"Please do tell us all the secret solution."-- Kyle Smith, chucking it
I interact with theater critic Kyle Smith more
often than is necessary, a credit to his acumen and tolerance, and his
willingness to post back to subscribers, but I would like to gnaw on one kernel
he offered to politically active Democrats when he asserted, factually, that
his party couldn’t ban firearms. No, but they could push to ratify a
constitutional amendment by the traditional two thirds state majority to alter
or eliminate the Second Amendment. I am not indicating this is what I would do,
and such a proposed ratification would take a long time, would have to outlive
MAGA’s commitment to any perceivable Trump heir. It isn’t simply the United
States which faces the choice to revitalize or decline (I am in the decline
camp because my life is static and puerile beyond the words I have to spare for
virtually living with a bandy ass minority I never chose, as a daily constant
of my sixty plus years), but our party system as well. Leon Panetta discusses bipartisan
abdication for The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page. One way to reverse
this is to revitalize commitment to principles, and domestic massacres are
powerful arguments against American citizens carrying Glocks, semi-automatics,
killing Las Vegas revelers, or the children of Sandy Hook, or Florida students,
and now, church going Catholics; it isn’t going to stop until the electorate
and the representatives we elect have the will to make it stop, to stop
treating gun shows like flea markets, to restrict sales. For every Kyle Rittenhouse engaging in the right of self-defense, there are 20 tragedies any
literate reader could rattle off. Remember George Zimmerman making a martyr out
of Trayvon Martin, in 2012, at the tail end of Obama’s dimming comet of glory?
Until Trump’s election last November, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 2 to
1 on the basis of voter registration. It can be that way again, because
conservatives tend to be streamlined, have a unipolar focus, like faith in God,
country, and austerity. So stand for
something, change the Constitution. I have written on this Blogger failure in
the past that I believe in political violence in very limited circumstances.
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock didn’t perturb my conscience. I don’t appreciate
either man a great deal, but Smith stood ground in an acceptable manner.
Senseless carnage destroys everyone and everything which used to be decent,
including me.
