Posted on 03/01/2024 4:20:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Some four years ago, the radical left staged what amounted to a coup d’état and took control of the United States government. The events surrounding that coup — and the horrific policies that followed — have been described many times: the COVID “vaccine” hoax, rigged elections, imprisoning dissenters, weaponizing the Judiciary, open borders, the pointless killing in Ukraine. Yet no one has explained why all this happened or how to stop it.
The fact that no scholars or media have even attempted to explain this power-grab itself partly reveals the explanation. If we ask why people on the left took power, then eventually someone will ask why people on the right allowed it to. The next logical question then arises: why should we continue listening to them, following them, giving them money...?
Preaching to the converted and hurling anathemas at the left can accomplish only so much, and yet this is what we the politicians, pundits, and parlor intellectuals of the professional right mostly do. If we want to extricate ourselves from this debacle, we must start examining what the right — and the rest of us — are doing wrong.
Failure of the Right
The conservatives’ defeat is so glaring that some are finally acknowledging what to everyone else is obvious. “The establishment Right’s failures over the last generations have been manifold,” writes one, belatedly:
Since the end of the Cold War, what trajectory-altering successes or victories can the Right cite to demonstrate its worth? ... Despite spending billions of dollars supporting its infrastructure ... the establishment Right has registered no clear gains and many clear losses.
“You could even argue that it abetted most of it[s defeats],” another suggests. “Where official conservatism’s opposition hasn’t been ineffectual, it’s been collaborationist.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Meanwhile, over at the lefty enclaves like DU, they’re fretting that the country’s on the cusp of a rightwing takeover. They’re not gloating about marching through the institutions and taking over the country. Instead, they’re worried.
What if it’s just a mental tic of politically passionate people to think we’re doomed?
I mean, if you’re a political person, is there ever an election that isn’t the most important election ever? But then you’ll say, well yeah we always say it’s the most important but this time it *really is* the most important. But isn’t that what we say every time?
So I read a piece like this and part of me wants to totally resonate with it, but there’s another part of me that wants to say, just chill already.
I doubt that much can keep the pendulum from swinging.
And the couple of Mormons (also unitarians) I know personally would be great at leading a men’s small group about being devoted to family.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4221129/posts?page=17#17
We've ALWAYS been at war with EastAsia!
Sure we are!
We've just not been triggered; yet...
MAybe they know more about the weakness of their position than we do.
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