Posted on 06/20/2020 2:53:18 AM PDT by upchuck
... Before we get into the idea of fighting back, let's look at the battle lines. On the one side, we have a loose collection of freedom-lovers, conservatives, traditionalists, free-marketers, and rational and logical people (let's call them Republicans, if for no other reason than that we need a shorthand label). On the other side, there is a tightly knitted confederacy of Marxists, communists, socialists, relativists, hive-minders, grievance-mongers, Stockholm syndrome sufferers, and criminal cabals (let's call this group Democrats). There is still a large portion of "independents," but even that is becoming irrelevant when we review the fortresses each side holds.
The Republicans have the presidency, the Senate, and the independent media — which is certainly better than nothing. The Democrats have the House of Representatives...and the mainstream media, academia, education, Hollywood, medicine, and a weird weaponized "science" (that really drives the rational and logical people insane). In the past, institutions such as the military, mainstream churches, big business, and professional sports may have leaned toward the Republican side. These, however, have been outright neutralized or are in the process of being assimilated into the opposing side. In the case of big business, it is firmly entrenched in the opposing side at this point. Given the superiority of the Democratic positions, it's evident why "independents" is merely a superficial term as opposed to an actual group of ideological independent people.
Despite the apparent power differential between the two sides, all is not lost. In order for us (the Republicans) to have a fighting chance, we need to realize and embrace the situation we're in with eyes wide open and adapt our tactics accordingly, and everyone needs to join the fray.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
'They are too weak': Tucker Carlson accuses GOP of rewarding rioters with inaction.
I wouldn’t waste my time reading it. This “war” ended three months ago when the threads right here on this website were filled with morons scolding their fellow Americans for refusing to obey COVID-19 lockdown orders.
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”There are your Republicans.
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
Sooo, let's all just surrender?
It actually looks bleaker than the article - he forgot to mention we have lost the courts and the Republican Party, too.
But I don't think we are ready for all-out warfare. Yet.
When that times comes we'll know it because we will find ourselves in the middle of hot battles and will really have nothing to decide but to fight for our lives (literally).
I agree - it was appalling to see how many FReepers seemed to welcome this rapid, harsh government takeover of their lives and actions.
I never surrendered. But the COVID-19 fiasco showed me that a lot of the “freedom-loving patriots” right here on FR are total frauds — and I know better than to rely on them in any “war.”
The assumption that we cannot stand up an army with enough numbers to win is wrong.
Oh, fer sure - but it's a human thing, not a Freeper thing.
It's up to each one of us to find out now who would be reliable in a foxhole - most of us on FR don't know each other personally, so this is not the place to choose someone to watch your 6.
True. I was actually told because i didn’t surrender to maski g to protect his family ( from something i do not have) i should be denied healthcare. Right here on fr. In fact the norm now seems to be to disagree like a leftist instead of agreeing to disagree.
We have lost more freedom in the last few,years than in the entirety of obama.
We are at war and we haven’t even made a serious attempt to fight back.
Being prudent in the face of unknowns is not “surrender.”
Why would I give a sh!t about people toppling statues in rabid leftist sh!t-holes that I do my best to avoid? (I include Washington D.C. in this group, too.)
And mindlessly, ignorantly and cruelly attacking the South.
And mindlessly, ignorantly and cruelly attacking the South.
I knew this was over when I traded posts on a thread here back in March/April with a guy complaining that his gun club — yes, his ‘effing GUN CLUB — had shut down under the governor’s lockdown orders.
I told him they should never open their doors again. A gun club that closes under government orders isn’t really a gun club at all. It’s a Girl Scout troop filled with middle-aged transgender men.
The "sh!t holes like Seattle, NYC and Minneapolis refuse federal police help but will be coming, hands out, to Washington for money to rebuild.
Make no mistake, all the rioting and protesting is to get rid of Trump. We are not alone, we (trump supporters) are the majority, we are great in number.
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