As a former Californian who watched her beloved state destroyed by people like Kamala Harris, (oh, yes, and Kamala Harris herself) I couldn't agree more. These people are incredibly destructive and cowardly (think Afghanistan). I am definitely an Anti-Trumper voting for Trump. I think we can clean up after him better because he's clueless but he doesn't hate American ideals.
I particularly like the part of this essay that asks 'who would magically transform the GOP?' We are truly bereft of options (although personally I really do like Nikki Haley). Thank you for this essay
As someone who favours Trump over Biden and now Harris, political debate has been endlessly frustrating. I have found myself having to defend against exaggerated claims, ludicrous extrapolation from excerpt-lifted statements of his and to counter wild speculation about what he would do in a second term, that he never showed any sign of in the first. Much of this is premised on psychologising Trump, as a launchpad into fearmongering.
Opponents willfully ignore positive evidence from his four years in office: deregulation ratio of approx 8 to 1 law introduced, energy independence with its security and anti-inflation benefits, destruction of ISIS, relocation of Israeli embassy, withdrawal from anti-human Paris climate accord etc.
Equivalent analysis of the last four years of Democrats is subject to the opposite problem, overlooking the negatives. The Afghanistan withdrawal is concrete evidence of politically driven chaos with a cost in lives, treasure and high-tech weaponry delivered direct into the hands of enemy regimes whose policy is 'Death to America'. And no shame for the shambles afterward. Just a shrug. Couple this with nihilism as educational policy and the American Sense Of Life is fast heading from hero to zero. Its beacon is already so dim to the rest of the civilised world. We need the light of its example not to go out.
I cannot deny I was pleased and surprised to see this article. In part because it was a validation of what I have been saying since May on a few discussions on ARCUK's channel on YouTube in The Reality Show (not one to say "I told you so...") =)
More importantly, because I have seen the threat to the "soul" of America that Peikoff is talking about, concretised here in Britain. I happened to move to London in 1997 just after Tony Blair took power and I have experienced what a decade of hard-core, militant leftie ideology, has done to Britain. The spirit of the nation which created parliamentary democracy, recognised individual rights, started the industrial revolution and which stood up to Fascism only 80 years ago, has been bludgeoned to death.
It took just a decade of policies based on slogans like "achievement for all", "health and safety", "diversity and inclusion" to put entrepreneurial spirit in a coma, to make average Brits feel ashamed of their history, to make the Britain, which fought to defend the Falkland Islands, take the knee to the first mob in town.
Woke (the modern version of Blair's New Labour) is much more corrosive and explicit in its hate of western civilization. It makes no secret of its contempt for America and what it stands for. It has no reverence for and has severed any connection to the past - condemned it all as bad. It will trample and take over established institutions (like it did with Universities) and procedures to reach its destructive, mindless goals.
Please America, do not let them rip your heart out while it's still beating like we did in Britain. Don't let the incredible achievement of the Founding Fathers be lost in time. Don't let the US Constitution be discovered in tiny fragments by archaeologists in the future after humanity has, again, been condemned to centuries of darkness.
For reference, if you'd like, check out the discussions I mentioned:
As a former Californian who watched her beloved state destroyed by people like Kamala Harris, (oh, yes, and Kamala Harris herself) I couldn't agree more. These people are incredibly destructive and cowardly (think Afghanistan). I am definitely an Anti-Trumper voting for Trump. I think we can clean up after him better because he's clueless but he doesn't hate American ideals.
I particularly like the part of this essay that asks 'who would magically transform the GOP?' We are truly bereft of options (although personally I really do like Nikki Haley). Thank you for this essay
As someone who favours Trump over Biden and now Harris, political debate has been endlessly frustrating. I have found myself having to defend against exaggerated claims, ludicrous extrapolation from excerpt-lifted statements of his and to counter wild speculation about what he would do in a second term, that he never showed any sign of in the first. Much of this is premised on psychologising Trump, as a launchpad into fearmongering.
Opponents willfully ignore positive evidence from his four years in office: deregulation ratio of approx 8 to 1 law introduced, energy independence with its security and anti-inflation benefits, destruction of ISIS, relocation of Israeli embassy, withdrawal from anti-human Paris climate accord etc.
Equivalent analysis of the last four years of Democrats is subject to the opposite problem, overlooking the negatives. The Afghanistan withdrawal is concrete evidence of politically driven chaos with a cost in lives, treasure and high-tech weaponry delivered direct into the hands of enemy regimes whose policy is 'Death to America'. And no shame for the shambles afterward. Just a shrug. Couple this with nihilism as educational policy and the American Sense Of Life is fast heading from hero to zero. Its beacon is already so dim to the rest of the civilised world. We need the light of its example not to go out.
I cannot deny I was pleased and surprised to see this article. In part because it was a validation of what I have been saying since May on a few discussions on ARCUK's channel on YouTube in The Reality Show (not one to say "I told you so...") =)
More importantly, because I have seen the threat to the "soul" of America that Peikoff is talking about, concretised here in Britain. I happened to move to London in 1997 just after Tony Blair took power and I have experienced what a decade of hard-core, militant leftie ideology, has done to Britain. The spirit of the nation which created parliamentary democracy, recognised individual rights, started the industrial revolution and which stood up to Fascism only 80 years ago, has been bludgeoned to death.
It took just a decade of policies based on slogans like "achievement for all", "health and safety", "diversity and inclusion" to put entrepreneurial spirit in a coma, to make average Brits feel ashamed of their history, to make the Britain, which fought to defend the Falkland Islands, take the knee to the first mob in town.
Woke (the modern version of Blair's New Labour) is much more corrosive and explicit in its hate of western civilization. It makes no secret of its contempt for America and what it stands for. It has no reverence for and has severed any connection to the past - condemned it all as bad. It will trample and take over established institutions (like it did with Universities) and procedures to reach its destructive, mindless goals.
Please America, do not let them rip your heart out while it's still beating like we did in Britain. Don't let the incredible achievement of the Founding Fathers be lost in time. Don't let the US Constitution be discovered in tiny fragments by archaeologists in the future after humanity has, again, been condemned to centuries of darkness.
For reference, if you'd like, check out the discussions I mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmJahE0u3cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3PDB_i8e0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ClUOZrfv6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrsKk4sFbg