Something I notice: when I am thinking about my American Thinker piece on Friday or Saturday, I often pick a topic that turns out to be what everyone else is thinking too. Today's piece "Defend Conservatism by Going on the Attack" is an example.
Everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Ed Kilgore is writing the same thing. Rush:
Really, we shouldn't be surprised that all of us normals are resonating in a collective unconscious. Democratic elections are merely a cunning way of doing civil war in the sham fight of an election "campaign" where the "victor" gets to win political power and the loser says "wait until next time." So it is not surprising that conservatives are feeling that we have "got" to win the midterms in November. It is rather obvious what liberals and Democrats want to do to us if they win.
Really liberals? Is this your mobilization and resistance a good idea? To proudly announce to the world that you will impeach President Trump if you win? To call everyone that disagrees with you a "hater?" To pressure the social media giants to deplatform InfoWars guy Alex Jones? Or even worse to take down a campaign video by a Republican woman running for Congress in California?
I keep coming back to The Sixties. That's the last time that the left got off the leash and filled the streets and told America that it sucked. That was when the media breathlessly reported on the amazing Kool Kidz that were changing the world. That was when ordinary non-political people were told they were bigots, and when they unaccountably rallied to GOP politicians that stood for the "silent majority." That was when the Democrats decided to force a Republican president out of office.
But the point is: how did that turn out, Democrats and lefties? It ended up with Bill Clinton running as a moderate. Nobody here but us moderates. And when he proved himself a leftie, the Democrats lost Congress for the first time in 40 years in the 1994 midterms.
Hey, then Democrats ran a bunch of moderates in the 2006 midterms and won back Congress. And Barack Obama ran as a moderate. But as soon as he showed his true colors in office the voters gave the GOP the House in 2010, and the Senate in 2014. And now we have Trump.
Here's how I understand the situation. The lefties are practicing a secular religion and they are trying to unify it with the government, using the government to legislate their morality -- only they call it "ethics" and "humanism."
The trouble is that, for people on the receiving end, someone else's religion looks like a reign of terror: conform to our faith or face the consequences. And its governmental edicts look like injustice.
So even though the whole ruling-class apparatus of schools, and culture and education are saying what a wonderful thing the left's program is, the fact remains that many people experience it as an attack on their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
See, I think that Rule One in politics is: don't get the other guys riled up. Mobilize your own side, but don't mobilize the opposition.
Only trouble is that Big Government automatically mobilizes the opposition. Notice how all my maxims illustrate the problem: Government is Force, so everyone on the receiving end is going to be mad; Politics is Division, so the more politics the more divided and the more people get aroused to action on both sides; System is Domination, so folks on the receiving end of the governmental bureaucratic system are going to experience Injustice.
And finally: There is no such thing as justice, only injustice. I mean a lot with this simple maxim. I mean that almost all legislation is unjust, because it takes tax money and spends it on a powerful client group. And I mean that even with the most popular programs like Social Security and Medicare. Why can't the care of older Americans be done by voluntary savings and the intervention of the odd billionaire to take care of older citizens impoverished by-no-fault-of-their-own?
In fact, if you look at law, "justice" is something the legal system attempts to provide for someone that has experienced harm from someone else. But, of course, the legal system can never really make the victim of harm whole again, in the sense that no wound can really ever heal so that it seems that it never occurred. All the legal system can to is make a statement that a harm or injustice has been done, make some redress, and that society, by the verdict of the trial, acknowledges the harm done.
And this is why I believe that our lefty friends are chasing a chimera. You cannot achieve justice through politics; you only end up compounding past injustice with new injustice.
Well, we shall shortly find out if I am right. If Republicans do better than expected in the November midterms it will mean that the "silent majority" lives: people that just want to be left alone to wive and thrive and survive without the Sturm und Drang of secular lefty religions with its street marches and protests and banners.
Everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Ed Kilgore is writing the same thing. Rush:
The argument is America sucks versus, no, it doesn’t.So it's not an argument about "policy." It's a fight over the meaning of America, and the next time we get to do something about it will be in November.
Really, we shouldn't be surprised that all of us normals are resonating in a collective unconscious. Democratic elections are merely a cunning way of doing civil war in the sham fight of an election "campaign" where the "victor" gets to win political power and the loser says "wait until next time." So it is not surprising that conservatives are feeling that we have "got" to win the midterms in November. It is rather obvious what liberals and Democrats want to do to us if they win.
Really liberals? Is this your mobilization and resistance a good idea? To proudly announce to the world that you will impeach President Trump if you win? To call everyone that disagrees with you a "hater?" To pressure the social media giants to deplatform InfoWars guy Alex Jones? Or even worse to take down a campaign video by a Republican woman running for Congress in California?
I keep coming back to The Sixties. That's the last time that the left got off the leash and filled the streets and told America that it sucked. That was when the media breathlessly reported on the amazing Kool Kidz that were changing the world. That was when ordinary non-political people were told they were bigots, and when they unaccountably rallied to GOP politicians that stood for the "silent majority." That was when the Democrats decided to force a Republican president out of office.
But the point is: how did that turn out, Democrats and lefties? It ended up with Bill Clinton running as a moderate. Nobody here but us moderates. And when he proved himself a leftie, the Democrats lost Congress for the first time in 40 years in the 1994 midterms.
Hey, then Democrats ran a bunch of moderates in the 2006 midterms and won back Congress. And Barack Obama ran as a moderate. But as soon as he showed his true colors in office the voters gave the GOP the House in 2010, and the Senate in 2014. And now we have Trump.
Here's how I understand the situation. The lefties are practicing a secular religion and they are trying to unify it with the government, using the government to legislate their morality -- only they call it "ethics" and "humanism."
The trouble is that, for people on the receiving end, someone else's religion looks like a reign of terror: conform to our faith or face the consequences. And its governmental edicts look like injustice.
So even though the whole ruling-class apparatus of schools, and culture and education are saying what a wonderful thing the left's program is, the fact remains that many people experience it as an attack on their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
See, I think that Rule One in politics is: don't get the other guys riled up. Mobilize your own side, but don't mobilize the opposition.
Only trouble is that Big Government automatically mobilizes the opposition. Notice how all my maxims illustrate the problem: Government is Force, so everyone on the receiving end is going to be mad; Politics is Division, so the more politics the more divided and the more people get aroused to action on both sides; System is Domination, so folks on the receiving end of the governmental bureaucratic system are going to experience Injustice.
And finally: There is no such thing as justice, only injustice. I mean a lot with this simple maxim. I mean that almost all legislation is unjust, because it takes tax money and spends it on a powerful client group. And I mean that even with the most popular programs like Social Security and Medicare. Why can't the care of older Americans be done by voluntary savings and the intervention of the odd billionaire to take care of older citizens impoverished by-no-fault-of-their-own?
In fact, if you look at law, "justice" is something the legal system attempts to provide for someone that has experienced harm from someone else. But, of course, the legal system can never really make the victim of harm whole again, in the sense that no wound can really ever heal so that it seems that it never occurred. All the legal system can to is make a statement that a harm or injustice has been done, make some redress, and that society, by the verdict of the trial, acknowledges the harm done.
And this is why I believe that our lefty friends are chasing a chimera. You cannot achieve justice through politics; you only end up compounding past injustice with new injustice.
Well, we shall shortly find out if I am right. If Republicans do better than expected in the November midterms it will mean that the "silent majority" lives: people that just want to be left alone to wive and thrive and survive without the Sturm und Drang of secular lefty religions with its street marches and protests and banners.
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