{"id":5921,"date":"2023-10-18T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2023-10-18T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:22:05","slug":"what-are-we-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5921","title":{"rendered":"WHAT ARE WE THINKING ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>America, what are we thinking now ?<br>America, what are we going to do ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that no one knows what to do.<br>When I ask any of my acquaintances what they think is going to happen and what we should do, they all say they&#8217;ll wait and see what happens and deal with it&#8212;the idea that that&#8217;s all we can do.<br>And that is one step short of surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is where America and Americans are now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are sitting and waiting for something to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are scared to death, or blind to what may be about to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+++ And happen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it will<\/span>, in a hundred locations across this country, simultaneously, on the order of the attack on Israel !<br>We are already incapacitated&#8212;in leadership and as individual citizens&#8212;nothing is being done to get ready, or prevent, what is certainly about to happen&#8212;NOTHING !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+++ AND HAPPEN <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IT HAS <\/span> ALREADY, all over this country, from the White House and Congress, to city councils and school boards, to preachers and churches, to Christians and conservatives&#8212;too busy or too comfortable to sacrifice for the price of freedom.<br>THE REAL COST OF PRESERVING FREEDOM, THE COST OF RESTORING OUR FREEDOM, IS NOW FAR GREATER THAN THE COST OF GAINING OUR FREEDOM 245 YEARS AGO.<br>Just exactly what was that cost then ?<br>Just exactly what does that cost look like now ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all reality, is that possible ?<br>In all reality, is that going to happen ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that is going to happen, what do we have to do ?<br>If that is not going to happen, and history repeats, what should we do to get ready ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone gives the obvious roadblocks, the dead ends, the futility, the repercussions of any action we might take as citizens.<br>We&#8217;ve become so accustomed to leaving freedom-fighting up to the government, that we don&#8217;t know what to do about the impotence of our representatives and senators, and the hell-bent destruction of the country underway throughout the executive (start listing the departments under the administration, and see how they altogether control the intentional demise of America).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m getting more frustrated in my writing&#8212;repeating&#8212;repeating that nothing, NOTHING is stopping the incremental destruction underway, setting us up for the &#8216;? SURPRISE ?&#8217; attack in America.<br>It will be like the attack on Israel, in proportion to our population, and<br>? ? ? NO ONE SAW IT COMING ? ? ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to be kidding ! ! ! ! !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America, what are we thinking now ?America, what are we going to do ? 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