We have a GOP which is two parts, about 50/50:

RINOs, who are basically still PostModern Leftists, just not quite ready to destroy the West, but are happy to stand by and watch the Dems do it

Actual Cons, including Trumpers, who are villified by all the rest and the merdia.

The good bits of Western Civ won’t go away, even if Westerners lose the plot:

https://youtu.be/fwMVKix09m0

Koreans aren’t all bad 🙂

Whatever you do, definitely do not go read Archeofuturism 2.0 by Gillaume Faye — it’ll only cheer you up 😛

I’m sure. That for as long as you lasted, you’d find a world without America a living nightmare.

1000 years ought to be just about right for coming out of that dark age. Gain some historical perspective on just how brutal and inhumane might makes right is when the law of the jungle dominates.

Nor can what China, Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and now Afghanistan have be called “civilization”. Since ‘civility’, civilization’s core value is decidedly lacking in their governance. There’s nothing ‘civilized’ about being told, “do as your told… or else” with the certainty of it being enforced.

And David Goldman has never impressed. Knowledge, which he assuredly has is not wisdom nor astuteness. “Logic often but being wrong with confidence”. Logic utterly rests upon premise, its flaw its inability to examine its originating premise. Only resultant experience can examine premise.

Correction accepted re misinterpreting you or putting words into your mouth. Apologies.

Still think pointless to make any real distinction between Republicans and Democrats. Aiding and Abetting is still a crime.

“So unless the democrats force rebellion upon us, America is going to stumble along till it collapses and then a new dark age will descend upon humanity.”

— I’m supposed to hold the purple prose monopoly in these parts, if you don’t mind!

I think you’ll find that humanity will muddle along OK without the United States of America. As David Goldman the eternal wandering you-know-who… oops I mean David Goldman the Spenglerian Polymath likes to say: “It’s not the End of the World: it’s just the End of You.”

A thousand years hence, some Chinese on Mars will be composing calligraphic epigrams about your solipsism. Or mine. Or his own. Chinkybot *does* introspect, you know. He was doing so when your ancestors and mine were knocking each other over the head with clubs. Take the Long View. I do. It’s almost consoling 🙂

Plus those Ineradicable Jews will have cornered the asteroid futures. Civilization will go on.

“McConnel is using the truth as an excuse to do nothing.”

That is a criticism. Just a relative few Republicans are issuing ‘serious’ protests.

“Everyday, Congressional Republicans could en masse raise hell.”

Could but are not. Another criticism.

I’m well aware of the ‘uniparty’ aspects of our political parties. Regardless, the Biden administration is calling the shots on what happens with the Taliban and are the ones directly responsible for this disaster. And they all vote democrat. There’s no ‘bipartisanship’ on this issue.

Perhaps your offshore perspective prevents you from seeing deeper into American politics. Despite certain shared goals, there is a fundamental difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat Party.

Republicans i.e. the GOPe desires ordinary Americans economic enslavement. But they could care less how we live our lives or what we think. Not so with the Democrats. Though they certainly do want our economic enslavement, they also want control of our hearts, minds and souls.

It’s not the Republicans who are pushing thought crimes.

I have long stated on this blog that, practically speaking the effective difference between the pubs and the rats is the speed with which they each march America toward the cliff’s edge.

But understand that the pubs do not want America going over the cliff, they like their cozy little oligarchy. They’re just too shortsighted to see where cooperation with the dems leads.

Whereas, the dems are composed of radicals and the old guard who retain their power through accomodating their radical base. They’re riding upon the tiger’s back and can’t safely get off. So, as moral cowards always do, they appease.

So other than the usual, I do not expect anything from Congressional republicans. I also perceive the rot to be too deep and widespread for anything less than radical surgery. The West is suffering from a metastasized societal cancer that demands it be cut out.

A prescription that would also entail untold suffering.

So unless the democrats force rebellion upon us, America is going to stumble along till it collapses and then a new dark age will descend upon humanity.

Democrats Shmemocrats!

Meme-ocrats.

You and the others here are going to have to learn to let go of the ‘Democrats’ / ‘Republicans’ soft toys you have chewed on all your adult lives.

Copes for why this or that or all Republicans are supine or mute or sellouts are missing the point.

You have a UniParty. It started out long ago in the mists of time as other things… but time does things… for example freezes one’s nomenclatures and mental maps in unnatural arrangements 😛 Bits of it get called this and that. And there are various factions. None of them have any interest in YOU. To the extent that you might think that this or that side is ‘less bad’ for you, you’re probably still wrong. Your UniParty doesn’t even govern. It is a partner in the corrupt business of running the State, but just a partner. It is largely staffed by puppets picked and paid for by various oligarchs.

So wasting more than one or two breaths per day on this noxious Punch & Judy Show is just distracting everyone from the real issue which is: The Whole Thing Has to Go. And that’s a whole other kettle of fish — which might also partly explain why people cling so fondly to their Republicans / Democrats raft.

Things are less bad at the State and local levels, so there might be value in making finer distinctions there… but it must be assumed, Moscow Rules-wise, that any Mister Smith having arrived in Washington is lost to the forces of darkness. You simply cannot get anywhere there without being compromised six ways from Sunday. That’s a feature, not a bug.

Everyday, Congressional Republicans could en masse raise hell.

When Pelosi denied the House Republicans their request to read the names of the Americans just murdered in Afghanistan, they all could have stood up and started yelling the names together.

Every day they could publicly request that anyone knowing of an American stranded in Afghanistan provide the name to them and every day stand up and read the names on the floor and in multiple venues.

Repeatedly call for Biden, Blinken, Austin and Milley’s resignation and keep calling for it.

When Pelosi arrests every House Republican and throws them in the Capitol Police’s dungeon, then we shall know that they finally answered duty’s call. And if instead, House Republicans are barred from entrance, then one party governance will be undeniable and we can retire this charade.

My God, the democrats are enabling the killing of Americans, how much worse does it have to get? What do they have to do before it’s too much? Maybe not till it gets personal?

Does pretending to be something they’re not, change their actual nature? What might the editors of the Nation favor, that the editors of the NYT truly disfavor? Other than surprise, does a knife slashed across your throat from behind differ from your throat being slashed from the front?

Look beneath the surface and in each you’ll find the same intent.

The Nation is straightforward in its advocacy. The NYT pretends otherwise, the better to slip the knife into America’s back.

McConnell is stating the truth. The Democrats control both houses. They will never impeach Biden and there’s nothing MConnell can change about that.

If the Democrats decide to remove Biden, they will use the 25th Amendment. I don’t think they’re removing him any time soon, though.