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Analogies aren’t perfect or exact but they ring true when they are immediately recognizable or resonate. It’s with this sentiment that I offer up an analogy to the election of 2020 and what we’ve been witnessing for the past four years. One of the greatest American films ever made is On The Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando (as Terry Malloy), Lee J. Cobb, Eve Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, and Karl Malden. It’s a story about lies, graft, corruption, gangsterism, and intimidation — and standing up to all of it even if it means risking one’s life. The forces at work in this film very closely approximate the powerful and elite forces in media, the federal government, and high tech that have used the American people for their own ends.
Like Terry Malloy, millions of Americans, who are tired of being pushed around and lied to; tired of been treated like imbeciles by their corrupt political overlords, by the media, and by Twitter and Facebook — have decided to stand up and push back. You see them in the long car and truck caravans of Trump supporters, the massive crowds at Trump rallies, or the impromptu rallies that have materialized even in various Democrat strongholds like Beverly Hills, California. And then there are the quiet Americans who have also had enough but who won’t wave Trump banners, or put up lawn signs, or speak up on social media sites, like LinkedIn because they sense or know that their activity is often monitored by their employers or fellow colleagues who may be more woke. Many of them have already voted. Many of them will vote Republican and vote for Trump for the first time.
What’s tragic, Brian, is we have to ask if anyone will get the message. Will they hear it? Do they care? I do hope at least Republicans hear it, because they will need to lead the fight, not just complain about Trump. We’ll have to watch and see. Good post.
Thank goodness for Rush, Fox, and the rest of the alternatives to the mainstream media . . .
To explain DJTs win in 2016, I’ve said: Americans are tired of being bullied. So they hired their own bully and sent him to DC. In the past four years, DJT has proven himself over and over as up to the task.
To give an example from my life, years ago I got into a verbal altercation with some “toughs” outside a bar. I can’t remember what started it (I think it was some inappropriate behavior towards a much younger female in our party). What I do remember is that I stood my ground and chased a couple of guys off. When I looked behind me, there stood a friend who is about 6’6”. He hadn’t said a word; just stood there. I laughed and said I needed him behind me 24/7. He suggested I be a little more circumspect
That’s how I feel with DJT as president, like my 6’6” friend is standing right behind me
May it be like the December 2019 UK election, where life-time Labour voters said “enough” and overwhelmingly elected Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party.
And lied to with a straight face by the MSM . . .
Great Post.
Annefy: “To explain DJTs win in 2016, I’ve said: Americans are tired of being bullied.”
And let’s hope they are really tired of being bullied in 2020.
For all Trumps foibles he may be the only politician in America that hasn’t been bought and paid for.
Brian,
You are on it exactly. Never has an ordinary man trying to go to work and earn a living been given such a total load of cr*p. Everything the Democrats do damages him and his interests long term and short. They damage his family, they hurt his children trying to go to school, they raise the price of everything and wreck his chances for a better job or even just a raise.
The Democrats stink to high heaven. To hell with them.
Regards,
Jim
Sometimes one has long tried to understand what’s happening in the world, and finally all of the elements have assembled themselves in order, just waiting for the last simple piece of the puzzle to be discovered, and someone produces that missing piece.
Thanks, Annefy.
You summarized beautifully why we are voting for Trump and why we are not ashamed of it.
Kamala Harris’ mask is coming off a bit more, and one of @garyrobbins fellow travelers speaks:
This now extends to almost any judicial system run by Democrats: Kyle Rittenhouse and Jacob Gardner being the most prominent victims, while an army of violent rioters are the most prominent beneficiaries.
This is one of the best posts I’ve ever read. Thank you, Brian Watt.
Otlc,
This gives you some idea of Kamala Harris’s intellectual level and emotional maturity. Equality, in opposition to Equity, could only be referring to equal treatment under the law. Equal treatment under the law is the cornerstone of Western Civilization’s idea of Justice. Equity is usually seen as a special and very specific remedy only employed when the court wishes to help someone in particular. Not because strict Justice would require the ‘help’ but out a sense of mercy for an individual. Of course, Equity employed as a general principle is an absurdity. It implies that human courts have a Gd like knowledge of how to manipulate a situation to produce some perfect result. Such a megalomaniacal court would do hopeless damage and destroy Justice in doing so.
There is no way that a court can fix the world so we all end up at the same place. This is a hopeless childish illusion. The kind of idea that a woman who has been intellectually indulged and financially spoiled her whole life imagines is some sort of wonderful idea that only she can see.
Gd help us if this spoiled child-woman gets power. Margaret Thatcher, she is not.
Regards,
Jim
Thank you, Barbara. Very much appreciated.
Not only is it practically impossible to achieve, what genius out there thinks we all want to be in the same place?? The place that would make me happy and content might bore you, or might scare the hell out of you. The thing I want, that I’m longing for and willing to work hard for, might be stupid to you, valueless. (Plus, I can’t have you all living with me on my sailboat.)
That’s why we made America, so everybody could have dreams and work toward them. You test your dreams against reality, which includes everybody else jostling to fulfill their dreams too.
The free market and laws that protect individual rights results in a society that is like a beautiful forest. Lots of tall trees emerge, lots of medium-sized shrubs, lots of tiny flowers, some moss – incredible complexity that comes into being when the principles are laid down and then the people are unleashed to pursue their own dreams. Success is measured by individuals’ happiness, and the organic, freestanding health of the forest. Also, lots of natural diversity – which is actually a strength in this scenario. No one knows what a “perfect” forest is supposed to look like, so whatever comes up when the founding principles are followed is the best way to find out.
The Kamala Harris Left finds this odious, because it’s not fair. Everything must be the same to have a perfect world. Trees are bigger than flowers, so no more trees and no more flowers.
Trees probably get to have more water than lichen, and that is not going to produce votes in the agitators-for-lichen faction (though the lichen are probably fine with it). So trees must be phased out.
They insist on the top-down control that results in a modern industrial cornfield – row upon row upon row of identical corn plants, each no larger nor smaller than its comrade neighbor. Success is measured by obedience, outliers are liquidated. The result is uniformity, a beautiful sea of identical red uniforms with white star, row upon row upon row as far as the eye can see.
I prefer the forest, so I guess I must be a racist.
The votes by individual citizens will be there. The question is how do we stop the fraud which will be much worse than usual, and what do we do if fraud carries the day. Do folks understand that if they win across the board there will be no coming back?