Thoughts Of The Day

A consequence of being an atheist is accepting responsibility for your own life. 

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  Antisemitism is bad enough, but it's also a symptom of a deeper political problem. 

As someone who plays on the political playing field I want cheaters removed.  The Democratic Party routinely cheats.  The Democratic Party wants to eliminate the Electoral Collage and the National Rifle Association.  But the Electoral College and the National Rifle Association were created due to people like The Democratic Party.

The fundamental problem with The Democratic Party and those who aid and support them is that they see themselves as exempt from the reality that we perceive and understand.  The history of errors made by the Progressive movement is absolutely meaningless to them.  The wave of destruction and the death toll is completely blanked out.  Because of his deliberate inattention to history the sitting president had decided to repeat one of the greatest blunders of the last century.  The Munich Agreement of 1938 allowed a totalitarian state to proceed with their program of empowerment and aggression.  This in turn would lead to the most devastating war in recorded history.  There may not be someone left alive to record the history.  

The looser The Left's mental connection to reality, the more they will whine, moan, and groan about the loss of the election.  Those who can't remember the past are a highly sought after voting bloc for those who value political power.  Those who reject the chains of The Left are subjected to public ridicule and slander by the self-styled intellectuals and subject to physical violence by the goon squad, with the ski-mask replacing the white sheet as the attire of choice.

All forms of Collectivism must be seen as the vile doctrines they actually are.  The next great horror will be committed by people who believe they're good people doing good things.  Those people aren't in the habit of mentally stepping back and examining their own beliefs along with the actions derived from those beliefs.  If history has taught us anything it's that those who imagine themselves to be infallible will fail, and those who imagine themselves incapable of doing evil will do evil.

The absolute first thing taught at infantry basic training during the Cold War was that the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero.   On the face of it I saw this as the response to any attempt to explain a failure to learn a necessary skill.  But this idea also applies to the moral nightmare we were facing during with the Communist enemy and their excuses for their crimes.   The functions of ideology are to erase the responsibility of the perpetrators for their actions and to deny the humanity of the victims.  But there's never a valid excuse for murder.