Posted on 11/03/2018 7:16:38 AM PDT by libstripper
The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world. The economy would surely implode. The U.S. would probably blunder into a catastrophic war. The new American president would be blackmailed into conducting foreign policy as Putin’s poodle.
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But as Trump’s presidency moves forward, it’s no longer smart to think it’s right. There’s more than one type of intelligence. Trump’s is feral. It strikes fast. It knows where to sink the fang into the vein.
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The democRATS new motto is:
It ISN’T the economy, stupid!
What Leftists have are deep stores of denial. They live with a paralyzing fear to go beyond their comfort zone into reality. They don't know history, but think they sort of do as they draft on the slipstream of the prejudices of their social set. They pay attention to only a handful of information sources that are ideological and intellectual "safe spaces." These sites, stations, and printed materials have been purified of any points of view that would cast doubt on the Progressive project of the moment. Leftists can only face life and the dawning awareness of death to the degree that they feel socially special and in good graces of their peers.
Their universe is precarious because it doesn't exist.
—If there’s a systematic polling error in the GOP’s favor, those Likely R districts won’t be a big problem
—If polls are about right overall, they’ll produce headaches that could offset GOP wins in tossups
—If there’s polling error AGAINST the GOP, they’d yield major D seat gains
But to bring this back: When people look at 538 and ask “what if the polls are wrong?”, that’s *the question our model is trying to answer*. The polls say Ds will win the House.Our model says, based on how accurate polls have been in the past, there’s a 15-20% chance they won’t.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1058735748415979521
One can hope.
One thing I saw from the get-go is that Trump has enough emotional security to be OK with letting his enemies underestimate him. Sun Tzu would approve. Street fight, chess game or business deal, always better to be underestimated and looked down upon, if your end goal is to win.
I think it is wonderful that these training programs are coming back .
Bless Ivanka Trump for pushing these forward.
Maybe this is even right.
This is dead wrong, and that is where they all go wrong. In their arrogance they rest their case on unexamined assumptions. For instance, their "superior powers of articulation" are measured against whom? The Bushes, all of them the most inarticulate politicians imaginable, not one of whom can cogently state his case, like, oh say "#fakenews," which in one word undoes hours of screaching and wailing and tedious recitations about "nuances."
Or, "deep stores of knowledge," which myth Ronaldus Magnus dispatched with his fame statement that "liberals [progs, let's be clear here, lets not cede them the Liberal label any longer] "know so many things that aren't so."
His "dumb followers" can fix toilets, build buildings, wire up light switches and all sorts of things that send my progressive neighbors in DC to the liquor cabinet any time they have to think about. Becasue they have no clue how to do these things themselves nor what kind of trade, skill or craft to hire to do it for them [at an outrageous hourly rate because the progs have constructed thins around DC so that normal folks with marketable skills can't afford to live here]
Writer sounds depressed. I like it.
Democrats aren’t walking away with the midterm elections because patriots are not about to forget 8 long, frustrating years of the lawless Obama Administration.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/09/22/hillary_clinton_why_arent_i_50_points_ahead.html
It’s deja vu all over again.
“Why aren’t I 50 points ahead, one might ask?”
The Grinch couldn’t figure out Why the citizens of Whoville were gathered in a circle singing Da Who Doris either.
Because former Democrats are walking away from the communist, socialist hate-filled DEMONcRAT party in droves.
What “vein” is “It” sinking its teeth into?
The “Moonbat Socialist Jugular”?
Amen!
Back in the early nineties, my son was in high school and took a wood-shop class. After graduation, he went into the Army and after serving 20 years, recently retired and found a good defense-related job. Also, in his (very little ) spare time, he has set up his own wood shop and makes REALLY beautiful wood items.
I still have the things he made in HS, and truly treasure them, but even more am grateful that he learned the value—and joy—of “MANUal—as in HAND —labor!
So, it makes me really happy to see that there is some hope that schools might be encouraged to start teaching “manual arts” again!
Also, the idea of deploying thousands of U.S. troops to repel and even fire on the caravan is repellent, fascistic and probably unlawful. Still, several thousand people are pushing their way to the U.S. border with the idea that they will find a way to push their way through it. If they do, tens or even hundreds of thousands more will surely follow. It’s perfectly reasonable for fair-minded voters to wonder how the U.S. will vet and then absorb even a fraction of them (though I think we easily can)
What's with Jews, like Stephens, and open borders? Why?
bttt
The Liberal/Progressive "knowledge base" appears to ignore and/or erase any reference to, or acknowledgement of, the Source of all wisdom; therefore that supposed "knowledge base" is empty and illusory.
Read the following words from Dr. Russell Kirk:
"A Michigan farmer, some years ago, climbed to the roof of his silo, and there he painted, in great red letters that the Deity could see, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” These words are on that roof yet. When in his cups, which was often enough, that farmer thrashed his daughter to fill her with a holy terror."In his way, I suppose, the drunken brute did fear God. Surviving the thrashings, his daughter grew to be a woman; and though she did not much fancy her father’s company, she lived as decent a life as most. Her upbringing, bad though it was, may have been better than the formative years of the average American child nowadays, “permissively” reared. To the permitted brat with the permissive parents, few appetites are denied, and he grows up ignorant of the norms of human existence. Never learning in childhood that certain things exist which we ought to fear, he slides into physical maturity, bored, flabby in character, and moved by irrational impulses toward violence and defiance, the consequence of a profound disorder in personality.
"Without a knowledge of fear, we cannot know order in personality or society. Fear forms an ineluctable part of the human condition. Fear lacking, hope and aspiration fail. To demand for mankind “freedom from fear,” as politically attainable, was a silly piece of demagogic sophistry. If, per impossibile, fear were wiped altogether out of our lives, we would be desperately bored, yearning for old or new terrors; vegetating, we would cease to be human beings. A child’s fearful joy in stories of goblins, witches, and ghosts is a natural yearning after the challenge of the dreadful: raw head and bloody bones, in one form or another, the imagination demands. From the great instinct to survive, to struggle, to triumph, comes the urge to contend with fear.
"And there are things which rightfully we ought to fear, if we are to enjoy any dignity as men. When, in an age of smugness and softness, fear has been pushed temporarily into the dark corners of personality and society, then soon the gods of the copybook headings with fire and slaughter return. To fear to commit evil, and to hate what is abominable, is the mark of manliness. “They will never love where they ought to love,” Burke says, “who do not hate where they ought to hate.” It may be added that they will never dare when they ought to dare, who do not fear when they ought to fear.
"Time was when there lay too heavy upon man that fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom. Soul-searching can sink into morbidity, and truly conscience can make cowards of us all. Scotland in the seventeenth century, for instance, tormented itself into a kind of spiritual hypochondria by an incessant melancholy fawning upon the Lord’s favor. But no such age is ours."
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