Roman history can be quite illuminating. The First Triumvirate lasted from 60 BC to approximately 53 BC. It was an informal — and largely secret — agreement between Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus to basically run the Roman Republic. Although ostensibly a Triumvirate, it was, for all intents and purposes, a duopoly between the two great generals. Crassus, by far the richest man in Rome, was mostly indulged because of his wealth. Among other things, he became rich by forming a band of firefighters who would show up at a burning house and offer to buy it for pennies on the dollar. If the owner refused, they’d just leave, while if he agreed, they’d go ahead and put out the fire. Nice guy.
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Caesar and Pompey were adversaries but their partnership in the Triumvirate was sealed when Caesar forced his 17-year-old daughter Julia to marry the 47-year-old Pompey. The marriage was reportedly a happy one, but when Julia died in childbirth in 54 BC, it was the beginning of the end of the Triumvirate. The final stake came with the death of Crassus in 53. The collapse of the pact led to years of civil war which ended with a triumphant Caesar being appointed dictator for life in February 44 BC. And we all know how that turned out.
Caesar’s murder was followed by the Second Triumvirate with Mark Antony, Lepidus and Octavian, Caesar’s adopted son. Once again, made up of adversaries and relatives, this Triumvirate had a similar trajectory and again ended with a Caesar in total control.
But you might ask… what does this have to do with America in the 21st century? Well, let me tell you. Both of the Triumvirates were a circumstance where men who basically disliked/hated one another worked together to defeat a common enemy, and then turned on one another.
I can’t but help thinking about this when I see images of leftists holding up signs that say “Gays for Palestine” or blue hair white liberals holding up BLM signs. Don’t these people know that they basically hate one another and once they defeat “The Man” they’re not going to usher in some paradise with Kumbaya playing over the loudspeaker?
The left is made up of factions that, if left to their own devices, wouldn’t have anything to do with one another, or worse, would be at one another’s throats.
LGBTQXYZ and Muslims. Hispanics and blacks. Jews and blacks. Feminists and Muslims. Liberal Jews and Muslims…. They are taking the adage “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” to the extreme.
This is of course the entire constituency of the Democrat party. The funny thing, or not so funny, about all of this is that these “victim” groups are only able to work together to fight against white/Christian/heterosexual/capitalist oppression because they live in a country that was largely built by whites, Christians, heterosexuals, and capitalists. Remove those and you have absolute chaos and an utter lack of freedom with which to speak one’s mind. Remove them and you have a lack of prosperity that allows one to focus on being a professional victim. Remove them and you have a tyranny ruled by whoever has the biggest stick or least amount of morals.
Nonetheless, that’s where Democrats are, holding hands and singing Kumbaya, certain that they are going to overthrow the system. But they’re wrong. They’re not going to.
Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony et al. could, because they held all the power. Between them they basically controlled or were aligned with every legion in the Roman Republic. They weren’t really fighting the power. They were the power. They were fighting against one another to split the Republic they already controlled.
Democrats don’t have such control. Sure, they have some statehouses and sometimes the White House or Congress, but they don’t have a coherent message that would allow them to cobble together an actual ruling coalition.
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But let’s imagine this coalition of victims did somehow triumph over the white, Christian, heterosexual, capitalist patriarchy, what would come next?
Who would be in charge? How would they decide? Would Muslims and women and gays rule equally together? Would Jews and blacks come together to create a prosperous multicultural nation of freedom and equal opportunity? Would blacks and Hispanics and Asians decide that they should have a society based on merit or color? If color, whose would dominate?
None of those things are particularly likely, because the Western civilization (America) the left hates so much is the only one in history where they could have formed their coalition. Indeed, in an Islamic civilization, gays would be far more likely to be thrown from buildings than be marching in gay pride parades. This Democrat coalition is a paper tiger.
But here’s the thing the Democrats never want to admit, every one of those groups of victims that make up the party, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, LBGTQ blah, blah, blah, feminists, etc., have lives filled with more freedom, more opportunity, and more prosperity here in America than their compatriots have any place in the world. Not sure? Ask yourself, is there a Muslim nation where a Muslim could have more freedom, opportunity and prosperity than here? Blacks in Africa? Hispanics in a central or South American nation? Gays anywhere? Feminists anywhere? No, of course not.
So somehow these geniuses have gotten it into their heads that they can somehow align themselves in a coalition to try and take down the white, Christian, heterosexual, capitalist patriarchy and create something even better.
They can’t. But then they don’t really care about that. With their tunnel vision, all they can see is the clan of victimization that binds them. Democrats have no realistic vision for what a world will look like when they’ve destroyed the single most free and prosperous nation in human history. Well, the Muslim wing of their coalition does, but that’s a different story.
And that is the hallmark of the left. They create nothing. They build nothing. All they do is destroy things that others built. From Marx to today, the left has never built a successful nation that values freedom and prosperity. They have however cost the lives of tens of millions and kept billions more in abject poverty, in most cases with little or no freedom along the way. When the left comes to power, it’s always the same… tyranny and a police state.
We almost had that under Biden, remember the Disinformation Governance Board and the J6 persecutions? Say what you will about the Republicans, and there’s a lot to be said, but for the most part they don’t seek to destroy America for their own narrow self-interests. They might want to change some things, but they generally don’t want to “fundamentally transform America” into a Victimization Industrial Complex.
Democrats, for all their focus on issues of victimization, never have a plan for fixing the country that doesn’t involve destroying or taking what others have built. And that’s how you know the Democrats aren’t a serious party. The only thing that unifies them is the hatred for the white/Christian/heterosexual/capitalists of the patriarchy. They have nothing else to offer. Republicans should start shining a light on that truth now that we’re in the run up to November.
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