{"id":391,"date":"2024-12-14T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/maga-epistrophic-not-metanoic\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T13:44:33","slug":"maga-epistrophic-not-metanoic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/maga-epistrophic-not-metanoic\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA, Majority Rule, and Consent of the Governed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In short, the political battle between the Left and Right is best understood as an existential fight over what America will be. The Left pushes for a metanoic transformation, while the Right tries to catalyze an epistrophic one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Metanoia is a forward-looking change \u2014 a recognition that one\u2019s past way of life was flawed in some fundamental way. Regret precipitates a self-rejection that drives the transformation, which is a deliberate turning away<\/em> from one\u2019s previous identity. In contrast, epistrophe is a backward-looking change \u2014 a realization that at some point one betrayed the true self and embraced a false mode of being. Epistrophic transformation, then, is a return<\/em> to one\u2019s essential identity \u2014 a return to a previous (and more authentic) way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the second Trump administration, America will be transformed \u2014 and it will be an epistrophic transformation. The citizens of the country have unmistakably rejected the Left\u2019s claim that our traditional identity was morally untenable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Very good over all, but is the last quoted sentence true? <\/span><\/p>\n

The concept democracy<\/em> includes at least four sub-concepts: majority rule, universal franchise, equality before the law, and consent of the governed.  Consider the first and the fourth.  They are in tension with each other. Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, but he won the latter only by about 2%.  So almost half of the voters did not<\/em> give their consent to be governed by Trump and his entourage and to be subjected to his and their agenda. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a citizen and a patriot, I am very happy with the outcome: I want to see our political enemies soundly defeated and demoralized.  As a philosopher, however, one who values truth above all else, and along with it, the ancillary virtues of  precision in thought and speech,  I must point out that that it is false that the citizens have unmistakably rejected the depredatory Left's signature allegation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The false claim is being thoughtlessly repeated by too many media pundits on our side. Widely bruited as it is, it may have the negative effect of causing complacency. We are in a war with the Left and it won't be over soon, if ever. The National Sanitation Project, as I have been calling it, may take a generation or more. All of our institutions need the political equivalent of fumigation.  That includes, of course, the RCC which, though not part of the state apparatus, is an institution that affects the course of the ship of state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: In short, the political battle between the Left and Right is best understood as an existential fight over what America will be. The Left pushes for a metanoic transformation, while the Right tries to catalyze an epistrophic one. Metanoia is a forward-looking change \u2014 a recognition that one\u2019s past way of life was flawed … Continue reading “MAGA, Majority Rule, and Consent of the Governed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,43,56,48,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pathocracy-and-totalitarianism","category-political-language","category-politics","category-social-and-political-philosophy","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}