{"id":6310,"date":"2016-06-30T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/the-subterranean-link\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:17:05","slug":"the-subterranean-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/the-subterranean-link\/","title":{"rendered":"The Subterranean Link and the ‘Bow-Tie Brigade’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is perhaps the deepest connection, the subterranean link, between the decidedly strange bedfellows, Leftism and Islamism: both deny the absoluteness of truth and both make it subservient to power and arbitrary will.<\/span><\/p>\n

But how is it that Islamists attack objective truth? Aren't they theists? Don't they believe in an absolute source and ground of being and truth?  Yes indeed.  But their God is unlimited Power.  Their God is all-powerful to the max: there are no truths of logic, nor any necessary truths, that limit his power.  The Muslim God is pure, omnipotent will.  (See Pope Benedict's Regensurg Speech and Muslim Oversensitivity<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So we who form the Coalition of the Sane and Decent have our work cut out for us.  It is a war on two fronts: against radical Islam and against their leftist enablers such as Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary 'Milhous' Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you refuse to vote for Donald Trump because he is in several ways a loathsome individual, then I pronounce you a fool in point of the political.  You don't understand that politics is a practical struggle, not a gentlemanly conversation.  It is not about perfection or ideological purity or choosing the Good over the Bad.  It's about better or worse in the ugly concrete circumstances in which we presently find ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

The argument of George Will and others of the 'bow-tie brigade' is patently lame, as lame as can be.  They will do what they can to stop Trump the vulgarian know-nothing.   In so doing they support Hillary.  When this is pointed out, the response is that  after four years of Hillary, we will elect a 'true' conservative to the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

This ignores the fact that after four years of Hillary it may be too late.  Four more years of illegal immigration from the south; four more years of largely unvetted Muslim immigration, including Syrian refugees; four more years of erosion of First and Second Amendment rights; four years in which Hillary can make 2-5 Supreme Court appointments; four more years of attacks on civil society, the buffer space between the individual and the state apparatus;  four more years of sanctuary cities and the flouting of the rule of law; four more years of assaults on the likes of the Little Sisters of the Poor and others who stand in the way of the pro-abortion agenda; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is another question for George and Bill Kristol and the rest of the bow-tie boys: who will be your candidate?  David French?  Lindsey Graham?  Jeb!?<\/span><\/p>\n

You boys live in Cloud Cuckoo Land.  You are expecting the resurrection of Ronald Reagan.  It ain't gonna happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the preternatural crapaciousness of the bow-tie arguments, I am permitted to psychologize.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Will and the boys fear is the loss of their Ps: their power, position, perquisites, and pelf.  They want the status quo in which they can continue to yap and scribble as before and enjoy the high life.  They understand that a third term of Obama in the guise of Hillary is a better bet for them than a populist coup.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is perhaps the deepest connection, the subterranean link, between the decidedly strange bedfellows, Leftism and Islamism: both deny the absoluteness of truth and both make it subservient to power and arbitrary will. But how is it that Islamists attack objective truth? Aren't they theists? Don't they believe in an absolute source and ground of … Continue reading “The Subterranean Link and the ‘Bow-Tie Brigade’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,163,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","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=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}