This Patton Clip May Or May Not Be Something You Need

Posted on | January 25, 2012 | 25 Comments and 6 Reactions

by Smitty

In the following scene, the hard-nosed spirit of American Exceptionalism offers a bit of needed calibration to the Tea Partier:

This post may not be for you, but it may be for someone you know. There seems to be a lot of angst these days about this or that candidate, and can they beat #OccupyResoluteDesk in November.

Shag all that.

1. Barack is a tool. By which I mean: no one political figure is the problem. BHO, in particular, is not worthy of your emotion. The real problem, in 2012 and beyond, is the crying attitude in the clip above. Progressivism has been a government tissue distribution program, intent on reducing Americans to dependent crybabies.
2. The candidates all suck. Guess what: they’re human. This November is an election, for heaven’s sake, not a soteriologicalquest. If it seems like the President is that important, this over-importance itself is the issue. We sure could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again. But we may need a ‘Patton touch’ to help us find our inner,individualPresident.
3. We’ve partied like rock stars, and the hangover follows. I don’t do wallowing in guilt too well. It’s not like I feel personally bad about the realities of the cratered economy. What we have to know, unlike Mitch Daniels, is that the social safety net was never a federal task and has become a mirage. The 10^th Amendment has to be respected, and the states have to pick up the tab. And if you say the states can’t, then you need to ask why. A lucid analysis will help get you past your sobbing soldier scene.
4. The bad guys laugh when we cry. The Ruling Class hopes for nothing more than the dissipation of the 2010 Tea Party energy. The self-appointed Progressive elite don’t really want you asking too many hahrd questions. They want you moaning in the small child fashion, and looking to DC for your next handout.
5. A good chunk of the population is too far gone. Just as Moses had to walk through two generations of Israelites in Sinai to weed out the weepers, we are going to have to spend a significant number of election cycles to spare our children a tragic fate:Is that a comfortable realization? No. I would that all Americans were thinking rationally. Empirically, one in five still, unexpectedly, approve of #OccupyResoluteDesk. “They’s some men you just cain’t reach.” But hopefully this post reaches some.

And, no, I am not making some general justification of physical abuse here. Somebody crying little twit is likely to misread this post. I’m saying that, occasionally, we all need a wakeup call.

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