Posted on 08/01/2022 5:10:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the era of peak woke we are supposed to accept any radical departure from long-held custom and tradition as the new normal.
Perhaps. But if so, is the improved new code of behavior at least reciprocal? Will the radical Left really wish to live by its own novel normality when it loses power?
Have leftists ever read Thucydides on the stasis at Corcyra and his warning that zealots who destroy laws, customs, and traditions for short-term gain, soon rue the day they began making such changes when, in vain, they seek refuge in the very sanctuaries of behavior that they have destroyed?
Or will they just plead that their own rules do not apply to themselves given their innate moral superiority? Will they employ the John Kerry defense that one must bomb the upper atmosphere with private-jet carbon emissions in order to do the important work of flying around the globe to stop carbon emissions?
The Supreme Court
How about the new protocols regarding the Supreme Court?
Should conservatives mass at the home of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, decrying her radical nihilist abortionist ideology? Is that an understandable cri de coeur? Would such intimidation in the future moderate her extremism? Is that now an acceptable strategy?
Should Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) now lead a throng of screaming, right-wing protestors to the very doors of the Supreme Court? Should he egg them on by calling out by name Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sotomayor, warning that they have sown the “wind” and will soon reap the “whirlwind,” as they will have no idea what “hit” them?
Is that moral courage? Would the New York Times and NPR nod approval to such “grassroots” anguish? Will anyone define what the incendiary “hit them” means?
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The first rule is to realize that the left never plays fair.
VDH ping
The thing to remember is that the left are like children: they are always right, they are smarter than you, and that wishing hard enough always creates a new reality.
In kids it is childishness, in adults it is narcissistic insanity.
The other first rule to realize is that conservatives can’t be bothered to force the left to play “fair”.
We preefer to just roll over and take it.
The left has nothing to worry about in that regatd from us.
The distinguishing feature between the left and the right, is the leftists are activists, while the rightist are sitting-on-our-butt-ists
“The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” applies to this subject. As the progressive leftists and complicit rinos engage in what they term as “necessary change”, they also engage in silencing any and every idea that is counter to theirs. They count on your silence as tacit agreement with their push to control every aspect of your life...even though they have basically forced your silence. Above quote by LStar.
Gosh, you really nailed it in a nutshell. That is the truth.
No such thing as progressive rules. NOT by any logical measurement.
In a prog world you are either entitled or you are excluded. And thereby subject to be raided by the “FBI” at 6 am.
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“kids”
Sometimes it can even be cute ..when a kids gets in a pickle and tries to figure out how to get out of it.
With adults it not cute at all..and actually at one level it is quite embarrassing..not to mention harmful.
This is the correct answer.
the critical part of wokeness to understand is that they make the rules
Ah, the long term habit of Republicans snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in their quest to get along with Democrats.
The Left are truly what they profess to hate:
-- In demanding censorship of contrary opinions the people on the Left are intolerant.
-- In mandating conformity to their needs the people on the Left are bullies.
-- From their obsession with "race" and in their firm belief that race determines behavior the people on the Left are, by definition, racists.
Who ever said the rules apply to the liberals, anyways?
We still suffer from the same 1960’s juvenile petulance when the powers that be did not immediately fall in line as protesters demanded.
Yep. The first thing Republicand should, but won’t, is pass a few laws based on the Biden Doctrine, that no Amendment is absolute. Make participation in the “Jan 6 Committee” a felony, for example.
Dems: But that’s an Ex Post Facto law!
Repubs: Yes! Isn’t the Biden Doctrine great!
“We preefer to just roll over and take it.”
That’s not true, I get 10-20 emails a day from the Republican party asking for money!/s
Their fighting back real hard.
They are planning on never losing power.
Now that they have election rigging down, they won’t.
Wow! VRH is great, & nothing is new. Just hope that the worst of history does not come around during your time …
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