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This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« on: October 25, 2020, 10:09:54 am »

This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential

The ideologues who want to watch America burn are very close to the mainstream of the Democratic Party. That's what this election is about.

America is on the ballot this election. Vote for the Republicans if you love your country. Vote for the Democrats if you’d rather see it burn to the ground.

That is, essentially, the argument put forward in a recent viral speech by Tom Klingenstein, a conservative thought leader and chairman of the Claremont Institute. Klingenstein posits that, come November, voters must choose: either America is good, and ought to be defended, or it is bad, and deserves to be cancelled.



It’s tempting to dismiss this contrast as hyperbole, and say Klingenstein is simply being a partisan, or a conspiracy theorist, or both. But, unfortunately, the more you listen to what left-wing activists say to each other when they aren’t actively gaslighting the public, the more and more his argument is proven true. It is now clear that the vast majority of the Left truly does believe that the American system is rotten to its core, and needs to be done away with entirely. Look no further than the 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter.

The 1619 Project received countless accolades (including a Pulitzer Prize) from left-leaning elites for arguing that America is foundationally racist and evil. Over the summer, this was the idea, embodied by Antifa and Black Lives Matter, that burned America’s cities to the ground.

BLM is arguably the most powerful left-wing “grassroots” organization in America. In a matter of months, BLM managed to get the news media, sports leagues, Hollywood, Big Tech, corporate America, and the entire Democratic Party to kneel down before them. If you doubt that BLM is at the top of the Left’s hierarchy right now, consider this: Black Lives Matter completely overshadowed this year’s Pride Month, normally the High Holy Season of the political and corporate Left’s liturgical calendar. Did you even notice it happened?

Of course, despite its name, the BLM movement isn’t really about racial justice. The riots that targeted monuments to Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, and burnt down black-owned businesses and neighborhoods, didn’t do so out of concern for black lives. They did it out of a real, deep hatred of America and the American way of life. If America is racist “systemically”—essentially, all-encompassingly, foundationally—then nothing we traditionally call American should be allowed to survive.

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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2020, 12:25:21 pm »
Related:
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A Momentous Election
Donald Trump may be an odd ambassador of freedom. But Joe Biden is but a gibbering front for a vanguard that would destroy America as traditionally conceived.
By Roger Kimball
October 24, 2020

So here we are, 10 days out from the most momentous election of my lifetime.

Candor requires that I admit that I have often felt that sense of existential emergency around election time. But reflection tells me that the closest thing to the 2020 election was the 2016 election, and that was not because of its wild card—Donald Trump—but because of “sure thing” Hillary Clinton, the single most corrupt serious contender for president in our history.

That may seem melodramatic, but the truth is often melodramatic.  ...

The real gravamen is this. The battle between Donald Trump and the Biden-Harris coalition is a battle between the forces of republican democracy, on one side, and the forces of socialist oligarchy, on the other. ...

But it is the other side of the divide that throws president Trump’s virtues into relief. He fights to make America great. The other side would make America prostrate.  ...
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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2020, 12:27:50 pm »
Hmm, seems to be a theme:
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The Left’s Closing Argument to America: Shut Up and Obey
This election may be our last chance to save what’s left of the country our Founders left us. Let’s make it count.
By Matthew Boose
October 24, 2020

Election Day is almost here, and the time has come for closing arguments. For the Left, four years of agitation have culminated in this proposal: join the revolution, or we’ll destroy you.

You have to admire the simplicity of it.

Understand, removing Trump from power is only the first step on the road to true democracy. His presidency must also go down as a cancerous aberration never to be repeated, and he and his supporters must be consigned to the outer darkness, forever.

We have seen this peculiar pitch crystallize as the ruling class works desperately to crush Trump and crown Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). It was obvious from the start that Biden’s campaign was little more than a front for the establishment and that its success, if ever it came, would be a sleight of hand. We have now seen that effort reach its logical conclusion in a parade of open contempt for ordinary Americans and our most basic principles and institutions.  ...
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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2020, 12:44:03 pm »
@mountaineer

Thank you very much for adding those articles/links   :patriot:
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2020, 12:51:07 pm »
We hear this every four years. I don't put too much stock in such histrionics.
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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2020, 01:00:24 pm »
We hear this every four years. I don't put too much stock in such histrionics.

Then, IMHO, you're not really paying attention, @jmyrlefuller

The clues are that the social media complex has removed THEIR masks, while the mainstream media has gone rabidly in-your-face insane.
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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2020, 01:53:59 pm »
We hear this every four years. I don't put too much stock in such histrionics.
Every election for the past 28 years or so seems to be "the most important election in our history." This year, that actually may be the case.
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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2020, 02:18:20 pm »
I suppose I can be as melodramatic as the next person but I do not believe that to be the case now.  (Metaphor alert for what's ahead.  But, it is not melodrama.)

In my view, this election is the equivalent of Pickett's Charge for the Democrats.  They, the Democrats, see a last chance opportunity to break through the defenses of the Union to have an unfettered shot at Washington and control of the Nation.  They have an early dementia nitwit as a Presidential candidate with an idealistic Leftist as a running mate.  They, the Democrats, will be happy to park that nitwit in a room like Norman Bates' mother until he expires in one way or another - maybe even pulling the trigger on the 25th Amendment.  They have a last-gasp doddering old fool as Speaker and the prospect of having Chuckie as Majority Leader.  Each have boundless last-gasp vigor to reshape the nation; probably beginning with the Supreme Court.  They won't waste a day.

This election needs to be the High Water Mark for the Dems.  The Union line needs to hold. 
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2020, 02:26:40 pm »
I suppose I can be as melodramatic as the next person but I do not believe that to be the case now.  (Metaphor alert for what's ahead.  But, it is not melodrama.)

In my view, this election is the equivalent of Pickett's Charge for the Democrats.  They, the Democrats, see a last chance opportunity to break through the defenses of the Union to have an unfettered shot at Washington and control of the Nation.  They have an early dementia nitwit as a Presidential candidate with an idealistic Leftist as a running mate.  They, the Democrats, will be happy to park that nitwit in a room like Norman Bates' mother until he expires in one way or another - maybe even pulling the trigger on the 25th Amendment.  They have a last-gasp doddering old fool as Speaker and the prospect of having Chuckie as Majority Leader.  Each have boundless last-gasp vigor to reshape the nation; probably beginning with the Supreme Court.  They won't waste a day.

This election needs to be the High Water Mark for the Dems.  The Union line needs to hold.

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My focus is on the threat to Stack the Supreme Court should they win the White House with a Senate Majority

THAT, plus amnesty for 45M illegal residents and the expansion of Gov't health care ensures the end of the Republic as founded.
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Re: This Election Isn’t Just Binary, It’s Existential
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2020, 02:48:01 pm »
We hear this every four years. I don't put too much stock in such histrionics.

We don't and I do. I've heard the usual 'a vote for them means your second amendment is gone/taxes will go up/etc'. Which was all true, or nearly so, to one degree or other.

Whats happening now is in no way similar and was bound to happen eventually and is the culmination of decades of leftist indoctrination. I suppose living in California make it easier for me to see what lies ahead.
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2020, 02:54:13 pm »
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My focus is on the threat to Stack the Supreme Court should they win the White House with a Senate Majority

THAT, plus amnesty for 45M illegal residents and the expansion of Gov't health care ensures the end of the Republic as founded.

To believe this is just more 'histrionics' and nothing else one has to believe there will be no end game to the left's gradual takeover of government and society. They've been moving us left for a reason all these years - its not like they haven't had a plan all along.

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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2020, 02:56:18 pm »
To believe this is just more 'histrionics' and nothing else one has to believe there will be no end game to the left's gradual takeover of government and society. They've been moving us left for a reason all these years - its not like they haven't had a plan all along.

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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2020, 02:58:26 pm »
"It doesn't matter how slow you are going as long as you never stop" - Confucius

The Left never ever stops applying pressure.

And it will be so after they attain total power. Robert Reich gave us a preview.