I
know it’s theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an
annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesn’t mean that I care. Our
ability to care is a finite resource, and, in the vast scheme of things,
millions of us have chosen to devote exactly none of it toward caring enough to
engage in fussy self-flagellation because of what happened to Slappy La
Brokenshades.
Sorry,
not sorry.
And
that’s not a good thing, not by any measure, but it is a real thing.
Liberals have chosen to coarsen our culture. Their validation and encouragement
of raw hate, their flouting of laws (Hi leakers! Hi Hillary!) and their utter
refusal to accept democratic outcomes they disapprove of have consequences.
What is itself so surprising is how liberals and their media rentboyz are so
surprised to find that we normals are beginning to feel about them the way they
feel about us – and that we’re starting to act on it. If you hate us, guess
what?
We’re
going to start hating you right back.
Cue
the boring moralizing and sanctimonious whimpering of the femmy, bow-tied,
submissive branch of conservatism whose obsolete members were shocked to find
themselves left behind by the masses to whom these geeks’ sinecures were not
the most important objective of the movement. This is where they sniff, “We’re
better than that,” and one has to ask ,“Who’s we?” Because, by nature, people
are not better than that. They are not designed to sit back
and take it while they are abused, condescended to, and told by a classless
ruling class that there are now two sets of rules and – guess what? –the old
rules are only going to be enforced against them.
We
don’t like the new rules – I’d sure prefer a society where no one was getting
attacked, having walked through the ruins of a country that took that path –
but we normals didn’t choose the new rules. The left did. It gave us Ferguson,
Middlebury College, Berkeley, and “Punch a Nazi” – which, conveniently for the
left, translates as “punch normals.” And many of us have had personal
experiences with this New Hate – jobs lost, hassles, and worse. Some scumbags
at an anti-Trump rally attacked my friend and horribly injured his dog.
His freaking dog.
So
when we start to adopt their rules, they’re shocked? Have they ever met human beings
before? It’s not a surprise. It’s inevitable.
Team
Fredocon, when they aren’t, “Oh well, I never!-ing” about Trump and his uncouth
supporters, moan about the threat of “Whataboutism,” the tendency for people to
explain their sub-optimal behavior by asking, “What about so-and-so? He did the
same thing and you didn’t care.” But while “whataboutism” may be a logical
fallacy, it’s still a devastatingly compelling argument.
Humans
– especially normal Americans – won’t tolerate a double standard. But double
standards apply all the time to liberals – they do it and it’s fine, but we do
it and it’s Armageddon. The same jerks screaming for O‘Reilly’s scalp worship
Bill Clinton and his drunken, perv-enabling pseudo-wife.
Or
take the Trump-Russia black hole of idiocy – please. Remember how Obama
whispered to the Russkies, “I'll have more flexibility after election” and
that was cool? But – according to an anonymous source reading a bar tab over
the phone to some credulous WaPo hack – one of Trump’s relatives ordered a
vodka once and it’s TREASON TREASON TREASON!!!!!!
It
certainly applies to, “What about when they hit conservatives with a lock in a sock and
the liberal media didn’t care?” Yeah, what about that? Where was the sackcloth
and ashes act from Schumer, Pelosi, and Felonia von Pantsuit when our side was
being bloodied and beaten? There wasn’t one, because the left supports us
getting bloodied and beaten. It likes the zesty zing of
violence. It makes them feel big and tough and edgy, except that it starts
being a heck of a lot less fun when we right-wingers start adopting the same
rules and punching back.
The
left is shocked that the right has now stopped caring about the old rules,
since for so long the left relied on the right to subordinate its human instincts
and conform to those rules even when the left ignored them. We refused to stoop
to their level, and for a long time, we were “better than that.” But you can
only have one side being “better than that” for so long before people get sick
of being the butt of the hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy
is poison not because it makes people stop knowing right from wrong, but
because it makes its victims stop caring about right and wrong. Ben Jacobs got
smacked around, and millions of us just don’t give a damn.
We
all know it was wrong for Greg Gianforte to beat up Ben Jacobs. But we also
know the general attitude of the media is that when we conservatives get
beat-up by leftists it’s perfectly excusable – even laudable – and thanks to
the fact that Twitter is forever, we now know that Ben Jacobs himself
specifically thinks it’s A-OK to slug conservative kids. So
can someone tell me why anyone should be shocked that we conservatives refuse
to devote one iota of caring to poor Ben’s wedgie?
This
isn’t a good thing. This is nothing to be proud of. We should not be happy that
our society is heading toward the lowest common denominator, which itself is in
freefall. But the alternative is worse. Should we allow ourselves to continue
to be figuratively and literally beaten up while smiling at our own purity,
secure in the knowledge that even though our dignity and freedom are stripped
from us, we have not fought back? Not happening. Letting these bastards play by
their own rules, and thereby crush us, seems a pretty high price to pay just to
gain the approval of the smug and sanctimonious David Frums and John Kasichs of
the world.
We
conservatives have been warning for a long time that liberals are not going to like it when everyone plays by
the new rules, and – surprise! – they don’t. But guess what? Most of
us don’t like the new rules either. Yet it’s ridiculous to expect human beings
to remain in perpetual denial about the situation they face, and to forever
live under a double standard that results in their faces getting pressed into
the dirt.
The
hypocrisy has become intolerable, and we have stopped tolerating it. This is
just the beginning of the reaction, and - make no mistake – this entire
situation is a bad thing. Our society is making choices that can lead only to
ruin (and my new novel describing the
consequences just dropped).
Lincoln
mentioned “the better angels of our nature” – also at a
time when Democrats were rejecting the rule of law in order to promote their
subjugation of those they considered lesser beings – and the important thing to
note is that “angels” is plural. You need two angels, not one
angel and one demon. But that’s what we have, and if it doesn’t change we’ll have
two demons, and everyone should care about that.
