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Friday, December 22. 2017

Ugly politics

From This Bloodsport Needs to End - The left is getting nuttier, the hard right is getting scarier, and the entire enterprise of political control 



 What’s so frustrating about these election spectacles is that they have nothing to do with creating the good life. For that we have to look elsewhere, such as the newly emerging light we are seeing on the economic horizon. For the first time in decades, there is a chance that the job market is becoming active again, that incomes will rise, that inflation is solidly tamed, that the young generation will have new opportunities, that new products and inventions will continue to improve our lives.


None of this has anything to do with smears, epic struggles, revenge fantasies, and winner-take-all scenarios. ..


Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:56 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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Pity that the followers of such a genius like von Mises
end up whining about the "rough and tumble" of politics...
...as if *that's* something new!

for about 100 years, the Left has held court over
American politics and culture...
...and the rot is becoming clear to many.

The pendulum has only BEGUN to swing back.
To decry today's Right is like jammering about gravity.

JOIN, or GET OUT OF THE WAY.
#1 Kauf Buch on 2017-12-22 15:14 (Reply)
L. Sprague de Camp, RIP, one of our greatest writers demonstrated in "The Ancient Engineers" that politicians impede progress and engineers are the sole source of improvement in human economics and hence life.

And by engineers he meant any kind of technical thinker or doer, including and especially the eternal Borlaug.

Why we don't have the good sense to kill all the Pelosis and Schumers is beyond me.
#2 Fred Z on 2017-12-22 22:06 (Reply)
In the long run history will not judge Norman Borlaug kindly. Borlaug, along with Haber & Bosch, are principally responsible for mass overpopulation of the human species. Borlaug invented the plants, and Haber/Bosch invented the fertilizer. Without the the population of humans on Earth would probably never have exceeded 2 Billion.
#2.1 Guest on 2017-12-23 00:57 (Reply)
The HORROR!! The horror...
#2.1.1 Sam L. on 2017-12-23 10:35 (Reply)
I'm not sure I'd phrase my response as abruptly as Kauf Buch, above, but the meaning would be the same.

The Left plays to win, and win they have over the past 100 years - since President Wilson, at least.

Now the Left has metastasized into outright malevolence and seeks, in concert with those on the Right enamored of the State as the solution to everything, to overthrow our Republic. They are no longer subtle about it, either, it's right out there in the open. Their disagreement with the President has plainly become sedition.

That said, the old terms - "Left" and "Right" - no longer apply. By their actions, we can more plainly, and accurately, label them as "Seditionists".


They are plainly not interested in collegiality, and they are obviously not interested in our political norms. Politics became blood sport at about the same time the Islamist threat to the nation emerged in public - the Right's blood, not the Left's. Yet, there are many commentators who shrink from the obvious.

The Seditionists are rotten to the core. Their principles are rotten, their protagonists are rotten, and the actions they take are meant to destroy our country and its traditions.

The Right needs to fight to win. We've just begun to do so. To borrow a rough analogy, it's early 1862. Gettysburg is a long way off, the Wilderness even further. But we have, at least, begun to take the first steps down that road to victory. "Join, or get out of the way"!
#3 The Old Salt on 2017-12-23 08:50 (Reply)
In the last 20 years or so there has been a quickening by the left in their surge to seize power and absorb/redistribute our wealth. The surge in immigration, legal and illegal is a big part of that plan. This is the far left socialist/communist agenda and for what ever reason they intend to accelerate it now. Trump was an unexpected and terrible roadblock to their plans. Watch them as they pull off a palace coup and push that roadblock out of the way. We must follow Venezuela and Cuba into Nirvana and failure is not an option...
#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-12-23 10:06 (Reply)
What is this "hard right" of which he writes? I'd like to know. I didn't see any evidence or identification of it on two readings.
#5 Sam L. on 2017-12-23 10:38 (Reply)
That "hard right" referenced are merely regular folks - unlike the

A) ideologically-imprisoned, delusional libertarians and
B) utterly corrupted GOP-establishmentarians - who

1) refuse to do the knee-jerk reflexive "liberal hand-wringing" of appearing "impolite" to the Left, who would happily have them killed off, and
2) have no reservations about showing self-respect and - gasp! - self-preservation interests.
#5.1 Kauf Buch on 2017-12-23 10:45 (Reply)
Soooooo, just us reg'lar folks. First and Second Amendment believers. (We're so intentionally misunderstood!)

And a Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!
#5.1.1 Sam L. on 2017-12-24 21:51 (Reply)
HEY, MAGGIES'S FARM!
WHY did you DELETE "The Barrister's thread
with the book recommendation to read
Jared Taylor's 1992, "Paved With Good Intentions"?!?
#6 Kauf Buch on 2017-12-23 15:03 (Reply)
The corruption of the news media & academia is at the root of most of the problem. The left/admin state have been made to feel invincible & unaccountable, and the opposition now feels entitled to respond bluntly with "fuck you!" or "burn it down!"

Unfortunate what little twerps like Glenn Thrush, Paul Krugman et al have done to the country.
#7 itsatax on 2017-12-23 15:33 (Reply)

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