Every horror from movies like Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 to Mad Max and Blade Runner is happening right before our eyes.
As they say, science fiction eventually becomes science fact.
A lot of it is out in the open, in your face and in "Ima gonna do this, just try and stop me" Obama style. One of the most amazing things is when they speak of the worst violations of our Bill of Rights in such of a matter of fact style, it sounds as mundane as if they are reading off items from a grocery list.
And most of the media sits in rapt, adoring attention with their thumbs up their nether regions, ignoring the constant inversions of reality as they daydream about writing the next hard-hitting article about Biden's visit to the local ice cream shop.
Congressional Democrats clap like trained seals as the cabal behind our senile president guide us toward Cuba at best, South Africa at worst.
More horrific than what they are saying out loud, as with an iceberg, only 10% of what they are doing is visible, the rest is under the surface.
Makes one wonder just how bad it really is because the 10% is pretty damn bad.
This administration is worse than Wilson, FDR, Johnson and Obama all rolled together.
This is bad, people. Really, really bad.
The Democrats and the American left personalized politics for politicians, beginning with calling Barry Goldwater a racist in 1964 - but now they have politicized culture and race to the point there is no going back.
When you see a PTA official setting up a straw man, an evil caricature of her opponents and then wishing death on them, that is something hard to walk back. When you hear people claim that whites are irredeemably racist because it is in our DNA and the only way to remedy it is to teach white children how evil and inferior they are, that is a hard pill to swallow.
Yesterday, I posited we have already witnessed secession, at least on a mental level. It seems clear to me that both sides of this chasm intuitively know we are now a divided nation.
A decade ago, I noted "One thing that I have learned from studying history and reading philosophy – peace is the most fragile and temporary of all human conditions."
I think about the conversations that we have here – there is little chance that we on the right will abandon our positions and it is equally as unlikely that the left will abandon theirs – so what happens when the irresistible force meets the immovable object?
How is it possible to resolve the differences with enough unanimity to move forward?
While I am not advocating that there be armed conflict to resolve our differences, we would be exhibiting ignorance of history to think that it wasn’t at least a possibility. We Americans have already had one nation dividing Civil War and it is possible that we are running down the path to another such conflict.
Throughout history when two sides reach a point where there can be no resolution and when there is no capitulation by either side, one or the other imposed their will via physical combat – to the point where the loser could neither continue the combat or they decided that the cost of continuance is more than they are willing to bear and voluntarily agreed to abide by the dominant force’s ideology and political processes.
Of course, there have been cases in history where diplomacy has altered the course of history but in reality, those have been few and far between and they have also been temporary at best. It must also be noted that peaceful agreement does not always end the internecine conflicts and one can broker a deal and still get the wrong result. Diplomacy is more often than not about achieving agreement rather than achieving a correct solution, sometimes to the point that the solution is sub-optimal for both sides.
When political systems reach a boiling point, there must be a safety valve or the end result is the violent imposition of one will over another. It is simply not credible to think that any group of people with strong beliefs will allow themselves to be subjugated by another through simple political tyranny.
I think we have achieved such a boiling point in America.
I’ve long said that communism is a failure because it is not scalable beyond smaller groups, it fails simply because the span of control is too great. There is absolutely no way short of totalitarian rule that a country as geographically vast and with a population as demographically and culturally diverse as the United States can be controlled by a central entity. It is becoming apparent that my scalability thesis is being proven as the adoption of communist/collectivist central controls are testing the limits of traditional American rugged individualism and it is putting our Republic on the same path to rigid central control that produces intractable problems. The resulting tyranny will lead to eventual self-destruction, the same as other large scale communist systems have self-destructed…ergo the “boiling point”.
This “boiling point” is exactly what the idea of federalism was…and is… intended to address. Through distributed control that can be tailored to smaller governmental units and political boundaries, the rhetorical temperature can be reduced. Federalism is the answer to a small, powerful group or even a bare majority imposing control over the other half of the country that has evolved differently in culture and political aims.
Federalism is what makes the republican form of government both scalable and workable.
Since the Constitution has been corrupted to remove the safety valve of federalism, we are headed for the same fate as all large scale socialist states.
It doesn’t have to be this way but the weight of socialist class envy, the welfare state and the resulting over-taxation, anti-Christian/anti-religion policies and a simple Hobbesian disdain of freedom and self government by our “elite” political class have all lead us to this tipping point – and even though its mention is scoffed at by the “smart” people on both left and the right, secession may be the only remaining non-violent opportunity for resolution, the last option before there is war.