Democrats as Tribal Termites – Maverick Philosopher

Mendocino Joe writes,

Wow, I cannot believe what I am seeing in our country these days.

I think your blog post about the Left hating because they need a bogey man after winning the civil rights battle is way too kind. I think we are seeing, in the Left these days, radical Evil from the pit. We are watching people who are unmoored from any traditional religion or morality, completely unmoored. It is very scary to me.

A lot will depend on what happens today and the days following. If the Republicans cave, and Kavanaugh is quashed, then all hell might break loose.

The Democrats are now undeniably a hard-Left party. And as my old friend says, they are "unmoored from any traditional religion or morality." To change the metaphor, they are termites working to undermine the foundations of our magnificent Anglo-American system of law.

A bedrock principle thereof is the presumption of innocence. One is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The presumption of innocence puts the burden of proof where it belongs, on the accuser, not the accused. Contrary to what some leftist senators are now saying, this is a principle of morality that is antecedent to the positive law. Its application extends therefore beyond the positive law, criminal and civil.

But the Dems are leftists out for power any way they can get it. For them the end justifies the means no matter how shabby or absurd. They ought to be denounced for the termites they are, or, to change the metaphor once more, the scum that they are.

They are termites because they undermine the foundations of American greatness. But why tribal? Because they vote as a bloc, walking the walking and talking the talk that their tribal leaders have drilled into them. Like good successor-commies, they toe the Party line and submit to Party discipline. There is not a maverick among them. They all will vote to oppose Kavanaugh's nomination.

Additional commentary. (HT: Bill Keezer)

Angelo Codevilla, Cowardly Republicans Grant a False Premise

Scott McKay, The Palpable Existential Danger Among Us

Mark Steyn, Hearing the Women, Then and Now

An Impending Shooting Civil War?

Victor Davis Hanson, Are We on the Verge of Civil War?

There follows an excerpt from the fourth hyperlinked item supra. Would it not be great if there were Republicans who had the civil courage to say the following? (Emphases in original)

Let me be clear on this — if you're bitter that there was no President Pantsuit that's fine. Losses can be bitter, especially when you really think you should have won. But no matter what you think by the rules of the contest Hillary lost to Trump — period.

But if you go beyond being bitter, start up hashtags like "#Resist" and then put that into action both inside and outside the government to disregard and disrupt the results of a valid electoral process you are not only violating the law you are inciting a shooting civil war.

This sort of activity by people inside the government is treading right to if not over the line of insurrection. The use of government force for unlawful purpose, intentionally, meets the definition; it is an attempt to overthrow the law of the United States by corrupting the monopoly on deadly force that the government has and directing it unlawfully against certain people for political purposes. This is not a "petty offense"; it is a direct assault on and attempt to overthrow the result of a lawful elective process and according to the above link it's still going on today.

If you're aggrieved by an election's results you have every right to print up a sign and go picket on a public street or other public place. You can take out all the political advertisements you wish and make your best effort to get a different result the next time around. But you do not have the right to enter into a restaurant where someone is eating dinner, which is private property, and assault said person because they happen to be a member of that political party. That is a violation of the law in that it constitutes assault and is begging for an immediate outbreak of violence in response.

Read the whole thing. It's very good.