Based on yesterday’s results, one might conclude that America is being pushed closer to the brink of Constitution and institution-destroying socialism…
It is almost as if the progressives are indoctrinating Americans by osmosis … fake news story by fake news story.
If there is anyone primarily to blame for this catastrophe, it is the progressive media with their constant drumbeat of liberal propaganda and “fake news.”
Progressives are mostly indifferent to the logic and reality of what they can directly observe, preferring to believe a few minutes of sound bites and video clips over of longer and more accurate pieces that involve the heavy lifting of thought and consideration. Somewhat akin to students watching a movie based on historical events, but threaded with the screenwriter’s fictional scenes, and believing this revisionist history.
It is almost like progressives are speaking in a foreign language, one based on the “idea” of the feelings surrounding equality and social justice, and totally ignoring that the Democrat party was at the root of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, the anti-civil rights movement and that the progressive rhetoric does not comport with reality.
We all believe that the language we are speaking, be it based on logic or feelings, is being commonly understood and received with the same meaning as it is spoken. Nothing could be further from the truth. Witness two parties observing the same historical phenomenon, in this illustrative case, the remnants of the Confederacy. One side looks at a statue and sees a symbol of oppression which must be obliterated lest it contaminates the minds of those gazing upon it; while the other side looks at the statue as a reminder of our history and a cautionary note against its repetition. And then there is the vast majority of people who gaze at the statue as merely another work of art in a park – devoid of meaning and consequences. The funny thing is all of them are correct if you start from a common understanding of history. But when it is a small number of people driving the discussion and whose words are amplified in the mainstream echo chamber, what could be a productive conversation about history and our values becomes a riot to be exploited by the progressive media to attract and grow an audience and to further their progressive agenda.
Perhaps it is time for the GOP to embrace the language of the left, choosing language that fundamentally shapes what we understand about the Constitution, the rule of law, and American exceptionalism in terms of positives – providing more freedom and equality to more people – rather than continue to defend our country while speaking in tongues. Forget the intellectual gymnastics of reason and go for the gut. Make it about feelings, not logic.
Not that the progressive media is not entirely to blame for the current situation…
What to make of a party that is internally divided by its self-interests: the establishment Republicans willing to go along to get along as long as they share in the division of spoils; the constitutional Republicans wanting to halt the spread of progressivism; and the bureaucratic Republicans who simply want to live their lives and continue getting paid? It is almost there are relatively few individuals willing to set aside their self-interests and put our nation and the freedom of our people first. One might suggest that this may be a natural consequence of the diminishment of the patriotic citizen-legislator and the rise of the professional politician who sees politics as a means to enrichment, if not self-fulfillment.
I am still waiting for the GOP (Grand Obsolete Party) to declare its platform and fight back the dark forces moving our liberty and freedom from its roots with property rights to some form of state collectivism with control over the individual.
Perhaps that’s what I found refreshing about President Trump; he was unafraid to say what was on his mind and to push back hard against his attackers.
And let us not forget “we the people…”
How so many people could overlook their self-interests and vote for a malignant dark force is beyond comprehension. Especially the senior citizens in Florida, many of whom brought their progressive ideology to a warmer climate with tax breaks and benefits. Did the seniors not see Obamacare loot the Medicare fund of $700 billion to help pay for Obamacare? Did the seniors fail to notice that the progressives want to eliminate all health insurance in favor of a single-payer state-run system that places everybody’s health in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and marginalizes physician input on how their patients should be treated? Have they noticed that the tax and spend progressives are likely to impose higher taxes and possibly interfere with their retirement funds to redress unfunded liabilities and to redistribute a portion of their wealth to undeserving people like illegal aliens?
Now what?
To everyone who has ever read the U.S. Constitution and fell in love America’s exceptionalism, may you have faith in your fellow Americans once again.
Constitutional conservatives possess a certain knowledge of the future based on the historical treatment of people under socialism, and it is our duty to make that obvious to everyone, not just intellectuals or the believers. Everyone. Take back teaching history and civics. Take back Hollywood and present a positive portrait of America. And before anyone cries censorship – remember that is a tool of the left to stifle free speech.
Constitutional conservatives will not give up the fight. The best we can hope for is bureaucratic gridlock until the 2020 elections provide yet another chance to escape the vortex of an America being flushed down the drain by progressivism.
We are so screwed.
-- steve
