Posted on 06/19/2020 3:46:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Lately it seems that we conservatives can't win even when we're winning. But the country is under siege, so we cannot indulge the luxury of being discouraged.
This year has been one body blow after another to the nation we love. First, there was the coronavirus, and we thought, "How can this get any worse?" Then came the economic shutdown and the incalculable pain and suffering it brought. Next were the riots, the radicals' unopposed seizure of a section of Seattle and the maniacal efforts throughout the country to defund the police. Now a series of rulings from the "conservative" Supreme Court are wreaking untold havoc on the Constitution and the rule of law.
It wouldn't take a Christian fanatic or an excitable conspiracist to conclude that America is now the target of an intense spiritual onslaught -- brought on by its own rampant descent into decadence.
The left has been at war with America as founded for decades, and it has made great progress in transforming our culture and institutions. Leftists are activism-oriented and relentless. They pursue their goals 24/7, exhausting their less activist and less calculating opponents, and advance their agenda by sheer attrition.
But a more important factor in the left's success is the depressing naivete of too many conservatives about its ultimate aims. If you underestimate the extremism and determination of your opponents, how can you counter them?
Perhaps one silver lining emerging from the Democrats' enabling of the proliferating lawlessness in America is that unsuspecting patriots are finally awakening to the horrors facing us and the left's cynical exploitation of them.
The virus isn't red or blue, but the left immediately weaponized it against President Donald Trump, their endless efforts to remove him having failed. From the beginning of this scourge, it was obvious they were more interested in demonizing Trump than in defeating the virus.
The media and the Democratic Party bludgeoned Trump instead of working with him to combat the virus. They excoriated him for responding too slowly when, had he listened to them, he wouldn't have implemented his travel bans, which objectively slowed the spread in the United States.
They savaged him for defying the medical experts, when he was following their advice at every turn, including in shutting down the economy. Though they have shut the economy down even more severely in their blue-controlled states, they preposterously blamed the inevitable economic downturn on him.
Though Trump and virtually all of America condemned the senseless killing of George Floyd, the extreme left seized the moment not merely to protest officer misconduct but to condemn the nation for "systemic racism," "white privilege" and "white supremacy."
Leftist activists converted the protests into riots, looting and violence, and Democratic leaders refused to condemn it and instead fanned the flames lit by the organized mob. They have joined the movement to topple monuments and erase all other unpleasant aspects of American history -- as if they never occurred.
This is nothing new for the Democratic Party. It was shocking that its key figures dared to publicly support some of the certifiably insane provisions of the Green New Deal -- provisions too fantastical for even infants to endorse. It was surreal that some of their leading presidential candidates openly supported the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But this widespread move to defund the police takes the insanity to French Revolution-crazy levels.
How can parents not fear for their kids' future? How can an entire political party give itself over to a lawless mob? How can it condone the systematic suppression of political speech by Hollywood, the corporate left and social media giants?
Do rank-and-file liberals want to live in a country whose culture destroys people who won't toe the leftist line? Ironically, it will only be a matter of time before the mob they legitimized will turn on them, as surely as the French revolutionaries turned on their mastermind Maximilien Robespierre. For an unquenchable mob hellbent on eradicating all traditions, systems and laws, nothing is sacred, and no one is immune. Examples already abound. Just ask actor Mark Duplass and author J.K. Rowling. How can anyone be blind to this fascism? How, indeed, unless we really are witnessing a raging spiritual war.
Note to conservatives: If you have been casually dismissing leftist extremism, maybe now you will wake up. Can't you hear the alarms blaring?
Too many on the right also mistakenly believe that this Democratic frenzy and leftist unrest is all based primarily on their contempt for President Donald Trump. He has made them crazy, and they'll do anything to get rid of him. Then everything will return to normal.
Yes, he makes them crazier, more desperate and more unreasonable -- mainly because he's fighting them hammer and tongs -- but he didn't make them leftists, and leftists don't need any prompting to unleash their hell on America. It stands for everything they hate.
With or without Trump, their goals remain the same. But without Trump, their chances of finally undoing America immeasurably increase.
I began this column saying we can't afford to be discouraged. We can't. But that doesn't mean we can afford to be blind to the gravity of the threats we face. Let's wake up and rededicate ourselves to preventing the destruction of America. Don't ever lose hope. My bet is the silent majority is bigger than ever and that we'll see that in November. Stay in the fight like your children's future depends on it -- because it does.
GOP campaign advertising needs to pay some attention to this. Normal people are (in many cases) afraid to reveal their political views. But in the voting booth you can be honest about your politics and really tell America how you feel.
I understand the gas lighting the left does is at superior especially with social media being exalted to such a high level even though its mostly D list celebrities and leftist prog robots. Yet they get all the power to say who stays and who goes.
It seems as if we're a small, small group of people due to the gas lighting.
It's hard not to get depressed and lose enthusiasm.
“are you sure we’re still in the majority???”
Maybe not in terms of actual political affiliation, but I think that there are myriads of one-time liberal/left-leaning voters who, after witnessing the extremism we’ve seen in our streets and cities these past few weeks, are willing to change parties for the next election.
The next election may be it for the republic. We need both houses (in significant majorities) and the White House in order to get the American “house” back in order.
It kills me when I talk to or hear people that are confused as to what is happening to our country. It’s called C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-M !
And it needs to be physically fought and defeated.
When Your Private Dinner Conversation Becomes Your Waiter’s Facebook Post
I doubt we'll be eating out much even now that it's started opening up.
My bet is the silent majority is bigger than ever and that we’ll see that in November.
Does one really think a majority of votes for the President in November will slow down these Communists. They won’t even recognize there is such a thing as an election. However, a majority of votes with pushback by the left may finally bring the awakening we need. In some ways I believe we are already awake, and depending on our leaders to be the bulwark. Sadly, with few exceptions, we are not experiencing that. Cotton, Hawley, Cruz, and Gaetz are about it for standing in the Gap. There are a few others.
A couple of times I’ve been taken aback at what I heard customers say at their table. The reality is that wait staff can overhear without trying and will talk in the kitchen, though most try to not be too critical of those leaving us tips.
The story in your link shocks me. Bartenders usually keep their mouths shut-it’s part of the job and restaurant owners respect customers.
Battered Wives Syndrome - they will ALWAYS go back to their bad boys to give them one more chance.
This article should be sent to every Republican Senator or Congressman along with the question, “What are you doing about this?”
The bartender is the very definition of a snowflake if he was “distraught” because a customer thought the BLM movement was BS and that white privilege doesn’t exist. The owners were cowards to hire him back after firing him and for banning the customer forever because of some backlash on social media.
Elections are moot. We are about to see Broward County go national.
The only legitimate election in the eyes of the Media is one where Democrats win.
Anyone who still thinks our quaint biennial beauty pageant is going to solve all America’s ills is a Pollyanna and a danger to themselves and society.
As far as the stampeding herd of herbivores formerly known as the Mercun Peepul, they are about to get the nation they deserve - and giving their white daughters to the black savages is only the beginning of their demands.
Well, we’ve always known that there are some things we don’t discuss in public: company stuff, family and friends, health stuff. But politics has never been off the table because we don’t say anything in private that we wouldn’t say in public.
But hubby’s not retired yet. And he actually loves his job.
Rather than censor ourselves on a subject we enjoy talking about, we just won’t eat out.
Note to waitstaff everywhere: Since we’re excellent tippers, it’s your loss.
Indeed.
Two sides can play that game....Mission on the Bay restaurant should get bombarded with catcalls by conservatives. They need to get the yelp and Red Hen restaurant treatment.
That’s what they want—no police but Stasi and social media is the backbone. Most participate willingly, yes, lets all tear down the ‘Karens’ (being ‘Karens’ in doing so). Social media is poison, it’s communist.
Twitter booted me off last year.
Social media isn’t the problem, though.
It’s the people who own and run social media.
There is no Silent Majority anymore. Those people have been systematically replaced. They have been run out of their cities to suburbs, had their children pushed into expensive private schools, had their very existence contested. It’s been done on purpose, it has everything to do with race or at least ethnicity. It’s not 1968 anymore. Trump has a tough battle ahead until November, and his opponent belongs in a nursing home.
Thanks for the link, it should be a post of its own.
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