The Tyranny that Defines Iran
Iran has been a huge problem for the entire world for 47 years. Why hasn’t something been done before now? Let’s consider that…
Everybody knows I’m an individualist. Everybody has a right to proclaim their individualism. No legitimate government would stand in the way of that.
OK, so what is individualism?
Words are easy to say but are sometimes difficult to define. We say the words socialism, capitalism, democracy, communism, fascism with ease. But it’s not so easy to explain what they mean. I suspect that most people that fling those words around have never really bothered with definitions.
So what is individualism and what has it got to do with anything else? It’s easy enough to maintain that any individual has the right to live their own life on their own terms. But what about interactions within the real world? A total individualist might go off and live in the woods and be truly his own person on his own terms. But that’s not me and that’s not most individualists.
As a contractor I dealt with various people on a daily basis. I didn’t get to call all the shots simply by declaring myself an individualist. After all, I was dealing with other individualists. That might sound like a recipe for disaster with all these individualists trying to claim their right to be their own person. The funny thing is there was almost never a problem at a construction site. When a building gets built every individual’s responsibilities are clearly defined. On the one hand you have responsibilities that you must meet but on the other hand it’s entirely up to you how to accomplish it. It’s not kumbaya by any means, but there is a spirit of cooperation. The more we cooperate, even while meeting our own individual responsibilities, the better it is for everyone.
The thing is we all agreed to be there and to be part of the construction. We all knew what we were getting into and we all had the option to stay out of it. But then there’s governments. We are forced into participation. We proclaim that if governments are democracies, then it’s all fair. And that is total bullshit.
When people are forced to participate in an alleged democracy you cannot equate it with freedom.
Yet we need governments. But I have concluded that no legitimate government exists that does not recognize the supremacy of the individual ahead of the group. No legitimate government can claim that all citizens should pledge fealty, or like or respect the leaders of that government. A legitimate government makes only those laws that are necessary for the basic operation of the culture. In the USA we have two political parties and they both expect us to pledge loyalty to them. Make no mistake, even as they each push and shove, and insist that they are the ‘good’ party, overarching all of that is the presumption that every American citizen should pledge their loyalty to one party or the other. They seek to diminish any sense of individual identity and vision.
The two parties consider us to be subjects not citizens.
Voting, even when the election isn’t rigged, is still just a pretense. You get to vote for this party loyalist or that party loyalist. What about the majority of us, who are loyalist to neither party?
I’ve said this sort of thing many times before, but I think it’s time to consider some other factors as well. Donald Trump certainly has pushed the limits of his authority. He has not necessarily pushed them beyond what other presidents have done but he has pushed them. Harry Truman involved us in Korea with no declaration of war. LBJ got us into Vietnam with no declaration of war. Barack Obama had us involved militarily in Syria and various other countries of the Middle East, with no declaration of war.
I concluded long ago that laws don’t matter so much as the people who interpret and enforce them. So I look at the people more than I look at the law. We all know that Donald Trump is something quite different from any other president this country has known. Some conclude that this is horrible; others are glad that this has finally happened. It’s obvious enough which side of this I am on.
The law. Federal law. International law. So what? There has never been a time in the history of man when there hasn’t been tyranny, oftentimes horrible and brutal. And the laws have meant nothing. After all it is the tyrants who make the law in a country with tyrannical government. So, what is tyranny? Is the federal government of the USA tyrannical? Don’t presume that it is not. We are ruled by two special interest groups. We the people have no frigging power of our own.
Then again it is nowhere as bad here as it was in Venezuela and is in Iran. What are we to do when we the people, we the individuals, have no effective voice in our own government?
The United States of America was formed of revolution, because a group of its citizens decided it would no longer tolerate the tyranny that they were experiencing. Somehow that revolution worked out, for the most part.
Could we reasonably expect Venezuelans to revolt against the oppressive Maduro regime? Can we reasonably expect Iranians to revolt against the oppressive Khomeini regime? And if not, does the USA or any other country or any international organization have a right, a responsibility even, to step in and overthrow such governments? There is no neat clean answer to that question, but that in no way permits us to ignore the question.
Iran has been run by terrorist psychopaths for close to half a century. Presidents and world leaders have postulated, ruminated, passed resolutions, even maintained military bases in the region.
Hold that thought, while I go back to being a contractor and building buildings. You don’t get paid to try hard in construction, you get paid to succeed. You don’t get paid to give speeches or pass resolutions. You get paid when you accomplish the goal. And no single contractor can achieve that goal alone. It takes resolve, focus, experience, and a sense of cooperation.
I take that outlook, that approach to construction, and compare it to the effectiveness or lack thereof of government. Government is nearly the polar opposite of success-driven construction.
Who else was a construction contractor besides me? Donald Trump. I easily recognize his approach. I see the focus. I see that he applies pragmatism where others would apply the law. Aye, there’s the rub. Trump’s approach works. The law and lawyers does not. Should we continue to smugly proclaim that we are a nation of laws when in fact we are a nation of politicians and special interests jockeying for position?
Knaves protest at No King’s rallies, but would readily accept a king promoted by the MSM.
The likes of Chuck Schumer vociferously endorse voter ID when it suits them and then vociferously oppose it, when it suits them. The same for illegal immigration. For that matter the same for military action. The knaves suck it up, equivocating not at all, earnestly demonstrating, holding whatever sign someone puts in their hand.
I am an individualist. Donald Trump is an individualist. We both built successful careers around getting things done. I’ve had to think about what Trump is doing, how far he is exceeding law and custom. I didn’t vote for him in 2016, on the one hand, nor did I believe the total horseshit that Hillary and her crew were slinging about him, on the other hand. With all that has gone on since 2015, with all that I have seen Trump accomplish in spite of the entire city of Washington DC trying to take him down, and with the gang rape of the constitution eagerly engaged in by the progressive movement, I’m left with no choice but to trust Trump.
It is not blind faith. I am nobody’s follower. But Donald Trump has a career of success, of focus on goals and of achieving them. Washington DC has a record of abysmal failure. Pragmatic people can see this, political camp followers cannot.
Countless hundreds of thousands of people have suffered and died under the psychopathic regime of Khamenei in Iran.
Forty-seven years. There was no end in sight. Posturing, policy, coalitions, speeches and resolutions by the DC crowd have only made things worse. Trump is making the difference. It’s been a mere four weeks, not forty-seven years, with minimal loss of American military lives. Khamanei and his top leaders are dead; Iran’s military is all but gone. The psychopath’s ability to raise revenue to pursue terrorism is diminished nearly to nothing. Yet the DC crowd proclaims that Trump has lost. Any rational person knows better.
The one real issue at this point is the Strait of Hormuz. Only a fool doesn’t know that Trump will handle that. Nobody else will, but he will. And when he does Iran will be still weaker. There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that Iran will continue as a terrorist state as long as Trump is in office. There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that the Washington DC crowd will develop anything resembling competence anytime in the near future.
I am an individualist and a pragmatist. My life centers around defining goals and achieving them. I have never been able to do it alone; I have never even tried to do it alone. I seek those who know how to get the job done and they seek me. And we support Donald Trump.
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Great Article. Read.