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I am tired to the bone of "conservatives" who are having a lot of fun saying, in effect, "Who cares about what happens to the cities? Let 'em all burn down." I will share with you three comments I have left on "The New Americanist," the site which has taken a lot of the more-interesting commenters from WZ: Comment 1: You might consider that many people in particular jurisdictions did not vote for the people in power, but were a) outnumbered by those who did, and/or b) betrayed by the so-called "alternative party" which neither provided a viable alternative nor tried to elect that alternative if they deigned to provide it. You might consider also that people do have both business and personal reasons for living where they do, even if everything is not totally ginger-peachy---and that there is plenty of whining/complaining/bitching/moaning by the people who live in less-than-solid Democrat jurisdictions about the squishes/RINOs/unsatisfactory electees that these paragons of conservatism have chosen/elected to represent them.
Comment 2: I'd feel much more sympathetic to such pious, morally-superior utterances if I did not see, every single day online, the whining, bitching, moaning, and gnashing of teeth by people in supposedly-safely "conservative" jurisdictions yelling about the people they elected, re-elected, and elected once again.
Names like "Lindsey Graham," "Mitch McConnell," "John McCain," "Marco Rubio" mean anything to you? Howzabout all the "conservative"---or at least "Republican"---governors? Howzabout all the "conservative"---or at least "Republican"---state legislators who did not clean up the state electoral boards and voting procedures over the past two or three election cycles? And that's in your "solidly-red," supposedly-conservative, rock-solid-Republican states. I'm tired of being lectured and sneered at by the beam-in-your-own-eye crowd, while that same crowd does not a damned thing to secure their own jurisdictions while bitching not only at the people they themselves have elected, but at what other people have done. If the "conservative" beam-in-your-own-eye crowd wanted to get together with the people in farther-Left jurisdictions, to strategize about how to change things for the better in both places, I'd listen. But this Olympian-snot routine has been old for years. If the fatass, self-basting and self-congratulatory Barcalounger "conservatives" want to lean back and piously intone "to hell with the cities, and the people in them, let them burn" they can go to hell.
Comment 3: I've seen lecturing and sneering a-plenty on most conservative sites. It is my belief that most who engage in it do not realize how their comments come across; if it is offensive for me to tell you exactly why it comes across as nasty, smug, morally-superior preaching, which, however well-meant, is likely to fall on barren ground and cause offense rather than produce a constructive result, I am sorry for any offense caused---but not sorry in the least for taking the trouble to explain the what and why. Somebody has to say it. In a nutshell, I am merely pointing out that the supposedly-"conservative" jurisdictions are themselves usually hanging by a hair or a few fingernails, and that their residents are seldom entirely pleased with the "conservatism" of those they manage to elect. This gives them little vantage point to look down with disapproval on people who live in a one-party dictatorship like NYC or Chicago---the more so since the so-called "conservative alternative" in such places often does not field opposition candidates, often does not bother to campaign for them when it does. It is easy to suggest that everybody get "involved" to transform these all-but-supine "parties" into something real, but---having myself dabbled in political activism some decades ago---I can tell you that that takes a very serious commitment which few are prepared to give. Meanwhile, people who talk about fleeing their one-party-dictatorship jurisdictions are met with comments---here and elsewhere---to the effect that they should stay where they are and rot lest they bring their Leftist contagion with them to pollute these paradisiacal jurisdictions where "conservatism" is yet hanging by a hair.
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Kosh's Shadow
11/1/2020 3:30:45 PM
buzzsawmonkey
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