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Posted on 12/06/2019 6:37:46 PM PST by robowombat
A Deplorable Strategy Beyond 2020
amgreatness.com/2019/12/02/a-deplorable-strategy-beyond-2020/
December 3, 2019
Regardless of who wins in 2020, the mega-issue that drove the 2016 elections will grip the country more intensely than ever.
From President Obama on down, the political, educational, media, and corporate establishment had long since taken for granted that placing the opinions, interests, tastes, and the rights of the rest of America on the same plane as their own amounts to “false equality.” They had come to regard us as lower beings. No matter whether they attributed our purported inferiority to our alleged racism, sexism, etc., or just plain stupidity, they negated the possibility of common citizenship with us. The moment that Hillary Clinton’s reference to those disinclined to vote for her as “deplorables” and “irredeemables” made this unmistakable, Donald Trump’s victory became possible.
The people who voted for Trump, many despite reservations about him, did so seeking a shield against insult and injury from above. But the 2016 results confirmed the ruling class in its judgment, and emboldened it to act in “resistance” and in ways no one had ever imagined.
Ordinary Americans in voting for Trump got a loud voice on their behalf, but no shield. Between 2016 and 2020, we have been pressed as never before to bow to the ruling class’s ever-escalating demands for conformity to its whims—such as to pretend that we join them in accepting that men can be women, and women can be men, on pain of dire social and economic consequences.
Not even the monsters depicted in Darkness At Noon, in Nineteen Eighty-Four or in Animal Farm, never mind Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao’s China, or Hitler’s Germany, ever demanded such subrational submission.
Superficially, the ruling class’s “resistance” since 2016 has focused on Trump. Our temptation to focus on fights regarding Trump has obscured the fact that their objection is to us. The instant after the 2020 elections, whatever happens, there will be no excuse for not paying due attention to the real question: What will become of us? What can we, what must we, do for ourselves?
Dreadful Prospects, Regardless of the Outcome Were Donald Trump to be reelected in 2020, as is likely, there is no reason to think his second administration would loosen the ruling class’s tightening grip on our lives any more than the first did. Were any Democrat to win, we can be certain that the demands on us would escalate, and the government’s choke hold on education, speech, religion, medicine, law, and all manner of administration would tighten further.
In either case, after the 2020 elections ordinary Americans will have to deal with the same dreadful question we faced in 2016: How do we secure and perhaps restore our fast-diminishing freedom to live as Americans? And while we may wish for help from Trump, we have to look to ourselves and to other leaders for how we may counter the ruling class’s manifold assaults now, and especially in the long term.
Since 2016, the ruling class has left no doubt that it is not merely enacting chosen policies: It is expressing its identity, an identity that has grown and solidified over more than a half century, and that it is not capable of changing.
That really does mean that restoring anything like the Founders’ United States of America is out of the question. Constitutional conservatism on behalf of a country a large part of which is absorbed in revolutionary identity; that rejects the dictionary definition of words; that rejects common citizenship, is impossible. Not even winning a bloody civil war against the ruling class could accomplish such a thing.
Going Our Separate Ways The logical recourse is to conserve what can be conserved, and for it to be done by, of, and for those who wish to conserve it. However much force of what kind may be required to accomplish that, the objective has to be conservation of the people and ways that wish to be conserved.
That means some kind of separation.
As I argued in “The Cold Civil War,” the natural, least stressful course of events is for all sides to tolerate the others going their own ways. The ruling class has not been shy about using the powers of the state and local governments it controls to do things at variance with national policy, effectively nullifying national laws. And they get away with it.
For example, the Trump Administration has not sent federal troops to enforce national marijuana laws in Colorado and California, nor has it punished persons and governments who have defied national laws on immigration. There is no reason why the conservative states, counties, and localities should not enforce their own view of the good.
Not even President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would order troops to shoot to re-open abortion clinics were Missouri or North Dakota, or any city, to shut them down. As Francis Buckley argues in American Secession: The Looming Breakup of the United States, some kind of separation is inevitable, and the options regarding it are many.
Who Will Lead? And Lead Where? One year hence, the practical political problem for we “deplorables” has to do with leadership, looking toward 2024. The chances that appreciable numbers of us might follow anyone like Mitt Romney are negligible. What sort of person, with what sort of attitude, with what sort of priorities shall we seek?
Since what the ruling class does is driven by its identity, whoever would lead us “deplorables” must leave no doubt that his own, at the very least, is in opposition to theirs. In other words, he has no desire to join the ruling class, or to be liked by them, that he understands the harm the ruling class has done to America, and that he is on the side of those who wish to save and repair what is possible to save and repair.
That means a combative attitude. Donald Trump has been all too combative—in generalities. But we are looking for leadership in many fields of socio-political combat. Specific leadership requires attitudes regarding specific problems, such as education and infrastructure. Whoever would be followed will have to explain at what he (or she?) is angry, why, and what kind of action he encourages.
To lead is to show the way, to explain what is to be done and how it’s to be done, and to do it passionately.
Since whoever claims to care about everything cares about nothing, we will take seriously only persons who have cared enough about causes to expose themselves to slings and arrows on their behalf—as Charles de Gaulle put it, to “pay with their own coin.”
In 2016 and since, we have learned that our ruling class has amassed the power and developed the taste to revel in making us miserable. We have also learned that to avoid this, we must undo or separate ourselves from them, their structures, and priorities. Knowing that they regard us as illegitimate, we have no choice but to return the favor. Living as we do in revolutionary times, we—and whoever would lead us—must act accordingly.
” Knowing that they regard us as illegitimate, we have no choice but to return the favor. Living as we do in revolutionary times, we—and whoever would lead us—must act accordingly.” How? He does not say.
We MUST replace the Bush League Republicans who have made a career out of importing cheap labor.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has voted for amnesty THREE times and has repeatedly said he will keep working for amnesty until he is removed from office.
Take him at his word and remove him from office.
Or accept that the USA will become North Mexico.
Why is American Greatness relegated to ‘blogs and personal’ while Slate and Vanity Fair are recognized as news sites?
We will need another Augusto Pinochet.
I’ll be 71 in 2024. Minimum Distribution Requirement time. There will be nothing to take out thanks to President Warren. Payback will be a bitch. Where to hide one’s money? Switzerland? Caymans?
They’ll come after our guns. Only a matter of time.
I’m trying to figure that out. Is he calling for a French style revolution? How do we deal with those actively destroying our country for their own power and personal gain?
Pinochet was a great man and patriot. Tollally slandered by the western press.
How about these babies:
1. Find the counties that can succeed in transforming itself to "militia by statute" as its primary home defense and public security. Then model it for everyone else. This eliminates the damage caused by the Dick Act of 1902 and the Militia Act of 1903, and funnels youth into the militia as a lifestyle. Source: Dr. Edwin Vieira.
2. Transform education so that it is HEAVY on American Exceptionalism, logic/rhetoric/debate, philosophy, and why socialism/maxism/communism sucks. Not STEM. Knowing how to think is more important than STEM; STEM will take care of itself. In other words, produce more Ben Shapiros, Candance Owens, Steven Crowders, and Dinesh D'Souzas.
3. Run illegals out at the county level. No hospital, school, or any other services. Pass county ordinances.
4. Have dialogue with educators and civic leaders and pastors on how to produce self-sufficient Americans by curriculum and civic organizations.
5. Pastors, free classes on teaching parents HOW TO PARENT. Particularly the unchurched.
Sen. Hirono: Democrats Have a Hard Time “Connecting” With People Because Of “How Smart We Are”
Posted By Ian Schwartz, December 6, 2018
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Democrats have a difficult time “connecting” with voters because of “how smart we are” that “we know so much.” Hirono was interviewed by journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the ‘Bend Towards Justice’ conference in Washington, D.C.
“We’re really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here (points to head) but not here (points to heart),” Hirono said of Democrats.
“I’ve been saying it at all of our Senate Democratic retreats that we need to speak to the heart not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments but truly to speak to the hearts so that people know that we’re actually on their side,” the Senator said.
“We have a really hard time doing that,” Hirono lamented, “and one of the reasons it was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain.”
Odd, I have rarely met a Left brained logical Dem.
they are all emotional, pussy hat kinds of people.
once cannot have a logical conversation with them
Most are bullies too. If one doesn’t agree with them
they bully and name call.
Interesting how they see themselves.
Democraps have to be TOLD they are smart........too dumb to figure it out for themselves.
Disgusting that feeding the Demos oversized egos is being done with our tax dollars.
How about Hungary in Eastern Europe? No taxes for those that have 4 kids.
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