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Posted on 10/09/2019 9:05:54 AM PDT by relictele
The Anger of the Blinded Cyclops
By now, knowledge of the persons and timeline involved in the Russia Hoax (to choose Gregg Jarrett’s phrase among many others) has seeped into the public’s admittedly shallow consciousness. Although they are at opposite poles of seriousness, the Russia Hoax is similar in some ways to the cast and events of The Bachelor. We don’t necessarily want or care to know who the Bachelor is and who he’s chosen but the PR engine, aided and abetted by a bored, cynical media, blasts the news far and wide until it’s nearly impossible not to know.
So it is with the Russia Hoax. At the risk of generalization, most people know that Donald Trump, his family, his aides and any cabinet members have done nothing wrong. Most people know that he had nothing to do with Russia and vice versa. Most people know that from a strict incentive standpoint Trump would have nothing to gain from involving himself with Russia and/or Vladimir Putin and vice versa. And some, if not most, people know that Hillary Clinton and her campaign hatched the entire sordid plot as an electoral dirty trick that was extended into the Trump presidency as a means of crippling his ability to govern.
Trump’s election, no matter where you are on the political spectrum, was a surprise on a par with the 1980 Miracle on Ice, the Fall of the Berlin Wall or Pearl Harbor. All presidential races are historic by definition but this one, deep into the second or third decade of the Information Age, still shocked the so-called experts as well as everyday voters and casual observers.
No one likes to lose. Sporting contests, beauty pageants, academic scholarships, job promotions all involve competition born of preparation, desire, tactics and toil. If we’re honest losing is usually less about the victor’s superiority and more about the defeated individual or team bitterly recognizing and regretting the missteps that could have narrowed or even reversed the outcome. The shopworn ‘stages of grief’ no doubt kick in soon after the result is known.
But the American (and global left), including the now-nakedly partisan US media, are stuck in the anger phase and show no sign of exiting this phase. Anger is a dangerous emotion for many reasons. Anger is like alcohol in that it lowers inhibitions, leads to rash thoughts, words and deeds and often damages the angry individual as much as it damages others. Anger is often recursive, meaning that it feeds on itself. The angry individual gets even more enraged that his anger isn’t solving anything and, in fact, is making matters worse. Smash a thumb, kick an anvil in response and your problems have immediately multiplied.
This isn’t just anger, however. This is rage. This is the rage of the Cyclops of mythology who was blinded by a hot stake. The Cyclops had only one eye – much like today’s groupthinking left. A single injury robbed the Cyclops of its most vital sense.
While we mock and attempt to counteract the left’s anger we occasionally question its origins. Preamble over, let us attempt to identify specific branches of this poisonous tree.
The left is angry because their preferred candidate lost. Simple enough but this was a candidate who had demonstrated, for a full quarter century on the national stage and for another 15 years before that in Arkansas, that she was probably the most amoral creature in politics – which is saying something. Amoral in her personal and professional ethics despite being a member of the bar and the wife of an attorney general (oh irony!) and governor. Amoral in her own household and marriage – at first she was too weak in character lacked the courage to do something about husband’s constant philandering. Later, she infamously and eagerly engaged in and coordinate systemic intimidation (read: criminal menacing) of Bill Clinton’s sexual partners, victims and paramours. If the rumors are true then third-party witnesses were also threatened and even killed. As a presidential candidate’s spouse she gleefully and arrogantly denied that she was under any obligation to hold him responsible for his actions. As First Lady she pretended (unconvincingly) to act surprised at the now-president resuming his womanizing, this time with a young intern under his nominal employment. She then bore false witness against any and all who questioned, disapproved of or published undeniable facts. Many on the left were upset they had to support an amoral candidate in order to retain the White House (although many were just fine with it). But a giant pratfall on Nov 8 made them even angrier because cheating and still losing was simply too much to take.
The left is angry because they are out of ideas and because those ideas have been demonstrated, in dozens of nations involving hundreds of ethnic and religious subcultures, to be oppressive, brutal, bloody and deadly. The implementation of Marxism regardless of its brand name and ‘set of features’ has been remarkably similar in places as otherwise disparate as Russia, Cuba, and the Korean Peninsula. Communism kills. Too many people now know this fact and hundreds of millions of them know it through personal experience. Candyfloss about fairness, equality and The People’s This or The People’s That are regularly rejected by voters and citizens. Yes, American schools and universities desperately push Marxism but students walk outside and use phones, tablets, cars, etc. that would be nonexistent under Marxism. In their heart of hearts, they know better even if they’re afraid to say so.
The left is angry because tokenism has also failed. Claiming that genetic differences between individuals and groups do not exist has failed. Attempts to ‘rectify’ ie ignore such differences by putting thumbs on scales has failed. History’s greatest experiment in tokenism was the promotion and election of Barack Obama. In 2019 we are still counting the number and scope of his failures. But suffice it to say that his 8 years in office were a nearly uninterrupted sequence of Obama admiring himself in the mirror (along with the left offering hosannas) while business, industry, law enforcement, border control, national defense and education were left to fend for themselves or, in some cases, targeted for destruction. Obama seemed to believe that a problem that wasn’t acknowledged ceased to be a problem, or that it would be magically solved by giving another speech. A leftist media intoxicated by their ability to vault an alarmingly ill-prepared and ill-suited individual into the presidency based merely on skin tone were angered by the lingering hangover of a president who achieved worse than nothing.
The left is angry because they are, by now, out of tokens. Obama, for all his faults, was Game Over for the race business no matter what broken-down hucksters like Jesse Jackson or younger reparations fantasists like Coates might believe. Transgenderism, with all its bizarre claims and ‘rules,’ is an attempt to conjure a token voting bloc from thin air. Opposition to and mockery of the ludicrous claim that male can become female and vice versa has further enraged the left who expected a much easier time of it after feminism, the civil rights con game and gay marriage had softened the public up for the imposition of statism under the rubric of tolerance.
The left is angry because multiple generations FINALLY understand what all the fuss was about regarding the Reagan-era economic recovery. Persons under age 30 or even age 40 (!) can be excused for not understanding why and how the Reagan economy was so vital in both its timing and its longevity. Except for the mid 90s tech boom it can be fairly said that a proper economic boom (not the QE Wall Street kind) hadn’t been seen since. ‘Managed decline’ was replaced largely by unmanaged (as in a lack of oppressive laws and red tape) growth. The contrast between the two adjacent presidencies is stark and enormous. This of course, angers the left because they thought they had convinced a majority that free markets were bad.
The left is angry because the media no longer control public discourse, thought, likes/dislikes, etc. No need to expound on this except to say that they haven’t stopped trying but their repeated and ongoing failures only increase their anger. Social media giants possess and perpetuate a strange sort of cold anger; they believe they can overcome opposition by restricting or banning discourse. But these new dogs are finding that old tricks still won’t work.
The left is angry because their ‘electable’ candidates have one foot in the grave while any up-and-comers are swivel-eyed loons with few, if any, reasonable individuals in between. They would love everyone to vote in patterns like CA and NY (hence the mania for eliminating or blunting the Electoral College) but one look at the map has them seeing red, literally and figuratively.
The left is angry because despite a stranglehold on every redundant, bloated federal agency they can’t unseat a president by tossing a spanner into the works every day, all day. They type the fine print and know when and where to hide in it. They give favors. They call in favors. They don’t fear prosecution when their kids play soccer with the prosecutor’s kids and their wives play bunco together.
The left is angry because it’s running out of time. Obama and Hillary’s respective campaigns for the 2008 election began in 2006 or even earlier as Bush 43 was term-limited. It is now one year and one month from the next election. The Russia Hoax notwithstanding, the left’s meager hopes currently rest on 1) a confused, unenthusiastic, quick to anger put-up-your-dukes tough guy (also demonstrably corrupt), 2) a so-called socialist who just had a heart attack and has been sidelined by his doctors, or 3) a finger-wagging Yankee schoolmarm with a quivering scold of a voice who has glibly lied about matters small and large. Waiting in the wings is the very person that caused so much of the left’s anger: Hillary Clinton. Some are still angry she lost from competitive standpoint. Some are still angry that a woman, any woman, lost (see tokenism above). Some are angry she’s back and that she may try again and may lose again. Some are angry that they are stuck with this glory-hunting usurious ungulate for a third decade (in this, at least, we can find common cause with the angry left).
Most of all, the left is angry and therefore irrational. Is Trump’s provocation of them wise? Strategically sound? Politically beneficial? Without legal risk? I honestly don’t know. But I do know that the blinded Cyclops is lashing out in pain and shock. The Cyclops may very well injure itself further – the trick is to give it enough ‘help’ to reach the edge of the cliff in the fervent hope that it tumbles into the abyss.
I think Trump is being smart. It seems they learned from the Muller clown show. Rather then allow the Democrats another open ended fishing expedition, Trump is saying “put up or shut up”.
Who is responsible for putting out the Eye of the Deep State???
NOBODY!
“The Cyclops may very well injure itself further – the trick is to give it enough ‘help’ to reach the edge of the cliff in the fervent hope that it tumbles into the abyss.”
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LOL, that picture reminds me...I heard a Freeper refer to Cory Booker and Joe Biden the other day as “Farticus” and “Not So Smarticus”!
(I know that pic is from “Ulysses” but it made me remember that post!)
Or is that from “Sparticus”???
LOL, generations apart, but...they kept the costumes the same to save money!
Kind of like using Edward G. Robinson to play Dathan in the Ten Commandments saying in his Brooklyn gangster twang “Where’s your Messiah now?” simply because he was under contract or some such thing!
“Most of all, the left is angry and therefore irrational. Is Trump’s provocation of them wise? Strategically sound? Politically beneficial?”
“If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.” - Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”
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