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Reflecting on the Dallas terrorist attack on civil order, I am hopeful of the response yet wary of the outcome.

Everyone will be very restrained for at least 48 hours.

Then the cries will come against white racism and the need to disarm as if nothing had happened that was extraordinary.

It was extraordinary. The politics of victimhood are not free. The politics of division are not free. Multiculturalism is a disaster.

Do we want one nation or tribes?

The ante on the 2016 election just went up.

For years we have had the liberal/conservative, red state/blue state party/independent, mushy middle and the fabulous group of utter precious folk, the celebrated ‘undecided voters’ , who after being bombarded for a year with information, propaganda and screaming just cannot decide until they walk into the voting booth.

We used to have a word for that last group…. Oh yes. Idiots.

All this allowed the media, people with small intellect but perfect hair and teeth who could read teleprompters to act as if they had political experience.

I believe this world is fragmenting, and may never have really existed.

I wonder if the group here at BDB sees a similar change?

My experience tells me we are entering a world of left behinds versus elites and elite servants.

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I spent Saturday enjoying the company of my Daughter, Son In Law and my three grand daughters on a drive through Whidbey Island north of their home.

We all respected the truce over the schism in the family between the rabble and the elites. Son In Law is neutral, but Daughter, Scientist by day and writer for conservative publications by night
has been flummoxed by the wrongness of the predictions by her colleagues on the Trump phenomenon.

I feel her pain, the world she was learning may be a Titanic, and dear old Dad is rooting for the icebergs.

We kept it civil , but the Brexit events just had to be mentioned.

It is going to be a long slog.

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I have always self  identified as a conservative back when that phrase was also viewed as synonymous with patriot. As I proceeded through life and read the writings of Friedman, Hayek and Buckley, I found my reading of Bob Heinlein as a kid was my real foundation, and took my new influences with a salt shaker or two.

Lately, watching the next generation of ‘conservatives’ after Reagan, those who viewed him as a distant father figure and now make their living in the conservative media I worry that some of the basic belief systems that used to moderate conservative theory like ‘the national interest”  have been left by the wayside, and our new intelligentsia , like their progressive counterparts are following their theorists blindly.

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