Why? Well Why NOT?

Welcome to the Front Porch. Today, let's do some optimistic nostalgics!


"Old North Wind
Why frighten others?
In Nature's family,
All are brothers.
Puff and blow
And wheeze
And hiss
You cannot frighten
Shingebiss!"

---You can find the fable of Shingebiss in, among other places,STORIES THAT NEVER GROW OLD. It's a collection of fairy tales, generally far more familiar, that was published in the late 40's, early 50's. As a tyke, there was something I really liked about the mallard Shingebiss and his defiance of the elements in the wintertime from his warm teepee in the forest. Unlike a lot of other great fairy tales, the 'moral' was more of a spiritual, rather than practical nature. I unalytically loved the duck's courage and his rewards of joy and peace therefrom.

Something about the events of the past couple of months reminded me today of my childhood affection for Shingebiss.

Then my thoughts jumped to the late 60's, and a fellow named Phillip Abbott Luce. He had been a 'student' communist activist for some years, and, like other sincere former useful idiots, he came to understand the principles of libertartianism/conservatism. He became an outspoken opponent of organizations like SDS and subsequently the Weathermen. He wrote a popular book for his time, as I recall he entitled it UP AGAINST THE WALL, COMMIE! (Correction welcomed)

It told about his experiences of being with the Left. He talked reassuringly at a time when it seemed---sound familiar?----like they were winning the culture wars on every front: academia, US media, world wide. His message was a simple one. We could whip their asses for a combination of reasons. He summed up his thoughts with the following cliche', which I read for the first time in his book: "They put their pants on one leg at a time." In other words, they were not pre-destined to prevail.

Seems like almost a year ago, we started the Front Porch blog. At the time there was a tool available that made it easy to post a poll for the blog readers and run a day-to-day summary of results. The tool also precluded voting twice. One of the first things we did is set up a poll asking those willing to assess the percentage chances of their ever seeing predominant freedom in this country again. At the time, the results seemed quite predictable, reflecting the somber mood of freedom advocates everywhere. Summarily, those responding assesed their chances at less than 20% that they would ever see the liberty they and their predecessors had taken for granted years earlier.

Now, thanks to some heroic GIANTS who have emerged during the past short period (no way this is coincidental), the awakening of a vast segment of the populace of their interest in principles and history of liberty, and the appearance of a Luciferian cadre in DC that is so Evil and ham-handed it caricaturizes itself, Good has awakened, and for lots of reasons cited in the past week's articles, We Will Win.

Because we no longer seem to have that handy-dandy polling tool, let's get together and do it ourselves in the comment section below.

Please take the time to answer the following simple question, and we'll tabulate the results manually from here and report them to you:

I believe our chances of turning backing collectivism and restoring liberty in the US during my lifetime are: (Pick One---put into Comments section)

0-5%
6-20%
21-40%
41-60%
61-85%
86-98%
99-100%

Make sure your friends participate too!!

Dollars to donuts, we're all feelin' the power!!

Appreciatively...