Moderates United

What did Black America get for electing America’s first ethnically African-American President?  Poverty rates in the black community were as high or higher in 2016 as they were in 2008.  Crimes rates seem to have gotten worse.  Dependency on government went up.  Unemployment remains horrible, although it may have been marginally worse in 2008 in the immediate aftermath of all that screwing up by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Here is his legacy: he changed our public discourse, by making Alinskyan methods of demonization, insult, and misdirection common, and practiced daily from on high.

Before Barack Obama, you would not get called a racist for no other reason than disagreeing with a Democrat preaching bad ideas which were known as such 50 years ago.  Now, it is the first recourse, followed by as many other non sequiturs as needed to halt the attempted dialogue from a position of assumed moral superiority.

No black people are helped by this.  On the contrary, this system of propaganda makes ACTUAL solutions to real problems impossible.  We substitute football players taking knees for substantive discussions and the intelligent, outcome-focused policy such discussions make possible.

The entirety of his intent, and his concrete success, as seen from the Luciferian perspective Alinsky so proudly embraced, has been to make dialogue less common, more coarse, and to mainstream violent and dehumanizing rhetoric.  Put another way, to push all genuine liberals out of the public space if they don’t want to be attacked.

What Obama built was language.  What he provided was language, a manner of speaking.  And this was what the talkers who put him in office wanted and expected.  He delivered.  But is it not ODD that nobody really tried to figure out how he actually benefited the group–blacks–one might most reasonably have expected would be his focus?  After all, what other difference could having a black President make?

This is the vital point: for people who confuse language with reality, no facts are ever needed, nor can they be, at the level of principle, which is why it is perfectly consistent of the complicit media to ask for no reckoning.  What they wanted, they got, clearly.

Just as Marx never left his library to do the muddy business of talking with workers, today’s media employees–I won’t use the word journalist, since it may still be possible to redeem that word someday–have all they need reading speeches, tweets, and public proclamations.  Their work is managing the dialogue, not learning about the real world, or real people, much less helping them in any way.

If you have to ask how hot 5 is at a Thai restaurant, it is too hot.

If you feel the need to compete with random strangers at the gym, you have already lost.

There is a benefit to combining stretching with the notion of Hygge.  As I mentioned a week or something ago, I’ve pulled out my old Bob Anderson, and resurrected for my own purposes the concept of stretching as pleasurable, as something to look forward to.  This is in marked contradistinction to the notion of “don’t go in the pain cave”.  I have his book too, and do do rolling which is quite painful sometimes, but I have decided to do random Bob Anderson routines a couple times a day, gentle to the point where I am almost just THINKING of the stretch.

Stretching is a bit like dealing with people.  You push too far, they contract, and everything gets harder.

It is both sad and amazing how deeply in denial the Left is with regard to Trump. Yahoo has been running daily hit pieces, describing “plummeting” poll ratings, this problem or the other, and always there seems to be the sense that if they just shout, if they just hold their breath, if they just publish ONE MORE negative article, some miracle will happen.

This is of course ridiculous. Trump is going to be President for four years. There is nothing wrong with his mental health. The Republican House is not going to impeach him for crimes he hasn’t committed, and trying to maintain a daily hope he is going to disappear and not be replaced immediately by Mike Pence is the stuff of childish fantasy.

The Left needs to grow up. But of course if they did that, they would no longer be the Left. Mental illness, and the gross hypocrisy and delusion needed to champion barbaric and barren ideas go together.

What is interesting about this is that Mueller went ahead with the indictment, despite the fact that he himself appears to have been complicit in hiding evidence of Russian bribery and fraud to win access to a uranium contract.  The FBI UNDER HIM hid all the dirty laundry, while Billary and their charity front company pocketed millions.

CNN will want to put this on loop, obviously, but it will definitely be a buzzkill for them if every single soundbite coming from Manafort’s attorneys references Mueller’s own complicity, his own guilt, and his manifest failure of integrity in not recusing himself, despite ALSO being a personal friend of James Comey,

This is a risky, risky game he is playing.  He still has a lot of swamp to depend on, but Trump is increasingly showing he is tired of their shit, and at the end of the day, he is the top dog.

How about a Special Prosecutor to investigate Mueller and Comey, and their role both in Uranium One and the Steele dossier?

I think it would be interesting to have some of the psychics–are there are a good number of them around the world–who have demonstrated the ability to solve or provide clues to crimes, to take a look at the Las Vegas event.

Whatever happened, the official version makes no sense to me.  It does not make sense that he would commit suicide long before the SWAT cops got there.  It does not make sense he would stockpile so many guns when he only needed one, two, or perhaps three.

And it does not make sense that he would crack the way he did. 

Perhaps everything we are being told is accurate, but I very much doubt it.  

I was “debating” a Communist on Facebook, and reflecting on this particular psychopathology.  What emerged that was new for me is that they don’t care who rules them.  This is perhaps the salient distinction from fascism.  A Hitler, or Mussolini, or Franco is not so very different from a king or emperor of another era.  People look to a face, and want that face to lead them.

A similar dynamic was perhaps in play in Russia and China, with the difference was that the rulers emerged AFTER the Party was victorious, and an effort was made to create popular support.  That is likely an over-simplification, but the point as concerns current Communists remains.

They simply know they want to be ruled.  They simply know they want their Party in charge.  Psychologically, I cannot see any meaningful way in which they do not want to be subordinated, in effect, to a machine, to an apparatus of control, to nameless faces, far away.

Ponder that.

And rhetorically, it occurs to me that Communists win many debates because they simply trot out the atrocities of America, and American backed rulers, and the idiots they are speaking to have no ability to frame these actions in a historical context.  They simply know that “we” committed crimes, and the people doing the talking have no desire or intent of doing an actual moral comparison with the actions of Communists, even though they are essential to forming anything approximating a balanced picture.

I look at these peoples, and picture them in boats.  They throw reason–which is the balanced consideration of all factors, which are then integrated into a framework of principle–overboard.  They throw compassion–which is the ability to empathize with ALL human suffering–overboard.  The first is the rudder, the second is the oars or sails.  What is left is adrift.  Such people have no history, they have no people, they have no law.  They have only what they are told, and what they do.  It is very hard building bridges to people lost at sea.

You only think about the meaning of life when the feeling of meaning and purpose has slipped through your fingers, just as you only think about love when it is gone.

The true problem of philosophy–one it is singularly ill-equipped to solve–is how to create the feeling of tribal membership for all humanity, without the conflicts that have always attended, and perhaps even supported and facilitated, tribalisms.

Why not drop the labels fascist, communist, authoritarian and totalitarian, and simply call the disciples and apostles of these anti-humanisms what they are: aspiring bullies?

These Antifa kids are the ones who were likely bullied in school, and now, finally, they can have retributive wet dreams, score settling fantasies, not with the present, but with the past. Politics is merely a thin and bad pretext.

To state the obvious, ALL bullies were bullied, and all bullies in their own mind are just fucking with the world before it can fuck with them, or because it fucked with them.

Our political world at the moment is characterized by mental illness, and the reactions to it.

I was driving up a ramp in a parking garage, running a tad late for a deadline that in any event only existed in my mind, and this word popped in my head. Then henarchy.

To double check I understood the prefix heno, I did a Google search and found this: https://turmarion.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/theism-poly-mono-heno-and-other-options/

I think I have slightly misunderstood heno-. I thought it meant alternating, or something close to that. It means in reality, one but not exclusive, more or less. It might in fact be equated with religious pluralism of the sort that prevented most sectarian conflict in India until the Muslims and their radical monotheism.

But ponder the idea of polyarchy–rule of many sorts. What if absolute monarchs were elected to five year terms? What if some cities used rule by oligarchs (explicitly, in any event)? What if we resurrected literal popular votes held in city squares?

What if we made the concept of “best form of government” an open question?

As I ponder, I then wonder why we need ANY government, if we could more or less get along. War. War is the usual answer. It is why Israel first created a kingship. It is why our Founders wanted a strong Presidency. It is how many nations are formed: to get big enough to fight off some invading force.

In conditions of peace, though:why?

What about a king who is basically paid to sit around and occasionally unruffle some feathers? Who has a boring job, but occasionally proves useful?

Or, in a form I think the Vikings and others adopted, popular assemblies convened only when needed?

This is my brain. I find new words both lead new places, and permit new perspectives on the old.

Greed which is naked has limits.  Greed which is cloaked in the garb of humanitarianism has no limits.