Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
One of the most powerful tactics in the left’s arsenal is leveraging the reluctance of conservatives to accept that the foundational reality of our society has changed. We are not a free country in the sense we were just a decade ago – hell, the Durham Report just showed our ruling caste collectively framing a president they disliked and we all know there will be zero consequences. But part of the reason is human nature. The left exploits our normalcy bias, the tendency to assume that things right now are the same as they have always been. Yet, this is not normal. This whole political/cultural morass that America has fallen into is the opposite of normal. And some of us just can’t handle the truth.
They will not accept that this is not the society we grew up in. Hell, it’s not even the society our kids grew up in. It is something wholly other, a society where the norms and rules and guidelines that we thought existed, and that had existed right up until the left took over all of the institutions, no longer exist at all. And the fact is that many conservatives refuse to acknowledge the obvious, because to acknowledge it will require them to take action – radical action, like what Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida to the howling horror of the commies.
This normalcy bias, the assumption that things still work as they used to, is what allows the left to get away with its shenanigans. But nothing works like it used to. It is beyond reasonable argument that the left has infiltrated almost all of our major institutions. Like a virus infecting a healthy cell, leftism takes over our institutions and uses the institutions’ structure to manufacture even more leftism, and that spawn goes and infects more institutions. It has taken over Hollywood, the colleges, the big corporations, and much of the government. It’s got the military, the NFL and, of course, the regime media. The left has shamelessly politicized every single one of them. They now focus not just on their jobs, but on pumping out more leftism. Yet all these institutions still demand the respect that they had back when they were non-political and were dedicated to their actual purposes. The military was about fighting our enemies. The justice system was about prosecuting criminals. The NFL was about football. The beer companies were about providing refreshment to dudes who did not pretend to be chicks.
But none of that is true now. The purpose of every one of these political institutions is now to promote leftism and all its attendant social pathologies, yet they still demand the respect and deference and obedience that they were getting back when they were actually doing their jobs. It’s all a lie. It’s all a scam. These are not the institutions that were once, if not respected, at least tolerated. They are something completely different, but they exploit that habitual, residual respect and, unfortunately, far too many conservatives still give it to them by default.
Conservatives are conservative by nature. They don’t like change in the sense that they prefer the traditional ways of doing things, though a real conservative today must demand change – change back. Conservatives understand that the traditions of freedom and liberty and limited government are the basis of a free society. And the institutions used to be part of that. They used to be essential elements of that, but they aren’t anymore. They are an enemy of freedom and liberty and limited government. It’s just hard for some conservatives, and you know the squishy type, to wrap their collective head around that reality.
That’s why you get people when you’re on the right who see something like the hero Marine subduing the lunatic mutant on the subway, and they immediately assert that we should somehow wait until the justice system grinds the hero into dust before we actually take a stand for him. “What, are we just going to assume any blue state judicial process is unjust?” Yes! Because they are – from framing an ex-president to ridiculous civil suits to this self-defense abomination to the systematic refusal to persecute actual criminals, do you need any more evidence that the justice system in NYC is totally broken? So why the hell should we give it any deference? Get it through your heads. There is no justice system. The justice system is a joke. It’s a clown show. No, strike that – clown shows are funny. This is horrifying, the persecution of American citizens for exercising their God-given rights to dissent or to protect themselves and others. Wake the hell up and smell the stench of weed and Soros Marxism.
So, if we admit the obvious the institutions will collapse? Dude, they’ve already collapsed. They are rubble. And we should stop pretending that they are anything else. These cons are like a drunk who won’t admit that he’s a drunk. You can’t get better if you don’t honestly admit there’s a problem, but these conservatives don’t want to be honest because if they were honest, that would compel action and action is not what they want. Action is hard and dangerous and ugly, and they don’t want to get their soft little hands dirty.
Well, sorry to tell you guys, but my Kelly Turnbull books have already come true, which many people are capable of admitting. This country is splitting apart into functioning red regions and fascist blue chaos pits. It’s not a national divorce. It’s a national separation, and it’s underway. Do you know who’s moving out of California? It’s all my conservative friends, not the damn leftists. My rich leftist friends are perfectly happy in their blue feudal societies, and the poor Democrat serfs don’t have any money to hire an eastbound U-Haul.
We have got to wake up and look at the world as it is. We have a normalcy bias, and that’s got to get fixed. This is abnormal. This is not right. And we totally need to admit that to ourselves, because it can’t get any better until we do.
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There is an apathy in this country that is absolutely deadly.
Indeed.
“Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn’t act, it allows. And that’s what gives it so much power.”
~ Joan D. Vinge
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It’s funny to hear one of the most cognitively biased midwits among us – Kolonel Keyboard Kommando – evoke this. He’s right sometimes, by broken-clock luck. Glad ta hear you’re rejecting the dominant paradigm, Kurt ol’ boy. Try being a tad more consistent about it, though, Mr. wannabe influencer – willya? Thank you for THAT service.
Pax Romana- bread and circuses
Pax Americana- EBT and porn
Pax the Moving Vana,
out of Hellifornia.
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California?
Califugazi .
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Just like Rome starting in the 4th Century. The wealthy deserted the cities and moved to their country villas.
Can you imagine what played on the TV in hotel rooms in ancient Rome?
“See The Coliseum, Amazing Performances Daily! See Gladiator “The Cruel Crusher” as he decimates wave after wave of “christiots” during the aftenoon “Melee Mode” gladiator show.”
Visit “The Grand Steps” World famous stairs in your visit to the world class resort at Pompeii.
Take a steam at “The Royal Publick Bath-House”
Maybe you’ll see a celebrity like Caesar or perhaps a Senator, maybe even the Great Seer of the Cave of Archibald. Many famous and poweful Romans visit “The Royal Publick Bath-House”
Four convenient locations in Rome.
Ask the concierge for more information.
Can we just be brutally honest? When law and order breaks down, summary judgements and the death penalty take control for even the most innocuous criminal activity. What we are seeing now is a very, very small demographic, black males, who make up less that 5% of the population but who commit a large portion of the crime in metropolitan areas are being summarily executed due to the breakdown in law and order. There’s only one way to stop this and everyone know what that is. But as the article states, the governing authorities refuse because they can’t handle the truth.
Please show me where blacks are being summarily executed.
They are executing each other…
Yes, reject the impending A.I. normalcy bias, especially from the titanic gatekeeper Google:
Looks to me we are communist with certain freedoms to maintain the sense of freedom. One day the hammer will drop. My guess is financial collapse would be the catalyst to complete China syndrome communism.
It’s authoritarian/techno-totalitarian. Anything may serve those in charge: fascism, communism, and especially disinfo that prevents rebellion.
The hammer doesn’t drop. It gets gradually lowered inch by inch.
Article penned by the vote harder guy.
No shit. Talk about normalcy bias…this guy is ATE UP with it!
Like this guy….
Sign in restaurant window:
“Sorry, no government employees served here!”
Other sign:
“Government employee lunch counter is behind the outhouse”
Other other sign:
“No Fed Reserve Notes Accepted Here. Silver or Gold Only”
Great stuff from spam fetish. I do keep hoping people will wake up, but I am not optimistic. A European I met many years ago said this: ‘Americans never see the handwriting on the wall until their backs are u p against it.’ He was right. So sadly, terribly right. God help us all. And, let’s try in our own way to do what Sam Fetish is doing. Who knows? It might matter.
“escape the paradigm” Yes.
Most of us struggle with this in some ways. Such is the nature of an entire tapestry of lies.
My neighbor just put up a new flagpole. The FUSA flag atop. Then the Confederate Battle Flag.
I mean its correct, in that we are in occupied territory, but like most he still sees FUSA as being his Country, having been conditioned to forget his Nation and the war on his People. Yet those two symbols, in proper order of submission, flap in the wind right over his head.
Jewel of a comment by AceDuece at the Unz Review:
If the loud, threatening subway nutjob was White, and the former Marine who subdued him was a niggro, the niggro would be the toast of the U.S.A. right now. No other details any different, just the one–change the roles to:
Choker=negro former Marine
and
Chokee=YT violent nutjob with 40-some arrests.
All the White Hank Hill “I Don’t See Color” conservacucks would be fapping like Pee Wee Herman on a Friday night at the porn theater. The libs would be all a ‘Twitterin’ about Super Niggrow, USMC, taking out the White trash, the niggs on “black Twitter” would be talking and laughing and jiving about YT fking around and finding out, and Biden would be inviting the Good SamariCoon to DC where Kamala and Admiral Levine would take turns putting lipstick on his dipstick, before Lobotomy Joe pins a medal on him and sniffs his girlfriend’s hair.
Sad that some people actually make you wish they would smell burning hair when none is on fire.
How the normalcy bias is manufactured.
Recruitment ad for MIL – psyops : Ghosts In The Machine
A night of blue gloves at the Abu Ghraib reunion.
White man intervenes he is evil nigger runs rampant he’s the victim a world turned upside down.
Keep an eye on the clouds.
When good is called evil and evil good….
The education system [which includes the entertainment biz and politics] install normalcy bias.
Each successive class, receives what to them is “normal education” (including the peripheral “culture”)
Each class does not realize that, the classes before or after them, are not being given the same ‘education’.
The ‘education’ from year to year, decade to decade, changes, dramatically.
Many may assume it has remained unchanged after they pass thru, few interested in knowing.
Ergo, the normalcy bias of one who went to school in the 50s will be quite different from the normalcy bias of one schooled in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s etc.
[There will also be regional, racial and other components to normalcy bias parameters.]
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Collect The Entire Set!
Doesn’t require batteries.
Other parameters not included.
Gee, another left/right paradigm write up. Shocking.
He is of course correct but he does not lead. What are his solutions? Cultural secession is the first answer, and for that we need organization. The totalitarians are eliminating everyone who attempts to gain influence. They understood we had the correct ideas and could not refute them so starting in 2017 they turned to force to stop dissidents. Unfortunately a lot of conservatives believe if they just pray more Jesus will return and all will be better. THat is an unempowering belief.