As IF Times

Source: Migrant caravan re-forms in Mexico, members vow to reach US

If people believe that the ‘migrant’ caravan currently on route to the US via the southern Mexican border is a spontaneous movement of refugees, then we have a free health care plan to sell you.  We haven’t read anywhere in the media of the circumstances which would cause thousands of people to spontaneously form a collective mob and head to the US border as if it was a seasonal migration of ducks.  There’s no war in Central America, nor famine, nor pestilence.

While we can’t dismiss the idea of a road trip embarked upon out of boredom, it usually occurs among a few friends, never in my recollection including an entire village of 5000.  That would create a problem of who’s going to drive.  In the circumstance at hand, driving isn’t an issue, they’ve decided to walk the thousand miles instead.  But instead of staying in Mexico, or heading the other way to South America, the US is the target destination.

Anyone who’s ever been part of a road trip is aware of the simple logistics involved: food, accommodations, bathrooms and of course Starbucks locales. Think of arranging that for 5000 people. Either this is a very intelligent mob, in which case they would have taken a train at least, or else someone is shepherding the process and paying for all the bottled water and Subway sandwiches for the trip.  Who would have an interest in that we wonder?  Purely by coincidence, the arrival of this mob is scheduled to arrive…just around the time of the American mid term elections. Throughout the coverage of this event, the media characterizes the mob as migrants.  That’s like saying a home invader is a visitor.  As usual, the opposite speak of the left is used to obfuscate the reality observed by our own lying eyes.

The other newsworthy event being pushed by the news outlets is the murder of the Saudi ‘journalist’ Jamal Khashoggi. While the guy probably had an unpleasant demise, the narrative surrounding the circumstances are eye rollingly absurd.  The Saudis claim he got into a fist fight….with 18 combatants, which he somehow lost…and then subsequently sawed into pieces by the sore winners.  The media reports that this innocent, benign journalist was tortured because he wrote unflatteringly about the Saudis and yada yada yada, Trump.

Like the characterization of the ‘migrants’ in the caravan, Khasshogi is portrayed as a ‘journalist’. This is like saying Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee.  Ex White House adviser Sebastian Gorka stated it best when he wrote:

“…This is a man who was a fully paid up member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological mothership that gave us Hamas, al-Qaeda, and, eventually, the Islamic State. He is the same man who, under the banner of his organization, DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World), was providing the glide path for Islamists to pervert and subvert any nascent structures of representative government in the Middle East. Shades of Orwell and 1984’s “War is Peace” Newspeak. But this time it’s “Democracy is Salafist Theocracy…”

But he did contribute the odd article for that paragon of truth, The Washington Post and so a journalist he is.  Coincidently again, this ‘crisis’ with the Saudis comes at the same time as the American mid term elections.  Boy, what are the odds?

Source: Passion, chaos as Kavanaugh confirmation vote nears

Passion.  That’s the characterization of the left’s yelling and wailing surrounding the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.  From confrontations in elevators to screaming bad rhymes on the street, the naked infantilism of ‘progressives’ is on full display.

Why does this feel so familiar?  And no, it’s not just because this is the preferred tactic by the left; it’s because we’ve seen it all as parents. We’ve lived through the phase of petulant children stomping their feet, holding their breath and rolling on the ground wailing because they were not allowed a toy or a piece of candy.  Recent generations of children have been brought up by parents subscribing to the modern accepted theory of avoiding corporal punishment at all costs.  Well, now we see the costs.

We have created a generation (or more) of people that are psychologically stunted, unable to deal with disappointment rationally and whose only resort of influence is by wailing. They are abetted by a society that allows infantilism to continue well past the age at which it should have ended.  We are all aware of the padded environments of schools and universities where safe spaces, trigger words and crying rooms are not uncommon.  Entire swaths of a generation of adolescents are unable to deal with the vicissitudes of life.  They pile into issues they can’t even spell much less articulate in any meaningful way.

This is not passion.  It’s entitlement masquerading as social justice.  A lifetime of conditioning has allowed emotional and tribal mindsets to entirely eclipse any influence of reason to address issues. This dynamic percolates into political allegiances, which then produces exponents who encourage and nurture their irrational base.  The cycle self perpetuates.

The circus which has been the Supreme court nomination process has turned into a melodrama by the left literally wailing and flailing to get their way while the feckless Republicans try to mollify them by offering them candy or a pony if they just behave.  Petulant kids are not capable of acting on reason and logic, they are only concerned with getting their way.  It’s not passion; it’s whining.