Led by a media that is at once delusional and cynical—an eye-rolling combination—America is in the throes of a national madness.
Few are able to tell the truth—and when they do, they are attacked by the mob, not only in the street, but in the board room.
Just the other day, talk show host Tucker Carlson opened his mouth about the well-documented dishonest origins (the lie about Michael Brown) of Black Lives Matter and sent advertisers skittering like so many scared rabbits.
You have the sensation that people across the country are hiding what they really think for fear of repercussions, retribution that will destroy their lives and livelihood.
And they’re not being stupid. It could—and has.
If Nathaniel Hawthorne were alive today, he could write a new masterpiece with faux racism as the scarlet letter, but no one would publish it, certainly not one of our mainstream publishers who would rather flunk their Wasserman tests.
Is this the way to run a democracy?
Of course not, but that’s where we are in America 2020 when putative “autonomous zones” are being set up across the land by groups espousing the overthrow of the U.S. government, violently or otherwise, under the guise of a brainless anarchism Peter Kropotkin would never recognize.
We used to have restaurant pop-ups. Now we have “autonomous zone” pop-ups.
Who knows how many of these bogus, supposedly self-governing—denizens of the Seattle zone are asking the public for supplies of Gatorade and body lotion, poor puppies—entities will be appearing in the next days? After I finish this article, I am headed down to one promised to appear in my own Nashville.
But I also have the sensation that something else is brewing—a more positive reaction. And a strong one.
A new silent majority is about to emerge, one far more sophisticated than the old Nixonian version and more sophisticated too than the BLM/Antifa fellow travelers in the Democratic Party and media,
They already have their harbingers, their heroes, the few swimming upstream against a tide seemingly as strong (for now anyway) as any Louisiana hurricane.
These are the real thought leaders, folks whose courage has also “popped up” and are providing examples for those hidden in their foxholes to come out and speak up.
Among those to come to the fore in recent days are the Hodge Twins, two talented African American brothers with an antic sense of humor and the smarts to back it up. They have produced some clever videos, based on actual research, to dispel the myth that most cops are racist. Indeed, they show when it comes to those rare dirty cops, whites are just as much at risk as blacks.
Not surprisingly, black conservatives lead the pack in this emerging silent majority, none more importantly than Shelby Steele, whose aptly-titled classic White Guilt does more to explain that madness around us than any work in recent memory
Steele is suddenly “popping up” all over television. We are listening.
The redoubtable Thomas Sowell also is an inspiration. He tweeted this morsel of clarity yesterday: “Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?”
Apparently, we have. But it cannot stay that way for long. Change is coming. And nowhere more importantly than the academy where the yahoos of Cornell Law School just exposed themselves in their unhinged attacks on their professor William Jacobson (“Legal Insurrection”) who had the temerity to point out the same BLM malfeasances Tucker Carlson did.
Needless to say, what Jacobson wrote was never attacked, only him personally. His colleagues are trying to get him fired—or should I say canceled—for wandering off their ultra-conformist reservation.
Meanwhile, UCLA has defecated on its academic reputation by suspending another harbinger, longtime accounting professor Gordon Klein for having the temerity, in his case, to treat black, white and brown students alike when it came to grading. Klein claims he was a “sacrificial lamb” to placate “those who threaten to riot.” (Analysis: true)
POC used to want “equality.”
But now they seem to want supremacy.
In Utah POC are only 4% of the population.
Still, we got told by a POC-run restaurant, just today, that there would be a huge surcharge for our take-out meals.
Because we are white.
It was over 15% from what the menu called for.
Needless to say we quit the order and left.
They screamed for us to “never come back.”
Fine.
I can cook food as good as they can.
And we joined “Yelp” just to give them the review they deserved.
Ironically, had they held their ire they probably would have gotten a tip for ~15% anyway.
Now they’ve lost two regular customers when they are struggling with barely any sit-down diners.
So, from being “color blind” about who I buy from, now I’ll be aware to chose a white-owned business over one owned by people who don’t want my business unless I pay a penalty.
Good article.
Also, I reject the phrase “people of color”. Everyone has a color, even white people.
This ends when people are just people.
That’s the goal, not to have a permanent victimhood “POC” cult who will eventually get whitey…because “whitey” was actually using them to kill other whites.
the word workers are working over time. in the 60-late 70’s in chi there were shops that pandered only to backs. but in the beginning all colors with a surcharge on whites and asians-blacks hate asians.. not paid to the city/county/state-stolen monies for being white. as time went on the white clintel caught on to this scam and ceased doing business with these vendors. all of a sudden most of these shops closed. the average black consumer could not afford the merchandise and as the chi whites and tourists trade became aware of this scam, businesses closed like dead flies. the four horsemen of the Apocalypse is on the horizon. SMILE, it is going to be fun to watch.
I simply pray to God that these cretins cannot win this election. I can think of nothing more disastrous for this nation than the Democrats in their current configuration running the country.
Those Democratic idiots in Minneapolis who want to abolish the Police Dept they should all be arrested for aiding and abetting a Felon in the Commission of a crime throw them is jial and throw away the key
Why I believe nothing Donald Trump or the fallen GOP says: Mind boggling flip-flops R us.
The ad, by the way, was made and paid for by Republican Voters Against Trump. They want their party and its honor and integrity back, and are no longer being silent about it.