{"id":3246,"date":"2016-10-08T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2016-10-08T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:45:16","slug":"this-will-not-end-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3246\/","title":{"rendered":"This Will Not End Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Chateau Heartiste<\/a> (many of whose views I don’t endorse, by the way, but his insight into dating and overall writing ability is superb), I came across this Townhall<\/em> article<\/a> by Kurt Schlichter that is worth reading in full. \u00a0I’ll quote some excerpts to give you a flavour:<\/p>\n

See, a republic with democratic features like the United States can\u2019t function without the possibility of discussion. It needs citizens to have the ability to rationally debate the issues, to be heard so that they can perceive the process as fair and one where they are equal participants. But that\u2019s exactly what liberals, with tactics like political correctness, Jon Stewarty snark, and the outright lies of their vinyl-body-suited mainstream media chorus, seek to prevent. Discussion can only exist where customs and norms demand that all voices be heard, that the points of the opposition are at least characterized as something resembling what they are, and that no one is excluded from participation by the fact that they possess views of which the majority \u2013 or a powerful minority \u2013 disapproves. But instead of that, today we have a liberal elite that gleefully bludgeons people with opposing views into silence, and then pats itself on its collective back for its enlightenment.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Take our guy in the painting. He stands and says, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know about this idea of letting men into ladies rooms with little girls.\u201d And, of course, the freakshow left doesn\u2019t address the very real problems that come with allowing grown men into restrooms with little girls. Facts merely enrage them. So there won\u2019t be any discussion of the problem of weirdos and perverts taking advantage of this idiotic liberal nonsense that this normal guy \u2013 like any normal person \u2013 would worry about. No, instead he\u2019ll get berated by some screaming genderfreak activist with a half-shaved head and looming daddy issues bellowing \u201cHate criminal!\u201d and demanding our guy be fired from his job down at the plant for felony wrongthinking.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Leonardo has a jet and the president\u2019s private email. Our guy has an F-150 with a smashed-in quarter panel and a busy signal. When he dares complain, they call him stupid, racist, and obsolete. He\u2019s struggling to pay his mortgage yet they call him \u201cprivileged\u201d because his great-great-great-great-great grandfather came from Glasgow. And he takes it, for now.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Despite a narrow win, they will claim a massive victory over people like our guy, a mandate to complete the subjugation of Americans like him. After all, he\u2019s deplorable. He\u2019s irredeemable. He\u2019s unworthy of respect. His interests are unworthy of representation. The elite will heave a sigh of relief that the threat has passed, that with Felonia von Pantsuit in the Oval Office our guy and those like him can be safely ignored.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

This will not end well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last line is one that I – being a natural pessimist and cynic – like to use a lot, and not only regarding politics. \u00a0You don’t need to be a Trump supporter, a Republican, or a Right Winger to see that a self-selected wealthy elite browbeating swathes of the population into ever-more strict silence won’t end well. \u00a0Hell, you don’t even need to agree with what the person is saying: that’s the whole point, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Chateau Heartiste (many of whose views I don’t endorse, by the way, but his insight into dating and overall writing ability is superb), I came across this Townhall article by Kurt Schlichter that is worth reading in full. \u00a0I’ll … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}