This is why people around here mocking the left with "no bad tactics, only bad targets" baffles me. I just don't understand that at all. The only bad tactics are ones that don't work, like taking the high road. Censorship, violence, propaganda, they are all just tools. Use them when there is a correct target.
People still have this idea of a karmic universe where if you take the high road then the universe itself will reward you for it and vice versa for those who took the low. Which is a pretty natural belief and pounded in by most religions on top of it.
But we don't live in one of those universes, not anymore. Yet its a hard mindset to break because of how deeply ingrained it is.
It's a nice principle. We don't want to live in a society of cutthroats. People need the fear of God or some higher power. But people also need to understand there's a time for peace and a time for war, and we can't have the former without the latter.
This is an example of how the new, younger, unbelieving conservative right are sadly following after Babylon the harlet and Satan just like the left. This generation wants to start adopting leftist's "might makes right" tactics with no regard for what's true, what's right, only with what works in this world system.
It's sad to see.
And here's the thing, even if there was no God and morality didn't matter, only results through human effort, this would be doomed to failure anyways.
The time to start behaving like the left in order to gain the power of the left was decades ago while people were unaware, snatching up all the systems of power, education, entertainment, government, etc. That ship has sailed..Once that was accomplished forget about it. Our role is to suffer persecution and follow the lamb. If you want to have Satanic levels of control and power, then you either need a time machine to convince the right 50 or 60 years ago (at least) to act like the left is going to, or just go ahead and jump ship and become a leftist. Just stop being a conservative. If power is what you want, the left will happily welcome you into their fold if you tow their line.
The version of conservatives that abandon all Biblical principles in favor of moral relativism and evil tactics doesn't look much different than the leftists, so I don't know what they think they will accomplish. It's very short sighted to say the least. Do they think that the power crazed immoral conservatives that would succeed at beating the left at the their own game would suddenly become moral and create a moral society like what we had in the past the second they get in power?
And if I had a 100% guarantee that it would succeed, I wouldn't advocate it because it's wrong.
King David had an easy shot at getting at Saul, who God told David, that David would be king. All he had to do was kill Saul and he had won. Heck, God told David that he's the rightful king. What did David do? Did he do the easy tactic? All his peers were encouraging him to. No. He knew that God would rather he do what's right and he trusted God and he saved Saul's life allowing himself to continue to be pursued and persecuted. Shadraq, Mishaq and Abindigo had no promise that they wouldn't be killed by the furnace. They said, if God wants us to die, we'll die, but if he wants to preserve our life, then we will survive. They didn't worry about tactics. They worried about truth and righteousness.
All of this essay only matters if there exists only two options. Which is full evil or full "righteousness" with 100% commitment to either and every single tactic and option having been assigned to one or the other.
Apparently we can only let legions of children be molested and castrated, because to do things like "apply social pressures" and "directly protest the institutions" is just 'adopting the Left's tactics' and thereby bad. No in between options can exist, only 100% its bad. Just sit and make the decision that everyone must suffer because to act is bad and makes us just as bad as our enemies.
There exists more than just the two polar extremes, and to constantly push this false dichotomy is more evil than any of those "unbelieving conservatives" will ever reach.
Except they're not dying on it, they're winning on it.
The left does whatever works. The right says "we can't use weapons against our enemies, that would be wrong."
This is why people around here mocking the left with "no bad tactics, only bad targets" baffles me. I just don't understand that at all. The only bad tactics are ones that don't work, like taking the high road. Censorship, violence, propaganda, they are all just tools. Use them when there is a correct target.
People still have this idea of a karmic universe where if you take the high road then the universe itself will reward you for it and vice versa for those who took the low. Which is a pretty natural belief and pounded in by most religions on top of it.
But we don't live in one of those universes, not anymore. Yet its a hard mindset to break because of how deeply ingrained it is.
That's a good term for it.
It's a nice principle. We don't want to live in a society of cutthroats. People need the fear of God or some higher power. But people also need to understand there's a time for peace and a time for war, and we can't have the former without the latter.
This is an example of how the new, younger, unbelieving conservative right are sadly following after Babylon the harlet and Satan just like the left. This generation wants to start adopting leftist's "might makes right" tactics with no regard for what's true, what's right, only with what works in this world system.
It's sad to see.
And here's the thing, even if there was no God and morality didn't matter, only results through human effort, this would be doomed to failure anyways.
The time to start behaving like the left in order to gain the power of the left was decades ago while people were unaware, snatching up all the systems of power, education, entertainment, government, etc. That ship has sailed..Once that was accomplished forget about it. Our role is to suffer persecution and follow the lamb. If you want to have Satanic levels of control and power, then you either need a time machine to convince the right 50 or 60 years ago (at least) to act like the left is going to, or just go ahead and jump ship and become a leftist. Just stop being a conservative. If power is what you want, the left will happily welcome you into their fold if you tow their line.
The version of conservatives that abandon all Biblical principles in favor of moral relativism and evil tactics doesn't look much different than the leftists, so I don't know what they think they will accomplish. It's very short sighted to say the least. Do they think that the power crazed immoral conservatives that would succeed at beating the left at the their own game would suddenly become moral and create a moral society like what we had in the past the second they get in power?
And if I had a 100% guarantee that it would succeed, I wouldn't advocate it because it's wrong.
King David had an easy shot at getting at Saul, who God told David, that David would be king. All he had to do was kill Saul and he had won. Heck, God told David that he's the rightful king. What did David do? Did he do the easy tactic? All his peers were encouraging him to. No. He knew that God would rather he do what's right and he trusted God and he saved Saul's life allowing himself to continue to be pursued and persecuted. Shadraq, Mishaq and Abindigo had no promise that they wouldn't be killed by the furnace. They said, if God wants us to die, we'll die, but if he wants to preserve our life, then we will survive. They didn't worry about tactics. They worried about truth and righteousness.
All of this essay only matters if there exists only two options. Which is full evil or full "righteousness" with 100% commitment to either and every single tactic and option having been assigned to one or the other.
Apparently we can only let legions of children be molested and castrated, because to do things like "apply social pressures" and "directly protest the institutions" is just 'adopting the Left's tactics' and thereby bad. No in between options can exist, only 100% its bad. Just sit and make the decision that everyone must suffer because to act is bad and makes us just as bad as our enemies.
There exists more than just the two polar extremes, and to constantly push this false dichotomy is more evil than any of those "unbelieving conservatives" will ever reach.