This Is Your Brain On Talk Radio

     The Right has become prone to taking the opposite position from Democrats--even in those unusual situations where they are right.   Nowhere on the Right is this more true than with that favorite of the alt-right,  Tucker Carlson.   It's hard to believe that conservatives once anticipated Carlson becoming a thoughtful commentator,  now that he carries water for Communist strongman Vladimir Putin.   Now that Democrats have evolved away from their ridiculous position that considering Russia a strategic threat,  Carlson has taken the position that former KGB officer Putin should be a hero to the American Right. 

     Attitudes like that of Tucker Carlson explain why Republicans saw the ambivalence about aiding Ukraine that occasioned Trump's first Impeachment as a non-issue.   (Many Republicans also seemed uncertain whether the POTUS had a legal responsibility to execute laws he wasn't crazy about. )

     Estase is afraid that Trump's "America First " ideology will endanger both Taiwan and Ukraine if invaded.   Republican foreign policy has become short-sighted and opportunistic.   The ridiculous Kevin McCarthy never fails to blame Orange Blatherskite's decision to leave Afghanistan (which,  according to John Bolton's book,  was primarily a financial decision) on Joe Biden.   Looking at monetary cost instead of human rights or freedom is what passes for Republican foreign policy now.   As long as Donald Trump's nonsensical ideologies animate the Republican party,  GOP leaders will now ask "What's in it for me?" in reference to stopping Chinese or Russian aggression.   Also,  any such aggression will be blamed on Joe Biden's "weakness," and not on the kind of totalitarian leadership that Republicans admire in Putin,  but simultaneously hate in Xi.

     This kind of mental confusion can be laid at the feet of all the AM radio sages and Tucker Carlsons who have made the average Republican a muddle-headed sap.

Your God's to the Left, and I'm Sticking to the Right

  Charles Sykes's The Bulwark started out as being one of those sites meant to rally anti-Trump conservatives.   Although the Biden administration has made a mess of immigration and foreign policy,  The Bulwark has remained silent on these issues.   Are the people at The Bulwark anti-Trump conservatives,  or have they just become a CNN repeater station?

      While Trump-humpers have wrecked the GOP (see my anti-Trump posts going back to 2015), my issue with the Bulwark is that they attack Russ Douthat (hardly a Trump admirer) and pro-lifers,  but not the crop of dangerously totalitarian leftists like AOC and Ihlan Omar who are just as big of a threat to democracy as Trump. 

      On Facebook,  Estase warned other pro-lifers that it would take decades for the pro-life movement to shed Donald Trump's dirt.  One man told me that I was mentally ill.   Mentally ill or not,  Estase could never understand how anyone could see a bully who mocked the disabled as a genuine pro-lifer.  Both Pope Francis and Donald Trump are phony pro-lifers.   (The difference is that,  as an ally of radical environmentalists,  Pope Francis is actively working to promote abortion and euthanasia. )

      Is The Bulwark writer Jonathan Last so disgusted by pro-Trump Catholics that he has become a Cardinal Bernadin/ Gather Us In Catholic?   Although he claims to want to avoid painting with a broad brush,  his recent articles have habitually linked conservative Catholics and pro-lifers to Donald Trump.   Last week,  Last explicitly linked rad-trads with Trumpian authoritarianism.   That's not just painting with a broad brush,  that's using a paint sprayer!

      For his part,  Estase says a plague on both Trumpian head-coaching Republicans,  and their up-against-the-wall Che Guevara Democratic counterparts.   The latter includes Muslim-supremacist Ihlan Omar,  who hilariously calls pro-lifers dangerous fundamentalists . (Nothing says moderate secularism like a head scarf.)  It also includes Chuck Schumer,  who grinned like a ghoul while hearing a description of partial-birth abortion. 

Note to Journalists

"I always deprecate the style of journalism,  more popular in older days than now[ed.-1929], of dragging into the chronicle of events the narrowness,  the bitterness,  sometimes the want of candour which are incident to partisan warfare.   A journalist becomes,  in my opinion,  not merely untrustworthy,  but dull and uninteresting,  who makes all swans of his geese, and all geese of the swans of other people. "  

Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian Vol. 1, (p.285)

Andrew and Zeke

       Many pro-lifers have said for years that abortion and euthanasia are two sides of the same coin.   Andrew Cuomo and Zeke Emanuel have both proven that they truly hold to the idea that health care is a resource for the young and healthy.   Zeke Emanuel once said that no one deserves to live longer than seventy five years. 

      So it should come as no surprise that Andrew Cuomo,  the man who declared pro-lifers weren't welcome in New York,  and who signed a law ordering pro-life pregnancy centers like Birthright to tell women how to get an abortion,  would deliberately infect the elderly of New York's nursing homes with COVID.   Cuomo was just demonstrating his homicidal intent,  which applies equally to the unborn and the elderly. 

      It says nothing positive about America that Ralph Northam was in less trouble for advocating infanticide than for wearing blackface,  or that Andrew Cuomo is in less trouble for the negligent homicide of thousands of elderly people than for playing grab-ass.

         P.S.   Vice-president Moloch is being tasked with overseeing the border crisis because of her expertise in murdering children. 

January 6, 2021

       The Save America Riot was a predictable result of 2016 primary voters' disregard for personal character.  

       Americans knew Orange Blatherskite was a lying womanizer with no knowledge of politics.   As such,  he was Aristotle's natural slave,  exactly the kind of person who would become a tyrant when invested with unlimited power.   His supporters responded that he wasn't a politician and that he wouldn't be beholden to anyone due to his wealth.   

       Republican lawmakers who rejected inane Jacksonian populism were called RINOs.  Paul Ryan had his career prematurely ended by the Trump Hate Machine.   Pure partisanship alone saved Orange Blatherskite from impeachment.   Once he lost the 2020 election,  he went full-on sociopath, refusing to perform the basic duties of his Office,  and doing an Obama-style purge of military officers. 

       It may be too late to save the Republican party from the damage Orange Blatherskite has wreaked upon its reputation. 

Evolution v. Design

     Societies should evolve slowly over time.   The main difference between the evolution of British democracy that culminated in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the violent redesign of French society in 1789 is the relative bloodlessness of the first versus the violence of the second.   This resulted entirely from the fact that Britain's movement away from feudalism started under Henry VIII.

       Unfortunately,  leftists and progressives idealize the French Revolution,  its spirit of class hatred,  its redesigning of society,  and its massacre of nobles and the wealthy. 

       Edmund Burke imbued Aristotle and Cicero's vision of a society as a cooperative effort for the mutual benefit of all.  Like an organism,  it cannot be taken apart and reassembled.   As Burke writes in Reflections on the Revolution in France,  "This necessity [revolution] is no exception to the rule;  because this necessity itself is a part too of that moral and physical disposition of things to which man must be obedient by consent or force;  but if that which is only submission to necessity [again,  revolution] should be made the object of choice,  the law is broken,  nature is disobeyed,  and the rebellious are outlawed,  cast forth,  and exiled, from this world of reason,  and order,  and peace,  and virtue,  and fruitful sentience, into the antagonist world of madness,  discord, vice,  confusion,  and unavailing sorrow (p.195, Penguin ed.)."

       Burke knew Irish society had been warped and distorted by English dispossession and religious oppression.   No society ever needed reform more than eighteenth century Ireland,  and no one knew that better than Edmund Burke.   Rather than an effusion of violence and blood,  what Ireland needed was for Britain to take baby steps towards respecting the Irish people and their faith.   Instead,  Britain imported German colonists,  continued to let its nobility profit off of the peasantry,  and finally let millions of Irish die of starvation . 

      The American progressive wishes for nothing to remain fixed,  usually using America's supposed racism as an excuse.   They have a totalitarian wish to rewrite American history as a list of oppressors and their crimes.   Thus,  even Abraham Lincoln isn't even pure enough for their Jacobinical redesign of America.   Their revolution is emphatically not about survival,  but about choice,  the ultimate weasel-word of leftism.