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
Being dumbfounded by that makes a person seem very naive.
Yup. However there is this to consider: a person whose career went into trying to do the job they agreed to do, and in the proper manner, and whose experience and unexamined assumption were that their co-workers and leaders are likewise disposed, will resist recognizing that co-workers and leaders, some or many, may be not likewise disposed.
I can self-report as example A of the phenomenon. It was a quarter century, at least, before I admitted that my graduate faculty had negative interest in The Church. Once bitten … It took only about 10 years before I admitted that leadership of the county agency at which I worked had negative interest in citizens of said county.
Right now many in federal employ, even self-described liberals, are indeed dumbfounded by the depth of criminality, especially sedition, which crept into federal service and since 2009 races through it at a gallop, gaslighting the aghast. I sense that Director Comey is one of these.
Needed is a grand national strategic conceptual framework to replace NATO, containment theory and the now-obsolete assumptions which made them. That may seem OT in this thread, but it is not.
Count me among those who have had it up to our eyeballs with conservatives. I’d be content with an intellectual class that woke up cheerful, strong and ready to work.
Half a century of liberal–conservative stewardship of the nation’s system of education, industrial genius, system of law, methods of earning peace (religion) and misuse of military, diplomatic and financial powers has decapitated the USA’s intellectual vitality as surely and almost as thoroughly as every Socialist dictator ever has their country’s.
I’d be content with anyone who grasps that the Cold War is over and done. Finished! Fertig! Fahrblunged! Fahrcocked! And an entirely reality-based awareness of international process (three brother nations: USA, India, Russia) replace the doctrine of containment, which even in its aggressive form as Kennan meant it (and was never implemented) could not bottle up any human condition.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
From Edmund Burke’s Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (May 1791).
Update 1: This has been a long fall from Ronald Reagan.
I cannot agree. I prefer something like: this has been a long and lonely road since RR.
RR fought his day’s battles and mostly won them. He also did severe damage: S&L crisis, a warm-up for the 2008 liquidity crisis (also under a Republican admin, although GWB did warn about it, to stopped ears and shut eyes in Congress). And RR stupidly, ignorantly put US troops in harm’s way in the ME without answering mass murder of them. He didn’t see beyond The Soviet, but he got them right, and dead to rights.
Since RR — and even before and during — other monsters arose, snorting fire and smoke aplenty, domestically and overseas. Moslem Brotherhood was already embedded in RR’s White House (Grover Norquist, who remains there, along with MB operatives now deeply embedded in each Branch of the US Government).
Public morals and academic standards are violently ripped up since RR’s day, when already they were in shreds.
So, new or orders of magnitude greater threat vectors (to national sovereignty, solvency and supremacy), and overall and throughout, regnant, insolent, imperious and sanctimonious globalism of two distinct types temporarily allied. Even RR believed in World Citizenship transcending national loyalty.
This is not a fall. It is an array of developments. The difference is consequential. The fall, if you must, is The Fall: the passage from essential unity to existential alienation. What we face is simply the age-old responsibility to keep the heart and the home clean.
I’ll vote for any candidate who promises to walk the USA away from NATO and SACEUR. Strategically, there is the RR Soviet issue topping our day’s agenda. And, any candidate who promises to ally USA, Russia and India against first the Imams and second the ChiComs. Grand strategically, there is the fundamental transformation indicated by the totality of circumstances presently faced.
I favor smashing the rice bowl of anyone still conceiving affairs as governed by the diplomatic, financial and military tools created to win WWII and the Cold War (WWIII).
Update 2: Ronald Reagan left liberalism when Communists infiltrated it.
Update 3: Not news now, but: Huma Abedin and family are Moslem Brotherhood
Update 4: Rush Limbaugh: What Palin’s Trump Speech Says About The State Of The Conservative Movement
Update 5: “The thinking behind the ‘Nuit Debout’ is to find new confidence in our own strength precisely because we don’t trust those who rule us any more,” 20-year-old political science student Victor said.
“When they (the government) say that they’re working for young people, it’s a huge lie. They’re just trying to halt the momentum.”
Richard Fernandez and many fine commenters on this theme: The Age Of Discontent
Update 6: Donald Trump: Let Me Ask America A Question
Angelo Codevilla exposed details of the phenomenon Trump identifies in 2010: America’s Ruling Class — And The Perils Of Revolution
Update 7: The Z Man: The Eco-Struggle
Update 8: US And Russian Officials Will Sit Side By Side To Monitor Cock Up Syrian Cease-Fire
Update 9: John Hawkins: Why Liberals Support Moslems Who Hate Everything They Stand For
Update 10: Richard Fernandez: The End Of Containment
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
