Horowitz is dead on the money with this.
There has been a huge sea-change since the Tea Party era that I am incapable of explaining and incapable of understanding, and nobody will explain it to me. Everything is just so quiet. There are instances where I think the pre-Tea Party Bush Era actually had more healthy conservative activism than what we have today. In general, I'm apoplectic about it.
The only way, - the only way - , to get things done, is for all of us to stand up, do the hard work, and get things done. What we have arrived at though is a post-hard-working-conservatism era. It's Maximum Uninvolvement. I have no other words to explain it.
Yeah, conservatives will work hard at their jobs, yeah, they'll work hard in regard to their families. But the amount of disconnect that there is now in regards to our constitutional freedoms would make all of our Founding Fathers sick to their stomachs. The Founders were not just farmers, they didn't just go to work, then ahh well time to call it a day! Oh some stuff is going on? Well I'm just gonna go to work, don't talk to me about all that! I'm just gonna farm.
No!!! The Founders said "Somebody ought to do something!" then turned right around and planted their fat fingers right in their own chests. "I'm going to do something. I will do it." That's what we had in the Tea Party era, Tea Partiers said "I will do it, I am going to do something", but we sure as heck don't have anything like that now. That's what was given up, and its probably the most valuable thing we ever had.
And we can't call it apathy, because everybody sees whats going on. We know they see it because the complaints are through the roof. That is the one thing where there isn't any quiet. But the only thing reaching higher heights than the complaining is the infinite stubbornness with refusal to ever get involved.
I cannot understand why. How do people think this is working? This is where I get stuck.
Everybody can see that Maximum Uninvolvement doesn't work. Nobody on the planet will ever attest to it's success. Everybody can also compare Maximum Uninvolvement to the Tea Party Era and see that this was way more successful than Maximum Uninvolvement.
SO WHY THEN IS EVERYBODY STILL ACTIVELY CHOOSING MAXIMUM UNINVOLVEMENT OVER THE SUCCESSFUL MODEL??????
I cannot understand why. I'm incapable of getting it. I just start rubbing my head and rubbing my face saying "I don't, I don't, I don't" It makes me stupid. I don't understand. I don't understand! Please. Please. I don't understand. I can't make this math work, I'm stuck. How is everybody doing this all at once, all at the same time, and forever.
Maximum Uninvolvement in our post-hard-working-conservatism era is leading to a terrible ruination.
It's exactly what Lord Acton said. Evil doesn't necessarily have to succeed. The good people just have to do nothing. Maximum Uninvolvement.
That’s a wonderful rant & I agree with every word of it. All I can say is those of us who were Tea Partiers are now...what, 20 years older & 20 years tireder. We’re out-manned & out-spent by the billionaire class (which can hire mobs of foot soldiers, like the criminals on our campuses) & when we get a good guy into office, they seem to be bought off within a year & end up doing what he worked for them NOT to do. I think we’re depressed, emotionally & spiritually.
And I don’t know what to do about it.