What’s The Beef?

[civilwestman]

Did you notice the shocked silence of the left since Trump’s inauguration? Until they ginned up Musk/Tesla Derangement Syndrome - besides a couple of astro-turf Bernie cheerleading sessions (with 85% repeat paid attendees), they had nothing to complain about. No one was trying to silence them or force them to do - or not do - anything. Their miserable, meaningless lives simply went on as usual except nobody cared. Only “Our Democracy™’ in the abstract was suffering an absence of inflationary hot air from Biden et al and the deep state - which is busy just trying to stay inflated and afloat itself.

I point this out in support of my proposition that we “extreme right wingers” are just not interested in exerting the slightest power over the lunatic left. That is precisely our difference. All we want is to be left alone, an example we now set with absolutely zero planning or effort. It is simply who we are - live and let live. Take note Soros-ites. Smell the roses.

[civilwestman]

It is worth adding that most of what Trump is undertaking is undoing a great deal of what has been done by the left since the ‘60’s - by lefty Presidents, Congresses and the deep state. Since it was a series of small steps, few noticed the cumulative leap to the left. Here is an extremely clear description of what we have experienced.
Following is a quote to whet your appetite:

“What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.“

To me, it almost perfectly describes what we have experienced over the past 50 years or so; just a bit slower than Germany in the ‘30’s. It was capped off, in true Goebbels-style, by the perps calling everyone else ‘fascists’ and ‘Nazi’s’. They still are! The above quote is from:

They Thought They Were Free

The Germans, 1933-45

Milton Mayer

But Then It Was Too Late

[Hypatia]

Yeah, the problem in a “democracy” is always: what if tyranny ,or “submission”, IS what the demos chooses?
I hate it when, in a discussion of any issue, after I make a point, someone says, “It’s not that simple.”

No of course probably no issue is simple enough to be reduced to a few-minute summary, but so what?

What they’re really saying is what you mention here: that the situation is so complicated no one of normal intelligence can possibly comprehend let alone digest it, and anyone who even tries is guilty of overweening arrogance and presumption.

(….exactly what religious people say if anybody questions the received knowledge, or points out that the actual words narratives of the Bible don’t support it. Which is another thing I hate.)