…and I’ll still think you a slow-witted master of the obvious. What’s that you say? All the blowhards, pompous pundits and twits going on about how the country is “no longer culturally cohesive”–the so-called “two Americas” talking point for today.
*yawn* This is news only to people who’ve lived under a rock for the past 25 years and spent most of that time experimenting with their do-it-yourself lobotomy kits.
OF COURSE the country is “no longer culturally cohesive”! The Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, Academia Nut Fruitcake Bakeries, public schools (A.K.A. “prisons/brainwashing camps for kids”) and politicians, bureaucraps and all the gaggle of leftist NGOs have spent decades dividing us, Balkanizing us, brainwashing us… and we (collectively, as a people) have been complicit in their chicanery, even if only by our lack of forceful, continual, unremitting resistance.
And so-called “conservatives”? R.L. Dabney’s trenchant observation still applies:
American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always, when about to enter a protest, very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance. The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy from having nothing to whip.
Not news. Dabney would recognize the same sort of division so obvious to twittering pundits today as little different to the division he witnessed in his own 19th Century America.
All they mean by “not culturally cohesive” is that we bitter clinging two toothed sister humping bible thumping rednecks don’t agree with them.
Well, that’s certainly a major aspect of it, Nicole. I cannot count the number of, well, not conversations exactly but whatever passes for one with leftards that all had the same dynamic:
Leftard spouts Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind/Dhimmicrappic talking points as though they were graven in stone and delivered by a secular humanist commie bastard Moses.
I present verifiable facts.
Leftard calls said facts lies, because they do not match his talking points.
Therein is the central disconnect, IMO. Leftards are delusional (or deliberate, witting liars. It’s often quite difficult to tell which is which), while the REAL reality-based folks are left wondering who screwed up the leftards’ p-sych meds, whenever they encounter one or more of them…
The political “middle” is now composed of
1. The stupid, gullible and ignorant: sheeple who are the natural “base” of the Dhimmicrappic Party.
2. The greedy, which is of two classes. a. Those who just want the government to give them “free cake”. b. Those who are busy bilking the public purse with massive fraud (at best).
3. The unconscious, those who wander the earth from one prodding stimulus to the next.
Moving to “the middle” is societal suicide. Waking the unconscious, excoriating the corrupt and weaning the “free cakers” is the only way to save society.
This is, of course, an extremely simplistic (and hence “wrong” on detail) model, but it’s roughly true, for all its shortcomings.