Category: Politics

Trying not to start the public floggings

Our Real Enemy

Bureaucracy, Gummint, Resistance

This article suggests that the real enemy of America is not called the Chinese Communist Party, or the Russian Menace, or the Muslim Invasion.  Who is, then?

There are two irrefutable and intertwined realities that the citizens of any constitutional republic must recognize and understand. First, any group or entity that espouses ever greater power for the central government, socialist-centric economic policies, and continual erosion of individual freedom is an existential threat to that nation as founded.

Second, the leaders of these factions and their disciples will lie incessantly, and under no circumstances will they alter their policies or tactics, as they can never be wrong in their pursuit of unbridled political power. They must be soundly defeated at the ballot box, or civil strife will inevitably ensue.

Steve McCann lays out the most egregious scenario in recent memory where the Powers That Be did just that.  Here it is:

Nothing better defines this mindset of infallibility, arrogance, and pathological lying to achieve political power than the most malicious exploitation of the citizenry in American history: The deliberate manipulation and mismanagement of the Chinese Coronavirus “pandemic.”

Beginning in March 2020, the ruling class/Democrat party and their accomplices in the medical establishment knowingly regurgitated innumerable falsehoods and were responsible for a variety of catastrophic actions that caused not only massive economic and societal dislocation but also countless deaths. The Democrats still have not acknowledged the errors that they made and, of course, will not admit that those errors were compounded by abject refusals to change course.

I have a simple take on all this.  As time passes and memory fades, we run the danger of forgetting not just the consequences of this bastardy, but the suffocating effect of what was essentially mass house arrest, as well as the fear of shortages — from frigging toilet paper to essential drugs like insulin — and the massive overreach of the police state to enforce all those restrictions on our liberty.

And just remember that the enforcement of the restrictions was selectively enforced:  churches were closed, but the Antifa/BLM riots went ahead without a strong response from the police.

Read the whole article above, be reminded, remain angry, and let’s not let it happen again — ever.

Welcome Mat?

Immigration

Here’s an interesting conundrum.  As Jews in Britishland are becoming increasingly (and justifiably) afraid of, well, being Jewish in Britishland, you have this mindset:

Truth is, I don’t know a single Jewish family in London who doesn’t speak openly and often about leaving. These are dyed in the wool Brits, who love this country. But they are watching the England they know disintegrate around them.

If ever there’s a group of people crying out for refugee status, therefore, it’s this lot.

Ordinarily, of course, there is always the option for them to move to Israel — and if ever there was a raison d’être  for the state of Israel to continue to exist, this is surely it — but what about those who don’t want to move to some piece of desert in the Middle East?  (In my opinion, not an unreasonable position.)

Well, for those who would prefer another option, how about right here in the U.S. of A. (you know, the huddled masses of people yearning to breathe free business)?

I mean, in the main these are wealthy and successful citizens, unlikely to require any welfare assistance and perfectly capable of buying their own health insurance, unlike some immigrant ethnic groups I could name.

Now granted, there are several downsides for us to throw out the welcome mat for this lot.  For a start, they are mostly of the Lefty persuasion (like so many Jews are in this country, inexplicably), and we have to ask ourselves whether we want more of that kind of person coming here.  (We don’t — well, I’m pretty sure that most conservative Americans, i.e. most of us, feel that way — and it has nothing to do with them being Jewish.)

We could overcome this issue, however, and make the change less jarring by resettling this bunch in a state where the government is more like the one they’d be leaving behind, e.g. Chicago’s northwest side (the “N. California Avenue axis“) where many Jews (Reform and Orthodox) already live, but with a stipulation of ten-year residence there before they can relocate to Florida.

If not Chicago, then I would suggest Detroit’s Boston-Edison area, with the same 10-year residency requirement.  Okay, Boston-Ed is right next door to Dearbornistan, but unlike in Chicago, these new settlers would be able to buy guns to protect themselves.  (If they don’t want to own those nasty gun things, they deserve everything that happens to them.)  Detroit probably needs a chapter of Lox And Loaded, anyway.  And given that, like Chicago, Detroit is a reliably-Democrat stronghold already, the appearance of a score or so thousand more Democrat voters there wouldn’t make much difference in the grand scheme of things.

Or if they refuse the offer, we could just say, “Enjoy that Middle Eastern desert thing, guys.”

Unnamed Drivers (And Voters)

Bureaucracy, Marxists

Exhibit #1:

Additional note:  3 years is a “limited term”.

I’m not often in favor of yet more laws to be passed, but I think that if someone is injured or killed in an accident caused by one of these no-name drivers (or an illegal alien driver), the state in which the accident happened should have a prima facie  legal cause for suing the issuing state, for millions of dollars.

That, and the affected state should impose a mandatory life sentence without parole on the no-name (or illegal alien) driver — public executions no longer being fashionable.

I am getting so sick of this bullshit.

Cascade Options

Marxists, Resistance

Following from the Quote Of The Day above comes this observation about the political scenarios following Charlie Kirk’s murder, in order of awfulness:

  1. Popular revulsion against aboveground leftists
  2. A period of Caudillismo
  3. Low-grade civil war

Read the article to have each explained.

I’m not so sure that the last two options are realistic in the United States, because at the end of the day I think that the non-hysterical-Lefties (i.e. most of the country’s population) is too civilized for the second scenario (the appearance of a Franco/Pinochet type as the head of government), and indeed the Constitutional subjugation of the Armed Forces to civilian authority is a great deal stronger than in other countries, especially the volatile Latino ones.  I’m aware that Hitler’s rise to power came in an ordinarily-orderly society (Germany), but then again we’ve not just lost a World War and had to pay crippling reparations either.

In fact, I would suggest that Donald Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to a “strongman” head of state, and compared to (say) Augusto Pinochet, Trump is a complete softy.  And I think he’s unlikely to turn into a modern-day tyrant because he has only three more years in power and he’s getting old.

As for the third scenario (when the switch gets flipped, so to speak):

…it’s not gonna happen.  If the second scenario is unlikely, the civil war thing is exponentially less likely.

I know, I know, it’s a little disappointing as we all want to experience the Glorious Day (as Mr. Free Market describes it), but let’s be honest here:  it’s been over a hundred and fifty years since our last exposure to that little game, and frankly, I think we’re out of practice.   We still vote, for one thing, instead of manufacturing fake ballots.

Plus we have jobs to do, families to raise and laws to obey — unlike those assholes on the Dark Side.

But “highly unlikely” does not mean “impossible”.  Something the Left needs to be aware of.