Posted on 09/03/2012 6:11:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee
The political left in America is outraged at Clint Eastwood's recent presentation at the GOP convention. The shock and disbelief of Rachel Maddow at MSNBC and the Blitzer gang at CNN is heavy with condemnation of this inimitable American icon.
The establishment media response has basically come down as follows: "Weirdest thing I've ever seen." "What was he thinking?" "Have the Republicans gone daft?" "The Democrats must have sent Clint to the GOP so as to sabotage their convention." "This was inexcusably disrespectful."
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.
Did Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry play nice-nice with King George? Did they remain respectful to the tyrants who were ruining their lives? They most certainly did not. They declared the English tyrant to be a corrupt and criminal despot. They rallied their countrymen to spring up in rebellion. They stood up for their fundamental rights, as all courageous men and women do when faced with despotic bullies. They did what the valiant Chinese student did in Tiananmen Square when he stood in front of those monstrous approaching tanks.
If Jefferson, Adams and Henry were alive today, they would have been cheering Clint on with vigorous enthusiasm. But what do we see from today's mealy-mouth media? We see a rush to defend the tyrant mandarins in Washington and smear the rebel Eastwood. We see squawking and crying and yelps of protest. But what we really see is what lurks in the subconscious of the establishment media – fear that their emperor is as buck naked as Dirty Harry portrayed him. This is why the vacuities at CNN and MSNBC are so outraged. Eastwood pierced deeply. He showed Mr. Obama and the empty suit Biden up for precisely what they are.
This is what disrespect is, and why it is so important when a people are confronting tyrants. Those who obey their masters and play nice-nice with tyrannical regimes live miserable lives as doormats. Those recalcitrant rebels who boldly proclaim their disrespect for the despots of history have a chance to live in freedom. They might still get squashed; the tanks might still roll over them. But they at least know that they stood up for freedom and honor in their time. They know that they did the right thing, the manly thing, not the craven, accommodative thing. When bullies are breaking the cardinal laws of life and exploiting their fellow man (which is what the statists in Washington have been doing for over 80 years now), then there is only one course of action for honorable men – disrespect – courageous, colorful disrespect.
This is what Clint Eastwood did on August 30, 2012 in Tampa. He did the honorable thing – the manly thing. He heaped contempt on the statist mandarins in Washington. He did not lie down and play nice-nice with them. He did not try to compromise with them. He did not pacify them so as to be popular. He excoriated them with his words and his attitude.
In his advice to America's young men, the twentieth century poet E. Merrill Root wrote, "I would ask you again to dream and dare, and thus to ride again the stallion of manhood whose back is known only by those who with a brave heart grasp the mane of life and ride bareback and shouting even in God's thunderstorm."
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.
Clint Eastwood has exemplified such traits all his life. The weasels dislike him, and the naked emperors try to smear him with sociobabble. But there is a strain of man out there that knows his kind are the Atlases who hold the world up, that America was exceptional because she unleashed such men to climb as tall as they could dream. What we need so desperately today is for these kind of men to rise up and show massive disrespect toward the despots of Washington. Hoorah for Clint Eastwood.
[Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and serves as the Director of Americans for a Free Republic, www.afr.org, an educational organization founded to promote sound money and fair taxation. Mr. Hultberg's articles have appeared in publications such as The Dallas Morning News, The American Conservative, The Freeman and Liberty and on numerous Internet sites such as The Daily Bell, Financial Sense Online and Safe Haven. He is the author of a forthcoming book, The Golden Mean: Libertarian Politics, Conservative Values.]
disrespectful?
Do they not remembeer the past, oh, 20 years??
Thanks for sharing!
Those of us who are lucky enough to live in rural fly over country have been strugglig to keep our “red neck” attitudes for some time. We are mocked and ridiculed for keeping traditions. If we could just keep the urban shores from invading our territories, life would be more true to the norms mentioned in the article.
YW. I’ve sent it to my family and good, appreciative friends in e-mail!
“Carly Fiorna may as well have been the voice for the Democrats on the talk show this weekend! She dissed Clint, she dissed a fellow Republican instead of capitalizing and focusing on the empty suit president! Thank God Newt was on with her. He nailed her to the wall. Carly was all upset that whenever women are brought up the issue always focuses on abortion. Women are more involved in many more issues than abortion.”
Carly Fiorna is a POS...She fell right into the good graces of the very GOP leadership and elitists (back in th emid 90’s) that I personally dispise...She is one of them now, and as far as I am concerned she can take her feminist, corporate outsourcing ass, and take that long walk off a short pier...
Yep, good point...
The issue is that the left is hedging their bets that a nation, mostly populated with Dustin Hoffman types will not fight back with force...
And that a nation of Dustin Hoffman’s will snitch, lie, inform on their own family members, nieghbors, co-workers, those that are not conforming, or may have the means and ideology to fight back against the establishment...
I keep my circle of friends and even family close, and those I know who would not see my positions and preparations agreeable, well, they are left in the dark...
As Dirty Harry once said, “You got to know your limitations!”
I do not trust a lot of people, but I trust enough of them to get by...
BTTT!
BTTT!
He has ... "Trouble with the Curve" will be released September 21. Clint Eastwood stars as a baseball scout. Looks like fun.
Many of the Dustin Hoffmans will be hurt enough to fight back with shovels!
The communists, black panthers, Islamists, etc. believe their own grand idea that American decency translates into cowardice.
They didn't learn American history that documents Americans rising up after a while to right the wrongs. Americans might very well over-compensate by wiping them out, no matter how long it takes.
Whaaaaa.....?
What on earth are you talking about? When did anyone ever do that?
Hey, people told me I rambled at 14 and 38. They still complain!
Code Pink freako protesters at the Republican National Convention.
Code Pink’s Pro-Abortion Dancing Vaginas Disgust Republicans
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/30/code-pinks-pro-abortion-dancing-vaginas-disgust-republicans/
It says LOL, but the "O" is a Bambi logo from a 2008 sign on it (upside down).
I've decided to make it "Empty Chair Month", so I'm leaving it there, and may make a few new humorous signs, one per week.
My petulant lib neighbors on the road must be choking in bile when they pass by........such fun.......
” 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!
” My petulant lib neighbors on the road must be choking in bile when they pass by....”
Good for the soul : )
ROTFLOLOL.
You’re the very best!
LOL! Perfect!
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