VDH, bless his poor old heart, recites a long litany of stuff we knew already.
Indict One—And All?
Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would not survive.
Ummm, Victor ol’ buddy ol’ pal, hate to have to be the one to break this to ya and all, but…IT DIDN’T.
It is the revolutionary Left that attacks institutions deemed unhelpful for its current political agenda—one that rarely warrants 50 percent public approval—whether that effort is defined by threats of ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College, adding two more states, packing the court, or radically changing balloting laws and customs to turn elections into a 70 percent no-show of voters on Election Day.
And so on and so forth, etc etc fucking etc. We know what they’ve done, we know why they did it, we know what they’re liable to do next, we know what they hope to accomplish by it; in sum, we know all anyone should ever need to know about them. Happily, Bayou Peter understands the pointless futility of these endless recapitulations—that the only pertinent question at this late date is what, if anything, is to be done about it.
It’s a persuasive argument. If conservative and middle America were to say “So far and no further”, the progressive left would erupt in demonstrations, violence and anarchy, seeking to impose their will by intimidation. Sadly, a great many Americans would be cowed by such uprisings, and prefer to back down rather than risk what might come from such confrontations.
Of course, the only way forward – the only way to stop such progressive machinations – is to accept that risk, and stop them in their tracks. That means accepting the necessity to answer in kind: to meet provocation with resistance, to answer violence with violence. There’s no other way to do it. Gandhi’s non-violent solution worked in India, in a colonial situation, but he wasn’t facing an opponent that welcomed violence and embraced it as a political and social strategy. We are.
Christians, in particular, are going to have to harden their hearts in this regard. It’s very easy to say that we should turn the other cheek, as Christ commanded: but in this case, if we do that, they’ll rip it off, along with the first cheek we turned. The progressive left knows no other approach except intimidation and dominance. Anything less is seen as weakness. That’s why they’ve made so much progress, and they have every intention of continuing their progress until all resistance is at an end.
It’s time to stop them…if necessary, by using their own tactics against them. To begin with, that can be to use the same legal tactics against them that they’ve used against us. If they take that to the next level, well, we can do that too—and we must, or be steamrollered by those with everything at stake and absolutely no inhibitions of conscience.
Precisely, indubitably so. I’ll say this much: if stooping to adopting their own tactics is the absolute worst thing we have to do to end this, we can count ourselves fortunate indeed. Evergreen rerun:
That one ain’t ever getting old. Would that there might come a day when we can all look fondly back on it as no longer immediately relevant, just another well-written and skillfully-acted scene from a fine old movie—as a piece of classic cinema, not an imperative, a most urgent call to arms.
The Republic died in 1861, at the hand of the Tyrant Lincoln, cursed be his name. We have been an empire based on brute force since.
What passes for “Revolutionary Left” and “hard Left” are the shock troops of the Administrative State, which uses partisan politics to keep the population divided, distracted, and unaware of the con. Old liberal white ladies in coffeeshops say outrageous stuff just to get peoples’ attention, otherwise they are routinely ignored. The Democratic Party – like the Republican Party – is a neoliberal corporatist party, neither Right nor Left. “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p1265 (1965) In terms of actual enacted policy, the two parties are identical, only the rhetoric is not. Few people know, for example, that the legislatures of the swing states which elected Biden, were controlled by Republicans, who could have stopped the steal dead in its tracks – no court could have challenged them – but they chose to enact the enabling legislation – and then certified the results and the electors – it was a bipartisan steal.
Paint it red, white, and blue, baby.
Rivers of blood, mountains of skulls, oceans of tears.
Until that finally (and inevitably) kicks off, everything else is dissembling and prologue.
There can now be no other way, and there can be only one victor.
With an illegitimate, corrupt court system, how are we supposed to use “the same legal tactics against them?”