Posted on 09/07/2019 7:07:36 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Like Jordan Peterson’s reputation, Lionel Shriver’s conservative credentials were burnished by leftist idiocy. In Peterson’s case it was his interview on the UK’s Channel 4 by Cathy Newman. In Shriver’s case it was Yassmin Abdel-Magied walking out of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival in 2016 in protest at Shriver’s views on identity politics and cultural appropriation.
Neither Peterson nor Shriver are my kind of conservatives and, to be fair, I am sure they would not claim to be or would want to be. That’s fine. What I would like to say is that conservative warriors are now needed more than ever....
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I want to be clear. Come the witching hour I believe I will find myself on the same side of the barricades as Peterson and Shriver. After all, where else could we be? But I would like to think that we can avoid arriving at the witching hour. And we won’t if our side is populated by those falling over themselves to be civil.
Civility is paramount among people of sound mind and goodwill. Those of the new progressive Left don’t qualify. They need to be fought, not reasoned with. Reasoning with a poisonous serpent is useless. You have to chop its head off. And, being religiously minded, I choose the metaphor of a serpent advisedly.
Go to the US to see the progressive Left at its most transparent. It’s here in Australia, in the UK and in Europe in full-enough measure, but only in America has it the chutzpah to stand in the spotlight. Anyone who caught any of CNN’s seven-hour town-hall meeting on the “climate crisis” with the top ten Democrat presidential candidates would know what I mean. They have no shame.
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Amen
Reasoning with a poisonous serpent is useless.
You cant reason with socialists. They want you and your way of life destroyed, they want you fined and jailed for following and living your Christianity, they basically desire to punish you in every way imagineable for your life.
And that life is the scoffed at, American Dream. You are their antithesis they are incrementally destroying.
Wake up nutsacks.
“...You cant reason with socialists. They want you and your way of life destroyed, they want you fined and jailed for following and living your Christianity, they basically desire to punish you in every way imagineable for your life.
And that life is the scoffed at, American Dream. You are their antithesis they are incrementally destroying....”
Yep. We old fellas have a name for em: COMMUNISTS.
pulling down border security,
providing free health insurance to illegal immigrants,
publicly funding abortion up till the moment of birth,
slashing military spending,
funding more and more ‘free stuff’ through greatly increased taxation
persecuting those with the temerity to practice Christian beliefs,
marginalising the traditional family,
insidiously siding with Palestinians over Israel,
and hiking minimum wages to add to the rampant unemployment which will follow,
We were WAY too nice to Obama. Where is the “respect for the Office” now?
Obasturd got away with his whole scam and when Rush said merely “I hope he fails” - they wanted to send him to the electric chair!
The Left lost the privilege of engaging in civil debate when Antifa became a thing and none of them stood up against it.
Every attempt they make to be heard should be responded to with the facts of the existence and nature of that terrorist group and the support it gets from leftists.
Dear Mr. Smith,
See my tag line.
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I see your Amen, and raise you two Amens.
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