Conservatism

Michael Lumish

One of the primary ways of thinking among twentieth-century American conservatives was a close-mindedness. Even a religious close-mindedness.

In the 1950s and 1960s, when conservatives held some power in American politics, they were widely mocked by the growing counterculture and the Beats and Kerouac and Ginsberg and Kesey -- and all that jazz -- led to the rise of The Movement. 

The Movement.

It was the 1960s. It was anti-war. It was second wave feminism. It was the rise of the New Left and people like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party. It was also the rise of environmentalism and the movement to protect the planet, not to mention space exploration and people like recently passed Apollo 11 astronaut, Michael Collins.

These were people, whatever their political affiliation, who refused to be close-minded.

The Republican Party of the 1950s, with perhaps the exception of people like William F. Buckley, was rigid and close-minded and represented just the kind of people that liberals are pushing back against today.

The contemporary-left in the US today is just as close-minded and rigid and boring and authoritarian as were many Republican in the 1950s.

We will stand up against them today, just as we did yesterday.

Jason Paluch's "Liberalism and Leftism"

Michael Lumish

The shifting meaning of words is key to understanding political sensibilities.

In this piece, written for

Karen Lehrman Bloch

's White Rose Magazine, Jason Paluch outlines the essential differences between "Liberalism" and "Leftism."

This is something that has stuck in my craw for years.

Liberalism is about the political tradition, grounded in the European Enlightenment, that values the freedom of the individual and that probably reached its height with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Paluch concludes:

"Liberals adhere to the idea that people have a right to freely live their lives in any way they see fit as long as their choices and actions do not prevent others from doing the same. Leftists believe they have a right to dictate to others how they must live and what they should believe. The difference could not be more clear."

Another One Bites The Dust.

 Doodad

 

 

The Road To Hell

Doodad

I know I'm going to Hell. Found myself dreaming I was playing with Mr Potato Head while reading Dr Seuss and drinking Coca Cola. The good part is, there is no polar vortex in Hell, so.....

 

 

The Muzzle-Mask, whatever its medical utility, is a symbol of submission

Michael Lumish

It is the most outward sign of the Covid Regime.

It represents a submissive willingness to go along with the Lockdowns and all that entails.

It means being OK with governmentally-created increases in homicide, suicide, poverty, homelessness, the death of small businesses and restaurants, old people dying alone, divorce, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug-abuse, looting, and rioting in the streets in the name of "social justice."

When you voted for President Joe Biden that is what you voted for.

The muzzle-mask is not merely an inconvenience.

It is a symbol of submission.

My intention is to ditch my mask shortly.

It's been a whole year, for chrissake, and that is enough.

We all recognize that Covid is real, but we also recognize that it is a political system of control with heinous social consequences.

I will put on a muzzle if I must go into a store that requires one, but that is it.

On the street, I will not wear one.

I will maintain social distancing from people, you can be sure, but if you live in fear then you should stay the hell away from me.

Impeachment Blues

 Doodad

 It was a foregone conclusion I suppose. 

 

 

You Never Call....

 Doodad

 Ring Ring Ring

Bibi: Hello, is that you Joe?

Caller: Joe Who?

Bibi: Joe Biden. 

Caller: No, but can I tell you about our fabulous after market Car Warranty Program?

Bibi: Hangs up.

A Bad Feeling.

 Doodad

 

A Kangeroo Court Of The Highest Order

 Doodad

 Soon, Trump will be tried in the Senate for a second time. This time around the Chief Justice will not preside and we are being given NO idea why. I suggest that Justice Roberts has interpreted the Constitution correctly and realized that since Trump is no longer President, a Chief Justice is not required at the proceedings. He, and others are remaining quiet because they don't want to prejudice the event.

But this lack of prejudice does not extend to to who will be the one who presides. It will be Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and the president pro tempore of the chamber, who has already voted for impeachment. Imagine that. Seems un-American to me.

All Impeachment, All The Time

Doodad

 

Well, there it is. Trump has been impeached an historical second time. Who knows how many times the one trick pony Dems will impeach the guy before he shuffles off this mortal core.

And now this:

Newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday said she plans on filing articles of impeachment against President-elect Joe Biden on his first full day in office next week. 

During an appearance on Newsmax Wednesday evening, Greene, a vocal supporter of President Trump, said that she is planning on introducing a measure to impeach Biden on Jan. 21, one day after his inauguration. 

“I would like to announce on behalf of the American people, we have to make sure our leaders are held accountable, we cannot have a president of the United States who is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, foreign Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies, so on Jan. 21, I will be filing articles of impeachment on Joe Biden,” Greene told Newsmax’s Greg Kelly. 

 

 

Greene did not specify what the articles might charge Biden with.

 Tit for tat I guess.