Why Evil is Winning Everywhere Today

Why do the Democrats (translation: American Communist Nazi fascists) unify so easily — under, say, a Nancy Pelosi, or even a pitiful puppet like Biden — while the poor Republicans can’t even elect a Speaker of the House, even after 175 or 392 attempts to do so?

Because Democrats are certain of their principles. Yes, their principles are all wrong and unblinkingly evil. But leftists are sure they’re right. “YOUR life does not belong to YOU. It belongs to US. You will do what we say. Whether it’s taxes; fossil fuels; experimental jabs; face masks; using public schools to sexually molest children; or censoring speech on social media; or taking away your guns and outlawing your religion … WE determine your fate and your choices. The Bill of Rights is dead. We all know that. But we will carry out our tyranny in the name of the Bill of Rights. Don’t like it? Get over it. Because it’s happening anyway.”

Republicans in power — mostly, I suppose — don’t agree. Some Republicans agree with the Democrats; those are the true RINOs. Many Republicans don’t quite agree with the Democrats; but they want the media to like them. Or they want their kids in the best D.C. private schools. Or they want to be invited to the best cocktail parties. Or they want their bank accounts to increase.

We have two sides here. One side — the Democrats — are unified and strong because they are CERTAIN that THEY rule your life. Republicans are wishy washy and unsure and desperately need to be liked.

Democrats have no concern about being liked. They only care about being strong; not strong in a noble, rational sense, but strong like Stalin or Hitler were strong, for a time.

Leftists — whether the ones in power or your neighbors, friends and family who smugly and self-righteously support all things leftist in our whack job culture — are absolutely certain that they are right. Yes, they are absolutely wrong. But so are all evil, sadistic tyrants. So are all delusional, hallucinating psychopaths. Nobody with a spine exists to take them on. Only Donald Trump did so, but they’ve got him where they want him. If you claim otherwise, you are living a fantasy. Donald Trump is great in many ways, but he has been turned into a comic book hero who will not prevail because life is not a comic book. Trump was president for a term and he could not stop them; even if he’s president for one more term he will not stop them. Because they are like a train set for destroying all in its path. Or like an airplane on 9/11 heading for the Pentagon or the World Trade Center. And nobody will get out of the way, because they act like it’s not happening.

Evil is impotent … but only when the good guys don’t blink. When good guys show the resolve and confidence that today’s bad guys show, the good guys will win every time.

When good guys act like Republicans — well, we’re all going to be run over.

It’s as simple as that.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Leftism: It’s all about Venom, not Principle

Leftist hatred of all things good and rational is not new. I remember it as long ago as the 1980s, in the era of Reagan. I also remember it during the time of George W. Bush. They revere Bush now, especially since he came out of the closet as an anti-Trump leftist; but back then, they called him a Nazi and all the things they call Trump today.

Trump is just the leftists’ stand-in for the things they loathe most of all: freedom, individualism, self-responsibility, independence, rationality and life itself. They hated these things before Trump, and they will hate these values long after he’s gone. It’s what leftists do: hate. They are filled not with principle, but with venom. And that venom is wrecking our freedom and our society.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Sanction of the Victim

The “sanction of the victim” is the willingness of the good to suffer at the hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the “sin” of creating values.

The Philosophy of Objectivism lecture series

Leonard Peikoff,
The Philosophy of Objectivism lecture series, Lecture 8

Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality—and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan—so throughout the world and throughout men’s history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values—the impotence of death. I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win—and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was “No.”

For the New Intellectual

Galt’s Speech,
For the New Intellectual, 165

Every kind of ethnic group is enormously sensitive to any slight. If one made a derogatory remark about the Kurds of Iran, dozens of voices would leap to their defense. But no one speaks out for businessmen, when they are attacked and insulted by everyone as a matter of routine. What causes this overwhelming injustice? The businessmen’s own policies: their betrayal of their own values, their appeasement of enemies, their compromises—all of which add up to an air of moral cowardice. Add to it the fact that businessmen are creating and supporting their own destroyers.

The sources and centers of today’s philosophical corruption are the universities . . . It is the businessmen’s money that supports American universities—not merely in the form of taxes and government handouts, but much worse: in the form of voluntary, private contributions, donations, endowments, etc. In preparation for this lecture, I tried to do some research on the nature and amounts of such contributions. I had to give it up: it is too complex and too vast a field for the efforts of one person. To untangle it now would require a major research project and, probably, years of work. All I can say is only that millions and millions and millions of dollars are being donated to universities by big business enterprises every year, and that the donors have no idea of what their money is being spent on or whom it is supporting. What is certain is only the fact that some of the worst anti-business, anti-capitalism propaganda has been financed by businessmen in such projects.

Money is a great power—because, in a free or even a semi-free society, it is a frozen form of productive energy. And, therefore, the spending of money is a grave responsibility. Contrary to the altruists and the advocates of the so-called “academic freedom,” it is a moral crime to give money to support ideas with which you disagree; it means: ideas which you consider wrong, false, evil. It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers. Yet that is what businessmen are doing with such reckless irresponsibility.

The Voice of Reason

“The Sanction of the Victims,”
The Voice of Reason, 153

The End of Critical Thinking Could Destroy Israel

The game the Biden regime is playing about the Israel-Hamas war is SO obvious. Only in an era where critical thinking has almost become extinct could anything like this be happening.

On the surface, the Bidenistas get to have it both ways. “We support and stand by Israel,” they say to the news media, none of whom will ask the Bidenistas why they’re still advancing billions of aid to Iran (the exact same as advancing billions to Hamas).

That way, they appease their anti-Jewish wing of the party while still leading inattentive Jewish Democrats into thinking that they’re as pro-Israel as America has always been. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth, and it’s easily provable by the Bidenistas’ own actions. They count on people not paying attention; and it seems to work! That fact is almost as horrible as the atrocities taking place against the Jews in Israel at this moment. Because without this inattentiveness, Israel would perhaps already have won the war.

If anyone other than Netanyahu were in charge, I would consider Israel relegated to the ash heap of history. However, Netanyahu has shown the moral courage in the past to stand on principle. The only principle the Americans offer — under our viciously anti-Israel, anti-freedom occupation government — is certain defeat, while pretending it’s not a defeat at all.

In its own way, this is even more sickening than the Nazi Germany era. At least the Nazis ultimately lost. And at least America was on the side of the good guys, not the bad guys.

Hamas and Iran face only one opponent: Israel itself.

If Israel prevails, it will be 100 percent Israel’s doing. And it will be in spite of America, not because of it.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason