Did you catch the Brief History of Power classic posted yesterday, The Slow Avalanche? Dr Koontz mentioned the way resentment drives people to try and control others. It seems prescient given the way protests for climate change and Gaza and BLM and other progressive causes have been allowed to disrupt and inconvenience regular people; the masked hooligans and screeching harpies preventing people from crossing bridges, getting to airports or enjoying world-class paintings in peace. Hopefully, grievance-as-free-speech is finally wearing thin:
The Colombia University President, Minouche Shafik, asked for police help to clear out a tent city created by pro-Hamas protestors on the campus’ South Lawn. (New York Post)
A California woman has been arrested at a Bakersfield City Council meeting after threatening to kill the councilors. Activist Rhiddi Patel lectured the panel for not supporting a ceasefire in Gaza before telling them "Jesus probably would have killed you himself.” (India TV)
Google seems to have remembered that it is a business, not a PAC. Twenty-eight employees at the Sunnyvale HQ who took over their boss’ office in a bid to get Google to cut any ties with Israel now find themselves unemployed. (Red State)
The State Department is reportedly allowing employees to vent over President Biden’s support of Israel, but hopefully their preoccupation with the “death to America” voter will soon evaporate. (Jewish Insider, Front Page Mag)
In the Slow Avalanche, Dr Koontz reminds those of us who identify as conservatives that we need to refuse to be organized around resentment or fear but rather present a positive vision:
“[The Right needs to] understand itself positively as the promotion of what is natural, what is good, what is simple; we got a man, we got a woman, they have a baby, we protect that. We got a church, the people are good, they learn how to be forgiving, even just on a political level, we protect that. We got a state, it hurts bad people, it doesn't hurt good people, it doesn't outrageously tax people who are actually productive. We protect that. Kind of simple. That's why we call it natural law.
“Those things need to be positively asserted without a shred of self-doubt, because allowing doubt into your mind, speech and actions “you're letting those people control you, and they don't even need laws, because they control your mind. When you stop letting that happen, you can do things that they don't want you to do.”
Yes, they can still stop you from getting to the airport, but fearless truth and standing for a better way will show the bitterness for what it is.