Posted on 05/24/2018 8:10:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Think about this – a significant portion of our country, including a majority of its elite, thinks that it’s A-OK for a Democrat administration to spy on a Republican candidate. Think hard about that. And think about whether or not we can ever put the pieces of our shattered republic back together again if we can’t even agree that using government power against our political enemies is a bad thing.
But the terrifying truth is that liberals and their Never Trump enablers actually think this kind of tyranny is a good thing. You see, they think Normal Americans are so transcendently awful (and, even more importantly, that the elite’s power so precious) that all is fair in order to stifle their opponents’ collective voice.
Yeah, I know they have reasons and excuses and elaborate theories about why it was absolutely necessary for a Democrat administration to spy on its designated replacement’s Republican opponent. And it was also totally cool for the IRS to suppress uppity Tea Party groups because they were getting to successful.
Excuses are always garbage, and theirs are garbage on fire in a dumpster. They know it. Offering them is just going through the motions. They are willing to embrace these tactics because they can.
The question all boils down to this – is it acceptable for the party in power to use the intelligence and law enforcement communities against its rivals? Are these convoluted and often delusional explanations – RUSSIANS TREASON OK NO RUSSIANS THEN UH QATARIS YEAH QATARIS TREASON! – enough to take that step, even if true?
Of course not. Even if Trump’s people sought to get the Russians to release the contents of the emails Hillary Clinton should never have had on her literally “password“ password-protected illegal server – and after two years, there’s zero evidence they did –was that enough to send spies into the campaign, to tap its phones, and leverage the power of FBI et ceterea to surveil them? Does the liberal elite have any concern that maybe, just maybe, it has to be about as serious a situation as you can get to do that? Is a coordinated campaign by the FBI backed up by the NSA and probably the CIA the proper remedy for the unauthorized release of Hillary’s yoga dates and wedding plans, because that’s all Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit said was on the 33K emails she deleted, right?
Who is the liberal who is shocked and appalled by all this? Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley seem upset, and former Clinton functionary Mark Penn, but that’s all. That’s it. Who is the single Democrat politician who stood up and said, “Hey, wait a second, we just can’t have one party’s administration spy on another party’s campaign?” And that doesn’t even address the deep state whitewash of Clinton’s email crimes that would have put any of us in jail.
No one objected. The Democrat Party is committed to the New Rules. And the New Rules are tyranny.
It can’t be a surprise. After all, the Democrat Party has bulldozed every norm, custom, and tradition out there in its quest for undisputed power. It spews hatred at its opponents – hey, everyone reading this is racist, sexist, and a denier of #science and so forth. The Democrats will happily deny you your free exercise of religion – put on your aprons people, because you can bake a cake or be bankrupted. They seek to suppress speech by encouraging fascism both in academia and by online tech companies, and if you think they won’t pass laws to limit speech given the chance, you’re fooling yourself. Hell, they tried to amend the First Amendment to overturn Citizens United, a case where the government tried to ban a movie critical of Hillary Clinton.
Let’s say that again, because it’s madness. The position of the left-of-center party in the United States is that the government should be allowed to arrest and imprison people for making a film critical of a politician.
As always, they have their excuses – “Let’s take the money out of politics (so that the only voices are the mainstream media which eagerly and slavishly suckles at our heaving liberal bosom)” – but in the end, they desire the consequences of the policies they support. They want to be able to arrest and imprison you for daring to make a film criticizing one of their icons.
Do you note the underlying premise, that they assume it is they who will be wielding the power to oppress?Good luck with that. We cannot have a functioning republic where about half of the population actively supports the trappings of tyranny. We can’t. No nation, especially one full of citizens who zealously guard their freedom, can tolerate a double standard for political behavior. It won’t be double for long. The New Rules, should they become ingrained in our systems, will inevitably go both ways.
They are going to hate the New Rules.
We need to return to the Old Rules, starting with the rule of law. It’s that or split our country in two, one free and one Democrat. Or it could be something even worse.
The United States of America cannot function where one of the two parties effectively recognizes no limits on the use of government power to impose its will upon the other half. We Normal Americans are woke, and we Normals are getting militant. We see what’s happening. But do the liberals and their Never Trump lackies? Do they really want to go down this road?
“One” of the parties? The other is complicit if it does nothing to stop it.
History shown as the two diametrically opposed philosophical views of the world and society are not going to be able to coexist with the same national border.
For the second time in our history, the Democrats don’t want to be Americans any more.
The Democratic Party is unlikely to turn from its madness, only become more ensconced in it.
And sooner or later Democrats WILL again seize power.
At that point our goose is cooked, unless patriots are willing to wage a civil war - a REAL war.
Both parties gave US the Kenyanesian Usurpation that made all the other crimes possible.
Before we get to a shooting war, how about wielding the greatest power we have. Our purchasing power. Conservatives should not fund the LEFT even if it means disrupting our lives.
Eliminating unearned entitlements to the roughly half the country that takes advantage of US taxpayers may help lose socialist progressive supporters.
I opined about 17 years ago how the country needed TWO healthy parties, and at the time it only had one. I was wrong about that as it turns out. We had zero healthy parties. Corruption is just as destructive, actually more so, than unhealthy ideology.
But as countries like Italy have demonstrated for over 70 years, more than two parties creates weak chaotic government.
We are in serious trouble if we can not sweep out the corruption, and get back to two healthy, if even ideologically different, parties.
I seem to recall a time when one party stood for small government, low taxes, and self empowerment. The other party stood for ‘compassion’, a ‘necessarily larger’ more giving government (welfare for the poor). Both parties used to be united when it came to politics beyond our shores. May not have been real but at least that was how I remember its portrayal.
We need checks and balances and I am not sure how that functions without two parties, even if one does not agree with the others ideology.
But while the cancer exists in the parties, we are at risk of losing the “Great Experiment”. I guess that also applies to our society as a whole. It doesn’t work in an amoral society.
“GIVING unearned entitlements to the roughly half the country ...taking advantage of US taxpayers...”
Isn’t that what Liberals love to call an ‘unsustainable’ situation??
Oh, I completely agree with you, but it’s easier said than done. I’ve almost given up on encouraging my family to stop patronizing leftists retailers and businesses. We conservatives have become culpably lazy about doing anything of substance.
Conservatives have the terrifying power to shape the economy and public policy by our consumer dollars, and to do so in record time. But we don’t.
Schlichter is missing the point. There is a reason why no Democrat is speaking out about this.
Who is the single Democrat politician who stood up and said, “Hey, wait a second, we just can’t have one party’s the first African-American President's administration spy on another party’s campaign?”
That's why no Democrat is speaking out.
The conversation cannot be allowed to become what African-Americans actually do when they finally achieve the highest offices of power, as opposed to the lofty ideals of what they should do. They don't want Americans to be afraid of what the next Democrat African-American President will do.
-PJ
Hillary recently told us that 40% of Democrats are Socialists.
What she neglected to say it that the remaining 60% are Communists.
The Democrat Party admires Mao.
“If only we could be like [Red] China. Even for just one day”
Someone still has “hope”?
What is this 1972? There is NO reason to hope for this to end without bloodshed. The Marxist in this country have set off a chain reaction that can not be defused. The country is divided between tax slaves and parasites, both sides hate the other. The parasites refuse to detach. They will burn the country to the ground if the tax slaves are emancipated.
Due to the tax slaves ridiculous “hope” that elections are still real, the parasites are trying to keep the host sedate long enough to allow them time to import millions of additional parasites from around the world. Once that is finally achieved the tax slaves will accept the notion that they are simply outnumbered.
The stage is set, and the tax slaves lose. There is only one “hope” and that is for the host to start the purging. Which it will never do because that would be “illegal” and tax slaves don’t have it in them. Game, Set, Match.
““One” of the parties? The other is complicit if it does nothing to stop it.”
BINGO!!!
BOTH parties support tyranny in this country.
This needs to be changed by any means necessary.
Schlicter uses a lot of words to say very little...
As I understand it, parties are an evolution of the realities of people coming together for political jockeying for power in order to effect a political agenda. The Constitution does not provide for them.
So, in theory at least, we could survive as a Republic without parities. However, it is hard for me to think of how that could happen.
This is close to killing the host to kill the parasite, if I am reading your suggestion correctly. From a retail perspective, this is difficult as it is difficult if not impossible to find the political leanings of every retail owner. From a national perspective, taxation is the necessary evil that our country exists upon. You cannot simply stop paying taxes because some of what we pay goes to causes we disagree with. There is a possible recourse given the ruling on Union dues but imposing that ruling on taxation is a Constitutional Amendment issue and would probably be thrown out of court. So what is left? Violent confrontation to those who are domestic enemies of the Constitution. The trip line for that is rapidly approaching but excruciatingly difficult to see.
Absolutely BRILLIANT summary!!!
It is our reality. We can deal with it now or later.
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