"...The #NeverTrumpers, however, aren’t looking at the bigger picture...
...The #NeverTrumpers are so focused on ideological purity that nothing else matters to them.
They will bow to the altar of purity even as America follows Venezuela to starvation and ruin (and that downfall, you will recall, happened with remarkable speed, clocking in at about ten years).
Not only do I not like what’s happening, I’ve seen this movie before and can tell you that it ends really badly.
The movie, of course, is Bridge on the River Kwai...
...For those who have forgotten or never known the plot of Bridge on the River Kwai, here’s a summary of the salient points:
The movie begins in 1943, in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Burma run by the sadistic Colonel Saito. He announces to the prisoners that all of them, regardless of rank, will be working as slave labor constructing a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon....Even as the British and Americans are plotting the bridge’s destruction, Nicholson is increasingly obsessed with its completion.
In his mind, a perfect bridge will prove to the Japanese how superior the British are, never mind that it will help the Japanese win the war.
He is so focused on this goal that he even convinces Colonel Saito to lend him Japanese labor to make the project go faster.
The movie’s dramatic finale begins when a drop in the water level exposes the wires that the commando team used to connect the explosives to the detonator. When Colonel Nicholson notices these wires, instead of keeping silent or otherwise aiding the commando team, he promptly notifies Colonel Saito.
The Japanese immediately attack the British commando squad.
Although Colonel Saito dies, so do three of the four members of the commando team.
Only Commander Shears remains to try to detonate the explosives.
Fatally wounded, he swims across the river, dying at Colonel Nicholson’s feet before he can trigger the explosives.
Nicholson realizes that Shears is his former, escaped campmate.
Only at this moment, with three commandos dead, a fourth dying, and a train full of Japanese dignitaries heading for an inaugural ride across the beautiful bridge he built, does Nicholson suddenly become aware where his obsession has led.
That results to the famous close-up of a horrified Nicholson saying “What have I done?”...
The movie, of course, is Bridge on the River Kwai...
...For those who have forgotten or never known the plot of Bridge on the River Kwai, here’s a summary of the salient points:
The movie begins in 1943, in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Burma run by the sadistic Colonel Saito. He announces to the prisoners that all of them, regardless of rank, will be working as slave labor constructing a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon....Even as the British and Americans are plotting the bridge’s destruction, Nicholson is increasingly obsessed with its completion.
In his mind, a perfect bridge will prove to the Japanese how superior the British are, never mind that it will help the Japanese win the war.
He is so focused on this goal that he even convinces Colonel Saito to lend him Japanese labor to make the project go faster.
The movie’s dramatic finale begins when a drop in the water level exposes the wires that the commando team used to connect the explosives to the detonator. When Colonel Nicholson notices these wires, instead of keeping silent or otherwise aiding the commando team, he promptly notifies Colonel Saito.
The Japanese immediately attack the British commando squad.
Although Colonel Saito dies, so do three of the four members of the commando team.
Only Commander Shears remains to try to detonate the explosives.
Fatally wounded, he swims across the river, dying at Colonel Nicholson’s feet before he can trigger the explosives.
Nicholson realizes that Shears is his former, escaped campmate.
Only at this moment, with three commandos dead, a fourth dying, and a train full of Japanese dignitaries heading for an inaugural ride across the beautiful bridge he built, does Nicholson suddenly become aware where his obsession has led.
That results to the famous close-up of a horrified Nicholson saying “What have I done?”...
The #NeverTrumpers, of course, are Colonel Nicholson.
They’re going to prove to the world how wonderful they and their ideas are, never mind that their obsessive focus on ideological purity and their unwillingness to sully themselves by associating with a man as crude and unintellectual as Trump will hand victory to an ideology that will make it impossible for their ideology to function in America again for decades, at least.
And make no mistake: If Hillary wins, we are looking at an epic disaster.
As Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, and other committed, principled, highly intelligent conservatives have realized, the time for ideological purity is over. In an existential situation, with a binary choice between bad and dead, morality demands that you choose bad.
President Hillary Clinton will:
They’re going to prove to the world how wonderful they and their ideas are, never mind that their obsessive focus on ideological purity and their unwillingness to sully themselves by associating with a man as crude and unintellectual as Trump will hand victory to an ideology that will make it impossible for their ideology to function in America again for decades, at least.
And make no mistake: If Hillary wins, we are looking at an epic disaster.
As Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, and other committed, principled, highly intelligent conservatives have realized, the time for ideological purity is over. In an existential situation, with a binary choice between bad and dead, morality demands that you choose bad.
President Hillary Clinton will:
- Turn the Supreme Court into an activist, hard-Left engine of permanent change;
- Narrow the First Amendment to the point of meaninglessness, giving government the final say over who gets free speech (and you can see what this will look like by visiting any college or university in America except for Hillsdale);
- Narrow the Second Amendment to the point of meaninglessness, giving government the absolute right to seize all privately held arms;
- Grant full amnesty and voting rights to all the illegal aliens already in America;
- Abandon any effort at controlling our Southern border;
- Continue to turn the American military into a vast social justice and climate change experiment;
- Continue to destroy the American economy by (a) funding crony-style climate change initiatives and (b) making it impossible for ordinary Americans to get affordable energy from clean coal, oil, and natural gas;
- Raise taxes to pay for her war against the climate;
- Deny the existence of Islamic fundamentalism, something exceptionally cruel, not only to non-Muslims killed by Islamists, but to those peaceful Muslims who need someone to partner with them to help bring about an Islamic reformation;
- Cultivate her close ties with rich, radical Islamists, aided by Huma Abedin (scion of the Muslim Brotherhood) and by all of her other long-standing Islamic funders;
- Turn her back on Israel, a nation she’s always approached with hostility, abandoning it to the Islamic/Arab savagery that surrounds it;
- Destroy the last remnants of a free market in America by tightening her cronyist connection to Wall Street and her regulatory control over businesses and individuals;
- Be exceptionally vulnerable to blackmail from all those nations that are sitting on her emails, both the 30,000 she destroyed, as well as the ones already in FBI hands; and
- Continue to divide America by focusing on victim groups in order to retain those groups’ fealty to the Democrat party. Read on!
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