To arms

[Penn]

not a position willing sought, nor one that can be supported with absolutism of cause. That said, this essay renders a solution to the current strife as irreconcilable, the question is when to act?

http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/disruptive-politics-in-the-trump-era-yuval-levin-or-victor-davis-hanson/

[Old Dog New Trick]

Good find -

Hanson proposes a very different response to the Progressive Project and the Trump administration. As noted earlier, Hanson declared that we are in a “larger existential war for the soul of America.” Further, he states, “warts and all, the Trump presidency on all fronts is all that now stands in the way of what was started in 2009” (Obama’s “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.”)

“The Marquess of Queensberry world of John McCain and Mitt Romney,” Hanson tells us, will not halt the march of the Progressive Left, a form of disruption is required. “Either Trump will restore economic growth, national security, the melting pot, legality, and individual liberty or he will fail and we will go the way of Europe,” Hanson writes. “For now, there is no one else in the opposition standing in the way of radical progressivism.”

A lot to digest but worth the read.

I’m a Classic Liberal or Libertarian before it became a bad Conservative. I lean right of center but believe people should enjoy all that is available to us as free citizens and should chart our own destiny. Work hard enjoy the fruits of our labor and play harder. I’m am extremely supportive of the Constitution and believe the Founding Fathers understood better than anyone before or since then the simplicity of the principles of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

I’d lean in favor of Hanson’s theory that we are in an existential fight for The American Way of Life. If that’s American Exceptionalism then I will fight and perhaps die to protect it.

When does the shooting start? (ETA: Some days I wish I was single and without child. Responsibility for others is a bitch! - Sig line in yellow.)

[tonyz]

Excellent article.

More and more it appears that it was leadership @FBI, DOJ, IRS the CIA, etc., and essentially every government agency that were fundamentally transformed during Obama's 8 years. Obama also tried hard to marginalize or destroy many in military leadership who did not see "diversity" as the be-all-and-end-all to war fighting and preparation.

With this fundamental government transformation in place, and with the public education system leaning far left, the major university faculties overwhelming hard left, so too the media, and Hollywood...that sure was a LOT of "insurance" in place...and that criminal Klinton still lost.

No wonder they hate Trump and those who voted for him so much. Thier hatred is visceral and that hatred can lead to very poor judgement and even desperation. We all know that poor judgment and desperation can lead to very bad decisions. Let's hope that Trump can survive long enough for the DOJ and the judicial branch to root out and punish the traitors to freedom within the system and the Constitution. If this does not happen - there just may be a simmering that may ultimately boil over.

The curtain certainly has been pulled back on just how corrosive, corrupt and anti-freedom the Statists truly are - and we know now that they ain't all Russian.

Interesting times.

[Penn]

ODNT

I’d lean in favor of Hanson’s theory that we are in an existential fight for The American Way of Life. If that’s American Exceptionalism then I will fight and perhaps die to protect it.

I stand with you!

[Badger52]

I’d lean in favor of Hanson’s theory that we are in an existential fight for The American Way of Life. If that’s American Exceptionalism then I will fight and perhaps die to protect it.

When does the shooting start? (ETA: Some days I wish I was single and without child. Responsibility for others is a bitch! - Sig line in yellow.)+1 And the "incoming" arrives from a variety of directions; enemies foreign and domestic. Make your lists kiddies & check them regularly.

From Sharyl Attkisson:
No matter where you stand politically, a growing body of facts raises the question: Is there systemic corruption or misfeasance at work inside America’s intelligence agencies?

By that, I don’t mean people stealing money. I mean officials who are stealing our privacy — using the tools of intelligence-gathering and law-enforcing, which are meant to protect Americans, to instead spy on them, to gather information that isn’t the government’s business (at least not without a court’s approval). And, in some instances, it appears, to punish or silence those with whom they disagree — personal and political foes, in and out of government — rather than to pursue and protect Americans from the country’s real enemies.

Perhaps more alarming is the growing evidence that suggests some officials at all levels in intelligence and justice agencies are operating in a way that is clearly intended to serve their own political beliefs and interests — not the public’s interests.

And sometimes, it appears, they operate not just in direct defiance of their superiors but of the Congress, the courts and the very laws of the land as well.

(Almost as disturbing, Congress, for its part, seems all too willing to allow all of this to take place, when it becomes known, rather than using its authority to stop the misfeasance, punish the miscreants who lie or stonewall, and protect their constituents.)

Her full article is on The Hill's opinion site here.
(http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/366442-10-times-the-intel-community-violated-the-trust-of-americas)

[Team Sergeant]

There's a reason they have that name.............:munchin