Posted on 05/24/2017 7:34:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A terror attack in the United Kingdom May 23 killed at least 22, and injured dozens more. As the attack targeted a youth pop concert, a high proportion of the deaths were among children and teenagers. United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May immediately cancelled all her ruling Tory Party’s campaign events — national elections are June 8 — so her government could focus on the crisis. The country’s other parties quickly followed suit.
As of yesterday, the Tories had this election locked up to the degree that a generational shift in UK politics was in the offing. If the polls are accurate, the Tories would have eaten deeply into the holdings of other parties not just in England, but in Wales and Scotland as well. Ongoing Brexit talks have justified and energized the Brits separate-and-superior mindset, and Theresa May has been using that energy to reshape the UK political space. That means, among other things, the British Labour party moving into the political wilderness, the de facto absorption of the anti-EU UK Independence party into the Tories, the Liberal Democrats’ return to the fringes of British power, and the evisceration of the Scottish National Party’s stronghold on Scottish politics...
That was before the attack.
Between the rally-round-the-flag effect of terror attacks and the fact that the ruling Tories are the law-and-order party, the UK is now on the cusp of a complete overhaul. Barring some truly unprecedented revelations that bring down May and the entirety of the Conservative leadership, the Tories will walk away from the June elections with the strongest showing of perhaps the last century. In the election’s wake, Labour will not simply be weak, it will be gone and it is unlikely to come back in a meaningful way.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearworld.com ...
BREXIT and give the islamists back to the EU.
Britain needs to stop apologizing for the immense achievements of the Anglo/Celtic peoples, and recognize that pride in your forebear's achievements is the exact opposite of the "pride that goeth before a fall"; being in fact the inspiration to achieve likewise, rather than an arrogant self satisfaction that leads to the decline they have been witnessing, since they lost that pride in achievement.
And in addressing the Terrorist threat, they would do well to observe the brilliant pivot of Donald Trump back to the American tradition for dealing with others. This past weekend, by treating others as America's Founders would have approved, he struck a major blow in his Saudi address: The War On Terror
Theresa May allowed this to happen. Now she is going to try and look tough since the elections are coming up.
great article. intelligent. well thought out.
Some idiot on MSNBC said the bombing was surprising because Manchester voted against Brexit.
The biggest problem we have right now is an excess of empathy as government policy.
Liberals define morality as empathy/feeling good. They use the victimhood hierarchy to determine WHO to feel sorry for and protect.
Since Muslims are exotic to the West, they are considered the victim no matter what they do. Liberals define themselves as the oppressors/evil compared to Muslims, so they consider Muslim attacks justified.
By saying love is moral and love is always the solution, they force themselves to be helpless victims - “If I just stand here and radiate love, I’ll heal your hate, it is my fault you abuse me and kill my children, because you didn’t get enough love, and I’m not radiating the love hard enough to heal you, you poor helpless baby.”
Their unwillingness to admit that ideology, not just irrational emotion, drives Islam prevents them from challenging the ideas that drive Islamic conquest. And their view that they are protective Mommies to solve everything by love results in many liberals being paralyzed into accepting the abuse by Muslims while blaming themselves for it ... perfect dhimmi from the perspective of the Muslims. They both agree “it is the fault of the evil infidel for their abuse, they aren’t good enough”.
The West’s leaders saying “love trumps hate” and demanding we all stand by helpless as Muslims kill us is the classic civilizational example of how an excess of empathy kills, literally.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters.
The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass
BOTTOM LINE: EVIL, IN ALL ITS FORMS, MUST BE RESISTED BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND BY “AGITATION” (in the instant case, WAR)!
The alternative is submission.
The ARABIC word for submission is — ready? — ISLAM!
And to those of you who respond that Douglass was talking about SLAVERY, SO AM I!
Its name is ISLAM!!
Just imagine the splodey heads all round if we started referring to hitler's book as that.
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