It's Stockholm Syndrome. The "nice" people war-game what resistance to The Left would mean, conclude they wouldn't like what might happen, so they sit down and wait for magic or someone else to stop the decline. The Left hasn't just taken over the country, we've fled the battlefield AND given them our minds as well. Their media is unwatched, yet we multiply it's reach by studiously monitoring every second of it, and trumpeting it to our side.
"The Left demands X, and we invent some rule that happens to mean in this case X might be the outcome.
"There is no rule, there never was a rule. The Left makes demands and we just surrender and mask that surrender with some self-invented rule. No matter how many times we "discover" the rule must not be what we thought, because that would dictate Y, we still keep referring to some rule that ought to bind The Left.
"The Left isn't advancing any rule or bound by any rule, other than They Win.
"We argue about rules, extrapolate the rule into the future, see future bad consequences from the rule, and think we've done something.
"The Left is personally and deliberately gunning for you. You won't find a place to hide, you won't be left alone. You won't moderate your views until they don't think you are a threat. You are a threat simply by being here and no amount of fairness, preemptive explanations about peace, love, and understanding will spare you the treatment they give to their worst opponents.
"The people The Left have targeted in the past weren't targeted because of some excess measure of opposition to Leftism, but because of ANY opposition to Leftism.
"The Lukewarm Republicans, in D.C. and in Mayberry, are helping The Left destroy this country and as long as you believe you or someone else can stop The Left with clever tactics in moderate ways you are giving aid and comfort to those that surrender to every fight with The Left.
"You will get no credit for being the first or last to rush to condemn some Republican politician.
"You will get no credit for being the first or last person to have an opinion on the Confederate flag.
"You will get no credit for welcoming or blocking illegals inside the country.
"If you are 1% less Leftist than Party Secretary Obama, you will be treated as if you were Party Secretary Obama's sworn mortal enemy.
"You are/will be targeted by The Left no matter what so you might as well fight back and take some of them out before you're gone.
"Being "the last Jew to understand where the cattle cars are headed" isn't something to be proud about."
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Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 8, 2015 6:34 PM
Thanks Gerard. Cartoon is perfect.
Posted by: Scott M at July 9, 2015 4:53 PMThanks, Gerard.
You might like this, if you haven't already seen it.
How to insult a "Progressive"
https://youtu.be/lCis1U1nFR0
I had this exact conversation with my brother this morning. We sit around bitching "if a Republican tried to do X, the left would have a fit" as if there is some kind of fair play and all we have to do is point out the hypocrisy of the double standard to win the point.
But the left knows exactly what they're doing. Either I read it here or on AceHQ, I don't remember, but I paraphrase: wipe away that bullshit because they're playing musical chairs and when the music stops we won't have a seat.
AceHQ had a YouTube link to the late, great Andrew Breitbart: "Fuck You... War." That is the only legitimate response to demands from the left. For me, its resistance from here on out.
Posted by: Clinton at July 9, 2015 7:23 PMGreat minds browse alike, Scott. I did see just previous to my nightly weeding of the AD comment sections.
Posted by: vanderleun at July 9, 2015 9:26 PM@Clinton
"Either I read it here or on AceHQ, I don't remember, but I paraphrase: wipe away that bullshit because they're playing musical chairs and when the music stops we won't have a seat."
I've been reading the 'Musical Chairs' comparison more and more of late and it has been getting honed to a razor sharp edge.
Here's my favorite so far:
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"When I was younger and more easily manipulated by propaganda, I was naïve enough to think that being against “racism” meant that everyone should be required to lay down their tribal spears and join one big happy drum circle. I never expected that the more that white people willingly discarded their group identity, the more that other groups would double down on their own. I didn’t think every concession would only bring demands for more concessions.
But over time I wised up and realized it was all a sly game of ethnic musical chairs that ultimately had white people falling on their ass."
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takimag . com/article/the_other_white_meat_jim_goad/print#axzz3ZqhjduCU
(Seen here at AD a couple months ago...)
Posted by: cond0011 at July 10, 2015 9:19 AM
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