Sticking It To The Libs

The world has changed mightily for all of us these past several generations.  As extreme as the changes have been, they have been merciless to those who identify as right-wing, MAGA, conservative, etc.  That's because, in many ways, they are the least equipped to handle the changes.  They feel ever more adrift as their paradigms of male dominance, racial superiority, and/or dominance by brawn, are increasingly replaced by a resurgent female population, multi-culturalism, and physically weaker but smarter, (and therefore more successful), people.  They are aware that "Elites," and/or Liberals, look down on them and make fun of them for not being able to keep up with the modern, changing times.  So, they constantly push back, trying to keep us in the Dark Ages.  Or, send us back to...  They simply resent the changes of this world and they REALLY resent those who are successful and happy with these changes.  Hence, their glee at "sticking it to the Libs."  And this is why even those military retirees who have lived a lifetime in the world of, "You do not follow unlawful orders," are still enthusiastically beating the drumbeat that Senator Mark Kelly deserves punishment for simply stating that unlawful orders are not to be followed.  Their fear of not being able to succeed in the changing world is more powerful than any cold hard facts that contradict their world view.  Cold hard facts are simply no match for fear....

 

Christopher Dinnes

Chief Sherpa

Dinnes Farm 

There Is No Such Thing As A Winnable War

 "There is no such thing as a winnable war.  It's a lie we don't believe anymore."

Sting

(From the song, "Russians", on his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, 1985.) 

For the longest time, I thought to myself, "Self, that's an admirable sentiment, but not really true.  There have been wars that we unquestionably "won".  After all, taking the most obvious example in our cultural consciousness, we decisively "won" WWII, right?  Right."

For six+ decades on this planet, there have been so many things that I simply cannot unsee; the graves, the mass graves, the ash pits, the forever wounded and the forever scarred, the lost hopes and promises of so many people, so many cultures and so many countries.  Now?  Unequivocally, I know that Sting was right.  There IS no such thing as a "winnable" war.  We didn't "win" WWII.  The best we can say is that we ended WWII.  We ended what the fascist fucks started, stopped them from imposing their evil idea of "world order", and instead imposed our vision of what a just world should be.  

Or, at least, we tried to create a just world.

 

As it turns out, all we succeeded in doing was temporarily beating back the fascists into the shadows.  We utterly failed to address the fascist ideals that had been quite evident in our country in the decade leading up to WWII.  As a result, they cloaked themselves in a veil of respectability and continued perverting any effort to realize the promise of a truly just society.

 

Someday, history may very well say that while we won the decisive battles of WWII, we ended up losing the war to the fascists.

 

Christopher Dinnes

Chief Sherpa

Dinnes Farm