Posted on 04/03/2023 8:50:23 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
I saw a tiny man standing on my chest! He was about as big as my thumb, no more than 15 centimeters tall. In his hands, he held a bow and arrows. I felt many more little men crawling over me. In astonishment, I shouted very loudly, “Get off me, you insects.”
—Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
The struggle now being waged for the soul, and likely the survival, of the nation is generally understood as a political and cultural battle between competing visions of the future, a globalist and technocratic dispensation against a national and populist resistance. It is being fought in the institutions of governance and frequently on the streets. It involves the diverse agencies of power, legislative interventions, radical interpretations of the Constitution, media censorship, and the weaponization of law on one side; on the other, an originalist reading of the Constitution, the Rule of Law, an impartial justice system, and the defense of the democratic order.
But the issue can also be simplified as a battle between a modest platoon of political actors we may describe as “big men” and a veritable army of “little men.” This is not to suggest that little men are harmless. A little man can wield “a bow and arrows,” brandish a dagger, fire a gun, raid homes, or pass criminal legislation in spades.
Indeed, powerful organizations are replete with little men. Of course, there are little women busily at work too, though not of the caliber and character of Louise May Alcott’s protagonists in her book of that title. But under the rubric of “little men,” the breed has swelled the corporate, academic, media, and political world to overflowing.
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We see the moral and cognitive size dimension playing itself out on the current political scene, both collectively and, in particular, in the storm following the indictment of Donald Trump. When we examine the ranks of diminutive souls, it is obvious that Biden is a little man. (The “big guy” laptop designation is a cynical joke.) Mayorkas is a little man. Garland is a little man. Bragg, notwithstanding his corpulent presence, is a very little man. Trump, love him or hate him, is a big man, now in the throes of the effort of a horde of Lilliputians to tie him down on the flimsiest of pretexts — as Swift writes, “Although the ropes were very thin, like thread, there were hundreds of them.”
Despite the Democrat well-oiled cheat machine operated by an insectal swarm of dandiprat liars, cowards, and dwarfs, “no more than 15 centimeters tall,” Trump will be the next president of the United States. Gnats and midges may proliferate and cause havoc and harm, but you can’t keep a big man down.
Why does so many ASSume we can win an elections, as if they’re clean?
Oh? Do you have the problem of the democratic cheating machine licked?
Seems to me, considering how he is the real winner of 2020, he IS our CURRENT president, but what happened there?
The Lilliputians are numerous, barbaric and quick to clone, but they can be defeated.
Not unless the elections
rules of engagement are changed. Otherwise it’s more of the same.
Or if all these “issues” we have are not purposefully crafted distractions to hide the illegal power grab going on by the woke-old school dyed in the wool dems-and the hillary/barack/biden grifter cabal.
The answer is not tougher election laws or better security. The laws and security already exist.
The answer is not winning “beyond the the margin of fraud”. That’s like depositing extra money in banks to account for the amounts stolen by bank robbers.
The answer is hunting down and punishing those who violate our elections.
You can’t prevent crime with security alone - you need the deterrence of swift and harsh punishment.
Our failure was not that the election was stolen - our failure was that the ones who stole it are walking free.
I hope you’re right, but I have my doubts after what they did in 2020 & 2022, and have perfected almost to a ‘science’.
They don’t have to be very good. The press will cover for them.
You’re 100% right.
Centimeters were not invented until long after Jonathan Swift’s lifetime.
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