1. Given that white people were slaves sometimes, and some black people were slave owners, how can we ever get started figuring out this “reparations” settlement — anywhere?
2. How could women have possibly “fought for and won the right to vote” without at least some male assistance, if the women did not yet have the right to vote?
3. If masculinity is toxic, how come the dysfunction, illiteracy and high crime come from perpetrators who grew up without fathers or father figures?
4. Reagan’s inquiry: If none of us can be trusted with governing our own affairs, where do we get these wise, angelic public servants who are somehow fit to manage everyone else’s?
5. If women can do anything men can do, then how come there is a “patriarchy” we need to overthrow or upturn? How could that possibly have come to be? How did men end up leading or dominating anything anywhere?
6. If genitalia do not determine gender, then how does surgically altering them “affirm” it?
7. If it’s impossible (or okay) to be racist against white people, how are we ever going to achieve equality?
8. Given that people are law abiding, how is the society in which they live made unstable, when there is greater material inequality?
9. How can a government guarantee a service as a “basic human right” without involuntarily conscripting the people who have the capability to provide that service?
10. If we accept that government is less efficient in spending money, most of the time, compared to the taxpayers who’d spend the money if they were allowed to hang on to it; why then do we become perplexed when we discover a wealthy person or a corporation didn’t pay as much in taxes as we think proper? As long as it’s legal, shouldn’t we be celebrating that?
11. If there is no God, how did plants and animals develop the ability to reproduce? Walk me through it.
12. If it’s “not all men, but always a man” doing these bad things; what are we to do about that? Assuming wrongdoers are a subset of males, what sort of plan of action can we build around that? Seems some sort of deprivation of liberty without due process is the only preventative remedy. Or is that the point?
13. Since we have a process for enacting new laws and repealing the ones we find to be in error, and we even have an amendment process for the Constitution, what’s up with these “peaceful protests”? They’re not doing what they’re supposed to be doing unless they physically obstruct law enforcement operations, or some other normal operations, right? So they’re altercations. Why call them peaceful? And why do we need them?
14. If DEI is good, why is it an insult to suggest someone is a “DEI Hire”?
15. How do you go about figuring out whether or not land is “stolen,” if borders don’t, or shouldn’t, matter?
16. If women are routinely doing the same work as men just as competently and efficiently for a fraction of the pay, why don’t companies everywhere make bigger profits by hiring only women?
17. If we’re only just imagining the vote fraud, and it doesn’t really exist, why not go ahead and require voter ID and in so doing, prove it?
18. Why didn’t the Biden administration release whatever is in the Epstein files that would have embarrassed Donald Trump?
19. How can Donald Trump be Netanyahu’s puppet if he’s already Vladimir Putin’s puppet?
20. Assuming you’re invested in some way in our oil industries and you have partial control over our country’s foreign policy; how do you realize ill-gotten gains or any other material benefit from our “invasion of an oil rich country”? How does such action improve your personal economic situation? What’s the plan? Does it involve increasing, or decreasing, the price of oil? Neither? Both?
For half a century or so, I’ve been listening to people who consider themselves too smart to be deceived by anything or anybody, figure out that the countries we invade or liberate or conquer or whatever…are “oil rich.”
This seems to me like “wet streets cause rain” thinking. I myself have been noticing that these countries are consistently dominated, rather than governed, by some egotistical asshole. There is, consistently, a history of recent maneuvers put into effect by said asshole preceding our interference or whatever-we-did. So maybe, just maybe, this abundance of natural resources, which includes oil, enables this asshole into thinking he can’t do anything wrong…which precedes these moves that a more humble and prudent nation wouldn’t contemplate. Time after time, such a situation escalates further and further with nothing stopping it, until something has to be done.
Here in this country, activists have literally ruined just about everything. It starts with this mythology about “peaceful protests” being the “hallmark” of “democracy.” It is the opposite of what’s true: We enjoy all the benefits of elevating the common man, so that he has a voice in our public affairs and policies, which we call “democracy.” What maintains this is the willingness of the losing side to say — eh, we blew it. We had a fair contest and we lost. The next two-to-four years belong to the other side, and we still have the rights of the minority, but the minority is what we are. Let’s lick our wounds, go off and figure out how we’re out of step with the mainstream, assuming we really are. Or, how we botched our messaging. Resolve to do better next time, but accept that until then, we’re not the majority. They are.
What we have come to accept as “peaceful protests,” are the exact opposite of that. Peaceful or not, they’re temper tantrums. They’re the child playing Monopoly who lacks the maturity to accept the periodic setbacks, throwing money, Chance Cards and plastic hotels across the room.
