"Normal" will return after the election. It always does. This is simply election-year politics. Even starting race and class wars. As Carl von Clausewitz said "War is the continuation of politics by other means."
It ALWAYS gets bad in the year before an election. 2007 sucked too. This is worse, because Trump represents an existential threat to the leftists. But once the election happens, there will be no need to continue supporting these domestic terrorists financially, so it will peter out pretty quickly.
Hopefully it will be different this time. The old normal was commie cancer. We need to undo progressivism all the way back to Teddy at a minimum. That might bring us close enough to reality that we might be able to at least see it on the horizon.
They will with time. Some of this stuff needs to done from the top and wait for consent to come later. Purging progressivism is an unpleaseant buisness.
I really hope that's all it is, but my gut tells me these local governors are enjoying their unchecked power trips and will not give them up just because there are elections.
I see what you're saying, though unless Trump puts his foot down after the election and puts a definitive end to it, they're going to keep pushing out these "third, fourth, fifth waves", more fear porn of rising cases again and people getting sick. They're going to merge that with fear porn that the seasonal flu is back and it merged with covid somehow and mutated and now it's a super flu. When he wins reelection he HAS to do something to the governors and make them stop this ride.
I understand why you feel that way, but there is no "finishing" it. Not to be a quote-nerd, but Reagan said that "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". This is a battle that will NEVER end. There are lulls, but it never stops. The fight between liberty and authoritarianism has been a constant battle since before the American expermiment started. Look no further than Alexander Hamilton who was in favor of a "President for life". We had no sooner thrown off one despot than one of our founders was trying to institute another.
These people, call them marxists, communists, etc are at their heart, desirous to be serfs. They're not new, they're not unique, and they won't go away. We just have to continue to fight just as hard.
Understood, but this is exhausting and demoralizing to even leave the house. We have to group up. Isolationism is making it seem like each of us is battling the "New World" alone.
"Normal" will return after the election. It always does. This is simply election-year politics. Even starting race and class wars. As Carl von Clausewitz said "War is the continuation of politics by other means."
It ALWAYS gets bad in the year before an election. 2007 sucked too. This is worse, because Trump represents an existential threat to the leftists. But once the election happens, there will be no need to continue supporting these domestic terrorists financially, so it will peter out pretty quickly.
Hopefully it will be different this time. The old normal was commie cancer. We need to undo progressivism all the way back to Teddy at a minimum. That might bring us close enough to reality that we might be able to at least see it on the horizon.
100%. The last 100 years of progressivism needs to be destroyed. Sadly, I don't think most people even on this site would support that.
I'm for it, even if it is considered extreme. If the left can practice extremist, why can't we if it's for the betterment of the Western world?
They will with time. Some of this stuff needs to done from the top and wait for consent to come later. Purging progressivism is an unpleaseant buisness.
I really hope that's all it is, but my gut tells me these local governors are enjoying their unchecked power trips and will not give them up just because there are elections.
Kemp and DeSantis (GA, FL). The last bastions of freedom.
You forgot South Dakota.
Florida's a patchwork quilt. DeSantis hasn't been nearly forceful enough on this.
I see what you're saying, though unless Trump puts his foot down after the election and puts a definitive end to it, they're going to keep pushing out these "third, fourth, fifth waves", more fear porn of rising cases again and people getting sick. They're going to merge that with fear porn that the seasonal flu is back and it merged with covid somehow and mutated and now it's a super flu. When he wins reelection he HAS to do something to the governors and make them stop this ride.
I understand why you feel that way, but there is no "finishing" it. Not to be a quote-nerd, but Reagan said that "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". This is a battle that will NEVER end. There are lulls, but it never stops. The fight between liberty and authoritarianism has been a constant battle since before the American expermiment started. Look no further than Alexander Hamilton who was in favor of a "President for life". We had no sooner thrown off one despot than one of our founders was trying to institute another.
These people, call them marxists, communists, etc are at their heart, desirous to be serfs. They're not new, they're not unique, and they won't go away. We just have to continue to fight just as hard.
Understood, but this is exhausting and demoralizing to even leave the house. We have to group up. Isolationism is making it seem like each of us is battling the "New World" alone.
I think that was the point :/
But on the flip side we have places like this to convene which is encouraging. Imagine this happening before the digital age
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahs1H9tdcU
no, but the stakes weren't as high.