Guest Post by The Zman
Elections in America have always been contentious things, as the point of them is to get all sides as agitated as possible. If you wanted to find the point at which our elections turned ugly it would be when the concept of turnout became the focus. The surest way to get your guys motivated to vote is to convince them that the alternative is pure evil, the worst thing imaginable. Since one side will always lose, it means something close to half the country is always angry at the result.
The thing is though, it was always a game and most people got it. The candidates would say the vilest things about one another, but then carry on like old pals during a debate, showing the world they did not really mean those things. In fact, this is why the Left has controlled the country. Everyone else has always been sure the Left was not really serious about what they were saying. Despite it all, many people remain convinced that the Left today is just putting on a show.
That may be one of the factors creating the current crisis. The eruption of mass media over the last couple of decades puts the Left in our face all the time. There is no escaping politics today, which means there is no escaping the Left. Watch a sporting event and there will be lefty political preaching. Check the weather for your trip to the beach and you get a lecture on global warming. Go outside and you see people wearing three masks in their car, letting you know they are in that cult.
Of course, social media is like standing in front of a firehose. Even if you only want to follow something banal like entertainment news, you will be drenched in political commentary, almost entirely from the Left. The carnies all fashion themselves as philosophers now. The athletes have made politics a feature of their act. These are the dumbest, crudest people in our society, but they are sure you need to know what they have to say about current events.
There is another part to this. Along with not being able to escape the left-wing crazies, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is no living with them. Politics, regardless of the system, is about compromise. The opposing sides find some middle ground that they can accept or some combination of their proposals that prevent either side from feeling cheated by the other. In a democracy, compromise is based on the understanding that both sides want what is best.
How do you reach a compromise with someone who thinks invisible men from a faraway land used mind control to change an election? On top of that, they were perfectly willing to destroy the country over it. If one side is sure the other side is evil, there can never be a compromise. The best you can get is a truce in the hostilities, but eventually one side will attack again. After all, any compromise with evil is immoral on its face, so the only more thing to do is confront it.
Take a look at this tweet from a man who is the former Director of CIA & NSA. He is convinced that we need to round up citizens and put them in concentration camps because they said things he does not like. The regime has already imprisoned dozens of people on trumped up charges. America is now a country with political prisoners being tortured while in prison. This ghoul wants to institutionalize the persecution and torture of Americans who disagree with official policy.
How can you compromise with a person who literally wants you dead? Even if you dismiss him as a fanatic, look at the responses. The people replying to him are both demented and delusional. It is not unreasonable to say that many of them are suffering from a form of mental illness. If you think the capitol protests were an insurrection or comparable to a terrorist attack, you need to be institutionalized. There is no reasoning or compromising with someone in this condition.
The thing is, of course, is the majority of the ruling class truly believes they are confronting an invisible army of white supremacists. If you polled the media, you can be sure that the overwhelming majority think the protestors are getting off easy. At the same time, they think the two blacks who killed the Uber driver in DC were given rough justice, because racism. We live with people who think it is fine for blacks to murder people, but you cannot question the results of the last election.
The old civic nationalist response to this is “well we just have to make sure to vote for the Republicans in the next election.” Even if conservatives were something other than apologists for their masters on the Left, it does not change the fact that close to half the country wants to murder you. They are not going to lose an election and then think, “Geez, maybe I don’t need to murder that guy with the Trump flag.” Instead, they are going get even more deranged and murderous.
Again, politics has always been contentious, and the Left has always thought they were on a holy mission against the forces of evil. The pretty lie that made it possible to live together was that we all wanted what was best for the country. Like a couple realizing they no longer love one another, we have reached the point where we know we can no longer live with that 20% called the Left. The only possible compromise is with ourselves, which is just another way of describing surrender.
If there is to be a solution to the current crisis it will come when enough white people give up on this relationship with the Left. The people living in whites-only neighborhoods chanting about antiracism are beyond reason. The people demanding the state torture citizens who question official policy can never be trusted. The only peaceful solution is peaceful separation. The only compromise is how best to divvy up the property and even that is only to expedite the divorce. It is time to move on.
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It is impossible for a peaceful separation in a relationship when:
– the other party is a vindictive, powermad, raving psychotic.
– the other party depends on you financially yet loathes you to a depth unplumbable by any line for that.
– the other party fears you will be better off without them, thus negating their sense of their indispensibility to you.
Marriages, business deals, governments – it is the same dynamic.
Lawyers help you with the first two, lots of guns with the third.
Amen. Witness the BLM leader who just bought a house in a 98%+ non-black ‘hood instead of South Central.
All Patriotic Americans should be supporting Texans Seceding from WDC when they vote on 2Nov2021, and then all Red States and counties rapidly joining that choice themselves. If the bankrupt and disarmed blue states realize they are a small minority riding a dead horse, there will be no invasion of the free people and no Civil War like in 1861. Conservatives and Moderates will be free of the illegal communist coup to re-establish our Constitutional States without firing a shot. It will be a pleasure, frankly, to watch the blue areas twist and wither one by one into absolute Democratic Socialist Shitholes.
So voting suddenly became honest and trustworthy? I live in an area that is rapidly becoming blue. Is that because people are voting that way or because GA has one of the most corrupt election processes in the nation and the recent law will do little to nothing to fix any of it?
I think we should really use the word divorce instead of secession. It is more like a divorce.
When all states joined the Union it was a thriving success; now, it’s a loveless shell of its former self. And (pun intended) God knows, Americans have no problems divorcing, as our numbers reflect. Secession sounds sinister somehow, so let’s drop it and go with divorce — a much more socially acceptable term.
Because I’m tired of this crazy bitch, we have nothing in common anymore and we both would like to see the other dead.
Divorce of an abusive spouse is an appropriate analogue.
“The surest way to get your guys motivated to vote is to convince them that the alternative is pure evil, the worst thing imaginable. Since one side will always lose, it means something close to half the country is always angry at the result.”
But what if it’s true? What if the Hypocrats really ARE the worst thing imaginable? Based on what we’ve seen so far, it just might be true.
Let’s be totally honest with ourselves …. WE want them dead and gone as well! NTTAWWT.
The divorce has ALREADY happened.
This is what I mean. I got divorced after 19 years of marriage. But, that’s merely the official writ of divorce … that written piece of paper. However, realistically and in fact, we were divorced from each other many years prior to that piece of paper. Likewise, I am divorced from the Left for a very long time now.
Obviously, there can be no compromise or peace with people who want you dead and your children for their sexual playthings…Doubt that separation will be peaceful, but separation is completely essential…Best way is probably that States run by our side simply ignore all Federal laws and regulations that are unConstitutional….which is most of them…
The Zman gets it. However, most on the right will not get it until it is too late, if then. Battered wife syndrome is real.
I agree completely with this article. Time for America to turn into two countries.
Or fifty!
New name: Europe West.
Yes! And NOW! I agree we need to use the word ‘Divorce’ and frequently. Most people are too dumbed down to understand session anyway and of course the Left uses it to scare all the dumb asses; “the rebels are coming with cannons!’. ‘Oh my gawd, its a Confederate flag!
I cannot stand this bunch and living in ‘effing’ Clown World got old about 5 minutes after it started!
DIVORCE Now!
SEsession.
FIFY
Otherwise, I agree!
A message to my State reps, etc.
I hope, as I last wrote you, that you and others in State Leadership are moving toward assertively protecting our State’s Civil Rights by strongly resisting the MANY un-Constitutional usurpations being thrust upon us. The officers of the Federal Government, including Our State’s Representatives and Senators, are illegally serving in a criminal cabal. At least 7 states ran illegal elections outside of their Constitutional agreement with the other states. Just as in a marriage, when a spouse is cheating the other spouse is under no obligation to maintain the relationship. The fact that courts, including the US Supreme Court refused to hear the cases and evidence, both proactively before and after the fact, only highlights the depth of our Nation’s fall. Please work to join with other Liberty-minded States to negotiate a separation from the illegal US Federal Government.
The basic sides will play out mostly along economic and tribal interests. Tribal interests are, in their essence, economic, but culture and skin color help to coalesce them.
So everything will basically come down to economic interests. Blue cities are blue due, for the most part, to federal funding. Some state funding, yes, but the feds have the printing press, so fed funding is predominant. If that gravy train is disrupted, you can bet on a resetting of political lines.
Much of what we know as the positions of the “left” will dry up and blow away in a civil war. Imagine how the various sectors of the “left” would be affected by turning off the EBT benefits in a dark blue city for two months. How would the fractures between minorities, unions, journalists, local oligarchs, gov’t employees, LGBTQRSetc., and feel-good liberals be exposed? Then apply that to a civil collapse or a civil war…
Feminism will go away, period. Women will need men to protect them and their children from other men who would enslave them. Full stop.
Homosexuality, love-is-love, gender-bending, etc. will all just be perversions on the other side of the tracks, like they used to be. Falsifying political power for a mere 2 percent of the population would be pointless.
Climate Change and Environmentalism are not concerns when you are desperately trying to find your next meal.
Equally pointless is concern for the oppressed, the down-trodden, the poor, or the “your-fellow-man.” Charity starts at home, and homes, with strong families, will be a survival priority.
State power will fracture into smaller, more easily organized units, and their success will depend upon the delivery of safety, resources, and stability. Only after safety and resources are secured will alliances (and thus centralization) be created to create stability. There will be some overlap, of course.
Cities will collapse into anarchy. Then, those that have natural advantages, such as resources, harbors, strategic locations, trade routes, etc. will be rebuilt along new political lines.
Personality politics will evaporate. The left already drops leaders like used tissues. What current leftist politician can you imagine maintaining any political pull if the shtf? What a joke. The only current politicians that could possibly have a civil war following are on the right. And even that is doubtful.
Consider the people who are reported to defend themselves with firearms. The vast majority of them are conservative leaning. So, while many will complain that “nobody does anything,” when it comes down to it, they sure do. Also, consider the huge number of new gun owners in the last year. I’d say that is a perfect example of political lines being redrawn. Lots of lefty’s have been coming to terms with what happens beyond their limited political fairy-land.
To cut to the chase, “Blue” will prove to be completely unsustainable. “Red” will also fracture to some extent, but will reform. And the new face of the politics will likely play out upon racial, religious, or local-cultural lines.
And survival will depend upon virtue. Hard work, self-defense, stable relationships, self-sufficiency, cooperation, self-control, sacrifice, and all those other virtues that are so scarce on the left.