Glenn Reynolds links a Tweet by Richard Fernandez.
The normally insightful Fernandez widely misses the mark, I think. Let’s start with a thought experiment. List the things for you which are non-negotiable, cans that cannot be “kicked down the road.” Perhaps it may look something like this.
Fair and honest elections, versus stolen, fraudulent elections.
Not one more gun law, not one more infringement.
The continuing survival of the middle class in America.
Sacrosanct individual retirement accounts, no theft from them by the government.
The free exercise of religion.
No more taxes for subsidies or redistribution of wealth.
This is a short list, and a reasonable one. It could have been much longer, but this serves as a good starting point, although you can build your own list.
On every account, the other side has either broken contract and covenant, or they intend to and have said so.
There is ample evidence of election fraud, and if you believe that the country elected Joe Biden as president, you’re as dumb as a bag of rocks. Biden’s own campaign web site explained that they intend to force registration of semi-automatic firearms as NFA items in a national gun registry.
HUD regulations and a host of other preferential treatment for one sector of the public has essentially forced middle class neighborhoods to incorporate low income housing into the middle of their communities. Big spending FedGov would like to nationalize retirement accounts, as they are the last big pot of untouched money that can forestall the reckoning with hundreds of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities.
If you thought that the exercise of religion was free in America, you haven’t stopped to ponder what the shutdowns did to the churches. Under orders from governors, worship services everywhere were shut down, or otherwise churches faces fines for having public worship. Most establishment types and every leftist in America wouldn’t know anything about this personally, as they are unchurched.
We could go on, but you get the picture, and you develop your own list and compare and contrast with views by the opposition. The problem is that core beliefs, cans that cannot be kicked down the road, and non-negotiable points, are all that we have left. And for conservatives and libertarians in America, the left has made it clear that our core beliefs are all they care about.
Another way of saying it is that the left has made it clear that they intend to go after our core beliefs, and that no amount of compromise on less than core beliefs will make up for our failure to relinquish our core beliefs.
This battle was begun more than a century ago, and successive generations of children were educated in a system designed by Horace Mann, where the state owned the children. The long march through the institutions is over, and the children of hippies easily became collectivists, controllers and totalitarians.
When you believe in nothing, the state becomes your god and you become responsible for building utopia on earth. This all falls into the arms of the real rulers and globalists, those who want to fleece what’s left of the wealth of Americans and enslave the people to the globalist vision.
The politicians on the right, sure enough, want Trump to concede. They want a return to the good old days of printing more money, going on junkets, and eating with each other in the congressional lunch room. The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, a republican, is disgusted by Trump.
I worry that … fanning the flames around misinformation puts us in a negative position with regards to the 5 January runoff. The mountains of misinformation are not helping the process. They’re only hurting it.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Duncan: “At a certain point, does this disgust you?”
“Oh, absolutely it disgusts me,” Duncan said.
GOP establishment creature Michael Barone says that “Trump and many Republicans have been misbehaving for four weeks in trying to delegitimize Joe Biden’s 43,809-vote victory.” The sorry National Review can’t go a day without another jab not only at Trump, but conservatives as well. And Mitch McConnell wants to find a way to “work with president-elect Biden.”
A return to the good old days. Except that’s not going to happen. Any establishment GOP politician who believes he or she will get the support of voters in the next election (even assuming that there will ever be another free and fair election) is mistaken to the point of being completely delusional.
Trump didn’t cause this problem. Trump was the last, best chance for change. Unfortunately, Trump and his administration were unprepared for the deepness of the deep state. His work to ensure honest elections would have had been started in 2016 to have any chance of success.
It’s too late now. That doesn’t mean that this is over or anywhere near finished. The Marxist revolution in America is not fait accompli. It just enters a new, more dangerous phase. When there are two sides, and each side has made it clear that they intend either to crush the other side’s core principles, or otherwise prevent that other side from crushing those core principles, and that elections are no longer an option because of fraud, there are few alternatives left.
The left assumes that it’s over. The establishment GOP assumes that they can return to junkets and the congressional lunchroom in peace. Neither group really gets it. Neither group understands flyover America, traditional people who want to be left alone. The biggest problem is that a peaceable split or divorce is no longer possible given that there is no clean geographic way to do this any more. That horse left the barn a long time ago.
For all of the frivolities that this invites, the left and the establishment GOP should remember one very important thing. You wanted this. This is on you.
