Posted on 08/31/2019 4:20:18 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Somebody once made a movie "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?"
There is a very common misperception about war. The beginning of a war is generally marked by an attack, invasion or other aggressive move by a country. But a war can’t start until the aggressor meets resistance. A brawl is usually begun by someone throwing a punch. But unless the person getting punched puts up some resistance it’s not a fight, it’s just somebody taking a beating.
The Twentieth Century was known for big wars. But when Germany invaded Austria in 1938 and Czechoslovakia in 1939 we can’t talk about the war between Germany and Austria or the German-Czechoslovakian war because there was no resistance. In late 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared that making treaties with Hitler gave us “peace in our time” which lasted well after the Czechs surrendered without a fight.
World War 2 began in 1939 when Germany and the USSR invaded Poland and the Poles fought back with the backing of England and France. Had the Polish armed forced not resisted, historians may well have classified 1939 as a year of peace.
When the Southern states began seceding from the Union beginning in 1860 there was peace. It was not until Abraham Lincoln ordered the military to resist the takeover of Fort Sumter that the Union and the Confederacy were at war.
This is important and it applies to what is happening in the country today. It’s why my hackles rise when I hear that President Trump is responsible for the open hatred and disunity in this country. We may as well blame the Poles for World War 2 and Lincoln for the Civil War.
There has been an ideological assault on America and its culture for decades. Every nation has its malcontents. But the Soviet Union and Communism have had a major impact on our culture. The Left has long had a foothold in American culture. The Communists in this country opposed military support for Britain in its fight against the Nazis … until Hitler invaded Russia. Then support for war became critical.
The Left blamed America for the Cold War. For a long time they were dismissed as an irritant by the vast majority of the American people, the people I’ll call “normal.” Normals loved America, its founding and saw it as a force for good in the world. But as the Left came to dominate the culture – the press, entertainment, academia – normal people found themselves and their belief in freedom and individual initiative under attack.
Obama told Americans “you didn’t build that.” They were accused of bigotry clinging to their guns and their religion. Hillary called them deplorable and irredeemable and the Liberal fans who could afford $1000-a-plate-dinners laughed and cheered.
It's now understood by all right-thinking people that white heterosexual males are what’s wrong with the world.
The Black editor-in-chief of the New York Times decreed that black slaves built America while whites sat idly by when they are not raping, pillaging, plundering and burning crosses. Democrat members of Congress supported the extinction of Israel and supported those who want to exterminate Jews. These are not "fringe" views, they are held by very important people, some even running for President.
And us Normals didn’t find ourselves with any meaningful defenders. Mocked by Conrad Black as the OBushinton political establishment we gradually came to the realization that members of the Ruling Class approved of the assault on Normals.
Republicans gave us lip service when they courted our vote but were careful never to actually do anything to support our values while in office. If they were called on their failure to deliver on their promises, they whined that they just didn’t have the votes and asked for money for the next election when they promised - pinkie swear – that next time they would keep their pledges. But next time never came because it was all a show; “boob bait for the Bubbas” as Bill Clinton so eloquently put it.
The Bushes exemplified the Republican version of the Ruling Class that basically agreed with the Zeitgeist. Bush 1’s “Kinder and Gentler” slogan was actually a slap at the Reagan era. Bush 2 inadvertently presided over 9/11 and once the Iraq war became a quagmire stood by supinely while the Left branded him a warmongering Hitler-wanna-be. John McCain was the press’ favorite Republican as long as the “Maverick” attacked Conservatives. His running mate, Sarah Palin, was knifed in the back by McCain staff while the press stabbed her from the front. Once McCain became the Republican nominee the press slimed him as an over-the-hill adulterer. Romney was such a Boy Scout that he allowed himself to be double-teamed in a political debate by Obama and Candy Crowley, the moderator. Publications that pretended to resist the Left’s cultural onslaught like National Review and Weekly Standard were so anxious to join the Left’s juggernaut that they denounced the Normals as heatedly as any on the Left.
Normals were told that their customs and beliefs were not just wrong but illegal. Gay marriage was created by an edict of the Ruling Class. Normals were required not just to be tolerant but join in the celebration. Bake them a cake, host their wedding pizza party or be held up to public humiliation and watch your business destroyed.
People who think there are only two genders are classified as haters who hate, hate, hate. Joe Biden was recently asked how many genders there were and his reply - “3” - was roundly mocked. There is no “Woke” right answer. Whatever your reply, it’s going to be wrong tomorrow and you will be denounced by the gender police.
Men dressed as women were suddenly transformed from mental cases to a protected class with their own letter in a growing alphabet of celebrated perversions. Normal people go to a public bathroom designated for men or women and expect to see a member of the same sex there. Wrong again, Buffalo Breath! If you expect that, you’re pilloried as a bigot and will be exposed and boycotted by a new class of culture warriors who will scream at you and drive you out of restaurants after spitting in your face.
There are not a large number of people roaming the country who are mentally deranged and wish to disown their personal sexual organs. The larger game is a power play by culture warriors to demonstrate their ability to destroy Normals. To demonstrate their power they will smash the statue of your fallen hero in exactly the same way as the Taliban do in the territory they control … because they can. Its cultural rape and, like sexual rape, it’s done to show dominance. Vikings, Vandals and other barbarians throughout history have done the same thing as they pillaged and plundered people that didn't have the ability or the will to resist.
There’s a similarity between the Left’s onslaught and Nazi ideology. Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” published in 1925 is an indictment of Jews for the ills that the Germans suffered flowing World War 1. In 2019 the leading American newspaper, the New York Times, began the 1691 Project claiming that Black slaves built America and Whites are responsible for all its faults. Nothing could be more Hitlerian than this.
In Donald Trump, the Normals have the first leader who is willing to go to war.
His style is counter-attack and he gives with the same brutality as his attackers. It shocked them at first and they began by calling him un-Presidential. That was the small “polite part of the Democrat party. The others went straight for calling him a mass murderer and stealing the election in collusion with Vladimir Putin. In a very real way, Trump has driven the Leftist aggressors insane. They now compare people using “reasonable” arguments as slaveholders.
It remains to be seen if Trump, who is unique in the political world, will prevail or will be over-run by a horde or totalitarian Luddites who worship strange beliefs about the earth. The Poles were, after all, defeated after being double-teamed by two of the most despotic regimes in modern history. But he fights and so far he has prevailed in the face of the fires of Hell deployed by every sector of the Ruling Class against him. We have an actual culture war instead of a Left-wing gang rape of the American culture thanks to Trump. God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.
Interesting twist on how wars start and end and I never thought about it that way. But it seems right to me.
Well thought out... thanks.
The peace symbol was started by socialists and “one world government” advocates.
Meant to disarm the West.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Action_Committee
There is a logical reason the legal rhetoric is inverted. The law can order other off your property, but can't (or shouldn't) order you onto it.
War is a label for mutual hostilities. Annexation of one country by another is not war unless hostilities break out.
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
Why then the war will come to you!
He who stays home when the fight begins
And lets another fight for his cause
Should take care:
He who does not take part
In the battle will share in the defeat.
Even avoiding battle will not avoid Battle,
since not to fight for your own cause really means
Fighting in behalf of your enemy’s cause.
Bertolt Brecht
Normal people. That’s the term that will gain more traction as the war between the left and basically everyone else heats up. The left can try to confuse the term “normal” with their Orwellian pretzel logic but if you stand true and don’t waiver,nothing pisses them off more.
It took some work for me to figure out what OBushinton means.
Also in the case of a situation where the extreme left has amassed this much power, not fighting back does not equate to just losing. It will mean pogroms and mountains of skulls.
OUTSTANDING article. Thanks for posting. Asymmetric warfare ALERT!
FDR's powerful close aide, Harry Hopkins, virtually controlled Lend Lease production and disbursements with just his signature or a phone call. This Red Agent of influence had Canadian sourced Uranium sent to the USSR before anyone had an idea of what is was for, well before the Rosenberg spy ring stole the actual plans. See Diana West's "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on America's Character".
Need to get this out on TV and Radio!
Correct. I’m making corrections as we go along. It’s a work in progress (with some grammatical and spelling errors)
bttt
What a post, thank you.
“It remains to be seen if Trump, who is unique in the political world, will prevail or will be over-run by a horde or totalitarian Luddites who worship strange beliefs about the earth.”
If he’s overrun by a horde of luddites it will largely be the fault of us Normals whose contribution to this war is to maybe vote every four years and then go back to sleep and occasionally type away in a blog while leaving him alone to be eviscerated by the wolves.
You can hardly blame our so called “spineless” representatives for running and hiding when they get viciously attacked by the pack of wolves on the left with zero visible support from us.
We need to return to the Tea Party days and take to the streets and get into people’s faces, and I guarantee that most of our “spineless” representatives will miraculously grow a spine.
Very good article but no mention of the ‘Republicans’ who supported(or preferred) Hillary. That was the true colors revealing. As for WW2 the Pat Buchanans amongst us felt we should have stayed away. Let the Germans consolidate all Germans.
“Republicans gave us lip service when they courted our vote but were careful never to actually do anything to support our values while in office. If they were called on their failure to deliver on their promises, they whined that they just didn’t have the votes and asked for money for the next election when they promised - pinkie swear – that next time they would keep their pledges. But next time never came because it was all a show; “boob bait for the Bubbas” as Bill Clinton so eloquently put it.”
The GOPe would rather risk losing the majority in an election than actually advance the stated agenda of their party. The blocking & tackling necessary to pass an agenda is so beneath them. The other side isn’t much better, but their ideology controls the Media, courts and academia so they can enact much of their ideology without getting too mussed up. So my question is “why do we need congress”? Doesn’t matter which side holds the majority they seem to focus all their energy in building their personal wealth and letting the Swamp steadily steer the country leftward.
“He is for the time being, but Conrad always has a Plan B and is ready to flip on a moment’s notice.
You just described about 99.9999% of our so called allies/friends.
Did you have a good summer?
Any new books re our Deep State Thugs?
Regards
Dave
“Sun-Tsu said that the true objective of the general is the destruction of the enemy’s willingness to fight.
This has been the true war over the last few decades, going after our willingness to fight back. It has been decreed to be illegitimate to resist the Leftist agenda in any way. Anyone who does not bow down is destroyed professionally and ostracized from public life.”
You nailed this. Proof is the Korean War, the Nam Fiasco and all of our involvement in the middle East.
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