Fantastic post. You put some real work into this one. Many thanks. But what you really need to do is get this post out there in front of a much, much larger audience. You might even educate a few folks and change the minds of some others. That being said I've added some commentary beneath many of your paragraphs. It's rather extensive and boring but every paragraph of your post is worth responding to.
The Right are for tradition. They work for stability, fairness, and sanity. They adhere to the rules. They play by the rules. They've got a good system they think is the best and so are loathe to change or change it. They think and act in straight lines, and in times of conflict, expect and wait for the system to work for them. After all, it's supposed to.
Yes. But what happens when the radical left is making the laws and rules we patriots have sworn to enforce, follow and/or uphold? For that is exactly what has been happening in America for seven decades at least.
Also, you are correct. Conservative and moderate liberal Americans tend to want to believe "the system" will work for them right up until the bitter end. I ask again: what happens, what do we do when the radical left becomes "the system" we believe will save us?
The Right think, fight and act like colonial soldiers-- -- according to predetermined, predictable patterns of fair play. There is a line they will not cross. They are orderly and systematic.
Not necessarily so, my man. I began my military service in the US Army as a combat engineer whose first duty was to drive M113 APCs in the 1st Cavalry Division. Even then I would not say we were trained to fight by any set of rules other than perhaps the UCMJ and Geneva Convention; if nothing else, we were foremost trained to win. But for the rest of my military career (I've been serving since 1991, first on active duty, later in the reserves, now in the guard) I have been involved in asymmetrical and unconventional warfare and served in military intelligence units. I served on several LRSD or Long Range Surveillance Detachments, and in certain other units I need not mention here on the internet to sound like I'm puffing up my credentials, which are meaningless in cyberspace anyway. These days anyone can claim to have been anything. Yawn.
My point in telling you all of this is to drive home the reassurance that there are people walking around out there in the real world, fellow Americans who look like anyone else, who have been thoroughly trained to adapt to just about any kind of enemy and/or enemy tactic, learn it, understand it, and then use it against the bad guys. Guys like that? They could train dozens, hundreds, thousands of fellow Americans to fight like they've been trained to fight. And then those trained hundreds could in turn train thousands—tens of thousands more. Train them to fight dirtier and smarter than most human beings can imagine. Train them to be force multipliers.
To the Right, there is up and down, right and wrong, good and bad, and left and right. You engage in phases, you advance, you defeat, they surrender. There are clear beginnings and ends. You act according to reason and you expect your opponent to be reasonable as well. Like expecting the Japanese to surrender after Pearl Harbor.
From a strictly moral philosophical view I agree. One of our greatest weaknesses is we've been raised, conditioned—both by good parents and Christianity and also American values—to see the best in other people first, to follow the rules, abide by laws and show compassion, understanding, look for the best in bad situations, and to believe the system will ultimately not fail us.
From a military point of view, not so much. Even regular military line units have been trained up since about 2001 in low intensity urban conflict, guerilla and unconventional warfare. Additionally, after such battles a Fallujah and Ramadi and others, regular military forces were left with no choice but to train specifically for counterinsurgency and counterterror capable roles. There are thousands of Iraq 2 and Afghanistan veterans out there who can train others to do the same, which amounts to fighting like mobile, rapid response mike force bad asses, and above all else . . . to fight dirty.
The Left operate quite differently. They are not fighting a war but a Jihad. There are no Admirals, generals, lieutenants and troops. Everyone is a captain, everyone is a leader, everyone is a soldier. They don't come across the field at you in a straight line and knock at the front door, they creep in and seep in at you like a goo through every crack in your foundation. There are no rules. If one thing doesn't work, try the next. There are no boundaries. They say crazy people leave no pattern to follow. The Left are like a pool of water on your roof waiting to find a break in your waterproofing and a clogged rain gutter. They'll get in, first a grip, then a stream, then a gush. The gush is here.
What you're describing here, mainly, is ideological warfare, and to some extent . . . psychological warfare. But the postmodernists running the insurrectionist show we're seeing out there in our streets do have a glaring Achilles' heel. The very ideology of theirs which is is tearing apart our America
always contradicts itself; hands-down, every time. Meaning, for example, if the postmodernist intelligentsia who create and add to their ideology declare the sky will forever be black then you can bet that the very next day they will come out and just as sincerely declare that while the sky
is indeed black, it is not black for everyone, because some people FEEL it is a different color on some days and they're cool with that. This weakness can be exploited.
Further, there's a second weakness. Remove just about any member of the insurrection from their mob and poof; just like that they return to some semblance of a fairly normal human being one can reason with, and if not reason with then scare the hell out of. The true power of the postmodernist cult is the mob. Take the mob apart, piece by piece, and all the enemy's got left are a few dusty, weakling intellectuals left to start brainwashing new college kids from scratch with even dustier old theories. The way to take apart the mob is to infiltrate it, pretend to be as fanatical cultist as they are about whatever their cause might be, and then turn them on each other or begin pulling individuals out and deprogramming them one by one.
- The Left are all about attaining a goal. Get there any way you can.
- They engage the young because they have the energy, and are impressionable, so easily mislead and will make great sacrifice for a cause.
- They use victim politics. Win at any cost.
- Radicalize your base. Anarchy is the order of the day. There is power in numbers.
Your average "good" law-abiding American citizen is not only not willing to do whatever it takes to win a real battle, but most don't even understand what "whatever it takes" means. In the same way that postmodernists have radicalized so many of our youth, we in turn must energize, educate and train others like us to believe in America enough to put their lives on the line to save her.
Get caught in a mire of too much pessimism and all is already lost before the first battle. The enemy is just human; just as human and flawed as we are. Take care not to overestimate them to the point they defeat you with the evil of their ideas alone.
How do you defend against a group that cannot even agree with you on the number of genders and sexes! You might as well try to reason with someone who cannot even agree on when it is night or day. You don't even know which bathroom to use anymore! They even have worked out symbols for all 32 sexes!
You cannot "defend" against the postmodernists. The only hope we as an entire civilization have of surviving them is to eradicate them with extreme prejudice and to then do a much better job educating future generations so they do not follow the same path of madness ever again. That, and/or attempt to remove them individually from the mob and deprogram them one by one. Sadly, our nation no longer has enough time left to exist for attempting to do that.
The Left are not predictable. They are dirty fighters. They work off the rules for radicals:
- Go outside the expertise of your enemy.
- Use your enemy's rules against themselves.
- Use irrational ridicule as an attack as there is no defense against it.
- Keep the pressure on.
- Make a negative a positive by pushing lies until they are accepted as truth and win over public support by being the "underdog."
- Go after people, polarize everything.
- Overwhelm the system.
First off, the postmodernists' prime strategy depends on good people not to resist them. After all, why would we resist them when they are the ones making our laws—not when we are law abiding citizens to a fault. So we must transcend our own allegiance to the rule of law and fight back. The simple act of just a few of us fighting back with a well organized resistance would throw them completely off their strategy. So far NO ONE has dared to actually fight them on their own terms. We're all too busy following the evil laws they've made for us and depending on the system they control to save us in the end . . . which it never shall. Most Americans are stuck forever in an infinitely repeating logic and morality loop from which they can never escape because in order to escape they'd have to break the rules of being good people and fight dirty as hell.
Further, where the postmodernists also defeat us is in false morality traps such as "take the high road", "don't stoop to their level", "We'll win because we never fight dirty like they do" and my favorite: "If we do that to them then we'll be just as bad as they are." These are the morality traps the postmodernists use to keep us good folks from fighting them where they live. Truth is some of us will have to become soulless monsters in order to defeat the monsters who are destroying our nation as we speak. There's no alternative.
Remember, Hillary Clinton made this the topic of and wrote her college graduation thesis on this. This is who the Democrats last tried to make your president.
Thank God for Donald John Trump.
Trump has not responded to this as he should. Maybe because 90% of Wash DC is Democrats. Maybe because he can find few people in his inner circle to really trust. Cities are under attack, law and order are breaking down. Police protection is no longer there. Governors and mayors and major corporations are siding with violence, looting, suppression and censorship. It is no longer safe to walk the streets.
These moments in time must be living hell for our POTUS. I believe he wants to act but even in spite of the damage the insurgents are doing to our nation, I think Donald Trump doesn't want to harm any American, no matter how vile. What our President needs is a wake up call. Sounds nuts, but he needs us—everyday Americans—to tell or show him what he must do and forgive him for doing it ahead of time. Now more than ever, he needs us to stay with him in his corner.
People are discovering that basic things like food, safety and basic needs may not be there. Everyone, anyone could be walking death to them. They are afraid and desperate.
The Right are an easy target because they announce their game plan in advance. They lay out clear boundaries they will not cross. They are rife with traitors from within. The Average republican is more like Jeff Flake and more concerned about their own survival than their party. They are content to lose if it means staying loyal to their ethics.
Yes, yes . . . those pesky moral boundaries again, those lines no one wants to cross for fear of staining their soul. As mentioned above some of us must cross them; some of us already have. Will there be any hope of redemption after? Not likely. Still, we must do what needs doing in order to save our wives, our children; our families and our entire nation. Never pretty but always necessary. History calls. Who will stand up and answer? The eyes of everyone we love and everything we and our ancestors do and have stood for are upon us. Who among us has the courage to look into them with unblinking confidence and understanding?
The Left control the means of education, most of government, most of media information dissemination as well as control the internet through Google, Facebook and Twitter. They are cutting off all dissension by labeling it as hate-speech, racist, and white supremacist. They are criminalizing mere opposition, questioning, resistance and disagreement. If you stop to ask why, you are a racist and hate-speaker. You are part of "the problem." They are putting up political messages on TV, in front yards, even on buildings and basketball courts. People are being ordered to comply. They are building Trump up into a threat and law and order as an enemy.
Propaganda. Brainwashing. Psychological warfare. We can do the same. We just need our own intellectuals to firm up a new epistemology and procedural philosophy and then take that to the masses; to anyone who will listen. There are many ways to get a message out to a populace in short order. Mankind has been doing it since long before our information age.
If Trump doesn't get a handle on this soon, the nation is in mutiny. The momentum is mounting against him. The Left fight like ISIS with no compunction against cutting off heads, burning books and closing free expression. Down is up and up is down. Biden could win this without ever leaving his basement without a single interview and without a single debate. And you remember how Biden left BLM just take the mic from him? If Biden wins, BLM gets in office, they take over the country, radicals are in power, law and order are out the door and being white, being Christian and being conservative may very quickly find you as being labeled as a criminal.
I understand your fears. We all share them. But you are playing right into the enemy's trap. The enemy NEEDS you to be stuck in a constant loop of outrage and shock. That way you can never balance yourself. If you can't get your balance then you can never fight back.
Those in power don't care if this country falls to pieces, they have been trying to sell it out for decades. The people are pawns and they will always be safely behind gated communities with heavy security well guarded.
Not you.
The Right, Conservatives and Trump better soon wake up. They could easily lose this. Constained and hamtied by their own rules, restrictions, arrogance, ethics and inertia to action because they simply are not willing to do what it takes to win this.
All true. No republican elected politician can save us. Only We The People can save ourselves and our nation. If America falls then we've failed ourselves, can blame only ourselves. I know, I hear you. "What can one man or woman possibly do against the might and Hydra-like heads of the mob? You'd be very, very surprised. Perhaps it is time for all Americans who still love their families and their nation, their God and their President, to find out.
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