America on Her Deathbed?

Scroll down for Newt Gingrich’s insightful analysis of the rampaging leftist corruption that now threatens the very existence of the American nation. For emphasis, I have capitalized and italicized those parts I think particularly important.

I have long argued that, boiled down to its essence, the metastatic rot in the bones of America is the collective intellectual, moral and spiritual corruption of our people - our increasing collective inability, first, to reason intelligently and systematically from point A to point B with the objective of getting at an increased understanding of truth - the way things really are and really work; second, our collective inability to distinguish truth from lies, right from wrong, light from darkness, good from evil; and third, our growing disconnect from the God of our fathers, that being from whom, in the first instance, all enlightenment, sound intellect and morality flow.

Repeating what I have long argued, Gingrich rightly puts his finger on the core driver of the Leftist mindset - a fanatical, self-righteous, quasi-religious arrogance. As I have often in the past characterized them, these people are certain they are better and smarter than you and me, smarter than the Constitution and the rule of law, smarter than any number of free men and women, smarter, in fact, than all of human history (which history uniformly condemns and reveals the true horrors of their sort of arrogance) - indeed, smarter than God himself, whose existence they reject. Thus, basking in the glow of their self-adulation, warming themselves at the bonfire of their vanities, they believe their much brighter lights entitle them to tell the rest of us what to do, to take command of the smallest details of our lives and all our resources, whether we like it or not - all for our own good, of course… for the good of all mankind… for the good of the world.

Are such brilliant and noble beings to be hedged up by the pathetic constraints of a Constitution or the rule of law it provides? Should they, the real saviors of mankind, in pursuit of their great and lofty ends, be shackled by paltry laws made by and for the riffraff, the great unwashed? Of course not! Should anything at all - even human life itself - be allowed to stand in the way of their unparalleled brilliance, the unfolding of their wonderous ambitions, the building of their Brave New World?

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the intellectually, morally and spiritually corrupt mindset we are confronted with in the seditious, treasonous Left. They are not simply ignorant or honestly misinformed or misguided, though they do command hoards of useful idiot minions, many of whom may fit that description. The brain trust of the Left, having a full knowledge of their fraud, driven by arrogance and lust for power and money, are simply evil - and, like the Terminator, they will not stop. They will never stop, until they are stopped. Sadly, I believe decent, law-abiding people, patriots, will ultimately have to confront them and put them down.

Though it might be a step forward, Gingrich, with his final question, errs in supposing that throwing out in November the current crop of corrupt politicians will solve the problem. The roots of the rot in the bones of America go much deeper, into the very intellectual, moral and spiritual substance of our society. Tragically, we are far down the road to destruction.

In order to solve a problem, you must first correctly define it. A bunch of corrupt politicians are not our problem. They are a superficial manifestation of it. Our problem is the pervasive intellectual, moral and spiritual rot deep down in the soul of America. America needs a national repentance, a spiritual rebirth.

These are the times that try men’s souls…

Torquemada

Newt Gingrich - No Mob Rule, No Criminal Domination (gingrich360.com)

No Mob Rule, No Criminal Domination

Newt Gingrich

May 12, 2022 Updated: May 12, 2022

Commentary

Two patterns of destroying civilization are coming together to form a river of violence and intimidation that can destroy the Constitution, the rule of law, and the very basic elements of our free society.

On the political front, there is A SELF-RIGHTEOUS FANATACISM DOMINATING THE SECULAR-RELIGIOUS INTENSITY OF THE LEFT. THIS HAS CONVINCED MANY ON THE LEFT THAT THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS AND, THEREFORE, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BREAK THE LAW FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

Whether it is burning down neighborhoods, smashing store windows, or throwing Molotov cocktails into pro-life offices, THE WOKE LEFT HAS NOW BROKEN FREE FROM THE RESTICTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF LAW AND CONSTITUTONAL GOVERNMENT.

Theodore White warned of this growing extremism in his book, “The Making of the President 1972,” when HE DESCRIBED THE MILITANT, UNCOMPROMISING LEFT AS HAVING MOVED FROM A LIBERAL IDEOLOGY TO A LIBERAL THEOLOGY. Now, 50 years later, THE THEOLOGY OF THE WOKE LEFT HAS GROWN MORE EXTREME, MORE HOSTILE, AND MORE WILLING TO USE FORCE AND INTIMIDATION TO GET WHAT IT WANTS.

I should note that mobs are always wrong, whether it is a summer of riots in cities, people occupying the Capitol on January 6, 2021, or mobs staking out the homes of Supreme Court Justices.

Most recently, the mobs threatening conservative Justices, protesting outside of their homes, and consciously seeking to intimidate them into voting as the Left demands is an example of the political violence that is growing and becoming legitimized on the left.

This political violence is paralleled by the personal violence of hardened criminals that the Left is releasing from jail and putting back on the street. The timidity of the innocent in refusing to put down either mobs or criminals increases the demands and the dangers of both.

The spirit of breaking the law in large groups is mob violence. In small groups, that spirit is criminal. However, when criminals see mobs being tolerated, they are more likely to believe there will be no consequences for committing crimes.

The 1982 Atlantic Monthly essay “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety,” by George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, established a framework for a revolution in policing. When Bill Bratton took their theory and turned it into practical policing in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, the effect was revolutionary.

Their model was simple: clean up the neighborhood and crime will go down. Alternatively, let the neighborhood decay with graffiti, garbage, and broken windows, and the crime rate will go up.

Effective and serious policing, backed up by district attorneys who fought for the rights of innocent victims and were tough on the criminal, led to dramatic declines in crime and amazingly safe cities. The Left hated it. (Recall the Left’s hatred of the police with the Black Panther public commitment to killing policemen in the late 1960s.)

The threat to society from a collapse of cultural values was made explicit in a brilliant 1993 essay for The American Scholar by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was a renowned sociologist before entering public life.

In “Defining Deviancy Down” Moynihan argued that A SOCIETY MAY DECIDE TO COPE WITH COLLAPSING DISCIPLINE AND BEHAVIOR BY SIMPLY MAKING IT LESS AND LESS UNACCEPTABLE. Children born without fathers would be made acceptable. Schools that failed to educate children would be made acceptable. Males who grew up with no male role model, no incentive to go to work, and a willingness to engage in predatory behavior would be made acceptable.

We have had several decades of the woke Left and Big Government Socialism promoting and glorifying anti-social behavior, violence, criminals, and hostility toward the police and toward middle-class values.

In many ways, the 1971 movie, “A Clockwork Orange,” which was based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel, was a prophetic forecast of a dystopian future of mindless violence, helpless victims, and brutality. Today, when there is a juvenile gang in Boston led by an 11-year-old, when six people are shot in Atlanta on Mother’s Day, when carjackings occur in public in New York City, and when a theater in Chicago cancels a nighttime performance because of a nearby shooting, “A Clockwork Orange” might be a useful reference for every American.

Americans are at a crossroads. Americans must decide whether to continue to ignore the decay of the Left’s insanely destructive policies, or, whether the time has come to reassert the right of citizens to expect personal safety as the first responsibility of government.

Anyone threatening a Supreme Court Justice is violating the law and should be imprisoned for at least a year. Anyone engaged in violent crime should be locked up until they are too old to be dangerous.

IT IS TIME FOR THE INNOCENT AND THE LAW-ABIDING TO REIMPOSE CIVILIZATION ON THE VICIOUS, THE VIOLENT AND THE PREDATORY.

It really is that simple.

THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE READY TO THROW OUT THE POLITICIANS WHO HAVE PUT THEIR LIVES AND THEIR COUNTRY AT RISK.

From Gingrich360.com

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