anarchy in America
 
Islam has a rich tradition of killing. We can learn a lot from America's first war with Islamic terrorists.

From Wikipedia:
The First Barbary War[/B] (1801-1805) also known as the Tripolitan War[/B] or the Barbary Coast War[/B], was the first of Thomas Jefferson refused to pay the high tributes demanded by the Barbary states and because they were seizing American merchant ships and enslaving the crews for high ransoms. It was the first declared war the United States fought on foreign land and seas.[/QUOTE]
Obama can learn a lot about how we should be dealing with Islamic extremists from Thomas Jefferson.

From Downtrend

:In 1786, Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli’s ambassador to Great Britain. They asked this ‘diplomat’ by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved her citizens and why the Muslims held such hostility toward this new nation, with which neither Tripoli nor any of the other Barbary Coast nations had any previous contact. The answer was quite revealing. Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja (the ambassador) replied that Islam:

“Was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur’an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”[/I][/B][/QUOTE]
That is indeed quite revealing. Yet, America continued paying ransoms to these terrorists for the next fifteen years or so. Until Jefferson became President. Then, the Pasha (leader) of Tripoli sent a demand to the new leader for an immediate payment of $225,000 and $25,000 per year on an ongoing basis. Jefferson flatly refused, leading the Pasha to cut down the flagpole of the American consulate and declaring war on the United States. The rest of the terrorist states followed suit.

Jefferson had formerly been against raising a navy, but this soon changed as he was determined to meet force with force. A squadron of vessels was sent to the area and Congress authorized Jefferson to have the US ships seize all vessels and goods that belonged to the Pasha and anything else deemed necessary. As they saw the US was actually committed to the fight, Algiers and Tunis quickly abandoned the war and allegiance to Tripoli. Obviously, the US won the war. In fact, this was the reason why the line “to the shores of Tripoli” was added to the Marine Corps hymn.[/QUOTE]




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Obama can learn a lot from Thomas Jefferson
 
Two years ago, Obama told us that if we had a business, "you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." This week, Hillary Clinton pulled a page right out of his playbook by saying "Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs," at a Democratic rally in Massachusetts (see link).

Hillary will just continue Obama's failed economic policies that have destroyed jobs and shrunk middle-class families' pocketbooks..So history has a tendency to repeat itself again and again, especially the painful parts.







Hillary Clinton just made the dumbest statement
 
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