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Monday, 10/15/2018 9:42:39 AM

Monday, October 15, 2018 9:42:39 AM

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The Great Sorting Out: The Path to Darkness

By Ray DiLorenzo
H/T to Seminole Red

As a nation of many nations, we are witnessing a dramatic change. It's in the air. You can feel it, see it, and hear it. What has kept us together is quickly vanishing. We are becoming a nation of tribes...three in particular...the Right, wanting to preserve America as founded...the Left, demanding a new America, godless and socialist. And Islam, a political movement disguised as a religion, waiting quietly in the wings, pretending to ally with the Left, but in reality hates everything they stand for. No longer e pluribus unum. The melting pot has gone cold.

America has always been unified by two things...the love of freedom and basic American culture. Or, as Winston Churchill rightly observed, the American race. Yes, we always had minor geographical differences in culture, but our unity was in our agreement in what our country stood for...liberty with responsibility, love of God and country and the freedom to be all you can be...the Great Experiment in self government.

But, we no longer pull to the left or right against the middle. Democrats have gone so far left they are about to fall off the page. The Right, in an effort to protect what is left of the country, is holding their ground. Many who were center right have moved further right out of fear, in an effort to safeguard what they see as being threatened. There seems to be very little to talk civil about. Anyone who is in the middle has become irrelevant.

Americans are splitting up. Not seen since the Civil War, we are recognizing seemingly irreconcilable differences.

It was plain to see by the reaction to many of the speeches at universities by conservative speakers...at best, an unwillingness to be polite, at worse, rioting and violence...the death of free speech. One of the most basic of American values. And the Left seems more than comfortable with it.

The Kavanaugh hearings were a microcosm of the relationship between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans treated Ford with the upmost respect and concern, hearing her out, but making the only assessment they could, all things considered. Democrats treated Kavanaugh, from the gate, like a rat in the kitchen. Democrats attack while rank and file Republicans and the Republican leadership recoil in disbelief, wondering what is to come.

In the past, calm reason was the way to deal with anger from the Left, but if the Democrat leadership continues to let the far Left steer the party, we could find ourselves beyond calm reason. Lindsey Graham demonstrated a small sample.

For the last several decades, Americans have been self-sorting, moving to states and communities with like political and cultural values. Liberals are moving to more liberal areas, conservatives to more conservative areas...Islamists to their conclaves in seven or eight states.

In 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected president, 26.8% of Americans lived in landslide counties, that is, counties that saw a 20% or more win or loss. By 2004, that number rose to 46.3% and it is getting worse. The 'bubble' communities are not interested in any opposing viewpoints which has resulted in their positions getting more extreme, especially in the Left-dominated cities and towns. They see as normal and good what the country would have seen as outrageous just ten or twenty years ago.

It has been reported that so many people are leaving California that U-Haul has placed a surcharge on moving trucks leaving the state due to a shortage. In the San Francisco Bay area it could be as high as 1000%. One-way rentals going in to California are charged much less. It would probably be much cheaper to rent the truck from your destination and return it there.

A vast block of voting citizens, indoctrinated from childhood by a nefarious academic community, a bias media, an entertainment industry void of any moral compass, and a political party only interested in power, no longer cherishes American values. They have bought the lies that government is god and will take care of you...multi-culturalism is our strength, capitalism is evil, freedom with responsibility is superfluous and relativism is valid, falsely asserting that all cultures are compelling, thinking they are disproving our American exceptionalism.

I can't help but make note of the trend these last years of the liberal excitement over multi-culturalism. Multi-culturalism is a failed policy. It has failed in Europe, the Middle East and will fail here in the United States. It is a policy of competing cultures. Iraq is a perfect example. Only a brutal dictator kept the country in relative peace, keeping Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds from slaughtering one another. When the dictator was gone, the country fell into violent chaos. The former PM of Britain, David Cameron, said in 2011 that state multi-culturalism has failed, weakening national identity, creating radicalism, especially among Islamist groups unwilling to assimilate.

And maybe that is the point, the plan all along. I remember celebrities in Hollywood calling for Obama to be dictator for life and Obama himself expressing disappointment that he wasn't.

I do not see a way off this path. The Left has demonstrated a dangerous unwillingness to come to their senses and now has too much invested in it. The Democrat leadership has determined that it is in their best interest to continue feeding the monster, hence they keep encouraging the resistance. They have turned several generations into godless and mindless, unhinged mobs that demand what they do not understand. Groups like Antifa have even enrolled in courses in combat training and firearms.

Democrats have dealt in multi-culturalism, identity politics, relativism and the same tired liberalism for decades. Now we see the result...Americans continuing to migrate to places where they feel more comfortable, away from cultures they either don't recognize or perceive as being alien or un-American...an entire political party unwilling to accept the results of an election. What will happen if they do not accept the results of the midterm elections in November? We will cease to be a nation. We will be no better than Libya, or Syria or Iraq?

The lines continue to be drawn while people move into position and wait.

With all the Antifa and Black Lives Matter violence, the screaming inside hearing rooms, halls, and galleries, the banging on the doors of the Supreme Court, the ball is definitely in the Democrats' court. What will they do next?

Ray DiLorenzo

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