Payback woofs.

Something interesting struck me just now. For at least 50 years, the Lefties, y'know, the tolerant, compassionate, etc., who scream about the Red Scare* and the blacklist of the late 40s though the mid 60s, have been blacklisting people on a regular basis for the occasional slip of the tongue. Not even malevolent slips, but something that could be construed several ways. Sometimes it was just for being.

Remember Don Imus? Tom Brookshier of NFL fame?.And then there were people like Georgie Jessel and Anita Bryant. Occasionally, it didn't work, as with Martha Raye (Colonel in the Army Nurse Corps, Honorary member of Special Forces, the Rangers) who was hired to replace Nancy Walker on McMillan and Wife when she got her own show at Rock Hudson's insistence, but most of the time it did, sad to say, and it seemed to happen just so the Commies could do it because the knew they'd get away with it.. The meanness of it often seemed so capricious.

Of course, the Lefties would complain about mean-spiritedness on the Right, but things like Harry Belafonte calling Condoleeza Rice a house slave were just fine.

That's why the uproar over the Kirk assassination has had an interesting effect. Lefties of all stations of life are getting fired for mouthing off about how happy they are and how he had it coming. For something that happened just a few days ago, the casualty rate is comparable to Iwo Jima.

And I couldn't be happier.

At last, we're seeing some justice, but it's more than that. It's that the System, which has been in place since the New Deal is finally dying. The 3 networks, the major dailies, the popular coffee table mags don't have the clout and the unanimity they once had. Talk radio helped, perhaps more than we know. The idea you could hear people across the country thinking the same things you did coalesced Conservatism tremendously after all those years when you'd say to yourself, "Am I the only one who sees this?" .

The real killer, though, has been the Internet. So much that got swept under the rug, sometimes for decades, now comes out. Stuff like the FIB cleaning out the Butler guy's house squeaky clean are now public within hours. And people who are technology whizzes can bring insights you'd have never otherwise imagined. And then there's the exposure. Tens, if not hundreds, of millions see and hear this stuff and it shapes opinion. Trump woulld not be in his second term without it.

And it shows how the power in this country has shifted from the centralism of a few Leftist organs to the people that see things very differently. Remember how Dan Blather was brought down by the Internet and how Fake News wailed about how they were undercut by guys sitting at home in their PJs? And that was just a taste of what was coming.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-cha-a-a-angin'

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Are getting so much resistance from behind
Time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

Step out of line, the man comes and he takes you a-way

* You see a fair amount of material these days about how Joe McCarthy was right. What has been called the Deep State was what was put in place in the 30s and metastasized through the 50s. And, yeah, it was shot though with Commies.