America’s “Tough Love” moment

American Thinker ^ | 31 Aug, 2021 | Dale A. Fitzgibbons

[MtnClimber]

We have been spanked by reality...but we still have resilience.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”

So begins that great epic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. It is set in the late eighteenth century, during the volcanic social and political turbulence leading to, and culminates with the French Revolution and ensuing Reign of Terror.

Though our current age comes some twenty-four decades after that epoch, it’s not hard to identify striking parallels. Sociopolitical turbulence has been a hallmark of the human experience throughout history.

The main source of tension then was the contrast between the nobility and the peasantry, each group viewing the other with distrust and contempt. Today, it’s the American plutocracy—the ruling class haughty elite—infatuated as they are with prestige, power, wealth, and privilege, and openly disdainful of our mainstream citizenry, those “deplorables” who “bitterly cling” to their faith, constitutional rights, and traditional values.

Through the entirety of his narrative, author Dickens weaves a tapestry of contrasts between the opulence and vanity of the privileged class and the desperation of the commoners. He continues, “It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, …”

Monarchic Europe had its cultural treasures and its behavioral quirks. Members of an educated nobility would use their schooling and status for purposes both noble and depraved, while unlettered commoners would acquire sufficient horse-sense acumen to work a trade or to rob a nobleman.

In today’s dichotomy—leftists versus patriots—each side dismisses the other’s “wisdom” as “foolishness” and, seemingly, vaunts its own “foolishness” as “wisdom.” Which side’s worldview is “correct”? Simply put, it’s which version of public policy works well and what doesn’t, to produce lasting, wholesome, beneficial results.

[MtnClimber]

Communists vs patriots. That is the difference in views that are clashing today. We should call it what it is.

[HighSierra5]

The difference between a commie and myself is that I KNOW I’m right.

[Kevmo]

“Second, boldly assert that the Donkeys own these disasters; make them stick like flypaper. They can’t lie their way out this time. It’s foolishness on steroids.”
***Everyone says it’s time to bell the cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

[Cowman]

“I know I’m right”

So does the Statist. In his view he is doing what is demanded by his god the almighty, all knowing Collective State. it would no more occur to him that he may be wrong than it would occur to an Muslim that Allah is not God.

Were fighting a holy war here and have been for over a century

[MNJohnnie]

The falseness of this moral equivalency argument is laid bare in one single issue.

The Right makes no effort to censor the Left. The Left is using every means possible, from big tech to the “fake news” to censor the Right.

That very fact indicates the utter intellectual bankruptcy of the Left’s dogmas. They cannot win on the battle field of ideas because they are emotion based hysteria, not rational thoughts.