My dear leftist sister (bless her heart) has decried the lack of civility, tolerance, and most of all, compromise in today's political/cultural disputes, and declared debate over. Very convenient, and much less taxing than being pressed to answer uncomfortable questions, or consider contrary views. A fool or an idiot might grant her the premise.

There can't even begin to be any communication unless a case for the truth or falsehood of presuppositions is laid bare and acknowledged, prior to entering the arena of ideas. All anyone should have to do is compare America's original intent, (Founding Principles) with the imminent birth of a resurrected East German 'Republic', or Cuba-writ-large we see coming, to track the unwavering march of what 1984 'double-think' has redefined as "compromise."

'Neo-compromise' moves in only one direction, and now means nothing less than, "submission." A great gulf is becoming fixed between our ideological starting points. The re-education camps of John Dewey's dream have rendered the knickered proletarians ignorant of even the concept of original intent.

Secession, as reasonable a course as some of us might wish for, won't happen without the historical repeat of violent upheaval. To many of us it seems as if it would be equitable, if not compassionate, to alleviate the collectivists from the grievous aggravation of our company. I, for one, feel that recovering from the loss of theirs wouldn't be overly traumatic. I fantasize about an amicable division, bound by an updated version of the "Articles of Confederation", into a loose assembly of regions, defined by like-mindedness and State lines. But that too, is a peaceful pipe dream.

My sister is correct in one sense. Debate has ceased, though "debate" in the context of cultural Marxism is a misnomer. The 'will to power' of the secular State will brook no impediments to the tyranny of the collective. The supreme autonomy of (some 'elite') men cannot abide liberty, much less the challenge to their authority posed by the Christian God. What then? I wish I could see a reasonable solution, but the only real choice is either a free-market, original intent, Constitutional Representative Republic ... or the U.S.S.A., with the slight glitches of the U.S.S.R. remedied, of course. (100 million involuntary martyrs was simply short of the goal.) But ultimately, God holds the nations in derision, and will justly and righteously do what He will with His own.

Expediency, as with ideological pragmatism, isn't worth a warm bucket of spit.
---Dirt Road Scholar

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"
---Barry Goldwater, July 1964

"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they [the people] must become happy."
---Thomas Jefferson, 1802, letter to Thomas Cooper