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| Frontpage Mag: The Civil War is Here |
| 2017-04-02 |
| A civil war has begun. This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges. The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to accept the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of authority that it doesn’t control. The left has rejected the outcome of the last two presidential elections won by Republicans. It has rejected the judicial authority of the Supreme Court when it decisions don’t accord with its agenda. It rejects the legislative authority of Congress when it is not dominated by the left. It rejected the Constitution so long ago that it hardly bears mentioning. It was for total unilateral executive authority under Obama. And now it’s for states unilaterally deciding what laws they will follow. (As long as that involves defying immigration laws under Trump, not following them under Obama.) It was for the sacrosanct authority of the Senate when it held the majority. Then it decried the Senate as an outmoded institution when the Republicans took it over. It was for Obama defying the orders of Federal judges, no matter how well grounded in existing law, and it is for Federal judges overriding any order by Trump on any grounds whatsoever. It was for Obama penalizing whistleblowers, but now undermining the government from within has become "patriotic". There is no form of legal authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the duly elected government because their allegiance is to an ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil disobedience; it’s treason. After losing Congress, the left consolidated its authority in the White House. After losing the White House, the left shifted its center of authority to Federal judges and unelected government officials. Each defeat led the radicalized Democrats to relocate from more democratic to less democratic institutions. This isn’t just hypocrisy. That’s a common political sin. Hypocrites maneuver within the system. The left has no allegiance to the system. It accepts no laws other than those dictated by its ideology. Democrats have become radicalized by the left. This doesn’t just mean that they pursue all sorts of bad policies. It means that their first and foremost allegiance is to an ideology, not the Constitution, not our country or our system of government. All of those are only to be used as vehicles for their ideology. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Preach on Matt, it needs to be said, and often. The alternative is Genocide by Government. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-02 11:43 |
| #3 If you visit Washington, you can go to the National Archives and visit this room, where the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are on display. The room is almost cold in the interest of preserving the documents, and the atmosphere communicates that you have just entered the political Holy of Holies of the United States of America. As you walk further down the Mall, and across the river to Arlington, you are continually reminded that the words on those faded documents have repeatedly been affirmed by the blood of brave Americans. The left has nothing like this. And what's worse for them is that the left no longer has, if they ever did have, the intellectual machinery to produce anything like the Constitution. The best they can do is to personally attack the founders, to distort their words, and to prevent our children from learning about them. But that's just ankle-biting born of intellectual poverty. What the left has produced is The Narrative, an ill-defined set of spiritual and intellectual chains for those stupid enough to wear them. But the Narrative in turn depends on the Rainbow Coalition, which is an illusion. The components of the Coalition have nothing in common other than the idea that the power traditionally ascribed to white male Americans should be theirs instead. You must not ask what black Southern Baptists really think about gay marriage, or what Catholic Hispanics think abut abortion. But the real bone in the throat of the Narrative and the Rainbow Coalition is Islam. Some Islamics assimilate quite well, and others are content to bide their time. But if Islam has its way, in the long run our hyper-offended feminists are going to have their faces slapped off and our married gays are going to be defenestrated, possibly by the poor refugee children who now tug at our heartstrings. (sorry -- that got more preachy than I wanted) |
| Posted by: Matt 2017-04-02 11:40 |
| #2 Yep, power for them is everything. Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-02 09:16 |
| #1 The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule. Because, if they don't rule - they're nothing? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-02 03:57 |