The Enmity Counteraccusation

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The Enmity Counteraccusation

This one is perhaps the most brazen. As I put it elsewhere, “the enemy calls you its enemy for recognizing its enmity.”^[1]

As regime hacks spew vile, borderline—and sometimes explicitly—violent rhetoric^[2] at you, they will immediately wheel and counterattack if you dare object. Don’t appreciate being called evil because of your race? Then you are “divisive”! Dare put up your hands to block an incoming punch? That’s violence! You’re just supposed to take it.

They’re enemies who treat you like enemies while they insist that you treat them as friends. At least, though, unlike the housebroken “Right,” they stab you in the front.^[3]

A related point is that if you so much as speculate as to where their insane vitriol might lead the country, you will be accused of wishing for that outcome.^[4] It’s entirely possible that decades of anti-American, anti-white, anti-Christian animosity, coupled with nation-destroying trade, immigration and foreign policies, will not lead to civil war. Then again, it’s entirely possible that they might. If they do, the ruling class and the Left will bear the blame. Naturally, though, they will blame us.

Indeed, they already are. Attempts to head off such a conflict by warning about it are treated as provocations intended to produce said conflict. One can be forgiven for wondering if their plan is to start it and then say we started it, sort of like insisting Poland triggered the Second World War by shooting back.

You’re worthless, baby; and if you even think of trying to leave me, I’ll kill you

Which brings us to the last. Deplorable Americans are loudly and incessantly said to be the worst people in the history of the planet, pure unadulterated evil, with no legitimate concerns, interests or grievances.

Well, OK. Then why live with us? Why treat as anathema^[5] even the most moderate, banal, attempt to allow some measure of federalism and local control?

There can only be two answers: either our masters know (or intuit) deep down that we can live without them but they can’t live without us, or else they want to keep us around to administer what they view as deserved punishment.

Being neither a psychiatrist nor a theologian, I could not say whether the roots of this behavior are psychotic or demonic, but in this layman’s judgement, it exhibits key characteristics of both.

But understand this: they hate you and want you cancelled and ostracized, or at least utterly subservient and obedient. You owe them no consideration. Their every argument, every sentence, every word are proffered in bad faith. As Mary McCarthy said of Lilian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie—including ‘and’ and ‘the.’”

The regime is powerful, which means we must calibrate our resistance carefully. But to think clearly, our minds must be free. Which requires understanding its rhetoric and seeing through it. I hope this short guide is useful in that effort.

References

The Enmity Counteraccusation is a part of a series that concerns Morality.
In other words, pages discussing what a bad person you are.

[1] ttps://americanmind.org/salvo/the-art-of-spiritual-war/

[2] ttps://x.com/nils_gilman/status/1308108059428839425?lang=en

[3] ttps://americanmind.org/memo/vichycons-and-mass-shootings/

[4] ttps://x.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1418224536185671680

[5] ttps://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/why-conservatives-should-be-leery-of-seceding-counties/

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