. . . for strongly condemning what’s been going on in Toledo, which is a foretaste of the Stasi-like means of dealing with those who dare to exercise their constitutional freedoms that we can expect once the FHers institute one-party rule.
Michael Weiss at Pajamas Media details the nature of Bloomberg’s stint as NYC mayor. A classic portrait of an opportunist who has been so busy climbing some percieved success ladder while harboring vague notions of what he ought to care about on a policy and overarching-philosophy level that he’s a hugely easy mark for every goofball Freedom-Hater in the book. A whole city suffers as a result.
Money line: “The kind of velvet fascism that rules American corporate culture now rules Gotham.”
The modern-day Democrat party: the perfect confluence of the silly and the totalitarian. Ditto for the city of Denver, which has a Freedom-Hater mayor.
We’d already told you about the no-fried-food convention edict. Now the ball caps and fanny packs for volunteers have to be made from organic cotton and made by union labor. Only one problem: There are no such things.
From time to time, commenters take BN to task for what is perceived to be stridency and over-the-top label-mongering. Sorry, but we’re talking about a once-distinguished political party, a major institution in the civic life of the United States of America that has become a corrosive force and a disgrace. There is nothing to take seriously in any of their unremittingly stupid and childish positions, but there is everything to take seriously about their madness for power.
This is no time to take the ho-hum attitude that “everything runs in cycles. It’s just statistically the Democrats’ turn to have control of Congress and the White House again.” If the current crop of Freedom-Haters gets control of both houses of Congress as well as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you can bet that they’ll do everything and anything - and I’m not just talking about the normal, at least quasi-legit, channels of shoring up power - to make sure they never again lose control of American life.
Certain types might counter that Republicans also love power and do everything possible to consolidate it and perpetuate it. Eu contraire. We have a current president who is a mush-headed Reasonable Gentleman at least as often as he’s anything close to a conservative with a consistent vision. The current GOP prez candidate is even worse. He’s absolutely pathetic. And the pork-addicted, principle-deficient Republicans on Capitol Hill are obviously perfectly willing to piss away their control of the agenda, as proven in November 2006.
Which is why I’m not real bullish on the future of my country. We’re going to be under the thumb of a Marxist machine more concerned with making us eat arugula, ride bicycles and shiver in our little dens of state housing than with freedom, dignity, national security and pleasing God.
I expected this treatment of the Marines out of Berkeley, one of the world’s premier sewers of freedom-hatred, but Toledo, Ohio?
