Attack the Castle Where it is Weakest: The Post-Ideological American Future

Topic: Perspective

With so many issues already settled, more eyeballs than ever monitoring rapid progress made in reshaping domestic affairs, and dramatic change on the horizon worldwide, it is obvious to this author that we are heading quickly toward a post-ideological political future. This isn’t to say we are going to become completely rudderless and lacking informed opinions, but rather that society is learning to value pragmatic solutions over nice sound bites and warm fuzzies.

Voters on the right side of the American political equation have, at least for now, seen straight through the failures of the idolatrous theory known as conservatism, most likely because they’ve finally understood, thanks to exposure to new ideas, that there isn’t even a compass that can determine exactly who is a conservative to begin with. The curators of Conservatism, Inc., have spun such a tangled ideological web that many think simply understanding which bathroom to take a leak in constitutes the belief system of a true conservative, or that desperately poor illegal aliens from Mexico or Central America are destined to be conservative because they have natural Republican values, when in fact their first salutation to the United States was to enter illegally and inflict harm upon working-class families of citizens.

The American left of the future, presumably supporting a retooled Democrat Party, will eventually come to focus on pragmatism and solutions, too; to get there, they’ll have to jettison the concept of catering to crazy, pill-popping white liberal women and the racial grievance industry that has been used as fodder for rent-a-riots and viral clips. Unfortunately for them, and for better or worse for society, most of their key issues have been decided by voters or courts or now stand so heavily lopsided in favor of the American right that they are left holding what amounts to a smoldering cigarette butt of exhausted ideas and dead-on-arrival pitches.

Don’t believe me? Believe the crowd at Super Bowl LIX, which gave Donald Trump a hero’s welcome and damn near booed Taylor Swift right out of the Big Easy. This is only possible because in a single decade, the outrage issues have been resolved, and thanks to new beachheads in the information war afforded to those who love America, new, workable ideas have been brought to market. What I’m about to cover here shouldn’t be misconstrued as support for any left-leaning issue that has been resolved (for now in their favor), so please understand that as you go forward, and remember that my internal view of how things should be is drastically different than the way I think patriots must wield power and pursue electoral dominance in coming years.

Take abortion, for example. I believe abortion represents the deliberate killing of an unborn child. Unfortunately, thanks to people of good intentions leading this charge in the wrong direction, we’ve seen state after state vote in favor of expanding access to abortion, even while giving Trump strong victories on the same ballot. See Arizona in November, for a great example. Last April, I wrote about the need for putting the left on the spot to answer for the fact that 66 of 67 abortions are undergone as a means of birth control, or for sake of convenience.

That’s Arizona State Representative Rachel Keshel above. Do you recognize that name? I definitely chose well, and this weekend I heard Rachel tell constituents at a Legislative District 17 meeting that the church has failed to effectively engage society on the issue of abortion, which has had a direct impact on public sentiment toward the sanctity of life and also on the way these abortion votes are coming out. In this case, even an issue as grisly as abortion isn’t limited to the evil of the practice itself; it is swayed and impacted by the baby mills and abortion-pushing lobbyists backed by their millions in capitols across the country.

Failure to recognize these realities gives you social media content like this, from an account with almost 2,000 followers:

Oh, silly Trump. He entered the White House and immediately became responsible for the failure of 50,000 potential mothers and fathers opting not to exercise personal responsibility to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and didn’t issue an Executive Order that would have been immediately bounced by courts, but not before it destroyed the electability of the Republican Party for decades, thus giving the Democrat Party, now on life support, a chance to return and destroy everything we hold dear.

It gets better (or worse, actually). Here’s a mindless take from an account with over 3,000 followers: