Posted on 01/22/2019 5:39:30 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
This is a good morning to just ruminate on the state of the nation.
Way back in 1994, when I was writing for a local newspaper in Texas, I wrote a piece about how dangerous it was for the future of our country that those on the political left, led by Saul Alinsky disciples Bill and Hillary Clinton, were in the process of destroying the entire nature of the Democrat Party.
Prior to the elevation of the Clintons, the Democrat Party had been a party that was basically a hybrid of a true “liberal” philosophy on national security and international policy matters (i.e., fairly strong on defense with an aggressive promotion of American priorities in international dealings) and a “socialist” party focused on redistribution of the wealth on the margins, designed mainly to provide what they called a “safety net” to provide for those incapable of providing for themselves.
But, with the elevation of the flower children of the 1960s into leadership positions in our nation’s academia establishment in the 1980s, this all began to change. As our country’s education establishment radicalized and went about filling millions of minds full of mush with their radical notions, the Clintons saw this as an opportunity to move the country to a more pure form of socialism, and to deploy the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals tactics in support of that effort.
This all gave birth to Hillary Clinton’s failed, almost comical effort to nationalize the nation’s healthcare industry, and to the beginnings of the death actual political debate in our nation. As the Pantsuit Princess pursued her radical plan, those opposed to her became not just political opponents to be debated in the arena of ideas, but outright enemies to be portrayed as literal evil figures who want to kill fellow Americans.
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals consists of 13 rules for the destruction of an enemy, not the conduct of political debate, and the last of them reads as follows:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
This is how the nation’s children had already by and large been taught to think about “big business”, “Republicans” and “conservatives” in general since the 1970s, and it is the main principle the Clintons and their spokespeople like James Carville, Paul Begala and Ann Lewis brought into the public arena as their main tactic. Republicans like Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich were no longer described as simply being wrong in a public policy sense, they were literally to be demonized and castigated on the Sunday morning talk shows as being the incarnations of Lucifer and Beelzebub in modern times.
Dirt from their backgrounds was collected and leaked to the rising numbers of mainstream media journalists who had come out of communications schools over the previous 15-20 years and who were willing to go to print or on-air with that dirt at times of the Democrat Party’s choosing. This effort to collect dirt on enemies was what generated the scandal about Hillary illegally obtaining the “raw FBI files” on more than 1,000 political opponents, a scandal strategically dealt with by the utterly corrupt Justice Department led by Janet Reno.
Of course, once it embarked on this course and allowed it to fully take hold, the Democrat Party could never go back, which is what I wrote in that 1994 piece. The deployment of Alyinskyism is like a cancer that metastasizes within an organism – if not cut out early enough, its spread ultimately becomes irreversible and kills the host.
Had the 1996 presidential election gone the other way, the Democrat Party might have been saved – there were still enough leaders in the party at that time who truly believed in America and might have been able to retake the party and steer it away from its destructive course. But, just as they nominated the milquetoast and ineffectual Mitt Romney in 2012, Republicans in 1996 nominated the milquetoast and ineffectual Bob Dole, thus sealing the Democrat Party’s – and the nation’s – fate.
The increasingly-radicalized news media cheered.
And so it is that here we sit today, in early 2019, and the news media and Democrat Party have become completely indistinguishable from one another. Not only has the notion of actual political “debate” disappeared from the public arena, the entire notion of real, actual “news” has vanished from our nation’s airwaves and steadily disappearing newsprint.
As noted in yesterday’s Campaign Update, the jointly-determined Democrat/fake news media narrative is all we have left. That narrative dictates that Republicans and conservatives in general are evil, non-human beasts who are to be, in the words of Alinsky, “chosen, frozen, personalized and polarized.”
But, as we have seen over the past few years, this principle is not limited to the politicians, but to anyone who supports them, and now has even been extended to the children of parents who allow them to wear caps and t-shirts that contain a simple campaign slogan that talks about wanting to make their country great again. Indeed, the Democrats and their media agents have since 2016 consciously made an effort to demonize the 80 percent of mainland America that lies between the two coasts. The presence of Twitter, Facebook and other social media to serve as echo chambers for all of this divisiveness has only served as accelerants.
This is where the Clintons and their disciples have brought us. Electing the even more-radical Barack Obama to the presidency was seen as “progress” for our society’s destructors, and now the Democrat Party presents us with an array of choices for 2020 who make Obama and his unending efforts to divide the nation along racial-, gender- and any other lines he could think of on a daily basis look tame by comparison.
One of those 2020 hopefuls, Irish Bob O’Rourke – who the fake media wants you to believe is just like John F. Kennedy – openly questioned whether the U.S. Constitution is still relevant a few days ago, and no one in our fake media even blinked. I’m pretty sure JFK never questioned the applicability of the Constitution.
How do we come back from this? How does our nation absorb more than a quarter century of one major political party willingly converting itself into a degradation mob, a conversion that has now absorbed virtually our entire media establishment?
The answer probably is, we can’t. If you think these people can be reasoned with to see the error of their ways, well, there are no words for you. How could anyone watch what they all conspired to do to Brett Kavanaugh, and still harbor such hopes? How can anyone observe what they’ve been doing to a bunch of innocent high school kids the past 3 days, and still believe they are somehow redeemable?
The answer, pretty clearly now to anyone who is paying attention, must be that they aren’t. They aren’t redeemable, they refuse to be reasoned with, and that means that this is not salvageable.
Ordinary Americans see all of this happening – it has become impossible not to see it in recent years – and wonder what to do about it? The election of Donald Trump was largely a reaction to this phenomenon. But that outcome has only created focused and increasingly violent reaction from the radicals.
It make take another quarter century – by which time this writer will probably be long gone – but at some point the non-radicals who occupy the 80% of this nation out in “flyover country” will be left by the radicals with no choice but to either submit the will of hopeless ignoramuses like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or find a way to separate from them.
At that point, the question will become whether or not the Alinskyites in the Democrat/fake media establishment will allow the separation to happen peaceably. Given their history, how can anyone believe the answer to that question will be anything other than a very hostile “no”?
That is all.
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We should face the fact that Democrats are literally evil and seek our destruction.
This is the root cause. Children are taught things that are just not true. I have experienced this with my own children. I always need to bring the conversation back to the Constitution. I say a "conservative" simply wants to follow the Constitution.
Unless we can start teaching reality and critical thinking, we are lost.
Do stalkers let the subjects of their desire to control walk away with their lives?
No, they don’t.
The entire Left is nothing but a bunch of stalker mentalities, and there is only one way to deal with a stalker personality.
There are always separations.
The Constitutions is so flawed I think it is a failed document.
Excellent article.
“At that point, the question will become whether or not the Alinskyites in the Democrat/fake media establishment will allow the separation to happen peaceably. Given their history, how can anyone believe the answer to that question will be anything other than a very hostile “no”?”
Unfortunately, our history has shown that tyrants in charge of the central government do not let others separate peaceably.
And it's not a restraining order.
WOW Blackmon woke up. I've been saying this for years decades about leftists. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be bargained with. They have no consideration for or interest in the fact that the people they want to coerce wish to have self determination. There are only three ways this can end:
This, and thanks+ for this excellent article post!
” I always need to bring the conversation back to the Constitution. I say a “conservative” simply wants to follow the Constitution.”
Unless we can start teaching reality and critical thinking, we are lost.
It was pretty advanced for its day, but they never imagined a universal franchise, not in a million years.
We are suffering now for one and only one reason, and that reason is called Democracy, rule by δῆμος (Demos).
δῆμος is a savage tyrant who thinks only of his carnal needs and has no heart for the people, for civilization, and no concept of the common good.
δῆμος main antagonist, who δῆμος hates the most, is the hero.
δῆμος best friend is the anti-hero, and it is no coincidence that when the communist takeover we now confront swung into high gear in the 1960s, movies and other popular entertainment began to glorify the anti-hero. Our first anti-hero President even increased his popularity when he was impeached, as any student of "democracy" would have predicted.
And now that we have a hero as President, δῆμος is very, very upset, so much so that he has become dangerous.
Democracy unbound (which is what we have saddled ourselves with) is a monster from the pits of hell, which always ends in violence.
And most Republicans bow before him.
Be prepared.
Are you suggesting restraining orders don’t work?
I have always thought that having a piece of paper that says someone must not come within a set certain distance is completely absurd. I already had that figured out when I was eight.
It’s not peaceful now. Normal people are assaulted, persecuted, slandered, trashed and deprived of liberty and property. Normal people have no recourse.
Will the normal people act like sheep or rise up against their persecuters?
The Constitution could be fixed as the holes in it are glaringly obvious.
Nope, it definitely is not.
If you want to be free, then from time to time, you must water the tree.
Where ever you go, they will follow.
The main problem with it is that it created all the machinery necessary for those who desire power and control to attain power and control.
If one wants to be free, then one cannot give another man power over them, because that power will be abused. That is what Man does. It’s his nature.
That will be our canary.
On the other hand, think of the incredible changes wrought by a single man.
Imagine all our Republican politicians were as brave as Trump, rather than the cowed cucks we have now.
You’re right on target with this one.
They hate us, they dehumanize us, they are building a public narrative about us being dangerous, ignorant, and the source of all that stands in the way of their Progressive Paradise.
This isn’t about winning an argument, it’s about paving the way for a purge.
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