Disuniting

 

Author Jeff Davidson had an article in Townhall online today, 12/17/2023, entitled The Intentional Disuniting of America. I will quote his entire article and then comment on what he writes.

 

I agree with Davidson that intellectuals, Leftists and Democrats are intentionally disuniting America, for sowing divisiveness is how revolutionaries seek to incite the disintegration and deconcentration of a united society into hostile, even warring camps. The radical instigators scheme to push us unwittingly civil war, so they can swoop in, with a Democratic President, declare martial law, and then declare ‘temporary” martial law, which will be permanent, their long-sought dictatorship of the proletariat.

 

Let me quote Davidson (D after this): “In a Gallup poll four years before Barack Obama was elected president, 74 percent of white Americans and 68% of black Americans said that race relations were good. Less than one score later, today 43% of white Americans and 33% of black Americans say the same. What changed?

 

Half of the nation relentlessly seeks to racialize every issue. Radical Leftists represent a minority of the Democratic base but yield tremendous power over the rest. Thus, increasingly, people feel less trusting, less joyful, and less like they are part of a unified nation.

 

National unity is a powerful construct for countries old and new. Without unity, social progress is stymies. What signifies unity? A national anthem, secure borders, a common language, a share history, a constitution that guarantees the rights of the citizens, and agreement as to what constitutes effective governing.”

 

My response: He is spot on. I would add a shared, overarching culture and national narrative to which our polyglot of languages, our multicultures and myriad of ethnic and racial groups are subsumed.

 

If we were a society of individuals and individuators that individual lived more than group-lived, were animated by egoism-individualism more than altruism-collectivism, that emphasized individual rights and individual identity as primary over collective rights and group identity, than we could build a unity among American adults that we keep us unified and negotiating our differences peacefully and legally within the constitutional republican framework.

 

 

Leftist race-baiting and hyper emphasis in group identity and identity politics increases and multiplies racism and bigotry of all kinds. When we judge people as individuals, racism and bigotry disappear, or are so rare as to be a non-factor.

 

D: “Without unifying elements, a nation will weaken, and its social conditions will unravel. If we are not subject to the same laws, rules, and essential morality, achieving agreement, compromise and cooperation on various issues is harder.

 

Lacking unity, a military cannot function as needed. Our elected representatives cannot serve as effectively. Our law enforcement officers are likely to be perceived as unfair to all.”

 

My response Most insightful, comprehensive, and articulate.

 

D: “Consider Who Benefits

 

Who benefits from a disunited America? Who wants to see us fraying at the edges, and who wants our citizenry to distrust one another? The disuniting of America is an intentional, long-term goal of the Left. By their own convoluted reasoning, we are an evil nation and must be dissolved.”

 

My response: This neo-Marxist postmodern revolution and mass movement is on the march to take over and wipe out traditional America and they are close to achieving their aim. These wicked people are nihilists, taking out the least racist multi-ethnic and multi-racial society in the world, a beacon still for those yearning for freedom, happiness, plenty, affluence, and opportunity. What kind of moral monsters so gaslight, slander and defame this greatest nation that it is believed, and then they can enter into the seats of power and usher in their totalitarian regime?

 

D: “The zealots scoff at patriotism. They believe that religion is only for the weak-minded. The family unit, to them, is a Right-wing tool of oppression.

 

Obama defined what the Left now regards as standard in assessing America—we’re merely another country, one of the 200+ on Earth. Pride in America is no different than pride in being Greek. Nothing is special about America. People flock here every day because of their misunderstanding of our true nature.

 

The Left is committed to putting America last in all things and to assigning blame to our nation in all domains. Dividing the population is their key strategy. As long as blacks and whites don’t see eye to eye, as long as other groups are being told that they’re being marginalized, the Left is succeeding. Even as immigrants throw off the shackles that formerly bound them, the Left tells them that they are being oppressed, that they could have more, and that the white man is their nemesis.”

 

My response: The eloquent Davidson could have written a Forward for Mark Levin’s bestseller, The Democratic Party Hates America.

 

D: “Ideologically Compelled

 

The commitment of these anti-American zealots is lifelong. To them you don’t succeed in America through hard work; success if a matter of privilege and not much else. Whenever they can hack away at America’s strengths, they have done their good deed.

 

Their ideological compulsions to loathe Caucasians, Christians and straight people propel them each day. They’re small in number but large in amplitude. Their views infect academia, publishing, TV, radio, Hollywood and the arts.

 

They gain psychological strokes from one another for denigrating our institutions and our traditions, and they are dangerous. Many of the world’s internal revolutions succeeded because a small minority took the reins while everyday citizens did little or nothing. Consider the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and Mao and the Chinese.”

 

My response: one day my ideal citizenry of anarchist-individuator supercitizens will keep these elite radicals out of power or boot them out of power by arms or peacefully by joining a nonviolent Atlas Shrugged, bottom-up campaign of mass resistance, non-cooperating and boycotting elite parasites running things, ruling the people, living off of the people, and making muck of things in general.

 

D: “The more fanatical and vocal these groups are, the more influence they have over those less committed but willing to go along. Our saving grace is that those on the Right will never capitulate to the antics of the Left.

 

We Will Succeed, They Will Not

 

The Left’s programs and policies are destined to failure because they have no faith in the goodness and virtue of the common man and woman. Thus, we on the Right have tremendous power, if still largely untapped. We need to make our voices heard, to stand up in the face of unfounded attacks on our country and targeted individuals.”

 

My response: Man, this guy can write. We need our free market constitutional republic going into the future, and the counterrevolution that Davidson, Levin, and Chris Rufo are pushing needs my ideal of good, virtuous, wise, politically and permanently engaged citizens, each an anarchist-individuating supercitizens to take this country back—from the bottom-up--from all ruling elites or aspiring-to-rule elites.

 

D: “Our combined strength will make a difference. The progress we seek can come sooner and more easily than we imagine. Corrupt regimes, once reaching the tipping point, the pushback will be equal if not greater. Even many of those with whom they had made inroads are realizing the perilous path that the Left is treading.”