This Time, It's Personal!
"Misgender" some gender confused person or stand up for your kids at a school board meeting and you might get a visit from FBI agents and put on Merrick Garland’s naughty list.
I’m sick and tired of the Democrats misidentifying what happened on 1/6 as an “insurrection”. I understand that to recognize the reality is to destroy the narrative they have so aggressively constructed, but it is a brazen lie. Biden did it in a speech this weekend at the 40th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service. Pelosi never misses an opportunity to use the word.
The constant demonization feels a lot like war, does it not?
But the animosity runs deeper than just war, the left now seeks political genocide – a political Holocaust - a complete elimination of anyone and anything that opposes them. Akin to their communist progenitors, they seek not to convince, but to destroy the “counterrevolutionaries” who oppose their glorious people’s revolution and their rightful ascension to permanent positions of power and control.
Now they deny “cancel culture” exists – mostly because it has melted into popular culture and people expect the counterrevolutionaries to be sent to virtual gulags. The same with character assassination – it no longer stands out because it is just what they do to people who misgender some victim of gender dysphoria or offend some mentally ill person by using the wrong pronouns.
If a parent opposes a leftist school board hell bent on inculcating an entire school district through a racist agenda, they used to just get doxed or maybe their employer gets a call about how dangerously racist they are – nowadays, they get a visit from FBI agents and put on Merrick Garland’s naughty list.
The leftist media wants to silence you. There are “journalists” now openly advocating that only the leftist side of any issue should be reported because “fairness” and “neutrality” doesn’t apply when reporting on the crazy right wing.
To the leftist Democrats, you are not just opposition, you are evil.
All of this got me to thinking about how the Democrats have always been subject to the 180-degree Rule – what they say is almost always the opposite of what they do. They always telegraph what they are doing by accusing the opposition of doing it.
I was searching for some material last night and ran across a brilliant article I had bookmarked from 2011. Written by the incomparable James Taranto on January 27th, 2011, it reads:
“America’s liberal left is preoccupied with salacious fantasies of political violence. These take two forms: dreams of leftist insurrection, and nightmares of reactionary bloodshed. The “mainstream” media ignore or suppress the former type of fantasy and treat the latter as if it reflected reality. This produces a distorted narrative that further feeds the left’s fantasies and disserves those who expect the media to provide truthful information.”
“Even odder, many on the left have advanced a false narrative in which the Tea Party is violent. The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg did so in a column last week, in which he was still trying to justify the media’s falsely blaming the right for the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Hertzberg claims that the shooting ‘took place amid a two-year eruption of shocking vituperation and hatred, virtually all of it coming from people who call themselves conservatives,’ and that ‘these realities, and not the malevolence of liberal opportunists, were why, in the immediate aftermath of the crime, the ‘national conversation’ focused on the nation’s poisonous political and rhetorical climate.’
This is bunk. The ‘two-year eruption of shocking vituperation and hatred’ is a media myth…”
That was written a decade ago. See the similarities with the way 1/6 was packaged and sold to the American people? Add to that, the recent efforts to revive and rebrand the Russia collusion hoax, and you can understand the left’s goal of revising history in an effort to politicize everything.
When the personal becomes political, nothing off limits and rational debate is simply not possible. Emotions enter the equation and emotions are far from logical. Anger, hate, and frustration are not rational emotions. Locked into emotional reasoning where being right is measured by how strongly you feel about something, people become reactionary and thoughtless, only focused on from where the next attack is coming, causing people to strike at the one who strikes at them.
Religious Conservatives are ridiculed for our belief in God – ever seen the atheist screed about the “Great Flying Spaghetti Monster“? We are attacked for our reliance on, and reverence for, the US Constitution. We are attacked for our stance on abortion. We are called heartless, greedy, selfish…basically one step below Neanderthals.
Conservatives have just been falsely, yet constantly, accused in a blood libel of “creating an environment of hate” when it is the left that is engaged in the hatred of personalized politics 24/7/365.
In “On War”, Carl von Clausewitz states, “War is politics by other means,” and if true, one can make the case the converse is also true – politics is war by other means. If a foreign power had forced such complete capitulation through attack or invasion rather than by political action, Americans would recognize it as war – largely because it is.
And as they used to say in the promos for the sequels to 80’s action movies – “This time, it’s personal!”