How Far Have We Come?
Well…. our phones and televisions are much better.
Warnings Future & Present
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”— James Madison
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”—Benjamin Franklin
“Humans being born with different capacities, if they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.”— Robert A. Heinlein
“People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they’re angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind’s problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers’ dollars at them.”— Ronald Reagan
The Lunacy Of The Left
Liberals are joyous that they have forced laws upon the public that most normal people find disgusting. Now that policies and laws are in place, the freaks and perverts are taking advantage.
Case in point:
If Obama Had A Son
I’m sure he is just a poor helpless youth who has been let down by the system, hell he can’t even buy a decent belt to keep his pants up, poor kid.
H/T Weasel Zippers for the image
Speak Softly But……
You get the reference if your over fifty, and the Obama regime could learn a few things.
Imagine a general from August 2013 being sent back in time to take over the war in August 1945 and then watch as American soldiers are given handbooks on Japanese culture, forced to attend Shinto ceremonies and sent out without artillery and air support to avoid alienating the local population. The command dedicates much of its time to emphasizing that its war is not with Japan or the Japanese people, but a tiny minority of fanatical extremists.
And then watch as the war goes on for two decades.
Such a course might seem more merciful or moral, but it’s neither. It prolongs the pain and suffering for both sides.
The failure by the stronger side to conclude a war when it has the upper hand is not kindness; it’s cruelty. It perpetuates the conflict endlessly, dragging it out and opening the door for a prolonged civilian resistance with all the horrors that terrorism and guerrilla warfare can inflict on both sides.
So quit the token political strike bullshit with ISIS, get it done with every force imaginable. It’s time for a strong message. If Obama doesn’t have the balls, it’s time for a military leader to step up.
There’s some old advice about not drawing a gun unless you intend to use it. It’s true for individuals and for nations. If you go to war, then you had better mean it. Wars are bloody and messy. They’re not for the sort of people who think that putting “Smart” ahead of something automatically makes it better. And “meaning it” means being committed to crushing the enemy. keep reading
Now America faces an enemy whose chief power is hate. The Islamic terrorist has no other real asset except his hate. Unfortunately hate is our weakness. We are an empire terrified of being hated, a world power that shrivels at the thought that someone might not like us. And so the nation that dropped two atomic bombs in August 1945 wilts before the hatred of the Kamikazes of the Koran.
The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too
I have long complained that we have grown a generation of kids who don’t want to do hard work, I blame myself along with other parents who want a better life for their kids, but we have made a huge miscalculation. We need white kids to learn hard work, it’s what they do after is the objective we should have embraced. It may be too late.
When you start looking at the data, it is not hard to see why upper middle class whites favor open borders. They don’t work in the trades. Their kids will not even work summers in the trades. Heck, middle class kids no longer work summers. That’s for the plebes. On the other hand, upper middle class people need their toilets fixed and their houses repaired. At the same time, it is easy to see why the public is turning on immigration. Despite what the people on TV believe, America is not 30-something beautiful people living in swank urban enclaves. Most people are related to one of those guys busting up the sidewalks outside my office.
Still, demographics and immigration does not explain why the trades are getting gray. It is not easy to be a carpenter or a steamfitter. Welding is a lot more involved than working in a government office. To be a competent carpenter you need math skills, problem solving skills, in addition to physical skills. The young people with something on the ball are discouraged from going into the trades, while they are encouraged to head off to college. At some point, that has to change. keep reading
Chicago High School Indocterination In Full Bloom
It is amazing to me that the left still sees diversity as a good thing. With all of the historical data showing what happens to communities who diversify and eventually transform into poverty stricken hell holes, you would think liberals would come to the conclusion that maybe it’s a bad idea. But after the destruction of the city the left demand everyone collectively fix the problem they initially created. It’s a vicious circle.
I think there must be a bunch of rich people in Chicago who have not been sufficiently extorted to raise a diverse class of needy people.
Anyway, there’s now a high school based on the principles of social justice. Conveniently, it is called Social Justice High School and it is located in Chicago. For some reason a lot of New Left radicals came from Chicago.
The Little Village Lawndale High School is a reality because of the principles of social justice. Our belief in self-determination inspired a community to act on its convictions to affirm its right to a quality education. Through a system of support, guidance, and accountability our students will graduate high school, be prepared for college and implement a post secondary plan. Our students will cherish and preserve their ethnic and cultural identity, will serve and determine the future of our community, and will have a passion for peace, justice and the dignity of all people.
The language here looks similar to the corporate jargon I like to make sport of from time to time. There’s a creepiness to it that brings to mind dystopian sci-fi films where the fully human protagonists is faced with a formless, faceless authority that is determined to rubout all traces of humanity.
The purpose of the school of social justice is to assure that all students become critical thinkers through a curriculum that is rigorous, innovative, and implemented through meaningful school relationships.
Project based and problem based learning that addresses real world issues through the lenses of race, gender, culture, economic equity, peace, justice, and the environment will be the catalyst for developing our curriculum.
Service learning will be the center of our curriculum. Our community and the city will be our classroom. All learning will be relevant to the lives of our students.
That’s an impressive collection of abracadabra words. The Left, like all cults, has a thing for magic words and incantations. One that always makes me chuckle is “critical thinking” which is Left-speak for attacking the current order. These guys are all about pulling down the walls. They say it is to remove barriers, but it is really so they can pull the roof down on the rest of us.
The core beliefs section is great:
Truth and Transparency
We will practice honesty and authenticity in our communication and relationships with students, our community, peers, and ourselves.
Struggle and Sacrifice
Our struggle is against systems of power that have been historically used to deny, regulate, and prohibit access to the most basic human rights that should be granted freely to members of society regardless of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, or religious belief. We accept the reality that such struggle will require sacrifice from all involved.
Ownership and Agency
We will take responsibility as agents and catalysts of change to expose the truth about the functions of power, work (unite) to interrupt their operations, and operate as producers of power to meet the needs of the Greater Lawndale community.
Collective and Community Power
Through collective community power, we commit to a conscious effort to overcome the intended historical obstacles that have been designed to disempower and divide our communities, and thereby meet the needs of all members of Greater Lawndale for continual betterment and progress.
I’ll just note that this is pretty standard stuff on the Left. My bet is up and down the Obama education department this sort of language is common. They not only think this school is a good thing, they want to make your kid’s school just like it. It is why vouchers are a dumb idea. Those vouchers would come with strings requiring classes in social justice and empowerment.
But, this is probably the future anyway. keep reading
The New Colonists
While the United States sent tens of thousands of soldiers to try and hold Iraq and Afghanistan only to fail; Mexico took California with a small army of underpaid handymen who claim entire cities and send back some 20 billion dollars a year. As conquests go, it’s not hard to see who did more with less.
Shockingly true.
Choose Wisely
I don’t agree with all of it but for the most part he is correct.
Participate in local elections—sheriff, councilman, mayor. And state elections. It isn’t “game over” if your guy loses, the point is to prevent the process from falling further into the hands of madmen and extremists. Support the guy who changes his own oil, knows even a thousand bucks is a lot of somebody else’s money, and thinks “green space” is a stupid way to say “empty lot”. Extra points if he leaves meetings early to punch in for his real job, or because his livestock needs ‘tending. Find the right people. It matters. Do it right and they’ll find you. Remember the primaries too. Turnouts are light. This is how you get your own people nominated.
Yep!
City and state governments have come to be federal field offices to one degree or another. Vote ’em out. One by one. Zero tolerance. No mercy. If they’ve ever said the word collectively without a spittle-flecked sneer, if they’ve ever appeared in a grip-and-grin photo with a regulatory agency, if they’ve ever forced us to fund their hobby disease, or if they’ve ever displayed a check from DC the size of a drywall panel, vote ’em out.
I would add anyone in office since the 70’s and 80’s should be let go.
People don’t form governments to be threatened, defrauded, lied to, defamed, robbed and abused. This stuff will stop only with a repeat of the transformation that rocked the world in 1789, on the first day of Constitutional government. keep reading
Amen!
The Argument For Truth Is Lost
Prior to ideology, debate occurred in an assumption that there was a truth about the good, and that we were beholden to it, even guarding the truth against error. In fact, that’s what debate was all about, guarding truth against error, even your own.
This generation of politicians wouldn’t know the truth if it fell out the sky on their government issued SUV.
For the ideologue, the humility of a thinker attempting to live in the deep truth of existence is an affront, and they were not so much to be disputed within the great nexus of reality but destroyed. Stamped out. No wonder, then, that ideologues were behind so much of the great moral horrors of political violence of the twentieth century, for they used a boot rather than a syllogism to convince.
The great Utopia is really just a bunch of elites telling you that this is paradise…..now back to work.
We see such ideology all around us. In the (usually) mindless retort that the adherents of tradition are “haters,” for there is no need to answer haters, they should just be silenced. In the (always) thoughtless claim to be on the “right side of history,” as if some historical process or Absolute Spirit simply marched with inexorable force on the side of “right thinking people.”
What is the right side of history?
There is no such historical force. It is pure ideology to think so.
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