A quote from my old buddy (he said something nice to me in an e-mail once – he might have been sarcastic) Hunter S. Thompson.
“…. that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
Nixon won 49 States in the election that followed. High water mark indeed.
Which brings me to this Atlantic article, Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson. Now I could dissect the article and critique its points. But lets just cut to the chase.
But there is no coherent reason for the left’s obliterating and irrational hatred of Jordan Peterson. What, then, accounts for it?
It is because the left, while it currently seems ascendant in our houses of culture and art, has in fact entered its decadent late phase, and it is deeply vulnerable.
So what will it be “flavor of the week favored” or “I’m making the pie much bigger and everyone can get a piece” ? I think we will see “earned pie” ascendant. Or as a famous Democrat once said. “It’s the economy, stupid.” And he was right. Will he be right this time? We will know in about 3 months.
Update: 10 August 2018 0611z
An interesting video about how the current moral panic about Alex Jones et. al. is duping Democrats into being corporate shills. The troops are fighting for what they think is a moral issue. The people who are using them are fighting for corporate profits.
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15 responses to “The High-water Mark”
I explained to you before when you put that quote up.I have been fighting republican fascist police state since the 1960’s rashide tlaib a muslim dem. soc. has just won primary seat in detroit michigan. maybe more as primary season continues. look at the support bernie sanders got in 2016. only black/hispanic vote saved clinton’s nomination as they did not know sanders and tried to play it safe to protect themselves. hunter thompson is dead and the grave yards are full of indispensable men. remember the parable of the elephant and the ants. a very few walkaways ;but very many dems running to bernie and alexandra! every day we get stroger you get weaker. I don’t know who this petersen is and could care less.
Dude,
Your mistake is in thinking it is just the Republicans.
I gave up that delusion in 1980. That would be about 38 years ago.
At this point I make coalitions on issues. Sadly for you I agree with the Rs more often than the Ds.
every day we get stroger you get weaker.
Nixon 49 States.
And BTW doesn’t promoting Muslisms conflict with feminism? And they don’t like gays much either. How will you keep that coalition together?
Captain A,
The mistake you make is in assuming there is an us v them situation when it comes to politics (as in Dems v Repubs).
The reality is both the Republicans and Democrats are out to protect themselves. They couldn’t give a flying f89k about the little people on the ground outside of how they can twist them to ensure they vote the right way (ie. to protect their political power).
Also interesting that you say you have been fighting the Republican police state in Detroit. Correct me if Im wrong but isn’t Detroit a solid Democrat strong hold…and has been for decades? Which would explain its rampant crime and how it has no money.
here we go first mailman I am captain arizona not captain detroit because thats where I live and the name is from my anti-fascist radio talk show I did in the 1970’s simon muslim tlaib is lefty and on cnn wasn’t wearing head scarf. simon I would be scared if you agreed with d’s more then r’s. nixon 1972? this isn’t 1972! or even 1984 (though it seems like it is!) you must think all democrats love pelosi and worship clinton. 6 million didn’t vote in 2016 and another 2 million voted third party in 2016. jackpine radicals not democraticunderground is where left democrats are. bernie sanders alexandra ocasio-cortez and now rawhide tlaib are taking over democrat party (but slowly)
antifa not walkaway is gaining strength. small number of conservatives very large number of anti-fascists at d.c. rally today. signs at rally and lefty blogs now rethinking opposition to 2 amendment.
@captain – You consider those conservatives?
LOL. Think again.
Cap,
Identity politics is a left thing.
Violence in the street is a left thing.
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What does the new right stand for? Economics. Production.
Something Democrats once stood for. Things like low cost electricity. Now Democrat favor high cost boutique electricity.
Heck. I was in Berkeley for the Free Speech movement. I was 10 ft from Mario Saviio at one or two rallies. And now the left wants to curtail any speech it doesn’t approve of. You have become your enemy.
I stand for Free Speech. Still.
kathy ask them they will tell you they are conservative white nationalists. I am sure you consider antifa leftys.
violence in the streets is left because shooting the kent state and jackson state students were not in the streets neither was murdering fred hamton and mark clark in the street though cheney, schwerner, goodman and viola luisso were on highways. so was edmund pettis bridge selma al. as was shooting black children at the gretna la. bridge when they tried to cross to get away from hurricane katrina. I could go on and on ;but you get the point. all my life conservatives have tried to stop my “free speech.” from shutting down my captain arizona radio show ( hence my name) to shutting down my peace park by state leg. when reagan laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown nazi at bitburg saying the war is over. conservatives az government called out the national guard to stop me fling the vietnamese flag at my vietnam war protestors memorial. when mesa voted down the dr. king holiday and I put up a billboard say welcome to racist mormon mesa the city took in down saying it was incitement. so tell me again about conservatives and free speech now that left is doing to conservatives what conservatives have been doing to us!
No, I consider Antifa to be Fa.
60% of democrats say they are democratic soc. and even 15% of republicans!
The Democrats were in trouble from 1972 until 1992 because they went socialist.
Why repeat the Error?
wrong again simon 1972 mcgovern problem was his anti war message when most white americans were ambivalent on vietnam war not soc. (I get blocked when I spell it out) tricky dick appealed to racists in the south and semi-racist hard hats in the north. unions were strong and white were afraid blacks would get their jobs as republicans hadn’t destroyed their unions yet! so the hard hats had time to beat up anti-war protestors. 1968’s clinton humpty dumpty and that part of the party the establishment couldn’t stop mcgovern because they were discredited just like now. this was not soc. but liberalism.
1980 reagan beat jimmy carter with treason just like nixon in 1968. holding our hostages till after 1980 election remember iran/contra this is how it started. bill casey’s treasonous deal. 1968 nixon makes deal with thieu to avoid peace talks till after 1968 )lbj had it on tape and played it for rep. sen dirksen. 1984 walter mondale another bad candidate like clinton with reagan doubling the debt and then doubling it again hoppers say government spending bad as they spent like drunkin sailors. not soc. reagan just say no to drug dealing but forgot to tell ollie north to stop financing the contras by selling dope to black school children. (dark alliance gary webb.) this was when uncle milty freidman’s rich supporters bought him a nobel prize in economics and his free trade trickle down economic ayn randist bullish*t hadn’t destroyed the working class yet! ross periot got bubba elected twice just as jill stein got trump elected and ralph nader got bushithead elected in 2000. I have to do history simon again!