When, Where, and How Ideals Apply

The ideals of freedom are well and good under peaceful conditions. Under the current conditions in which we find ourselves in America, and indeed globally, certain elements must be set aside. So setting them entails grave risk in the same ways we all say with the so-called "war tax" which was supposed to be repealed after hostilities ceased. We all know what happened with that vaporous promise. But to play by the rules while your enemies make every circumvention thereof, is to be a fool.

If a people be virtuous in their morals and intellects, the aforesaid risks become greatly attenuated, and those ideals are then appropriately restored to their full and proper station in the land, most likely safe from elision over time. Otherwise, it matters no whit what the status of one's ideals may enjoy; the rot of corrupted culture, of decayed minds devoid of the necessities basic to liberty, essentially guarantee the degraded outcome of poverty, disease, misery, and death.

The world is not in a state of rational, peaceable coexistence. Anyone thinking China is not a grave enemy is a dope. Anything thinking the so-called "cartels" pose no real threat to the peace, stability, prosperity, and safety of the western hemisphere, is a dope. America is in a state of near chaos. Playing by the rules while rioters burn cities and those in whom the public trust has been vested refuse to pursue criminals is the choice of fools, idiots, and traitors to liberty.

I fully understand wariness of the things Trump is doing, and I share in it because we all know just how quickly they run amok. But to continue as we have, tolerating the intolerable; failing to correct the deep evils plaguing the land, courtesy of the political class; failing to embrace the intelligence, moral basis, and self-control required of the Free Man, is to declare cultural suicide as inevitable.

The extreme measures the current president is taking are absolutely necessary. Why? Glad you asked: because WE THE PEOPLE have failed in every conceivable way to honor our freedoms by BEING Free Men, rather than meek and obedient consumers of pretty-slavery, not to mention those who have failed to act upon their noble words in favor of liberty. We as a nation of individual Americans have, by and large shamed ourselves so deeply, words fail.  And we continue to do so as either we idolize Trump, or curse him, all the while our fat and overly well fed asses remaining planted in our living rooms. As a people, we are a political/philosophical disgrace. We talk, but fail to do, all the while wanting what cannot be and expecting someone else to provide at no real cost.

The one and only thing about the "left" that I respect is the fact that they get out and pursue their interests, rotten as those may be. But credit must be given where due, even to one's enemies. We Americans, on the other hand, still sit idly in the expectation that someone else, anyone other than ourselves, is going to make all things right. And the booger on top of that turd-sundae is this: some show the unmitigated gall to clutch at their pearls and wail when the men they called upon to save them step up to correct the evils that beset us all.  Meanwhile, from the other sides of their mouths they clutch their pearls and wail about the evils they want vanquished. I don't much care on which side of the question one chooses, but really, make up your damned mind.

To expect men to act by rules that do not accord in propriety with the prevailing conditions of a political environment is not reasonable. Expecting accord between mutually and violently exclusive conditions is rank, inane stupidity, meriting no consideration whatsoever. To expect men to correct the raging evils, the threats that beset us by drinking tea with crumpets, pinkies sticking out prominently whilst discussing the finer points of croquet on the manicured lawns of the estate, is raving evil in itself.

So make up your minds: slavery, however prettily set, or a stab at freedom, which is likely to cost blood, given the prevailing circumstances. But don't ask for ideal liberty at no cost to your delicate sensibilities.

Not only will you not get it, you will only succeed in irritating the rest of us.

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.