Biden apparently met with two "expert" historians who warned him that the US was "facing a crisis similar to the tensions before the Civil War and the fascist movement." Let me share my thoughts on that steaming pile of bullship.
First, let's assume it is true. How do you respond if you are told the country is tearing itself apart and civil war is likely?
Secondly, as someone versed in both logic and history, I can tell you that the comparisons are unmistakable wrong. The Civil War happened at a time when two things came together: (1) a moral outrage (slavery) that divided the country by region and (2) a demographic power switch which meant the divide was no longer an unwinnable battle of two equals; the South had peaked and would soon become powerless vis-a-vis the North if it didn't act. That meant it needed to strike or lose on demographics. Add in that the moral outrage was enough to incite violence on both sides AND that it left like-minded people all gathered in separate parts of the country, making it easy to split off, and you had a war of desperation between two firmly established empires. There is no such moral issue today and no divide. Maybe masks, but that issue has defused with pro-mask people losing, and even then, it was never a regional thing with people grouped in a way to lead to war. It also wasn't enough to bring normal people to violence... just the nuts. The analogy stinks. Not even Trump's army of morons can make this analogy work. They are tiny in number. January 6 tells us they number under a thousand... and they turn to total p*ssies when facing a judge. Hardly the stuff of Civil Warriors.
As for fascism, let's not forget that we are talking about Germany, not the US -- our fascists turned fast once the war began. Germany had just had its government destroyed, it's might neutered and was working under crushing foreign debt and humiliating occupation. Nothing like that exists today. The economy was in super-hyperinflation, unlike today. The fascists and communists (funny how leftist historians forget them) were running battles in the street with the Army and a nationalized police force supporting the fascists. They won 43.9% of the vote on their way to taking power and they did so under a very different system than ours -- they would have been shut out here. Again, where is the analogy? Oh, it sounds great to liberal ears to think that the modern right is the same as Southern slave owners and Nazis, but the reality is those are the intellectual ancestors of the left, not the right, and nothing in either scenario is analogous to today. If anything, cancel culture is as analogous as we get to the Nazis in this culture and cancel culture is a "progressive" thing.
So the analogies are crap.
That said, there is an analogy to the past today: the 1960s. The 1960s were a time when leftist agitators became terrorist cells and started blowing things up to promote their causes. They staged protests against America's institutions, aided and abetted by the ACLU, and they invaded and ultimately destroyed the Democratic Party. The Trumpees are the modern version of that, but too stupid to be as effective as the Weather Underground or Red Brigades, who actually were not at all effective either. But then... so is Antifa, on the left. Moreover, modern Progressives are re-enacting the Great Leap Forward in China, where you denounced those you didn't like for lack of purity and their lives were destroyed without trial. This is cancel culture and SWATing and the censorship being imposed by leftist corporations, especially tech corporations. If you want an analogy, that's it. But Biden can't admit that because liberals don't like to be blamed for their rotten behavior. Only the other guy's evil matters.
So Biden's experts are wrong.
The thing is, I'm not surprised a liberal "expert" would be ignorant of their field... or intentionally dishonest. Think of the number of reports from liberal environmental scientists which turned out to be utterly false or used flat out made up data, or the way liberals need to silence debate to make their point. How about those who ridiculously accept the idea that 8.5% inflation equals 0% or that we aren't in recession or can't imagine what's wrong with a man in a dress in a girl's locker room. There was a college professor the other day who said he studied inflation and found it was all tied to the war in Ukraine, not progressive labor demands of $15 an hour or Biden's policies. The thing is, inflation began the day Biden took over (right when a lot of those $15 an hour rules kicked in) and took off during his reign. The Ukraine war didn't start until February 24 of 2022. By that point, inflation had already risen from 1% under Trump to 7% by the end of 2021. So THE MOST the Ukrainian invasion could have added was the extra 1.5%. Yet, this "expert" somehow missed that... because he's a propagandist, not an expert. Just like those claiming the rise in crime in progressive cities isn't really a rise in crime if you squint right at the data. In fact, that seems to be the problem with modern liberalism, it's propaganda based, not fact based.
Thoughts
First, let's assume it is true. How do you respond if you are told the country is tearing itself apart and civil war is likely?
(a) You try to calm things down with a pleasant speech telling people we are finding a new center ground.If you're Biden, you seem to think (c) is your best bet to calm things down. Said differently, Biden has chosen to stoke hatred at the very time he's being told we are in a dangerous period where hate is so out of control it may lead to the country fracturing. That's a Hitlerian choice. And if we had a competent news establishment, they would ask him why he's acting that way... but alas.
(b) You call in the opposition to find common ground and you pledge to work together to unite. You might even work on some bills that help both sides calm their people.
(c) You falsely and recklessly accuse whites of murdering Muslims, you appoint a black Supreme Court justice because she's black and radical, you swear to fight for the chemical castration of kids as young as possible to make sure gays have allies, you force through a series of laws with zero bipartisan support, you use rhetoric to destabilize the independent Supreme Court that keeps you in check, and you send the FBI to harass the leader of the opposition.
Secondly, as someone versed in both logic and history, I can tell you that the comparisons are unmistakable wrong. The Civil War happened at a time when two things came together: (1) a moral outrage (slavery) that divided the country by region and (2) a demographic power switch which meant the divide was no longer an unwinnable battle of two equals; the South had peaked and would soon become powerless vis-a-vis the North if it didn't act. That meant it needed to strike or lose on demographics. Add in that the moral outrage was enough to incite violence on both sides AND that it left like-minded people all gathered in separate parts of the country, making it easy to split off, and you had a war of desperation between two firmly established empires. There is no such moral issue today and no divide. Maybe masks, but that issue has defused with pro-mask people losing, and even then, it was never a regional thing with people grouped in a way to lead to war. It also wasn't enough to bring normal people to violence... just the nuts. The analogy stinks. Not even Trump's army of morons can make this analogy work. They are tiny in number. January 6 tells us they number under a thousand... and they turn to total p*ssies when facing a judge. Hardly the stuff of Civil Warriors.
As for fascism, let's not forget that we are talking about Germany, not the US -- our fascists turned fast once the war began. Germany had just had its government destroyed, it's might neutered and was working under crushing foreign debt and humiliating occupation. Nothing like that exists today. The economy was in super-hyperinflation, unlike today. The fascists and communists (funny how leftist historians forget them) were running battles in the street with the Army and a nationalized police force supporting the fascists. They won 43.9% of the vote on their way to taking power and they did so under a very different system than ours -- they would have been shut out here. Again, where is the analogy? Oh, it sounds great to liberal ears to think that the modern right is the same as Southern slave owners and Nazis, but the reality is those are the intellectual ancestors of the left, not the right, and nothing in either scenario is analogous to today. If anything, cancel culture is as analogous as we get to the Nazis in this culture and cancel culture is a "progressive" thing.
So the analogies are crap.
That said, there is an analogy to the past today: the 1960s. The 1960s were a time when leftist agitators became terrorist cells and started blowing things up to promote their causes. They staged protests against America's institutions, aided and abetted by the ACLU, and they invaded and ultimately destroyed the Democratic Party. The Trumpees are the modern version of that, but too stupid to be as effective as the Weather Underground or Red Brigades, who actually were not at all effective either. But then... so is Antifa, on the left. Moreover, modern Progressives are re-enacting the Great Leap Forward in China, where you denounced those you didn't like for lack of purity and their lives were destroyed without trial. This is cancel culture and SWATing and the censorship being imposed by leftist corporations, especially tech corporations. If you want an analogy, that's it. But Biden can't admit that because liberals don't like to be blamed for their rotten behavior. Only the other guy's evil matters.
So Biden's experts are wrong.
The thing is, I'm not surprised a liberal "expert" would be ignorant of their field... or intentionally dishonest. Think of the number of reports from liberal environmental scientists which turned out to be utterly false or used flat out made up data, or the way liberals need to silence debate to make their point. How about those who ridiculously accept the idea that 8.5% inflation equals 0% or that we aren't in recession or can't imagine what's wrong with a man in a dress in a girl's locker room. There was a college professor the other day who said he studied inflation and found it was all tied to the war in Ukraine, not progressive labor demands of $15 an hour or Biden's policies. The thing is, inflation began the day Biden took over (right when a lot of those $15 an hour rules kicked in) and took off during his reign. The Ukraine war didn't start until February 24 of 2022. By that point, inflation had already risen from 1% under Trump to 7% by the end of 2021. So THE MOST the Ukrainian invasion could have added was the extra 1.5%. Yet, this "expert" somehow missed that... because he's a propagandist, not an expert. Just like those claiming the rise in crime in progressive cities isn't really a rise in crime if you squint right at the data. In fact, that seems to be the problem with modern liberalism, it's propaganda based, not fact based.
Thoughts
7 comments:
Great summation Andrew. It would be funny if we were not so negatively affected by these idiots.
On the recession propaganda; I just cant comprehend how anyone cannot see that the Dems policies are directly correlated with the recession we are in. As you said, the war in Ukraine started well after inflation had taken hold. I even commented on this fact at the time the war started. Hell, a lot of leftoid idiots still trying to redefine what constitutes a recession, just so they can calm themselves by putting their heads in the sand.
Its just ridiculous the situation were in. I mean the guy from “The Apprentice” is more “trust worthy” than our political class. Its pathetic. I only bring up Trump because I have a strong feeling he's gonna end up as the nominee for 2024. I mean I hope he wins but he has so much baggage.
If the current crop of Dems win in November and 2024; were gonna be in for a hell of a time. I honestly believe that if the Dems retain power for the next 2 years, those years will be much worse than the last 2 years have been with Biden in office.
Regardless of Trumps dumb crap, my cope with him is that he is so much better than Biden.
On the civil war BS: I just don't buy into it. Civil unrest sure, but not a full on civil war. Even with the god awful crap we are having to endure, the reality is we are all way to comfortable to start an actual civil war.
I say we all should just protest the current administrations BS. However do it peacefully. (Not fiery but mostly peaceful lol, actual peacefully protest).
The shenanigans and negative impacts of the Biden admin have been and are still awful… believe me I’m pissed. My savings are dwindling and I’ve been having trouble just getting a good nights sleep with the recession and all the other BS.
However the last thing the right & independents should do is get violent. It will just give the left ammunition.
-Kyle
You are kidding Andrew… what a steamer. It is sad to me what a grip liberals have on academia. Historians with an agenda are plentiful and often hired by the networks. A more interesting question might be, was this guy told what they wanted the bottom line to be, or is he just wrong?
Jed
Kyle, This===> "the reality is we are all way to comfortable to start an actual civil war" is the main reason there will never be a true uprising in this country. At best, you get some weirdos with visions of becoming important who will do something stupid, but the public is far too happy to upset the apple cart, no matter how rotten so many of the apples in it are.
Same here about the recession. Everything is getting tougher and inflation is really killing us.
I don't think the next two years change much unless either side gets a huge majority, which won't happen. The real danger is if Biden gets re-elected. Then things will get really bad.
Jed, They have positively ruined education. Most of what comes out of academia now is pure fantasy, all meant to serve their ideology.
I've seen the warrant now and it's what I expected -- worthless. It's too generic to be meaningful. There should be an affidavit attached too which we need to see and which I have yet to see which details why they think they will find these things. That may shed more light on it.
At this point, all we know is they were looking for top secret documents, but we still have no idea what type. Could be White House cook books, honestly.
Also, the fact they led with the Stone clemency makes this reek of politics. You don't write an affidavit that says "Evidence he's a gang banger, some gang paraphernalia, an unlicensed tattoo kit, some stolen cans of milk, oh and possibly lots of illegal drugs." You put your most important things first, and you have to give enough specificity to know what is expected. This reeks of them seeing the "boxes of documents" as an afterthought to the Stone thing and not even knowing what was in the boxes. The idea that they are top secret and compartmentalized seems like a guess.
I would not have granted this as a judge based on this.
I suspect this was retaliation for him keeping some personal stuff.
Typing under anonymous does not let me edit. My original post was supposed to read not kidding, but I suspect you understood that 😉
I got you, Jed. :)
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