I smelled the first skunk of spring as I took Zeus out to his run this morning.
The post on Election Integrity generated a lot of comments.
RJW eloquently argued the counterpoint.
It gives me no joy to state that I think the bus left the station. The trust is gone and must be re-earned.
Democrats in Michigan openly gloated that "Detroit and Grand Rapids delivered again". That is, they generated enough votes to deliver state-wide victories to the Democrats. Actually, they said "Wayne and Kent counties".
Partisan judges stopping Trump from enforcing the laws (deporting illegal aliens) while they were blind to Biden illegally bringing them in on aircraft and bypassing the few, porous processes at the border.
January 6 protestors who were demonstrating to slow the certification SO IT WOULD BE MEANINGFUL (i.e. actually check out claims of wholesale fraud) were treated like foes of Stalin and all exculpatory evidence was destroyed. Does that look like integrity to anybody with an IQ over 90?
The list of betrayals, not of me personally but of their oath to uphold the Constitution, are endless.
Our trust is gone. The other side burned through our good-will. The tank is empty. They usually tell lies to enrich themselves and increase their power but it has become such a habit that they tell lies just to stay in practice.
Nailed it.
ReplyDeleteThe shewting competition will commence posthaste... likely summer, certainly between Nov and January...
RJW might want to look towards history to see how folks like him and Judge Boasberg got treated after the "revolution" was well underway. He might want to look up what happened to Maximilien Robespierre, Trotsky and the various workers parties that were eliminated by the power of the gun until only the Bolsheviks were in power.
ReplyDeleteGoing to be ugly.
Protect your trusted friends and trusted family. Get right with your God.
It is not prudent to mention specific names. Yes, I think some judges are addicted to fame and attention and there are obvious (potential) downsides to that.
DeleteOrganizations and individuals who refuse to, or are not capable of, policing themselves inevitably are brought-to-heel by external forces and the rule-set they are forced to conform to is ALWAYS a tighter fitting shoe than the one they could of had if they had done their jobs policing their own.
Please consider the words of St Paul "Avoid even the appearance of impropriety" (translation unknown). A version of that is in the subtitle of this blog. Identifying specific people who the mentally-ill might misinterpret as "a target list" is probably on the wrong side of "appearance of impropriety".
True, sorry.
DeleteBut it is sad that with some 833 federal Judges out there it is interesting to see how often a select few are doing most of the business of blocking Trump.
Almost like ah Judge Shopping.
But history shows that radicals all too often eat their own because as Maximilien Robespierre was charged as betraying the revolution and got his national "haircut".
Pity so many I just want to be left alone folks long before that get the Kulak treatment.
Barely in the beginning stages. Summer should be interesting; elections even more so - maybe even more more so if the Ds don't win. Gonna get worse before it gets better> Listen to Ol Remus - Don't be there
ReplyDeleteWinner winner chicken dinner....
DeleteWe have our first periwinkle of spring. Which is rather less exciting.
ReplyDeleteMaybe less exciting but far less crazy-making.
DeleteIt's been cold but very dry here. We MAY get our first snow this week after weeks of highs in the 60s and lows in the 20s.
DeleteJonathan
I'm looking forward to the first Dandelions showing up.
DeleteA sign the soil is warm enough for successful gardening around here.
It's sad when folks buy hothouse tomatoes plants and drop them in too early. They sulk and never get tomatoes.
It saddens me to say that I agree with you ER. At my current age of 77 I won't be around to see much of the disaster America will become if the body politic isn't readjusted back to honest elections. But my descendants will have a rough row to hoe if it isn't.
ReplyDeleteERJ, I often reflect on a comment by the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his book After Virtue (to whom I was introduced by Rod Dreher), about the breakdown of the Roman empire and thus its civilization:
ReplyDelete"A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness."
I am certainly not wise enough to comment on any sort of coming age of barbarism and darkness. But it occurs to me that we are very close to people working more fully on those alternate sorts of community. Much like any failing relationship, there comes a point where further engagement is not useful as there is nothing shared between the two parties except perhaps a history.
"...was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness."
DeleteWe call that "circling the wagons" out here in the Wild West, TB, and yes, it's happening. Know who you can and can't trust. That's your only defense...
We’re seeing Canada Geese returning up here, Joe.
ReplyDeleteOn the trust thing… it’s not just the USA. At this point liberal democracy has clearly failed. The system cannot correct itself because people have undermined the checks and balances. Nothing can be done until they are removed…
Trust, once lost, is almost impossible to recover. I don't see a peaceful way forward, other than becoming like Mexico, whose people just accept the corruption and poverty. I'm not willing to accept either... Keep your larder deep, your powder dry, and your Bible open...
ReplyDeleteTrust, real actual trust, is earned. And once destroyed is gone forever. Anyone with an IQ above a Somali who has been paying attention stopped trusting anyone or anything in government a very long time ago. And only an abject moron would believe or trust anything related to it.
ReplyDeleteWhen more people choose to politically express themselves for "None of the above" , Joe, "the other side" did not "burn through 'our' good will". The commmmnists may be leading the pack right now but the old left versus right paradigm is dying.
ReplyDeleteLong live the new paradigm! as long as it is not the old paradigm.
Milton
p.s. Communists are not people.