Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 8: 7 "There are roads not to take."

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

It was one of my own many diverging paths when I first read that poem, a boy of 17 years old, in English class. Funny thing, I realized immediately, I'd always walked less traveled paths. I found such strange comfort there. I could never not love Robert Frost.

Do you know the band The Who? Their definitive song is - much as I adore Baba O'Riley - Who Are You? Who knew? The answer is the roads you chose not to take, every bit as it is those roads you chose.

One road I chose not to take was to become a college professor, actually, to even complete my college degree. Another road I chose not to take was the life of a corporate employee. I guess I just don't fit in much, do I? Happily, so happily, not for a Charlottesville minute.

FYI: I live in Charlottesville, VA (actually, in its outskirts). Another road I chose to leave, after 55 years of being on it, was that of political passivity. I've shared many times; I didn't even believe in the vote itself. I thought it was a shill game.

How about you? What roads have you chosen to NOT take, that have been equal parts of the very definition of your story as those you did? Are you familiar with the #WalkAway movement? Look at the all the more traveled roads they've left behind, now.

We might picture America Herself as having walked down the least of all traveled path to our independence and our freedoms and rights. No other nation has ever founded itself as we did. But we're struggling. The progressive left is selling the more traveled path every day.

I know it's not very special that Frost's poem is high up on my list. It's not my MOST favorite poem, but most people love it and related to it. I believe Master Sun in his pithy way has explained the reason. There are just roads not to take. I wonder, did Frost read Master Sun?

I have to honor my great friend, @BlakeBecker49. He has started a new dedication. He, and some several (I don't remember how many) friends meet at a diner for what they're calling #MAGAMonday. They wear their MAGA hats and proclaim their support in public. How awesome is that?

@BlakeBecker49 Here's a road we MUST NEVER take again. Complacency as in 2018. By losing the House, as we did, we lost one fourth of @POTUS two terms. 25%, gone. We had already struggled in the first quarter, due to Republican turncoats. Never forget that. It was Republicans who turned on us.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS Consider the term limits the Swamp has agreed with us to impose. I believe it was 40 traitor Republicans who stepped down in 2018. I believe we're at least up to 5 more already, in advance of 2020. We should thank them. BUT we MUST NOT be complacent. We MUST fight for each seat.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS Let's go geometrical. I predict that, as he did in 2018, @POTUS will again protect the Senate. I do NOT want us to be complacent about that, but it is my call, currently. I also predict he'll handily win reelection. I don't think the other side has anything to offer at all.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS However, were the election held today, the progressive left might very well strengthen its hold over the House. And we must consider what that means. It means a minimum of 2 more years of investigations, stalling, ever-increasing spending just to keep the military funded.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS It means immigration - by which they mean the false attack of racism - will get worse and worse. And worst of all, it means that the #MAGA movement will be stalled, with at minimum one half of Trump's two terms held by a Democrat House. We MUST contemplate the stakes.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS Back to Geometry. President Trump is above us, doing all he can to fight the near-infinite powers of the Swamp, yet rallying us, his people, from above. We, his people wait upon him. We support him. We express our support often and powerfully. But, was must face our 2018 failure.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS We, from below, FAILED to lift up our arms in the support he needed. He held the Senate. The House was on us. We failed. And, far worse, we may give him his second term, but may FAIL again in our job to retake the House. If that occurs, it will be US who hobbled him.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS PLEASE don't try to talk to me about voter fraud, either. There is ONE and ONLY one thing we can do about that problem. We must vote in such overwhelming majority that even voter fraud cannot defeat us. If we fail to do that, it will be on us, not the other side.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS Admit it, you know this prayer:

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
"Courage to change the things I can,
"And wisdom to know the difference."

We can't change voter fraud. We can change our own organization to vote and vote big.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS The well-worn road we've traveled for decades is passivity. Politically, I know that road so very well it shames me. We've let them trample and destroy so much of America's greatness that She totters and stumbles due to our failure to protect Her as She deserves. Shame on us.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS Let's end this perennial failure. I say we need 100,000 small, high-performance, leader led MAGA teams spread across our great land. I urge you, join us and change the path of passivity America so hellaciously struggles under. Take charge. That's a new road, less traveled.

@BlakeBecker49 @POTUS 205 verses completed, 217 to go.

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