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PRINCIPLES ARE A GRAND THING \u2013 A GUEST POST \u2013 BY JOHN RINGO<\/a><\/p>\n

This was pulled from a long twitter thread on the subject of the PRINCIPLES! Crowd and their insistence that DeSantis shouldn\u2019t have lead a charge against Disney,\u00a0\u2018Don\u2019t call them groomers! That\u2019s naughty!\u2019<\/em>\u00a0because PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m going to use Dien Bien Phu as an example.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu<\/a><\/p>\n

At Dien Bien Phu, the French Foreign Legion was slowly surrounded by the Viet Min. The Communists slowly took high ground position after high ground position. At first the French tried occasionally to push them out and occasionally succeeded.<\/p>\n

But eventually the Viet had all the high ground with artillery sited on the base.<\/p>\n

At first the shelling was a nuisance. Then it got heavier. More and more guns, more anti-aircraft.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the French were pounded into surrender.<\/p>\n

The Left has been \u2018boiling the frog\u2019 for a long time and it has mostly been by weaponizing empathy around \u2018cultural issues.\u2019 The Dems have always been win\/lose against Republicans but the Left has taken over every major cultural high ground. Academia. Media. Entertainment. Now major corporations.<\/p>\n

And the effect has been horrible for conservatives. (And for everyone else I might add.)<\/p>\n

\u2018Practically everyone with a PhD is a progressive! So that shows we\u2019re smarter than you stupid conservatives!\u2019<\/p>\n

For decades it has been a major pain in the ass to be a conservative on a college campus. It was bad in the 1980s AT UGA. \u2018If you believe in God you\u2019re too stupid to be a scientist.\u2019<\/p>\n

If you create a massively hostile environment for people, deliberately destroy their career, you don\u2019t get to then say \u2018We\u2019re the smart ones cause we have all the advanced degrees.\u2019<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t get to say \u2018We\u2019re the only creators because no conservatives can write\u2019 when you deliberately ensure that cons can\u2019t get any awards.<\/p>\n

Except that\u2019s exactly what the Left does.<\/p>\n

And, remember, lack of a college degree on average cuts long term earnings substantially. Which means less money on the right all things being equal. If you look at the graph of right wing money vs left over time the right has been losing more and more ground. Which is one of the few reasons the Left has been able to advance. It\u2019s sure as hell not their insane, failed, policies.<\/p>\n

The Right are the French, being continually bombarded. By Marxists at the least if not communists. The Left has all the high ground. We\u2019re damned near at the point we\u2019re going to be forced to surrender. And we\u2019re at Will To Power. The Left has gotten so powerful, it\u2019s openly defiant of any \u2018norms\u2019 or \u2018equality\u2019 or even laws.<\/p>\n

When the Left burned cities, 99% got a slap on the wrist and rarely jail time. Cons go wandering around the capital and they get a vast panoply of human rights violations against them. Obama was the most corrupt administration in recent history except Biden. But they don\u2019t get investigated. Cons get dragged out of their house in the middle of the night by SWAT teams and shown off to the media over obscure regulations. Trump was investigated repeatedly and illegally for things that were never even CONSIDERED worthy of investigation in previous administrations.<\/p>\n

Hillary\u2019s pay to play scams are fine. A conservative gets a parking ticket and they\u2019re destroyed.<\/p>\n

Why? Why does the Left get away with all of this? Why does nobody stop them?<\/p>\n

James Carville said it recently in the reverse: \u2018Nobody is afraid of the Democrats!\u2019<\/p>\n

Nobody has been afraid of the Republicans in my LIFETIME. Lois Lerner can laugh at a congressional committee the Republicans are running and gets away with it. Strosz can smirk and preen. Bureaucrats and businessmen flat out lie to Republican leadership and nothing happens.<\/p>\n

But they don\u2019t do that to Democrats. Why?<\/p>\n

Because if you do, the Left will kill you. They will f\u2019ing DESTROY YOU.<\/p>\n

See Joe the Plumber or any number of other examples of \u2018nobodies\u2019 that were destroyed for questioning the Left.<\/p>\n

So why doesn\u2019t the Right (metaphorically) kill people who disrespect their leadership? Why do the bureaucrats and businesses think they can screw over the Right but not the Left?<\/p>\n

PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

The PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! crowd has been a Conservative Surrender Chorus for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t attack a bureaucracy that is treating Republicans like something under their shoe! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t cut funding to academia just because they\u2019re tweeting #KillAllRepublicans. PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t smack down a company that involves itself, overtly and partisanly, in politics! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

It goes back to Buckley and National Review.<\/p>\n

Buckley set out to create a \u2018new\u2019 conservative movement after HUAC and McCarthy burned out. They would purge the icky John Birch, anti-communist, Goldwater wing of the party and campaign on PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

\u2018Take the high road.\u2019 \u2018If you get into the mud with a pig you get covered in mud and only the pig enjoys it.\u2019<\/p>\n

If you take the high road, you\u2019re silhouetting yourself and you\u2019re just going to get shot.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t get in the mud with the pig, it takes you out at the knees and gores nine kinds of stuff out of you.<\/p>\n

But PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

Which got us to here. Teachers are openly grooming kids and convincing them they\u2019re\u2026 something they are not. Children are being permanently chemically castrated for kicks and money. Two weeks to flatten the curve turned into two years of random medical tyranny. The sitting President that most represented the Right, far more than the eGOP, was investigated over a hoax THAT THE FBI KNEW WAS A HOAX.<\/p>\n

The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in the bunkers, being pounded by artillery. Every time some leader on the Right tries to break out, tries to rally the troops, they get bombarded by fire from every direction.<\/p>\n

Reagan was constantly bombarded. Newt to the point he was destroyed. Tea Party was taken out by investigations and the IRS refusing to process their paperwork. Then the leadership was audited to death.<\/p>\n

We could fight that. We could rally round a flag. But the worst part. The part that is absolutely INFURIATING, is the Surrender Chorus.<\/p>\n

YOU CAN\u2019T FIGHT BACK! THAT\u2019S ICKY! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

Stay in the bunker. Learn to cope. The dinner parties are loverly.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sick to death of the principles crowd. David French, leader of the Conservative Surrender Chorus, once tweeted \u201cIf I supported Trump, I\u2019d never be invited to another dinner party.\u201d<\/p>\n

If your politics is based on whether you get invites to dinner parties, you don\u2019t have \u2018Principles\u2019. You have the opposite.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in the bunkers being bombarded. We\u2019re Dien Bin Phu. We\u2019re Mariupol. We\u2019re overrun and bleeding to death.<\/p>\n

But the worst part. The absolute worst. Is the TrueConservatives that every time we start to take a position quite frankly stab us in the back shouting PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re more worried about PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! than @libsoftiktok being doxed, if you\u2019re more worried about PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! than a mulit-billion dollar supposedly \u2018family friendly\u2019 corporation with loads of largesse given to it by the taxpayers coming out, very publicly, in favor of chemical castration of children\u2026<\/p>\n

Then you can take those principles and shove them where the sun don\u2019t shine.<\/p>\n

And when the Left learns to fear the Right, when the woke corporation boards gulp and go \u2018Okay, we\u2019ll stay out of it\u2019, when the bureaucracy comes to heel\u2026<\/p>\n

Then you can be nice. Then you can take the high road.<\/p>\n

Until then\u2026<\/p>\n

DRIVE YOUR ENEMIES BEFORE YOU! TAKE THE TALLY OF THEIR SLAIN AND THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN!<\/p>\n

And, yes, salt the earth.<\/p>\n

When that is done, we can have a discussion about \u2018principles.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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