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Fighting Words
Powerline just posted a must-read essay from the great David Horowitz. The whole thing is frighteningly perceptive as you might expect (Horowitz spent 20 years as a communist radical in his younger days, and he understands the left as few do), but here is a very brief taste:
Democrats are not democrats; they are totalitarians. They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system, and the idea of civil order.
I would love to hear my Democrat friends attempt to argue with any of those points.
Conservatives tend to believe in freedom to do as one pleases. So conservatives naturally tend to allow those they don’t agree with a great deal of latitude: “Well, I don’t see it that way. But whatever makes you happy, buddy. None of my business.” So while polite conservatives like Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, myself, David Horowitz, and millions of others were playing nice, the left was using any means at their disposal to accumulate power.
Democrat voter fraud is not a new concept.
In the last election, the Democrats made it clear that they didn’t care (and it didn’t matter) who voted for whom. Biden didn’t even bother to campaign, which seemed odd at the time. But not now. This blatant power play has scared a large number of previously deferential conservatives into the realization that we are involved in a war, whether we choose to participate in it or not. And that this war has been going on for some decades.
And that has many of us, like me and Mr. Horowitz for example, rapidly evolving from disappointed to pissed off.
Voter fraud is an important part of all this. But it’s not that simple – read Mr. Horowitz’ quote above again, if you like. As he points out in that passage, a nation of free people is faced with an invasion of totalitarians. This election matters, but not as much as everything else Mr. Horowitz discusses in his essay.
What should be done? What can be done? I’m not sure.
But a good first step would be acknowledging the situation we find ourselves in, and recognizing what exactly we are up against.
And Mr. Horowitz’s essay is a good place to start.
Published in General
Yep.
I get the outrage. This is outrageous behavior.
The question is what to do with the outrage? It is dangerous to just rile people up without some outlet. It’s like heating a pressure vessel without a relief valve or outlet.
So very true. I really don’t know.
They say that the only way to stop a man with a gun is with a man with a bigger gun. In this particular application, I’d rather not think about that.
I really don’t know how conservatives should respond to this.
We did what we could: We elected Trump. Then, there were the back-stabbing fools who undermined his efforts and got Biden elected.
I’ll do the best I can from memory: “The apocalyptic nature of my vision is rejected by my siblings, but I believe out of of a sentimental nostalgia obscuring reason. … They simply don’t want to believe that a once-beloved country has become unlovable, its legislatures ineffectual, its institutions corrupt, its citizens vile and servile, and its vision solipsistic, materialistic, and on almost all accounts, contemptible. . . . Well, that’s that.”
I hope the man who wrote that is wrong.
Think small. As an individual, I can’t expect any results yelling and screaming at the TV or here, even. What I can do is push back when my place of employment starts in with the “all white people are racist” mantra. We had more republicans run in local elections this time than I can remember (most dems would run unopposed on things like the school board). We have sat back and lived our lives while the other side has pushed forward their agenda and taken control.
I am not optimistic about the final resolution of this stolen election. The plan was so extensive and the corruption so deep, and not all Democrats by the way, that there is not enough time to unravel all the plots. I fear this corruption will continue and, unless there are some efforts, that I do not expect, to remedy the situation, I see no honest election in our future. The one hope I see is that the ruling class is so incompetent that their assumption of power will turn out like the rollout of Obamacare.
This post is banal enough to go to the Main Feed, isn’t it? (I liked it.)
I doubt it. We’ll see, I guess…
Well if it doesn’t, I might as well stop recommending posts and just hang out in the PIT until my term expires.
I purposefully “lost” my link to the PIT since I was happily wasting too much time there.
That and the member feed might be the only remaining spots worth checking in on, considering some recent feedback from the powers that be.
Ricochet is the debating society in the Potemkin village of the “center right”. I’m sure there are interesting things to discuss all us conservatives can agree on! Right?
Heh, heh. 😈
Oh, boy. My innocent eyes…
Who would have guessed that Brenda Snipes would become the symbol of a voting process that has fallen to Third World levels? Sort of like Alfred E. Neuman piloting an SR-71.
I love David Horowitz. I don’t have many answers. The Dems are radicals and they cheat and they have the media for cover. What kills me is that there are people on our side that turned against us because of Trump’s boorishness.
The one thing I can think of is that we as a unified party must insist and fight for and not cave on election reform. There has to be a system that guarantees that only registered voters vote and only vote once.
I really don’t think that’s why. There have been RINO’s for years. “I’m conservative. But not like those uneducated rubes over there. I’m a thoughtful moderate, not an extreme ideologue.”
They might be using Trump as an excuse right now. It’ll be something else after this. Whatever.
They’re just trying to be seen as deep thinkers, above the rest of us. Whatever.
This needs to be a party of fighters, not appeasers. If you get a phone call trying to book you for one of their Sunday morning propaganda-fests, tell ’em to pound sand.
This essay puts into words what so many of us feel but cannot adequately express. This is why a lot of us are fed up with people like Jonah Goldberg or David French or Noah Rothman or JPod or everyone at The Bulwank, et al, because they simply cannot comprehend the threat from the Democratic Party. And those who do see it are just dismissed by them as crazies.
I’ll throw my lot in with the crazies instead of the appeasers.
If you want a friend, buy a dog.
Jonah already has one.
I’ve heard of Hanlon’s Razor, the stupidity instead of malice saying. Is there a “Razor” for cowardice instead of stupidity? Or is stupidity the more generous assumption?
So many of them are so dumb and uninformed and they act just like that.
If you listen to any long interview of Michael Anton, he’s very hard to argue with.
I’ve never seen the word ‘banal’ used in connection with anything about David Horowitz. :-)
Did the other one get sent to the pound?
Never attribute to strategy that which is adequately explained by cowardice.
I think it’s more over-confidence. They have friends who are Democrats. The Democrats would never do anything extreme. But some of us have studied history and know better.
I like this one.
The reverse is also often true.
Hans von Spakovsky had a great interview this weekend on Breitbart news Saturday about all of the lawfare, lack of controls, and ballot harvesting going on. The Democrat party paralyzed with lawsuits a federal election commission that was looking into all of this. Normal government oversight.
He needs to do a bunch of interviews just like that on talk radio.
No, I believe he died.
I am not making fun of Jonah for having a dog. I love dogs.
Sorry to hear that. Which one?