I have been busy fighting a local issue dealing with property development near where I live. In the age of uncertainty, and watching the country pitch toward decline, I got involved.
This decision stemmed from the reality that changing things means acting in your own community—we have to be more involved because the country seems to be slipping away. This all was time consuming and took away from everything I was working on, including working on the Grant book. Therefore, I am passing along two excellent pieces from frands of mine since I have not posted in a while.
Glenn Ellmers wrote at American Greatness that we are in a dire situation. Is progress, regress? Why yes, yes it is. Welcome to 1000 years ago!
For example, it is obvious to me, and probably to you, that today’s “progressive” agenda is actually pushing our country back to a more primitive past.
Consider some of the most urgent priorities of woke ideology:
Reinstituting racial segregation and replacing individual rights with group rights.
Abandoning poor and minority neighborhoods to lawlessness by defunding the police and decriminalizing many offenses.
Eliminating opportunities for women in sports by forcing them to compete against men.
Impoverishing working-class American citizens by enriching a global oligarchy while flooding the labor market with illegal aliens.
Eliminating due process and the rule of law by resurrecting pre-trial detention, extra-legal punishment, and the presumption of guilt for “political enemies.”
Oh yes, everything looks bad, and the Woke are virtue signaling their superior morality, and that means you too Carhartt. You’ve lost this guy forever. Go woke, go broke. As Matthew Peterson wrote, there are people building options of the sane variety—red states, red business, red agriculture, red manufacturing, red finance:
The globohomo is making a mad dash to press the Great Reset into existence, which means it will be more difficult to undo. They have not conquered yet.
Ellmers quotes our teacher Harry V. Jaffa, who wrote:
Human nature possesses an irreducible—or, if you will, an irremedial—capacity for resisting domination. We humans will not accept an harmonious arrangement of our lives that denies us all freedom to act as individuals. . . . We will not recognize as good any course of action that annihilates our sense of responsibility for the course of our lives. We cannot care for a world, however ostensibly good, in which we cannot recognize ourselves, or any whom we love.
This was one theme of the chilling 2006 German movie Lives of Others. You should watch it. How does one live under a Stasi, and what does it do to human beings who live under such tyranny?
On a more optimistisch note (ok, sort of) Michael Anton has another stellar piece, again at American Greatness (they have been on fire of late. You should be reading everything Julie Kelly writes about Jan 6 by the way).
Anton writes about psy ops, and Civil War. It’s coming doncha know. Even Tim Pool talks about it on an almost daily basis. Anton:
To fight a civil war, you have to organize. But organizing is all but impossible for those who genuinely dream of taking on the state. The U.S. government is incompetent at many (most?) of its assigned responsibilities. But it’s quite good at keeping tabs on any hint of “right-wing” “insurrectionary” impulses. That task is made much easier by the fact that there is so little such activity to monitor—so little, in fact, that the feds increasingly feel compelled to inciteit.
It would be hard to hide a mass movement of people gearing up to fight a civil war. Do you see one anywhere? I don’t. If there were one, don’t you think the feds would be all over it? Of course they would. And don’t you think regime media would be blaring about it 24/7? Again—of course. This is a classic case of a dog not barking. Silence is confirmation that nothing is happening.
Of course the right has not been planning for war. There’s no organization! But the left sure has been organizing our armed forces into a servile woke non-threatening mass in fashionable camo. The left possess the institutions. But, that’s depressing, and I promised optimism. More:
The regime wishes to crush all actual and potential opposition. To do this, it needs to criminalize dissent. But doing that runs against the letter and spirit of the great charters of American liberty, and against the grain of the American character. To do what they want to do requires changing public opinion. Or, more specifically, it requires wearing down Americans’ inborn resistance to censorship and political persecution…There is no terrorism, civil strife, or domestic conflict—at least not coming from the Right. Yet the Department of Justice recently created a “domestic terrorism unit” to target “those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies.”
Read carefully that unusually candid statement. They aren’t going after actual terrorists or terrorist acts. I suppose they would if they could find any. But there aren’t any to be found. So instead they’re targeting motives, animus, and ideologies—i.e., ideas and feelings, not actual acts.
Seems bad? Gets worse:
The truth is that for the last 50 years, and accelerating greatly over the last 10, America’s elites have relentlessly divided the country, strip-mined its institutions, leeched its wealth, and attacked a large portion of its people. Those actions, taken together, may be said to be almost a recipe for civil war. Perhaps the smarter elites have concluded that such a war is now inevitable and they want to get a jumpstart on assigning blame. A cynical person (not me!) might wonder if civil war is not exactly what the ruling class wants and is trying to provoke.
There is a reason I am a recovering academic. The left owns the institutions. There is no free thought in the institution of alleged free thought. Notice that the institution of Higher Ed really does not produce anything of substance anymore? Did it ever? Academics spend their days studying….non-academics. Not only that but generally, it does not even get things correct. That’s our elites. We have a cultish mind-set bent on conformity up and down the chain—speaking of which, how have our experts done with the supply chain? You get the point.
This all seems sad and depressing, but no. I think Anton is correct that the entire point is to demoralize us, but, as Jaffa wrote, we are not fit for that. Things are bad—we have political prisoners being abused in DC, Democrats are doing what they have always done, pining for the day they can make us servile. Quisling “Republicans” (they aren’t really) are on the assist. Yet, the people as a whole are not seemingly cowed. They are patiently waiting for 2022. If that is stolen, then, we’ll re-evaluate the state of our political regime.
In the meantime, we have to be cautious and watch what we say and do. That’s bad, of course, but also a glimmer of sunlight.
All is not lost.