However you can’t bullshit the troops.

Now Napoleon didn’t forget that….

Our political leaders, our sacred civilians who sold us out never knew that…

In addition to the above by Bomag and Phileas Frogg, there is a principle inherent in all men that they can recognise–and respond to–real leaders. One of our issues today is the plethora of non-leaders who are installed at the top of the tree; we can neither follow them nor believe in them.

But there is good in this. Few of us are now easily misled by their feeble minded self-glorification, and with it are increasingly aware increasingly of a shallow media and grotesque ‘entertainment’ industries, all aided by monstrous, misshapen bureaucracies that dominate every aspect of life. As a consequence we can see where real value exists, primarily in home and families along with people of our own persuasion. Long may it last.

Well said.

I’ve come round to the conclusion that the highest expression of human loyalty and love can only ever be directed towards another person. States, traditions, cultures, etc, are all just abstractions that detach us from the true objects of our loyalties: Our neighbors, our friends, our parents, our ancestors, our children and our God; real people, to whom we can owe real loyalty, not some intellectualized abstraction to whom we have falsely conflated nostalgia or affection for the genuine article.

It’s why faith in Jesus is so powerful. He’s not merely an abstraction, some being beyond our comprehension (though He is that as well) He’s a flesh and blood person. The Incarnation is perhaps the most audacious claim in Christianity, with the most profound effect.

It’s actually why Trump scares the Clowns so badly, he’s tapping into (badly and imperfectly), the desire for personalized political loyalties that have laid dormant for decades in the American heart. The Managerial Class can’t stand it, because it’s beyond their comprehension and ability to control. They call it a cult because they have no comparable word for genuine personal loyalty. They scream that he’s against the system, and are shocked to discover that people aren’t actually loyal to a system, they are only ever, at best, comfortable and cooperative with a system.