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What the anti-foundationalism of the linguistic turn taught the organized Left is that, if they can show that there is no ultimate authority to whom one can appeal to adjudicate disputes — no objective standard from which man can presume to draw knowledge — all disputes are merely power plays, and everything is contingent upon context, perception, and consensus. Therefore, in order to create the conditions for a pure, power-driven coup of the United States, what they worked to do was remove or diminish or problematize the country’s adopted social compact, itself a stand-in for an ultimate authority, itself conceived in such a way that it requires those living under it to accept the conditions of Natural Law and unalienable rights that transcend man and provides checks to his power.
There is a reason Woodrow Wilson and FDR fought constitutional authority. And it’s the same reason the progressives and Obama have spent so much time trying to diminish, delegitimate, and ultimately undermine the Constitution: progressivism and constitutionalism cannot co-exist.
And unfortunately, through the combination of a long march through the institutions and, these days, brazen maneuvers intended to actively and overtly challenge the governing authority of the American experiment, the Left has taken us to a point where everything is a battle over political allegiances, with nothing controlling or constraining us aside from pure power dynamics (and the minimal attempts now being made to justify such a fundamental transformation of our civil society).
The country is being overthrown by the sophists. And once they seize and consolidate power, we will — like so many countries before us — find ourselves subjects to their ruling class, pawns in their grand governing schemes.
And we will have allowed it to happen.
There will also be both Potemkin and “independent” [inter]nationally organized front groups acting to oppose the Ryan plan for keeping Medicare/Medicaid from bankrupting the nation. Their “solution” will be bankruptcy, tyranny, hyper inflation or a combination thereof.
But aren’t they just like a dog chasing a car? I mean, once they have taken control do they really know what they want to do with all that power?
I don’t want to be around to find out. Do you bergerbilder?
They want to use that power to force their policies through. They will keep on doing that until they are stopped.
Remember, progressives are never finished. They never get to a goal, because their goal is impossible to achieve.
Seems to me a dog that catches a car and hangs onto it must be rabid.
There’s a thing that happens to rabid dogs.
[…] said it several times here myself, but it’s always worth repeating, and Jeff says it better anyway. There is a reason Woodrow Wilson and FDR fought constitutional authority. And it’s the […]
They will keep on doing that until they are stopped.
By whom or what? At this point, the Oministration can do pretty much what it wants, howls from the Heartland notwithstanding. They are in fast-and-furious mode (to coin a phrase), and no one—not even Congress—has the ability or the resources to deal with the onslaught of unconstitutional power-grabs.
Sue the gubmint over Obamacare? Sure, go right on ahead! See ya in 10 years, when it’s too late for any court order, even from SCOTUS, to make a difference.
50-state secession, that’s what.
[O]nce they have taken control do they really know what they want to do with all that power?
Yes, they very much do: eradicate their enemies, cleanse the society, purge all the bad blood from the body politic.
For starters. The rest of it will be similar to what Soviet Party members did: live it up while ensuring the proles don’t lift their heads up to so much as see it, let alone complain.
“Not independant, what is wthe word?… Untethered!”
There is a reason Woodrow Wilson and FDR fought constitutional authority.
I realize that Woody and Effdee stand out, but when was the last time we had anybody in Washington who respected Constitutional authority? These guys exist to wield power, and the Constitution stands to limit the power they’re allowed to wield. Is it any wonder why they all collude to weaken, circumvent, or ignore the strictures against their abuses?
Reagan? Coolidge?
Reagan talked a good game, and reminded a lot of people why it was stupid and bad to depend on government to solve everyday problems. But even he couldn’t do much to push back the tide.
They never get to a goal, because their goal is impossible to achieve.
If their goal is an actual Utopia, then yeah, it’s impossible to achieve.
If their goal is Power Power Power, then they’re limited only by their satiability.
“We” paleface? I’m pretty sure I haven’t “allowed” any part of this crap to happen, in fact I’ve been railing against Big Government since I signed the Libertarian pledge in 1985, or thereabouts (back when I was an idealist). About as long as I’ve been a “prepper” (I don’t live in remotest Wyoming by accident). Big difference between “allowing” something to happen and being powerless to stop it. Having accepted the fact that I’m essentially powerless, I’ve been concentrating on stocking up on beans and bullets. I’d recommend that ya’ll do the same. Interesting times we live in.
Guns and butter. That’s the ticket!
I’ve found buttery fingers makes it hard to control my gun.
Paper towels or shop rags will fix that.