Charlie Brown being magnanimous to Lucy the leftist.
Posted on 11/25/2016 5:18:00 AM PST by Kaslin
It is November, and the air reverberates with cries for unity and bipartisanship. The Republicans must have won an election. Sentiments such as "I won" and "You ran the bus into the ditch, so now sit in the back seat and be quiet" are more associated with Democratic triumphs.
Advising the new president on his treatment of Democrats, the Wall Street Journal's editors counsel "charity for all." They draw upon Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, delivered just before the end of the Civil War. Is that really applicable to Mr. Trump's dealings with his political adversaries? Lincoln spoke after the South had suffered the slaughter of its manhood, the destruction or besiegement of its cities, and utter defeat, with formal surrender a month away. Lincoln's admonition looked to a time after victory.
Winning an election is not in and of itself victory – not if the objective is to change the nation's course and to preserve its constitution. The election placed the necessary means of success in the Republicans' hands – the presidency and legislative majorities in both house of Congress – but it remains for them to use those means. Victory on D-Day was won not merely by sending an armada into the English Channel.
The South capitulated at the end of the Civil War. Have the Democrats capitulated? Do they show any signs of moderating their hatred of the president-elect or of conservatives like Senator Sessions, whose nomination to the office of attorney general they vow to derail? Do we discern any lessening in their contempt for the Constitution itself, as demands to abolish the Electoral College or even to corrupt its imminent vote abound?
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Well, you have a former rat here. I can’t speak from personal experience for the last 8 years, but I can speak to what happened before that.
The rat party pretty much purged it’s conservatives. I left after it became obvious that there was no future at all for those who remained. There are some conservative rats left, but they’re rarer than hens teeth. The Jim Webbs of the rat party have zero influence at this point. I’m not a left extremist and wasn’t going to make nice with them just to stay.
Unfortunately until DJT, the gop never really took advantage of the gift that the rats bestowed upon them. The gop was and to a significant extent remains a party of the plutocracy. DJT has taken the gop in a more populist direction. I have my doubts as to whether that will remain the case, but we do have a chance where two years ago the outlook was bleak.
I try to do what I can to share God-level thought (bible compatible philosophy) and for my troubles I sometimes get castigated for “distortion” and worse, so thanks for noting what ought to have been obvious in the first place.
We’ve forgotten to consider objective merit of ideas in the welter of conflict over “whose side is right.”
Which won’t be forgotten once God notes your glee. They will be raised up again to punish you, and the cycle will continue.
Charlie Brown being magnanimous to Lucy the leftist.
Just as soon as the dems learn humility..actually, as soon as they LEARN ANYTHING!
Donald Trump is both a plutocrat AND a redneck. The result was the ability to jam populism down the GOP’s throat, so to speak.
...Which they are unable to.
I’ll take that risk.
Bull S***!
On the contrary, we need to start putting the heat on Mitch McConnell to ditch the filibuster.
There is more that has come down the road here than just Donald Trump or even the GOP, however. It isn’t just between Charlie Brown and Lucy any more. It’s between Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the God to whom Charlie Brown has been especially busy praying.
When Charles Schulz, the Peanuts creator, published his last cartoon, a number of tribute cartoons appeared. One I still remember, though I have no link, is one where Lucy is about to pull the football and at the last moment, Snoopy charges up and smooches Lucy on the lips. The confused Lucy forgets to pull the football and Charlie shouts “YESSSSS!” and kicks the football. The final frame shows the embarrassed Lucy is now sitting in front of her own “psychiatric advice” stand looking woebegone.
The words came from you and will be noted. It will be up to you to recognize whether they were noted to weal or to woe.
Still do.
Being magnanimous is by definition not something anyone MUST do.
But at some point you WILL recognize that God is the ultimate boss here. He will forgive much but won’t excuse a thing. Carry that attitude into eternity and you will find He puts you where He puts His eternal enemies.
Use the learning time He allows to you after now and before then wisely, with great discernment and careful observation.
Indeed God permits the choice against it (Magnanimity is really grasping Him and letting Him inspire you) to exist.
However God also enforces the consequences of such a choice.
At the least how soon we forget appreciation eternally due to the series of miracles that ushered Donald Trump here and spared us Hillary. We are looking like the sad troupe of Hebrews just spared from Pharaoh and his slavery, and casting a golden calf and worshiping it.
Just do what Obama did....say, “WE WON!”
So long as it works. There is a large portion of the GOP e that will resist and subvert. But at least we have a chance of becoming the majority populist party similar to the late 19th century. Steve Bannon’s vision is a good one and at the national level there is a possibility of it taking hold.
Old GOP habits die hard, though. A lot of the leaders seem to take the view that this was a victory for their plutocrat friendly views. It wasn’t and getting them to look at things with a populist mindset will be difficult.
I agree. President Trump should show magnanimity toward all Americans:
The President should restore and protect our rights to keep and bear arms, which are important for democrats as well as republicans to protect families against all threats, foreign and domestic.
The President should protect our borders and deport illegals, which is important to protect democrats and republicans from high taxes to pay schools and welfare for parasitic illegals and to protect democrats and republicans from job competition from those illegals who work.
The President should get our military, including advisors, out of Syria, where Barack Hussein’s efforts to topple a stable government have unleashed an exodus of millions of illegals who hate us and our way of life but are still being permitted to infiltrate Europe and America.
The President should repeal Obamacare, which is hurting all Americans but especially the working poor.
As President Trump shows magnanimity toward all Americans, we will all win. May God bless President Trump, and may He bless the entire United States of America.
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