America is More Than an Idea
The central idea that makes all things Democrat possible is that America isn’t real, it is just a bad idea.
This week was a bad week for Joe and Kamala, but it was even worse for the American people, even Democrats (but I’m not sure they understand that). Actually, this past week is a continuation of bad weeks that began on Inauguration Day back in 2021. There has not been a single upside to any policy or action of this administration.
Perhaps that isn’t true, there has been the beginnings of something that could be positive if it can be sustained. It has nothing to do with the actions of Biden or the Democrats, rather the reaction to the real and tangible effects of the Democrat agenda.
As we pass the Democrats’ orgiastic celebration of a non-insurrection insurrection and approach the one-year anniversary of the swearing in of His Fraudulency, I was thinking about a quote from Ben Franklin this morning. Franklin said:
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
When parents, just regular people concerned about their kids, push back at local school board meetings, it sends a message that reality bites and bad and harmful programs and policies produce bad and harmful results.
More than that, people seem to be waking up to the time-tested truism my granddaddy, B. T. Goodwin taught me as a youngling. He often said:
“Son, when you start bad, chances are you most likely will end bad.”
The Democrats sell themselves as the “party of ideas”.
What my granddaddy told me applies to ideas as well.
Not every idea is a good idea and bad ideas lead to bad results.
The central idea that makes all things Democrat possible is that America isn’t real. It does not have a corporeal, tangible, physical existence. It has no materiality, and therefore it has no real constraints or boundaries, political, geographic, or otherwise.
America is just an idea.
It is the same denial that allows Joe Biden to defend the far-left anarchist movement ANTIFA as "an idea, not an organization" and then claim, absent any evidence, that white supremacists pose a greater danger to the country. The fact is that during 2020 and 2021, we saw ANTIFA (piggybacking on BLM protests) burn, loot and even set up their own “autonomous zones” (which, by the way, were acts more in line with the definitions of insurrection, treason, and sedition than anything any J6 protester did). The closest we saw to “white supremacy” were a few actors hired by the pedophilic Lincoln Project to smear the Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate, Glen Youngkin.
There is a distinct advantage to believing America isn’t a nation, that it is just an idea. That advantage is that ideas can change as often as Gisele Bundchen changes outfits at a fashion show. Fad and fashion rule the day and what is good today can be bad tomorrow, failures can be redefined as successes, the goalposts are on roller skates.
This results in a culture that lauds over any use of consistent and transcendent values and principles.
I mean, things change, right?
Right?
C’mon, man. No joke. You know the thing.
The Democrats have expressed their belief that the idea of a representative republic based on a constitution drafted to decentralize government as much as practically possible, and through that decentralization, guarantee the maximum in individual liberty and equality, was a really, really, terrible idea.
They clearly believe that an individual simply cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs.
The ultimate irony is this – in the country purportedly offering the greatest individual liberty in the history of mankind, we are locked in a pitched battle over who we want to take our money and control both the economy and society. To participate in the political process now means adopting a life of non sequitur through a series of paradoxes – that freedom exists in control, that equality can be created through inequality, that stability is created by arbitrary and capricious actions, that intention trumps action, emotion is more important than logic, and that individuals who somehow mysteriously organize their own daily lives can’t voluntarily organize an effective economy and society – but a group of individuals in government can. Just by organizing into a group, the group receives some sort of Divine truth, knowledge, and infallibility the individual cannot access.
But America is more than an idea.
America is the realization of an idea.
It does have a corporeal, tangible, physical existence. It has materiality, and therefore it has real constraints and boundaries, political, geographic, and otherwise.
If you have ever worked around ISO 9001 or any Six Sigma concepts, you have no doubt heard the term “product realization”. This process is taking a product from completion of the concept development stage through the necessary steps of pilot testing, manufacturing planning, tooling design, quality management, supply chain ramp-up, and then on to full-scale production.
In simpler terms, it is the work required to transform an idea into a tangible reality.
America has been realized. It can be weighed, measured, and experienced.
The Democrats are tweaking the American design and the production process of liberty, and their tweaks are producing a measurably non-conforming product.
The corollary to “start bad, finish bad” is if you start good, you finish good.
America is the realization of a good idea.
We can finish good.