We should extend the invitation to counties in Canada &Mexico, since we are forming a new country.
Posted on 08/10/2021 6:16:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Herein lies a glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it.
“Rooting against Olympians, scoffing at Capitol police, broaching civil war — meet today’s conservative movement.”
That’s the opening of an article last week at Vox.com. You’ve probably heard of Vox. Their self-proclaimed, self-aggrandizing purpose is to “explain the news.” But when Vox’s condescending reporters start talking about conservatives, Christians, guns, or really anyone outside of a few coastal cities, they have a habit of sounding like Jane Goodall observing apes.
So, what’s their qualm now? Let’s let them explain it in their own words:
[There is a] rising tendency in the conservative movement to reject America itself. In this thinking, the country is so corrupted that it is no longer a source of pride or even worthy of respect. … Queer female soccer stars demanding equal pay, Black basketball players kneeling to protest police brutality, the world’s best gymnast prioritizing her mental health over upholding the traditional ideal of the “tough” athlete — this is all a manifestation of the ascendancy of liberal cultural values in public life. And an America where these values permeate national symbols, like the Olympic team, is an America where those symbols are worthy of scorn.
Worthy of scorn; imagine that. Underperforming and overpaid people who for a living play a game no one watches want to be paid the same as people who are better players and earn more viewers.
Rich athletes publicly spitting on their country, their flag, and the men and women who have died for it, so they can push left-wing lies.
An enormously talented athlete quitting on the brink of competition, and saying the problem was she wanted to compete only for herself, not for her coaches, her teammates, or her country.
These are indeed “all a manifestation of the ascendancy of liberal cultural values in public life.” They’re the fruits of a spoiled, privileged, narcissistic, and self-obsessed revolution that began in the late 1950s and has been fighting its way to power ever since. They have it now, and it isn’t simply confined to our sacred soccer ball kickers.
Sports is just the latest, but look at its sponsors: You can be a subpar professional athlete, but if you spit on the flag you get a lucrative Nike contract.
Remember that Nike ad, “Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything”? It featured Colin Kaepernick. The only problem is, he didn’t sacrifice anything — he discovered he could be paid a lot more playing the American public than he could playing football as a backup quarterback.
Now, thanks to his fake bravery, he gets to decide if the first flag of the United States is permissible. He says it isn’t, because America wasn’t perfect 245 years ago — and Nike sanctifies that decision with a lucrative payout.
They don’t mind; Nike may still be headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, but at heart they’re a Chinese company. That’s the People’s Republic of China: a godless slave state that uses forced labor to manufacture products and criminalizes dissent. That’s a country Nike respects, or at least one it cares about offending. Guess what: We don’t like that.
They’re far from alone. Silicon Valley was once a symbol of American enterprise: Young men working in their garages to harness technology and revolutionize our lives. Now Silicon Valley symbolizes the most powerful private companies the world has ever known — and they use that power to crush dissent, censor presidents and critics, and push left-wing propaganda. Turns out, when they do that we don’t like them.
We can go on. Blackrock sends its urchins to buy up affordable homes in growing cities to transform a society of homeowners into a society of servile tenants.
Mastercard and IBM build international databases for tracking humans so they can bar them from travel and commercial activity if they don’t take an experimental vaccine. Or, in MasterCard’s case, maybe they’ll ban you if they just dislike your politics.
Bank of America refuses to make loans to American gun manufacturers out of principle while making a $1 billion gift to Black Lives Matter, a racist, anti-American, anti-family, grifty riot squad responsible for dead police, murdered innocents, and burned-out cities. Huh — turns out we don’t like any of that either.
How about the Pentagon? Conservatives used to respect it because it won wars and embodied the finest of American values while doing so. But now the Pentagon loses wars, throws away lives, and wastes trillions of dollars while trashing those fine American values.
The military used to be a strict meritocracy. Now, they cut standards in the name of diversity. They used to demand that every soldier be fit and ready for war. Now, they slash the requirements for our troops’ physical performance and brag about maternity flight suits.
They teach weak and disgusting left-wing racism in their academies, they target Christians, they insult the middle-America conservatives who do most of the fighting and an overwhelming share of the dying in our armed forces. While our enemies run ads touting the manly virtues necessary to a warrior life, our generals run ads about having two moms. It’s not very intimidating. And hey, we don’t like it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we could all go on with example after example, but the point is this: The left got their revolution, the one they spent decades screaming and agitating for. They got their ideologues into the halls of power — not just the university halls, not just the halls of Congress, but all of them: Business, media, military, sports.
If there is an institution in your life and it’s not a good church, chances are that institution has implemented one policy after another pledging itself to the dogmas of the left. Now, the left is shocked — shocked — that we don’t like it one bit.
There was an America that we loved. It was an America of religious liberty and freedom of speech, and equality before the law. An America that loved what is beautiful rather than what is warped and ugly. An America that loved its founders and loved its children. An America that knew that whatever prosperity it possessed, it owed it all to the Almighty, and that it had a solemn duty to Him in return.
That was the America we loved. An America that hundreds of thousands of young men proved they loved more than life itself. We still love that America, and we’re not just going to cheer and applaud their active desecration of it.
Herein lies a great little glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it. “Drink your can of beer, sit on the couch, and cheer for sports. You like sports, don’t you, you ape? Come on, watch them on your 60-inch Chinese TV you bought at Walmart.”
“Buy our cheap, foreign products, do it now. You like free enterprise, don’t you? What’s more free than your boys and girls in the Navy guarding Chinese ships shipping Chinese products from Chinese companies to run-down American towns that were once industrial hubs?”
“You like cheap things, don’t you? I thought Republicans loved sports and business!”
“When Gen. Mark Milley says jump, you say how high. When he says you’re racist and you are showing white rage, nod along. When he says standards are overblown, and that diversity is our new strength, salute. Come on, don’t you support our troops?”
They don’t get it. They don’t get that we don’t honor and salute empty institutions and buildings! We don’t just bow down before the local magistrate’s hat on a stick.
They don’t get that a church is not just some building that can be made into a nightclub, it’s where we worship God — and it’s from his presence that it derives its meaning.
They don’t get that people watch sports for athletic excellence, good old American entertainment, and the thrill of cheering for the guys fighting for your team. No one watches sports to be condescended to, regardless of what uniform the athlete has on.
They don’t get that we respect the flag and the Americans who’ve fought and died for it and will again, but that doesn’t mean we stand and salute the Pentagon and all the foolish politicians in the brass.
They also don’t get that we’re not all 100 percent serious and miserable all of the time, like a couple of CNN anchors we could name; we still have a sense of humor. So yes, when a woman with an ugly heart says ugly things about America and then flops in a big soccer tournament, we’re going to chuckle about it. Maybe even laugh out loud. Maybe we will have that cold beer.
We’re Americans; we don’t resent success in sports, business, or military service. But as Helen Andrews of The American Conservative recently wrote, conservatives don’t resent the left’s success — we resent the ways they actively harm us. And we’ll never accept the rotten version of America they tell us we’re supposed to love.
America is worth saving. If you live in a major coastal city, leave it whenever you can and see that America. It can sometimes be hard to find — the left has warped it viciously. Today this country kills its children in the womb, celebrates decadence, and glorifies decay, but if Vox is onto anything it’s this: We are onto them. And we’re not buying it. And America lives on in our hearts.
There are a lot of problems in this country. We’re experiencing a secular elite trying to justify their existence in any way they can. Things are going to get worse before they get better, because they want things to and it makes them feel good.
But there’s no God at the end of this tunnel. Just as with drugs or money or sex, no amount of Black Lives Matter, climate change activism, and yard signs can fill the hole they’re feeling. The good news is, it won’t work; the bad news is, our experiment is delicate and badly damaged.
The work — going to school board meetings, running for local office, speaking up in our towns and our cities and our states — is hard work. We’re going to lose friends along the way, but we will lose this country forever if we don’t, so there’s really no choice at all, is there.
Why this dying country continues in its vain attempt to stay together as a 50-state entity defies logic. We cannot coexist with those people, and we are sure as hell not “united,” nor will we ever be.
"“Buy our cheap, foreign products, do it now. You like free enterprise, don’t you? What’s more free than your boys and girls in the Navy guarding Chinese ships shipping Chinese products from Chinese companies to run-down American towns that were once industrial hubs?”
Sorry but there is a certain truth to the article. Rational, decent people do not have common values with socialist/globalists who now dominate the media, academia and government agencies. There no longer exists a common consensus to unite people in this country. Its best to face this reality squarely and deal with the ramifications.
This excerpt bears repeating:
“America is worth saving. If you live in a major coastal city, leave it whenever you can and see that America. It can sometimes be hard to find — the left has warped it viciously. Today this country kills its children in the womb, celebrates decadence, and glorifies decay, but if Vox is onto anything it’s this: We are onto them. And we’re not buying it. And America lives on in our hearts.”
PING!
This is a normal reaction to abnormal and deviant social behavior and action by the Left and their allies.
Funny. My wife and I were on vacation last week, and we binge-watched "The Sopranos". Neither of us had ever seen even a single episode.
What I found fascinating (and a bit disconcerting) was my personal and visceral response to seeing the portrayal of the FBI in that series, and how as a law-abiding citizen, I view the FBI as an enemy of both me as a Citizen, and the Constitution of The United States.
In the late Nineties, I am certain the program had every intention of portraying the FBI as crime fighters, fighting on the side of Americans, taking hard-nosed approaches at rooting out organized crime for the betterment of the country.
As a citizen watching the series in 2021, knowing what I know of them now, I viewed them as completely corrupt and unprincipled as the Mafia.
In scenes where they were interrogating someone, I would observe how there was no visible (formal) recording of the proceedings, because the FBI practice is to interrogate, and instead of recording the session and creating an accurate transcript from the recording, to instead write down notes (one agent doing most of the recording while the other mostly interrogates, although the note taker may ask questions and the interrogator may take some notes) and compose a 302 form which is their official account of the proceedings.
Obtaining information in this manner is fraught with ample room for malfeasance. At some point in our naive past as loyal Americans, we might well think that "Well, sure. The process is open to corruption, but the FBI would never abuse it. They are on our side."
When I realized how open to corruption this process is by observing the political persecution of Trump and his allies in the past five years alone, and fully seeing in practice just how corrupt that practice is, and how criminal the FBI has become in their cynical and deliberate use of it, well...it is disillusioning to say the least.
The realization that I (and many Americans) no longer view the FBI as an ally of America is not new to me. For years now, I have lamented that as I went through life, as a child and young adult, if the FBI had knocked on my door to ask questions, I would have wholeheartedly invited them inside, given them refreshment, and answered any questions they may have had. I viewed them, as an American, as being on "my side".
In the last 20-25 years, that has changed dramatically.
If the FBI showed up at my house, unless they forced me to, I would not only refuse them entry to my house and property, I would not speak to them unless I had a lawyer present and would insist any conversations be taped.
Equally worth repeating. We'll not last another year before this low level conflict breaks out into open, savage war.
Bank of America refuses to make loans to American gun manufacturers.
Well don’t bother calling the police when you need them other wise your aiding the gun manufacturers.
They don’t get that when they look at us and call us racist just because we are white...We don’t like it. There are very few white folks that are truly racist or believe they are better than people of color, but that doesn’t stop the left from demanding we bow our heads and or take a knee and admit we are a bunch of hate filled racists. It’s a false premise and we don’t like.
In 1980, almost every American would have fully rooted for ALL Americans in competition regardless of any political, cultural, sexual, or racial aspect. They didn't shove it in our face if they had issues, ungratefully and publicly telling us how corrupt, flawed, and hostile their country was to them, and by extension, how corrupt, flawed, and hostile WE were to them who were competing. They were there to REPRESENT US, were grateful for the opportunity, and comported themselves appropriately. It was something that brought people in this country together.
But the Left doesn't want us to come together. They want us torn asunder.
In 1980, almost every American would have fully supported the Capitol Police or any police who were taking action against a mob burning and looting stores, attacking police, or assaulting other people who disagreed with them. Today, entities like the Capitol Police and other law enforcement entities at various levels have some number who are simply an extension of the Democrat Party and the Left. In the past, most people believed in the rule of law in the framework of the Constitution and legally passed laws, and that generally uniform acceptance of law, order, crime, and punishment was something that brought people in this country together.
But the Left doesn't want us to come together. They want us torn asunder. They want one set of laws for one set of people, and another set of "laws" for another set. So they demonize the police, want them disbanded, and encourage violence against defenseless citizens.
In 1980, almost every American would have scoffed at the concept of a civil war. Most people believed that the ballot box was the box we should use when combating issues that negatively affected us. We didn't have to go to war with our fellow Americans over a difference of opinion on things. We could fight it out in fair elections, and the winner had the upper hand in effecting changes in policy and law. That unifying theme was something that brought people in this country together.
But the Left doesn't want us to come together. They want us torn asunder. They have openly and arrogantly shown us that the ballot box is their tool for change via fraud, and are openly doing everything in their power (Such as HR1 and obstruction and corrosion of laws meant to safeguard the ballot box) to corrupt the "fair election" box, and are forcing Americans with no alternatives other than submission to evil, to the cartridge box to protect themselves.
Real Americans are anti- Amerikan.
And that’s why he’s definitely right about the work and how hard the work is.
That doesn’t surprise you, does it?
We should extend the invitation to counties in Canada &Mexico, since we are forming a new country.
+1
Decent piece
Absolutely. The author forgot education
Nothing surprises me about the communist democrat party.
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