Obligatory, 11.11.15; Hollow society

Last night there was a GOP debate, or so I hear.  As you may note, I missed it.  I don't know if the answers are coming from any of those guys, hence the lack of interest.  Some may be better than others, but none of them are "hitting the spot" so to speak.  Perhaps last night, somebody may have hit the right note.  Generally speaking, we aren't hitting the notes, folks.  There's something out of tune, you might say.  Something's not quite right.

A couple things were said after the 9.11 atrocity that have stuck with me over the years.  On the Chris Baker show on the date of 9.11 itself, a caller said that a Muslim once told him that we don't defend our culture.  The second thing  I recall hearing at that time was what a prisoner at Gitmo said about the West--- "you are hollow".  So, what does that mean?  The second may be more informative than the first, but they both point to the core of the problem.  Something is missing.  What is that?  What makes our enemy say that we are hollow?

I note that left doesn't have much problem defending what they want from this society.  But the so-called right seems to have a problem.   If you observe from the Missouri situation, those people are willing to endure something, and do things.  The right just has words.  I think that is a big clue.  It's not that the left is more courageous, though.  The right will take on the jihadists, but they won't take on the left in this society.  When it comes to confronting the left, the so-called right goes wobbly.  I don't know if the Missouri university president was on the political right, but he was probably a heckuva lot more conservative than the thugs that are terrorizing the university.  His response to their demands was to cave in.  The so-called right is very good at caving in to the left.  But the left won't take on the jihadists.  You might notice the tinge of fear in that.  I think the fear is what motivates them, not any principle.  The left isn't courageous in principle, they are just bullying the cowardly right.

What is missing is courage.  Neither the left nor the so-called right has any.  The left pushes the so-called right around because they haven't any guts to resist.  The so-called right won't resist even if the facts are overwhelmingly on their side.  Instead, they just cave in time and time again.  Meanwhile, the nation crumbles before our very eyes.

What do I mean by courage?  I once read the definition of it to be the capacity to endure hardship and adversity with fortitude.  Perhaps it could be stated as the willingness to endure some pain in order to get some gain.  The so-called right just has words.  They won't even have words when the political correctness police crack down on them.  The left will take on the right, because the so-called right are such through and despicable cowards that they will give in even when they are indisputably correct.

At some point you have to be willing to "die on a hill" for something.  What are you willing to die for?  Anything at all?

Probably nothing.  That's the kind of thing that the jihadists can point to and say that we are hollow.  We won't defend our culture.  We won't muster up the courage to defend what's right.  Collapse is inevitable unless some courage is found.

A thousand debates won't make the difference that one show of courage can make.  From the appearances that I read about yesterday, it won't begin in Missouri.  And it won't end there either.