CART WILLIAMS

Always crusty, sometimes cranky,
forever on the right, seldom if ever wrong
yet hardly ever dangerous.

On a mission to impose a one hundred and
eighty degree course correction on a confused and
divided nation headed in the wrong direction.

Excuses for failure are now not only accepted but encouraged as Americans have been taught to think of morality in terms of one’s racial, gender and economic status rather than as present across the spectrum of American life. Indeed, conspicuous law breakers in the form of illegal aliens are most often portrayed as innocent refugees from some terrible war rather than people without the resolve, courage or brains to not emigrate, stay and solve problems or to stop over populating their own countries.

Thus you have the 99% who are people good and true and the 1%, people who are endemically depraved except for the portion that votes Democrat. Thus you have minorities, women and gays routinely portrayed as incapable of the level of bigotry and lack of insight that white men are, though ironically, European men have demonstrably created every little thing that have allowed minority groups to emerge from the shadows of their own inability and instead claim exploitation.

American has been undone through a type of casual and mass brainwashing; naturally people in the mass media are not going to express what they really think and instead will go for the easy sell to make them look like they are righteous people whether it is an actor, star athlete or politician. We seem to take it on faith that they are not liars or poseurs trying to protect their marketability or marketability of their product.

In the past we took it on faith that America was a good country and with a noble past based on noble aims and progressions. Now too many of us see America as one vast tapestry of genocide though none ever occurred, massive support of Jim Crow though those laws were far from being the result of a mandate or referendum, and basically one mass example of hatred and oppression from coast to coast.

If I were in Iowa I would go for Michelle Bachmann. Romney would be my second choice. Ron Paul third.

So Brooks joins others in faulting Gingrich for his work with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. He also endorses the widely read blog post by Yuval Levin, who at NRO noted that the programs of Newt and Romney are not that different. But what is different, Levin observes, is their very different temperaments.

What they fear is that he will show just enough discipline over the next few months, just enough focus, to win the nomination. And then, in the fall of 2012, once party leaders have come around and the GOP is fully behind him, he will begin baying at the moon.

He will start saying wild things and promising that he may bomb Iran but he may send a special SEAL team in at night to secretly dig Iran up, and fly it to Detroit, where we can keep it under guard, and Detroiters can all get jobs as guards, "solving two problems at once."

Those who've known and worked with Mitt Romney mostly seem to support him, but when they don't they don't say the reason is that his character and emotional soundness are off.

Those who know Ron Paul and oppose him do so on the basis of his stands, they don't say his temperament forecloses the possibility of his presidency. But that's pretty much what a lot of those who've worked with Newt say.

Former New Hampshire governor and George H.W. Bush chief of staff John Sununu told The Wall Street Journal this week: "Listen to just about anyone who worked alongside Gingrich and you will hear that he's inconsistent, erratic, untrustworthy and unprincipled."

In a conference call Thursday, Jim Talent, who served with Mr. Gingrich in the House from 1993 through 1999, said, "He's not reliable as a leader."

The arguments as to why patriotism is really just fascism in disguise, or that duty is just a form of manipulation… are provided by the Marxist ideologues. But the method of enforcement is political correctness. If everyone who is not a white male gets a free pass, the implication is that everything a white male represents (as if loyalty or honor are exclusively white male attributes!!) is suspect.

Thus the center cannot hold, the ties that unite us dissolve and we enter into a pure post-modern era of shifting shapes and shadows. Chaos ensues, followed by the rise of the kleptocrats, bureaucrats and autocrats. The results: a new age of crypto-totalitarian power presiding over a profound hollowing of the human spirit. A truly Orwellian future. And I truly believe that this is the demented vision that animates many among Obama’s twisted coterie.

But in conflict one often finds that one’s weaknesses are the flip-side of one’s strengths.

Over adherence to “comfort above honesty” marks the ideologue. And he or she is vulnerable to reason. Not so much because ideologues are persuadable (they are not because their entire identity is an elaborate and meticulously constructed self-deception; reveal the lie and you destroy the identity, leaving only the flailing hind-brain). But rather because they are easy to expose.

They have no fixed reference points themselves and so you can tie them up in knots rather easily. They then shift to invective and ad hominem and are thus revealed.

Looked at from a certain point of view, human progress has always been a battle between those who pursue truth, and those who weave lies. The good news is that in the long term truth is always stronger. That does not mean it is always victorious though. It just means that it is a very powerful weapon if wielded correctly.

Most balanced humans respond to truth because they instinctively understand that it is better to confront the future with eyes open, rather than with blinders on. Chaos and conflict are not humanity’s real enemies, but rather lies and deception.

Unlike the ideologues, the power-hungry understand this. They will lie more selectively (and thus, are more dangerous). They will use certain truths to conceal others, and move their agenda forward. And so they are opposed using more traditional methods. This also becomes easier when they are stripped of their ideological deceptions and foot soldiers.