Jeremiah Blues 8-17

So, how are we doing now that in 2017 the New Guy is leading us to "winning?"

Perhaps the most disturbing trend I see this year is the conservative idea that "you lost, get over it. We won." This is immensely stupid on many levels.  We don't vote people in to be dictators, or to have carte blanche to do whatever they want.  Policy still needs public debate, this is why they hold town meetings and have public phone lines. Just because some people supported their opinions doesn't mean they are automatically instituted.  Legislators are still servants of the their constituents and are beholden to their opinions.  I didn't hear conservatives keeping their mouths shut for eight years of a democratic president.  So, now they have to deal with liberal views challenging conservative policy makers. Tough. Grow up and get over it. This is how public policy works.  In addition to this childish notion, there is the fabricated idea used for propaganda that Trump won 90% of the US.  To demonstrate this they show a glorious Red map.  Guess what conservatives- the electorate is not made up of empty land.  Land doesn't f******g vote!  People do. This is simply a desperate attempt to compensate for the fact that they could not even get a majority of the electorate. What is the opposite of a mandate?  This is how pathetic this current administration and its supporters are.

Another interesting tactic now in use is taking all of the accusations leveled against President Obama (which were not true) and actually doing them with impunity.  The racial conflict which arose during the Obama term, and was blamed specifically on him, is now actually being executed (somewhat by design through the White House's alt-right).   But any blame is now shifted away from the presidency to the liberal mass and Democratic congress members.  Just one more double standard.

This has culminated in the events of Charlottesville.  A clear cut case of white terrorism. (ISIS) Hopefully the murderer will not only get first degree charges, but hate crime charges as well.  This will be any interesting case, with a white victim the result of white hate.  The argument that a crime is a crime regardless of race, and hate crime charges are a social view which should not be injected into the legal system has some validity.  When one perpetrates a crime against society in the name of ideology, it should be classified as terrorism, negating the need for hate crime charges.  Despite the pathetic and complicit assertions of Trump, Pence, and Bossert, some cabinet members, notably Sessions and McMaster, correctly labeled this terrorism.

The ridiculous notion that the left's paranoid aversion to Nazi-ism is similar to the right's view of communism doesn't hold any validity.  First it is an attempt to uphold the views of the right while dismissing the extremist problems within the conservative circles. Since when is resistance to Nazi-sim just a leftist position.  Surely conservatives fought against Germany at least as strongly as liberals.  This just shows how far right American conservatives have swung.  Moreover, the comparison to communism is absurd.  Democrats accused of this position never identified as such.  More importantly their actions have no correlation, as administration such as Obama's have strengthened the capitalist system.  If there were actual communists in the government, like the early twentieth century, this would not ensure  the presence of an enemy. Communism is not a specific party any more than capitalism, it is merely an economic system which may very well extend the rights of the individual.  The communist powers which we fought were enemies due to their authoritarian political systems.  As for American Nazi-ism, the new movement of White Nationalists denounce the term as derogatory only because of its negative history.  They embrace the same ideals, incorporate the same symbols, methodology, and rituals.  If a group calls themselves Renamed-substitute-Nazis (while some still adhere to Neo-Nazi), then it is not paranoid to label them as such.  It is simply reality.  Something the right has a very hard time understanding.

The fractures within the conservative movement are fascinating.  Trump was elected to drain DC, presumably of all the old guard including traditional Republicans, and party members with a professional approach are being labeled RINOs even as they uphold their party's tradition.  Meanwhile it is clear that Trump is not a Republican and could much more accurately be labeled RINO.  A more sensible approach for the nihilist burn-it-down Trumpers would be to form a new party and detach from Republicans, as they perceive that party of falling to their left.  But they use the built-in base for their own power by deceiving the Republican electorate rather than building a new voter base through reasonable positions (which they don't have).

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Finally, the current backlash against transgender issues provides an interesting test case.  The right [1] complains that transgender rights are a part of the snowflake liberal movement. In reality, this is much closer to a conservative stance, as it embraces individual rights. It is a clear example of how libertarianism should work (and doesn't); they should be advocates of it just as much as liberals.  But, they aren't.  Once again they are still attached to the this giant morass of conservatism, and it shows that libertarianism is a scam, an appearance of liberty on the surface - one that only exists as long as it embodies conservative values.

[1] In this case libertarians as much as the socially conservative right.