Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Gleichshaltung
The Republican Party, in the words of a Prophet referring to Egypt and a King of Judah’s reliance upon same as an ally, is “a broken reed.” The meaning is, a walking stick which is cracked so that, when leaned upon, it snaps over, driving the sharp point at its break into one’s hand.
The metaphor has a second meaning, one sexual. Egypt, the Prophet observes, is impotent in the sense of the modern euphemism “erectile dysfunction” and so is not a fit mate for the fawning, heat-driven Daughter of Jerusalem (the people of the Covenant, represented by the King of Judah), who should rely on her Lord, the God of Hosts, the Invisible Almighty.
(Metaphors in common use by the Hebrew Prophets, were they translated into language equivalent to what they meant and how they were heard, would qualify Hebrew Prophets as pornographers even by modern standards.)
Acting on precedent established by their liberal wing (Eisenhower, Warren, Rockefellers) during the 1950s, the Republican Party under President Johnson decoupled “civil rights” (now simply “rights,” meaning anything anyone wants to claim) from deservedness.
At the same time they decoupled the nation further than already it was from the Constitution, especially the 10th Amendment.
Under President Nixon the Republican Party furthered the paralysis that was The Great Society by specifically decoupling opportunity from achievement. Called “affirmative action.”
Well, that legacy has been thrown back in the teeth of the Republican Party by the Democratic Party under control, by extortion, of the minority demographic targeted by the decouplings. Not only do they not like being condescended to, they want not to be. Their way of saying that is to demand more of it, which, when they get it, makes them want to piss even higher up their rope.
And experts in psychology conceived and run this scheme of “well intended” social engineering, aka manipulation/enslavement in the guise of political appeasement?
Ironically, the Democratic Party had opposed both decouplings. All the Republican Party can really do now is “pay up and look as cheerful as [they] can.” Joe Wilson does not represent the Republican Party. He — and Sarah — represent Americans. Perhaps one day they will represent the nation’s puissant political party. It is my wish that they and those like them do.
The inner meaning of Glenn Reynold’s remark about the quality of the current political class is that they, their class (and a class it is) not the nation, are a disgrace. They owe the world apology for themselves, not for the nation whose welfare they are supposed to successfully steward. The nation is fine, suffering grievously at their hands, but essentially intact, though strong effort is being applied by the political class to overwhelm the nation’s strength.
The nation’s political class, Republicans and Democrats, Greens and Independents, is a criminal conspiracy to defraud, loot and destroy the nation.
The nation’s political leadership as embodied in the Republican and Democratic Parties, is an abomination, a stench unto heaven. Relying on either of those Parties is leaning on, or in the Prophet’s second meaning, lying with, a “broken reed.”
Disclaimer: I was too young to vote for John Kennedy in 1960. When I registered to vote, before John was assassinated, I registered as a Democrat. I did not vote in 1964. As a registered Democrat I voted for Richard Nixon in 1968 and again in 1972, but then as a registered Republican. I did not vote again until 2000. Then and in 2004, as a registered Republican, I voted for George W. Bush. As a registered Republican, I voted for Sarah Palin and John McCain in 2008.
I am still a registered Republican, but wishing it could be otherwise, and now too old to be relevant for either reform or creation.
I am also still an Episcopalian, but with the same feeling I have for that nightmarish social club/bath house that I have for the Republican Party.
Not One Red Cent for the RNC or ECUSA. When those RNC surveys arrive they are returned completed with mark-ups. I can and do put money where I have confidence reform or creation are a reasonable expectation.
The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our base of operations, our ground of life. Why fear when He is here?
Update 1: And here’s Peggy Noonan in 2016 on Trump, Sanders and what she calls The American Rebellion.
Update 2: At Start Of Campaign, The Last Gasp Of Political Parties?
Update 3: The Uni-Party Related
Update 4: One party rule in Great Britain, also. And also being challenged.
Update 5: Parties may be fine. I don’t know. Humans tend to group, so probably fine or not, parties are inevitable. Two things I see happening now with respect to R and D parties: 1- they have seriously grouped to R-D Party, and 2- they are merely grabbing for preeminence within their group.
Responsibility for citizens, national security and national sovereignty they feel none. Opportunities geo-political rather than merely financial they see none. Conceptual framework for not only managing but leading history they have none. Coordination of what they say with what they do they want none.
Grabbing the chief’s feather in a closed circle of spiteful, ignorant, ignoble, pusillanimous, infantilized adults is their wish. Weak? In a manner of speaking, yes. But that’s not the full of it. Obsolete is closer. A second political party is forming, gradually, so far without a name, or language for a synergistic frame of reference, but those are in the offing. The third party that’s forming is Muslim.
Update 6: Brent Bozell: The Slow Death Of The Republican Party
Update 7: Angelo M. Codevilla: Replacing The Republican Party
Update 8: Globalists from patriotic states are going to be thrown out of office. If that admits a globalist from another party to office, fine. Price of war. The electorate in all states is patriotic and therefore anti-globalist and will find a way to make their patriotic wishes effective in D.C.
GOP candidates should hike up their skirts, burn their worry beads, pull shoulders back and heads up and preach what POTUS Trump did on the stump. Courage, not fretting, is indicated. And perseverance.
Do what is needful and proper and the money will be there. Dharma protects those who protect Dharma.
Peter Savodnik: The Rise of the Republican Class Warrior
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
