Tug of War

For John, BLUF:  .Tensions are rising and the rhetoric is rising.  Time to calm down a bit.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Fraying

From According to Hoyt, by Author Sarah A Hoyt, 28 October 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

Have you ever been in a tug of war? One with a fraying rope?  Probably not.

I suspect most tugs of war in the US would be supervised contexts, either at school or in other circumstances.

But I’ve had tugs of war with rotting rope.  It looks fine, and suddenly it parts.  And both sides fall.  Hard.  Sometimes there are injuries.

I wonder how many people out there are oblivious to the fact that we’re in a cold civil war.

I’d known it for over a decade, back when I was reading at Classical Values and saw the situation framed in that way.

But it became clearest to me over Sad Puppies.

Look, I’m not an infant.  or a child.  I knew the establishment in science fiction was hard left.  I knew it well enough to keep my mouth shut till I couldn’t anymore.

I even knew there was a style of science fiction being pushed hard.  “Literary.”  And I know what Literary means these days.

Well, it means what it does every age, right?  The prestige writing, the type the contemporary critics value is that which displays the marks of an excellent education and hews to that which professors of literature (or the gentry, mutatis, mutandis) say books/plays/poetry should do.

As Winston said, "Jaw, Jaw, Jaw is better than war, war, war.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

A "Right-Wing" Court?

For John, BLUF:  A lot of inflammatory rhetoric, but not a lot of clarity of thinking regarding both Justice Kavanaugh or the Supreme Court as a whole.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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WE DON’T HAVE A "RADICAL RIGHT-WING SUPREME COURT"

InstaPundit commentary, by Mr David Bernstein, 9 October 2018.

Here is what a "radical right" Supreme Courtwould bring us:

1. Ban abortion nationwide as a violation of the right to life protected by the due process clause;
2. Rule that publicly-provided (but not funded) education is unconstitutional because it inherently involves viewpoint discrimination by the government, or at least require vouchers for those who object to the public school curriculum;
3. Overrule an 1898 precedent and completely abolish birthright citizenship;
4. Use the First Amendment as a sword to require “fairness” in the left-dominated media.

And roll back Congress' promiscuous use of the [Interstate] Commerce Clause

This is very unlikely, even if RBG were to be replaced by a clone of Justice Kavanaugh.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Resisting Diversity

For John, BLUF:  The next step will be to define tradwives as fascists.  Inherently fascist.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Housewives of White Supremacy

From The Old Gray Lady, by Ms Annie Kelly, 1 June 2018.♠

In this article Ms Kelly examines the "traditional wife" (tradwife), apparently an artifact of the right side of the political spectrum.

Ms Kelly sees this vision of the tradwife as including a traditional, 1950s, lifestyle, "all supported by a single income".  The funny thing is, I see a lot of Democratic Party writing that also talks about how it would be better if families could be supported on a single income.  Not upper middle class families, of course, but those in the lower economic strata.

Hat tip to the Althouse blog.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Ms. Kelly is a Ph.D. student researching the impact of digital cultures on anti-feminism and the far right.

The Globe Leans Left

For John, BLUF:  It appears The Boston Globle is part of the Ctrl Left.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Some of the best [Antifa] signs from today’s Boston Common rallies

Regards  —  Cliff