Perhaps the republicans have succeeded I think the term uniparty has been applied to the people who control our government. And the actors who play the ineffective republican failures have almost played their roles perfectly if not perfectly. The author refers to this being the flight 93 election and we all know its fate. The powerful forces hillary alluded to being arrayed against her apperently has equally powerful opponents after all she isn't out on bond from jail and defending against prosecution. Along side of a rogues gallery of government officials elected an unelected including george w bush. This is a thought provoking article Perplexed I hope that others here will further this discussion
On Sep 9, 2016 10:05 PM, "'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum" < [email protected]> wrote: > > OK this is a very interesting essay. The author absolutely takes down the > NeverTrumpers and exposes them as either the abject morons or the > incredibly deceitful liars they are, referring to them as "Conservative, > Inc", and showing that they are anything but conservative. > > *Great read*. Hopefully the morons he shreds in it will be jarred back > into reality, or at least some of them anyway. > > First, a description from the leftwing "The Week" that appears to be > horrified by it: > > Let me present to you one of the most intellectually radical political > essays I've read in a long time. > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/> > > > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/> > > Penned by the pseudonymous author Publius Decius Mus for the staunchly > conservative *Claremont Review of Books, *it's titled "The Flight 93 > Election." America is the plane; Trump and his supporters are Todd Beamer > and his fellow passengers who stormed the cockpit in a last-ditch (and > ultimately doomed) effort to forestall catastrophe; and Hillary Clinton and > her progressive allies in the political and media establishment are the > hijackers. > > > As I said: radical. > > > http://theweek.com/articles/647544/heres-most-powerful- > chilling-case-trump-youll-ever-hear > > Then a link to the essay itself: > > The Flight 93 Election > > By: Publius Decius Mus > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/contributor-list/2031/> > <http://www.claremont.org/crb/contributor-list//> > September 5, 2016 > > > (some excerpts)... > > > 2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die > anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and > not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees. > > > Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor: > a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With > Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances. > > > To ordinary conservative ears, this sounds histrionic. The stakes can’t be > that high because they are never that high—except perhaps in the pages of > Gibbon. Conservative intellectuals will insist that there has been no “end > of history” and that all human outcomes are still possible. They will > even—as Charles Kesler does—admit that America is in “crisis.” But how > great is the crisis? Can things really be so bad if eight years of Obama > can be followed by eight more of Hillary, and yet Constitutionalist > conservatives can still reasonably hope for a restoration of our cherished > ideals? Cruz in 2024! > > ---- > > How have the last two decades worked out for you, personally? If you’re a > member or fellow-traveler of the Davos class, chances are: pretty well. If > you’re among the subspecies conservative intellectual or politician, you’ve > accepted—perhaps not consciously, but unmistakably—your status on the > roster of the Washington Generals of American politics. Your job is to show > up and lose, but you are a necessary part of the show and you do get paid. > To the extent that you are ever on the winning side of anything, it’s as > sophists who help the Davoisie oligarchy rationalize open borders, lower > wages, outsourcing, de-industrialization, trade giveaways, and endless, > pointless, winless war. > > > All of Trump’s 16 Republican competitors would have ensured more of the > same—as will the election of Hillary Clinton. That would be bad enough. But > at least Republicans are merely reactive when it comes to wholesale > cultural and political change. Their “opposition” may be in all cases > ineffectual and often indistinguishable from support. But they don’t dream > up inanities like 32 “genders,” elective bathrooms, single-payer, Iran > sycophancy, “Islamophobia,” and Black Lives Matter. They merely help ratify > them. > > > A Hillary presidency will be pedal-to-the-metal on the entire > Progressive-left agenda, plus items few of us have yet imagined in our > darkest moments. Nor is even that the worst. It will be coupled with a > level of vindictive persecution against resistance and dissent hitherto > seen in the supposedly liberal West only in the most “advanced” > Scandinavian countries and the most leftist corners of Germany and England. > We see this already in the censorship practiced by the Davoisie’s social > media enablers; in the shameless propaganda tidal wave of the mainstream > media; and in the personal destruction campaigns—operated through the > former and aided by the latter—of the Social Justice Warriors. We see it in > Obama’s flagrant use of the IRS to torment political opponents, the > gaslighting denial by the media, and the collective shrug by everyone else. > _____ > > Back on planet earth, that flight of fancy at least addresses what to do > now. The answer to the subsidiary question—will it work?—is much less > clear. By “it” I mean Trumpism, broadly defined as secure borders, economic > nationalism, and America-first foreign policy. We Americans have chosen, in > our foolishness, to disunite the country through stupid immigration, > economic, and foreign policies. The level of unity America enjoyed before > the bipartisan junta took over can never be restored. > > > http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/ > > This guy hits all cylinders in his takedown of the failures of the > republicans, and spells out quite frankly what cowardly little dishonest, > self-serving p*ssies the NeverTrumpers are, and what a sad joke it is that > they even consider themselves to be conservative at all. > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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