“Black people who were never slaves are fighting white people who were never Nazis over a confederate statue erected by Democrats because Democrats can’t stand their own history anymore.. yet somehow it’s Trump’s fault.” — Jeff Laffite Jones
“We must disenthrall ourselves.” – Lincoln
Whenever humans seek to perfect the imperfect world either progress or regress may be the result, but regardless of the result, evil ensues.
Whenever a class of people, self-anointed, seek to impose Utopia on the world, evil ensues.
Whenever a group of people seek to arrogate the power of the people to themselves, evil ensues.
It is not that power corrupts but that some broken people are compelled to corrupt democratically distributed power through statist centralization and media manipulation. If the age of kings was the age of rule by one monarch, the current age drifts towards the rule of many much much smaller kings acting in unison.
This is the age of the Mini-Monarchists; of rule by the faction of “Little Hitlers.” Their accouterments are not uniforms and stark symbols, but cap & gown, press passes, Twitter BlueCheckists, and union cards.
Their collective policy and plan for the nation is Plague.
All Faction, no matter the origin or ideals, is in the end Fascist. The Founders knew Faction and feared it. Much of the Federalist Papers is taken up with the problem of suppressing Faction and the Constitution is the carefully wrought attempt at a solution to it. Of course, the Founders also knew that Faction as Fascism is never finished except by fire and fire alone. This is why, in the Founders’ founding document, the Declaration of Independence, they included this provision,
“when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
As the Founders knew from their own experience, this is much easier said than done. Sustaining such a government was even harder. Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation:
“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic,” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.”
One can witness, daily, new attempts at usurpations of power and overturning free elections as the current matched set of “ruling elites” tries to undo the will of the People and plunge the country into anarchy. Indeed, it seems that there is little in American political life that has not, since November, had some appointed group of malign Faction assigned to it for purposes of some dubious transformation. On every hand, on “news shows,” on social media platforms, and elsewhere one can witness an endless stream of baseless vituperation and spite aimed at overturning the ship of state.
H.L. Mencken, no stranger to realpolitik in the United States once put it this way, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
An American president during the shooting phase of the last Civil War put it this way:
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” — Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address
And deeper still into history we can remember another time of great plagues:
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. — Exodus 10
In both instances, the only solutions that could be found were not greater control of the people by the Faction, but greater freedom for the people from all Faction. And until they found that freedom again, the plagues only continued.
First composed and written Aug 16, 2017
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Damn, that gave me goosebumps.
George Washington owned slaves so the american communists should storm Washington DC and burn it down.
Maybe they’ll get their collective heads blowed clean off in the process.
Or, if they are successful maybe then we’ll finally be “free at last, free at last, thank god almighty free at last.”
And for the collective good of humanity, may the strongest tribe win.
Thank you for an excellent description of our situation.
The question erupting from your report is: How, in a society of millions are those millions to express themselves for their mutual benefit without forming factions, interest groups, whose methods include gaining dominance for achievement of the group’s, the faction’s, purpose?
“express themselves”
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Another over used and retarded term that didn’t exist until lately, contrived by imbeciles that were not raised properly by their spawners, instead developing into narcissist nihilists consumed with envy and self doubt. Worse than useless.
Great essay. The left excels at collectivism and the power of Faction. Group think unity makes them strong. Conservatives, who cherish independent thought, are no match for the power of the hive mind. We cannot unify with the cacophonous blare of leftist media drowning out all by right-thinking messages. It sure is a pity.
Humm a Trump supporter citing the founding documents, better be careful or you’ll get call that thing Trump supporters called those who cited the constitution, document fetishist? Or was is parchment?
Oh and some of those people are nazis, they believe in nazism and some of them are actual kkkers. The black people are being led astray by bullshite. That bullshite was fed to them by mostly white progressives. They’ve been screwing poor people over for ever and black people in particular. It makes it easy when the progs run the schools and make sure most black don’t get to learn anything but EXACTLY what they are told and they are told ahead of time that anything else anyone else tells them, including history is a damn lie.
While everyone is screaming to high heaven about LARPing Nazis, antifa & blm are dutifully following the script of their Brownshirt predecessors. After all, they’re fighting fascism, right? Reminds me of Invaders From Mars when the space monster Martians chant “We come in peace” as they disintegrate everything in their path. The Great Inversion just clicked up another notch. I didn’t think it possible.
JWM
“Mars Attacks”, not “Invaders From Mars”.
JWM
JWM describes why we need to form interest groups — to defend our lawful, fair interests against the factions of termites aiming to destroy our rights.
Fairness to all members is an aim of all lawful civilized societies.
“Fairness to all members is an aim of all lawful civilized societies.”
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You have more stuff than me, that’s not fair.
Give me a lot of your stuff until we both have the same amount.
That will be fair.
A small skirmish initiates when your neighbor Karen calls the authorities on your ass over some trivial neighborhood “rule” that she thinks you have violated. The authorities issue you a fine to pay. Couple months later Karen no longer exists anywhere on this planet. Her essence has been melded with the atmospheric ions. And so on and son on, tyranny gets erased one molecule at a time.
We cannot “disenthrall” ourselves because over many generations we are led to think in the language of our enemies. As John Derbyshire said, life in a series of one bubble popping after another. For some. Some few, some happy few. But what did Menchin think?
“The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history… the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.”
Or as the man also said, soldiers left for the war representing their individual states, and returned representing one.
I always wondered why all those anarchist BLM and Antifags never have any concerns about all that massive burning and destruction they do possibly causing more of that “Global Warming” stuff they are so terrified over? Geesh, they’re not HYPOCRITES, are they?
Ghost- I probably have more ammo than most people do, and maybe more than you have.
I’d be more than happy to give you and my friends a bunch of it if & when the need arises.
I’ll also be happy to give a bunch of it to libtards, too- but only the lead parts, and at a much higher speed of delivery.
That sounds pretty fair, right?
I worry and fret almost continuously.
I keep looking for opposition to each new assault, threat, executive order, or bs narrative (FBI says that white supremacists, etc.).
I get excited when Jim Jordon or Cruz or Kennedy from Louisiana lay into them.
It goes nowhere.
Where is the round up of the global pedophiles?
Why is Hillary not in the slammer?
Why aren’t the gibbets festooned with their rotting corpses?
How can Schumer, a Jew, say nothing about in-your-face anti-semitism?
I got colleagues who speak with smug righteousness of “critical whiteness studies” and “the patriarchy.” I want to smash their teeth.
What happened to Barr and Durham and all the indictments that were coming any time?
It is hopeless to talk to useful-idiot “friends,” who continue to praise Fauci and Biden no matter what news comes out. They merely repeat the same lines—“He’s been a top scientist for 4o years!” “He’s a real statesman.”
Yet, these same persons are rational in other matters.
Hume was right. Reason is merely a device used to collect evidence to support beliefs that are rooted deeply in emotions.
It’s impossible even to discuss it with my wife—Lucretia de Borgia de Boyle.
“Yes, but Trump…..”
For God’s sake, woman! Is that supposed to be a smart reply?”
Next day, more assaults, threats, etc.
But in the end, what’re they gonna do? Put 80 million of us in solitary?
Confiscate weapons?
Start another war?
Go for it!
We survived the Depression and World Wars.
We got sacks of silver coins.
We got enough stuff to outfit a platoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOEXaRsT3s
If it weren’t for youse guys……..
Crap! Out of vodka!
Lance sed: “Hume was right. Reason is merely a device used to collect evidence to support beliefs that are rooted deeply in emotions.”
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Good one! And true. My problem with most of the current events that are rumored is that I have had no direct contact with any of them. So they remain in the mostly “fictional” basket. They seem unbelievable. With that in mind, if I am out and about and encounter some of this insanity directly I may just stand there transfixed and stare, like seeing a UFO the first time, unbelieving what my lying assed eyes are showing me. However, if the spectacle decides to go physical there will be no hesitation on my part. I will seek the closest exit sign and if none are available there will be the laying of long waste. Years of nightmares and psychological therapy will ensue for the ignorantly retarded. I know the future, that’s why I stay on the compound. It’s peaceful here.
My, my! Look how far we’ve come in just shy of four summers. Kinda pickin’ up speed, too…
Satrap System of Ancient Sakas in India. The pressure from the Parthians (Iranians) and later from Kushanas, the Shakas got divided into 5 branches with their different seats of power at different places in modern Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. These rulers were known as satraps and Mahasatraps.
Sounds like what we be heading toward.
They call them “Warlords” in Somalia.
Interesting, came back to revisit this three times now. Being a stoic, can’t worry about what I can’t change.
A stranger two weeks ago looked in the back seat of my pickup, saw an m4, an ar10 Wilson sniper rifle and two glocks. Lots and lots of ammo and spent ammo.
The guy looks at me seriously and asks,,,,,What Are You Afraid of. I laugh and say not a dam thing, !
God I crack myself up!
Village idiot