ANGER, NOT FEAR IS THE CORRECT RESPONSE. I was listening to Rush Limbaugh’s show last week while driving when a man called in to say that with Biden’s “election,” he is scared for himself and for his family. Rush said he understood. I don’t. Why are so many conservatives scared rather than angry about the election? What good is fear? Where is the outpouring of anger and disgust that all conservatives should have toward half the country that wants them cowed at best and dead at worst? Fear has no place here.

Anger is a response to injustice and conservatives have been dealing with this injustice for years with the rigged election being the final straw. Fear is helpless, unless perhaps it moves us to action. So rather than fear, stand up in righteous indignation, like Andrew Breitbart, who never gave up. This indignation was on full display at a protest I attended the other night. A woman leapt up like a bulldog when a leftist type started to tell the crowd of small business owners that they were to blame for the spread of Covid. She screamed at him til the crowd booed and he handed back the microphone and left. It wasn’t his event, it was for small business owners to get their voices heard.

The news, the media and every aspect of our society has had the angry voices of the liberals blaring for the past four years of the Trump presidency. Now these same angry jackals want unity – hah! Not on your life, or mine. So stand up, don’t be afraid, be angry and take action. Go to a protest, write a letter, run for office, stand up to any leftist and never give up.

For God’s sake, don’t be afraid. Let them be afraid of you.

Three comments on
Helen’s exhortation:

Scott03 
This has been a subject of study by investment advisors interested in “Behavioral Finance.” Ken Fisher, an investment house operator who used to write for Forbes, has written about the notion that anger *is* a form of fear: People express anger when they fear they might not have the power, skill, insight, etc., to take effective action.

If it explains certain things in investing behavior, there seems no reason why it wouldn’t apply to any other human endeavor.

Working up anger, like sports teams might, and like combat soldiers certainly do, helps provide that psychological edge to get them over whatever obstacles the fear is throwing in the way. Maybe the level of anger is proportional to the level of fear.

David R. Graham to Scott03
Unless it is righteous anger, whose memory Helen summons, anger is just as stupid and destructive as fear. Her exhortation does not distinguish patently between righteous anger — sometimes called cold anger — and common anger, meaning hot anger. But her meaning relies on the distinction. Hot anger simply charges in, essentially as a fit of rage. Helen is not exhorting this. Far from it.

She is exhorting righteous anger, which is justified on occasion — as she and I believe this one is — but very rarely gotten right by us mortals because, as the book puts it, retribution is mine, says the Lord. We children of finitude just do not know enough, except occasionally, to be certain we are full of righteous anger rather than common anger, which hurts us more than it does our target.

The word anger, significantly, has the same root as the words angina and anxiety. Its cognate means closing in, contracting, constricting, restricting, as in walls of a room or sides of a pipe. Righteous anger effects a complete closure of the pipe carrying the target’s life, killing the target outright. Common anger closes the target’s pipe some while also closing the perp’s pipe some and sometimes completely. Common anger does not close the target’s pipe enough to extinguish them, just enough to elicit a furious response from the target, as in, say, surgery to open the pipe back up so the target can get theirs back on the perp. This is the origin of the saying, If you try to kill the king, make sure you succeed. Breitbart accurately said, Hit me and I get up stronger.

Righteous anger is housecleaning, no karma. Common anger is murder, karma from hell to breakfast. Believe me, you do not want karma. You want to be the rock which drops into the pool without raising ripples.

Some free counsel: mind your words and wishes, and discriminate over what is being said and what you really want to say.

David R. Graham
This exhortation of Helen’s puts me in mind of The Song Of Deborah and Lakshmibai.

Sankalpas or Inner Resolutions tend to be attracted towards one another, when they flow in the same direction or are related to similar desires. Cranes fly together as flock; they do not mix with crows. Crows form their own groups. Among beasts of the forest, bisons have herds of their own kind; they have no comradeship with elephants, which keep bisons away and mingle only with elephants. Deer too form groups by themselves. Similarly, a musician attracts musicians around him. Teachers seek teachers for company. Decisions which mind makes, either to commit or omit, are amazing, for, the Cosmos and all its contents can be described as their consequence. The mind decides on the fact or facet of the objective world which it has to notice. The Sankalpa bears fruit and the fruit conforms to the seed from which it springs. It has to reveal its impact, sooner or later. So, man has to avoid evil sankalpas and cultivate good ones!