This past week has been horrible. There’s no other way of putting it. There are few silver linings. But as Lawrence Auster has noted, the world has not ended. We are still here and will have to confront this new reality. Giving up will not do any good.
In other words, at the very moment that liberalism has gained a whole new level of power over the country, he believes we should stop paying attention to it and why people believe in it and how it operates and will continue to operate to harm us.
I told him that because he believes only in power, not in truth, the moment he sees no possibility of gaining power, he gives up.
Also, on the matter of activism, I might have added that even if America as it has existed is over, it has not simply disappeared. Oblivion would be simple. What has happened is far more complicated and threatening than mere oblivion, namely that America has been replaced by a lawless leftist regime that intends our harm and will imminently be doing all kinds of things to harm us. So we can’t simply ignore politics, can we? When the countries of Eastern and Central Europe were taken over by the U.S.S.R., did anti-Communists simply give up and stop resisting Communist rule in whatever means were available to them, even if those means were just intellectual? Because the historical civilization of Russia had been destroyed by Communism, would my acquaintance have advised Alexander Solzenitsyn not to write his books exposing Communist evil and laying out the principles of moral and social order?
Read the whole thing. (Via American Power)
The left was just as despairing after George W. Bush won reelection. They didn’t sit around moping for long. They got busy. I guess you could say they got revenge. Now it’s our turn. Readers in states with Republican governors can start by demanding that those governors refuse to help the federal government implement Obamacare. I’m sure over the coming days and weeks we’ll come up with other ways to fight the regime.
I still think we need to pay attention to what it is they need from us to make their plan work, and make sure we withdraw that. Consumer spending? Nope. Because it’s unlikely that Obama voters have any money to spend to begin with, that puts the weapon in middle class Conservative households. Don’t do it beyond the basics and THEN make sure you are supporting conservative business.
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Well on the plus side, the hand-picked anti-fracking candidates running for office along NY’s Southern Tier region fared about as well as the Republicans did nationally.
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Ah yes… silver linings.
Here’s one… We are already almost halfway through the long night of the Obama era: 4 down, 4 to go – maybe less – as potential impeachment looms it’s pretty head.
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Laurence Auster’s reference to A. Solzhenitsyn’s memoir in the piece is of great importance at this time. A recurring theme in The Gulag Archipelago, was Solzhenitsyn asking himself how he, and his countrymen, could lay back and let Stalin’s reign of terror engulf them without a fight. The fear of arrest and imprisonment was so great (25 years hard labor for political prisoners, which most never lived through), that neighbor was pitted against neighbor in a psychotic game of death tag, with the loser being dragged off in the darkness sometimes never to be seen or heard from again.
There was a severe penalty for resisting the chekist (Soviet Secret Police) interrogators, and in most cases it was summary execution (a pistol shot to the back of the head). And so, because Solzhenitsyn and his countrymen were too fearful to resist, they willingly sealed their own fate—to starve and rot in the chain of hard labor camps Stalin sadistically had provided them.
And today an individual who produced a crappy video insulting Islam, has been incarcerated by this regime. He was being sought on a parole violation for using false identities but he was really arrested because the government needed a patsy. He was in fact a political prisoner. His 1st Amendment rights were denied him. He was used as a scapegoat by this regime to coverup a failure of leadership so grievous, that they had to engineer an elaborate scheme blaming his video for the violence that erupted in Benghazi. And then claim that it was responsible for the death of four Americans.
This is what it has come to. An entourage of arrogant radical ideologs who will say and do anything to further their corrupt and evil agenda. If anyone thinks I’m a right wing conspiracy theorist, that’s too bad and I couldn’t care less anyway. But if you’d like a second opinion on the subject from an expert, then maybe this guy will convince you:
“The goal of socialism is communism.” – Vladimir Lenin
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