War with Russia, or divide up the country?

 Friends,

The Democrats are going to categorically deny Republican wins this November, in whatever way they have to. This will eventually lead to war, civil war, just as it did when Democrats refused Lincoln's election in 1860. That is, unless Biden gets us into a war with Russia first. Both wars are very possible and war is what Democrats do, historically. The list is long:

1. The War of 1812
   
2. The War with Mexico
3. The U.S. Civil War
   
4. World War I (when they first ran totally roughshod over Americans' civil rights)
   
5. World War II
   
6. The Cold War (not a shooting war, or not much, but still...)
   
7. The Korean War
   
8. Vietnam 
9. (I dunno, does Kosovo during Clinton's years count as a "war"?)

The Republicans* got us into:

• The Spanish-American War
• Iraq 1
• Iraq 2
• Afghanistan

*One might argue that the Republicans only came into existence in the 1850s, but before that, the Whig Party filled the same opposition role, and they were against the Mexican War, etc.

The Spanish-American War was William Randolph Hearst's doing, a mainstream media-created war (mainstream media then was called "yellow journalism") and the other three the miserable Bush family hatched when they ran the U.S., i.e., in other words, "Deep State" wars. Had the pitiful Al Gore been installed in 2000 instead of the second Bush, he would have started a war, too; it's what Democrats do. It's their fall-back position. The Bushes and Obama/Clinton and now Biden, are all "Uniparty" hacks. So essentially, that leaves us with eight Democrat wars versus one Republican war. (The Spanish-American War was called "the splendid little war", BTW.)

This article in The Federalist goes into detail about how the Dems are psyching themselves up to reject any Republican wins this coming November. Many such articles probably are being published. But this paragraph is quite telling:

Once you discard the idea that Republicans are relatives, friends, or neighbors who may disagree with you about politics but who also mean well and instead view them as the moral equivalent of Germans who voted Adolf Hitler into power, talk about defending democracy becomes a life and death struggle. That means defeat can never be accepted and must be averted at all costs, no matter what it takes.

In other words, "demonizing the Other." So, get ready for war. It would be beneficial to just split the country up, wouldn't it? Like cutting off a gangrene infection. We could give the entire Federal Government to the Democrat-controlled new country, along with New England and the urban megaplex of the "Acela Corridor" (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C.). Grant all that to the Dems, along with the coastal fringe of the three Pacific states, and of course putrid Chicago (no one wants Chicago or Detroit!). But of course such a "Democrat Communist Republic of America" would be instantly broke, as the only people "making" anything would be the Federal employees, and they are only capable of just making more bureaucracy. They don't make wealth. Basic economics: wealth has to be created by competent manufacturing/farming people; wealth does not consist of goods or money traded or taxed; it consists of goods created, goods that people want.

This putative new country's only other population would be a perpetually grievance-spouting, rioting Lumpenproletariat burning down their own neighborhoods, and snooty cultural elites, a perverted, mostly childless population who – regardless of their actual individual education levels – can't screw in a light bulb. All Leftists are like that: incapable of maintaining our industrial civilization, or even feeding them selves. Do you think Lenin or Trotsky or Mao or Pol Pot could have fixed a house's plumbing or raised a crop, if necessary? But they sure are capable of endless moralizing and the bossing of other people about, staffing a "Deep State" and taxing the rest of us to death. Why can't we get rid of them? They're parasites. Grubs. Larva.

However, the imbecilic Biden and his utterly incompetent foreign policy team are about to stumble us into war with Russa. So, war is coming our way whether we want it or not. Maybe. Keep praying!

Regarding such a Russian war, see this quite interesting article for some unique insight. 

Excerpt:

The current propaganda meme in Washington is that Russia is going to “invade Ukraine” and absorb it. It will not: Ukraine is a decaying, impoverished, de-industrialised, divided, corrupt and decaying mess; Moscow does not want to take responsibility for the package. Moscow is fully aware that while its troops will be welcomed in many parts of Ukraine they will not be in others. Indeed, in Moscow, they must be wishing that Stalin had returned Galicia to Poland rather than giving it to the Ukrainian SSR after the War and stuck Warsaw with the problem. This does not, however, rule out the eventual absorption of most of Novorossiya in ultimo.

And on Biden's foreign policy team:

Unfortunately the Blinkens, Sullivans, Farkas’, Nulands and others who seem to be driving USA policy don’t understand any of this. They remain convinced that the US is a mighty power, that Russia is feeble and fading, that Putin’s position is shaky, that sanctions are biting, that Russia’s economy is weak and so on. And that they understand modern warfare. Everything in the past twenty years contradicts their view but they hold to it nonetheless.

Take, for example, Wendy Sherman who was the principal American negotiator in Geneva this month. Look at her biography on Wikipedia. Social worker, money raiser for Democratic Party candidates, political campaign manager, Fanny Mae, Clinton appointee to the State Department, negotiator with Iran and North Korea. Is there anything in that record to indicate any knowledge or understanding of Russia or modern war? (Or skill at negotiations for that matter?) And yet she’s the one on point. Jake Sullivan: lawyer, debate preparer, political advisor, ditto.

As Biden might say, c'mon man!

See this article here for a more "mainstream" consideration: 

So much for our "happy new year", huh?

AnP

Guess I'm a cat person...!

 An Essay

Friends, Romans, countrymen! All people, like Gaul, are divided into three parts! These are the three personality types that dominate human beings.

Each personality type is named after an animal totem that best exemplifies that type: "'Sheeple', Canines, Felines." Please note that some individuals will exhibit perhaps more than one of the types earlier in life, but one specific type usually comes to eventually dominate, most often early on, and especially as a person ages. However, extraordinary circumstances might "awaken" a sleeping trait, so beware.

"Sheeple", "Canines" and "Felines"

The Sheeple are of course the majority, the sheep-people, bah-bahing through life. They're followers, following each other one-by-one till they form a group, always following their leaders (who are usually Canines, rarely a Feline). Sheeple are by far the most numerous of the three types. Perhaps they're mostly born that way, though I am certain the modern state-imposed educational apparatus does its very best to stamp out any potential Felines (Felines are just too dangerous; see below). The modern educational system is definitely NOT going to turn out Socrates, Aristotle, or Thomas Jefferson, not if it can prevent it. (Richard Feynman, the famous American physicist, has a quote about that, somewhere.)

Sheeple or Buffalo?

Essential to being a Sheeple is that Sheeple don't question orders; they obey. They'll obey people in authority, whether or not those people deserve that authority over others. Any "argument from authority" is OK by them. Or I mean, that's the usual way sheeple are – perhaps a clever Feline can get them to question orders. Perhaps Canines can push Sheeple far enough that they "break" and "stampede." Difficult, to be sure, but not impossible. Sheeple are usually not going to cause trouble, but then again, circumstances can arise – rarely – when the Sheeple turn into rampaging buffaloes. For a short time.

Now, don't get me wrong: Sheeple have minds, souls, the innate dignity of being human; they can be smart or dumb, "educated" in modern society's understanding of "education", or not. They can be knowledgeable about particular things, and competent in keeping a technological civilization running whether as plumbers, technicians, or engineers. They can be good people, they can be bad people, they can be the worst of people, they can be the best of people – well, in absolute moral terms. They can, of course, be the "best" people in a shallow wealthy society sense, naturally enough; but if so, they inherited their wealth and position rather than garnered it by being inventive entrepreneurs. Sheeple just aren't (usually) risk-takers.

Wolf or Guard Dog?

The Canines are either shepherds or wolves. Fewer in number than Sheeple, they dominate – or try to – the other two groups. Canines are always leaders of the Sheeple and are proud they're not Sheeple! But then again, many Canines question their orders no more than the Sheeple do; HOWEVER, unlike the Sheeple, the Canines have a higher likelihood of rebeling against authority. Sometimes moral Canines will do this in order to do what is right and needful because they're good shepherds and moral leaders; alas, usually they rebel in order merely to seize the power of authority for themselves.

Canines have a certain edginess about themselves. They think they're dominant, "top dogs" or "alphas" and "leaders of the pack." Or at least they seem born with the urge to become policemen, soldiers, or those nasty kinds of bureaucrats who love bossing other people about. You've all met the type. (I had an uncle by marriage who was a nice guy except when he put his Army uniform on. Then he became the worst kind of military martinet.) Canines can be smart or dumb as well, they can be good or bad, they serve as your friendly neighborhood cop or, also, the local Stasi agent. (Again and again we've seen regular, everyday American policemen – even elected sheriffs – abuse their authority during the Covid "lockdowns".)

Canines can be exemplary clergymen "leading their flocks" or they can be classic Pharisees. But again, though they take up their time bossing people about, they do not often ask that pesky question: "Why?" (Unless it is: "Why am I following this leader's orders? Why don't I jusr shoot him and become leader myself?")

The Cats

The Felines do ask "Why" because they are the Cats, and, like their whiskered animal totem, they're curious. Few in number, they are inherently driven by the notion that "the unexamined life is not worth living", as Socrates ("patron saint of Felines"), liked to say. Felines want to know the "Why" of everything. And by definition they are more suspicious of authority than either Sheeple or Canines. That's just who they are, who they are born to be – if society doesn't beat it out of them! This curiosity of theirs naturally makes them the utter pests of the Sheeple and the Canines, especially the latter, for the Sheeple are usually clueless about being curious although they find the Cats quite harmless while the Canines are smart enough to know they're lacking something in life. (It's partly why so many Canines are emotionally unbalanced, too, naturally enough!) Also, to be sure, the Canines definitely DO NOT like their shibboleths questioned. My personal experience over 60 years confirms that Canines can become quite aggressive when you question the current narrative (whatever that might be at a given time) whereas Sheeple just smile and say, "Fancy that."

Canines will therefore react badly to pesky Felines, as they did with Socrates himself, after all. They put him to death for, really, just asking questions. (Doesn't this remind you of the current "race" narratives being fostered or Covid situation? It is out of control in politics, where curiosity about, say, the 2020 election can get you into serious trouble with the authorities. Canines are very clearly trying to "shut down" any Felines who question "the Party Line"; we see that in a number of countries and states. It will get worse.)

Felines make up many – though not all, by any means – of the world's philosophers: but I would think they make up most of the artists, the inventors, the gamblers, entrepreneurs, and risk takers. They also make up the quiet dreamer types noted for being an excellent teacher in the classroom or "problem solver" in business. Once upon a time, they made up the majority of journalists and scientists, but that is definitely no longer true. The academic disciplines of science and journalism drive them out as surely as any military or journalism traditionally drives them out, and business will also drive them out, with vengeance.

Why? In part because the Cats embarrass the "hacks" and "time servers" in business, science or the military, or the propagandists in journalism; and in part if they're ever actually listened to by Canines in government, Felines can change the world.

Canines can't have that. It would disturb the "peace of mind" of the Sheeple, don't you know. (I'm being sarcastic.)

Examples:

The Military:

General Patton and Napoleon Bonaparte are perfect examples of exemplary Cats who engaged in the usually Canine Profession of the Military. They were fantastic generals. Thus, of course, they were not popular with their contemporary generals. They were Felines in the military art and they embarrassed their Canine friends. They were hated. (Napoleon dealt with that by making himself an emperor but failed to establish a lasting regime. He was eventually exiled and died not long after. A wide-spread belief is that Napoleon was murdered. George Patton, however, was murdered even before he went into exile; i.e. retired to the U.S.)

Such leaders are usually few, and they end up badly. This is true in the history of any military, for example, Ancient Rome. But just look at the Japanese military during WWII and consider Admiral Raizō Tanaka and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaysia". Brilliant military leaders indeed, these two garnered famous victories against impossible odds. (The Americans called Tanaka "Tenacious Tanaka".) However, these two men were loathed by the leaders of Japan's military. And alas, the Canine idiots had the power, and thus they sidelined both of these extremely capable officers. Yamashita was brought back in a hopeless situation toward the end of the war and ended up accused of war crimes and executed in 1946. Admiral Tanaka peaceably retired post war and lived quietly in obscurity until 1969. 

Finally, two quick examples from U.S. history: U.S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were brilliant generals in the American Civil War, but both men had actually been driven out of the Peacetime Army before the war. (The extraordinary circumstances of the war allowed them back in.) The Canines in the Peacetime Army didn't want them because the two cats were just too clever. And also, I am sure, neither Grant nor Sherman liked being bossed about by Canine "hacks", and  the two clever generals were probably utterly bored in the Peacetime Army. (Similarly, had the French Revolution not happened, Napoleon would have never risen to be a colonel of artillery. Canines and Felines take advantage of extraordinary circumstances.)

Examples could be multiplied, but it is also true that we'll never know about all those cats who were caged by canines before they were allowed to gain any recognition for their "catness", or hammered down into the Sheeple.

In Part Two of this essay, I'll consider the situation regarding the discipline of science, because that is affecting all of us at the moment, and will continue to do so, in ever more profound, and dire, ways.

An Préachán