The wise and good Victor Davis Hanson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggAreJDoOmE
This goes along with an email I just received from Prof. William Jacobsen:
If you have read my writings at the Legal Insurrection blog for any time, you know that one of my favorite poems is The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Most people focus on the line “things fall apart,” with good reason now. It seems that the nation is coming apart and anarchy has been loosed upon the world.
I focus on the last two lines, how “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
The worst people seem to have more passionate intensity, while the best people seem to lack conviction to fight back.
I’m sure you have noticed that. We’ve noticed, too. It’s one of the reasons we fight so hard to be your voice to restore sanity and balance.
As I said in Legal Insurrection’s 15th Anniversary video:
We view ourselves as being your voice, as being able to say the things you know you want to say, but perhaps for fear of job loss can’t say. We draw the fire, so that you don’t have to.
We are witnessing a wholesale assault on truth and reality, particularly on campuses. There’s a famous line, wrongly attributed to George Orwell, that ‘in a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The conviction to fight is within us; but, even now, only a small percentage of the good people are fully aware there’s a war they need to fight back against. We are steadfast in our convictions, however – that will be hard to beat.
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I don’t think the will is within most of us. People have long since been spoiled to other people taking care of their problems.
We tend to think of that meaning the left being so dependent, but I disagree. I think we have a huge number of people on the right who are indignantly waiting for someone else to finally do something to fix all the things they will sit and list all day, everyday, are wrong with the world.
I said it when President Trump had the election stolen from him, before his election when he battled all of the back stabbers throughout D.C. and the business world, and since. It makes people hopping mad, but I see it as an absolute truth. MAGA movement is brimming with people who are all in for him, and him alone, to make their world right again.
They are loud, loyal, enthusiastic. And lazy. Not all of them, but too many for him to carry off what he has to do unless they wake up.
And my money, sad to say, is never on the people. Time and again people get a huge second chance and are too lazy to use it.
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To finish my thoughts, these feelings and opinions became a lot more firm after the election was stolen. I can’t say how many comments I saw at the Treehouse as an admin saying “Trust the plan.”
They honestly still thought President Trump alone could turn the clock back, turn the tide, and right the broken world.
Fix all the things they let happen by not being dutiful citizens, not speaking out, not being involved locally, not volunteering at election stations, not raising a clamor when Covid was used to push through “election reform.”
During Covid there were specific things I did very frequently to throw a wrench in the works, not the least of which was contacting my mayor all the time.
What could have happened if instead of me being one of the few lone “nuts,” the people in my city were harassing his pants off, down at City Hall, refusing to be locked up, as I and a few others did?
No, when I saw people, thousands of people, sit on their buts and swear there was a plan, I lost most, not all, of my remaining faith in American citizenry, with all the responsibility that word, citizen, implies.
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