{"id":27534,"date":"2016-10-11T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T02:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27534"},"modified":"2016-10-12T04:43:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T11:43:14","slug":"we-are-not-the-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/we-are-not-the-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not the guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian has another of his remarkably philosophical<\/a> blogs, new today. This one is on who are the guilty in the present mess we’re in.<\/p>\n

Historian’s writing is powerful and true and just a little bit poetic. As it tells a truth this piece carries a drumbeat of both terror and triumph. Absolutely be sure to read it; it isn’t long, but it’s packed full.<\/p>\n

It made me think of something related. We<\/em>, you and me, out here on this blog in the early winter of liberty, are not responsible. We may have been at some time in some miniscule scale within the political universe. Possibly we will be again in the future, against our own will. But we are trying to stay out or slog of out this — this Slough of Despond that’s our political world.<\/p>\n

During this election it’s been common to hear people say, “If you don’t v*te for Trump you’re as good as v*ting for Hillary.” Sometimes worse. It’s all or nothing, my way or the highway. If you’re a Trump skeptic, you’re a Hillary voter. Which everyone knows is a cloven-footed, red-skinned two-legged animal with horns carrying a pitchfork with burning babies pierced on it.<\/p>\n

I haven’t had any friendships break up over political questions this season, and pray we all have better sense and toleration than to let that happen. But I’ve known people it’s happened to. The stories have been heartbreaking. And it always begins with some Trump supporter and the “If you don’t” thing.<\/p>\n

Some people have been the subject of loud online breakups. But the worst is when a friend just cuts you off. Boom! You are a non-person. <\/p>\n

All over some pretender to a monumentally toxic throne.<\/p>\n

We’re going to hurt, no matter who wins. I totally understand why people are desperate for Trump now. But even if by some miracle he ends up wearing the purple, he’s just going to disappoint, betray, and endanger. And even if he didn’t, we’d be on the brink of uncivil war with the leftinteligencia and their storm troopers. Because they wouldn’t take a Trump victory lightly.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens, please, please, please do not break with friends over this if you can help it. I have lost friends over freedom questions and I know how destructive it is. The friend I lost at 9\/11 later sent multi-page letters filled with crazy-person threats. Threats that were sheer nonsense but she seemed to think would scare me. People get strange when they hate their old friends.<\/p>\n

But worse than losing our individual friends is losing allies. Allies we’re going to need.<\/p>\n

We are not the guilty. We didn’t create the political parties. We didn’t set up the crooked deals. We didn’t invite our dead relatives to cast their ballots. We didn’t scorn the little people. We are<\/em> the little people. The wealthiest and most influential person reading this blog couldn’t even get a meeting with Hillary Clinton’s secretary’s secretary’s part-time assistant. You want to be near Trump, buy yourself a night next to the neon sign on one of his hotels. We aren’t the R or D convention delegates. We’re not the brown-nosed media. We’re not the million-dollar bribe-offerers. <\/p>\n

So no matter what you think, you had zero influence on setting up the oozingly tawdry situation we’re in and the mortal dangers that go with it. And that friend who disagrees with you is no more responsible. And you’re going to need your friends, no matter what the outcome. So please. Don’t let the real guilty divide you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historian has another of his remarkably philosophical blogs, new today. This one is on who are the guilty in the present mess we’re in. Historian’s writing is powerful and true and just a little bit poetic. As it tells a truth this piece carries a drumbeat of both terror and triumph. Absolutely be sure to read it; it isn’t long, but it’s packed full. It made me think of something related. We, you and me, out here on this blog in the early winter of liberty, are not responsible. We may have been at some time in some miniscule scale…<\/p>\n

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