Meeting The Hate
On national issues jockeying for position, some are vying for the #2 and #1 spots on the top ten.
But in my surmise, they are all of equal threat. I write about Liberty for the most part, and it’s the main topic of my guest talks. Guns play a part in our liberty, but so do all of the other freedoms we enjoy in our way of life. It’s all a way-of-life issue to me, hence there is hardly any single issue, guns included.
Chief among my complaints is that the Left in America presses on, where the battle is between aggression and those battling aggression and intrusion, those who want to be left alone. As conservatives, all we want is to be left alone, and the fight, for us, is to hold ground, to keep alive those societal functions and mores that have served us all, liberals included, so faithfully for generations.
The Left in America will never live to see the day their aggression and intrusion strike their final blow; liberals today do not live for any ultimate end as they might like to think, but live only for the interference (a personal satisfaction in itself) and the canard they express in their acting out. For them, this is the payoff. Its intrusive insistence on interference is tearing the nation apart.
This is why I say that liberals will never again build anything: their time of contribution is over, as they are so fully involved in the impulse to devour everything that irks them, through defamation, intrusion, and general objection to America. This ongoing mission to attack icons external to their being reflects the fact that they miss that the very cause of their anger is internal.
Fine, John, but what of us in the meantime as we continue to lose ground? How do we stop it?
How to we meet the Hate?
First, we understand that Leftism is Hate. It is aggression. It is the desire to devour valuable institutions under color of social justice, and to understand that one of the devouring methods is to erase our History.
The Hate in America is not coming from racism, it is coming from those who won’t let racism die a natural death of old age.
The Hate in America is not coming from inequality, but from coerced compliance with plans that will never work, and become resentful to everyone.
The Hate in America is not coming from violent crime but from a refusal to allow the righteous resistance to it.
This is the Hate in America.
How we meet the Hate is by first correcting the record of U.S. History.
The rhetoric of the left in America is filled with exaggeration, lies, innuendo and outright erasure. The left re-wrote the record, for instance, in how our U.S. History is taught, so that much of the goodness of our country is unknown to Americans for at least two generations now.
Correcting the record is one of the first steps to restoring the nation. The spiteful, hateful left continues to erase even today in demanding the removal of a cross from the Los Angeles County Seal, as well as other seals elsewhere. Erasing history is one of the standards in all worldwide impositions, ancient and modern, on the ground that connection to heritage and history is often enough to recognize and resist destructive change. Severing that connection is the mission of the left.
Let me give you a few examples of how the left has succeeded over the decades.
The Civil Rights Amendment was pushed through by Republicans against the protests of the Democrats. Today, you’d think liberals carried the cross in favor of civil rights, but it didn’t go down that way: the Dems opposed it, and when it didn’t stop there but actually came alive, it was hijacked by the left and twisted to become the regretful, bitter mistake we suffer today; the inescapable presumption that someone’s credentials, position and authority might be questioned as less than the best on competitive merit.
The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrats at its peak. At the pinnacle of its raw terrorist power of mob psychology, hangings, shootings, beating and code of silence, the KKK was filled with Democrats, not right wingos, so that whatever some may say today in defense of former Klansmen, it was a Democrat movement for decades and never a Republican movement.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recalled how her father could defend his home and community because the local officials at the time did not know exactly where the guns were. The earliest gun control movement was aimed at Blacks who had as much right to self-defense as anyone else. Today, it is aimed at all of us.
Of course, the Vigilantes of the War Between The States was not an honest values-driven movement, but one of murder and working outside the law to silence the abolitionists, those taking public positions against slavery. The murders to silence opposing views were in favor of slavery. Who moves to silence views today? The same people who steal archival documents.
The history of America is not who owned slaves, but who abolished slavery in an era when trading in humanity was ubiquitous and a measure of wealth. Some people, known as Americans, believed this was wrong and fought it, but where is the credit for their dying for that value? It’s there, but you have to look for it. Some have succeeded in erasing that from your child’s history books.
The Hate is best met by engaging the lies of the left. This is something everyone can do peaceably and in seeking truth. The Hate is met by making the effort.
We know these facts to be true, but fewer and fewer of us know it. There are two resources I like and I want to recommend so that more Americans know it.
Why would an author recommend someone else’s book? (I do it all the time.) I do it because it’s important. The first is Back To Basics For The Republican Party by Michael Zak. You can find it at Amazon.com [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970006322/qid=1119209638/sr=8-15/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i15_xgl14/103-4052680-3617429?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ] and elsewhere.
Zak’s account points to historical facts that must be compared to the reportage of today in the light of true history so that the propaganda experts – the left is far better at propaganda than the right, let’s face it – cannot prevail through their underhanded tactics.
The mistake of the Right has been in viewing emotional communication as propaganda, and in general with stigma attached, and that answering it would be to become just as bad. This is about as weak as saying that all violence is bad without regard for dicerning resistance from aggression Thus, the underhanded tactics of the left go unanswered, and their propaganda sticks.
The fact is that reporting U.S. History properly is not propaganda, but..well, U.S. History.
On that subject, I also recommend The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Ph.D. As one excerpt, guess who said "Because it's not their money." It was President Clinton on the subject of why local education doesn't have more say in how federal education dollars are spent. [Page 240]
It’s time to meet the Hate. It’s time to engage.
I’m utterly convinced that our most powerful mission for the nation is to bring the message of liberty and republicanism outside of the liberty community and into the public at large. This has not been done, largely in the face of accusations of partisanship and allegations of taking political control, but these are only part of the lies machine to silence opposing views. Stigma has been attached. Our side is silenced.
But we’re not alone. More and more young people are getting married, and the young couples now have new issues to grapple with. As they come to learn more in how they wish to run their new households without interference, the more fresh life to the majority of those who appreciate and live by the message of liberty.
I’ve said that Republicans need to reach around behind themselves to find their backbone. They need to drop the idea of debate as being simply another propaganda and the stigma that would go with propaganda. They need to drop the idea that every issue requires an even hand; this permits the aggressors to gain more ground, a little at a time, sure, but that’s how we got to where we are today.
Even-handedness and intimidation by stigma are out of the question when you need to correct the record.
Support from constituents would help officials eliminate their political doubt, and would encourage officials to engage the left with solid ideas, sound plans and a generous helping of reformation from intrusion and interference with the family. That would mean repeal of intrusive laws and authority. That would mean doing their job.
And, most importantly, to bring the message outside the liberty community – and outside Congress – to the nation at large.
This is how we meet the Hate.
___________________________
John Longenecker is author of The Battle We Fight. His website is www.nationwideconcealedcarry.com.
But in my surmise, they are all of equal threat. I write about Liberty for the most part, and it’s the main topic of my guest talks. Guns play a part in our liberty, but so do all of the other freedoms we enjoy in our way of life. It’s all a way-of-life issue to me, hence there is hardly any single issue, guns included.
Chief among my complaints is that the Left in America presses on, where the battle is between aggression and those battling aggression and intrusion, those who want to be left alone. As conservatives, all we want is to be left alone, and the fight, for us, is to hold ground, to keep alive those societal functions and mores that have served us all, liberals included, so faithfully for generations.
The Left in America will never live to see the day their aggression and intrusion strike their final blow; liberals today do not live for any ultimate end as they might like to think, but live only for the interference (a personal satisfaction in itself) and the canard they express in their acting out. For them, this is the payoff. Its intrusive insistence on interference is tearing the nation apart.
This is why I say that liberals will never again build anything: their time of contribution is over, as they are so fully involved in the impulse to devour everything that irks them, through defamation, intrusion, and general objection to America. This ongoing mission to attack icons external to their being reflects the fact that they miss that the very cause of their anger is internal.
Fine, John, but what of us in the meantime as we continue to lose ground? How do we stop it?
How to we meet the Hate?
First, we understand that Leftism is Hate. It is aggression. It is the desire to devour valuable institutions under color of social justice, and to understand that one of the devouring methods is to erase our History.
The Hate in America is not coming from racism, it is coming from those who won’t let racism die a natural death of old age.
The Hate in America is not coming from inequality, but from coerced compliance with plans that will never work, and become resentful to everyone.
The Hate in America is not coming from violent crime but from a refusal to allow the righteous resistance to it.
This is the Hate in America.
How we meet the Hate is by first correcting the record of U.S. History.
The rhetoric of the left in America is filled with exaggeration, lies, innuendo and outright erasure. The left re-wrote the record, for instance, in how our U.S. History is taught, so that much of the goodness of our country is unknown to Americans for at least two generations now.
Correcting the record is one of the first steps to restoring the nation. The spiteful, hateful left continues to erase even today in demanding the removal of a cross from the Los Angeles County Seal, as well as other seals elsewhere. Erasing history is one of the standards in all worldwide impositions, ancient and modern, on the ground that connection to heritage and history is often enough to recognize and resist destructive change. Severing that connection is the mission of the left.
Let me give you a few examples of how the left has succeeded over the decades.
The Civil Rights Amendment was pushed through by Republicans against the protests of the Democrats. Today, you’d think liberals carried the cross in favor of civil rights, but it didn’t go down that way: the Dems opposed it, and when it didn’t stop there but actually came alive, it was hijacked by the left and twisted to become the regretful, bitter mistake we suffer today; the inescapable presumption that someone’s credentials, position and authority might be questioned as less than the best on competitive merit.
The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrats at its peak. At the pinnacle of its raw terrorist power of mob psychology, hangings, shootings, beating and code of silence, the KKK was filled with Democrats, not right wingos, so that whatever some may say today in defense of former Klansmen, it was a Democrat movement for decades and never a Republican movement.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recalled how her father could defend his home and community because the local officials at the time did not know exactly where the guns were. The earliest gun control movement was aimed at Blacks who had as much right to self-defense as anyone else. Today, it is aimed at all of us.
Of course, the Vigilantes of the War Between The States was not an honest values-driven movement, but one of murder and working outside the law to silence the abolitionists, those taking public positions against slavery. The murders to silence opposing views were in favor of slavery. Who moves to silence views today? The same people who steal archival documents.
The history of America is not who owned slaves, but who abolished slavery in an era when trading in humanity was ubiquitous and a measure of wealth. Some people, known as Americans, believed this was wrong and fought it, but where is the credit for their dying for that value? It’s there, but you have to look for it. Some have succeeded in erasing that from your child’s history books.
The Hate is best met by engaging the lies of the left. This is something everyone can do peaceably and in seeking truth. The Hate is met by making the effort.
We know these facts to be true, but fewer and fewer of us know it. There are two resources I like and I want to recommend so that more Americans know it.
Why would an author recommend someone else’s book? (I do it all the time.) I do it because it’s important. The first is Back To Basics For The Republican Party by Michael Zak. You can find it at Amazon.com [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970006322/qid=1119209638/sr=8-15/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i15_xgl14/103-4052680-3617429?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ] and elsewhere.
Zak’s account points to historical facts that must be compared to the reportage of today in the light of true history so that the propaganda experts – the left is far better at propaganda than the right, let’s face it – cannot prevail through their underhanded tactics.
The mistake of the Right has been in viewing emotional communication as propaganda, and in general with stigma attached, and that answering it would be to become just as bad. This is about as weak as saying that all violence is bad without regard for dicerning resistance from aggression Thus, the underhanded tactics of the left go unanswered, and their propaganda sticks.
The fact is that reporting U.S. History properly is not propaganda, but..well, U.S. History.
On that subject, I also recommend The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Ph.D. As one excerpt, guess who said "Because it's not their money." It was President Clinton on the subject of why local education doesn't have more say in how federal education dollars are spent. [Page 240]
It’s time to meet the Hate. It’s time to engage.
I’m utterly convinced that our most powerful mission for the nation is to bring the message of liberty and republicanism outside of the liberty community and into the public at large. This has not been done, largely in the face of accusations of partisanship and allegations of taking political control, but these are only part of the lies machine to silence opposing views. Stigma has been attached. Our side is silenced.
But we’re not alone. More and more young people are getting married, and the young couples now have new issues to grapple with. As they come to learn more in how they wish to run their new households without interference, the more fresh life to the majority of those who appreciate and live by the message of liberty.
I’ve said that Republicans need to reach around behind themselves to find their backbone. They need to drop the idea of debate as being simply another propaganda and the stigma that would go with propaganda. They need to drop the idea that every issue requires an even hand; this permits the aggressors to gain more ground, a little at a time, sure, but that’s how we got to where we are today.
Even-handedness and intimidation by stigma are out of the question when you need to correct the record.
Support from constituents would help officials eliminate their political doubt, and would encourage officials to engage the left with solid ideas, sound plans and a generous helping of reformation from intrusion and interference with the family. That would mean repeal of intrusive laws and authority. That would mean doing their job.
And, most importantly, to bring the message outside the liberty community – and outside Congress – to the nation at large.
This is how we meet the Hate.
___________________________
John Longenecker is author of The Battle We Fight. His website is www.nationwideconcealedcarry.com.
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