[Travis McGee]

CW2 Ping

This is by far the best essay I have read on the Clint Eastwood flap. It covers the "cultural civil war," so I'm pinging the list.

"Yes, indeed, it was disrespectful. But what kind of humans allow themselves to be enslaved by a Marxist mandarin and his bureaucratic henchmen with a smile on their face and kind words about their enslavers? Craven humans, that's who! Obedient victims who, as Ayn Rand told us, "sanction their enslavement." And unfortunately, that is what the American people have become, obedient sanctioners who are willing to give up their freedom with a smile on their face and kind words for the usurpers in Washington who are so zealously destroying the freedom and sanity of our lives."

[Joe Brower]

"Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles." -- Gerry Spence

[melancholy]

If half the media were neutral or even a shade left of center, the Republic wouldn’t be in this terrible predicament.

There’s no doubt that the media IS public enemy #1.

Ideology aside, more than half the public is ignorant of this mortal danger and is too lazy to even think about it.

[gettinolder]

"But what kind of humans allow themselves to be enslaved by a Marxist mandarin and his bureaucratic henchmen with a smile on their face and kind words about their enslavers?

Resonates with me inasmuch as I lost my cool yesterday while defending Palin to a client of mine who mockingly said while discussing politics "well at least you guys have Sarah Palin!"

I asked her what she disliked about Palin and she said "everything you read and hear about her...."

I about exploded when pointing out that the MSM is biased against any political conservative to say the least and I could hardly get her to admit that.

Even though this client of mine loves to hunt and fish she claimed, turns out she was on permanent disability (go figure, this explains her political affiliation: entitlement mentality) and had met with Obama personally to discuss Health insurance.

Turns my stomach. I don't typically discuss politics while on the boat but if somebody brings it up you can bet I'm not going to smile and say anything kind about our enslavers. I say bring it on!

[Vor Lady]

Hear, hear!! Thanks for the ping and for posting.

[NFHale]

“...This is what disrespect is....”

Actually...I’ll say it this way...

“This is what Democracy looks like”

An Empty Chair is already out on the front lawn and will remain until Election.

[NFHale]

“...What we need so desperately today is for these kind of men to rise up and show massive disrespect toward the despots of Washington. ...”

One giant middle finger to Washington D.C. Always, to them, and to all like them, who would mess with our way of life.

This is a most excellent article.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Reality demands this from man but the collectivists are at war with it. Thus their feminizing of our men today. This is not by accident. The collectivists want a neutered man; it makes their drive for world domination all the easier. What is horrifying is that large numbers of obedient men now welcome this travesty. To be forceful, unflinching and self-reliant in face of life’s vicissitudes no longer appeals. Modern psychology tells us that the virile Clark Gable / Clint Eastwood persona is unhealthy for society. Dustin Hoffman is to be preferred. Softness is correct; toughness is detrimental. But this is decadence masquerading as progress.

The crucible of life demands that men strive to fulfill their natures, that they stand heroically in face of adversity, that they defend the female and family with gallantry in face of the subtleties of evil. The real man welcomes this and refuses to apologize for his toughness and masculinity, his stoic steel will. For him egalitarianism and collectivism are living death. Early in life he knows instinctively that he hates the amoeba-like image of man with which Marxian-Freudian collectivism is trying to poison his soul. He loathes what the professors in college teach him. The real man senses early on that, in the words of General MacArthur, “there is a constant conspiracy against the brave” in this world. The herd mentalities of humanity wish to neuter manliness, for it stands in their way of collectivizing the world. Thus it must be purged from our lessons to the young. The real man resolves to fight this. He chooses to be in life what in essence he must be – a warrior for truth, a rock of granite, a seeker, a builder, a hero. “

Nelson gets it!