James Howard Kunstler ping
I hope so, but I can't help thinking that it will never happen. The leftists would much rather see us all dead than bother talking to us. They have demonstrated quite clearly that they aren't interested in dialog or debate, and that violence, coercion, and suppression are their preferred means.
The Charlie Kirk assassination is causing some moderate democrat voters to recoil from the far left’s responses. Whether this is a temporary or permanent change remains to be seen.
That right there is the looming psychological precept,
“Neville Chamberlain Psychosis”
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james, i’ll be your cousin now.
no big loss. we CAN choose our new family.
and get a hair cut. the pony tail is soooooo 1960s
Bfl
My buddy is a leftist and trust me you can’t reason with these people. Their politics are like a religion to them. Despite our political differences we remain close friends. I just kind of roll my eyes and shake my head when he goes off with his Trump derangement syndrome. I gave up trying to reason with him. But other than that he has been a great friend to me over the years.
Good luck with that. Depending on the age of your relatives, they will die before they talk to the enemy.
I have a sister who is a militant homosexual married to her husband who also a politicalized hard leftist. For fun in 2020 during the riots, my sister and lesbian lover took one of her daughters and two grandchildren to the Dayton, Ohio riots. They took 30” 2x4s as clubs, filled glass bottles with gas and rag fuses, and bricks throwing them at the police. The kids were ecstatic about their Summer of Love activities with Grandma. Imagine the horror of finding out as my sister’s oldest daughter found out that her daughter was throwing bricks and fire bombs at the police - you know to support Black Lives Matter.
Today siad sister has dementia. She is a peach. Still a hostile uncontrollable monster. No place will keep her long. The life long lefty now hates blacks and won’t let them anywhere near her in Adult Care - good luck with that, so her Hubby-wife keeps her at home with frequent visits from the Police to help keep the neighborhood peace.
I thought there was a glimer of hope when the hubby-wife paid off her student loans and was then immeadiately of the opinon everyone should pay their loans... after years of bringing up loan forgiveness as a hard left issue.
As they get older, they say less, but the mask they wear is unable to hide decades of lefy ambitions. They are hateful monsters, who have no respect for anyone else beyond their immediate Cause.
Leftists are the smartest people in the room, ask them. Leftists are never wrong except when they were not violent enough. The only reason a leftist cause ever failed is because of the police.
The DNC Big Tent is replete with mentally deranged minions who are socialized into foot soldiers with marching orders on a moment’s notice.
The colleges are the Cesspools that create the mental illnesses... homosexual teachers preying on the student body, destroying young minds, multiply the ranks of the left just in time for the next presidential election. Rinse and repeat every four years.
The Tolerant will not tolerate intolerance.
His loss. Back to his dark soul life.
Can’t help people who refuse it: Addicts, of darkness.
“That high-tech mega-fiesta has thrown off a lot of entropy, which is now working hard to slow things down and make us stop a lot of what we are doing. It manifests in many ways, but most vividly by flinging us into social disorder, turning what had been communication and correspondence into a rising babel that is driving us crazy.”
Technology is the the great disruptor of the status quo and morality - ie, the rules for living.
The steam engine, electricity, and the model T led to the industrial revolution and freed people from subsistence living in a plot of land, and the great migration from farms to cities and having to adjust to living on top of each other.
The invention of the pill and birth control led to the sexual revolution and the relationship upheavels between the sexes and family.
The internet has empowered anyone to make his views known world wide. Everyone has an op-ed page today. And to communicate with anyone instantly around the world allowing special interest groups to more easily organize and push for their interests.
The coming AI revolution promises even greater changes and more upheavels.
And I doubt it can be stopped, hopefully it can be managed enough to make life better for most. But for some it might be worse.
And yet, with all the upheavels and all the disruption technology has caused, how many of us would want to go back to subsistence living in a plot of land?
But I have noticed a trait that seems to be a good identifier. Conservatives tend to think about what they can do for themselves to make their personal situations better. And public policies that assist in that pursuit are those that we support.
The progressive view seems to be looking at things they perceive to be injustices and look for remedies that might have an appearance of a solution, but don't really do anything productive. They think treating criminals kindly will lower crime; they think that affirming gender dysphoria will make the troubled person more stable; they think global warming is harming mankind and can be stopped by energy management. They think more gun laws will prevent more people from committing violent acts without hurting our ability to protect ourselves. IN short, they believe they can manage others better than people can manage themselves.
My aunt sent me someone’s screed, which she said was worth reading. I replied, what did you like about it? Haven’t heard back.
An old friend canceled me because I didn’t jab. Another yelled, just get the damned shot.
My neighbor is an alcoholic. I helped keep her alive when she fell off the wagon. She moved a little bit away and then dropped off the radar. It occurs to me now it could be because of her lefty politics.
Charlie said when we stop talking, bad things happen. I’m not sure how to keep talking to these people.