A crisis of conscience

Please do note that, from the git-go and throughout, it’s “the right” TL is talking specifically about here, not “Republicans” or the Vichy GOPe collaborators and co-conspirators. That’s an important distinction to make, seeing as how these days one of those things is most definitely NOT like the other.

The Bigger Issues
The crisis of conscience is what kills the right every time. They want to win, but they don’t want to do anything dishonorable in the process. They won’t take a stint in jail to win. They won’t intentionally inflict emotional or psychiatric pain on another person, even if that person is intent on inflicting the same sort of damage upon them. In one way, it makes a person proud to be among such fine people, but if that leads to drag queen story hour with children, it takes the shine off of that pride.

The left suffer from no such crisis. This is not to say they don’t have a conscience, but that they see over the horizon of their immediate actions, or are, more accurately, willing to accept that vision, however clumsily and fraudulently presented, as a cause worthy of soiling their hands.

Actually, I must disagree with that—the Left clearly does NOT have a conscience. Or, more to the point, if they do, they never, EVER let it get in the way of glomming power for themselves, expanding it, and wielding it against us, their declared enemies. Perhaps that serves them well enough as a “conscience," but it’s not anything most decent, normal people would recognize as such. Just like so many other things, the conscience is valued by the Left in direct proportion to its usefulness as a tool; it’s trotted out to be used purely at their convenience.

As I and most other non-Leftists understand things, though, conscience is almost NEVER convenient, always standing in the way of our human self-indulgence and temporary satisfaction. For us, conscience is more akin to a challenge—insisting that we do the right thing, as opposed to the easy or “fun” thing. TL knows this as well as I do, of course, which he implicitly confirms in the very next ‘graph.

As we see now, a great many of the left have no other goal than to seize power. They never know what to do with it, except to revert to some animalistic nature of oppressing or killing all who oppose them, but they don’t suffer from the paralyzing fear of acting that the right does.

TL waxes more and more depressing from there, when it was already depressing enough.

This is why the right loses every battle against the communists on the left and will ultimately lose every war. The right holds onto its integrity until the communists seize power and use that awesome power of the state against Christians praying in public, against concerned parents who discover the indoctrination in their schools, the obscene acts taking place there. The right is polite when it’s discovered that the usurper in chief is obviously guilty of bribery, human trafficking and treason. Since they will not act, they decide to vote in a rigged system hoping for a better outcome.

The left looks at a problem and finds a solution, then they act. They will lie to congress, force people into their homes, destroy businesses that have survived all other recessions, kill police, burn down police stations, occupy whole sections of inner cities with CHOP-like areas and if you thought that had ended, you’re wrong. There are still places in America that continue to be occupied by those same strident communists.

When the right can’t win against the left, they attack each other. They choose an opponent against whom they are most likely to win without losing their sacred honor. That sates their thirst for control and gives them an illusion of power that they so recently lost to the left. It’s disgusting to watch it play out every day.

Ain’t it though. Ain’t it just. The problem we face here, like the overall big-picture situation, is really nothing new, alas. The meat, bones, and sinews of it? Simply this:

The same arguments and objections accompanied the Revolutionary War. Many of those who argued against the Declaration of Independence were those who clung to their sacred honor, who saw the violence in the streets against the Crown as distasteful and dishonorable. Those who signed the Declaration of Independence swore their lives, treasure and sacred honor to the goal of freedom. There’s a reason that “sacred honor” was one of the sacrifices to be made, because they knew that playing by the rules was a prescription for defeat.

We’re in the same place. Those who want to win are writing the rules, the laws, that bind us to defeat. They’re making criminals as fast as they can, either with the pistol brace, (something that is an ex post facto law and declared openly as unconstitutional) or simply by labeling concerned parents domestic terrorists. Laws are being drafted to eliminate white people from certain occupations and schools. It is racism codified in law. We either need to surrender or fight. With the decision to fight we need to accept the sacrifice of our honor. In sacrificing our honor we do so to restore the republic, not our own freedom, or treasure, but that of future generations.

The problem is there has been a coup against the will of the people. All other problems are ancillary.

The will of the people has been overthrown in the schools, in the universities, in health care, in elections, in sources of power and electric generation, in security of the border, in the actions of police. All of that is being driven by the aspect that the communists have seized key positions in government and society. Corporations are acting against the will of the shareholders and investors, except for the huge investors like Blackrock and Vanguard. The communists have seized control over those investment firms and use that power to obliterate antitrust laws, force ESG and DEI onto corporations that discriminate against employment based on race and religious affiliation. These break the long-established laws against it and if the will of the people had not been usurped by federal police and intelligence agencies in 2020, that would not be taking place.

It all comes back to the central problem of the coup against the will of the people.

To fight you have to love what they hate and hate what they love.

Annnnd WOOT! There it is. Like it or not, the underlying issue always comes back to the same thing, in my view: to defeat them, we must become more like them. No, by that I assuredly do NOT mean adopting their beliefs, their views, their abominable totalitarian political agenda, Heaven forbid. What I DO mean is adopting their will to win; their tactics; their readily-discernible eagerness to get down in the gutter and fight dirty—most of all, perhaps, their absolute willingness to identify us not as their countrymen with whom they have minor differences of opinion, but as blood enemies. As in fact not merely mistaken but actively, willfully evil.

Thus it is, then, that we arrive in the exact same place as did the Founders in their own day: forced all unwilling to grapple with a most unpleasant choice, one which no sane person ever wants to have to make. No more than a slogan in the beginning, thought to have its origins with the minuscule and entirely irrelevant American White Supremacist cohort, the following phrase eventually hardened into a truism which cannot long be sidestepped: there is no political solution to the problems caused by politics.

Which, in its turn, puts the inevitable question before us: What, if anything, will we do about it? It’s the most unpleasant aspect of the whole unpleasant conundrum; the Founders, when forced to face up to it, responded manfully—with utmost dignity, selflessness, and courage. Will we, their posterity, live up to their noble example? Can we, even? Do we still have it in us, are we still possessed of at least some remnant of our forefathers' self-respect? Time will tell.