Don’t kid yourself. The Ideological Wars are here and will get worse. Among Sir Issac Newton’s three laws was an object in motion has a tendency to stay in motion. And the Left is in a downward motion that is now irreversible. They have gone from debate and democracy, and toward dogma and control.
The Right is about intellectualism. The Left is about emotionalism. And principles be dammed.
We’ve all seen it before, as an organization dwindles down the membership, the softer, more civilized elements melt away, and what is Left are the more fervent, most off putting, most fanatical. They’re the zealots, the loudest, the angriest, and the most intolerant of anything to their right or questions them.
Whether is a church membership, or a Boy Scout troop, or other organizations or a fraternity, as the more moderating elements drift away, what remains is the most radical, more obnoxious residue.
That is exactly what has happened to the American Left. The intellectualism of John F. Kennedy, patriotic, aspirational, grounded in faith and freedom, has been replaced by a grievance-obsessed ideology that divides the country into victims and oppressors.
It is no longer the American dream for the Left, it is now the buzzwords and gobbledygook of ideology. They rewrite history with hatred of America. They demand justice by censoring and anti-free speech campuses.
For as the great John Adams observed, "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
This schism also exists culturally at its most basic level. My firm has a client, liberal, who want us to do a conservative thing. We are doing it but the liberal client is now going on five months in arrears. Many times, they say payment is coming and it never comes. Believe me, they can afford it. What may be most infuriating is they show no remorse, are never apologetic, feel no guilt or shame.
Whereas conservatives are almost compulsive about meeting their obligations, paying their bills, acting like responsible members of society.
History shows this is not new. It started long ago. In the 1960s, what began as a legitimate call for civil rights for minorities, devolved into riots and terrorism. The so-called Weathermen, eco-terrorists, threw Molotov cocktails on a cold morning in February 1970, attempting to firebomb the house of New York Supreme Justice John Murtagh. Murtagh’s crime? He was presiding judge of Black Pather terrorists who had been accused of plotting the bombing of New York landmarks. “Vietcong have won!” was also vandalized on the sidewalk. The Weathermen would rather murder Americans and side with Communists.
The University of California, Berkeley was once considered the bastion of free speech, being one of the principal places of the founding of the Free Speech Movement. In 2017, protests erupted around campus, with violence, extremely vulgar graffiti and vandalism, and death threats from student so-called protestors.
Black-clad and masked “anti-fascists” (using classic Gestapo techniques, ironically) pushed through police barricades and attacked Republican counter-protestors. The reason for this chaos at a once-great University? Right-wing influencer and author and occasional firebrand, Milo Yiannopoulus was scheduled to speak there. The next month, President Donald Trump was in town, and Republicans staged a rally of support. Heaven forbid! The academic Left and elitists were probably supporting the rioters.
Is there any better example than the recent brutal murder of conservative spokesman Charlie Kirk? Or the assassination attempts on President Trump’s life?
How about the new scandal of Somalian Scum? They have stolen billions from the US taxpayer and, to add insult to injury are funding anti-American terrorists back in the cesspool of Somalia. Marx was apparently right.
And yet, filth like Tampon Timmy Walz are not remorseful, not apologetic, but they do dissemble and yes. defend it! Tampon Timmy is one of the stupidest people in American politics.
Now, we have the cancerous cancel culture of the Leftists. Big Brother within George Orwell’s 1984 created a myriad of crimes, including, most notably, a thought crime. Nowadays, you can ruin your job and your life if you dare go against the ideological crime of having a different opinion than the Left. Schools and universities will be the first to tell you how dangerous it is to be a Republican.
There is a sickness in the United States. It isn’t coming. It is here. This war of ideologies will not go away. It will be rewritten as “defending democracy” or “defending the country,” when in reality, the Left’s hatred of America is so deep, they would rather destroy it than have a Republican in charge.
As George Washington once sagely said, “Let me… warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.”
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."
In Newton’s law, if an object is in motion it tends to stay in motion, but what happens when this motion hits an immovable object? The immovable object will not budge. So too can the American Dream be made an immovable object.
But only with great strength.
Historian and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley is the author of Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All; Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America; December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World; Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan; Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980; Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative; Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother; April 1945: The Hinge of History, as well as many articles and essays on politics and the conservative movement.
The Right is about intellectualism. The Left is about emotionalism. And principles be dammed.
We’ve all seen it before, as an organization dwindles down the membership, the softer, more civilized elements melt away, and what is Left are the more fervent, most off putting, most fanatical. They’re the zealots, the loudest, the angriest, and the most intolerant of anything to their right or questions them.
Whether is a church membership, or a Boy Scout troop, or other organizations or a fraternity, as the more moderating elements drift away, what remains is the most radical, more obnoxious residue.
That is exactly what has happened to the American Left. The intellectualism of John F. Kennedy, patriotic, aspirational, grounded in faith and freedom, has been replaced by a grievance-obsessed ideology that divides the country into victims and oppressors.
It is no longer the American dream for the Left, it is now the buzzwords and gobbledygook of ideology. They rewrite history with hatred of America. They demand justice by censoring and anti-free speech campuses.
For as the great John Adams observed, "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
This schism also exists culturally at its most basic level. My firm has a client, liberal, who want us to do a conservative thing. We are doing it but the liberal client is now going on five months in arrears. Many times, they say payment is coming and it never comes. Believe me, they can afford it. What may be most infuriating is they show no remorse, are never apologetic, feel no guilt or shame.
Whereas conservatives are almost compulsive about meeting their obligations, paying their bills, acting like responsible members of society.
History shows this is not new. It started long ago. In the 1960s, what began as a legitimate call for civil rights for minorities, devolved into riots and terrorism. The so-called Weathermen, eco-terrorists, threw Molotov cocktails on a cold morning in February 1970, attempting to firebomb the house of New York Supreme Justice John Murtagh. Murtagh’s crime? He was presiding judge of Black Pather terrorists who had been accused of plotting the bombing of New York landmarks. “Vietcong have won!” was also vandalized on the sidewalk. The Weathermen would rather murder Americans and side with Communists.
The University of California, Berkeley was once considered the bastion of free speech, being one of the principal places of the founding of the Free Speech Movement. In 2017, protests erupted around campus, with violence, extremely vulgar graffiti and vandalism, and death threats from student so-called protestors.
Black-clad and masked “anti-fascists” (using classic Gestapo techniques, ironically) pushed through police barricades and attacked Republican counter-protestors. The reason for this chaos at a once-great University? Right-wing influencer and author and occasional firebrand, Milo Yiannopoulus was scheduled to speak there. The next month, President Donald Trump was in town, and Republicans staged a rally of support. Heaven forbid! The academic Left and elitists were probably supporting the rioters.
Is there any better example than the recent brutal murder of conservative spokesman Charlie Kirk? Or the assassination attempts on President Trump’s life?
How about the new scandal of Somalian Scum? They have stolen billions from the US taxpayer and, to add insult to injury are funding anti-American terrorists back in the cesspool of Somalia. Marx was apparently right.
And yet, filth like Tampon Timmy Walz are not remorseful, not apologetic, but they do dissemble and yes. defend it! Tampon Timmy is one of the stupidest people in American politics.
Now, we have the cancerous cancel culture of the Leftists. Big Brother within George Orwell’s 1984 created a myriad of crimes, including, most notably, a thought crime. Nowadays, you can ruin your job and your life if you dare go against the ideological crime of having a different opinion than the Left. Schools and universities will be the first to tell you how dangerous it is to be a Republican.
There is a sickness in the United States. It isn’t coming. It is here. This war of ideologies will not go away. It will be rewritten as “defending democracy” or “defending the country,” when in reality, the Left’s hatred of America is so deep, they would rather destroy it than have a Republican in charge.
As George Washington once sagely said, “Let me… warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.”
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."
In Newton’s law, if an object is in motion it tends to stay in motion, but what happens when this motion hits an immovable object? The immovable object will not budge. So too can the American Dream be made an immovable object.
But only with great strength.
Historian and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley is the author of Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All; Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America; December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World; Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan; Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980; Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative; Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother; April 1945: The Hinge of History, as well as many articles and essays on politics and the conservative movement.
