What It’s Like to Be On Stage: Can You Authentically Connect with Thousands of People?

This pertains more to Zo’s video at the Value Voter’s Summit than it does the On the Stage episode of Virtue Signal. I encourage everyone to watch that. Zo shoots from the hip and off the cuff. What he says is spot on target …

Bill, Zo, Scott, Steve (and others who I look to but do not want to promote in this specific comment) all provide me with “resources”. Being the professionals that they are, they give me ways to view and say things that cut to the heart of the matter and provide an impactful delivery.

Often times I’ll hear some sort of opposing viewpoint. Scott does this a lot and a couple of the other pundits I keep up with do too. This is important because echo chambers are dangerous as hell.

Sometimes I agree with those opposing views, sometimes I don’t.

This also helps me satisfy my desire for personal, intellectual honesty. It allows me to sift various opinions to see which ones I think are the most reasonable and accurate. Then I not only adopt but amplify on those ideas. After all, someone like Bill Whittle can only plant the seeds in a 10 – 60 minute video, there are hours more that could be thought and said above and beyond that time limit. This also allows me a foundation to work from and a base to go find more and more accurate information.

In short, their work opens doors for me that I may not be aware even exist if it were not for their efforts.

One thing I detest about modern politics and culture is this phenomena where so many people treat discussion and action like it was some sort of sporting event. The high school football team mentality that goes “Hooray for my side, my side is always right and your side is always wrong.”

This manifests on the Left as a mean spirited desire to win at all costs including cheating, then rub their opponents noses in their victory.

The Right’s version of “Intersectionality”, or “intersectional politics” is if you don’t by gawd agree with me then you’re evil. If we both agree to “X” on an issue then you’re fine, until someone finds an issue they don’t agree with. If you think “X” and I think “Y” then I need to be destroyed by any means possible. Even when we both of us voted for the same candidate.

The blinders come on, the blast doors slam shut and you find yourself at war without ever intending to be there. This is common and it happens in here on this forum as much as anywhere else. It’s not a trait of ‘those people out there somewhere’ it’s a common manifestation among people who call themselves Conservatives.

On the Left, intersectionality means having multiple, intersectional ‘virtues’ that the Left espouses. If you’re Black, that’s good, if you’re Black and female, that’s better, if you’re Black and female and gay, that’s even better and if you’re a Black female gay transvestite (which they now mislabel as ‘transgender’) that’s the Royal Flush of intersectionality.

On the Right we have something similar that’s often called a “circular firing squad”. Like the Left, a person may be judged according to their ideological “purity” OR some other arbitrary standard. Anyone who is found ‘lacking’ in sufficient ‘purity’ is to be destroyed by the person who found them lacking.

It doesn’t matter at this point what the supposed heathen pagan free thinking miscreant who lacks what the “right” person believes he ought to say. That damnable dissenter, that execrable POS who doesn’t agree must be destroyed. All guns must be brought to bear and keep firing until that destruction is accomplished.

This is every bit as mean spirited as anything the Left does.

Note that I’m not talking about stupidity like trying to manipulate how this website is operated. You’re just not that important.

Or telling Bill that you’re going to unsubscribe because he missed a TSL for whatever personal reasons he might have. You’re only trying to hurt Bill.

Or threatening to unsubscribe for any other temporary, unavoidable aspect of a small operation like this one. Stuff happens, deal with it like an adult.

Or some nitwitted conspiracy theory easily debunked that you just cannot get past for whatever reason your mind refuses to process reality correctly. If you think you’re the sole possessor of some secret truth you’re an idiot.

Doing any or all of those sorts of things is mean spirited too, but that’s not my point. I’m talking about matters of political policy and perception.

As Zo said in the above video, and as he says quite often. We need to have each other’s backs. We’re on the same side.

I’m not telling anyone they can’t say what they want to say. I’m not telling anyone they’re wrong to express an opinion. I’m not saying that we all have to agree on anything except which way we’re going to vote.

Because at the end of the day, that’s what’s important. Did someone agree with you ENOUGH to vote for what’s good for this country? Does that person understand the situation and have enough grasp of reality to vote for the right reasons, reasons he can articulate and spread to others?

If so, that’s all you have a right to ask from him.

If you’re getting caught up in anything but the larger purpose of the bigger picture you’re not really helping us get where we need to be. You’re dividing the congregation, so to speak. That division, taken to its natural inevitable extreme, becomes every bit as absurd, divisive and destructive as the Left and their intersectional view of virtue.

That makes you a petty, backbiting ingrate who cares more about beating someone figuratively to death to make your point, wrong or right or irrelevant.

If you’re doing that, be careful that what you’re doing isn’t friendly fire on your own people. As a famous Patriot once said …

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

That famous Patriot was Benjamin Franklin and I’m pretty sure we can all agree that he knew what he was talking about. His words are as true now as they ever were.