I am talking, of course, about white supremacists. The news media, Democrats, and NeverTrump Republicans would have us believe the country is under siege by a sinister cabal of Americans who want to return to the days of Jim Crow, or better yet, the era of slavery.
Since the election of Donald Trump, white supremacists, we are warned, occupy the White House and control the Republican Party.
The signs are everywhere.
A MAGA hat is the new white hood. A common hand signal for “OK” actually is a way to send a message of solidarity to other white supremacists. So is drinking a glass of milk. Or owning a dog. Or selling an athletic shoe embossed with an American flag designed by Betsy Ross.
What accounts for this mass hysteria of anti-white racism?
Megan Rapinoe is so enamored of her own athletic prowess that she has somehow internalized the notion that we care what she thinks about the president, the anthem, the flag, and the country. She seems to think her superior skill at soccer gives her the right to insult all the Americans with political views that differ from hers.
Rapinoe demonstrated an embarrassing lack of class that contaminates her entire team. She is a woman who never learned that a bit of grace is an infectious thing in a good way.
This, of course, makes her a hero to the hate-America Left that populates CNN and MSNBC 24/7. Her disdain for the country to them means she is presidential material! Just ask Rachel Maddow.
The Left is now officially insane. This arrogant, disagreeable woman, Rapinoe, because she plays soccer well, thinks she has the right to trash everything and everyone she loathes.
Despite warnings from practically everyone, five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday. They apparently backed off only when they realized the Brits were serious about defending themselves and had no interest in being held hostage, a standard Iranian tactic. Good for them.
The Iranians have been acting out quite a bit lately, testing the limits of our tolerance for violence and breaking the nuclear strictures (assuming there really were any) of the JCPOA, aka the Iran Deal.
That deal was always an extreme head-scratcher, that the agreement prevents entry to Iranian military installations by nuclear inspectors was only the tip of an absurd iceberg. And when the Mossad lifted a ton (!) of nuclear documents from a Tehran warehouse showing that Iran had lied about practically everything, the whole thing seemed ridiculous, even though that should have been obvious from the outset.
Now the mullahs are hurting because of the sanctions instituted by Trump. But that doesn't seem to be stopping their behavior.
[Note by JW: This alarming report shows the urgent need for President Trump to join with Colombia President Ivan Duque and Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro to form a joint task force of the US, Colombian, and Brazilian armed forces to militarily remove the Maduro regime from Venezuela, and install a legitimate government. The situation is becoming so dire there is no time to lose.]
Venezuela is in a stalemate.
Ruled as a colony by its Cuban masters with a little puppet leader in the persona of Nicolás Maduro, it's as bad an economic shambles as Cuba is, and as with Cuba, millions of its people are fleeing.
The United Nations declared it a death-squad regime, with 7,000 documented killings of dissidents. There's a legitimate leader in the legislative declaration of Juan Guaidó as president, but the man is powerless without an army to command and sadly fading to irrelevance.
But there's not nothing going on. Read on, this is gravely frightening.
It would be difficult to visualize some of the great world capitals — Rome, Paris, London and Washington — without the statues and monuments celebrating the lives of political, military, religious leaders, as well as great artists, scientists, etc.
To the extent that the statues and monuments are tributes to real people, they necessarily represent flawed people because no one is perfect.
The operative question is, after a full life, was the world better or worse off as a result of the existence of any individual?
Currently, we are witnessing a movement to remove statues and monuments to historic figures because something they did or said during their lives now offends one or more people.
Last week, the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, decided to no longer mark Thomas Jefferson’s birthday as an official holiday.
It’s America’s Birthday, when the most noble document in human history was ratified and made public, the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
The word Aristotle would use for “noble” above is kalon. Often translated as noble and honorable, or badly mistranslated as beautiful in the sheer physical sense, kalon for Aristotle is a term of morality. The kalon is the morally noble, morally honorable, morally admirable – thus it is the morally beautiful.
We don’t have a word for this in English, and may be elusive to grasp for it expresses a philosophical aesthetics – not in the crude popular sense of that term as subjective sentiment regarding art or music, but elegantly embodying an objective moral truth.
Thus when we refer to “America the Beautiful,” we mean something vastly more than its physical beauty like amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties. We mean America the Kalon, America the Morally Beautiful.
And that is because of the moral beauty of our country’s founding principles stated in our Declaration of Independence. Its essence is expressed in the second sentence, the most magnificent statement of a moral ideal in human history:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Note it states an ideal towards which it is America’s moral duty to strive. Since humans at any time are imperfect, it is irrelevant that the ideal’s authors were imperfect in our eyes now, such as some owned slaves who were not granted these rights.
It is highly likely, for example, that a future generation of Americans will condemn ours today for allowing the unforgiveable immorality of infanticide, of mothers murdering their own children fully capable of surviving out of their wombs. Perhaps they will demand any statues or memorials to our pro-abortion politicians be torn down.
Further, for however much America has not lived up to its moral ideals in the 243 years since 1776, it has nonetheless lived up to them to a greater degree than any other nation on earth.
The perfect must not be the enemy of the good, we must not be compared to some political heaven but to other societies here on earth. Where else are people freer to control their own lives, granted more liberty, or capable of pursuing their own happiness?
Let its critics carp. The fact remains that America for all its faults and flaws is still morally beautiful, deserving of our love and admiration.
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.” ---Winston Churchill
Happy Fourth of July! Today we celebrate the founding of America’s freedom by commemorating the greatest act of political and moral genius in human history – the writing of The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. An excellent way of doing so would be for your family and loved ones to gather together and read it aloud, savoring every extraordinary word.
Savor the words well, for it is quite possible that this may be our last happy Fourth – if we do not take Churchill’s warning to heart now, not waiting until next year when it will be too late.
To do so, we must be specific and explicit about the threat of enslavement we are facing. In Churchill’s day it was external – Nazi Germany. For us today, the threat is internal within our own borders. Let us name and define it.
As the 2020 presidential election approaches, the Left is running drills to see how quickly and effectively their political hit squads can be deployed against Trump, his administration, and his Republican supporters.
A few other exercises—the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, the MAGA hat-wearing Covington Catholic students—have been rolled out, but those spectacles will pale in comparison to what’s in store for Republicans next year.
No cabinet official, administration employee, Trump family member, GOP candidate or regular Trump voter will be spared.
In just the past week, the Left’s pre-election tactics have been on full display.
In the current American–Iran stand-off are a number of global players. That is hardly new, but what is novel is that, for the first time in decades, there’s almost no power that can obstruct or alter U.S. efforts to confront Iranian aggressions in America’s own time and fashion.
In other words, the United States is almost immune from the sort of pressures that usually coalesce to dictate, modify, or thwart U.S. decision-making in the Middle East.
Such liberation from outside coercion is singularly unusual in the post-war American overseas experience. Let’s count the ways this is happening across the globe.
President Trump has returned from the G20 summit in Osaka Japan in triumph.
During his time in Asia, the President reset relations with both China and North Korea. All while continuing to implement his strategic vision for the United States to a worldwide audience.
He engaged in talks with Russia to begin resolving regional disputes, reinforced our relationships with our allies in Japan and South Korea, then reengaged with Xi Jinping to bring the China trade agreement closer to fruition.
Trump capped all that with a stirring “spontaneous” offer to meet Kim Jong Un at the DMZ in South Korea. The pandemonium, drama, and historical nature of the next two days completely eclipsed much of the G20 summit.
However, it totally reinforced Donald J. Trumps position as the preeminent player on the world stage.
When we were small children, before we had learned the laws of physics and economics, we thought everything was possible. Fantasyland could be real, so we thought.
Twenty of the declared Democrat candidates for president have held their first debate which demonstrated, with the possible exceptions of Gov. John Hickenlooper and Congressman John Delaney, that they have not outgrown Fantasyland.
These same politicians also say that U.S. citizens have a “right” to free medical care. Where did this “right” come from?
A Supreme Court decision cast a little shade on an otherwise great MAGA week.
*President Trump won a big victory when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi folded like a cardboard suitcase on a supplemental appropriation to deal with the border emergency.
San Fran Nan’s surrender kills a Democrat talking point, deepens the rift between Progressives and what passes for moderates in her caucus.
*The Commerce department needs to justify better it’s reasons for including a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the next census, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday (6/27), with Chief Justice Roberts voting with the libs.
But Roberts voted with the conservatives on the big issue – that Commerce has the right to ask the citizenship question – so the setback likely will be temporary.
*In another decision yesterday, the Supremes ruled that reapportionment decisions are not justiciable.
This kills, dead, for good and always Democrat efforts to encourage judicial gerrymandering.
*The Silicon Valley fascists are trying to rig the 2020 election, President Trump said Wednesday (6/26). It’s time to punish them.
Mueller will testify. Flynn’s new attorney thinks Team Mueller withheld exculpatory information. Dem presidential candidates commit mass seppuku on live tv. For that and more, read on:
Should there be a citizenship question on the 2020 census? Will there be?
