{"id":1528,"date":"2015-07-06T21:35:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2015-07-06T21:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:35:23","slug":"thoughts-on-thoughts-on-thoughts-on-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Thoughts on Thoughts on Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay- for those last two posts, I wrote them last week, before the Fourth.  I didn&#8217;t post them because I wanted to breathe a bit.  <\/p>\n<p>I just re-read them and still found them apropos, so I decided to publish them&#8230; just to clear the plate I guess.  I hope to kinda stop thinking about the unbelievable disaster that is the American political scene for a bit, at least until after the Swifty concert.  I mean, one thing at a time, you know?  The concert&#8217;s gonna be huuuuuuuge and I want to be ready for it.<\/p>\n<p>But before I stop writing about politics, I just wanted to give a conclusion.  I think I\u2019ve identified the root cause of the insanity.  Hopefully, with that identified, we can move on and maybe fix the problem in the next era.  I mean, this era is pretty much over, I think.  But maybe the next one can be made better with this realization.<\/p>\n<p>Diversity is only a tool.  It\u2019s like a hammer or a keyboard.  In some situations, it can be good.  In others, necessary.  In some, diversity is only a hindrance.  Being only a tool, it is foolish to the extreme to try to solve every problem with it.  You don\u2019t fix <i>everything<\/i> with a hammer.  So why would you do the same thing with diversity?  I mean, that would be madness.<\/p>\n<p>So it goes.  It is really unfortunate to see all of what\u2019s happened lately, because I know what it means.  It means that liberals have gone \u201call in\u201d, which is a disastrous political strategy in and of itself.  Times change, always.  It\u2019s the only constant.  <\/p>\n<p>It is always wisest to never go \u201call in\u201d on anything political, in case you need to backtrack at some point, or in case you need allies for some reason.  But as of last week, liberals have just burned 100% of their bridges.  They have no allies left.  Libertarians left them years ago.  Traditionalists think they\u2019re insane.  Even socialists and communists are backing away in horror from them at this point- I mean, just look at what happened in Greece with the referendum.  And most other groups, like nationalists and very religious types of any stripe, have never liked them, really.  I mean, it\u2019s obvious that liberals feel they don\u2019t <i>need<\/i> allies ever again but\u2026 of course they will.  Times change.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the future for them is going to be a series of sudden, hard declines, followed by a fall into oblivion.  This will be painful to witness, but they\u2019ve made their choices.  They\u2019ve intentionally alienated everyone else in the planet, so they must go it alone now.  On everything.<\/p>\n<p>So on those occasions when catastrophes happen and they need allies or friends, there will be nobody for them.  So we\u2019re talking about sharp, sudden losses of power in a series of successive disasters.  In particular, they will be ultimately blamed for the coming bankruptcy of the United States government, regardless of which \u201cparty\u201d is in power, since they are both correctly regarded by the public as run by and for liberals.  This event may be their final, ultimate undoing.  I suspect it will be.  From this, they will never recover.<\/p>\n<p>For their sake, in going it alone, I hope they know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, IDK.  *Yawn*.<\/p>\n<p>So after that last one\u2026 I was kinda hoping, again, to write about other stuff.  I mean, I <i>really<\/i> want to, you know?  That Swifty story I published was just so fun to write!<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay- for those last two posts, I wrote them last week, before the Fourth. I didn&#8217;t post them because I wanted to breathe a bit. I just re-read them and still found them apropos, so I decided to publish them&#8230; just to clear the plate I guess. 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