“We no longer glorify heroic deeds, we glorify heroic suffering.” — Greg Cochran
Yup. To be a member of a “victimized” class (women, Blacks, LGBTOSHTFU, etc.) is the sine qua non of modern heroism. But the holder of a Medal of Honor or Victoria Cross? War criminal.
All of which reminds me: it’s Range Day at this address.
We are constantly being reminded that the United States is a representative republic (which it is) as well as being a liberal democracy (which is also true). For the longest time, I’ve had the gnawing suspicion that the two concepts may be antithetical, nay even contradictory, and recent events have proven me correct.
The standard-bearers of the modern liberal democracy have tended towards the “liberal” part of the description, and their modernism has turned liberalism away from its classical roots (the Enlightenment) towards a more baleful and statist, ergo illiberal ethos. It is small wonder, therefore, that this modern liberalism is attacking both the “representative” and even “republic” towards a full democracy, into a government created by a national popular vote instead of a democracy limited by proportional representation. (The sudden popularity of socialism — one of the more repressive governmental systems, is simply indicative of this intent, and the “democratic” prefix attached thereto is, like most of socialism, a figleaf to mask its true purpose.)
It seems clear that if we are to reverse this trend, we need to try to implement an antithetical alternative to the liberal democracy — that antithesis being a conservative democracy, as explained here by Yoram Hazony. I’m pretty sure that few if any conservative small-r republicans will take issue with this principle, for example:
Liberals regard the laws of a nation as emerging from the tension between positive law and the pronouncements of universal reason, as expressed by the courts. Conservatives reject the supposed universal reason of judges, which often amounts to little more than acceding to passing fashion. But conservatives also oppose an excessive regard for isolated written documents, which leads, for example, to the liberal mythology of America as a “creedal nation” (or a “propositional nation”), defined solely by certain abstractions found in the American Declaration of Independence or the Gettysburg Address. Important though these documents are, they cannot substitute for the Anglo-American political tradition as a whole—with its roots in Scripture and the English common law—which alone offers a complete picture of the English and American legal inheritance.
Yes. The famous expression on the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your huddled masses…” etc. is a lovely sentiment, but it is not policy which allows untrammeled immigration, nor does it confer a “right to immigrate to the United States” upon the rest of the world’s populace.
Read the whole thing. It’s really long, but it has to be — overturning a liberal democracy and reverting to a conservative one does not lend itself to bumper-sticker aphorisms so beloved by the Left.
And overturn it we must, in order to return to the proud Anglo-Saxon heritage that is the foundation of our Western civilization.
Afterthought: note the emphasis placed on religion — most specifically, Christian religion — by Hazony. I should point out that I, an atheist, have absolutely no issue with it. I am a conservative first, an atheist second, and I treasure the Christian values of our heritage and their foundation of our culture. That said, the values I treasure are also the traditional aspects of Christianity and not the modern-day travesty they have become. My conservatism is all-embracing.
So let me make sure I’ve got this absolutely clear: if the Gummint passes a patently un-Constitutional law and someone refuses to comply with it, that person would be a “homegrown terrorist”?
Got it. I should also point out that it was Lenin who first equated refuseniks with being terrorists.
Here’s a tip for this asshole: you keep making shitty laws and stockpiling bodybags, and we’ll keep buying ammo. We’ll see who runs out first.
Via Insty, David Bernstein has an interesting post about some Democrat asswipe coming to the assistance of serial anti-Semite / newbie Socialist House Rep. Ilhan Omar. He makes the issue about “checking privilege”, but I have a different take. Here’s the screenshot, with the part that interests me highlighted:
Okay, let’s agree with Clyburn’s statement, arguendo. Here’s my take:
Can today’s Blacks, and the Democrats and Socialists who support their claims, just shut the fuck up about 19th-century slavery and forget all about “reparations”?
And a footnote to Rep. Omar: it wasn’t the Jews who put you in a refugee camp either, so you can STFU as well.
Here’s a report about a bunch of asshole rapists.
Now, before clicking on the link, guess the ethnicity (and probable religion) of the scum in question. (Hint: the headline reads, “Nine-strong Bradford sex abuse gang face years in jail for grooming and raping two 14-year-old girls ‘to satisfy their sexual desires’ “ )
If you guessed (following the “Bradford” clue) that they were all of Pakistani origin (and ergo Muslim), you’d be wrong. (I warned you this was a trick question.)
They weren’t all Pakis; only eight of the nine rapists were.
Teach you to jump to conclusions.
I’ve spoken about this topic before.
Adele Bellis, 26, from Suffolk was attacked when Anthony Riley arranged for acid to be thrown over her face in 2014, sustaining life-changing injuries.
She lost an ear in the brutal attack and was left partially bald, suffering serious burns to her face, neck and arm, and is still undergoing treatment today.
Either more assholes are playing with their chemistry sets than ever before, or else it’s just being reported more often. Either way, it’s a disgusting feature of modern life.
In the past, I think I’ve advocated a return to an older time, when “an eye for an eye” was considered a just punishment. Now I’m starting to think that we need to go back even further, to when the chemistry major would first suffer the torment he inflicted on someone else, and then be slowly immersed in a vat of boiling oil. I don’t remember who exactly came up with this excellent punishment, but I think it was either the Chinese or Japanese.
It’s not going medieval on someone; it’s going pre-medieval on their horrible asses. Maybe these toads would hold back a little, what with that prospect of retribution hanging over their heads. And by the way: the punishment would be visited on both the actual acid-thrower, and whoever caused it to happen.
Feel free to disagree with me in Comments, but you’d better have a good argument.