It’s always hard to excerpt one of John Wilder’s pieces. There’s just too much rich, thoughtful stuff in ’em to trim it down without losing the thread. But there are times when you just gotta buckle down and do it.
Can you imagine if the Right was united? I can.
The corollary is obvious: quit fighting each other in the right. Stop. People don’t believe in your exact brand?
You can’t stand Libertarians? You can’t stand Lutherans? Baptists? Catholics? Vox Day? That atheist friend that doesn’t mind Christianity but still believes in freedom? The idea to fix our situation isn’t exactly yours?
Too bad.
We are in the same foxhole. Stop (metaphorically) shooting each other. Now. If you’re not with us, you’re against us. And if you’re fighting us, you’re against us.
How do you know if you’re with us?
- We like building statues, not tearing them down.
- We like building civilization, not tearing it apart.
- We like the reason of facts and truth, not the politically correct statement of the moment.
- We like justice based on law, not the social justice of the mob or judges that twist “shall not” into “sometimes.”
- We like a culture of honor, not a culture of victimhood due to the self-imposed prison.
And that is the difference. The Left is bitter. The Left is seething. The Left is angry.
Why? Because, just like the foal with the cattle guard, they’ve made themselves prisoners. They’ve forgotten that becoming a prisoner might not be a choice for a horse, but it is for a person. But for the Left, that prison mentality is preferred.
The prison mentality is the chosen mentality of the Left. They see themselves as weak. Since they see themselves as weak, there is no choice but to hate themselves for that weakness. But outwardly, the Left rationalizes that weakness as being, somehow, good. They have to, because that’s all that stands between them and the unending self-hate. The Left raises an “anything goes” sexuality and sensuality to the highest plane because they are rooted in the Material, and cannot understand the Spiritual, the Transcendent.
The Right rejects that. All of it.
The Right is not evil. We hold the light of Freedom, of civilization, of the future of mankind in our hands. Why? Because they could never build it. The Left seeks to delegitimize our moral achievement, because they feel small and envious next to those that compete and create.
Remember, the Soviets never looked stronger than they did immediately before they collapsed.
I don’t think we will win.
I know we will win.
Not if we don’t recognize that we are indeed going to have to fight them, we won’t. And it looks more every day as if that’s going to mean actual, literal fighting, with more than just words, boycotts, and votes. But as pessimistic as I can be at times, actually I’m mostly inclined to agree with John’s take, providing the Sleeping Giant hasn’t been too slow to awaken this time. His post is certainly stirring, and heartening. A bit more:
I feel sorry for those who stand against the Right when we find our backs are to the wall. We have created the most powerful and free and prosperous culture in history. The Right doesn’t know its own strength. But it will learn, and the Left is afraid.
We will win. Maybe not this year. Maybe not next year. Maybe not even in the next decade. And the future won’t look like the past – that past is what led us to this crisis. We have the opportunity to remake our civilization, to remake America and to make it better.
And we will make it better.
And we will win.
We always have.
Oh, I can’t say I feel at all sorry for them, myself. I want them to reap exactly what they’ve sown, to get what they truly deserve, to be punished for their innumerable crimes, to pay in full measure for what they’ve done to this nation and the world. And like Wilder, I have to believe that, be it soon or late, they will. To think otherwise is to sink into a slough of despond that is bottomless.
It’s difficult to remain optimistic when so many of those you thought on the “right” side have turned out to be 100% opposite. The press makes the other side look a lot stronger than it really is.
I’m not sure where the line is drawn. Still “too early to shoot the bastards”* but we are getting closer with each passing day. Should Biden
wincheat his way to the presidency I think we’ll be getting very close, speeding up the process by years.*see the right sidebar – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Wolfe
I don’t know of any better way to push someone into being your enemy.
There are the people who don’t have a stake in your fight or at least don’t see that they do. Presenting them with that ultimatum will push many to realize you’re attempting to bully or manipulate them. Or they’ll oppose you from sheer cussedness.
Then there’s the very real problem of what “with us” means. “If you’re not with us” means you think you’ll be calling the shots the entire way, deciding who’s “with us”, and ready to turn on them at any minute when you, and you alone, decide that they’re not “with you”. I’ve seen that happen in contexts as diverse as office politics and a multi-sided civil war.
So knock it off “If you’re not with us you’re against us”. You’re not doing your putative cause any good.
It’s probably not the best choice of words, but it has long been used when it mattered. WW2, your with us or your against us.
Looking around, if you are on the fence now, you’re not likely to ever remotely be on the side of the constitution.
The lines ARE getting drawn pretty clearly and the Gap between each side grows wider each passing year.
By now, you have to have a pretty wide ass to be sitting on the fence or very long legs to be straddling the two sides.
I will grant though that there are an awful lot of people wandering around in the middle, dazed and confused, bleating and not really sure what is happening here because they don’t know that anything is happening at all.
At some point it’d be nice if some of them wandered over to our side. If only to present a larger appearance to ‘our side’. They can be our ‘puffer fish’.
I can understand that connotation. It’s a fair reading. My hope, however was to knock some sense into the folks that want to fight those that want 90% of what they want, rather than the folks that want 5% of what they want, and I tried to put it in that context.
You know ’em. You’ve seen ’em.
And, really, if they want to fight against the Right rather than against the Left? Think they ever will help?
I really don’t think I’m calling the shots. But I am calling for us to unite. It’s time.
The time to change horses is in the Primary.
Senator Tillis is not a real conservative but as far as it goes he’s the best on the ballot I can get and I’m going to vote for him.