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Are the New Progressive Rules Reciprocal?

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Posted By: Moritz55, 8/1/2022 9:52:54 AM

In the era of peak woke we are supposed to accept any radical departure from long-held custom and tradition as the new normal. Perhaps. But if so, is the improved new code of behavior at least reciprocal? Will the radical Left really wish to live by its own novel normality when it loses power?Have leftists ever read Thucydides on the stasis at Corcyra and his warning that zealots who destroy laws, customs, and traditions for short-term gain, soon rue the day they began making such changes when, in vain, they seek refuge in the very sanctuaries of behavior that they have destroyed?  CORRECTION*

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 8/1/2022 10:24:48 AM (No. 1234471)
Dr. Hanson’s musings should remind us all of the importance of studying history. Thucydides,indeed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: padiva 8/1/2022 10:45:48 AM (No. 1234492)
Great read. Thanks for posting.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Bmoc 8/1/2022 10:51:18 AM (No. 1234497)
The leftists would come (even further) unglued if we treated them a tenth as poorly as they treat us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Citoyen 8/1/2022 11:05:55 AM (No. 1234507)
I gather that the author’s point is that the Democrats would be mighty displeased if the Republicans began behaving as Democrats do. I think that it is vital for the Republicans to do exactly what the Democrats are doing. If Republicans take over the House, impeachment investigations over Biden’s law-breaking should begin immediately. Various noxious members of the House must be removed from all committees. In other words the Democrat Party must be punished severely for its behavior. If not punished the Democrats will continue their assault on decency when they regain power.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Frederic F. Frew 8/1/2022 11:07:23 AM (No. 1234511)
Superb piece. Much more comprehensively and articulately expresses the arguments some of my friends and I have been making at our local diner, where we meet regularly for breakfast and to solve all the world's problems.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Californian 8/1/2022 11:14:06 AM (No. 1234514)
Reciprocal rules? Lol, no. Of course not. Rules are for thee, not for me!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: anniebc 8/1/2022 11:22:12 AM (No. 1234522)
They can be reciprocal; it's on us, though. We don't even have to break laws; we just have to use the laws on the books
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Reply 8 - Posted by: john56 8/1/2022 11:28:51 AM (No. 1234524)
Well, I think we've tried the "maybe if we be nice to them, they'll be nice to us" rules. It didn't work. My suggestion to the new Republican congress is to play by the Democrat rules. Kick anybody off a committee that the majority party wants. Restrict access and participation by the minority party. Heck, I'd put the biggest Dem troublemakers in the smallest offices farthest from the House chambers that I could. Now, if they do behave (and I doubt it), maybe we can relax some of those rules in the second year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mc squared 8/1/2022 12:05:53 PM (No. 1234571)
There will be no opportunity to force the left to live by their own rules. They use their rules to prevent a conservative government from ever winning.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: AltaD 8/1/2022 12:23:46 PM (No. 1234591)
Is it wrong that as I read each section I was thinking "Yes, do it!"?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: MDConservative 8/1/2022 5:35:20 PM (No. 1234879)
These rules are universal, with exceptions...mainly FPDT. VDH and others still see this as partisan in nature. Little, if any, is. All these original sins were examples of kitchen sinks hurled by Democrats (and some Republicans) to diminish and eventually dislodge PDT from office. Our UNIPARTY government pulled out the stops. In '20 they succeeded - either by convincing a significant majority of PDT's unfitness and/or inducing "fatigue" over mean tweets. OR, they fixed upset election results in SIX REPUBLICAN STATES, none of whose legislatures took even a cursory look before Biden electors were certified. If you can't see the forest through all those trees blocking your sight...
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bpl40 8/2/2022 8:45:07 AM (No. 1235383)
#11, let us not forget that every illegality, insult, outrage hurled at PDT is really meant for us. he is simply in the way. Unless we are willing to wage a ruthless cultural civil war answering every brick with a stone as it were, we will never be rid of this plague.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: marbles 8/2/2022 9:51:06 AM (No. 1235461)
Whatever the dems do and no matter how disgusting and anti American their behavior is , it acceptable as long as the MSM is the PR arm of the dem party. It's a very busy one way street. Do what the dems get away with and you'll be vilified.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Zigrid 8/2/2022 10:45:41 AM (No. 1235539)
I think...in laymen's terms...it means...what goes around...comes around...nuf said!!
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