Posted on 07/12/2015 9:09:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” – George Orwell
Excerpted from Daniel Greenfield’s piece at Sultan Knish: There comes a time when every conservative thinker tries to find some common ground with the left in some area. Today it’s criminal rights and the headlines have Rand Paul denouncing the racist justice system while Grover Norquist and the Koch Brothers join with the left to back their reforms. As usually happens, the conservatives or libertarians turn out to be the useful idiots of the left.
Liberals have a long history of being the left’s useful idiots. It’s only fair that libertarians get a turn.
Republicans are still trying to figure out a truce on gay marriage. They retreated to civil unions, then accepted a full defeat on gay marriage and then acted baffled when Christian bakery owners were dragged into court for refusing to participate in gay weddings. When the left insisted that gay marriage was a civil rights issue, they refused to take them at their word.
Now they’re wondering how an accommodation can be made with tranny rights. A brief look back at gay rights will show that the only possible accommodation is one in which men in dresses have a legal right to use the ladies room and every single closed female space and event. And yes, that means your business will be shut down if you object to Steve using the female locker room.
After a few skirmishes, some fundraising and angry letters, the accommodationists will find ways to accommodate that and we can look forward to conservative activists eagerly crowing about the first gay Republican presidential candidate around say, 2024, and the first Republican man in a dress in the Senate around the same time.
Of course by then it will be something else. Maybe pedophiles. Gay rights activists don’t like the analogy, but their movement and its assorted allies, particularly in Europe’s Green parties, have a long history of advocating it. The same pop culture methods that were used to sell gay rights and Bruce Jenner can easily be flipped around to sell NAMBLA.
By 2024, the Republican gay and tranny candidates will be dismissed as tokens while the media oohs and aahs over a vocal and charismatic campaigner for some other love that dare not speak its name.
And that’s the point. It has always been the point.
The left does not care about gay rights. If you doubt that, consider how many of the left’s favorite Muslim countries have gay rights. The left has recently divided its campaign passions between gay marriage and defending Iran. Iran denies the existence of gays and hangs them where it finds them.
The USSR treated homosexuality as a crime even while it was recruiting gay men as spies in the West. Cuba, the darling of the American left, hated both gays and blacks. The ACLU backed the police states of Communism. If the left supports an enemy nation, the odds are excellent that it is also a violently bigoted place that makes a KKK rally look like a hippie hangout.
To understand the left, you need to remember that it does not care about 99 percent of the things it claims to care about. Name a leftist cause and then find a Communist country that actually practiced it. Labor unions? Outlawed. Environmentalism? Chernobyl. The left fights all sorts of social and political battles not because it believes in them, but to radicalize, disrupt and take power.
The left does not care about social justice. It cares about power.
That is why no truce is possible with the left. Not on social issues. Not on any issues.
The left is a drunk in a bar trying to pick a fight with you. Trying to convince him that you didn’t disrespect him, put something in his beer to make him dizzy or make his feet so heavy won’t work. There’s no ‘agree to disagree’ possible here. He’s picking a fight with you because he wants a fight.
The left does not care about Bruce Jenner. It does not care about gay rights, equal pay, police brutality or even slavery. Its activists ‘care’ about those things a great deal right now, but they could easily be persuaded tomorrow to be outraged by telephone poles, shredded wheat or people in green sweaters.
They care mainly about emotional venting and exercising power over others. It’s the same phenomenon witnessed during the Salem Witch Trials, the French Revolution or any other mob scene. Except the individual elements of the mob are on social media and have a hashtag.
The outraged social justice warrior was laughing at tranny jokes a few years ago. Now he’s ready to kill over minor verbal missteps. A few years from now he’ll be laughing at them again.
There’s a long human history to such atrocities, to mobs whipping themselves up into spasms of manufactured outrage, subsuming their own doubts, confusion and unhappiness into the ’cause’.
The cause is progress, but the real cause is the power of its enforcers to vent their unhappiness and destructive impulses on everyone else under the guise of reform.
You can’t find common ground with the left because it is an activist machine dedicated to destroy common ground, not only with the right, but even with its own allies on the left. Progress turns what was once progressive into what is reactionary. And what was reactionary into what is progressive.
These changes have the mad logic of a byzantine ideology behind them, but to the ordinary person their definition of progress seems entirely random.
A Socialist a century ago considered factories progressive instruments of the future and men in dresses a decadent reactionary behavior. Now factories are reactionary pollution machines of globalization and men in dresses are an oppressed victim group who have transcended biology with the power of their minds.
Republicans, conservatives, libertarians and other class enemies cannot possibly ‘progress’ enough to be acceptable to the left because it identifies progress with political conformity. A tolerant and progressive Republican is a contradiction in terms.
If he were truly tolerant and progressive, he wouldn’t be a Republican.
The left will destroy the things you care about, because you care about them. It will destroy them because that gives them power over you. It will destroy them because these things stand in the way of its power. It will destroy them because a good deal of its militant activists need things to destroy and if they can’t attack you, they’ll turn on the left in a frenzy of ideologically incestuous purges.
The left’s social justice program is really a wave of these purges which force their own people to hurry up and conform to whatever the Party dictated this week. Examples are made out of laggards on social media to encourage the rest to stop thinking and start marching in line. As Orwell knew well, these shifts select for mindless ideological zombies while silencing critical thinkers.
Yesterday we were against fighting Hitler. Today we’re for it. Retroactively, we were always at war with Oceania. Retroactively, Bruce Jenner was always a woman. Retroactively, Obama was always right about Iraq, even when he appeared to be making the wrong decisions.
These changes are a test of reason. If you can reason, you fail. If you can Doublethink, you pass.
The constant shifts create their own version of future shock. They leave people baffled and uncertain. Society no longer seems to resemble what they knew, even though the real society of men and women has not really changed much, only the media’s presentation of it has. But a beaten down mass of ordinary people now imagines that the country is filled with gay men and trannies. They accept that what they thought was common sense no longer applies and that it’s someone else’s country now.
And that is the prize that the left dearly wants. Surrender. Keep reading
I don't, either. Who does?
The Right is the party of life and true happiness....the Left is the party of death, misery, jealousy.
Me, too. I’ll have little sympathy for most of the adults but will be sad for the little children.
Its actually easy enough to deal with. Understand that any compromise only leads to their next attack and stop making compromises with them.
You let them throw tantrums like you would do with a child and then you let them face the consequences of their tantrums.
Not a left right game. It is an up down game. There are people on the left that can be saved, but their numbers are dwindling. Kinda hard to talk to someone who thinks a totalitarian state will eventually wither away to no state. Or talk to someone who thinks banning a flag is stopping totalitarianism. They are beyond reason. Possessed by demons if you will.
What conservatives avoid acknowledging is that we have no representation. Oh, there are a few Senators and some Representatives, but both parties are controlled by the left.
Until we have our own party we will have no power.
The GOP’s purpose in 2015 is to prevent conservatives from power.
That’s what no one will admit.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” – George Orwell
Thank God Orwell was able to finish his writing before he died... he's a blessing to free people everywhere...
No, I think we all know that now. Some later than others,getting there though. I think that is why Trump is getting the reaction he is getting. I don’t consider the man a viable presidential candidate but I’m cheering my head off for him because he is the only one publicly addressing our concerns. The GOP should have possibly considered representing us now that they are so jealous of Trump.
This tis the point everyone must understand - the left is the statist and elitist philosophy. The right is anarchy and the center is where we are, trying to find that balance between individual freedom and collective responsibility. We have the difficult and intellectually challenging position.
We believe in God Given Inalienable Rights.
They believe in Negative Rights that require the permission of Government. God is not part of the equation.
There is NO common ground. They just sacrificed the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution to achieve their Utopian Ideal that Gay Marriage, a behavior, not an act of Birth like Race is now some Right that they were denied.
Freedom of Association, Free Speech and Freedom of Religion are the newest targets of Liberalism. They will not be appeased until the rest of us bow down to their Insanity.
I think that we should take anyone who wants to be in charge of this country and, without any assistance, seal them off for a month, and have them raise a Robin from egg to adulthood.
A little Robin. Just one. Until it can survive on its own.
There are tremendous lessons learned by doing this.
What do you feed it?
How do you get water into it?
Is it too hot? Too cold?
How much light does it need?
Does it need to be around other birds?
Where will it live?
Yep. I did this with a baby Robin. Not as an experiment. It was just there.
You know what I learned?
I make a pathetic God.
The bird died.
I couldn’t raise one little bird to adulthood on my own.
I am humiliated.
God knows when a Sparrow falls, and I couldn’t raise one little wild bird.
I think that a leader needs confidence, but a leader also needs some humility.
I see people wanting to be in charge of nations so they can make themselves rich. OK. Make them responsible for raising one little bird on their own.
See what they think and feel at the end.
bmk for later
i’m as conservative as can be, but even i know how libtards will answer that question.
Q: freedom from what?
A: freedom from big corporations and religion.
this will all come to a head with a 2nd civil war. it’s now inevitable. i think it became inevitable back during Clinton’s first term, but we didn’t realize it then. this country is fracturing even more severely than it did in the 19th century as a result of the slavery issue. there is no reasoned debate about anything anymore. the ruling elite are simply imposing their will on the citizenry. the left gleefully celebrates every victory of theirs by sticking their thumbs in the eyes of their opponents. it’s not civil. it can’t continue indefinitely. the day the left attempts gun confiscation is i think the day it all goes sideways for them.
I don't have kids, but my mother swears that the best way to stop a tantrum is a little bit of water thrown into the child's face. They may gasp and sputter, but they'll quit screaming.
Of course, a Leftist would claim they were tortured by water boarding.
Look up the definition of the word ‘sinister’ and see how it relates to the word ‘left’.
Oh no - please - I’m left handed but as conservative as you can get. I hope I qualify for some dispensation. (LOL)
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Well, I’m convinced.
“The left does not care about social justice. It cares about power.”
That sums it up.
“This right here (piles of sun-bleached bones) is why you can never acquiesce or make peace with the left.”
How true...how very very true.
IMHO
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