THE DAILY FUDD: E242: "Political fudd: How easy it can be to get caught on your own 'us-against-the-system' petard."

Still from the 2005 movie. "The Dukes of Hazzard" was billed in the original theme as people "fighting the system."

It's so easy for the grassroots TEA Party-type to proclaim a "divide-and-conquer" plan by "the elites" or whoever as the reason for all the social and political turmoil--that is, that our opponents aren't really the people on the other side of a given issue (or slew of issues), but a power cabal playing us against each other. The problem is, that very line can be used against us on the very issue(s) we say we hold most dear.

An example in point:

See what "they" did there.\? So many libertarian-types will use that very construct to undermine partisanship, and here we see it turned against a point they theoretically, at least, share with American Patriots.

One commenter hit near the target:

Except they openly admit. They want to take away the pitchforks. Then they can rule like the true dictators that that really are. They use the uneducated torch people as their pawns to do their bidding. Like you are doing with you're political cartoon here. Then people like you can have what you think is your perfect Socialist Communist utopia.

(NOTE: Earlier versions of that comment did not have the last sentence, and I believe it was more effective that way. But it was his judgment call to make.)

We see here a version of that is discussed in the article, For the Left, Libertarians are Like a 'Cheap Date' - The Stream. Liberals will use libertarian language, and even issues or viewpoints, to accomplish what libertarians think will help their cause, only to see it used against their cause:

Too many libertarians are eager to support leftist attacks on order, confident that in its absence, liberty will grow. But time and time again we see what springs up instead: More coercion, of a streamlined, more poisonous modern strain.

That's the danger when "freedom"--or "liberty," or whatever--is one's goal in and of itself. Without a reason for it--without substantive concerns like heritage being the higher value--such championing plays right into the hands of the side that would hurt you by way of those factors you choose to deprecate or ignore. (Translation: They will come after you as White Westerners and Americans.) The cartoon takes a common libertarian-type logic and turns it to undercut upholding a crucial element of our society--RKBA. 

Folks, the truth is that one side really IS fundamentally better than the other. Sometimes your neighbor really IS your (future) enemy. Order itself is not the problem. It's whose order it is--or, that is, who controls the order--that's the issue.

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