Putting The Cart Before The Horse (Is The Easy Way To Make A Life Harder)

Political partisanship appears to cause almost every major writer, who sees the world as I do, to forget or ignore (or maybe they were already oblivious to) Andrew Breitbart's admonition that politics lives downstream from culture. So - by putting the emphasis on the wrong people: politicians - they've pointed their readers in the wrong direction, in almost the exact same wrong way, to end up telling the exact same wrong story, over and over again:

Francis Wheen discovered - almost immediately - he blew his NewAge thesis by attaching Margaret Thatcher to it.

Christopher Locke revealed the weakness in his argument, through the Republican-to-hate of the moment, George W. Bush.

And Kurt Andersen of The New York Times (of course) spirals down the drain by being unable to resist the zeitgeist, and attaching Donald Trump to his, otherwise sound, theories.

They're all wrong, with TMR's point being - even if they weren't - we wouldn't have any of them without a NewAge MOVEMENT, and that puts the ball back in the court of an Oprah or Deepak or Shirley MacLaine or Arianna Huffington or Gary Lachman or any of the other frauds and cult leaders assisting The Democrat Party in distorting reality, and thus, the American way of life.

 

How Conservatives Try Dodging The Ideology's Racism

To know, know, know them, is to hate, hate, hate them - and I do

They hide behind political partisanship, as though we don't know it was conservatives all along:

"Frankly, it makes no sense to me why Republicans should be defending a symbol of Democrat Party racism, hatred and treason."

Of course this loser hangs on Althouse (going by the handle "Real American") and so, like many over there, is a fine example of someone trying to sound honest and sane, who can only be revealed to be anything but. Check out Bill Whittle trying the same gambit - which once worked on me:

 I will never forgive him - or the rest of the Right - for the deception,...

Greatest Moment In C-SPAN History (Oh God, It's Mom)

Two partisan doofus' - each fighting for their "side" without a thought for anyone else - get the call they needed most,...

The Shit Is As Thick As The Head (It's Coming Out Of)

Throwing the book at the lot of 'em

TNR,...used to be known as a liberal magazine that would question orthodox liberalism and conventional wisdom,...Lately it's become predictably liberal — I can't think of the last thing I've read in TNR that differs from "what you'd expect a generic liberal to say."

- John Althouse Cohen

The Libs scream about the Cons, the Cons scream about the Libs, and the rest of us - kept out of the conversation - just watch them play:

”If you're going to invoke a long tradition this way, you shouldn't cherry-pick. In its history, especially its recent history, The New Republic has also committed serious intellectual crimes against liberalism -- unless you consider racism, war-mongering, anti-Islamic prejudice and sophistry to be elements of liberal thought.”

Nope - these are white people, alone, doing what they do in public:

Let's not try to smear liberalism for it - blame yourselves,...

Nailing It (de Tocqueville Came Here - I Went To France)

U.S. culture - everything framed in confrontation.

“In Sparta the freeman is more a freeman than anywhere else in the world, and the slave more a slave.”

Get all warm and fuzzy - Glenn Reynolds is on the case:

"RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Minority Democrat Campaign Staffers Paid Significantly Less Than Whites."

Applause - he sees it:

Democrat racists BAD. 

Republican racists? Haven't seen 'em.

"Kinda" cultish, right? 

"If the GOP is ‘a cult’, what are Obama’s followers?"

At this point - almost practical.

How about that Mitt Romney, huh? Making a comeback. You do know he marched with Martin Luther King, don't you?

  "Romney recently denied a basic Mormon doctrine and historical event that is essential to the foundation of Mormonism.  He stated the last time God spoke to a man directly was to Moses.  He did this to appeal to the Evangelicals.  Mormons understand this tactic as "milk before meat".   It is not lying, in their minds, if such misrepresentation improves the appearance of the Mormon church to the outsider.

Mitt Romney is demonstrating a common trait of Mormon apologists.  They will exaggerate or make wild claims without substantiation.  When caught on these statements, they will comment that the misunderstanding was due to how the information should of been interpreted.   In the case of marching with Martin Luther King, we should understand that he was speaking figuratively."

Fortunately, we despised men don't have to keep our stories straight.

"Temple Of Doom: The Mormon Hoax"

“At 'The Houston Cancer Quack,' Skeptics call on Congress to investigate Stanislaw Burzynski”

“The guru’s journey from healer to alleged predator.”

I hear the laughter:

"Look around you. We're all liars here. And every one of us is better than you."

Where is the Love?

Fraud - certainly does sum up the state of things, doesn't it? But listen to me - another poor soul with a victim mentality:

"In the rush to support [Duck Dynasy's Phil] Robertson for his beliefs about sexuality and sin, most conservative Christians seem to be ignoring [his racism]. Maybe they were too quickly swept up in the culture-war angle that dovetails with the community’s martyr complex. Or perhaps talking about the atrocities of the Jim Crow South reminds them that it was their theological forbears who perpetuated such injustices.

But what is the media’s excuse? Perhaps a civil-rights story doesn’t generate as many clicks as conversations about homosexuality. Regardless, it’s the story that is being overlooked in the Robertson ruckus, and it's the one we can’t afford to miss."

I's the same old story, is it not? The "utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist" tactics used to advance (or hide) a lie? We live under so many now it's merely a distraction to mention it. To mention them. Oh, whatever - I stole the "distraction" bit from somewhere else anyway.

The point is no one's truly free. Never has been. Few even have an appreciation for it. But I do.

"The NewAge Capital Does Not Have It's Priorities Right" 

 - TMR, December 9, 2013

"It is just as obvious as obvious can be. Even a five year-old could see that it's obvious. But that will not stop this line of argument (and our perhaps overly provocative headline) from enraging those who prefer to luxuriate in a bath of warm and fuzzy emotional validation, rather than to think about this simple fact: In a world of scarce resources and limitless need, it's just common sense (and common decency) to direct our charitable resources to those who need it the most. It is not moral to pour charity money into non-life-and-death causes when that money could be used to actually save human lives.

Though it is not considered polite to say it, the fact is that most of the charity money we give to less important causes represents money not given to more important causes, and that means fewer lives saved, simply due to our own whimsical preferences. That's not nice." 

 - Gawker, December 20, 2013

Debt is slavery? 

“African-Americans aren’t any more likely to get evicted or be late on a payment than whites, but you wouldn’t know it by how African-Americans are targeted by debt collectors. According to a new survey, African-Americans are much more likely to be targeted by debt collectors than their white counterparts.”

Shut-up, Crack? No, I don't think so:

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” 

- Aristotle

American culture is my culture:

“Bey-Z needs to up their game - and outlook - to Kanye levels:

That broke-jawed nigga thinks he rules, or should rule, the Pop world.

And American art, today, has had enough of pretenders,...” 

 - TMR, December 18, 2013

Viola!

“Music magazine Rolling Stone has recently named its "20 Best Hip Hop Albums of 2013" and Kanye West is the one who sits at throne with his experimental opus Yeezus.” 

- VladTV, Dec 20, 2013

It seems like a little thing but, I am an artist, looking at you all:

You've lost because culture is more powerful than politics,...

It's A Memo Circulating That Instapundit Isn't Privy To

“What I said to any of them that I met with: Get the government reopened, stop monkeying around, and get back to work. I said, I’m out there in the field, people have no patience for this stuff. None.”

HOW THE SHUTDOWN could still hurt Democrats.

Posted at 8:15 am by Glenn Reynolds

The Beautiful People

Am I right all the time? No. But, despite the fact Ann Althouse says it's ugly, when talking to others I think it's important they can trust I show reality - and I not only try to do that, but I'm proud to do so.

I like that my mind works correctly. That way, readers don't have to wait days, weeks, months, or even years, to understand what's going on, as the rest of these idiots work their heavily-financed magic to sway us off course and into the traps they've laid. Here's what I wrote after Michelle Obama's speech:

Do they really think that, just because I can see cutaways to brown people nodding like they're in church, I'm going to forget this is the politics of pandering and nobody's giving me any specifics or tackling our tough issues directly? (The Republicans didn't either, BTW,…)

Did you catch that ending? "The Republicans didn't either"? And now here comes Jon Stewart, THREE DAYS LATER, with the startling revelation there were more specifics in Clinton's speech than - wait for it - the entire Republican Convention:

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Now, has Ann Althouse - not being ugly - been telling you that? No, she likes parsing (and falling for) the theatrics. The Instapundit is playing a highly-partisan game, and so is Michelle Malkin and Hot Air, so their patriotism - and commitment to their readers - are questionable. Look around - THEY'RE ALL TRYING TO SPIN YOU - with no more concern for what's really happening than they have for ordering lunch ("What did you think of the corn beef? Did you like that? I think I'll try that, too…")

For all their talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, they can't seem to relay the only thing that matters, which is - ultimately - what's actually happening. And they probably think they can't write about that because the answer - which they, themselves, insure by their empty coverage - would be a big fat NOTHING. Not even during Clinton's speech because, as I told you, he's a liar and there's no reason to accept anything a liar says - even when he uses numbers.

So should I be ashamed of my ugliness? I don't think so. What I'd be ashamed of - what I am ashamed of - is all these popular and college educated people, who have millions of readers, fame, money, they speak publicly, write articles, teach kids, get invited on radio and television, and yet they're not as smart (and don't seem to have even half the commitment to truth or country or even their fellow man) as some clown on Comedy Central and a hard-up black drop-out who rails about cults.

It's that - and where our so-called betters are collectively leading us - which is horrifying,…

 

Fear Of A Cult Planet (Or A Fear Of Normalcy)?

I just got wind that some fine folks at Live Journal were talking about TMR's coverage of cults in the Democratic Party, and saw a comment from someone named "Pedx" that intrigued me:

"He seems really concerned that Democrats are going to ruin everything to spite Republicans because everyone they pick has cult friends.

I don't see how this is any more alarming than Republicans touting leaders who want to rule by the Bible and other totally irrational and sickening religious views."

Really? Is that all that's going on here? Or is that extreme partisanship - or even the influence of cultism - still talking? It sounds like the kind of thing a cultist would say. There's no alarm, like a normal person would have, that there's a cult influence in the party. Or that cult influence can bring down the Democrats. Just a knock on what a Republican thinks, like what party I'm in matters more than the circumstances of cult control. (Pedx doesn't seem aware I go after religion, too.) Doesn't exactly come across like sound reasoning to me.

Keep in mind - I was a Democrat once - so unlike those who are still in the Democratic Party, I still have affection for it in a way Democrats don't feel for the Republican Party. Even if I didn't like the party anymore, I'm still an American, so why would I want to see it overrun by cults? Forget religion and the Republicans for a moment - isn't the Democratic Party being overrun by cults a bad thing under any circumstances?

Let's look at this idea: I seem "really concerned that Democrats are going to ruin everything to spite Republicans because everyone they pick has cult friends."

Ruining "everything" sounds pretty serious to me. Not the kind of thing one should just blow off. And what does that mean? Since Democrats openly believe the cultist's lies - like Scooter Libby exposed Valerie Plame - why shouldn't I worry about the damage all their other lies have caused - and can bring in the future? Why isn't Pedx worried that if Democrats can believe a lie as big as Valerie Plame (which Plame is aware of but says nothing) what other lies are they buying as truth? Lies about the war itself? Lies about themselves? What are Democrats avoiding?

By believing such lies, Democrats are demoralizing our country , our president, and their fellow citizens; showing the rest of world discord at home, and leading our enemies to believe America is further divided than we actually are. Is all that nothing during a war? Considering the Republicans are fighting this war with a seriousness the Dems can't muster (because the cultists have practically convinced the Democratic Party there is no war) isn't this cult influence putting "everything" at risk? Aren't they putting YOUR LIFE at risk? My life? Aren't our lives "everything"?

And what exactly are "cult friends"? What cult has friends? By definition, cults are totalitarian organizations - where does "friendship" come into it? They aren't the Democratic Party's "friends" - they're controlling you - to trying to destroy the only power that can stop them from doing so: those who are patriotic enough to defend the United States.

And why should I, or anyone else - regardless of party - want to see the Democratic Party run by totalitarian cults?

Because Pedx sees Republicans as "touting leaders who want to rule by the Bible," does that mean Democrats shouldn't do anything about the cults telling lies to the party? Isn't Pedx letting the cults of the Democratic Party off the hook because of what he/she has been led to believe is the "other side's" wrong behavior? Isn't he/she using relativism to fuel a position of irresponsibility - adopting a pose that does nothing about this corrosive influence on our lives? Is that what Democratic politics is for? "Oh, the Republicans have crazy preachers, so we don't have to do anything about the sinister left-wing crap that chased another Democratic voter away from our side." That's insanity.

But, unfortunately, it's also the most common Democrat refrain given to anyone trying to bring common sense to our current political discussions.