In today’s Moving Back to America video, Bill rekindles some of the passion he had at the beginning of the series. Instead of being merely “Bill Whittle Now without Scott Ott” as all the videos after perhaps the first five have been up to now, he gets into the nature of the enemy and their motivation.
The passion prevents him from presenting a deep, comprehensive analysis, but that’s not what these videos are for. Putting aside the yet-another-political-commentary-ness of the intervening episodes, those first few and this one exhibit the controlled, determined anger that is the only sensible way to fuel efforts to take back the nation.
This is what the movement needs. This is what can lead to a successful MB2A: Bill setting the tone, setting the direction, and assessing the field of battle. All that’s missing from the video is an actual reference to MB2A by name.
That’s an important omission. For this movement to work, we need to know that our general acknowledges and supports our efforts. Even if that’s all Bill does, it will keep the troops’ spirits up and keep them energized for the fight. It’s necessary lest the movement dissipate and fade out.
Those first few episodes had me fired up and all in. I put in a lot of work to write a statement of principles and put together a group to start working toward our goals. Then, as the beating heart of the episodes faded to stillness, I became dismayed. The lack of interaction with the many members, especially the new ones, who joined expressly because of MB2A, dampened enthusiasm and led me, and quite a few others, to question Bill’s commitment to achieving the goals he himself had set and asked us to work toward. I disbanded my group. I know of one person who is no longer a member because of the apparent lack of dedication by the creator of the project. Who knows how many more left for the same reason, or are wondering why they’re still here?
But today’s episode brought back a little of that determination Bill showed in the beginning. And hearing it almost defeated the doubt I’ve developed.
Almost.
Bill needs to maintain that smoldering heat. If he does, we will too. I hope the fire doesn’t go out of his eyes again because without it MB2A will end before it even begins, a stillborn idea in a tiny corner of the internet.
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I have too much on my plate to not want to step back from BWDC.
Just recently I spent the $99 to join Mud Club. Maybe these most recent Louder With Crowder episodes are good because Crowder took that long break, and because the health scares in his growing (hopefully – his wife has had one Miscarriage already) family and his own personal life (that heart condition looks like it is treatable, but the way my pastor’s wife’s variation of Lukemia is also Chronic but not Terminal) have forced him to rethink how he runs things (he really should let someone else do the stunts, during the filming of that wonderful 300 parody he dislocated a knee), but I do like how what he does no one else dares to.
Maybe Crowder loses some of that fire (and I would totally get why) but I watched 3 hours worth of Crowder in the last two days, something I will not do for Bill, Steve or Scott.
I will JUMP at the opportunity to work for a MB2A type campaign. I do not need Bill to inspire me about that. I hope there are enough people out there to whom the idea makes absolute sense, who do not need to get EXCITED about it, only to hear about it. I suspect that people who get EXCITED about anything burn out quickest.
I’ll give Bill a year. At that point, I will have spent $120 on this site, and be about due to renew my Louder With Crowder membership.
$120 at Christmas time can buy me a suit jacket from Lands End that can match one of my 3 pairs of Year-Rounders, or at least come within spitting distance of it. Bill needs to mean more to me then than having a second suit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM
they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they’re still real.
It’s the only connection they feel.
This “show trial” is a tantrum of sorts to demonstrate the power they make claim to and rub it in our faces.