One thing that eventually gets drummed into you by sad experience is that there\u2019s no such thing as happily ever after.\u00a0 And that\u2019s because no matter how well things are going, whenever chance conspires against us there are those who will capitalize on the opportunity and confuse the weak minded and tempt the weak willed to drag the country through more hell.\u00a0 And the only things that will get you through the crisis are steady nerves, dogged determination and enough brains to think your way out of the trap.<\/p>\n
I would characterize our present situation as exactly that.\u00a0 The election and the COVID-19 epidemic are a perfect storm that will require remarkable skills to navigate successfully.\u00a0 Add to this the investigations into Flynn and the other Russia-gate abuses and you have a high stakes pressure cooker, the outcome of which, absolutely no one can predict.\u00a0 Look at all the possible consequences of these actions.\u00a0 With respect to the investigations under Barr the outcomes range from zero to infinity.\u00a0 At the zero end Durham decides that although laws were broken, the actions were in good faith and the only corrective actions should be stepped up internal oversight of sensitive operations.\u00a0 At infinity we have prison terms for everyone from Lisa Page to Barack Obama.\u00a0 That\u2019s quite a range of outcomes.\u00a0 Then look at the election.\u00a0 So many lives have been disrupted by this emergency that trying to compensate everyone for the harm done by the shutdown is well-nigh impossible.\u00a0 But the President has to make a good faith effort to do just that.\u00a0 He must convince these people that his administration is the best hope for restoring the devastated middle class and that the Democrats will use this catastrophe to establish the welfare state they\u2019ve always wanted.\u00a0 And I think he will do just that and get re-elected handily.<\/p>\n
But here is the point of this whole post.\u00a0 Even if President Trump is able to achieve all the objectives on his plate.\u00a0 If he gains the confidence of the voting public and gains re-election, if he restores the economy to growth and saves the small businessmen, if Barr uncovers the smoking gun and sends the Coup to prison for a couple of decades, if the Republicans capture the House, hold the Senate and add one more solid conservative vote to the Supreme Court, if the Justice Department sues the Tech Giants into restoring free speech to the Right, if all these things happen we are still exactly one disaster away from losing everything to the Left.<\/p>\n
What we have to remember is that we\u2019re always fighting a defensive war.\u00a0 The Left has already won all the battles in the culture and we\u2019re just curled up in a defensive crouch waiting for the next blow to fall.\u00a0 The only way we will ever change the balance of power is to go on the offense and attack something of theirs.\u00a0 What it will require is coordination between the Federal and State governments to pick a target and inflict a defeat on the Left that will be so unpleasant that it will elicit an overreaction that will provide the opportunity for a reinforcing defeat.\u00a0 Now what this target will be is open for debate.\u00a0 My thought is it should be in a deep red state that has a blue city located in it.\u00a0 It could be a sanctuary city and the target could be illegal alien employment by big businesses.\u00a0 A partnership between ICE and the state government could arrange for a mass arrest of illegal aliens at a large company and the Federal government could use the evidence to punish the corporation so ruthlessly that the rest of the companies panic and get their houses in order.\u00a0 Once the jobs disappear the Federal government steps in and comes up with some moderate and humane way to get the illegals to go home to their lands.<\/p>\n
Once the operation against illegal aliens in the workplace begins all the Blue States will erupt into rage and all kinds of protests will occur.\u00a0 If some jurisdiction in one of the Blue States overreacts and gives the Federal government an excuse to punish them that will be the second defeat that I see as reinforcing the Left\u2019s despair.<\/p>\n
But it doesn\u2019t have to be immigration.\u00a0 Suppose Texas legislates against gay marriage and the Supreme Court upholds it.\u00a0 Think of the insanity that would break out.\u00a0 All the Blue States would then vote to unrecognize the normal marriages of citizens in Texas.\u00a0 They would break off all economic trade with Texas and do any number of other stupid things for which they would suffer.\u00a0 And once the Supreme Court fails to find a constitutional right for gay marriage then almost immediately about twenty states will make laws against it too.\u00a0 And that would be wonderful.\u00a0 We would have a de facto division of the United States into two zones.\u00a0 We could call them the Normal States and Queer States.\u00a0 And that would be just the start.\u00a0 Abortion laws, obscenity laws, sodomy laws and other social issues would be fodder for further differences between the two camps.\u00a0 And the beauty of it is no one in the Blue States is being forced to do anything they don\u2019t want to.\u00a0 The upshot should be to make the Blue States bluer and the Red States redder.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s diversity even I can stand behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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