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Left and right: Kevin D. Williamson thinks… — 30 Comments

1. Peak?
   This:
   JP Morgan Chase Employees Effectively Required to Endorse Sodomy:
   Employees are being told “to help create an environment for open and honest dialogue.” The document notes descriptors such as “wife” and “boyfriend” are frowned upon, and “partner” is preferred. Not referring to your wife as your wife “offers up the opportunity for more inclusive conversations.”

   JP Morgan urges employees to “print and display your ally placard,” which implies the recalcitrant will be noticed.

   To qualify as gay-unfriendly, all you need is to be suspected of not promoting the homosexual agenda with sufficient eagerness.

   Besides the gay pride placard each employee is supposed to display in their workspace, perhaps the most intrusive article in the documents calls upon employees to “include LGBT issues in your everyday life.” …

   Employees are urged to “take some time to listen to music, see movies or read books and magazines by and about gay people…there’s no substitute for knowledge.”

   Moral transformations are like that: first they rage at old believers, then shame them, then re-educate them, then punish them, then kill them.

   The less fear they have of retaliation, the more violent their response to disagreement and dissent.

   Note what state we are at now.
   Same as it ever was.

   ZIEG!

2. Neo, all of Williamson’s observations are almost too much to hope for, BUT I do pick up a sense of
   *desperation* on the Left .
   They seem to be *disappointed* that there has been no destruction in Charleston, that there has been an
   atmosphere of forgiveness, & perhaps a *comfort* to the masses given by religion. So the Left has begun to turn their attention to a cultural purge. Berating all & everything that has gotten the USA to this point.
   Like all Leftists they KNOW, of course that they are
   right. They prove again that there is NO FREEDOM with these people they need to control what you can think, believe, & even see !!!
   Did the Media report the black on black shooting in Philly, Detroit & Chicago this past weekend.
   So Black lives matter, only applies to white peoples & law enforcements behaviors.
   They take care of their own.

3. szalé¡mitaktika

   see prior two posts… covers klemperer, the source of the tecniques, and the proceseses… rather than discuss the symptoms…

   The term is also known as a “piecemeal strategy”, as used by the Nazi Party (which preferred the term Gleichschaltung) to achieve absolute power in Germany in the early months of 1933.

   This gradual process of amassing power is today lumped in as Salamitaktik (salami tactics)

   The term Salami tactics (Hungarian: szalé¡mitaktika) was coined in the late 1940s by the orthodox communist leader Mé¡tyé¡s Ré¡kosi to describe the actions of the Hungarian Communist Party. Rakosi claimed he destroyed the non-Communist parties by “cutting them off like slices of salami.” By portraying his opponents as fascists (or at the very least fascist sympathizers), he was able to get the opposition to slice off its right wing, then its centrists, then the more courageous left wingers, until only those fellow travelers willing to collaborate with the Communists remained in power.

   Klemperer, and Bork, lay out the linguistic part of the process… i connect it to the 1960s weathermen and feminist movement that normalized it till we dont notice its pronouncements and dont even fight against it any more…

   this is akin to why the russians are flying bombers at the various states..

   in the old days, when there was fights with sheild and spear, and so forth. the spearman would tap the sheild either low or high over and over… forcing the opposition to guard against it… eventually its acclimated, and like a piano player at the keys not thining about how to do the notes, it becomes reflex… then they strike i an opposing place while the defender moves to the place they are acclimated.

   the point is to get one so used to it under the rubric of silly… then once its so much stupid we ignore it, they then apply it to everything else. like gender terms, or race terms, or legal terms and so on.

   in the prior post i even show the thought behind it.

   if the society changes, the language changes
   if you change the language, society changes.

   but all of this was mostly perfected by the people they are copying.. the nazis and soviets, but mostly nazis as they showed the path to convert a democracy into a fascist/socialist then communist state without a huge revolution.

   in this case, they do it much slower so we forget the changes… in fact.. a lot were born after the changes… this was what they deem to be hitlers mistake… that is, he moved so fast it was only good to get things going for a while, but if you want permanency, you apply the same thing slowly
   [edited for length by n-n]

4. It is a Tactic of WAR to Destroy The Statues, Flags, And Other Symbols of Your Enemy…

   I blame the voters.

   Land of the Sheeple, home of the Docile….

5. Molly NH Says: They seem to be *disappointed* that there has been no destruction in Charleston, that there has been an atmosphere of forgiveness, & perhaps a *comfort* to the masses given by religion.

   this is a perfect isolated reason why the left power brokers HATE RELIGION… it innoculates a person from being gullible in a certain way, and being enflamed passionately to act on their behalf!!!!

   and judaism and especially christianity does this, other religions tend not to as they are more about transcending (ignoring) reality than how to property deal with it.

   the martyrs of the christian faith show that there are reasons to die for… as do the founding fathers of the US and tales of certain soldiers in the military and their selfless acts.

   forgiveness, prevents the statists from getting an army of unpaid people to do their bidding and destruction.

   why do you think that the communists hated it? the martyr lesson means you cant be compelled beyond the moral point, and the forgiveness means you cant be compelled by other actions.

   then the morality shows what should be ok, and what isnt, and so, reverses the process of statism manipulating people and makes it moral people by refusing, fighting, and forgiving, to control the statists..

   yes, religion has been co-opted over time and so on, but for some reason, it eventually deviates in its use so badly in trying to do amoral things for the state, that the followers who also follow the book, deem not to follow any more… this is not a perfect mathematical process, but enough so that eventually, the churches realign back after such periods.

   but at its core, this is what prevents the large scale revolution… the french state was very not religious at the time of the revolution compared to others… and the US was very religious, which is why the outcome of their revolution did not include forcing priests to have sex with donkies, and wholesale amoral murder and murder and murder… (les miserables sucks in terms of historical truth and is like bad ad copy selling things using soviet realist bombastic style.. and even church type music to inspire)

   the church in the early days of the US, during the times of war, and other periods have overwhelmingly foiled many plots… to the point that athiest despots like obama and pelosi and so on pretend to be just like the religious person in a fools way to get them to join them.. but their apostate ways shows they are not, and so, they get double the negative they would if they didnt do that…

   this is why the church is always under attack
   and why the founders said the constitution is wholly unsuited for a secular state as it ceases to function without the moral foundation to hold it up… without that, there is no limit and or bad to negate, nor is there a place to speak from to do so.

6. Oh well, I guess it hasn’t peaked yet:

   SCOTUS upholds the subsidies:

   ‘ In this instance, the context and structure of the Act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase’…

   See Drudge, now.

7. Excellent analysis, Neo. Unfortunately, I agree completely.

8. Williamson is not used to overseeing wars on the strategic level and it shows.

   Apple Removes All American Civil War Games From the App Store Because of the Confederate Flag

   Many large US companies, like Walmart and Amazon, have already banned the sale of any Confederate flag merchandise as a reaction to the recent events. Now, it appears that Apple has decided to join them by pulling many Civil War wargames from the App Store. As of the writing of this story, games like Ultimate General: Gettysburg and all the Hunted Cow Civil War games are nowhere to be found.

   You will Obey the Authorities or else. You will obey the police or else. That is the outcome. But what was the method?

   http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2015/06/apple-removes-civil-war-games.html

   The method wasn’t the Left “peaking” itself. The Leftist alliance mobilizing at 10% of their strength isn’t “peaking”.

   http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2015/06/let-reason-be-silent.html

   Irregardless of it all, if you have the power to make the Left suffer, why not use it? Why not make them taste the same destruction of what they have built as they have made the Rhodesians, South Africans, Cubans, Syrians, Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans, and Vietnamese taste?

9. Alas, everybody here is right (except Wlliamson, who is never this naive).

   And Ultimate General? Wow. A great game which I have “won” playing the Confederacy.

   Little did I know how malevolent I was. I thought I was just being curious about how an underdog would do under realistic odds.

   Now all that remains is Ultimate Community Organizer where you trick your opponent into hating himself and getting others to join in.

10. [edited for length by n-n]

    my god..

    you ran over my child..
    the kid is dead
    good thing you have a reason!!!
    that changes everything
    except the kid is still dead.

    so it only really changes the regard to you
    but otherwise, it was censored
    what was put forth was not to be read

    the only point that actually matters is that what was said, could never be heard…

    the words were killed..
    the ideas were destroyed

    you know… the nazis never actually read the books they burned in the pile… so i guess it made that ok too..

11. here is another in the same vein

    your old, you go to the doctor, the doc says, you reached the limit of the year swe decided your allowed.

    do you submit to the euthanasia without complaint?
    or is their reason ok for you?
    its definitely ok for them…

    its ok to cut off your life for a good reason
    its ok to cut ideas off for a good reason
    its ok to ignore the constitution for a good reason
    its ok to kill for a good reason

    nice values..

    now argue it ethical to destroy the time i spent in my limited life to actually put words forth? after all, i dont know if your going to do that until yo do that… and when you do, you throw away the half hour of my life into the trash!!!!!!!!!

    if i had known stalin was to erase my composition, i would have gone someplace else, sat on a park bench etc.

    but no… i diligently worked, put my life energy into it, time i can never recover, get paid for or have returned..

    and you trashed it…
    destroyed it and negated it

    but you have a reason..
    so its ok

    hitler had a reason to murder jews
    you dont agree
    but a reason makes it ok to negate life, ideas and what that life can produce or does produce.

    you said so yourself

    so you really cant complain about hitler or any of that stuff or what the state is doign you dont like. they have reasons, and thats good enough..

    you dont have to agree, you just have to suffer them!

    so dont complain about obama and such
    your not so different
    you both think your reasons make things ok

12. Artfldgr:

    No one can kill your ideas.

    You can post them on a blog or website of your own. Your can post them in comments on other blogs, if the bloggers agree it’s okay to do so.

    We’ve been through this before, many times. I’ve explained that I let you (and others) comment here, that I feel you often have something to offer of value and interest, and let you go on at great length, but not at the length you consider best. It’s the length I consider best, and I use my best judgment on that, and usually err on the side of length rather than shortness.

    I know you don’t like it, and disagree about the policy. I’m not going to state over and over and over (although I already have) my reasons.

13. Artfldgr:

    Among the many ways in which it’s not the same—

    A blog is a personal statement of what interests the blogger and what the blogger thinks has value. It is not a Supreme Court decision based on law, or interpretation of the law.

    A blog exists to express a blogger’s point of view. If the blogger allows people to comment there, or even welcomes them (as I do), that is a personal choice. In fact, it would be perfectly fine for a blogger to censor anything he/she wants in the comments on his/her blog, and it is also ethical. I don’t censor, except for obvious trolls who are here to annoy people and spew forth venom and vile language (usually I get to comments like that before anyone ever sees them, so people have to use their imagination to figure out what I’m talking about).

    However, I don’t ordinarily censor you for content. I edit your posts for length, and I just take a certain point that seems as though you’ve expressed the main thought and then cut them off, rather than to do any content editing.

    You are confusing not just apples and oranges, you’re confusing apples and sardines (not even in the same food group, I mean).

    I always, however, reserve the right to edit for redundancy of message, for insults, for bad language, for too many comments on the same thread by the same person. I have done that before, on occasion. I don’t think I’ve ever edited anyone for mere disagreement with me, or because I don’t agree with them.

    In this thread you have posted comment after comment saying how awful it is that your previous comment was shortened. I am letting your general message stand, but have shortened some of them.

14. Peaked? If only.

    “Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe…” Ludwig von Mises

15. Artfldgr:

    If you are upset that you spent a lot of time on a long comment that I’ve shortened, I suggest that you keep copies of your comments and post them elsewhere.

    That way you might not feel your effort is wasted.

    You should be aware, from previous exchanges we have had (as well as comments to you from other commenters here), that your longer comments run the risk of being shortened, and in fact will often be shortened. That is not some special activity directed towards you, but would be done to any comments that are so long and/or so numerous.

16. Back in my pre-retirement days, we had an expression:

    — — —

    The chances of a technical report

    actually being read and digested

    is inversely proportional

    to the length of the report.

    — — —

    True, that (sez me).

17. By the way, maybe it’s just me, but I think much the same applies very well to comments on blog posts.

18. neo-neocon runs a fair and open blog by my standards. It is a private medium and has her name on the masthead. She can edit it anyway she likes and I know of no instance or accusation that she has ever altered anyone’s words or falsely attributed anything to anyone.

    How about some gratitude for all she does? At no cost to the consumer!

    Artfldgr, you are starting to sound like the old woman tourist in the Catskills. Her friend says, “I can’t believe how bad the food is at this resort. The lox are warm, the bagels are hard. The borscht is watery. I’ve never had such terrible food.”

    And the old woman replies, “Yeah, and such tiny portions.”

19. Art is his own example of my statement that reading Sun Tzu’s Art of War doesn’t automatically make you a master tactician, warrior, general, or strategist.

    Art elevates himself above the rest of us, on the presumption that he has skills, that his understanding is greater than, for example my own. And yet, his performance and judgment leaves much to be desired to the point where I must once again inform him that as far as he thinks he is above me, I think a more accurate assessment is far how beneath me he is.

    And I don’t really consider myself at the top of any tactical or strategic field. Life requires a bunch of complicated skills and wisdom, which is not something you can get just by reading a shat load of books. I would think one would have realized this, since if reading books by people who knew how to write English would give you the skill to write English just like them, Art would be the first guy to show me up.

    But they don’t do it. They can’t do it. Skills don’t transfer in books, merely theoretical knowledge does. That in itself has value, but is not the full package of human experience.

    You can either change yourself or you can howl at the moon to change the world. The first is more difficult, since anyone, including bastard murderers and Hussein mad Kings, can do the second.

20. P.S. Besides, if Art really wanted to make his life more productive, he would quit his job working for feminist Leftists and work instead for a sane company of humans. But that would require self change, some kind of internal perspective, rather than displacement. It is the deeds a man or woman is recognized by, at least when it comes to standards that I choose to obey.

21. Ymarsakar, 11:54 pm —

    Your comment calls to thought this timeless gem:

    “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” — Yogi Berra

22. “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

    I trained under different precepts and obey different codes of behavior. Although the “law” is the Law… supposedly.

    Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.- You know Who

    They’re not going to allow Southerners to get away with voting in blacks and abolitionist Republicans either.

    “Cause pain before you injure. Injure before you maim. Maim before you kill. And if you must kill, make it a clean kill. Squeeze every drop of life from the opponent. Because life is so precious, it cannot be wasted, even in death.”

    “Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life.”

    The point is, mortification of the flesh also known as the personal determination and guts to get something done, is a quality much desired and rarely found in human men and women.

    Art has told us, perhaps unintentionally, stories about him being locked in a closet by Leftists, harassed, and his lunch money stolen. Well, the last one is figurative but pretty accurate.

    I do not think a warrior or a citizen soldier trained in telling Authority to F off like Socrates trained himself to do, I do not think a warrior or a citizen soldier that lives by certain ancient precepts, would allow such an act against them. He would tear his bounds free, he would avenge himself upon his captors, and he would reap the balance a thousand times in his favor.

    That’s not merely a skill, that’s also a survival mentality. A crazy mentality maybe, but a survival mentality, a mental state.

    Why do some people have it and others do not? Well, why are some people idiots and others can memorize entire tracts of mathematical and english language texts? Shrugs.

23. What’s going to happen between now and November 8 of next year will be a political campaign on one side of the aisle only. On the other side, it’s going to be something between a temper tantrum and a panic attack. That’s excellent news if you’re Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, or Carly Fiorina. It’s less good news if you live in Baltimore or Philadelphia.

    Next year you may be in a concentration camp, Mr. Williams. Politics, is that all you Elite Leaders and writers can think about? Figures. Can’t fight a war when you’re incompetent at tactics and strategy, can you.

24. Electing Republicans seems less promising when they are compelled to obey the cultural and political framework dictated by Left activists.

25. Neo: “In his article, Williamson is also ignoring the fact that the war the left has been waging is not even primarily in the political arena: it is generational, and is fought culturally in the media, the educational system, and entertainment.”

    Law and politics follow the zeitgeist and the general will of We the People is a function of activism.

26. Neo, I hope you are wrong, wrong, wrong and will be forced to repeatedly prostrate yourself with apologies to Mr Williamson.

    Couldn’t it be that this is the terminal, exhaustive effort of a movement that got a second wind from a once-a-century candidate that ticked enough boxes to slip into office? In other words, the punks got lucky.

    Is anticipating a smarter electorate utopian thinking?

27. Severely Ltd:

    I would be only too happy to be wrong in this case.

28. Severely Ltd,

    Williamson’s view of the scope is too limited.

    Even should a Republican wins the White House in 2016, that’s not enough to change course fundamentally. A rising tide of the Republican party at all electoral levels is not enough to change course fundamentally.

29. Back in the days after Afganistan was invaded by the Soviets, President Carter almost revived the military draft to show his new found resolve! Well, he settled for bringing back draft registration.

    To fight it, my fellow university students started a coalition movement to protest it. This meant working with all kinds of reflexively anti-American groups, some were good then – like the state civil liberties union. Others were pretty scuzzy, like the Stalinist “Women’s League for International Peace” or the Democratic Socialist Alliance and the Progressive Labor Party front, INCAR. The what? The “International Committee Against Racism.”

    They pivoted around at events not quite like cool gangsters, but like mobsters aiming to bust up a union action. They were half black, as a group – but actually led by a university biology professor who saw the threat of eugenics everywhere!

    At any rate, the state version of the Drudge Report linked to a story of events in Denver, Colorado: “Confederate and American flags burned at Denver anti-racist rally” reads the headline. http://www.coloradoindependent.com/154105/confederate-and-american-flags-burned-at-denver-anti-racist-rally

    “Around 50 people gathered to rally against white supremacy in the wake of the Charleston shooting. It was a loosely organized event, drawing from various groups committed to anti-racism. Coffee Not Cops – an anti-cop group that meets weekly for coffee and anarchist agitation – and the Denver Branch of the International Socialist Organization (Denver ISO) were hosts of a Facebook event billed as a ‘Rally against White Supremacy!’ until the page was deleted promptly after the event.”

    “Denver ISO?” Sure enough, a few google clicks showed that INCAR – which had folded in 1996 – has been reborn as the “International Socialist Organization.”

    The local leader says: “I am a revolutionary socialist – I believe in order to pull up the roots of oppression in our society, that we must replace our current system with a true democracy and an economy organized by the working class, for the working class.”

    “I work in solidarity against any form of oppression under capitalism….”

    And to do that, they hold weekly meetings to wade through the classics of Marxist-Leninism – all 91 of them in the group. All of this to fight white supremacy?

    As another cause head puts it, the Founders were Indian murderers who owned slaves. Denver Cop Watch founder sgestured to the iconic statue of a Civil War cavalryman standing alone in front of the State Capitol…. “Why do you think he got a rifle right there in the middle of Denver, Colorado? ‘Cus he murdered Indians. He killed ‘em and made the way for white people to come right here.”

    As the Confederate flag fracas makes clear, Southern Pride must be completely expunged because RACISM.

    We must all be deracinated from our false White Pride in order for the New Man of anti-racist Marxism can bestride the earth. https://smashculturalmarxism.wordpress.com/tag/deracination/

    No wonder the CPUSA decided not to field a presidential candidate anymore – because, as they say, the Obama Democrats are doing enough already to being about the revolution and the Worker’s Paradise.

    Shades of FredHjr, indeed. It’s gonna be a long, slow march to inauguration day, 2017.

30. No wonder the CPUSA decided not to field a presidential candidate anymore — because, as they say, the Obama Democrats are doing enough already to being about the revolution and the Worker’s Paradise:
    Alexander Trachtenberg Quote

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