Why The Left Fears The Right

Guest post from John Wilder at Wilder Wealthy Wise.

“Oh, haven’t you noticed?  We’ve been sharing our culture with you all morning.” – 300

TRUTH

When I was a five or so, my parents had horses.  One of the horses had a foal (baby horse for you city folk), and Pa Wilder brought the foal and the mare (momma horse) into the barn – it was brutally cold, and the barn was much warmer.  They brought me down to see the foal.  It was young and awkward as new horses are.

Inside the stall was a series of closely spaced rails in a square, about four feet by six feet.

I asked, “What’s that for, Pa?”

“Well, when the foal is in here, he’ll find that he can’t walk across the bars.  His hooves won’t quite fit.  That will train him so he won’t do that when he gets older.”

Even at five, I had seen cattle guards and knew cows wouldn’t try to cross them.  But here was a horse.

CATTLE

From Library of Congress.

“Won’t he try to jump over the cattle guard, Pa?”

“Some horses, the smart ones, will figure out and a cattle guard won’t work on them.  But most don’t.  Heck, you can just paint parallel lines on an asphalt road and some horses won’t try to cross them.”

The little training bars were a device, a device to train the horse that he was in a prison made up of parallel bars on the ground.  In that, the horse restricted his own freedom.

In the last post (Money, Power, Politics, and Soros), I discussed the difference between Money and Power.  I actually finished most of the last post before I wrote the conclusion.  Money and Power as described through most of the post were entirely materialistic concepts.  Ending it with just that discussion wasn’t right, since the theme of my writing is often to balance the material with the concepts of spirit and virtue.  We live in a material world, but the reason we live is for a purpose greater than this moment.

Freedom isn’t important to either Money or Power; Freedom is actually the enemy of both Money and Power.  Throughout most of recorded history in the West, when either Money or Power get too out of balance, there is a backlash, and Freedom eventually wins.

It has for thousands of years.

And it will again.  I firmly believe that the destiny of the West is in the hands of those who love Freedom, especially in the United States.

Why?

The Left is utterly afraid of the Right.  Though they put forward a great front – they are shaking.  The American people on the Right compose the largest potential army in the history of the world.

The numbers:

There are at least 400,000,000 guns in private hands in the United States by one estimate.  That seems right.

There are 800,000 or so cops.  Assume they have two guns each.  Heck, assume they have three.  Round up.  Three million guns.  The Military in the United States owns about 4.4 million guns.  Round up.  That’s a total of less than 10 million guns in the hands of the United States government or other governmental authorities.  And that assumes that they stand with the government, which is questionable at best.

Assume only 35% of the American public owns guns, a number I think is very low.  Call it 100,000,000 people.  Assume that those owners skew mostly Right – 80/20?  That’s 80,000,000 on the Right.  Let’s do 80/20 again on those that will not stand for a communist uprising in the United States.  That’s 16,000,000 Americans ready to stand in the breach.  The largest army in the history of the world (so far) were the United States armed forces in 1945:  12,000,000 Americans under arms.

I’ll state it again:  American people on the Right have the potential to compose the largest army in the history of the world.  Period.

People on the Right, men and women, also have more and better training for field conditions.  I’d put The Mrs. up against most people on the Left if it came to a rural setting, because Leftists have no idea that trees are even made of wood, and I doubt that many on the Right will want to make the Stalingrad mistake and get caught in the cities as Leftists consume themselves.  How many people on the Right have their homes on the market to escape from Minneapolis?  From Seattle?  From any of dozens of cities where they know that they no longer belong?

I have no idea.  But they’d be fools to stay.

And even though we have the numbers on our side, there’s more good news.  We don’t even need overwhelming numerical superiority:

  • How many apostles peacefully changed the religion of Europe?
  • How many Spartans defended all of Western Civilization at Thermopylae?

“But John,” you say, “most all of the people in your examples died for their cause.”  Yes, they did.  And we remember them for that, because they changed the world.  Thousands of years before Robert Heinlein said it, they knew the truth of his quote:  “You can have peace.  Or you can have freedom.  Don’t ever count on having both at once.”

Besides, everyone is going to die.  Is it better to be a Leonidas or a St. Peter?

Obviously, it is.

Don’t be like Ephialtes (LINK).

We outgun the Left.  We have Truth, capital T, on our side.  The other day Vox Day had this inspiring clip at his blog (LINK).

It was a good clip, and one I’d forgotten.  So we watched the movie again tonight – it’s one that could not be made by Hollywood® today.  That clip also makes the point I tried to make earlier much more eloquently than I ever could.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI6sARmxEuc&w=560&h=315]

The Black Riots Lives Matter riots are demoralizing to people of good character.  This is intentional.  The riots are meant to make you feel alone.  The riots are meant to make you feel that the Right has already lost.

The Right has not lost.

How did the Modern Sporting Lawyer make you feel?

STLOU

That’s why he and his wife are condemned.  That’s why they have vowed to cancel him, to make an example of them, to find a way to charge them with crime.  They are the opposite of demoralization.

The Modern Sporting Lawyer and his wife drive the Left crazy.  Here, their desire to destroy as a senseless mob was turned back by only two people.

Can you imagine if the Right was united?  I can.

The corollary is obvious:  quit fighting each other in the right.  Stop.  People don’t believe in your exact brand?

You can’t stand Libertarians?  You can’t stand Lutherans? Baptists? Catholics? Vox Day?  That atheist friend that doesn’t mind Christianity but still believes in freedom?  The idea to fix our situation isn’t exactly yours?

Too bad.

We are in the same foxhole.  Stop (metaphorically) shooting each other.  Now.  If you’re not with us, you’re against us.  And if you’re fighting us, you’re against us.

How do you know if you’re with us?

  • We like building statues, not tearing them down.
  • We like building civilization, not tearing it apart.
  • We like the reason of facts and truth, not the politically correct statement of the moment.
  • We like justice based on law, not the social justice of the mob or judges that twist “shall not” into “sometimes.”
  • We like a culture of honor, not a culture of victimhood due to the self-imposed prison.

And that is the difference.  The Left is bitter.  The Left is seething.  The Left is angry.

Why?  Because, just like the foal with the cattle guard, they’ve made themselves prisoners.  They’ve forgotten that becoming a prisoner might not be a choice for a horse, but it is for a person.  But for the Left, that prison mentality is preferred.

The prison mentality is the chosen mentality of the Left.  They see themselves as weak.  Since they see themselves as weak, there is no choice but to hate themselves for that weakness.  But outwardly, the Left rationalizes that weakness as being, somehow, good.  They have to, because that’s all that stands between them and the unending self-hate.  The Left raises an “anything goes” sexuality and sensuality to the highest plane because they are rooted in the Material, and cannot understand the Spiritual, the Transcendent.

The Right rejects that.  All of it.

Sex isn’t a virtue, chastity is a virtue.  Sex isn’t evil, but making it the focus of your life is no different than any other addiction – it is a vice.  But which of those does the Left celebrate?  Inside, they know that it’s wrong, and that also fills them with self-hate.

Because of that hate, and seek to make the Right weak like them.  How?  By demoralizing the Right, by taking virtues and attacking them while publicly celebrating things we use to call sin.  By coming up with never ending list of impossible demands and nonsensical redefinitions of the English language on an ever more frequent basis.  Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has recently been excommunicated from the Left for being brazen enough to indicate that women might be, well, women.

ROWLING

The Right has built Western Civilization, and built it with a compassion for the weak.  That makes the Left hate the Right even more.  They seek to make us doubt our morals and virtue:  everyone is racist, every historical figure is fatally flawed.  That is justification enough in the minds of the Left to tear down everything that has made their prosperity and wealth transfer possible.  The Left makes no real art, just caricatures of the genius that has gone before, photographs of Christ soaking in urine.  The Left is a parasite that, failing to create, destroys.

But those games won’t work anymore.  The Right is strong.  The Right is virtuous.  The Left seeks to build nothing because that is the province of the Right.  And to the Left, those who are strong and build statues to the virtues of flawed men are evil.

Was Columbus perfect?  No.  Did he open up a New World?  Yes.  How many people in Mexico City would prefer to revert to the charnel house of the Aztecs?  Some, but every hand that goes up will belong to a member of the Left.

The Right is not evil.  We hold the light of Freedom, of civilization, of the future of mankind in our hands.  Why?  Because they could never build it.  The Left seeks to delegitimize our moral achievement, because they feel small and envious next to those that compete and create.

Remember, the Soviets never looked stronger than they did immediately before they collapsed.

I don’t think we will win.

I know we will win.  We are the foals that recognize the painted lines on the asphalt for the lie that they are.  We are the horses that realize that they have the strength to jump over the cattle guard that we used to think was our prison.

PAINT

From Library of Congress.

I feel sorry for those who stand against the Right when we find our backs are to the wall.  We have created the most powerful and free and prosperous culture in history.  The Right doesn’t know its own strength.  But it will learn, and the Left is afraid.

We will win.  Maybe not this year.  Maybe not next year.  Maybe not even in the next decade.  And the future won’t look like the past – that past is what led us to this crisis.  We have the opportunity to remake our civilization, to remake America and to make it better.

And we will make it better.

And we will win.

We always have.

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Steven
Steven

Soldier

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Very pukable Rah Rah speech. Too bad it’s not true.
The right is the group that won’t jump the painted lines. Pretending to wait till The Commies come out to them.

TC
TC

I’m afraid you’re right, Flea. More than half of the “Conservatives” will gladly turn in their AR-15 as long as a Republican asks them to do it.

daniel
daniel

b-b-but banning bumpstocks was 4-d! we didn’t need them anyway because they’re dangerous! trust the plan! trust sessions! own the shitlibs. trump 2016

StackingStock
StackingStock

No masks, no social distancing, no corona and most important no BLM to be seen.

LIVE CAMERA Nevskiy avenue St. Petersburg Russia

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yup. If their guy says so it must be ok….they are such freakin sheeple

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s fine, half still leaves millions.

Steve
Steve

Nobody’s with a brain is turning in shit. In NJ nobody even turned in their 10+ magazines.

Common Cents
Common Cents

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Vince Lombardi

Jaz
Jaz

Fleabaggs, In theory he is correct. The problem is the reality we have had right up this day. Is it too simplistic to say that most ‘conservatives’ are too comfortable and thereby apathetic to actually fight back?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Jaz.
Theory doesn’t count. For today I’m from Missouri.

Jaz
Jaz

Fleabaggs, glad to see you walking the walk and being the real deal.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Gosh Flea, you could not even give me 2 comments of time to lie to myself and believe the drivel I just read. Damn you and your realism, facts, and reality and truths. Damn you.

Auntie Kriest

“What is your profession?”
– John Wilder

Military professional.

The mission then was to incinerate the Enemy if required. Auntie, thinks, along with Wilder, those times are coming again, soon.

The video clip from 300 had the hair on my neck standing on end.

Anonymous1
Anonymous1

When a Conservative goes to school, they thinks: “well, I should choose a field that will pay me a good wage, like the building trades, welding, plumbing, engineering, etc”

When a Liberal goes to school they think: “well, how can I fulfill my fantasy, and get that dream job, where I can work the least, and get paid the most, like: teaching, studying feminism, the history of black opression, etc”

It is very simple to see how the lines are drawn at a very early age:

one seeks to build, produce, make things
the other seeks to live off the taxes of former.

when the usurpers find out that there is no more money, as they have chased away the producer, they turn what is left of their cities, into little Somalia’s, they become pirates, attempting to extract wealth using the mob tactics.
They turn on each other, as seen in all these violent shit hole democrat run cities.

Anonymous
Anonymous

They can burn buildings and tear down monuments.
We will rebuild and re-cast the metal from memory when they’re finished and gone.
That’s the difference between us and them.

General
General

I know what profession I am.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“Near this spot
Samuel Whittemore,
then 80 years old,
killed three British soldiers,
April 19, 1775. He was shot, bayoneted
beaten and left for dead,
but recovered and lived
to be 98 years of age.”
~Samuel Whittemore 1696-1793~

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away … but the truly exceptional will live as memories, their names and deeds etched as legend into stone.

Doctor de Vaca

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anthony aaron
anthony aaron

Thanks for finding the stone …

e.d. ott
e.d. ott
Yahsure
Yahsure

I read that our American revolution was actually fought by a small percentage of the population. Now its the left and their small percentage of queer folk who seem to be setting the agenda. They have the media on their side and control the flow of information. The next few years should be interesting.

Two if by sea. Three if from within.
Two if by sea. Three if from within.

Approx 3 percent fought for our early hopes. The rest didn’t want to lose their shit.

navionpa
navionpa

The 3% number was made by John Adams, 30 years after the war. As an example at the end of the day, 19, April, 1775, there were approximately 14,000 milta, troops around Boston.
Furthermore, from about 1773, there wasn’t any English control in New England outside of Boston.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Very inspirational. If you understand the purpose of propaganda is to control and demoralize the masses then I have to believe the times we are living in have the greatest amount of that filth ever. I think any decent person has to feel everything is a lost cause at times because things are trending from bad to worse and we forget that there are many others who see the same things and have the same outrage and fury burning inside them.

No different than the time you were bullied by someone and eventually had your fill, no matter if you won or lost the confrontation you still stood your ground.

Come back with your shield or on your shield.

nkit
nkit

aut cum scuto aut in scuto

ScalpelSharp
ScalpelSharp

Afghanistan held off the Soviets for 7 years with essentially handguns and rifles as a whole. They held off the USA for 18 years. Both with top of the line war fighting technology. What are we up against?…Antifa and BLM protestors and maybe gay/lesbian/binary angry units. Example; How many suburbs were burned down in Minnesota? This will probably be the first time, exception of the colonist, that Americans are willing to fight to the death and give their lives. I am. The other side is not willing to die. They are not even willing to get hurt.

Jaz
Jaz

ScalpelSharp, wait until they ‘officially’ team up with China . They are releasing violent criminals from prison to be their army. Rural America may be like Afghanistan but the cities will not be.
Move out of the cities, it’s much harder for them to control small groups scattered about.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The problem that nobody sees is the pent up frustrations of years of pc bullshit. Many people, normal people in mundane jobs can and will make these hardened criminals piss their pants and weak in the knees with the nefarious unemotional pain and suffering they can and will cause without any remorse. They have been bossed around, bitched at by wives, told by the govt they cannot discipline their kids, had their wealth stolen with massive taxes while bums fuck white girls and get high all day with their tax dollars, get cheated by insurance companies. You have no idea the pent up frustration. It will make the movie falling down look like a fuckin smurf cartoon. Remember the tv series “revolution”? The black guy that everyone feared. He was a former insurance agent before the lights went out. He was the most feared in the movie. Recently you read the national news about the insurance agent in costco with his wife without a mask and some old bitch got all up in his business with her video phone and he went beserk on her ass. Verbally this time. This time.

That cpa or dentist. They are dying to unleash a certain amount of seriously pent up freakish hell on people they blame for decades of a shit stressful life. While these same lazy fucks well, were smoking pot being lazy. You all have zero clue how much these kittens as you call them on the right can turn into angry beasts. They may not be bad asses with muscles and tattoos but they have brains and money and go for maximum effect when they do lash out. In epic fashion. Beware of that average joe when shtf. There is a certain percentage that will become bad asses of folk lore. Jus sayin.

Jaz
Jaz

I can only hope it goes as you say.

Mygirl....Maybe

Operation Cyclone was a CIA funded op that supplied munitions and rocketry to the mujahadeen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Without that support it is highly likely that the Soviets would have ‘won.’
When the Soviets threw in the towel the US took over and it was Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Russia who then supplied the Taliban. There was never a need to do much in Afghanistan except to guard the poppy fields and keep the soviets at bay while allowing the internecine religious strife to take it’s toll. The usual profiteers made millions ‘rebuilding’ the country while Bush moved on into Iraq to destabilize it ala the Wolfowitcz doctrine. Stating that the Taliban ‘won’ is like thinking there was a real war, which there wasn’t. All quasi wars post WWII were and are exercises to keep the Military Complex and it’s subsidiaries in business.

We aren’t up against the idiots in the BLM and Antifa, we are up against the hidden agenda that pushes and promotes them. Isn’t is odd that defending oneself against their onslaughts results in punishment for the defenders while the malefactors are set free? They are merely the front, the real action is with the communist dems, DA’s, governors and others of that ilk. Without the politically sanctioned bias against white, non-communist folk the aforementioned groups would fold like cheap suits.

Jaz
Jaz

Mygirl….Maybe, absolutely. The useful idiots will be terminated when TPTB are done with them. Interestingly, nobody is inquiring about who Biden’s puppeteers are? It does not take a genius to see China but who else?
As I said elsewhere here: the military can win when there are no ROE and there will not be when they come after the Right.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Me? My profession? If I told you, well, you know the rest…..

Known Associate
Known Associate

Thank you John Wilder… It’s time to abandon the whorehouses of the leftist {{controllers}} i.e. FB, Twits, Googs, etc and just disappear, go grey. Form bonds with neighbors and friends of like minds. Know that others are doing so with the tools of old, pen and paper, horses and wooden ships so to speak. As the lefties used to say not long ago, be calm and wait for the signs.

We have seen some of our best thought leaders be de-platformed, or simply unplug, or for some of our older veterans, give up and go feed the bears. There are many more who have never been heard from. Those are the 100,000,000 patriots and soldiers. It starts with the withdrawal of consent and participation in the houses of the unholy and ends in the defense of the holy, whenever the unholy think they have a shot.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Professional Engineer-robust understanding of ballistics

Steve
Steve

I’d like to contribute my new Smith-Wesson Performance Center AR10 in 6.5 with a Primary Arms 3.5x18x50 scope to the fight. Too bad I already lost it in a boating accident. Dam that was a fine rifle.
I think last month had the highest arms sales ever. Yeah, we’re ready.

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