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About Last Night
I made no bold predictions about the midterms, but I do feel vindicated in one sense. I have repeatedly made the argument on these pages, both in posts and especially in the comments, that the past is dead. Just like Marley. Deader than a doornail.
If you predicated any thoughts about the election with, “Well, the last time these numbers looked like this THAT happened…” Nope. It’s all irrelevant.
Remember this: Electorates change. Issues change. Candidates change. Those snapshots in time we rely on to fuel “the conventional wisdom” are absolutely worthless.
The ’80s did not call. Neither did the ’90s. They can’t. They’re dead.
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But we are conditioned to see patterns, because if we see them, we can try to predict the future. To simply throw up our hands and say, we just don’t know–well, it makes us feel vulnerable. Plus it would put a lot of people out of a job . . .
Maybe that’s not a bad idea.
I wish history were irrelevant. It wouild make life so much simpler.
Sadly, and in spite of the most strident efforts of the Left to render it so, it is not.
That doesn’t mean that we can, or should, waste our time navel-gazing and trying to recreate the past. Sometimes, the best thing to do is learn from it, and let it go. But that starts with ‘learning from it.’
Which implies, ‘recognizing it.’
National Divorce back on the table, babies.
He’s dead, Jim.
You mean it’s no longer a trial separation between the rulers and the ruled? Now it’s permanent?
Consider this:
If the Democrats had lost last night, then both parties would have lost faith in the electoral process.
This would be deeply destabilizing to the Deep State.
The Biden Administration has been running a Top Secret voting initiative through the Deep State that they refuse to release information about.
And
It’s rather suspicious, if you ask me.
Let’s schedule a meeting at Ft. Sumter.
Why?
Why not?
Because I’d like to win. Abraham Lincoln let the Confederacy schedule a meeting there because he wanted to win.
It’s over. We didn’t win big this year and we should have. Forgetabout winning any more.
PS – Thanks to all of you that visited our little chat/Zoomapalooza. Hope I wasn’t too annoying. I doubt that I will ever try to host like that again.
So is America
National divorce. Why not?
Simple. Because I am a citizen of the United States, the greatest nation in the history of Mankind, and I belong in Minnesota, Florida, New York, California, Washington, and every other state in our great union. I’m not going to go through Gott-damned passport control to stand on the top of the Empire State Building, or show my visa on the train that goes from LA to Santa Barbara or the plane to visit my relatives in AZ. Because I’m not going to entertain some fantastical idea of post-America utopia where everyone’s sorted out so no one disagrees about anything ever anymore, and somehow – magically! – our international strength is either undiminished or irrelevant. Or, China gets to rule the seas, in which case, whatevs.
People want to check out, I understand. Tend your garden. If you want to give up, give up. Just commit to the bit and stay out of conversations about what needs to be done, and what we can do, and where, and how. Miserabilism is boring and unhelpful, and spoiler alert: there won’t be a national divorce. Man up and kick some shins.
Agreed.
The empire of America is needed.
Excellent. Thanks.
You are correct there be no divorce. We tried that during the civil war when the party in power (GOP) forced their will on the part that wanted to be free (Democrats). This time the party in power is the Democrats and they will force their will on those that want to live free (Republicans). Currently they are just economically destroying them but if forced to it they will jail them or kill them out right. History does sort of repeat. No there will be no divorce. The party that owns the country, that runs the country, the Democrats will have their way and destroy those that resist too much.
During the civil war the parties used “slavery” as the excuse for the war. This time it will be something like “LGBT+ rights” to give cover for the aggression. Provided conservatives bother to fight at all. Which they mostly don’t so maybe they will just die off and be replaced by a better class of citizen from the Democrats point of view.
The America empire is fading. We will kill it on green energy and environmentalism.
Amen.