Category: Culture

in a nutshell: Man sees/experiences crime. The crime is pretty much ignored by authorities who are either crooked or at least unjust. There ARE no consequences to the perp, or at least no jut ones.

But the man gets injured so he takes things into his own hands to distribute some rough justice–because he won’t get it otherwise. Batman, Death Wish, and almost every film or book has some variant of this–the plucky upstart vanquishes the unfair (often government sponsored) rival. From the book of Genesis to Harry Potter. From “The Merchant of Venice” to Jane Austen to Charles Bronson to Clint Eastwood to Roald Dahl to JK Rowling to current events in modern London. Virtually everyone.

And we ALL cheer when the “bad guy” is finally served his JUST deserts! Human being are, at heart, vigilantes, and it is only fair courts of justice that banks that down.

This a very deep cultural “pull” on virtually all humans! And Lefties exacerbate things by being soft on crime and courts not applying justice.

In short, Leftism is an unwitting producer of vigilanteism.

problem when the Irish enter the fray.

Because if history teaches us anything, it is this: You can push the Irish. You can insult the Irish, tax them, starve them, even underestimate them. But eventually, somewhere in the distance, you’re going to hear the sound of a chair scraping across a pub floor. And that’s usually when things get interesting.

It’s a great article. I hope you read it.

been something of a cultural shift. Part of it is the growing gap in standards of morality, of right and wrong. People have been forced to jump to one side or the other of the ever-widening cultural chasm, There is FAR less tolerance for “mugwumps” or the mushy middle–mug on one side of the fence, and “wump” on the other.

Rather than being seen as broad-minded and tolerant, they are now seen as simply craven, unprincipled and unthinking rubes who can’t decide what they really believe and so constantly try and “split the difference.” They are people who seem to have no firm, secure, and abiding political grounding at all, and who often cloak their extreme Leftism in the robes of “moderate.”

really cannot tolerate Rubio being “cool.”

It really goes against everything in the mainstream media think that they are. Suddenly, they are the annoying, nerdy little dude who constantly irritates others and finally gets a wedgie.

And they just can’t deal.

And I don’t know that Rubio is necessarily “cool.” He can actually be kind of dorky. But I’m not even sure that matters. What does matter is that, while yes, he is a politician and proves that sometimes, he’s also human and relatable in a way that those guys I mentioned above will never be. Now that he’s arguably one of the most important men in the world, the MSM is catching on, and they don’t like it one bit.

… My point is that none of this is forced. It’s not for political gain. He is just being who he is. And that’s something very few Democrats are able to do these days. 

You can tell it’s a threat to the left because the MSM is starting to speak negatively about it. They see this cool dude whose star is rising at a rapid pace because of relatable things he says and does, who is a strong potential 2028 contender, and who is having fun while doing it.