Well, maybe liberals do get it, since they have the sense to run an ex-Marine and pro-lifer in Conor Lamb for PA-18. They get that intersectional non-binary whack-jobs ain't gonna cut in in Trumpland.
But what liberals really believe in is "activism" and, we might say, "activism now, activism tomorrow, and activism forever."
It is my argument that politics, whatever it was in the old days, is a very blunt instrument for ordering the affairs of communities and nations in the industrial age. Why? Because things are much too complicated to be conducted out of the feudal lord's manor, the absolute monarch's court, or the administrative state's bureaucracy.
Liberals don't get that, and so with every setback they think of one more Big Push, the bankrupt strategy of Britain and France on the Western Front.
You can see the bankruptcy in real time in the liberal retreat from the Bill of Rights.
Let's leave out the 9th and 10th Amendments. Who cares about maintaining state powers when all the world's a stage for liberals?
How about the 8th Amendment, on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments? Don't our modern prosecutors deliberately try to bury their targets in the bottomless expense of endless process?
How about the 7th Amendment and trial by jury, with the modern administrative courts where the administrative state is judge, jury, and executioner?
How about the 6th Amendment with the right to a speedy trial?
How about the 5th Amendment with Special Prosecutors all over the place and the idea that no "private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Good luck with that, pal, when liberals want your land to save the planet.
Hey, how about that 4th Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure, when liberals in Wisconsin were searching and seizing information from their political opponents in John Doe investigations?
The 3rd Amendment, about quartering soldiers seems pretty secure right now, although I dare say that liberals think that they should be able to force people to AirBnB their activists when they are gathering for a peaceful protest.
Well, we all know that liberals hate the 2nd Amendment, because who needs a semi-automatic assault rifle with a 30-round magazine that is fit only for gunning down kids in a public high school?
And now liberals are in the middle of abolishing the 1st Amendment, because hate speech.
Hey liberals! I guess you chaps really aren't that much into rights, and I get it. What are rights when it is time to bend the arc of history towards justice?
Today I happened to see write-by-the-numbers John Hawkins, with "7 Techniques Liberals Use to Silence Conservatives." Wanna know what they are?
All of Hawkins seven by-the-numbers are ways in which liberals betray the First Amendment that they were all in favor of when it meant sticking up for the Hollywood Ten in the Fifties and lefty students back in the Sixties.
See, I think the real story here is that liberals have lost the plot. They are hanging on, trying to keep their Administrative State dynasty going, and trying to stave off the evil day when the whole thing collapses.
That's why liberals have completely abandoned the Bill of Rights. For them, power comes before rights, because their religion is politics and "activism."
Why don't you liberals just go quietly? Your hour upon the stage is over, and it is time for you to stop strutting and fretting. Go and watch "Russian Ark," the single shot movie about the end of Old Russia, which the camera ends up going out the side door of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg after a ball in 1913 and into an icy wilderness.
But what liberals really believe in is "activism" and, we might say, "activism now, activism tomorrow, and activism forever."
It is my argument that politics, whatever it was in the old days, is a very blunt instrument for ordering the affairs of communities and nations in the industrial age. Why? Because things are much too complicated to be conducted out of the feudal lord's manor, the absolute monarch's court, or the administrative state's bureaucracy.
Liberals don't get that, and so with every setback they think of one more Big Push, the bankrupt strategy of Britain and France on the Western Front.
You can see the bankruptcy in real time in the liberal retreat from the Bill of Rights.
Let's leave out the 9th and 10th Amendments. Who cares about maintaining state powers when all the world's a stage for liberals?
How about the 8th Amendment, on excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments? Don't our modern prosecutors deliberately try to bury their targets in the bottomless expense of endless process?
How about the 7th Amendment and trial by jury, with the modern administrative courts where the administrative state is judge, jury, and executioner?
How about the 6th Amendment with the right to a speedy trial?
How about the 5th Amendment with Special Prosecutors all over the place and the idea that no "private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Good luck with that, pal, when liberals want your land to save the planet.
Hey, how about that 4th Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure, when liberals in Wisconsin were searching and seizing information from their political opponents in John Doe investigations?
The 3rd Amendment, about quartering soldiers seems pretty secure right now, although I dare say that liberals think that they should be able to force people to AirBnB their activists when they are gathering for a peaceful protest.
Well, we all know that liberals hate the 2nd Amendment, because who needs a semi-automatic assault rifle with a 30-round magazine that is fit only for gunning down kids in a public high school?
And now liberals are in the middle of abolishing the 1st Amendment, because hate speech.
Hey liberals! I guess you chaps really aren't that much into rights, and I get it. What are rights when it is time to bend the arc of history towards justice?
Today I happened to see write-by-the-numbers John Hawkins, with "7 Techniques Liberals Use to Silence Conservatives." Wanna know what they are?
- Libsplaining. Yeah, it makes "mansplaining" look like a walk in the park.
- Violence. Yeah, call ANTIFA's riots "mostly peaceful protest" why dontcha?
- De-platforming. Because hate speech.
- Political Correctness / Safe Spaces / Microaggressions. I'd say this is mostly a lefty Mean Girls thing. But you may disagree.
- Liberal Fakes. Hawkins means the "David Brooks, David Frum, Brett Stephens, Max Boot, Michael Gerson, Jennifer Rubin, Kathleen Parker" folks that are represented as conservative in the mainstream media.
- False Labeling. Shut up, you "white supremacist, Nazi, Fascist or racist."
- The Ventriloquist Dummy. You know, the spontaneously activist Parkland kids that you are not allowed to criticize.
All of Hawkins seven by-the-numbers are ways in which liberals betray the First Amendment that they were all in favor of when it meant sticking up for the Hollywood Ten in the Fifties and lefty students back in the Sixties.
See, I think the real story here is that liberals have lost the plot. They are hanging on, trying to keep their Administrative State dynasty going, and trying to stave off the evil day when the whole thing collapses.
That's why liberals have completely abandoned the Bill of Rights. For them, power comes before rights, because their religion is politics and "activism."
Why don't you liberals just go quietly? Your hour upon the stage is over, and it is time for you to stop strutting and fretting. Go and watch "Russian Ark," the single shot movie about the end of Old Russia, which the camera ends up going out the side door of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg after a ball in 1913 and into an icy wilderness.
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