“Was this trip necessary?”
An evening pause: On Memorial Day, let’s revisit an evening pause from 2011 of one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.
The saddest thing about this clip is how ugly it makes too many modern Americans look, for they have adopted the certain, ignorant, and bigoted aspects of the totalitarians from the 1930s and 1940s that the generation then fought so hard to defeat. Today’s American totalitarians — almost all of whom are on the left — are certain that because Donald Trump is doing things they disagree with, he along with all of his supporters should be killed. No debate is permitted. They are right and anyone who challenges them is evil.
Memorial Day is not simply about remembering the dead so that they will not have died in vain. It is also about remembering why they died.
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An evening pause: On Memorial Day, let’s revisit an evening pause from 2011 of one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.
The saddest thing about this clip is how ugly it makes too many modern Americans look, for they have adopted the certain, ignorant, and bigoted aspects of the totalitarians from the 1930s and 1940s that the generation then fought so hard to defeat. Today’s American totalitarians — almost all of whom are on the left — are certain that because Donald Trump is doing things they disagree with, he along with all of his supporters should be killed. No debate is permitted. They are right and anyone who challenges them is evil.
Memorial Day is not simply about remembering the dead so that they will not have died in vain. It is also about remembering why they died.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
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Groups of Christians gathered in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park on Saturday for a rally to support several conservative causes, including pro-life and protecting children from the predatory gender cult. The rally was held in Seattle on what used to be CHAZ (the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone). Antifa and other far-left groups showed up and attacked the Christians. Police made some arrests, but then Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell released a statement condemning the Christian groups for holding a worship event at a public park in the city and announced he was directing an investigation into how the Christians were approved to worship at the park.
It’s inspiring remembering those who fought before us in this great war.
Heh heh heh. And now it’s our turn.
Interesting that already in 1949, the producers felt people needed to be reminded how necessary the war was.
The battle is necessary.
WARFARE: THE SYSTEM AND PROCESS DEMAND IT!
I long ago understood and made the parallel connection between full blown crush, kill, destroy, blood and guts on the floor warfare where anything goes, and politics. They are really just two versions of the same thing. One more physical and one more intellectually based, and both are deadly. Politics just like warfare is about goals, agendas, competition, territory, wealth, power, control and the strategy to get what you ideologically must have.
And that is exactly what I and many others realized and saw very clearly going on over the last ten years specifically. “By any means necessary” was the Democrat party war cry. And the now famous Democrat party political operative, Rham Emanuel’s comment about when catastrophes happen: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”. And the party took that literally to heart and ran with it.
No one on the inside of the Democrat party leadership had to tell me what was what when it came to the things that they were willing to do to retain and further acquire political power and control. They would stop at absolutely NOTHING!
Why? “Because D.J. Trump was an existential threat to Democracy”.
These are all recent Democrat party leadership political warfare tactics: From mail in voting, to no photo I.D. to vote, to ranked choice voting, to ballot harvesting, to “defund the police”, to the destruction of Americas energy and economic system, to flooding the country with illegals, to serving up America to the Leftist “progressive” EU / Globalist agenda where America was to never be allowed to be the dominant force for Objective law and justice in the world, to lawfare and the real attempt to financially ruin and or jail the greatest individual threat to their perpetual political power and control. Because when you can frame a “CRISIS” political or otherwise as being existential you can justify ANYTHING! You can righteously call for your oppositions elimination!
It becomes a justified KILL OR BE KILLED mentality. And that is how the game of politics is really played, just like real hot warfare.
“A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden shockingly admitted that insiders felt justified acting ‘undemocratically’ to keep the president in power because Donald Trump represented an ‘existential threat’ to democracy, a new book alleges. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14750863/biden-aides-undemocratic-donald-trump-democracy-alex-thompson-jake-tapper-book.html
“Thompson wrote that an unelected official within the administration admitted that their hatred of Trump validated doing ‘undemocratic things.’ ”
“The book has sent shockwaves through Washington as it delves into Biden’s decline in office.”
When someone admits to what essentially has been organized deceit and lies or possibly even treason after the fact when everyone with a pulse knew well the reality of what was in fact going on within the presidency. There are no “Shock Waves”. Just one more false phony narrative to sell books. make money by those who facilitated it all. All in an attempt to clean the slate and reset in the minds of the public. Everyone is trying to cover their ass and “Come Clean”.
Everything the Democrat party leadership and those who carried out the agenda that they formulated in order to retain their political power is and was a lie, about deceit and everyone knew it. No surprises here for sure. And if you did not understand in time what was clear and obvious, then YOU are the problem.
Just like full blown blood and guts warfare politics is exactly the same, winning at any cost. Even the destruction of what you profess to be working in the interests of, Democracy and the country. The Democrat party leadership was and still is willing to destroy America and its Objective Constitutional system in order to prevail. And they have clearly now been forced to reveal to you exactly that.
And under the Objectively structured Constitution that is the way it should be. This kind of raw competition, this kind of unrestricted battle keeps things in politics and government healthy where the best and the strongest closest to the truth argument ultimately gets to the people and wins! That is the theory anyway, trust none of them on either side.
Just like the survival of the fittest in nature, it’s all the same.
This is our system, this is our process.
Things are today the way they should be.