The First Debate

I stopped watching presidential debates some time ago because they are a painful spectacle of middlebrow sock-puppets who exchange platitudes rather than engage in anything resembling intelligent discourse.

Against my better judgment, I sat down this evening to watch Donald Trump debate Hillary Clinton because this election is unique for a couple of reasons. For one, Donald Trump is a renegade rather than a sock-puppet, so I enjoy the fear he strikes in the hearts of the corrupt establishment and its mindless worshippers. For another, and as I've said before, I want to know which side is going to lose because that's where the action really is; it makes little difference who takes the helm of the bloated, lawless monstrosity calling itself the federal government, but the losing side will be so enraged that it will finally call for disobedience. The disobedience will come from either a host of nationless quislings (Hillary supporters) or from a host of hardcore, nationalist patriots (Trump supporters).

It took me only about ten minutes to turn it off. Listening to Hillary recite her tired talking points while Donald intermittently yelled at the top of his lungs wasn't telling me anything I don't already know, so it wasn't worth the effort.

The only thing that never ceases to amaze me is how thoroughly Hillary conceives of society and government as one and the same. She believes that any pleasant-sounding societal objective is worth pursuing through federal force, all questions of law and morality be damned. There is a name for this, and it is totalitarianism. If America still had an educated populace, my Facebook newsfeed would be filled with denunciations of her toxic worldview rather than littered with attacks on Donald Trump, whose substantive views are much more in line with the American experience.

At this point, I honestly hope Donald loses. "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." A Donald loss will make that observation clearer to patriots than ever.