John C. Wright's Journal

To those who scoff that voting is in vain:

Imagine the pandemic panic and lockdowns if Hillary had been in charge, not Trump.

The fact that Trump never used the excuse handed to him with both hands to expand the reach of federal power beyond its constitutional limits during this alleged emergency is as unusual and astonishing as George Washington refusing to be crowned, or Cincinnatus the Dictator of Rome returning quietly to work his farm.

Hillary would not have refused power. No state nor local administration would have been permitted autonomy.

She have completed the work of the great reset. We would now, not later, be living in green-newdeal pods, under continuous brownouts, eating bug-burgers, owning nothing and being happy, as genderless units of the total surveillance state, money replaced by electronic social credit scores.

It would have been finished and complete by now.

Imagine stagflation following immediately upon Obama’s recession, without three years of the greatest economic growth in world history.

Imagine the state of the Middle East if, instead of the Abraham Accords, we had the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Muslim bomb.

Imagine Ukraine taken four years ago, and Russian troops in Eastern Europe, the Chinese in Taiwan. That events would be in our regrets of the near past by now, had Hillary won, not in our fears for the near future.

Trump voters saved the world.

Doubt not the dignity and magnitude of that triumph.

Then gird up your loins and go vote.

Forgive my ranting, but this is a pet peeve of mine, and a source of boundless frustration.

Sadly, so few people understand the simple and obvious idea of “equality” any longer that even some well read rightwingers and committed Christians find it impossible to grasp the meaning of the term, no matter how often or how clearly one defines it.

For the Left “equality” means “envy”– no man can be better than I, none more wise, none more wealthy, none more talented — except when it means “pride” — the craving of Lucifer to place his throne above God.

For the sane, “equality” means no legal privileges awarded to the ruling class by birth not also afforded to clergy, gentry, peasantry.

This means that a law forbidding trespass equally prevents trespass into the hovel of a peon as into the mansion of a millionaire; and that law against theft equally prevents a pauper stealing a penny as a prince stealing a fortune. If a knight may bear arms, so may a knave. And so on.

Equality means no class system, no ranks, awarded by birth rather than by merit.

Envy means no millionaires, no mansions, no fortunes, and, to accomplish this, no pennies and no hovels either. You will own nothing and be happy.

For the sane “equality” does not mean, has never meant, and cannot mean what the communists take it to mean: no man may differ from any other in any way, shape or form that any other might envy.

For the Left, it is illegal for a boy to be taller and stronger than a girl, and thoughtcrime to think otherwise.

And that is insane.

This is a bit of internet fluff that is going around, but one which has a bit of a sting.

I am happy to report that, deeply cynical and suspicious man that I am, and who regards the news in the same light as the Book of the Apocalypse regard the city of Pergamos, namely, the throne and dwelling place of Satan, not one of these bits of fake news deceived me for a moment.

This list could be doubled in length with a few minutes thought. Please note how utterly transparent all these tales are. None of them form a convincing, likely, or well-constructed falsehood.

They do not read like the cunning falsehoods of professional propagandists, but like the lies told by silly children with crumb-streaked cheeks standing next to a broken cookie jar.

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