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.
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.
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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.
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…