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In a blog posr at the American Thinker today, Bruce Walker tells us that All Totalitarianism Is Leftist. This can not be stated too often. Walker:

All totalitarianism is leftist, but it is also vital to grasp that the ideological spectrum itself is simply a macabre and surreal fiction – a Jabberwocky for those familiar with Lewis Carroll – a term that describes nothing at all. Politics does not conform to any artificial geometrical model.

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Conservatives – and the word "conservative" does have real meaning – will always lose, even when we "win," if we still used the rigged semantic game of our enemies, the totalitarians. Once we grasp the surreal contortion of language that deprives us of the means of understanding anything about politics, then we can always win, because all totalitarianism is exactly the same.

This is one thing that bugs me...a lot. They change their identity and their language as much as normal Americans change their cloths. They invent new words to capture these what is essentially old fashioned totalitarianism, something that has been around since Nebuchadnezzar.

The early Fascists were all Marxists. Indeed, Mussolini was the most radical Marxist in Italy before the First World War, and Trotsky considered him one of the greatest Marxists in the world. Fascism famously stood for nothing except action. It was passionately philo-Semitic before 1938, when it adopted Nazi anti-Semitism. It professed support for Catholicism, and yet it attacked high clergymen and confiscated the Vatican periodical and beat up Italians who vended it.

Nazism was founded by men who strongly opposed "Capitalism," a nonsensical term invented by Marxists that requires a tacit acceptance of the Marxist lexicon to use in thought or writing. Many of the early Nazis were outright Marxists, and most of the powerful Nazis – Himmler, Goebbels, Bormann, and Ribbentrop – belonged to what was described at the time as the "left wing" of the Nazi Party.

Why does this matter still? It matters because those who seek state power, which is to say leftists, invariably paint their opponents as "Nazis" who are "diametrically opposite" leftists, despite the fact that Nazis and Marxists have almost identical belief systems and because this false and macabre argument still persuades those Americans who have been stripped of the ability of individual thinking by the institutions of power.

Go read the whole article. The takeaway from this article is that no matter what the various leftists call themselves, whether Progressive, Liberal, Socialist, Communist, Fascist, Nazi, Anitfa, etc. etc. etc., they are all Totalitarian. They all view government as the solution to all problems, and wish to impose a one size fits all solution to what are seen as problems. They all see government as the source of your rights, and government therefore has the right to take them away. Conservatives, in contrast see government as the solution to few and distinct problems, relying instead on the private sector for most things. Conservatives see your rights as coming from our Creator. The purpose of government then is to protect these rights for all.

 As you can see, there really is no compromise with the Left, and they are not going to leave you alone.  You will be made to take sides.  Which will it be?

Sheriff Had No Duty To Protect Parkland Students

A U. S. District Judge, Beth Bloom has ruled, as all Federal judges and justices have ruled, that Sheriff's Deputy Had No Duty to Protect Parkland Students. Ton Knighton has the article at Bearing Arms. It is disgusting, but it is the way it is. Knighton writes:

Unfortunately, the law requires these potential victims to be disarmed. It makes it impossible for them to defend themselves from an attack, even while the state has absolved itself of any responsibility to protect those they’ve disarmed. Frankly, it’s disgusting.

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You and yours are the only ones you can trust to protect you. If school children and teachers who are barred from carrying a gun on government property aren’t going to be protected, there’s no way you’re going to be. For some of us, this is the reality we’ve understood for quite some time. That’s why we have guns. That’s why we carry guns. That’s why we train with them. It’s also why we become so belligerent when some anti-gunner starts screaming bloody murder about how our guns somehow make them unsafe. No, they don’t. My disarmament will make me unsafe.

Tom Knighton typically writes short posts on gun topics, so go to the site and read the whole thing.

Knghton touches ever so briefly on the morality of the issue. You can find more about that in the book A Nation of Cowards by Jeffery Snyder, now out of print but still available on Amazon. Is it moral to demand that someone else sacrifice his life for yours? Answer, no. Thus the Judge's ruling is correct. However, if that is the case, does the State have the moral right to mandate defenselessness under these circumstances? Answer, no, it does not. That is the basis then of the Second Amendment.  The State either must protect each and every citizen, a clearly impossible task, or it must allow its citizens to arm themselves for protection. 

Pittsburgh Prepares to Deny Rights Under Color of Law. Groups Prepare to Sue.

Over at the website Bearing Arms Tom Knighton reports that Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Pittsburgh Gun Measures. The Mayor of Pittsburgh, PA has stated his intention to ban certain firearms, accessories and ammunition inside the city. In addition, he wants other cities throughout the nation to pass similar measures. Of course, Pittsburgh is not an island unto itself, but a part of a State that has preempted the cities from making and enforcing such laws. But that doesn't matter to Democrats (read Communists). If it is a law they don't like, they ignore it, or actually defy it.

Naturally, we can't expect the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to enforce its own laws; heck no.  Instead, we have to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth ourselves, which cost money.  And of course, that means we have less money for ammunition, training, competition and so forth.  Therein lies the real goal.  Besides making it more difficult for the honest gun owner, who must decide if he plans to visit Pittsburgh today or not, they hope to bleed us dry.  Knighton assigns very little chance that the law stands.  But then it doesn't have to stand, does it?  The mayor will effectively send the signal that the police can harass gun owners and concealed carriers without penalty. 

I don't know if Pennsylvania law allows asking for the costs to be paid by the loser, but the groups suing should certainly ask that.  In addition, the mayor should be held criminally liable.  I know, I know, fat chance that.

But just once, wouldn't it be nice to see these crap weasels perp walked out of their offices?  Wouldn't it be nice if THEY had the target on THEIR backs instead of constantly having it on us.?  Well, a man can dream.

Why We Are Losing Our Country

Today over at the American Thinker, Christopher Chantrill offers an explanation for the current gilets jaunes ripping up France at The Harvest of Free Stuff. For those who do not know French (and who really does?) gilets jaunes means yellow vests. So, the Yellow Vests are ripping up Paris, and they have appeared in Canada. Then there is the Brexit mess in the (Formerly) Great Britain, and the increasingly louder shouting going on over the 2016 election and the Mueller investigation, as well as the 2018 election results. What to make of all of it.

Look, everything our educated ruling class has forced on us sucks, from bankrupt entitlements to useless education. And it’s all about force. The three-legged stool of ObamaCare illustrates the problem. First, insurers were to be forced to provide coverage for pre-existing conditions; then consumers were to be forced to buy health insurance; then taxpayers and health-insurance consumers were to be forced to subsidize coverage to make it “affordable.” Hey, how about this three-legged stool? Graduates of selective colleges should be forced to work for two years as Walmart checkers, then used-car salesmen, then check-cashing clerks, before they can do a lick of “activism.”

But really, it’s all good. If a real-estate mogul and reality show star can twist the ruling class into pretzels, and the gilets jaunes can bring France to a dead stop in a couple of weeks, then there is something in the air. And the good thing is that our ruling class really does not have a clue what to do except sicc its deep-state thugs on anyone that dares to challenge its high-caste right to rule.

But lookee here people. If you sign up for the ruling class’s free stuff then you are signing up for them to jerk you around. That’s their thing: seducing the innocent and bullying the powerless.

And of course, all this ties in with the current immigration issue as well. Yes, some illegal immigrants come here to work, raise a family, and become part of American life. But more come here for the free stuff. Indeed, free stuff becomes a magnet beckoning people who just want to be taken care of, and care little about freedom and liberty.

As always, please read the whole thing.  Chantrill is an excellent writer and has a keen eye on the culture.

 One has to ask oneself why it is that the conservative message of equal under the law, everyone must work in order to eat, and so on such a hard sell?  It should be painfully obvious to most that human nature is to not do any more than is necessary to satisfy needs.  If you are going to give me free stuff, why should I work?  Interestingly, Dennis Prager has an answer over at Townhall.com entitled  Explaining the Left, Part V: Left vs. Right is Brain vs. Mind. Prager starts out by pointing out what should be obvious, but is not:

With the increasing secularization of society, less and less wisdom has been conveyed to young people. One particularly obvious example is most secular people, especially on the left, believe human beings are basically good. It is difficult to overstate the foolishness of this belief. And a belief it is: There is no evidence to support it, and there is overwhelming evidence -- like virtually all of human history -- to refute it. Jewish and Christian kids who study the Bible know how morally flawed human nature is by the age of 10.

Another thing I tell young people -- which, if they take seriously, will make them immeasurably wiser, finer, happier and more productive -- is life is a daily battle between the brain and the mind. The brain wants an ice cream sundae; the mind knows too many sundaes will make a person overweight and eventually diabetic. Similarly, the brain (especially that of the male) wants sex with anyone it finds attractive; the mind knows the trouble doing so will likely lead to.

Again, please read the whole thing. Taken together, you will come to understand why the wheels are coming off.

Several weeks ago I got into a discussion with a Leftist on the immigration issue.

Leftist: Trump is separating children from their parents and putting them in cages.

Me: Those pictures you see are from 2014, when Trump was not in office.

Leftist: Well, in any case, Trump is separating children from their parents.

Me: We don't know that in all cases the children even belong to the adults. Many children are kidnapped and used by illegal immigrants to gain entry into the US.

Leftist: If you had seen those pictures... You just don't have enough compassion, that's your problem.

Me: If you take the worlds 7 billion people, and subtract the United States, Europe Japan and Australia, you have left maybe 5 billion people, all of whom are poor, beset by disease, hunger, and violence. By your standard, we should have compassion for all these people and therefore, all 5 billion should be here in the US. But with 5 billion, the US would soon become a hellhole like the places they left. I have compassion, but I also know all 5 billion can not come here.

As always, that ended the discussion.

Gun Confiscation Under Color of Law

Daniel John Sobieski today, writing at the American Thinker tells us that Gun Confiscation Begins in New Jersey:

President Obama and President Trump were both right, Obama when he told us elections have consequences and Trump in his 2018 stump speech that a consequence of Democrat victories would be renewed attacks on the Second Amendment. New Jersey’s ban on high-capacity magazines has been upheld by a federal court, opening the door to door knock gun confiscation and making off-duty police officers subject to criminal prosecution. The inmates are officially running the asylum.

To be fair, gun confiscation has occurred in the United States before here, here here and here. These of course are just in the recent past. Here and there it has happened throughout America's history. In the South in particular, Blacks were often kept from owning guns, or had their guns taken from them. Any way you look at it though, this is theft under color of law, and it is the hallmark of would be tyrants everywhere.

Sobieski writes:

Which part of “shall not be infringed” does the Third Circuit not understand? Assault is a behavior and not a particular weapon or an ammo clip. Ever since Cain slew Abel with a rock, it has been the desire to kill which motivates evil. Buildings are blown up with fertilizer bombs. Marathons are blasted with pressure cooker bombs, trolls in southern France turn to tragedy through the use of, dare I say it, a high-capacity rental truck. Cars careen down New York parkways mowing down joggers and pedestrians.

Las Vegas concerts and Florida schools become free-fire zones not due to high capacity magazines but from the secular culture liberals have created absent a true moral compass. Gun-free zones, bullet bans, and other “sensible restrictions” merely create more potential victims.

Yes, high capacity magazines have been used in mass shootings. But they have also been used to stop them...

We will forgive Sobieski for using "ammo clip" instead of the more correct "magazine" because he does indeed understand the real purpose of the Second Amendment. It is not to hunt, but rather to provide the American people with the means to repel invaders or tyrants with the same weapons that would be used against them. If the police while on duty, or the military is exempt from these laws, that proves they should be considered Unconstitutional.

Top 10 Reasons To Own An AR 15

Mark Overstreet has a post at The Federalist giving you The Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR 15.  

Please go read and decide for yourself.

Marines Testify Against ANTIFA

Tom Knighton asks the question:

And the anti-gun Left wonders why we want our Second Amendment rights. I can’t imagine why any of us would want to carry a firearm, can you?>

in a piece at Bearing Arms entitled Marines Attacked By ANTIFA Domestic Terrorists Testify

The Marines testified that they were attacked because they happened to be in the vicinity of an alt-right demonstration, that the ANTIFA were counter protesting.  There were in town in Philadelphia to attend a Marine event that night at a local hotel ballroom.  In the meantime, they were touring historical landmarks.

Go read the whole article, please.

The ANTIFA stands for Anti Fascist but of course, is anything but. It's tactic of using street violence to achieve it's purposes prove it to be as collectivist as the people they allegedly are fighting.  The real argument between these groups is whether we should be a Fascist nation period or we should be a "white" Fascist nation.  And these are the people the Democrats back, and even praise.  These are the "good guys" according to the media.  Nonsense.

How about instead of being any stripe of Fascist, Progressive, Communist or Socialist, we instead return to being a Constitutional Republic with laws that apply to everyone, no matter your political party, no matter your status or wealth.  How about that?  And how about applying the Bill of Rights as originally written and intended.  Want to change the Constitution?  Fine, try amending it.  It has, after all, been done 27 times.  It is a daunting task, but not impossible.