We live in a world where people with
titles like "Professor" and "Reverend"
and "Father" routinely show less intelligence
than a ten-year-old child. In our society, a person
who does not support silliness as national policy
cannot obtain those titles. No reasonably intelligent
or moral person could support leftism or respectable
conservatism. But to get a title in our society,
you must.
The result is that we are ruled by total silliness.
Rightists cannot accept this simple reality. Instead
of seeing stupidity and callousness for what it
is, no matter how impressive a title supports it,
they invent vastly complicated explanations for
what is going on. They invent conspiracy theories.
They declare that it is all the result of a diabolical
falling away from their version of God.
In other words, right wingers take leftists seriously,
so they get as silly as the leftists are.
Why do right wingers all seem to go nuts eventually?
The explanation goes back to a joke I heard when
I was very small. A woman was walking along when
she saw three men. One was plucking at the air.
Another was leaning down, plucking at the empty
ground. The third man was standing there pumping
his arms furiously.
So the woman asked each what he was doing. The first
said, "I am plucking stars out of the sky."
The second said, "I am picking up the stars
he is plucking out of the sky."
Then she walked up to the third man, the one who
was pumping his arms furiously, and asked what he
was doing. He answered, "I'm running away.
These guys are NUTS!"
There are an awfully lot of right wingers who end
up standing there, pumping their arms furiously.
They honestly believe they look sane.
All this is the salvation of the political left.
Dumb as they are, they can always point to a right
that is even dumber. They can point to wild theories
of conspiracies, when it is obvious to everybody
that they cannot organize a single working theory,
much less a conspiracy.
They can point at rightists who declare they represent
The Only True Religion, which is a laugh to everybody.
Nobody believes some clown on the right who declares
he is some kind of Political Pope. Nobody believes
in vast conspiracies. People CAN see how stupid
and callous our leaders are. But as long as those
who denounce them are even more stupid and even
sillier, they will maintain their power.
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One of the continuing themes of Whitaker
Online is that leftism is SILLY. I keep pointing
out that leftism never WORKS. I keep saying that
we must never, never allow leftists to scare us
with labels like "racist" and "anaziwhowantstokillsixmillion
Jews." Unless a right winger learns these facts,
he is going to go nuts, as so many right wingers
do.
The reason right wingers all seem to go nuts is
because they enter into the liberals' world of delusion.
It is generally recognized that psychiatrists tend
to be a bit nutty. One of the reasons for this is
that people with mental problems tend to study mental
problems. But there is another reason so many mental
health workers tend to be a bit batty themselves.
It is a problem they are continually warned against
in training: Do not enter into your patients' delusions
with them.
But this advice is hard to act on. After all, you
are talking to mental patients all the time. You
are trying to communicate with them and understand
them all the time, so it is very, very hard not
to absorb some of their thinking. You have to tell
yourself, day after day, that these people are not
making sense, though they can often be very convincing.
Which brings us right back to dealing with the political
left. You MUST remind yourself over and over and
over, daily, that these people are SILLY. You must
remind yourself over and over and over that what
they say really never WORKS in the real world. If
you don't, you are going to enter into their delusions
with them.
You can tell when a right winger is about to go
over the edge when he gets that goofy look in his
eye that says, "I am going to be SHREWD today."
I remember running into it some years back at the
office of the Southern Partisan magazine.
I remember seeing that goofy look come across the
face of an official at the Southern Partisan magazine.
"We Have Decided," He announced in capital
letters, "What To Do About The Flag Issue."
"Oh, God, "I thought, "This is really
going to be hopeless."
It was.
Liberals were objecting to the flag over the state
capitol. Liberals pointed out that the Klan used
that flag a lot. So the Southern Partisan was going
to completely take them by surprise with a SHREWD
move: The Southern Partisan was going to switch
its support from the DIAGONAL flag over the state
capitol to a SQUARE flag.
This time the Shrewd Bit was to switch to asking
for a SQUARE Confederate flag on the dome. The Klan
used the DIAGONAL flag.
Let me tell you why this was supposed to be SHREWD.
During the Civil War, the battle flags were almost
all square.
Like every other flag living people fly in this
century, OUR Confederate flag is rectangular. It
is the flag of living Southerners. But the Partisan
wanted to apologize for the fact that the Klan used
that flag. They would do that by really surprising
the liberals -- the leftists were going to be so
SHOCKED and so IMPRESSED! - - by using the SQUARE
flag!
Like all right wing ideas that are supposed to be
SHREWD, this was so silly it was hard to know where
to start pointing out how ridiculous it was.
In the first place, absolutely nobody was going
to notice that the flag the Partisan was pushing
was square except those of us who knew it was an
apology. In the second place, absolutely nobody
who is against the Confederate flag cares whether
that flag is square or diagonal or round or shaped
like a puppy dog.
Real national flags today are ALL diagonal. If you
want a flag for living people, it must be diagonal.
I would also point out that the flag over the state
capitol is also made of materials that did not exist
in 1865. You could really astonish, terrify, and
destroy the liberals by demanding that we only support
a flag that is square AND one hundred percent cotton!
Boy, that would really make the anti-flag forces
collapse into confusion, wouldn't it?
Why should people take somebody who pushes this
kind of nonsense seriously?
But in the end, the point here has nothing to do
with the flag. The point is that this was another
case of right wingers going over the edge. They
were taking liberals seriously. They were acting
like the objection to the flag had something to
do with reality.
They entered into the leftist delusion.
Another common characteristic of rightists going
over the edge is the constant tendency of all right
wing movements to turn into God R Us Stores.
Leftists keep claiming they represent
Truth and Mercy and Goodness. So the rightist says,
"Aha! I am going to be Shrewd. He claims to
represent Truth and Brotherhood, so I'll say I represent
God Himself!"
Meanwhile, back here on Planet Earth, everybody
knows that liberals do not represent Love and Brotherhood,
and that you do not represent God. So you look as
silly as they do.
What a sane person does is stick a pin in that nonsense
and point out that all Wordists claim the same thing
liberals do. Point out that what they call Love
is thinly veneered hatred for America, for Western
Civilization, and for white people.
That's the truth, and people will believe it simply
because they already know it's true. But rightists
simply will not stick to what everybody already
knows is true!
Leftists are always screaming "Racist!"
I have never ONCE seen a SINGLE conservative have
the simple guts and intelligence to ask the liberal,
"What do you mean by that word?" Not ONCE!
As soon as the liberal says it, all conservative
spokesmen hit the floor groveling.
In other words, they take the liberal label seriously.
Another group of rightists responds to being called
"racist" and Nazi" by putting on
swastikas. They are saying, "I'll show THEM!"
Again, they take the liberals seriously.
When rightists kept calling leftists Communists,
it got to be a joke. Leftists call anybody who disagrees
with them on race "anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews."
And ALL rightists ALWAYS take it SERIOUSLY! If we
don't question it and put it into perspective, I
guarantee you no one else will.
Once again, leftists are being SILLY, and we act
as if they were making a serious point.
People know leftists are ridiculous. People know
leftists use labels wildly. They know that leftism
never WORKS.
If we make those points, we can win!
But if we keep insisting that the left represents
a highly intelligent conspiracy, we cannot win.
If rightists keep claiming that they represent a
Political Papacy, they will continue to get the
horselaugh they deserve.
The truth is the only thing that will work.
Once again, the choice is clear: you can either
tell the TRUTH or you can GO NUTS.
Sticking to the truth requires INTELLIGENCE, MENTAL
DISCIPLINE, and GUTS. This is a titanic battle we
are waging. If you don't have the INTELLIGENCE,
MENTAL DISCIPLINE, AND GUTS to wage it, you will
drift out into the never-never land of right wing
crazies.
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