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Posted: 1/14/2021 11:26:27 PM EDT
Sitting here watching my daughter build with her LEGOs and experienced a bit of a panic attack for the first time ever. Prior to the past month, I never worried about the country she would inherit, but now I am saddened by the possibility she may grow up in a totalitarian crap hole worse than Russia. How do you parents get through life knowing the world you leave your kids may not be better than the one you grew up in?
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Posted: 1/14/2021 11:29:47 PM EDT
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It took you until the past month to worry?
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Posted: 1/14/2021 11:30:55 PM EDT
[#2]
What's in the gun cabinet? 5 matching somethings?
But yes, I do worry about that very much. |
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Posted: 1/14/2021 11:42:40 PM EDT
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The biggest failure of my life. My children will not know freedom anymore, nor will their children or their children's children. We are in for decades of darkness and despair.
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Posted: 1/14/2021 11:50:05 PM EDT
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In a hundred years, what is happening now will be old news. The cycle will restart when those who think they're in charge lose control. Look at former east bloc countries that are freer than we will be. They remember communism, while very few in this country have lived it.
I'd also like to see how they think they'll control the very rural areas. |
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Posted: 1/14/2021 11:54:41 PM EDT
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My Dad felt the same way about me.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:02:51 AM EDT
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Weighs heavily on me every day. Only thing I can do is prepare them for this world as best as I can and help set them up for success as best as I can.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:03:19 AM EDT
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All parents from the beginning of time have worried about the world their kids would inherit and tried to make it better than they had.
It's the reason civilization exists. I think their future is considerably more fucked than just an oppressive government, but I do what all parents have always done, try to build the best world I can for them to live in, even if it's just the little pieces I can control. And prepare them best I can for the realities of what I can't change. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:04:59 AM EDT
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I do worry. All I can do is teach them right and how to take proper precautions.
I hope the world is a better place for them. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:05:04 AM EDT
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OP -
You need to get involved. Whether that be on a local in your town / city level or into volunteerism or fill in the blank. As someone whose been in your shoes, doing nothing but wallowing/worrying will do your health in and make you feel terrible. Trust me, get an outlook and take that passion into something you can control if need be. Quote HistoryQuoted: It took you until the past month to worry? No doubt |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:07:42 AM EDT
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I have worried since my first girl was born in 2010.
It is not going to get any better anymore.  Are those mosins in the cabinet? |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:09:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The biggest failure of my life. My children will not know freedom anymore, nor will their children or their children's children. We are in for decades of darkness and despair. I know exactly what you mean brother. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:11:10 AM EDT
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You think your free now?
There it not much you can do that does not involve government regulation. That's been true for quiet some time now. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:13:40 AM EDT
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Simple, we must stop worrying and start acting, it is up to us to work to restore America to her former glory. The reason we got here is because of complacency and hand wringing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHmwz6Z5KA&ab_channel=BillWhittle
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:14:42 AM EDT
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You think you own your home ?
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:15:13 AM EDT
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Im trying to teach her spanish
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:19:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You think you own your home ? Lol. It’s been fucked forever. I have 10 and 5 year old girls. The rhetoric, peer pressure and social media is so powerful now that I fear that whatever I do short of packing the family up and going Galt that someday soon it won’t matter. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:21:21 AM EDT
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The best thing you can do is to pass down your values, because Reagan was right.
If home schooling is a possibility, I would weigh that as a high priority. The Judaeo-Christian value system is baked into our Constitution, the founding fathers incorporated the best of the best lessons of civilizations before us to engineer this Constitutional Republic. Passing along this knowledge, and the desire to live as free citizens is essential if our system as we've known it shall eventually be restored. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:22:42 AM EDT
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Do you feel like you are free?
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:22:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Simple, we must stop worrying and start acting, it is up to us to work to restore America to her former glory. The reason we got here is because of complacency and hand wringing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHmwz6Z5KA&ab_channel=BillWhittle As you say, the good guys in history didn’t debate or protest their way onto the good side. It’s either do the work now or suffer indefinitely, generation after generation. America is a rare if not unique exception from the apparent default state of humanity, feudalism. If you want your kids to grow up free and not social credit indentured servants in an iPhone factory get to work! |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:23:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I do worry. All I can do is teach them right and how to take proper precautions. Yep. I send my kids to private school, teach them to shoot, and show them how to be self sufficient. I am optimistic they will take the torch. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:23:40 AM EDT
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I find myself posting this often recently: Adjutórium nóstrum ? in nómine Dómini. Our help is ? in the name of the Lord.
There's a reason we call this life a vale of tears. It's the history of mankind and it is so due to our fall. I recognize that I cannot possibly be in control of everything and that this life is temporary. Most importantly, I try to hope in God's grace and mercy. Actually, as bad as things appear to be right now, things have been worse and most evil empires are relatively short-lived. God will win in the end. Take your fear and worry, and turn it into prayer and action for God's glory. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:23:54 AM EDT
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My 18 yr old voted for it. Enjoy it is what I told her.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:24:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I find myself posting this often recently: Adjutórium nóstrum ? in nómine Dómini. Our help is ? in the name of the Lord. There's a reason we call this life a vale of tears. It's the history of mankind and it is so due to our fall. I recognize that I cannot possibly be in control of everything and that this life is temporary. Most importantly, I try to hope in God's grace and mercy. Actually, as bad as things appear to be right now, things have been worse and most evil empires are relatively short-lived. God will win in the end. Take your fear and worry, and turn it into prayer and action for God's glory. What this man right here said. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:26:44 AM EDT
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Things are not beyond salvation.
We just have to prevent Amnesty and hold the line. If they grant a pathway to citizenship for tens of millions of illegals and amp up legal immigration even higher then you will be right to be so pessimistic, but for now there is still hope. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:28:34 AM EDT
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I am so glad we elected to not have kids. I am concerned for my nieces and nephews but not as much as I would be for my own.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:29:22 AM EDT
[#26]
I don't (knowingly) have kids.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:29:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I find myself posting this often recently: Adjutórium nóstrum ? in nómine Dómini. Our help is ? in the name of the Lord. There's a reason we call this life a vale of tears. It's the history of mankind and it is so due to our fall. I recognize that I cannot possibly be in control of everything and that this life is temporary. Most importantly, I try to hope in God's grace and mercy. Actually, as bad as things appear to be right now, things have been worse and most evil empires are relatively short-lived. God will win in the end. Take your fear and worry, and turn it into prayer and action for God's glory. I appreciate the sentiment but would point out that China has been grinding its peasants into dust for millennia. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:32:10 AM EDT
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By not having kids?
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:32:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I find myself posting this often recently: Adjutórium nóstrum ? in nómine Dómini. Our help is ? in the name of the Lord. There's a reason we call this life a vale of tears. It's the history of mankind and it is so due to our fall. I recognize that I cannot possibly be in control of everything and that this life is temporary. Most importantly, I try to hope in God's grace and mercy. Actually, as bad as things appear to be right now, things have been worse and most evil empires are relatively short-lived. God will win in the end. Take your fear and worry, and turn it into prayer and action for God's glory. Not so sure you’re right about evil empires being short term ones. American Jeffersonian democracy took millions of years to develop and was never fully replicated. Think about the LONG struggle just from the Magna Carta to the Constitution. If we lose this Republic it could be thousands of years before the light of liberty will shine again. That is why it is so important to fight Amnesty. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:33:25 AM EDT
[#30]
 ^Just something worth remembering You can't predict the future. Live your life and know that they can carve out a good life, whatever form that may take. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:33:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It took you until the past month to worry? This Welcome to 20 years ago. It's the acceleration phase of the downfall now. Sorry to be the bearer of reality. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:33:53 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I do worry. All I can do is teach them right and how to take proper precautions. I hope the world is a better place for them. Agree. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:37:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I appreciate the sentiment but would point out that China has been grinding its peasants into dust for millennia. Very true. Look at the other so called “free nations”. In Italy the State can keep bringing charges against someone for the same offense over and over until they get a conviction. Freedom of speech is heavily restricted in many nations. The right to keep and bear arms isn’t even acknowledged by any national Constitution outside the USA as far as I’m aware. The USA is so incredibly unique and rare. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:38:03 AM EDT
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You do the best you can. Frankly, I feel pity for people without kids. They've elected to stay in the shallow end of life's pool.
My 3 kids are in their early 20s. I tried to teach them useful skills, and we guided them to pursue useful educations. Daughter just graduated with a degree in biochemistry/biophysics. She's working at a biotech startup. I think she'll be ok. She also has extensive (14 years) martial arts training, and has worked with me as an Appleseed instructor, so she knows her way around firearms. My twin boys are juniors in college. One is majoring in molecular biology, the other one forestry. Both are skills that will be in demand in the future. While two of the kids are more squishy regarding their politics, I think they're heading out in the world with good toolboxes. And fortunately, I have the ability to offer a financial safety net if they run into trouble. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:41:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As you say, the good guys in history didn’t debate or protest their way onto the good side. It’s either do the work now or suffer indefinitely, generation after generation. America is a rare if not unique exception from the apparent default state of humanity, feudalism. If you want your kids to grow up free and not social credit indentured servants in an iPhone factory get to work! Exactly, the time to complain ended 50 years ago... America is the ONLY exception that has ever existed in all of human history where freedom was valued over arbitrary caste systems |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:42:35 AM EDT
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I'm wondering how to handle this as well. My son is 4.5 yrs old and daughter 2.5 yrs old. I feel an overwhelming level of anxiety knowing what is most likely going to happen in the next 4-8 years. I've studied history my entire life, and as we all know, it's bound to repeat itself very soon. My father warned me about the NWO when I was young. I'm already teaching my kids hard work is important, God is important, and communism/socialism is evil. They don't grasp it yet obviously, but hopefully it pays off.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:43:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Weighs heavily on me every day. Only thing I can do is prepare them for this world as best as I can and help set them up for success as best as I can. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:48:33 AM EDT
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If the nation of our founders is irretrievably lost...it will be because we turned our backs on God & His Son.
To loose your salvation is to loose life for eternity. If a father and his children are in Christ Jesus then that family is in God's family forever...never to be separated. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:48:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Im trying to teach her spanish |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:49:12 AM EDT
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JFC
Maybe your husband will do something about it.  I told my girls years ago that a day may come where my life is worth less than their freedom. Always hold out hope, but be ready to step up and step in. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:51:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: JFC Maybe your husband will do something about it. I told my girls years ago that a day may come where my life is worth less than their freedom. Always hold out hope, but be ready to step up and step in. The problem is this war is primarily idealogical and must be fought with the free exchange of ideas and information |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 12:56:16 AM EDT
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Living under the chinavirus nonsense isn’t free either. People love wearing their masks. These sheep out here don’t want to be free. It’s hard knowing our children will probably be experiencing hard times, but such is the case with most people throughout history. We’ve been sheltered in this country for a long time but all too comfortable to turn the blind eye while Uncle Sam did the dirty work. Everyone will have to get their hands dirty at some point, freedom isn’t free.
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:13:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Im trying to teach her spanish 
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:16:10 AM EDT
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Glad I don't have any.
Don't plan on it either |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:21:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It took you until the past month to worry? |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:22:14 AM EDT
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For me the party stopped a long time ago.
The patriot act kicked it all off and its been downhill since then. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:22:57 AM EDT
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I am glad I don’t have kids but worry a lot for my 5yo nephew. If there is fighting back to be done, I would like it to happen now, so he doesn’t have to
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:25:04 AM EDT
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I thought the same thing while watching TV the morning of 9/11, with my then-6-month-old son sitting on my lap. "What kind of world did we bring you into?", I wondered.
Now I just wonder if every generation feels that way when they have kids. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:28:31 AM EDT
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I plan to control the media they see and home school.
Works for the Amish. It will work for me. Freedom is easy to achieve. Freedom and monetary wealth gained legally not so much. I plan to teach them that the fruit of the land is more valuable to them then what the government and media corporations push. |
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Posted: 1/15/2021 6:37:24 AM EDT
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Were you literally shaken?
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