Allen West: We Are Now Fully Embroiled in an Uncivil Ideological Civil War

CNS News ^ | 10-8-18 | Allen West

[kingattax]

Let me start by cautioning constitutional conservatives on being giddy, gloating, and excessively celebrating over the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

College football head coach emeritus Lou Holtz once admonished his players that when they end up in the end zone and score a touchdown, act like you have been there before.

Yes, a good man survived, withstood, the most vile, vicious, and vitriolic of assaults and character assassination from the progressive, socialist left. Already the left has evidenced that they are not done.

They now want to investigate and impeach Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The question to be asked: why?

[Paal Gulli]

We’ve been in an ideological civil was since the days of LBJ’s Great Society. The only difference now is that the 24-hour news cycle gives the tiny fraction of whackadoodles living at the edge of sanity a sufficiently prominent public platform to make themselves seem legion.

The November elections will prove what a minority they really are.

[rlmorel]

"...Still, I cannot understand that politics and power won out over the kids and me..."

Arggh. That is discouraging to hear your example. I am very ideological, but not for political reasons, but for philosophical reasons.

I look at the Left, and nearly every concept they espouse is antithetical to my beliefs. I am looking not at the holding of power as an end to be celebrated as the Left does, but as a means to ensure my personal freedoms (as well as those of everyone else I meet whether they care about their own freedom or not)

I am not comfortable being around that part of my family, not because I am politically opposed to their views, but because I cannot reconcile how they can embrace those views, which will do them and everyone else harm in the end.

I have to come to grips with that. I am sorry to hear your story on this. I am sure you can only shake your head at it.

[robowombat]

Particularly because Tim Kaine is a zero. He got to be governor because the Virginia GOP leadership is loaded with and dominated by Chamber of Commerce Kasich types and absolutely will not try and attract the votes of white working class males. Kaine is just personally creepy and weak. Considering Hitlery’s health I was appalled that the Dems picked such a rubber chicken for number 2.

[Fitzy_888]

Dr. Steve Turley:

Trump’s Strategy: It’s Time to Crush the Democrats in the Midterms!!!
https://youtu.be/ING2LfQSyi4

[Brookhaven]

I prefer the more accurate term “war between the (mental) states.” Sane vs insane.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Oh they’re lesion alright...

[Georgia Girl 2]

I can’t help it Allen I’m a little giddy.

[Ancesthntr]

“I have always felt that the bad things we do (both personally and nationally) are just as important to who we are as the good things we do. It makes us who we are. It is part of lessons learned. I am appalled to see this intentional eradication of these things....”

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That is essentially what I tell my kids, That you can learn something from everyone you meet. Sometimes you learn what to do and sometimes you learn what not to do. But you always learn something.

If the eradication of History continues, I can easily foresee the time when some ignorant youth will honestly challenge the very idea that there was ever slavery or Civil War. There will simply be no evidence of it left. Search is what airbrushing history does.

[rlmorel]

Agreed 100%.

Which is one of the reasons I am concerned that Google has grown to what it is.

The FACT that they shape searches at all is deeply troubling.

There is an entire generation now to whom the concept of researching something is limited to Google searches.

Heck, I rarely do much different myself when online.

[joegoeny]

But I am astonished and appalled that there are people on the Left who want to eradicate any symbols of that conflict [Civil War] (flags, statues) and even the discussion or memory of it from our history.

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That is because it was the slaver Demoncraps who voted for secession against the Union. They don’t want their constituents, the ignorant masses, from knowing that.

[moovova]

I’d follow this man into battle.

[Ancesthntr]

I couldn’t agree with you more on the issue of Google - even more than Twitter and Facebook and their censorship. Google involves the very source of information that people have access to - because, practically speaking, 90% of internet searches are done through Google, and the vast, vast majority of people never do more than click on some site mentioned on the first page or two. Thus, by shaping searches they are actually determining what information people have access to - i.e. they are censoring what they don’t want others to see, because it is inconvenient for their political views.

Google delenda est! Break it up into 20 competing companies - at least a few of those will just rank searches according to frequency, without trying to influence what people see. Do that to Google, and then the Twits and Fakebook will fall into line very quickly, lest THEY be broken up.

The way I look at it, Google is a utility - and though a private company, like the electric or water utility that we all use, it has certain duties to the public in return for its monopolistic power. So, either it stops fudging the information and acts like a utility by serving all equally, or they get accused of MASSIVE FEC violations and get broken up as a criminal enterprise (for failing to report the value of their services to the Dems). Oh, and don’t forget the charges against the top leadership - I’m sure that any enterprising prosecutor could find at least 20 different charges to make against each of them.

F#ck Google - it IS Big Brother.

[rlmorel]

Dinesh D’Souza’s book “The Big Lie” about the roots of the Democratic Party was an interesting read.

You are right on that.

[rlmorel]

Too many eggs in one basket there...it is a little frightening to consider.

When I do searches on Google, I often ignore the first or second page after glancing at them unless I am simply looking for a date of an event or some other non-contestable type of info...

I am totally against regulation except for one thing: The government to say there will be NO shaping or censorship in any way. And even that makes me squirrely.

[Ancesthntr]

I’m also not too keen on government regulation...but in this case the issue must be addressed or we’re going to have a permanent re-shaping of opinion by people who are - by their own admission - on one side of the political spectrum. That CANNOT be allowed - it is one thing to own 1 newspaper or 1 TV station and expound your views, but in this area it is like Google owns ALL but a few inconsequential papers and stations. They have the power to do quickly, what the educational system has incompletely done over the last 75 - 100 years. That is TOO much power concentrated in too few hands, and cannot be allowed to stand.

FYI, I would say the same if Google was owned by Mark Levin. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The whole point of our system is to spread power out as much as possible, to let people make their own, informed, decisions about their lives. Google and its actions are the opposite of this.

[rlmorel]

I think that for people like you and me (I hope) the solution to BAD speech is MORE speech, not less.

I agree. Having that power in the hands of one entity is bad. Here’s an idea. Why don’t we take those great big huge government institutions run by the NSA that are tracking everything under the sun, and open them up so that any person or entity can equally tap into it (minus the surveillance stuff, of course) and mine for data?

Of course, it isn’t too hard to imagine the government taking up the cudgel and either removing or adding into it what they want, but there must be a way.

Having it in the hands of Google is even worse than the Government...and that isn’t easy to do.