Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford #SunTzu 6: 19-23 "By reinforcing his vanguard, he weakens his rear; by reinforcing his rear, he weakens his vanguard. By reinforcing his right flank, he weakens his left; by reinforcing his left, he weakens his right. By reinforcing every part, he weakens every part.

Today's focus is #SunTzu 6: 22 "by reinforcing his left, he weakens his right."

Winston Churchill's proverb seems almost inexorable. Not a liberal in your youth you have no heart, not a conservative when older, you have no brain. It's charming, and it certainly describes my life. But still, how did the left get me as its reinforcement in my own youth?

Do you remember we laid out the vanguard as the rich, and the rear as the poor? In my youth I came to believe the rich were if not evil, then at least the bad guys. There were two authors who got to me. Richard Llewellyn, 'How Green Was My Valley,' broke my heart over the miners.

Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five,' with its vivid description of the firebombing of Dresden was the second. Oh, there are two others! John Steinbeck's 'Grapes Of Wrath' with the benighted Joad family, and Dalton Trumbo's 'Johnny Got His Gun.'

There's no need to list out the movies I watched that taught me how bad America is, or to discuss the genocide of Native Americans, the evils of slavery, or the evils of the military/industrial complex with its intelligence arm, the dreaded CIA. Films established our badness.

Until well into my 30's, I refused the term 'patriotism,' and had a single great example of why I was ashamed of America. It was the atom bombs at the end of WWII. I felt their horror in my bones and was viciously judgmental that they need not have been used.

Not only was I a complete anti-war pacifist, I even opposed the use of weapons in any way, and wanted our police to disarm, like the Bobbies in England (back then). I reinforced the left with all my beliefs, yes. But it was my heart and soul that the left owned completely.

I won't retell my conversion story as I headed into 40's, right now. I have to stick tightly to the recruiting power the left has over our youth. I believe for others, far more than it was for me, the fear of being on the outside, outside the group is a significant element.

For me, that played no part. I've always been an outsider, and pretty happily so for the most part. Rather, it was for me almost 100% the power of morality. It's worse now, but even back then, everywhere you turned, it was the left that owned the moral high ground.

I am still a gigantic fan of Robin Hood. During my conversion years, I was horrified to think I might have to give him up, as taking from the rich to give to the poor is kind of the ultimate moral mandate I ended up rejecting. Man, the rich are easy to hate, aren't they?

I'm not a fan of real pirates but I've made my peace with them in the world of fiction. Give me a pirate movie and I'm there. Arrr. That's how I saved Robin Hood, too. In his story, the rich are all thieves, he's just giving the poor back what was theirs before the rich stole it.

It's an important point, and it ties directly to our question, how did the left so mightily reinforce itself at the right's expense? Hidden within the story, there's a powerful anti-tax theme. Once I completed my conversion, that was a powerful point for me.

But getting back to the question, there is a one-word answer. Mercy. The left has taken almost 100% hold over mercy. What a wonderful thing to own. How unbelievably they have weakened us through its ownership. They have the deed. This is our greatest weakness on the right.

One more thing, consider what it means to be liberal, as a personal trait. It is to be generous and kind, the opposite of greedy and mean. How did we let them steal that term from us? It was ours, you know. We were the classical liberals fighting the system of top-down power.

With our passion for equal rights under the law, and the power of the individual, we were for the little guy against the mighty. Yet, somehow, we allowed the left to confiscate that term, and they're the liberals and we are...the mean and the greedy?

Even the term 'progressive' is a cool word. Why do we let them have it? You know what? I just decided, right now, I'm taking that word back. I'm going to be a Progressive Conservative. I deem them the Regressive Left. Their policies are NOT merciful, they oppress and enslave.

They're not liberal, either. In their zeal and true belief in government, they're anti-independence. Can you see how we must reclaim every element of the moral high ground, all the way down to the naming? We have granted them coolness as well, socially.

Socialism is not cool. It is not progressive, but rather regressive to a state where the individual has no power, the state has all. It is always sold with lies, packaged in temporary enticements at cost of personal power. In socialism, all power migrates up the mighty.

In the name of benefits, all liberty is destroyed, all stability, peace, all personal security is destroyed. The list of its lies and atrocities is endless. Yet, we on the right don't tell these tales. We don't have such films or novels. We allow them the lie of their coolness.

It is now well established that the left has reinforced itself most mightily by absconding with our children and youth through total control of education. Of all the wars we must fight, none are more crucial than this. We must take back our children and youth. It is our right.

The truth is that Churchill's proverb is, in fact, an inversion, not of liberalism over conservatism, but actually of wrong over right. We don't teach our children and youth what rights are. We allow their minds and hearts to be filled with wrongs as if they were rights.

This is the torpid stupidity of a sleeping society, wallowing in lies and deceits like pigs in muck. Churchill was wrong. We must end the left's ability to reinforce itself by weakening the right. We must awaken, and reclaim our children, youth and their education.

The story of rights, of the proper balance between mercy and justice, never forgetting the weak and the wounded, is a wonderful story. We can entice them back. We can win this war for their minds and souls. We do not have to give up. We can stop giving them up.

We must never forget Master Sun's clear instruction here. Tactically, it is always the wise warrior's task to observe his enemy's strengths and weaknesses, and adapt, finding the weak spot to attack. For all their might, the left is not capable of a zero-weaknesses condition.

The hill we must take is named the moral high ground. It is time we win it. I say, with Master Sun's guidance, we can and must. For my part, I won't stop until we have. How about you?

132 verses completed, 290 to go.

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