Posted on 04/03/2017 11:31:13 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
America vs. Anti-America
When John Edwards touted the “Two Americas” during his presidential campaigns before his political career ended in disgrace, it was still a metaphor. It stopped being a metaphor at the end of last year.
If you doubt that, you can watch Tom Perez, the head of the Democratic National Committee, yelling that President Trump didn’t win the election. There is a huge difference between opposing the winner of an election and denying that he won it. It’s the difference between opposition and rebellion.
Democrats have not recognized a single Republican presidential victory this century. There is no real reason to think that they will recognize a third one. We can safely assume that the third or fourth Republican to win the White House, no matter who he is, will face the same treatment.
A two-party system can’t function if one party denies the legitimacy of elections won by the other side.
In the Edwards era, the Democrats denied that President Bush had won the election, but they still remained part of the government. That’s no longer the case. Their political mantra is resistance. Their position is that Trump and Republicans are inherently illegitimate and must not be allowed to govern. Instead the government must be defied, opposed, subverted and brought down by any means.
The Democrats have become an unelected shadow anti-government that is seeking to bring down an elected government. That is what I described in an earlier article as a civil war.
The crisis has its roots in Two Americas.
The Democrats artificially created another America. They built it in the elitist urban and suburban enclaves of the left. They drew it with urban welfare ghettoes and with mass immigration. But despite the vast financial, political and cultural power invested in this “New America” it did not represent the majority of the country. And democratic elections dealt repeated setbacks to this Anti-America.
Political maps show these alien concentrations of blue amid a vast national sea of red. Democrats have lost much of the country. They have been wiped out at the state level. They retain power only because they have illegally concentrated them in undemocratic political, financial and cultural centers.
Democrats responded to the latest string of defeats by denying the legitimacy of the election and calling for the elimination of the Electoral College. The original Americans hadn’t died out on schedule so it was time to further dilute their electoral influence in favor of the left’s cultural and financial centers of power all the while protecting the mass immigration program that was meant to replace them.
The Two Americas are now in a state of war.
Anti-America lost an election, denied the outcome and is running a separatist shadow government of sanctuary cities and activist judges. The various attacks on the Trump administration and Congress are expressions of “patriotism”, not to America, but to the alternate Anti-America that they are truly loyal to.
This is not just a power struggle. It’s a clash between two Americas. And only one America can survive.
The left had meant for their Anti-America to replace America. If America is to survive, Anti-America must be destroyed. Unlike America, Anti-America is an artificial entity. Its vulnerabilities are easy to spot by the policy priorities of the left. Anti-America lives by mass migration and campus brainwashing. It requires a huge infrastructure of government employees maintained by taxes and regulations. Its segregated cities depend on a complex hierarchy of political identities that provide access to everything from subsidized housing to jobs based on intersectional caste membership.
Republicans stand against everything that keeps Anti-America alive. So a conflict was always inevitable. Anti-America is far more vulnerable than America. And that’s the good news.
America can win.
Anti-America is based on concentrations of power. Decentralization is its nemesis. Anti-America needs to constantly control people because it is a totalitarian system. Totalitarian systems need a lot more infrastructure and are far more vulnerable. That is why they are so intolerant of individual freedom.
Drain the swamp and you eliminate its breeding grounds. And that of the lobbyists, consultants and reporters who swarm around it like flies.
What the left does best is organize. But organizations are complex systems. And the more complex a system is, the more vulnerable it is. Fighting the left for control of the systems they created and inhabit like hives is a losing proposition. The last few months were a thorough demonstration of that. You don’t fight an ant colony by going inside it. You attack it from the outside by burying it in the dirt.
The left governs by taking a public interest agenda and building an infrastructure of unions, consultants and industries around it. That’s what it did with essentials like education and medicine. Eliminate the organization and you cut expenses, improve services and wipe out the left. That’s why the left panics so badly over education reform and socialized medicine. Those are the sources of much of its money and power.
Cut immigration and the demographic replacement that the left has bet its entire “right side of history” on gets choked off. That’s why the left is more worked up over plans to cut migration than anything else. It doesn’t actually care about Syria or El Salvador. It just knows that Anti-America depends on importing large numbers of people with high birth rates who have no allegiance to this country. Portland won’t do it. Pakistan might.
Leftist beliefs defy common sense. It takes a whole lot of indoctrination to make anyone believe them. End the centralization of education, roll back the endless expansion of higher education and take a hard look at the corporate culture monopolies of the entertainment industry and the Berlin Wall will fall again. Without a fresh supply of zombies, the left goes back to being a marginal movement.
And the left knows it.
The Two Americas have come to a dangerous crossroads. The policy agenda of the Democrats would destroy America. That of the Republicans would destroy Anti-America.
American culture, economics and religion can’t survive the rule of Anti-America. That is what we saw in the Obama years. But Anti-America would do even worse if Republicans got serious about a reform agenda. That’s one reason why Democrats are beginning to engage in a political secession.
Immigration enforcement, school choice and big government cuts frighten them worse than anything.
The left reshaped the culture until an ideological conflict became a culture war. The Two Americas have less in common than the North and the South did. The divisions accelerated sharply throughout the last century. In this century, the division is becoming an irresolvable political conflict. A civil war.
The Democrats are abandoning the pretense of acting as an opposition party within a unified country. If Republicans wish to preserve America, they must be prepared to use government power to destroy the infrastructure of Anti-America. A conflict is underway that will determine whether America survives.
There are Two Americas. In the end there can only be one.
“The Democrats have become an unelected shadow anti-government that is seeking to bring down an elected government.”
Frightening,but true-———I’ve never seen anything like it and I’ve been voting since the 50s. We are in deep trouble.
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Of course.
Yeah, but you know what types the university administrators would end up hiring to teach the traditional subjects: closet Marxists (or flat-out Commies).
I think universities are toast. In about two years, when my daughter is done with her degree, I’m going full-bore into my next venture. After getting tenure and promotion at three different schools, each of which has slowly slouched into publicly-funded indolence, I’m ready to do something meaningful before the window closes completely.
Please add me to your ping list. Thank you very much.
Are you teaching in the humanities? At least the STEMs are relatively more difficult to mess with.
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Good article.
Wild exaggeration.
You can find people who "didn't recognize" Bush's election or Trump's (or Obama's), but if the writer's claim had real substance to it, we would be seeing actual armed fighting in the streets now.
Bttt.
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What makes conservatives “weak” is their decency and restraint.
Unfortunately, the danger is that the decency and restraint will hold back the necessary actions long enough that the rabidly ultra step up to fill the vacuum in, what until that time is a one sided war.
Bttt.
5.56mm
That's the one point of Greenfield's assertion that I disagree with. At a minimum, the republican party has enabled the enemies of our Republic. As you stated, it is we vs. them and there's plenty of "them" in the GOP.
Thanks Jack
...CW II ping....
Thanks for posting, Mr.M
He doesn’t get it.
At the top, trying to run us and many other countries, is a global, globalist cabal, wealthy and powerful and not exclusively American. They use leftism all over the world to control people. Where they can, they control by force. That doesn’t work as well in some intelligent, educated countries. In the USA they control Democrats and other liberals by the false superiority of the leftist dogma. Liberals are gullible so they fall in line. As long as they feel good and appear better educated, smarter, the liberals will do ANYTHING, will believe both A and Not A.
They control politicians by dangling power and illicit sex before them. They control the poor and different social groups by promising them goodies and acceptance and power.
That cabal owns the Dems. The Dems are just dumb tools led by their own greed and desires. Including the powerful desire to be holier than thou.
There is ONE America. The constitutional conservatives of all stripes. People who come from all walks of life who still believe in the experiment of our founders, and the words of our founding documents.
Speaking of universities and their treasonous foolishness:
As long as you don’t mind the occasional wild fire: burning down your or your neighbor’s home. But as long as the bomb goes off underground, say 6 feet or so, you should be fine. Poisons quicker and cheaper with no messy kids stuff to clean up - oh and your home is still standing.
It was a class racket at first. It was money racket next. And now it’s a communist revolution racket. Race is just a wedge issue.
One of the comments:
“reyol • 8 hours ago
“There are Two Americas. In the end there can only be one.”
Very true. The Anti-Americans are allied with the Non-Americans against the Americans. In the UK, the Anti-British are allied with the Non-British against the British. In Europe, the Anti-Europeans are allied with the Non-Europeans against the Europeans. Everywhere, it has taken on the characteristics of a war to eradicate nations and replace them with administrative districts. Peoples must be severed from their roots so that there is no longer a sense of belonging - only a sense of entitlements, grievances and “where’s mine?” that must be arbitrated by petition to the officials of the administrative region. No one should be able to do anything for themselves (of course, there’ll always be a black market but who wants to live that way?).
The Anti’s have made their move. They cannot take it back. It’s either see this through or perish. The Pro’s must understand this and be ready to fight politically, legally and in the end, militarily.”
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