Guest Post by The Zman
For obvious reasons, 2020 will go down in the history books as one of the strangest years in American history. The virus response alone would make it a very strange year, probably an inflection point. It will be the year when the post-normal period in America society started. What may make it the most historically significant year in history is it will be known as the year when partisanship tipped into madness. This is the year when the ruling class went insane and took the rest of us with them.
The latest bout of insanity is over the United States Postal Service conspiracy to subvert the upcoming election. The Left is on their social media platforms warning that Big Stamp is part of a silent coup to award the election to Trump. Fevered lefties are posting pictures of themselves guarding mailboxes. The actress Jaimie Lee Curtis posted this on her Twitter account. The invasion of the mailbox snatchers has become a very real thing for the people on the Left.
How exactly anyone can think the post office is going to rig an election is a lot like the Russian collusion hoax. It is best understood if you don’t think about very much. The ballots go into the mailbox, something magical happens and then Donald Trump steals the election! Instead of the Russians using mind control to alter voter behavior in the voting booth, it is the postmaster using special powers to alter ballots inside the box themselves or perhaps making them disappear.
Of course, given the universality of the Opposite Rule of Liberalism, this means the Left is already hard at work with a plan to spoil ballots in the postal system. Their push for vote by mail is part of an existing scheme to trash votes from Republican areas, while stuffing the mailboxes in Democratic areas. Of course, their street thugs will be justified in burning mailboxes in white areas now. You can be sure Antifa will be staking out the post offices in white areas of the country too.
The legacy Right argues that these antics are just part of the Left’s scheme to gain power and impose their Marxisms on us. This is a recurring theme of Tucker Carlson’s nightly monologues. The Left just wants power! Of course, the Left has power, near absolute power, in fact. They have shut down large swaths of the country just because they are sad about Donald Trump. They now let blacks murder white people without facing real consequences. That’s real power.
Like conservatism itself, this sort of bourgeois objectivism is just a carry-over from the olden thymes when it was assumed reason ruled the day. There must be a reason for why people act a certain way in politics. Money, power and sex were assumed to be the set of plausible reasons for all political corruption. Despite the evidence to the contrary, the legacy Right clings to this mode of thought, mostly because they think to do otherwise opens the door to this sort of analysis.
We are at the point with the virus and now the post office conspiracy to conclude that madness is what lies behind all of this. Partisanship is the heart of liberal democracy, which means it must keep beating to exist. It also requires an antagonist, some group or some concept that it must oppose. It is the enemy that gives the partisan purpose and defines his life. Partisanship is a war against the other. Without the other, the partisan has no object onto which he can aim his fury.
That is where we find ourselves at the end of history. There are no more worlds for the America Left to conquer. They own every square inch of real estate in the high ground of America power. The so-called opposition from the so-called conservatives mostly consists of bowing and scraping. Conservative Inc. is a room full of broken men, crying and groveling for relief. The invisible bogeymen of fascism exist only as avatars on the internet and snarky comments on Twitter.
Without a real enemy, the partisans are left to invent them. It turns out that the Russian collusion hoax just one manifestation. What drove that conspiracy was the belief in secret forces aligned with the evil Donald Trump. Then it was the Ukrainian hoax and now we are dealing with a postal service conspiracy. Even the virus response is explained by this need for an enemy. What should have been a minor inconvenience, was turned into a cultural revolution.
You see the madness in their everyday language. The Left demand “safe spaces” where they get to say what they like, within the confines of current dogma, and they are free of contrary facts or opinions. Note it is not just contrary opinion. The safe space is free of any bits of reality that contradict the faith. That’s why they say language is violence or that silence is violence. The need for an enemy is so strong they are willing to create imaginary ones to play the role.
What will probably set this year apart from all others is that this is the year when the madness reached a point where the majority of white people decided that there is no dealing with these people. How does one even talk to someone who thinks the post office is out to get them? How can you even have a conversation with someone that is sure the Russians rigged the last election? Within living memory people like this were involuntarily committed to lunatic asylums.
Barring a great reversal of current trends, it will become clear to a growing number of white people that the course of events has once again made it necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which connect them with another. There is no way to reach any sort of accommodation with people who think the mailbox is out to get them, so there is no longer any point in trying. Like all busted relationships, the end begins when one party no longer wants to fix it.
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I welcome the divorce.
They always accuse you of what they are doing or intend to do. Therefore, one can be 99% sure their plan of mailing out unrequested ballots to every name on the registration lists is their plan to steal the election. In some places there would be as many as 144 ballots sent out for every 100 eligible, living, and living in district at correct address voters.
How many here still get government or other mailings for your dead parents or grandparents? I do almost every day. If you do it means they are still listed and would get a ballot which anyone could fill out and return. I had to return a stimulus check for my dead Mom.
The problem with a divorce is that while one party sees the writing on the wall and wants to move on with their life, the other party needs their spouse so they have someone to continue to abuse and blame all their woes on.. That is why the blues will fight against a divorce like old Abe fought against the south when they wanted a divorce. The blues need someone to keep kicking and punching. They are not going let us go in peace.
Yes, and the left also needs us tax donkeys.
… the food “we” grow, the energy “we” produce, the labor “we” provide.
Neither side will have a choice in the matter. It’s far too late to put the currency crisis back in the tube.
I get a real bad feeling that we are the husband in this divorce and it isn’t going to go well for us.
The birthing of this new era is more akin to birthing a bastard. Or SOB.
You repeat yourself.
Zman: How in God’s name do you have this much free time to write? GTF outside and plant a damn garden, man!
You’re not wrong … but it is one of the better articles he’s written that Admin has posted.
Someone mentioned commenting on an earlier post that his paragraphs all have the same number of lines – 7 and that Zman might be AI. I have been watching for a couple of weeks and sure enough, 7 lines per paragraph.
TN Patriot:
Tell us more. I personally have not heard of how AI presents itself. Educate us if you will.
Goddammit, I want to be a victim!! Like these niggers!!
Don’t miss the newest Hollywood movie being released, “The Invasion Of The Mailbox Snatchers”. Directed by Michael Moore and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand with a special cameo appearance by Pete Buttigieg. See how terrified masked wearing liberals are guarding mailboxes against the evil Orange Man. They have their special weapons – Gucci, MK and Prada handbags at the ready, clutched in their plastic gloved limp wrists, awaiting the invasion. Lisping in unison, “We’ll swat the savages, put the mark of the designer on them and rescue the mailboxes”! Be sure to see this exciting adult only film at the nearest LGBTQ Theater near you. The first 25 customers will receive their choice of a Harris/Biden or Biden/Harris T-shirt auto graphed by what’s-his-name.
Good comment, Edward.
Ole jamielee would drop that mask like it was on fire to blow an ugly old Jew for that part.
The Zman is on to something. Even a fish needs water to push against. One can’t be a Progressive if there’s just air and nothing to progress against. Then there is the incessant impulse to control other people’s lives that gives meaning to the Progressive’s life. What else would he do? Emptiness is to be avoided at all cost, even one’s sanity.
Zman is right, in the land of Pointed Heads the round-headed man gets ostracized and tormented. And what did someone say? “Swinehood hath no remedy.” There’s the reality.
Don’t see many communists working as farm laborers or pipeliners. They all fancy themselves as Commissars.
This is why they gravitate to positions of power within unions as stewards or union reps. In academia it’s teachers or professors. It’s not enough to manage their own money or time, it’s about managing everyone else’s money and time. Control freaks, the lot of them.
They fancy themselves as intellectual superiors and will never find what some call “inner peace”. With them it’s always class warfare, a struggle, or “mein Kampf”, or jihad.
Why? Because true power evolves from being able to control the Self, not establishing power over others out of chaos. Why else would they take advantage to power through crisis and how many times have they said “never let a crisis go to waste”?
Progressivism thrives on victimhood and crisis creation.
Russian hacking and election interference. Trump’s collusion with Russians. Right wing racism. COVID FUD. Congressional obstructionism with legislation. SCOTUS appointments. Gun control.
I could go on and on. Whatever the hypocrite Progs accuse the Right of doing they’re already guilty of doing the same ten times over. It’s past time the Democrats were declared a terrorist organization like Antifa, BLM, and NGOs loaded with known political subversives because they’re neck-deep in colluding with them due to moral and financial ties.
At some point we will have to fight these lunatics simply because they refuse to leave normal people alone.
“For obvious reasons, 2020 will go down in the history books as one of the strangest years in American history. ”
Unfortunately, I think 10 years from now people will look back at 2020 and say those were the good old days.
RE: the younger brother, who was 15 at the time of the assault [on Weed], “It’s tough to not want some measure of punishment for this young man, but in the juvenile system that’s certainly not the ultimate goal; it’s rehabilitation …”. No, this “kid” got away with murder. I don’t care how remorseful he and his family are, he will kill again.
Zman. You need to learn that “ballot harvesting” is legal. This means any one person can go around and collect signed ballots and drop them off. Essentially it was for the old and invalid so family could bring their ballot. Like all things good, that demoncrats destroy, they now can drop of 25,000 or 100,000 ballots. Now, imagine a group of people are paid $.10c per ballot to forge signatures and Today they are scribing false names and ballots so a Week prior to the election they only need to drive around, anonymously stuffing those little blue USPS boxes. This is what is going on. This is NOT an absentee ballot where your identity is completely verified. This is a printed paper with all blanks and anyone can fill it out. No tracking number to a specific person like an absentee ballot. Best thing we can do is somehow place cameras in no go zones to catch the numerous ballot harvesting that will surely occur. They do not want to have these people walk in boxes of thousands of votes into the surveilled USPS stores. Like telephone booths the mail drop boxes should be removed….
I support voter ID reform laws that tie legal voters to a valid SSN, property ownership, and proof of citizenship. NJ is going with paper ballots sent to all registered voters. These f*cking Prog idiots can’t even manage a DMV branch properly or run a balanced state budget, so you know fraud is going to happen all the way up to the national level.
In a divorce, the lawyers are the only winners. Which group will play the part of the lawyers?
Attorneys, bankers, politicians and corporate exec. are all carpet baggers and parasites. You will also find most them to be the blue of the blue. There are exceptions but, damn few.
Americans, not white people. It’s not just white folks who think people on the left are crazy. I used to be really happy with my state’s political climate and the way people thought. Now the California virus has about taken over and its spread to other states. Remember, about half the country votes to the left. Lots of white people also.
I agree that a divorce is coming. I once read that a longtime marriage counselor could instantly tell if a couple was a hopeless case. The key indicator was if they treated each other with disdain. Contempt. Eye rolling. There was no fixing that.
I realized just recently that if America elects Joe Biden, I no longer care if America survives. A Biden victory would indicate to me that there is nothing left to salvage and a total collapse and rebirth would be a preferable path.
That is exactly how the Left has felt since Trump’s election. They believe that a country that elected Trump doesn’t deserve to survive and they have relentlessly tried to destroy this country since his election. They hate an America that elected Trump.
Both sides have total contempt for each other and like very bad marriage, at this point, there is no hope for any compromise or any type of reconciliation at all. Neither side will accept a loss in the upcoming election. Neither side wants to stay together. This marriage is over.
The only question now is how it plays out.
Good comment. Let’s just hope it doesn’t play out as badly as we expect.