IS IT TIME TO THINK THE UNTHINKABLE?

This is directed mostly at those who place themself on the right side of the aisle, since the inability to think the unthinkable has characterized our approach to the political/existential crises facing our nation for the past 50 years. The left has not only been thinking the unthinkable, they’ve adopted the unthinkable as their M.O. Clearly, it’s not unthinkable to them.

What’s unthinkable, from the standpoint of a conservative patriot who loves their country and recognizes it as the last, best hope for the cause of freedom and individual rights in the world? That it may be time to say good-bye to those who so vehemently disagree with that assessment. Derek Hunter poses the question thusly: If We Let Seattle Go, Would We Even Miss It?

[townhall.com]

Derek Hunter is one of the more reasoned, restrained pundits. Decidedly conservative, always worth reading, but until this column, refraining from the open antagonism towards the opposition shown by Kurt Schlichter, or Ann Coulter. Yet, the very title of his column shows that he’s already divided the country into two groups: Us and Them, and suggests that We would not miss Them were they to sever all ties with their mother country, as is the case with The CHAZ, right now, even as we speak.

Is it time to start thinking the unthinkable?

The afore mentioned Kurt Schlichter, my favorite go-to guy when my attitude towards the left needs a healthy booster shot of scorn, derision and contempt, has been writing a series of novels since 2014, wherein he imagines the country (or countries) that would remain after a formal split between the Red and Blue states. He placed this series in the safe future of 2040, more or less. In a time when we still had an African American president, Donald Trump hosted a successful reality show, The FBI was trusted, Nancy Pelosi was irrelevant, no one knew Adam Schiff existed, and Occupy Wall Street was a strange footnote to the Obama years, 2040 seemed like it might even be a little too near for reality. Still, the books do a great job of imagining what a country and its government might be like were the left granted total power to implement their agenda. The vision has been both entertaining, amusing, and horrifying—far more of the latter as the ensuing 6 years have brought his world of 2040 closer and closer to our own present.

Is it time to ask, “What good is the left?” They’ve ruined every major city they’ve been able to get their hands on. They speak with open scorn of the founding documents for the single greatest system of government ever devised, as well as the men with the vision to create it. They’ve ruined New York, which is more than a once-great city, it’s a cornerstone of our culture. They’ve turned the paradise which used to be California, another cornerstone of out culture, into a feces infested hell hole. And still there is the unending theme from all corners left: we’re better than you; we should have to right to do things our way; you don’t count; you should sit down and shut up. It is we who have no use for you.

So let them prove it. Let’s call their bluff. You want California? New York? Most of New England? Michigan, Minnesota. And, of course, Washington State? Anywhere else who thinks the socialist utopia is at hand, but for the Deplorables voting for Trump? Fine. Viya con Dios. And good luck with those trade deals you’ll be wanting to negotiate with all the racist states you leave behind. In Schlichter’s novels, Dallas becomes the new capital of the United States, while the Peoples Republic of North America gets to keep the buildings, but none of the soul, of Washington DC. That’s what we see playing out before us now. The soul of America is missing from every utterance and deed of the left. They hate us, and view the political levers engineered into the system so many years ago as nothing more than the means to destroy us and the country we still take seriously.

As John Lennon famously said to the rest of The Beatles at their last business meeting, “I want a divorce.”