The problem with modern Democrats is that they believe in what they are doing….
There’s a lot of celebration on the side of the everyday commonsense electorate, as voters last night in the November off-year election have rebuked their policies in almost every municipal election held. However, do not fool yourself into believing the election outcome will cause Democrats to pause in their efforts. The radical leftists who now control Democrat policy priorities do not have any inclination to reverse course; instead they will double down.
The need for control is a reaction to fear. Anger is a very visible response from the leftists whenever their policies are rejected. The modern political left do not view rejection as a rebuke of their ideology, instead they view rejection as a need to push harder. From their perspective they need to reeducate their target; to force a change in thinking from incorrect thoughts to correct thoughts; and the only acceptable path is to push harder.
This approach is based on a cognitive inability to reflect or contemplate that their ideology is flawed. Because they put the emotion of their views as the motive for their effort, they are incapable of changing direction. From the perspective of the modern political left, if they were to change direction, they would be rejecting the foundation of their own personal value. They cannot do that. It’s not them that are wrong -ever- it’s you.
Those who do not adhere to the insane ideological goals of the far left, are viewed as the problem that must be overcome. Their emotional attachment to ideology is why these avowed and ideological followers cannot be redeemed or coerced into reasonable positions with any logical argument. Instead, you must be re-educated to see their worth, to value their ideology… you, the person or group who stands in their way, will always be viewed as the problem.
Failing to accept the fundamental set of core beliefs within the modern political left is a flaw on the side of those who engage in the battle for ideas. It doesn’t matter how good your ideas and policies are, even when you deliver results to prove your accuracy, this specific opponent will always revert back to attacking the success based on their view of your wrongthink.
Arguing with a political leftist in the hope they can be convinced to change direction is futile. They are disassociated on a mental and emotional level from any semblance of a capacity to consider they may be wrong. This is why you can never let up in the fight against them. Even in victory, the blue-collar working-class common sense approach must be relentless. The modern left has to be destroyed on such a scale as their dangerous ideology is reduced to burning embers; however, do not trick yourself into believing it will ever be fully extinguished.
History has taught us that even when the professional political left are seemingly wiped out, enough will remain waiting for another Obama type personality to blow them gently into a state of reignition…. and the cycle will start again.
Right now as you read this…. in the background of every place they gather, those political activists who were handed a resounding defeat yesterday are discussing how to attack again. In defeat you can fully expect this insane crowd to become even more entrenched, even more vitriolic, even more crazy. You will see it with even bigger demands on their Big Tech allies to crush voices of communication against their enemy.
They will demand more censorship, more deplatforming of their opposition; more silencing of voices, more demonetization of content platforms by their corporate allies. They will go even harder in the totalitarian direction. This is what they do. This crowd is like the scorpion in Aesop’s fable about the frog crossing the river. They are incapable of not stinging… it’s what they do.
We are The Last Refuge because we accept the political left as they are, not as we wish them to be.
Yes, celebrate the victories…. but do not get drunk at the party and fall asleep, or you will find yourself a quick victim to their counter-attack; which, I promise you, they are deeply planning right now.
The problem for Republicans in the era before the rise of Donald Trump was/is they did not/do not believe their own message.
Candidate Donald J. Trump knew the Republican Party was incapable of succeeding, because they did not fight for what they claimed to believe. So, Trump started to fight for GOP issues; visibly fight against the ideological left with common sense promises, policies and brutally obvious solutions. We all saw the response from the professionally Republican class in their rebuke of Trump’s style of fight, which I must emphasize was the only effective approach to destroying the political left in the past three decades.
Conversely, Democrats do believe their message; even when that message is fundamentally toxic to the survival of this nation. Democrats believe in what they are doing, and they will never retreat from their doing it. The modern political left is intent on destroying the foundation of this nation. That is their mission, and this fight must be viewed through the urgency of a prism where we accept this is a zero-sum game.
Accepting this dynamic is why I have warned, repeatedly, not to invest too heavily in the outcome of the Virginia race. The biggest assembly of those who consider themselves to be Republican would like nothing more than to absorb the strength of the MAGA movement into their top-down party system.
To achieve this goal they will use Virginia to sell a narrative that moderation, genteel sensibilities, and reaching gently toward suburban ‘soccer moms’ is the future of the Republican Party. It’s not. If that approach was successful there never would have been a need for a Donald F**king Trump !
You cannot comply your way out of tyranny any more than you can negotiate your way out of the gallows. If you are considered the enemy of the modern leftist movement, they will seek your destruction. The only way to fight this adversary is with brutal hand-to-hand combat where you never, ever, concede an inch.
For God’s sake, if you need a reference point, 27% of them are willing to put an untested vaccine into the arms of their children without hesitation to protect against an illness that is non-existent. Do you really think it’s possible to rationally debate them?
Instead, we meet Obama’s “Yes we can“, or Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better“, with a much stronger and unapologetic “Fuck Joe Biden“….
That’s how we defeat the insane communists!
BRAVO!!!!!!
This is about as good of an explanation of Communism in action that I have seen. I have been watching this march through our institutions for over 50 years now. This commentary is right smack on! They have to be defeated because they will never be able to change their minds, having already been brainwashed!
They will continue to teach CRT in our grammar schools because it is not the School Boards, it is the Communist dominated labor unions who run the school systems. The only way to stop them in the schools is to make collective bargaining by public sector employees illegal, and not until then!
Where the bloody hell are Mitch and Kev, the corruptocrats, in fighting for us? Seriously, such an effete pair of fools leading the GOP. Filthy as can be.
Nancy and Chuck You would be raising hell right now, so hard, sending lawyers out to see about the cheat in NJ, and in Virginia. On TV constantly. Even when winning they fight.
The GOP is so disgusting. And it hurts all of us sane thinking people.
Mitch’s horizon is the four walls of the Senate chamber.
Take a breath. Nobody is teaching CRT in grammer schools.
I have kid in public school in MA. No CRT. If they aren’t teaching it here they aren’t teaching it.
A turd by any other name is still a turd. The ideology of CRT is being taught, just with different words.
This article is ALMOST correct…it’s NOT the inability to cognitively reflect…the COMMUNIST DEMOCRAP PARTY does NOT WANT TO REFLECT, IT DOESNOT CARE ABOUT YOU! It’s only about COMMUNIST global POWER and CONTROL, you just get in the way. This party should be DEFUNDED, DISBANDED and OUTLAWED for CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA! 2022 will be a HUGE INSURRECTION against these CORRUPTOCRATS.
We can only hope your prognosis of 2022 is correct.
Only with honest elections will it count!
They only need to flip a few places and BINGO!
Boom… Beautifully put Brother!
If Trump did have a plan to herd all of these people off a cliff from which they couldn’t withdraw, even when they saw it coming…
…it would be described exactly like this.
By the way, WE must be the sharp rocks at the bottom of the cliff. WE must hold them all accountable. WE should be planning for the aftermath.
We should be planning for their aftermath.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Benjamin Franklin
Our “masters” are Fauci, Obama, Biden, Pelosi and every other Satanic driven elected official destroying our great Land. A start to remove these dark forces began Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021. We must continue the fight if we have any chance of our great Constitution surviving. The vote was felt hugely in Virginia, New Jersey – but also showed in other state-elections turned Red. God willing, we can do this – we can do hard things.
God how true, such wisdom here. I thought last night that even while we sleep, they scheme. That is how they have gotten to where they have almost won the war against us (and they may have already).
40 years ago when I was in grad school I saw how they look at Leftist thought as a religion and will stop at nothing to win. They truly hate us.
The victory this week was just very minor, like Doolittle’s raid. Yeah, it brought spirits up some. But the war is just starting.
And some of this may well be prep for a MAJOR cheat in 2022 -something like “well you didn’t complain in 2021 about the late night drops in NJ/Virginia when you WON!” PsyOps campaign.
The battle will go on for as long as we live. And truth is I kinda think we have already lost. This is a very minor win.
SO MUCH pushback of policy to do. Every time the Left loses a skirmish they at least can bank some victories. The illegals who are here who will soon be voting. The huge social spending. The placing of radicals across all U.S. agencies.
A milquetoast approach will insure our death. We need another Trump, and even then we need a WISER Trump.
Amen brothers. Great work and thank you Sundance.
Wonderful commentary! and exactly on target. Thank you for all you do here at the Last Refuge.
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
To misquote Sally Fields, “They hate us, they really hate us”. The center-right needs to understand the Elite Leftists are not acting in good faith. They are not going to wake up one day and be our friends. If you put some conservatives back in 1917 Russia, they would’ve been saying “Well, I guess that CRAZY Mr. Lenin has learned his lesson now.”
if you mistakenly think the GOP has learned the lessons of 2020, then realize that the GOP in New Jersey allowed the Democrats to close down the ballot counting at midnight, with 100% counted and the Republican winning the Governor’s office.
Then the next morning, 40,000 new ballots had mysteriously appeared from nowhere during the night, and the Democrat was the winner.
The GOP learned NOTHING from the 2020 election. The Democrats were able to repeat the same cheat.
Progs, Democrats and Liberals, what they can’t F up they’ll $H1t on.
GARLAND DOJ SEEMS TO BE A GESTAPO STYLE WEAPONIZED POLITICAL GOON SQUAD TARGETING POLITICAL OPPONENTS OF THE CURRENT WHITEHOUSE OCCUPYING FORCES
You forgot to include Bernie Sanders Mug in that montage.
FJB!
This is the message I’ve been trying to get through to some of my friends.
They say, “these people are stupid”. I say, “No, they are brainwashed ideologues”. They wrap themselves in their perceived virtue, as did the early Leninists, and will stop at nothing to achieve their idea of Utopia because they are convinced of their righteousness. No matter how many they must confine, coerece, or outright kill. For we stand in the way of them making a good and perfect world.
They see themselves as in essence, God.
I said this for years back in the day. In Chicago, we had what I called “true believers”. They were Bill Ayers Weather Underground acolytes. There is no compromising with them at all under any vision that you might have. They never stop. Communism or socialism can only be enforced at the tip of a spear. I moved to Las Vegas out of Chicago. Already, Democrats here passed a super gerrymandered political map. If the state stays Democratic in 2022, I will likely finally persuade my wife that Florida is okay. When the shooting starts, I want to be in a Red state. That’s where we are headed.