Posted on 08/11/2021 4:45:23 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
When the sovereign power of the regime—which includes but is not limited to the government—changes from one ruling principle to another (say, from consent and political equality to antiracism and equity) the regime has transformed into something else. The new ruling authority is a new regime. Never mind election fraud; the question people on the Right must now consider is whether a completely fair election, or even several elections, could reasonably be expected to change the ruling element, the “preponderant part” which defines justice. What would it take to replace the true sovereign power that is the regime? Such a counter-revolution by the Right would only seem to be possible if an alternate and fully developed sovereign power—with “a specific public or political morality” and “notion of justice”—is prepared to take command of the whole society. It would require far more than winning a few (or even many) elective offices.
In one sense, this simply appears to be a more ostentatious way of saying the Left controls all the commanding heights, in and out of government, and that to take back America we would have to win “the culture war.” That’s true. But I’m making an additional, and essential, point. We can’t win the war of ideas unless we have ideas—or rather a comprehensive, coherent set of ideas and principles that could match and displace the whole elaborate edifice of woke ideology. Any sovereign power can succeed only to the degree that it gives meaning and purpose to the political community. It must offer a persuasive explanation of what is admirable and good, a telos for the regime. I maintain that outside of the Claremont orbit, literally no one on the Right has articulated such a comprehensive view of citizenship and the good life, or even considers it necessary.
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...Or we’ll hang separately.
Right now we are hanging separately.
Bkmk
Considering the representation we have in Washington we will.
Not possible. Once we put on masks in fear, cancelled Easter, we were at the point of no return. Without One Nation Under God, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.. we are finished as a nation. All of the mask mandates, lockdowns, Syrian rapefugees and bumpstock ban happened under a Republican prez.
We have Jan 6th patriots locked up. Only God can save this, but why would he.
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