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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.
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Oh, very good. Very good in all points, and especially concerning the child!
Wait a second, this is no fun!
Thanks for testing my own fortitude on this.
And the GOP needs to learn from his success in this particular field. Make the case to members of minority groups and take the tire iron to the Democrats (rhetorically speaking) every time they squawk “racist!” like the demented parrots they are.
That which cannot be mentioned, is something that I’m sure has been on a lot of minds here at Ricochet. We survived Berry O 1.0, maybe we’ll survive Berry O 2.0, but maybe is a piss poor plan.
I agree, the pocket book will be the first target, it will be the easiest to get to, but it won’t solve the resistance problem alone. Another consideration is who benefits with a U.S. in chaos? Two off the top of my head is China and Russia republic of. And what would they need to do to keep the chaos going? Dump a lot of munitions and arms into the “rebel forces” hands, their stock-in-trade.
What a crazy election. Voting for the challenger was effectively more like voting for an incumbent. Basically, voting for DC.
Comment of the week.
Oh I know we gained a lot more people than we lost. I was just commenting on the traitors who would rather side with the Dems after all the indecent tactics they use.
Don’t forget the dead.
Agreed. It’s a perfect detailing of what’s going on, and says quite a bit about the condescension I’ve been hearing for months on some of the Ricochet podcasts.
Pretty good. I think the image sums it up nicely.
I read through the very tail end again – this whole part of it is absolutely stunning. It echoes almost exactly the language used here on Ricochet recently.
In other words, the platform is the arbiter of dissent now. Not only will you not get a chance to conform to our criteria, as loosely defined as we feel like it needs to be, but you will be kicked off.
It’s not a bad argument, because the nation has survived the worst president in our history – and pick your favorite as to who that one is. We’re still here.
But the “here” is the relevant point: What’s “here” look like, even if we survive? Lots of people survived forced collectivization in the former Soviet Union. Tens of millions didn’t, but they survived, and so did the USSR, for decades.
Survival isn’t freedom. Survival in chains is still slavery. Being complicit in the reductions of freedom is criminal.
Isn’t it?
Those Podcasters don’t seem to like Codevilla or Anton.
5 election anomalieshttps://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/
Good article!
Nothing else has worked for us and that worked for the Democrats.