Posted on 09/25/2023 4:14:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“The worse the Left makes things, the more they try to fix it by making it even worse.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Happy, no. They're freaking ECSTATIC and they are far from finished with what they started. Nothing they are doing is failing, they are overwhelmingly successful in their quest to destroy the US as we know it.
Mao got one thing right after slaughtering tens of millions of his countrymen using “planned” starvation.
As you will recall I’m sure, Mao was quoted as saying something like ...”political power comes out of the end of a gun barrel”.
The day will come that The Left lines up on one side of the Rubicon and The Right lines up on the other side. That’s the only SURE solution.
2020 election a sample of Marxist redistribution we are about to find out how many of them we have in the next one.
Nobody got to America by bending over and taking it... except maybe Bronco Bama.
Neighbor killing violence is for Europeans that run out their options.
History will label our angry people, who voted with their feet, The UHaul generation!
It's becoming apparent that one of the only non-violent solutions is to use the power of the purse that we have as consumers.
No cable TV (read books, find free entertainment / movies etc. on the internet or the local library, get your information from multiple sources and vet everything); treat every product like Bud Lite and every producer like Anheuser-Busch (don't buy from those who want to destroy your way of life); don't use contractors, service providers, or go to restaurants who use illegal employees (tell them up front that you want legal workers, and that not doing so is illegal, a violation of your contract/agreement with them and a reason to withhold payment); home school; etc.
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"History, after all, is replete with misguided zealots who even to the very first shot of their own firing squads still believed in the catastrophic cultural and political upheavals they had unleashed on others."
I have decided many years ago that the religion of the left is NIHILISM. They are not builders but only destroy what exists by effort to remain good and right. Try to name just one thing they have built that is new and good or one thing they have done that has not involved destruction of something else. They have absolutely nothing constructive to offer. They are frauds, liars and thieves. Nothing but parasites.
These zealous oafs have created a tidal wave they can't stop, nobody can in any civil way. The seeds of our own demise have been the abuse of freedom. We gave and allowed too much and it has now gone on so long it has become "normal".
Watch an old TV cop show from the 70s. We were "mad as hell" then and had reason to be. What we were mad about then has only gotten worse and worse.
The ship is gravely damaged. Damage control parties have run out of options. The crew is divided and can't move either direction. It is time to scuttle the ship instead of letting the enemy get it.
No one is less amenable to reason that someone whose life work is exacting revenge for imaginary crimes, especially when that work turns out to be as highly lucrative as it is emotionally satisfying. Common to communism, socialism, Critical Theory, and collectivism in general is the notion that everyone is a thief and that economic life consists of more successful thieves preying on less successful ones - that part is nihilism - and that social justice consists of the overturning of the roles, not the elimination of preying. That part isn't. That is where Woke bears its teeth and becomes less than human.
“THAN someone”. I blame the FR proofreader.
The professor’s carefully considered use of ‘nihilism’ was correct.
Read Wikipedia’s discussion of the term for a broader appreciation of how it can be used.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
Good comment
No argument, the use of the word was correct. Thanks for posting the Wikipedia link.
Remember "Dirty Harry", remember the theme of the movies? Nothing that provoked those scripts or the "Death Wish" series or any other of the same ilk has changed for the better. It has all gotten worse.
Same goes for justice in the election process. When the election hangs in the balance and time is of the essence investigation, trial and correction are only years away.
So far as I can see the experiment of self-governance has not worked. It lacks the self-discipline necessary for success. The best form of governance is a benevolent dictatorship. Singapore once had that and ran very well.
Tytler was right: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."
So was Franklin: in 1787, Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer: "A republic, if you can keep it."
So was Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure."
My sister and I were discussing the young cretins who drove over the retired cop on a bicycle. She asked what I thought our Dad would have done if one of us had done such a thing. If he did not meet out justice himself in his rage he would have taken us to be arrested, tried, convicted and punished. He would have stood with us the whole time, he would have made no excuses for us, he would have wondered where and how and why he had failed to raise us better, he would have been disappointed in us and he would have wept bitterly the whole time. If we had two brain cells to rub together we would have expected nothing else.
I repeat Paul Harvey: "Self-government without self-discipline will not work." Our experiment in this Republic relied on the success of self-discipline to preserve it. We failed. We failed just as people do to save their own souls in the God given right to exercise free-will. This nation was founded on that God given principle. What they got wrong though was how failure to exercise self-determination well, wisely and rightly was dealt with by God. Read Deuteronomy and Joshua to find out... clue, He punished them to teach them a lesson when they got off course. We have been off course for a very long time now.
And at least 25 to 40 percent of the female population!
I have noticed that the most RABID LEFTISTS are female!
(I think most of the guys are into it just to get laid)
Ideally, we won’t be able to see it. If we can see it, we might be in it ourselves, and I’d rather not.
After my son had served 4 years in the Marines, they didn't want him to board a plane to get home without all the vaxxes. They have special flights for illegal aliens though and if they want the vax it's free.
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When the reset is complete, the elitists will have to be disposed of. They’ll end up in a gulag, mental hospital or mass grave. Sexual deviants, free speech, divergent thought and disobedience will not be tolerated and the vocal elite will be the first to go.
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