{"id":30581,"date":"2015-03-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30581"},"modified":"2015-03-08T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:40:40","slug":"the-dangers-of-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/the-dangers-of-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangers of “good intentions”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hoyt<\/a> is trying to talk some sense into some of her conservative friends who appear to want to “burn it all down” politically and rebuild on the ruins. She compares it to the plight of the Continental troops at Valley Forge:<\/p>\n

Lately there has been a wave of talk about leaving the GOP behind, going third party. It\u2019s seemingly everywhere (except this blog, where the people espousing it are people who always have — hold on to that point, it will be relevant later.)<\/p>\n

I know I responded with a twitter rant of someone who got more snippy than I would have because he said it better than I could — not the snippy part, but the point of his rant — to someone who said that two days ago. I am sorry, no offense meant. It\u2019s just that I think you — all of you — are barking up the wrong tree and failing to see both the progress and the problems with your chosen course.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In letting it burn — what do you think will happen? If you give democrats control of the country for another 12? 20? Years, what do you think will happen?<\/p>\n

These are people who have been taught America is the source of all problems.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really hard to decide whether the current administration is full of malice or incompetence, because the answer is something else. They\u2019re actually full of good intentions, but they\u2019re full of love for the Earth. Citizens of the world, they call themselves, who have seen nothing of it outside of protected and pampered visits and the indoctrination of our schools.<\/p>\n

These are people — in our own field — who write the stories about naturally enlightened and full of compassion and wisdom people in the deepest Africa, villagers with no education who spout perfect SJW points. And they believe this. It is ironic that they never bring that enlightened savage view to bear on our own rural people. No, those are rednecks who drink gin and beat paleontologists to death (Possibly because they despise trinomial designations, who knows.) In fact our least educated rural inhabitant, while having some prejudices, is far more open minded, accepting and less aggressive than what you find in other countries. I know. I grew up elsewhere. The things rural \u201cuneducated\u201d villagers will say in Portugal would make an SJW\u2019s hair stand on end. And THAT\u2019s in a nominally first world country. In Africa, where I traveled in my youth, let\u2019s just say it\u2019s more so.<\/p>\n

But these people, educated in our best universities, and largely protected from reality by a tower of \u201clearning\u201d really believe this stuff. They believe that the rest of the world is innocent, and it\u2019s only America and Western civilization that corrupted it.<\/p>\n

So what they\u2019re doing is trying in earnest to dismantle western civilization, so that happiness and flowers ensue. Yes, they\u2019re incompetent, and we should give thanks on knees they\u2019re incompetent and that their fantasist view of reality extends to more than their black-and-white view of the world. Otherwise we\u2019d already be done for.<\/p>\n

However, I beg you to believe that destruction is far easier than construction. Even deluded and incontinent children can do it. Give them long enough and they\u2019ll not only destroy the US in all relevant senses, but they will destroy the world.<\/p>\n

Our current administration has brought us far closer to nuclear war than we\u2019ve been since the Soviet Union collapsed in on its corrupt self. And worse, it will be a multiparty war that will leave at best 1\/3 of the world in ruins. And what they\u2019re doing to the new generation, between indoctrination, unemployment and setting the sexes against each other doesn\u2019t bear thinking too deeply about, lest the black pit yawns beneath our feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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