VDH: "We are entering revolutionary times"

Ace of Spades quotes Victor Davis Hanson:

We are entering revolutionary times. The law is no longer equally applied. The media are the ministry of truth. The Democratic party is a revolutionary force. And it is all getting scary.

Ace adds,

I think most people can agree that “Political norms are being tossed by the wayside.” Progressives and virulent anti-Trumpers will say that Trump’s responsible for most of this. They then use that as an excuse to themselves toss political norms by the wayside — does anyone still maintain the fiction that the media is not an overt political agitator any more?

Well, if almost all political norms are being discarded, why keep the main one that keeps everyone trapped in this unhealthy, unhappy toxic failed marriage-on-paper-only?

…I do think it’s useful to start thinking about the unthinkable, and considering the possibility of the “impossible,” that a peaceful national divorce might be in everyone’s best interests — especially the children’s.

I’m open, of course, to explanations as to why it wouldn’t be.

But I’d like to get past the part where people just start jumping up and down screaming “But that’s unthinkable! Why that’s impossible!”

People who claim that everything they don’t like is unthinkable are really just saying they don’t like thinking very much, and would prefer straight-line projections involving nigh-unchanging circumstances so that they aren’t forced into that whole bother of thinking at all.

These things aren’t “unthinkable.” They’re being thought about. That right there is all the evidence any non-idiot should need to dismiss the claim that they’re “unthinkable.”

Whether a national divorce is advisable is of course open to debate — but the claim that it’s “unthinkable” is just something thick-witted people say to impose their own defect of imagination on people smarter than they are.

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