{"id":625,"date":"2015-08-08T06:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:04","slug":"worldview-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/worldview-and-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldview and Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Sultan Knish<\/em> Daniel Greenfield is at it again. This time his position is that conservatives work far too hard at being “nice”. Lefties don’t bother.<\/p>\n

Some of this is because Lefties have a pass by the media, although of late Hillary seems to be tagged pretty hard (well, for a liberal). But then, there is the rumour that Obama is trying to scuttle Hillary as the democrat selection. There could actually be some truth in that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Greenfield makes some important points.<\/p>\n

If there’s one thing that conservatives need to cure themselves of it’s a slavish desire to be nice. Those who give in to it are lost.
\nLiberals don’t suffer from a niceness crisis. They don’t find common ground with us. They don’t worry that somewhere out there someone dislikes them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think about that for a moment. Conservatives are ALWAYS (except for Ted Cruz) trying to be nice. Even in the recent candidates for the republican presidential nomination, the biggest complaint against Trump is that “he is harsh”. One of his comments last night caught me. “There isn’t TIME to be ‘nice’.” There may well be truth to this. Conservatives have long been unwilling to be harsh, to speak truth and let the chips fall where they may. Perhaps some would call this “bomb throwing”. I’m for that.<\/p>\n

But to go on. Greenfield makes some other important points.<\/p>\n

It’s not just about policy. This is a conflict that takes place in mental and moral spaces. Before the policy, comes the worldview. The left will lose political battles rather than give an inch on its worldview. They view liberals who retreat on any issue as traitors and punish them. Conservatives lose political battles because they open up gaps in their worldview, they make mental and moral concessions, and once they’ve done that, losing the policy battle is a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

Winning requires an uncompromised worldview. Lose that and every battle becomes a frenzied clash followed by a strategic withdrawal to the next crucial issue. ObamaCare. Iran. Planned Parenthood. Don’t worry, one of these days we’ll fight one to the end. Just not this one. Or the next one.<\/p>\n

When you have a compromised worldview, then you stand for nothing.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party has ten thousand men and women who believe in nothing, but are eager to discuss policy. Their policy ends up being liberal because there is no firewall of conviction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question of world view is SO important. In the last 50-100 years, depending on where you want to place the marker for the start, (my vote is with Wilson, but I will listen to arguments for TR) the Left has unflinchingly assaulted America. It has been the attack of “the betters”. Reflect on Hillary’s comment back in Bill’s presidency about how people don’t know how to spend their money on healthcare. That is an overwhelmingly arrogant statement, including all the aspects of superiority, ego, arrogance, and smug self-satisfaction. We are all too stupid to know how to manage our lives.<\/p>\n

This can be said to be the essence of all that has happened to us since the 50’s, when the explosion of federal government power, and abuse, began. Now we have come to the inevitable conclusion that we are being ruled<\/em> by what was first called the “elite” but is now recognized as the “ruling class”. ?But how do we turn this around. There have been some comments on this already here by Titus, in commenting that we need to “protect” the lower classes. Perhaps. But that form of “protection” needs along with it some huge change in lower class attitude. ?How do you make them see that they have willingly<\/em> become the slaves they decry from time to time. Their forefathers were very real slaves in the traditional sense, but they have become the same – to government, and so the ruling class – without quite the same bonds.<\/p>\n

Our battle is not merely external, but internal. Totalitarian movements are not just defeated in the ruins of fallen statues and burning palaces, but in the resistance to their messaging in our own minds. By purifying our convictions, we immunize ourselves to tyranny. We become like those great men and women we admired throughout history whose resistance called on an impregnable moral power.<\/p>\n

We become firmed in conviction by not giving in to intellectual or emotional manipulation. We do this by rejecting any moral authority on the left whatsoever. We disregard whether the left considers us nice. We cease trying to find common ground with a movement that wants to enslave us.<\/p>\n

When we close that door, the left loses its greatest manipulative weapon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, read Daniel’s comments here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Over at Sultan Knish<\/em> Daniel Greenfield is at it again. This time his position is that conservatives work far too hard at being “nice”. Lefties don’t bother.<\/p>\n

Some of this is because Lefties have a pass by the media, although of late Hillary seems to be tagged pretty hard (well, for a liberal). But then, there is the rumour that Obama is trying to scuttle Hillary as the democrat selection. There could actually be some truth in that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Greenfield makes some important points.<\/p>\n

If there’s one thing that conservatives need to cure themselves of it’s a slavish desire to be nice. Those who give in to it are lost.
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