Girding

Schlicter laces up:

When the liberals and their squishy-soft allies in Conservative, Inc., start moaning about your dreadful incivility, that’s a clear indicator that you are doing something right and that you need to double down. Civility, once properly understood as a means to an end rather than an end in and of itself, has morphed from an aspiration into a political/cultural gimp suit designed to prevent you from effectively asserting your interests and your point of view.

For liberals, civility is a grift – they think it’s a punchline and they’re waiting to laugh at you for embracing it. It’s a way to keep you from interrupting their non-stop attacks on your rights, your faith, and your dignity by convincing you that it’s somehow wrong to get upset when, say, some Astroturf Tot backed up by a bunch of leftist Red Guard orgs like Planned Parenthood and Move On starts shrieking that you have blood on your hands.

For the Fredocons, civility is just an excuse for lounging on the Lido Deck while those of us not signed onto Team Submissive wade in and fight. It’s also an excuse to push back against the revolt of the Normals that their incompetent, self-serving bumbling created. They will never, ever attack the progressive cultural aggressors, those leftist savages spewing their death wishes against conservatives while saving the grossest sexual slurs for the brave female warriors whose will not back down in the face of progressive hate. Your refusal to knuckle under shames the sissycons.

For normies, war happens when the attackers give no other choice.

Civility is a component of a system of reasoned debate, not its end product. Civility is necessary in a system where people reason in good faith in order to come to the best solution to the policy challenges facing them. Civility lubricates that process, and allows people of good faith to disagree without engendering unnecessary and destructive discord.

People of good faith. See, that’s key.

The problem is that progressives are not people of good faith.

They are not trying to reason. They are not trying to compromise. They do not accept the basic concept that all American citizens have inalienable rights and that the law must apply equally to everyone. They hate us.

Teaching children to hate is de rigueur for both the Left and Palestinians, whose children want, crave, to kill Jews - so they tote AKs and don bomb-vests in pursuit of the purity of the belief system which they have been taught.

Compromise? That is a fool's mission. To these folks compromise merely means another step up the ladder to full control. (Trump is working that angle by forcing compromises which the Left cannot abide).

Thomas Jefferson; A Complete Statement

The Jefferson Memorial bears only half of one of his sentences.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

This immoral truncation would imply that "these people" will become Americans in a culturally assimilated ethnic sense, purely by relieving them of their slave status.

Here is Jefferson's full paragraph:

“The bill on the subject of slaves was a mere digest of the existing laws respecting them, without any intimation of a plan for a future & general emancipation. It was thought better that this should be kept back, and attempted only by way of amendment whenever the bill should be brought on. [Note 1 Cf. post, with Notes on Virginia in this edition.] The principles of the amendment however were agreed on, that is to say, the freedom of all born after a certain day, and deportation at a proper age. But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers. If on the contrary it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up. We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors. This precedent would fall far short of our case.”

Because people exist in distributions rather than unitary coherences, many have and will assimilate. Jefferson, however, lists three reasons that some, even many at the opposite side of the distribution, cannot assimilate: nature, habit, and opinion.

Assimilate into what? The white population has the same issue: Leftists cannot assimilate into the principles of individualism, liberty, common decency, or lawfully living under the US Constitution.
[Triggered by Brimelow at VDare]

Remember This...

...whenever you discuss either evolution or Global Government Utopia?

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

The errors of each are easily listed; they will be dismissed without reasoning or evidence by the AtheoLeft.