Timothy Birdnow

Tthis is an interesting essay about the collapsing leftist movement worldwide. I largely agree, although he misses the point in some ways I fear.

His fundamental argument is leftism is failing across the globe (and he's right) and that the cause, in his view, was leftist overreach. Can't disagree but he misses the big picture; that overreach is policy, standard operating procedure for the Leftist revolution.

It has been called the dialectic; thesis meets antithesis leading to synthesis. Marx included this Hegelian dialectic in his model of Communism (although Marx' acolytes lacked patience to do it in many cases). It is sometimes referred to as "two steps forward, one step back". It's a PLANNED PLAY, like the flea flicker in football. The Left has revolutionary periods where they go all hell-bent-for leather then they have consolidation periods where they secure their ill-gotten gains. They know they will lose a few things but these things will simmer on the back burner while the Right labors to reverse the gains made by them. But the Right will not dive deep into their territory, in all probability, being too busy reversing some of the crazier stuff (which is why they promote crazy stuff like trannies in women's locker rooms in the first place) to actually attack the left in their citadels. As a result we are eternally on the defensive - even when we are winning. We never mount attacks to really roll back the ride of socialism.

So they have gone as far as they could go without an explosion and now are consolidating power. They will still be quite active, especially in social and cultural aspects of society while in the political wilderness. We saw this in the Reagan era; remember "the gay nineties" when homosexuality started really being accepted and we had "don't ask, don't tell" replace dismissal for homosexual acts in the military and the like? That came on the heels of the Reagan Revolution and that was no coincidence; the left was laboring in universities, in publishing houses, in Hollywood and other entertainment centers, etc. to mainstream what had been considered aberrant, perverted behavior. Now we think of "gay" as being an "alternate lifestyle" when just forty years ago it was something either mocked or whispered about. Now we have dudes getting married and compulsory parades in honor of sexual deviancy.

THAT happened while we were fighting over temporary things like tax codes.

There are plenty of other examples of this, and strangely this stuff happens in all parts of the world simultaneously, and that should tell us it's coordinated and planned.

So every now and then the Right needs to be given a victory to act as a pressure relief valve. If the Left didn't pull in their horns every now and then there would be an explosion; if they get apparent victories then the pressure declines and the left can assume their rightful place in time. They know we aren't going to wipe them out as they would do to us.

And they profit even in the worst of circumstances. As Rahm Emmanuel said "never let a good crisis go to waste" and when they aren't in charge they have plenty of good crisis, as anything bad can be blamed on those holding the illusory power. It's how they wind up back in charge soon; demagogue every scandal, every mistake, every act of God, and the public soon forgets and puts them back in charge.

And thus the Revolution continues. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The author of this piece doesn't seem to get that fully. He does mention the Overton Window (which is essentially the dialectic - the window is a set of parameters for polite public discourse and thinking. The Left is always slamming one window shut and opening another to the left and our side always fears reopening the shut window lest we be called racist/sexist/bigot/homophobe etc) but I think he believes these are just movements "people power" things. I don't think he grasps the coordination and careful planning involved with most things we see.

What we see is a stage production, but occasionally the curtain slips and we see the crew hiding behind it. This production is managed; it's not organic. It doesn't just happen this way, but rather someone is pulling the strings. We know many of the names - George Soros, Warren Buffet, Tom Steyer, etc. Many we don't know. But suffice it to say there are vast sums of money and huge amounts of talent employed to drive what we see as the narrative. It doesn't just happen that, say, every media outlet is leftist and follows the same script.

But, I hear you say, "what of Fox News"? I refer you to my pressure valve theory above; Fox is there to blunt Conservative anger and to steer the conversation away from actually taking action. I'm not saying it was started with that in mind but that it is allowed to prosper to facilitate the fiction of "plurality" in our national discourse. Fox is a tool of the left, wittingly or unwittingly. But a tool most assuredly.

Do I think Trump a part of the stage play? I did when he first burst on the scene. In fact I thought he may well have been there solely to split the conservatives. I didn't trust him then. But something is different about the man, and the apoplexy from the left over him suggests he's a non-scripted actor in our little play, like a janitor who wandered on stage and said "hey, you guys are just pretending".

So I think now they are trying to coopt him, steeer him away from being TOO damaging to them, while riding this outbreak of independent thought on the part of the American People out. I think Trump is like a wildfire; their only option is to burn off some of their underbrush and hope he burns out. In times past this has worked, notably the Reagan era. They bided their time and waited Reagan out, putting the Bush family in position to blunt Reaganism and eventually strangle it. I suspect they will do likewise - or try to - with Trump.

I believe that they realize they have pushed as far as they can at this point. The public in every nation is angry, yet, but that anger is easily assuaged, and it will cool in an election cycle or two.

Bear in mind it is a shallow anger. Why do I say that? Why didn't the GOP win eight or more seats in the Senate? They were defending half as many seats as the Democrats yet the Senate remains nip-and-tuck. That is in no small part due to the fact the Senate leadership didn't even try to win big - they tried to maintain control of their own caucus first. I've long argued the Senate (and to a lesser extent the House) doesn't want any sort of landslide; the incumbents maintain their privileged position by the chamber being tight as a nun's backside. No one dare oppose them if there is any chance of losing a seat and flipping control of the Senate. So I believe McConnell - who has been at the helm longer than anyone in history and who once wrote an autobiography "The Long Game" where he discussed politics like a grift, a "long con" where you look several moves ahead - consciously labored to keep the Senate close. He certainly refused to fund MAGA people, and sat on a huge war chest the last couple of elections rather than risk losing his grip on power by supporting a MAGA guy. And we've seen this behavior in the House as well, by Boehner, McCarthy, Ryan, and now Johnson. These guys just can't seem to win, even when the public is furious and want a change. Trump's election should have produced huge coattails in the House and Senate; it didn't.

But pkubj-https://www.multistate.us/insider/2024/11/6/post-election-republicans-add-to-strong-hold-of-state-governments]it did at State and local levels.

We call this the Uniparty. Two apparent enemies who are actually working hand-in-glove. Like Wiley Coyotte and the Road Runner, a casual observer sees them as bitter enemies but a thinking person knows they are just cartoons for entertainment, a distraction. (Actually Wiley Coyote appeared in another WB cartoon with a sheepdog which is appropo; they went to work at 9 a.m. punched a time clock, then punched each-other out until 12 when they took their lunch break, eating together and making friendly small talk, punched back in until five then wished each-other a nice night.) The GOP is no more an opposition party than that coyote was to that sheep dog.

My point is that the Left still controls the tools for the dissemination of information. They own the schools and academia, they own the media still, they control the internet, they control publishing houses and entertainment citadels. This is worldwide, which is why their program always appear simultaneously across the globe. A campaign just pops up out of the blue and it catches fire immediately. Why? They own vast networks full of cash and use it to make these things "popular" when in fact normal people hate them.

I don't think we are in the throes of a revolution so much as a hiccup on the way to the global socialist paradise. Yes, we are seeing corporations dump the more aggregious things like DEI or transgenderism, but this is for a season. I suspect this was planned; a necessary loss, like sacrificing your queen in chess to checkmate your opponent in four more moves. I suspect the Right will fail to move on all fronts, but concentrate on government as these monsters continue their march through our institutions and our beliefs. Any really capable military general knows how to make a useful, tactical retreat. George Washington beat the greatest military in the world by running away in a smart way. Occasionally everyone must pull back for a time.

We need to stop being so cocky. I enjoyed this Trump win too but the real work is coming, and Trump can't do it alone. We have to go after them where they hide, strike them in their sanctuaries. As Sun Tzu said, one must seize that which the enemy holds dear. We need to do that, going after the left's most cherished things. We need to take back the culture. Elon Musk helped a lot by buying Twitter and hopefully other, like minded types will continue this (like buying MSNBC or Tiktok). We need revival in the Church, to ask God's forgiveness and renewal. We need to revive the institutions the left have destroyed - like the Boy Scouts or many of the social service clubs like the Lions or Elks or whatnot. We need to return to gender specificity and segregation of the sexes in some instances (like the Boy scouts which is now open to girls and transvestites and everyone else.) We need to repeal gay marriage.

At any rate, if anyone thinks this is over he is deluded. Sadly our side always believes "we won the war, time to go home" while the left sees no end, ever, to the game.

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