I read an interesting discussion yesterday concerning the episode in Portland where two women are being raked over the coals because they wanted to sell Mexican food – but they weren’t’ Mexican.
It’s a sad story, not just for the women who are being oppressed by the useful idiots of the Left and deprived of their livelihood. But it’s sad because it shows just how far our country has departed from even the concept of freedom. The groups that once proudly declared themselves the defenders of cultural freedom, have again shown us that freedom, to them, means lockstep with their ideas.
The discussion mentioned above was in a publication by Doug Casey. He said, “This is a cultural thing. There are no political solutions to cultural problems.”
That’s not quite true. While there may be no political resolutions to cultural problems, history is replete with political solutions to cultural problems. That solution is called tyranny. It is practiced by the politicians of both the “Left” and “Right.”
Political solutions, by definition, involve the use of force to impose one solution on everyone. Sometimes the solution imposes a belief/practice on everyone; other times, the solution does not allow a politically-unwanted belief/practice to happen.
There’s no doubt the “gloves have come off” the clenched fist of the present-day Left in America. If America is to have a future different than the rest of the world’s dismal course, we have got to pray and work for the rebirth of the Freedom Philosophy in our day.
Note: While I wrote this prior to the shooting incident at the GOP baseball practice today, I decided to post it anyway, because it is very apropos. That “political solution” is a euphemism for a solution using force to solve a problem does not make the force any less real or true. That the economic/class conflict (another euphemism) rhetoric covers over the violence upon which it is based also does not make the violence any less real or true. Sometimes, it breaks out in a physical way such that it is impossible to ignore. Today’s episode in DC appears to be such an example. Ideas do have (existential) consequences.
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