Recorded live before a global audience on 01/28/21.
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The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 273
Recorded live before a global audience on 01/28/21.
Recorded live before a global audience on 01/28/21.
Recorded live before a global audience on 01/28/21.
5 replies on “The Stratosphere Lounge Episode 273”
GET LOUD… GET ANGRY… do what they do… SCREAM IN THEIR FACES… make them so fukin uncomfortable when ever they venture out of their enclaves that they become afraid to be seen in public… aunty Maxine Waters spelled it out to us…. so… lets do it their way…. become so unspeakably obnoxious and horrible that they begin to FEAR US….. It is time to take the war to them.
Speaking from the Christian wing of American Conservatism, about Bill’s somewhat dismissive regard for a religious awakening, there is nothing to preclude both a religious awakening and a giant middle finger to this unjust machine of Leftist avarice, greed and lust for power.
Christ gave such people absolutely no quarter. I believe he referred to them frequently as snakes and hypocrites. He did encourage them to repent of their evil but he never failed to call them out in ways that would make the average Republican blush.
A return to God, including an old-fashioned corporate repentance, has always been at the center of America’s greatness. The two are inseparable. There is a spiritual drive that comes by no other means than our Creator. Remember Franklin’s request to beseech the Creator’s blessing when our fledgling country was choked at an impasse of insurmountable disagreement between representatives in our first Constitutional Convention? When we humble ourselves before God and set our minds toward a restoration of righteousness, that is when things will happen.
You mentioned Conservatives motivated by having nothing left to lose. But there is one greater motivation. People motivated to seek after the common grace of righteousness. Righteousness in this sense being akin to equality before the law, right of self defense, pursuit of happiness, etc. Conservative persons who are so motivated will crawl over broken glass, lay all that they have before the task at hand to restore righteousness, and not look back. Of such are patriots born.
RE the Mousetrap illustration…
I love the idea of the Rage of the People (the Ira Populi?) being like the energy stored in a mousetrap, where the smallest touch sets it off. I’d like to expand and refine that.
If you’ve ever worked with mechanical clocks that are spring-driven, you know the power stored in a mainspring. If you’ve ever tried to replace a mainspring and touched The Wrong Thing, you know what happens when all that energy is released in your face. A mousetrap is designed to release and do harm. Snap-! and then the mousetrap is inert. It is waiting for a hapless mouse to accidentally stumble upon it. A mainspring, on the other hand, isn’t a trap; it’s a means to do work. Metered and released gradually, the Ira Populi is the potential energy that moves the country to make change. Individualists know to keep the spring moderately wound, and the clock will tick happily along in perpetuity. The input of unrest and the output of change will be in balance. The Collectivists want all the change at once, so they foolishly wind the spring tight, to try and get an increase in output. They bind the spring solid, and it locks up. Nothing happens. That’s where we are getting to now. Two things can happen from this point forward. The monkey with the key can continue to try to wind the spring until it snaps. Or the monkey can grab a wrench and try to fix the clock. Either way the monkey (who has a scant grasp of horology) is going to do damage. The spring will release at once, shredding the works of the clock and exploding across the room in a maelstrom of sharp steel that unfurls faster than you can register what’s happening. One last thing: resetting a mousetrap is easy. Pull the lever, done. If you’ve ever tried to rewind a popped mainspring without the correct tools, it is difficult, strenuous, tedious, and sometimes bloody. Sometimes it takes more than one try because it pops again halfway through.
One major flaw I see with the U.S. Constitution is the lack of ability for regular folk to enforce the oaths of office against the government officials. They can blatantly violate the constitution then make up a right of “sovereign immunity” and continue on without consequences.
With the Columbia anniversary coming up, it’s a great time to re-read Bill’s magnificent 2003 essay “Courage” (which, thanks to member Jack Ramble reminding us about web.archive.org, I’ve found a copy of here). I’m updating my long-lived “Index of Bill Whittle’s ‘Silent America’ Essays” with the web archive links, and hoping we’ve learned the key lesson of Challenger.