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| Anger Is Making Us Stupid |
| 2015-07-15 |
| h/t Instapundit ...Our anger comes from fear. Fear of being bullied into silence. Fear of the IRS coming after us for our opinions. Fear of our businesses being destroyed by small-minded H8ers. Fear of a White House that finds myriad ways to harass and even imprison those who disagree with it. Fear of a media that lies and lies and lies, that covers up non-compliant reality in order to sell a left-wing narrative that will secure their sense of virtue and increase the political influence of their corporate bosses. When a man like Trump seems to spit in the eye of the people we fear, we rally behind him thinking we're fighting back. We're not. We're following our fear right down the rabbit hole. You want to win back your country? Here's how. Fear nothing. Hate no one. Stick to principles. Unchecked borders are dangerous not because Mexicans are evil but because evil thrives when good men don't stand guard. Poverty programs are misguided, not because the poor are undeserving criminals, but because dependency on government breeds dysfunction and more poverty. Guns save lives and protect liberty. Property rights guarantee liberty. Religious rights are essential to liberty. Without liberty we are equal only in misery. These things are true. They're true for white people and black people, male people and female people, straight people and gay people. We should support the smartest, most proven, most statesmanlike candidate who best represents those principles. And we should do it out of -- dare I say the word? -- love. Love for our neighbors, our fellow citizens, white and black, male and female, straight and gay. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Shipman: you mean the same Trump who's given multiples of my yearly salary to da Hildabeest? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2015-07-15 18:49 |
| #8 This is why we have primaries with campaigning effectively underway over a year before anybody actually votes. You can bet that after all this immigration hoopla both RINOs and Dumbocrats are gonna be slinging all the mud they can find at Trump. We'll have to wait and see how he handles it and how much of it sticks. But at least so far he's saying things that none of the rest of them have the guts or the integrity to say. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-15 18:33 |
| #7 No Trump, he's a real conservative, speaking truth to RINOs, he should get a metal, or a building or something. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-15 18:21 |
| #6 Like the analogy Iblis. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-15 18:19 |
| #5 If being angry and stupid doesn't work, then explain the success of the Left the last seven years. |
| Posted by: charger 2015-07-15 18:11 |
| #4 So what are we supposed to do? Vote for Jeb Bush? Now that would be stupid. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-07-15 16:45 |
| #3 I called this the "Walled Garden" theory of democracy. The nice rules we make for ourselves in our peaceful walled garden make life there very pleasant. But after a while we forget that our rules are artificial. They only apply in the artificial little world we have created for our fat and happy selves. Outside the walls the old rules apply. The nasty, mean rules that we have intentionally isolated ourselves from. It is not a place of peace or plenty. It is a place of base desires, greed and hunger. And they want what we have. When we go outside the walls to protect our garden, we can no longer apply the garden rules. If we make that mistake we lose. The other mistake is when rules we have developed for threats from outside the garden are used inside the garden. For example, when the government uses the Patriot Act to prosecute deadbeat dads. Either mistake destroys the garden. We are currently making both. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-07-15 15:56 |
| #2 He means tough love, P2k. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-15 15:49 |
| #1 When the Germans bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, so much outrage was expressed. By the time the war was over, we had bombed just about every major German city. Win first. Then worry about niceties of civilization. You are at war. You are not even trying. You will either lose or you will take up the tactics that gained your enemy their power and position. After you win, then you can go back to principles. Till then only victory counts otherwise you are just another entry in the history books. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-15 15:34 |