“All these proponents of net-zero emissions goals, of forging ahead with entitlement programs with no tweaking of them even as they’re set to run out of money soon, of reparations, and of the surgical mutilation of healthy teenagers know they’re pushing unworkable and morally hollow initiatives.”
I don’t know that they do know that. I think they believe in what they’re doing. Perhaps it depends on the person. I suspect there is a lot of disaffection and dissatisfaction and gnawing belief that what they’re doing is somewhat purposeless. But it isn’t all of them.
“We are entrusting the continuity of a world in which we can assume our safety and freedom to flourish to one of two forces, neither of which knows why these things are worth defending.”
Very well put. When I grow dispirited, it’s when I reckon that none of the leaders presented to us believe in the rightness of the American cause. They have lost the confidence in their own country and side. The West should be in an unenviable position in the world, but the West has lost faith in itself.
I completely understand how compelling a lot of people whom I respect find the binary-choice argument. Some have chosen one way and some another. I do hope I laid out at least one way in which Kamala Harris is an unacceptable choice in this piece. I just hope I can also convey why I feel staying home in November is a valid choice on a moral level.
“All these proponents of net-zero emissions goals, of forging ahead with entitlement programs with no tweaking of them even as they’re set to run out of money soon, of reparations, and of the surgical mutilation of healthy teenagers know they’re pushing unworkable and morally hollow initiatives.”
I don’t know that they do know that. I think they believe in what they’re doing. Perhaps it depends on the person. I suspect there is a lot of disaffection and dissatisfaction and gnawing belief that what they’re doing is somewhat purposeless. But it isn’t all of them.
“We are entrusting the continuity of a world in which we can assume our safety and freedom to flourish to one of two forces, neither of which knows why these things are worth defending.”
Very well put. When I grow dispirited, it’s when I reckon that none of the leaders presented to us believe in the rightness of the American cause. They have lost the confidence in their own country and side. The West should be in an unenviable position in the world, but the West has lost faith in itself.
I guess my eyeballs, along with roughly 70% of Americans, are floating in the kool-aid...
I completely understand how compelling a lot of people whom I respect find the binary-choice argument. Some have chosen one way and some another. I do hope I laid out at least one way in which Kamala Harris is an unacceptable choice in this piece. I just hope I can also convey why I feel staying home in November is a valid choice on a moral level.
She's like Harpo Marx- he didn't get married until he was 48.