Which leads me to the next chilling thought:

How the hell are the elites of a nation steeped in Mao, Foucault, Derrida, Marx and Hegel going to derive law, and ideas, similar to the founders steeped in Smith, Hume, Kant, Hobbes (don’t forget Calvin) and Plato?

Oh, we are f’ed….

(Note to self: Need more primers, powder and lead, I can cast and swage my own bullets. Increase running mileage and brew more beer.)

Precisely. What then shall be our playbook?

That’s the tough one that I am floundering around with. That wasn’t, thank God, the playbook of the American Revolutionaries and Founding Fathers.

I suspect that there is another playbook out there that we are ill-acquainted with and haven’t seen for (hundreds of?) years. I wanna play out of that one. I know it is out there. It’s lost, and we may have to derive it out of First Principles.

Like the American Revolutionaries did.

“It is interesting that she and VDH – in quite different pieces – manage to pluck the same string”

On your point, VDH has occasionally said he see’s Obama’s flaws because he has similar ones (or had them when younger but learned / grew up).

I believe Peggy is just too honest, too solid, too courageous to see what has been, and is daily becoming more so, very clear about this Barack Obama fellow to those of us who might not be quite so noble a warrior as she.

It is interesting that she and VDH – in quite different pieces – manage to pluck the same string.

And, yes. Good news about Dr. S. I had faith – never deleted her from my aggregater.

Thanks for the Noonan link. I remember that piece she wrote but couldn’t find it. Guess she found a seat in the lifeboat.

The fundamental elements common to all are the application of power, violence. intimidation and fear, deception, the manipulation of language, the transformation and manipulation of the normal rules of the game, and the use of quislings and agents of influence.

I don’t know. But the first step to winning is admitting what we are doing now isn’t working.

We’ve gotta do better. We must do better.

Surely the courageous and esteemed minds of the Republican party leadership elites can come up with a better plan of action than I.

Oh… Wait….

Holy Wow: Where did you get that from?

(I’m suffering a plague of misinterpreting and misreading of my comments. I never said they were stupid.)

I’m simply searching for, and scrambling around for, something more effective. They were attempting the only thing they knew how within the intellectual and popular strictures of our Maoist-indoctrinated society.

We need to do better. They aren’t stupid, but as a party, the Republicans are.

We are politically stupid because we don’t understand the nature of power. We expect the left to cede us power like we did to them.

“Checkmate.”

no, now its up to spin time. We can try to show they just don’t want to hear the people or they can try to show its unsafe due to the mobs. Considering the polling data, we might win.