Saturday, December 7, 2019

Looking ahead

Angelo Codevilla has some very initial, tentative thoughts about the future of our country, pointing out that our current divisions are likely to be permanent and that we - the "deplorables" - are going to have to blaze a new path to liberty. It is difficult for me to argue with these general observations:
How do we secure and perhaps restore our fast-diminishing freedom to live as Americans? And while we may wish for help from Trump, we have to look to ourselves and to other leaders for how we may counter the ruling class’s manifold assaults now, and especially in the long term.

Since 2016, the ruling class has left no doubt that it is not merely enacting chosen policies: It is expressing its identity, an identity that has grown and solidified over more than a half century, and that it is not capable of changing.

That really does mean that restoring anything like the Founders’ United States of America is out of the question. Constitutional conservatism on behalf of a country a large part of which is absorbed in revolutionary identity; that rejects the dictionary definition of words; that rejects common citizenship, is impossible. Not even winning a bloody civil war against the ruling class could accomplish such a thing.

The logical recourse is to conserve what can be conserved, and for it to be done by, of, and for those who wish to conserve it. However much force of what kind may be required to accomplish that, the objective has to be conservation of the people and ways that wish to be conserved.

That means some kind of separation.

5 comments:

RebeccaH said...

How do you separate yourself from someone who won't shut up and won't leave you alone?

Paco said...

Ah, there's the rub! It's what makes me skeptical that an amicable divorce is possible.

rinardman said...

So, what you're saying is, we probably can't go from the United States of America, to the Amicable States of America?

Rebecca is right. They've become so deranged, that they won't settle for a mere physical separation; they want us destroyed, no matter what it takes. I think the Holocaust, Version 2.0 is what a lot of them are starting to dream about.

Gregoryno6 said...

William Gensert at American Thinker:
"Americans believe they can never be too armed, too thin, or too rich. They are willing to take a pass on the last two but never the first. Rebellion is not out of the question -- it is probable. And it is obvious the Democrats do not get that.
With hundreds of millions of guns in circulation, it will not be pretty. Americans are the most well-armed and trained populace to have ever existed. Every hunter is something of a sniper. Democrats should think about that."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/democrats_are_pushing_america_into_civil_war.html

Spiny Norman said...

The Progressive(sic)Democrats are convinced armed rebellion will never happen. Ever.

They have convinced themselves that no matter how armed the "deplorables" might be, the ones who might fight back will never be more than scattered "Ruby Ridge" malcontents who can be made examples of, and every other 2nd Amendment "bitter clinger" will peacefully do what the Dems tell them.

Of course, the idea that the US Armed Forces won't do their bidding and make war on fellow citizens never enters their minds.