And Thomas Sowell and his ilk at the National Review want us to preserve it!!! They want us to to just do nothing; to go along to get along; to just hope that the Establishment will somehow reform itself from within; to trust us just one more time; to choose a reliable insider by electing either Hillary or her Republican equivalent.
Not this time.
The best thing that could happen to this country is for the DC Establishment (both parties) to be shaken to their core! They need to be politically obliterated. Nothing could be more important, or more beneficial for America and its People. Nothing.
These pundits and elitists are not the gatekeepers of the US Presidency. They are not the bosses of us. They are clueless. Their feelings are the timid sentiments of the Loyalists back in 1776. They are the modern-day American Tories.
Hey National Review: the Revolution is on! Didn't you get the memo?
They didn't get it, they don't get it, and they won't get in until President Donald Trump is inaugurated next January...
“The best thing that could happen to this country is for the DC Establishment (both parties) to be shaken to their core! They need to be politically obliterated. Nothing could be more important, or more beneficial for America and its People. Nothing.”
“These pundits and elitists are not the gatekeepers of the US Presidency. They are not the bosses of us.
Hey National Review: the Revolution is on! Didn’t you get the memo?”
^THIS^
Good comment, sargon.
“Hey National Review: the Revolution is on! Didn’t you get the memo?”
And of all the posts I have read tonight, it is this one that coalesces my concerns in the best fashion.
What Revolution do you seek - one after the French one, or the American one?
To the best of my understanding, the terms “left” and right” as applied to political leanings, are constructs of the French revolution. Having conservatives called “right wing” as they are has really been useful construct for progressives by creating a conflation of issues and terms that we should oppose as both wings are elements of the same revolutionary party or ideology.
It is useful for those who want to say Hitler=Right Wing=Conservative, but until perhaps recently, an entirely untrue analogy, propping up a conservative boogie straw man.
I say until recently because unchecked populism probably qualifies for the contemporary use of term “right wing” quite well, but is hardly “conservatism.”
We have been misled into thinking of the political spectrum ranging from left to right with the extremes meeting in the middle of the backside of the circle. Left off the line entirely is an actual position which can be labeled liberty, and we are thus distracted into fighting tooth and nail over positions that will not accomplish liberty in the end.
Is a national socialist a right winger and an international socialist a left winger? They are both socialists, and ultimately enemical to freedom. (Note bene: I am not specifically declaring any candidate to be one or the other, you can contemplate the apparent choice before us for yourself).
Trump may be end up being the leader for a battle or so that we want and need won, but I am not sure that even winning those battles - if we do - will win the theater. This is where I differ with those who champion action over ideology. Proper ideology without action is worthless, but action without ideology ultimately leads nowhere useful.
I fear that if the Revolution is now, it will be of the French sort, with its attendant chaos and death not far off. Do you think only conservatives have guns, as many do? Of course not. But to be honest, all those left wingers who don’t have (their own) guns probably properly anticipate us killing each other off and leaving them the spoils. We are busy taking shots at one another here already: “the wall first!” “immigrants!” “the second amendment!...the first!... the tenth!...” Every one of these is important, vital even, but still symptomatic of something else altogether.
I think we are past the point of no return, barring another Great Awakening, and perhaps even with one, on the road to a great cataclysm. The question I see before us in this election is how it will go down, and will we be considered just in our attempts to right it.
John Quincy Adams differentiated between the American and French Revolutions not as right and left, but “Right and Wrong”
This is not a call to “trust us just one more time.” I have not trusted them since shortly after the Contract with America. It is a call to think beyond sentiment and uncalculating reaction. You might even say it is a call for a revolution, as I am confident that even if she who will not be named became president, or a runaway convention of the states, or the Supreme Court declared the Second Amendment dead that We the People would at last be forced to say NO! [aside: I took an oath once...]
But I want the right Revolution.