Posts Tagged ‘tyranny’
Revolution 2020…
I hesitate to argue with Angelo Codevilla, who is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University, but I am inclined to call this a very dangerous temper tantrum rather than a real revolution. Parts of it are well-organized, such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa, which arranges for vans to pull up at predetermined locations with all the supplies and weapons necessary for proper riots and arson and assaults. But with our brilliant AG William Barr using non-FBI assets to track and identify leaders and organizers, I suspect we are building towards a far different October surprise than we anticipated. Here’s a hint: if you clone protesters’ phones, you can learn everyone they called and everyone who called them, including the media and political people.
What the Left wants is government by “experts” which stamps out individualism and has the power to punish anyone who dares dissent. I rather doubt the various groups of protesters realize they will be silenced, perhaps even exterminated, under the new rules they believe they are gaining, but the elite and progressives certainly area aware. After all, they want the decks to be permanently stacked in their favor, because they are not competent to compete on a fair basis.
Codevilla offers history and plenty of facts and figures. Read it carefully, then redouble your efforts to re-elect Trump, who has killed 16 federal regulations for every new rule created. That is a useful way to rid government of its power.
Recession rocks!
Comedian Bill Maher is actively hoping a recession hits and people lose their jobs and haver all the collective misery which attends such events. Maher has enough money to live on quite comfortably until he dies. As long as the recession gets rid of Trump, he is perfectly willing to sacrifice you and your family. He is far more important than you, so his desires outweigh your needs. In other words, he doesn’t give a happy damn about you, your family, your friends, your community, or the country. He has amassed a fortune sufficient to sustain him, he believes, no matter what occurs in the real world. When you never suffer any consequences for your calamitous decisions, your judgment does not improve. You are protected by walls of money and power and superiority and self-satisfaction.
Maher’s His view is that of the liberal and progressive elites. Nothing matters except that they get their own way. They are just as authoritarian and despotic as Democratic Socialists, but are rather better at faking being normal human beings for short periods of time. that makes them even more dangerous to ordinary folks like me. The elites are both arrogant and ignorant, and smugly assume they are heroes for repeating the nonsense their peers spout. i know true heroes, and they are noteworthy precisely because they are so rare. The elites stink of corruption and cronyism and privilege and dirty money, but there is absolutely no note of heroism. They have controlled much of public discourse for decades and they have made it toxic and totally nasty. I’m a Southerner, so I’m quite accustomed to being called a racist without evidence by people who actually are themselves racist. The false accusations slide right off me and long ago lost their power to sting. The Left has overused this and other terms for so long that the words have lost much of their power, though politicians tend to crawl under their desks when they are being bandied about. Stop hiding, stop apologizing, start hitting back. Baltimore provides you with excellent rejoinders — it has 30,000 employees costing about $2 billion. It can have four Confederate statues removed overnight, but it can’t get the streets clean. It has received over a billion dollars of assistance in the last few years, yet can account for little of it, and none of it reached the citizens.
July 4, 2016…
Start with some history, please, about how Ben Franklin’s creation of the Post Office brought the colonies together. He also showed how to make a government-run enterprise efficient and profitable, something our modern postal service could certainly use. This is how a British newspaper explains the American tradition. It knows more about it than many Americans do, but not as much as Jackie Gingrich Cushman does.
Debby Witt at The Corner has provided her usual collection of interesting links for the occasion. Since only 52% of us claim to being extremely proud to be Americans, we could obviously use a pep talk. I think Jay Nordlinger’s podcast of music might help — it surely lifted my spirits while I was cooking. Perhaps it would help these towns as well, not to mention the grumpy columnist who wants “God Bless America” not to be played during the seventh-inning stretch of Major League baseball games. Judi McLeod has a far finer idea with regard to the song. Of course, there are the now customary thefts of flags and assorted acts of vandalism, though some people are fighting back.
America is already great, but a return of the fighting spirit of the Founders would be helpful. Here’s hoping the new age of political correctness doesn’t imperil our safety this year. Resolve to add some principle to your pageantry for this year’s celebration, and use Frank Miele’s old column to remind yourself why tyranny must be resisted, no matter its source, foreign or domestic. Perhaps this view from an American celebrating abroad will help.
Dems at war with you…
Hillary is already playing the vote-for-me-because-I-have-a-vagina card, but in the general election, expect her to go into the full-blown rhetoric about the Republican “war on women.” Yet it is the Democrats who are at war with Americans.
They have arrogantly, and I would argue, extra-constitutionally, forced us to acquire healthcare they choose, to purchase cars we don’t like, to accept foreigners who may or may not be terrorists into our communities and to pay for their care. They are trying to kill the First Amendment because they can not tolerate ideas and thus speech which they disagree with. They are trying harder than ever to eliminate the First Amendment and by so doing, make us all subjects instead of citizens.
In response, I have dug my tasteful “Gun-Free Zone” sign out of my utility room and will carry it around with me, offering it to anyone who thinks more gun control is the proper answer to anything. I’ve had that sign for many years, and no one has ever accepted it, which gives me the opportunity to call them hypocrites to their faces. I have a concealed carry permit and I use it, as do many people I know. I accept the responsibility which comes with exercising my Second Amendment rights, which means that I will protect not only my family and my home, but also anyone around me who is in danger from a threat. Many of those who don’t want you and me to legally possess a firearm, are protected by armed security. They are worse hypocrites. Protect your rights, or you will lose them!
Time for Thorns 