{"id":2981,"date":"2021-03-05T23:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2021-03-05T23:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T04:10:58","slug":"nothing-new-under-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/nothing-new-under-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing new under the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give ’em an inch, and next thing you know you’ve been purged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Seuss has been cancelled. Some of his work has been deemed racist, and we can\u2019t have that. On Tuesday, the entity that oversees the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel announced it would\u00a0no longer publish six of Geisel\u2019s books\u00a0because they \u201cportray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much point in quibbling over whether these and other such illustrations in the condemned Dr. Seuss books are in fact racist or bigoted, or whether Geisel held racist or xenophobic views. By all accounts he was a liberal-minded and tolerant man who hated Nazis and, as a political cartoonist,\u00a0mocked the antisemitism\u00a0that was all-too-common in America during World War II.<\/p>\n

But context and nuance don\u2019t factor into the inexorable logic of the woke left, which flattens and refashions the past into a weapon for the culture wars of the present. What\u2019s important to understand is that this isn\u2019t simply about banning six Dr. Seuss books. All of Geisel\u2019s work is,\u00a0in the judgment of left-wing academia, an exercise in \u201cWhite supremacy, paternalism, conformity, and assimilation.\u201d It might be easy for conservatives to laugh that off as nonsense, but they shouldn\u2019t, because this isn\u2019t really even about Geisel.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s always the way of it. Though it might appear otherwise at first, they’re always aiming at bigger targets, working a broader, more comprehensive plan.<\/p>\n

To grasp how a man known as much for his messages of tolerance as for his artistic genius could be canceled for racism, you have to understand what\u2019s actually happening here. The left\u2019s war on the past, on long-dead authors like Geisel, isn\u2019t really about the past, it\u2019s about the future. It\u2019s about who gets to rule, and under what terms.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a predictable pattern to what we\u2019re seeing now. It\u2019s predictable because it has happened before in much the same way it\u2019s happening now. During China\u2019s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and \u201870s, the Chinese Communist Party, at the direction of Mao Zedong, called for the destruction of the \u201cFour Olds\u201d: old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas. All of these stood in the way of Mao\u2019s socialist ideology, so they had to be destroyed.<\/p>\n

Children and students were encouraged by the communist government to inform on their parents and elders, to shame and condemn them in public. The guilty were forced to recant in \u201cstruggle sessions,\u201d during which they were mocked and humiliated, sometimes tortured, sometimes murdered. Before it was over, millions were dead.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re obviously not there yet, but the woke revolutionaries who now run our elite institutions and exert outsized influence in the corridors of power are following this same pattern.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Granted, we aren’t there…yet<\/em>. But we’re a hell of a lot closer than we ought to be, and drawing closer every day.<\/p>\n

The people behind the statue-toppling, the digital book burnings, and the street violence won\u2019t stop until all three of these things\u2014history, ideas, and dissidents\u2014have been destroyed. These are all impediments to their cultural revolution, and they mean to eliminate them.<\/p>\n

So forget about Dr. Seuss. Forget about the statues and the books. Those things are just the beginning. It could easily get much worse. The woke revolutionaries of the left can\u2019t be bargained with or appeased. They believe this is a zero-sum game, that one side will win and one side will lose. And they\u2019re right.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed they are. All liberty-minded Americans need to figure that out, with a quickness. Because there are a thousand ways this truly existential struggle might be lost, and only way to win it. This New Zealander gets off on the right foot with that, but quickly wanders WAY off course.<\/p>\n

Though I\u2019m a New Zealander, I know America and its people well. I\u2019ve travelled to every state in the Lower 48 and have addressed more than 500 audiences across this amazing nation. My message has always been the same: The United States is heading toward a brutally tyrannical socialist revolution\u2014and if America goes down, every free country follows.<\/p>\n

Well, now it\u2019s here, people, unfolding before our very eyes.<\/p>\n

So, what can be done? Can the Republic be saved? Honestly, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

However, I can suggest some steps that would at least give this country a fighting chance.<\/p>\n

1. Face Reality<\/strong>
\nMillions of Americans are still in complete denial. Many think the military is secretly in control\u2014that it\u2019s only a matter of time until justice is done and President Donald Trump is restored. There\u2019s a \u201csecret plan\u201d\u2014just \u201chave faith.\u201d The truth is that Trump was outmaneuvered by an alliance of communists, globalists, and even traitors in his own party. The \u201cdeep state\u201d is now almost fully in control.
\nTrump isn\u2019t coming back into office any time before 2024\u2014if we still have meaningful elections by then.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re undergoing a Marxist-Leninist revolution\u00a0driven\u00a0by China\u2014right now, in real time.<\/p>\n

The military can\u2019t save us, nor can Trump. On the contrary, it\u2019s up to patriots to protect Trump and the Armed Services from unrelenting Democrat\/communist attacks.<\/p>\n

When enough Americans face the unpleasant truth, then, and only then, can we talk about hope.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No argument here. And now we go a-wandering off into the weeds, wherein Mr Loudon decides to completely turn his back on Step One for some strange reason.<\/p>\n

2. Stop All Violent Rhetoric<\/strong>
\nViolence will not save America. The harsh reality is that President Barack Obama had eight years to replace patriotic generals with left-leaning political appointees. He did a great job. If violence breaks out (God forbid) the military will stand with the government, not the insurgents.<\/p>\n

Beware anyone inciting violence online, at a public gathering, or in a private meeting. Distance yourself fast. They will be at best hopelessly naive, at worst government provocateurs.<\/p>\n

The left is praying for \u201cright wing\u201d violence. It will give them an excuse for a massive crackdown on patriotic Americans.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh huh. As if that wasn’t happening already.<\/p>\n

Having said that, the Second Amendment must be preserved all costs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For what<\/em>, pray tell?<\/p>\n

An armed populace is at least some check on tyranny,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How so, since you already ruled out even “violent rhetoric”? Having foresworn violence altogether, what’s that “armed populace” supposed to do—wave their guns menacingly at their oppressors? Read the Second Amendment to them in a commanding voice? How much of a “check on tyranny” do you really think that amounts to?<\/p>\n

even if useless in the face of biological warfare or nuclear attack. Americans should keep their guns and work every day to ensure they never have to use them against their own people.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry if I’m bursting any bubbles here (non-violently!!), but the only sure-fire way of ensuring that is by A) maintaining an absolute, one-hundred-percent-unwavering commitment to liberty and Constitutional principle, and B) abolishing any possibility of doubt<\/em> in anyone’s mind about the willingness to use those guns for their intended purpose, if regretfully, should ever-creeping tyranny make it necessary. For anyone unclear on what that “intended purpose” might be, do feel free to explore America history circa<\/em> 1775-79, when it was explicitly and comprehensively spelled out—in writing<\/em>—by the Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n

Follows, some piffle about election reform, boycotts, and other things, which I won’t bother with right now beyond commending Step 1 above to the author’s closer attention. Some of his suggestions actually could be worthwhile; some of them are almost certainly wastes of time and effort. I still do like the nullification idea myself, although the odds of it proving sufficient to avert bloody conflict and restore some semblance of proper governance do seem kinda long. As far as I can determine, historical precedent so far supports “you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out” as immutable Truth, an Iron Law.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to sound as if I’m bashing Loudon, really I don’t. The man is certainly no dummy, and his heart is in the right place. That said, though, we’re brought right back around to the most essential component, the foundation on which the house of liberty stands: the willingness, the resolve, the steel<\/em> to at least credibly proclaim that the unalienable right to resist tyranny by any and all effective means—emphatically including those codified in the 2A<\/u>—will NEVER be off the table.<\/strong> Without that all else is moot; the foundation must crumble, and the house of liberty fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Give ’em an inch, and next thing you know you’ve been purged. Dr. Seuss has been cancelled. Some of his work has been deemed racist, and we can\u2019t have that. On Tuesday, the entity that oversees the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel announced it would\u00a0no…<\/p>\n

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