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Friday, October 17, 2008
The Coming Thugocracy
It may be foolish to put much stock in pre-election polls, but until the balloting has ended, they're all anyone has to go on. If they're correct, Barack Obama will win a squeaker over John McCain, and the United States will have its first socialist president.
Surely your Curmudgeon needn't emphasize how important it is that this be prevented. Esteemed Co-Conspirator Aaron Brenzel has hit all the high points already. The Obama campaigns unconcealed directives to its loyalists to shut down contrary voices, such as those of Stanley Kurtz and David Freddoso, bode ill for the future of free expression under an Obama / Democrat administration. The recent episode with Joe Wurzelbacher, whose brief exchange with Obama has proved so damaging to Obama's candidacy that the Left is doing its damnedest to destroy the defenseless plumber, merely adds to the obvious urgency of preventing an Obama presidency. Yet Americans, nominally a freedom-loving people, appear inclined to put Obama and his henchmen into the Oval Office.
Your Curmudgeon would like to believe better of the American people. He'd like to believe that we're too smart, and too well informed, to elect this man. Unfortunately, our "public" education system, the centers of indoctrination we call universities, and the nakedly partisan mass media are telling strokes against any such supposition.
Thanks to the government-run schools and the universities, we're no longer smart. Thanks to the mass media, we're no longer well informed. Thus, America is odds-on to admit a lying Chicago thug, his hate-filled wife, and their gaggle of terrorist and mob-connected cronies to the highest seat of power in the world come January 20.
This is what comes of allowing a government -- any government -- to control education and the dissemination of news.
Don't kid yourself. Our "public" schools are no longer about education as anyone understands it. They're expressly dedicated to indoctrination, to the inculcation in defenseless young minds of a Marxist and anti-human world view. The universities, thanks to government involvement in higher education, are as bad if not worse. As for the media, hardly one "journalist" in a hundred can even spell "investigative reporting," much less set out upon it; they much prefer government press handouts and reporting on the campaigns of self-serving aspirants to power. That's a lot easier. It relieves them of the need to think, or leave their desks.
Three things doth a people need to remain free: reliable, secure communications; an education grounded in history and basic moral philosophy; and a copious supply of weapons suited to individuals' hands. All of these have been under attack for decades. None of them have managed to hold their ground.
Regardless of the outcome on November 4, these are the strategically crucial points in our society. They must be recaptured. The efforts to retake them must begin at once.
Don't think that a McCain victory would make such efforts unnecessary. If anything, that would increase their urgency -- not because McCain is as bad as Obama, but because a fresh Republican administration would provide increased cover for the underminers of the Republic to continue on.
In the event of an Obama victory, especially should the Senate fall wholly into the hands of the Democrats, a final assault upon freedom of expression and the right to keep and bear arms will begin at once. In that case, we'd have less than three months to prepare ourselves. It would be wise to start now.
Thugs cannot be reasoned with. Thugs can only be bought off temporarily. Thugs are thugs because what they prize is power -- the more, the better -- and the sole token by which they recognize it is your unconditional submission.
A colleague has forecast an Obama administration as "four years of hell." No doubt it would be; it's certainly an excellent reason to get braced. But even if he loses, the destroyers of American civilization, the only Christian-Enlightenment-based society remaining on Earth, will still be at work. It's they who most ardently want the thugs to win -- and they're gaining ground as we speak.
Verbum sat sapienti.
UPDATE: Welcome, visitors from James Wolcott's blog! Your Curmudgeon hopes you're all having a good day. Before you go, be sure to enjoy this bit of whimsy, "specially designed with your mind in mind." (Firesign Theater, "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All") Y'all come back now, y'hear?
UPDATE II: Here's a sample of the E-mail traffic this post has inspired, from "scott k:"
You poor, pathetic hate-filled man. Your fears are laughable, your to-the-bunkers call a sad self-delusion. It's going to be such a nice world when all you lunatics start dying of embarrassment at your words and actions of the past few years. Sleep tight, little boy, and try not to wet the bed tonight...
Whew! If all your Curmudgeon's adversaries had debate skills like "scott's," he'd fold up his tent and become a Trappist monk. How fortunate for his syndication prospects that the prevailing level of discourse is so much cruder. Never you mind, "scott;" your Curmudgeon will pray for you.
Comments
The success I’ve had with Turnabout suggests that my optimism was well founded.
I know that you very much “would like to believe that we’re too smart, and too well informed, to elect this man.”
While I can’t dispel your notion of how poorly the public has been served with MinInfo and MisInfo, I do have a feeling that a majority can still sense danger and will act accordingly.
To help spread that sense, I think your readers and their friends will be very well served from watching this short and entertaining cartoon clip.
Today, I am not Jeremiah.
Posted by Pascal on 10/17/2008 at 11:32 AMA must read, if you can find it..."The Coming Age of Barbarianism” authored by Constance Cumby in the 80’s. Google her name and you’ll find numerous videos.
Just as those other great reads to open one’s mind, “Brave New World”, “1984” and not to forget, “None Dare Call It Treason”.
Many are looking for the messiah, but what they are going to elect (hopefully not) will be driving us at break neck speed to the antithesis.
In the early 70’s, my Dad warned me that I would see things I wouldn’t believe...Unfortunately, I know what he means now.
Posted by Oli Smythe on 10/18/2008 at 10:55 AM"… the United States will have its first socialist president. Surely your Curmudgeon needn’t emphasize how important it is that this be prevented.”
Perhaps a long time ago that may not have been necessary. But thanks to -
“Unfortunately, our “public” education system, the centers of indoctrination we call universities, and the nakedly partisan mass media are telling strokes against any such supposition. Thanks to the government-run schools and the universities, we’re no longer smart. Thanks to the mass media, we’re no longer well informed.”
There are enough out there who still have to learn from the pain of socialism. What’s worse, there is no guarantee that they will learn.
Posted by MK on 10/20/2008 at 05:57 AMI know this theme was presented in the tale of Fartsmore, but I am more deliberate and far less flowery in my prose than our esteemed Curmudgeon, and assume many others are, also.
Therefore, for mine own indulgence, I will post it in the plainest of plain English, and then possibly, Curmudgeon, your detractors will finally “get it.”
Why are you so afraid of what Francis has to say? If not afraid, why so angry? Are you so insecure in your own opinions and beliefs that any single person that does not fully and unconditionally agree with you is deemed a threat, and/or something to be despised and demeaned? Why can you not accept, as we all do here on this site, that there are other opinions in this world that might deviate from your own? Why, instead of attacking opinions that do not match yours with hate and vitriol, do you not IMPEACH them with reason and logic? If your opinion and belief has any foundation in reality, this should be quite easy! Don’t you understand that a hateful, vitriolic attack signifies a last ditch effort to shore up an opinion that has no backing in logic or reason? Don’t you understand that by spewing ugliness, you’ve basically conceded that you’ve already lost, and all you are trying to do now is to take somebody else, anybody else, down with you?
I haven’t been reading Fran’s work for long, but if I’ve learned one thing about the man, it is that he loves a reasoned, logical discussion. If you disagree with him, tell him WHY, don’t attack him and accuse him of being a bed-wetter! I think you’ll find that the readership of Fran’s blog is of a level of intelligence much, much higher than the level of a group that can so easily be brought to hateful, vitriolic dicourse, and you might find it a pleasure to DISCUSS things with him, rather than simply spew hatred.
YOu also may find that people will possibly LISTEN to what you have to say, then, too, instead of just hitting the “delete” button.
But what do I know? I’m just a Goober.
Posted by on 10/21/2008 at 12:04 PM
