We are becoming exhausted by relentless comfort politics.
Last week I wrote about pleasure and discomfort, and the pleasure that comes after suffering. But I didn’t quite finish the thought, so I’ll sum it up here: Our gruesome, empty, destructive political theater is the result of too much ease and abundance. We’re doing what people do when life is too easy.
When will Americans lose patience with the never-ending march of stupidity, and what will happen when they do?
Americans seem to have forgotten how much political violence this country has experienced. Our new republic has three Selection subjects tax revolt.
When the Kansas-Nebraska Act resolved the debate over the expansion of slavery through popular sovereignty, there were pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas. fought for control of the country using swords and cannons. Before the Harper’s Ferry attack, John Brown became famous for leading the Harper’s Ferry attack. unusually violent attack He cut a man to death with a broadsword in a pro-slavery settlement.
Colorado coal miners responded. Ludlow Massacre with 10 days war About mining companies.
and so on. Choose your own 12 examples of her. Colfax Massacre. The attack on Congress by Puerto Rican nationalists. Political assassinations in the 1960s.
We have had years of relative peace, but absurd acts of mostly unilateral violence where Black Lives Matter and Antifa mobs are recognized and celebrated for burning cities. destroyed by.Most of these acts were not violent, aside from the notable example of Kyle Rittenhouse Contest; Although most of them were violent expressions, License granted By idiots in positions of authority. Compared to the bombardment that destroyed the Springfield Armory. Shaysite Apart from that, we did not have Fight.
While we have been relatively peaceful, we have experienced the easy affluence of those who casually expect their student loans to disappear, for example. They don’t want to pay.
People who live in peace, security, and comfort forget this cycle — let’s be civil about this — mess it up and find out. The protesters who burn things and bang their heads do not recognize the darkness they are toying with. Gaige Grosskreutz claimed he was holding a handgun when Kyle Rittenhouse shot him and was embarrassed that someone would do something so violent to him.
In that context, we arrive at the breathtakingly stupid and reckless jury trial against the top Republican candidate that began this week in Manhattan. Donald Trump is facing ridiculous accusations that are clearly brought about in a performative and political manner. This is unnecessarily provocative behavior, and provocative behavior comes from fools.
Across the country, Democrats are rejecting basic systems of rational order.California Democratic Party nullified the bill It would be a felony to try to buy a child for sex last week and then turn around the next day. killed the bill The law requires public schools to “depict or describe sexual acts in a manner that is patently offensive and that as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to minors.” ” materials must be removed from kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms. I think it is important to stick to the principle of providing extremely sexual content to kindergarteners.
Shut down highways, bridges, and airports across the country and stack up the organized anti-Israel shutdowns alongside the aggressive Trump trial.People were sitting on the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland for almost 5 hours They were waiting for the California Highway Patrol to arrest the idiots they chained up there. We only do this to people if we think it won’t cost us much.
And they probably won’t. At this point. But peace and social order are gradually and suddenly lost, as Hemingway depicts his characters on the road to bankruptcy.
My best guess is that the absurdity of the Trump trial will unmask a group of singularly stupid provocateurs and expose them naked in the court of public opinion. When will Americans lose patience with the never-ending march of stupidity, and what will happen when they do?
I think it’s better not to find out. They should like the same thing. We need a path to social and institutional maturity, and we need it urgently. We need some of these people to start recognizing the potential costs of their actions before the bills are due.
