Saturday, April 12, 2025

It's Stupids All The Way Down




No Half Measures


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do we separate this country between the morons and the rest of us?

wibble said...

@Anonymous: ...We don't. We already settled this issue once, but it looks like we just might end up doing it again...

" The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.

These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us."

Replace 'slavery' with 'fascism' and you get the situation in a nutshell.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

We've done this already. Apparently we've forgotten the lesson, and so remedial action is needed, in one way or another.

Anonymous said...

the morons are everywhere. Read the comments even at medical & science websites, and despair. No one is dumber than MDs discussing politics