Dark Enlightenment?

Watching the continuing autoimmune disorder of Liberalism destroy its host organism, I suspect that Machiavelli would say:

If you do not dominate your women, they will dominate you.

If you do not dominate your minorities, they will dominate you.

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Duh

Widow of Philadelphia Cop Expresses Outrage over Obama Justice Nominee (Video) | Independent Film, News and Media:

The administration of "Barack Hussein Obama" appoints "Debo Adegbile" who defended "Mumia Abu Jamal."

Big surprise.

And the implosion of what was once America encapsulated in those bizarre alien names.

While we're at it, Somalis at Democrat gathering in Minnesota break out in riot. Somalis. In Minnesota.

Again, it's another encapsulation.

A repeat of 5th century Rome.

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Prometheus

Ridley Scott doing his thing in his prequel to Alien. Impressive computer special effects. Everything else is either derivative or really preposterous. And I mean really preposterous.

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A Liberal law

What tradition has promoted must be dismantled

and what tradition has discouraged must be sanctified.

For example, gay marriage and interracial marriage and adoption have now achieved sanctified status and only bigots and haters question them. 

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Religious, not spiritual

From Mr B, for today's feast of St Blaise, protector against ailments of the throat.

When I think about it, my favorite memories of Catholic ritual are the acts devoid of reason. No logic, no explanation, just fifty kids standing in line waiting for a priest to rub two candle sticks on their throats. That was fun; plus, no "Rejoice" banners were around.

Amen.

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BHM

Comedians often tell truths we are not otherwise allowed to notice or know.

HT to Mr B

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I wonder

Why are Nazis worse than Communists?

Why is Adolf Hitler the epitome of Evil Itself, rather than the choir of Marxist murderers ranging from Lenin to Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot and even Che?

Why is a highly localized ideology that lasted for no more than 12 years so much worse than a globally metasticized one that lasted for 70+ years?

Why can an academic call him/herself a Marxist and suffer nothing, even be seen as brave, edgy and ethical, but can have a career ended by someone else considering him/her a Nazi?



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Another thought experiment

Suppose that the Democrats created a platform which aimed at creating a peaceful multicultural USA and finally resolving the central American problem of (White) racism by envisioning a population as follows:

25% Black, 35% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% Other and 25% White.

This would be achieved non-violently over a few decades, by a variety of immigration measures and legal and financial inducements.

On what grounds could American Whites, either Liberals or Conservatives, oppose this?

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The Darker Dark Side

I have often referred to myself as having "gone over to the Dark Side" because I was a gay liberal who became a conservative.

As the catastrophe of ObamaNation has unfolded since 2008, conservatism has seemed an increasingly empty vessel, unable to confront much less slow or halt the "progressive" juggernaut. American conservatism shares too many common assumptions with Liberalism to fight it. One primary one is the acceptance of the notion that all men are created equal. And all women. And all groups.

Since the repeat of 2008 in November of 2012, it has seemed to me that the decline is accelerating. And so I have begun to think of myself less as a conservative and more of a half-assed reactionary. It has harder and harder to think of a multi-ethic and equality-loving polity based in the Enlightenment (as was the American founding) which would not eventually turn into the democracy we now have. And democracy in the sense that the republican Founding Fathers meant it: mob rule by ballot box.

Turns out that there is a thing called The Dark Enlightenment, even darker than RightWing Conservatism.

This angel keeps falling.

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Black History Month

The shortest month of the year.

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