Revenge of the Tish
We have been unwittingly sucked into a game of Calvinball with American civilization at stake.
Yesterday, as I was listening to the announcement of the $350,000,000 verdict against President Trump, his family, and his businesses, I began thinking about the incredible smugness of Letitia James and the “judge” in this case, Arthur Engoron.
I noticed that this same smug attitude connects all of Trump’s tormentors, Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and “Tish” James, all of whom project an aura of self-righteous arrogance tinged with hatred.
Late last night Proverbs 26:12 popped into my head. That verse reads:
"Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him."
Let’s not fool ourselves, none of these cases against Trump are being prosecuted as a matter of law. As a matter of fact, it is easy to see that Trump will be the only person prosecuted for these “crimes”. These persecutory “prosecutions” are based on nothing more than a desire to destroy a political enemy using any method possible. It is a last-ditch effort to accomplish something the Democrats, the postmodernist progressives and the denizens of the Deep State failed to do electorally, through investigations, through impeachments or perpetual propaganda campaigns.
It is the result of a temper tantrum, akin to a two-year-old melting down in the aisle of toy store.
Thinking of that analogy, one considers that the state of being a child can be one of two things, or a combination thereof.
It can be a matter of simple chronology, a measure of the ability to reason, or a combination of both.
Children are children because they are apprentices, students in the process of learning the reasoning skills that will make them able to function in a world where they are no longer shielded from reality by the last line of defense, a society consisting of adults equipped to protect and defend them.
Children mature at different rates – some chronological children are better equipped to withstand the vicissitudes of life than others who have attained the age society considers adequate for the designation of “adult” but in all cases, the maturation process changes the mind’s operating system from one based on emotional reasoning (the quality of being “right” depends upon how strong the feelings about a thing is) to true reasoning (where being “right” is based on facts, evidence, and data).
Those of us with multiple children have likely experienced such a process within our own families.
Out of our three children, my first born, our daughter, was capable of adult level decisions far earlier than either of my boys. Our baby boy, our stoic, was next and our middle child, another son, brought up the rear. But even within these variations, all our children progressed to adulthood with a capacity to navigate life successfully without our protection or assistance.
While chronological aging is a matter of ticks of the biological clock, maturation is more a matter of experience and the mind that pages of the calendar. In the maturation process, there is a curious potential for willful regression. While children lack the capacity to act as adults, some adults can reject reason and regress to think and act as children.
Reasoning from a point of emotion never yields good decisions. There are reasons children are prohibited from making decisions for themselves. People ruled by emotion are volatile and change faster than the weather and emotions are often directed at the wrong target – just look at how the progressive political forces have worked day and night to cast villains of all sorts of crime into victims or even heroes.
In functional terms, a “child” can be defined as an adult stripped of reason.
In many ways, each of the intellectual chihuahuas barking at Trump’s heels is an example of an adult in the throes of arrested development. It’s not reason or law driving their relentless pursuits, it is hatred – and to some extent – fear.
The reaction to Donald Trump – ever since he and Melania floated down that gilded escalator in 2015 – has had more in common with a kindergarten melt-down than a rational response to political positions with which his opponents disagree.
Thomas Paine famously wrote:
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
Karl Popper’s Paradox of tolerance has led us to this point. Society has been so tolerant of these adult babies, wise in their own eyes, we are now slaves to their emotional reactions in every single aspect of life.
We have been sucked into a game of Calvinball with American civilization at stake.
We get what we allow. All we need to do to stop it is to start saying no.
All, your comments are greatly appreciated. Thank you. It was the coffee talking, proving coffee is smart... and delicious.
From your lips to God’s ear.
I fear we’re solidly in Phase II of the great dissolution - the UN-united States. That being, one side recognizes that the lunatics/inmates are running the asylum, there’s no reasoning with them, and no point in trying.
The other side doesn’t know that they are the inmates.