Idaho Speaks

Topics discussed:

• Rank Choice Voting

• Transgender Mutilation Procedures on Children

• Voting as a republican

• Party central committee dues

We discussed the four major issues discussed at the winter meeting, include state party executive committee voting for Young Republicans, Women’s Federated, and College Republican committees.

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Ed references City Council Meetings for the cities of Burlee, Caldwell, and Chubbuck.

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Transcript:

"You are yourself, plus your circumstances."  The early 20th Century Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset, was correct when he described an individual's identity as being a fusion of internal qualities and external context.

Each of us is awash in a sea of circumstances which define who we are, what we do, and how we think about the world.  Our lives are lived within a precise moment in history and culture.

Everything extrinsic to us, from our language to our expectations about life, derives from whether we were born in 1962 or in 1992, in New York City or in Rathdrum, Idaho, in the USA or in Zimbabwe.   We are shaped by whether we were raised by a gentle soul or by a martinet, by a Doctor or by a Day Laborer, by a Christian or by a Communist, by a married father and mother or by a single parent.

Taken in isolation, we are each vulnerable.  Alone in a treacherous world, we are hard-pressed just to survive.  Very few of us can thrive without others.  In fact, a stark and unremitting solitude will drive many of us mad.

Fortunately, the circumstances of everyday life provide many opportunities for isolated individuals to connect meaningfully with others.  The birth family, neighborhoods, churches, schools, military service, jobs, clubs, teams, romantic partners and chosen families that we experience all offer us opportunities for meaningful relationships.  Such connections make life worth living.

We can find purpose and satisfaction by associating with others of similar faith, ideals, ethnic heritage & culture, life experiences, vocations, avocations, and nationality.  Or, we can enjoy discussing our differing notions with those of divergent views.

With functional linkages to other human beings, our stark solitary existence is energized by the vitality and enthusiasm of others.  With the involvement and help of family, friends, associates, colleagues, and other companions, our efforts reshape our world.

In short, we human beings are social animals.  One of our most fundamental needs is companionship.  With it we thrive, and without it we wither.

Given our social nature, the inescapable consequences of certain "woke" progressive ideas on human relationships is nothing less than appalling.  In their unremitting eagerness to destroy the imperfections of the past and build an entirely new utopia of justice, these zealots are prepared to wreck our established connections to the wider world.

Woke progressives advocate that every human tradition, religion, philosophy, ideology, business, workplace, symphony, opera, song, poem, book, play, movie, video game, comic book, art object, sport, contract, or social custom be reevaluated.  Nothing, not even the unstructured play of preadolescent children, must be allowed to flow naturally.  Every work of human hands and the human mind must be scrutinized to determine how power is distributed.

Who has power, and who lacks it?  Which parties have been privileged by traditions and which have been systematically disenfranchised?

A stark equality of result, the touchstone of all variant Communisms, is becoming the new universal standard of value and virtue.  Perceived past wrongs must be righted, and all must conform to the strictures of reward and punishment necessary to redistribute power and bring about a new order of righteous equity.

This type of unrelenting fanaticism is well-known throughout history.  "The Cause" varies from epoch to epoch, but the totalitarian methods are always consistent: an uncompromising and doctrinaire pursuit of ideological purity at all costs.

The impure receive terror, pogroms, purges, Holy Inquisitions, and Star Chamber Courts.  The pure receive the power to sit in judgment over everything and everyone; to play god and decide who lives and who dies.

This violent winnowing of human society from anything discordant from their woke ideal is not truly about justice.  It is designed to detach the individual from all healthy relationships, making the solitary person isolated, vulnerable, and more easily subjugated.

This pattern is ubiquitous in abusive relationships.  The abuser always attempts to detach their victim from their family, friends, and other worldly contacts.  Alone, the victim is at the mercy of the abuser.  Despite their talk of social justice, the woke among us mean to abuse us.  As Robespierre said during the French Revolution, virtue without terror is useless.

We each must insist that our naturally evolved human relationships, personal associations, faiths, and traditions not be reduced to the raw calculus of a dogmatic understanding of power and justice.

In China during the Cultural Revolution, adolescents were given Mao's "Little Red Book", a summary of the expressed insights of the greatest mass murderer in human history.  These Middle Schoolers were organized into Red Guard cadres, given AK-47 assault rifles, and entrusted with the power of judgment over everyone and everything in the People's Republic.  30-50 million Chinese were murdered in 10 years, and every survivor was brutalized; left carrying scars to this day.  The fictional "Lord of the Flies" had nothing on this hellscape reality!

This is the dystopia we are abetting if we continue to abide woke progressives savaging everything that is not of them as being indecently racist or obscenely oppressive.  This extremist cult has already spread from college campuses into corporate boardrooms.  How long until armed thugs fill our streets, holding "People's Courts" where "Enemies of the People" are identified, tried, punished, and even executed; all in one afternoon?

We must stand by plain friendship and free play, straightforward associations and time-honored traditions.  We must insist that most of the relationships in which we engage have nothing to do with power politics.

We must defend the sublime complexity of real human societies, and the needs of most every man, woman, and child to be free to fully engage without permission from would-be Political Commissars.  We must do these things and more, because if we don't then we risk the extermination of everything spontaneous in this world that makes life worth living.

I have included contact information for each of today’s guests.  If you would like to ask any of today’s guests a question, you can call or email them a question.  Note, this information is public record and available on the Idaho Legislator website.

3:58 - Elaine  Price (R) 

[email protected]

Home (208) 654-3228 

Statehouse (208) 332-1048 (Session Only)

8:58 - Joe  Alfieri (R) 

[email protected]

Home (208) 699-0021 

Statehouse (208) 332-1065 (Session Only)

14:30 - Scott  Herndon (R) 

[email protected]

Home (208) 610-2680 

Statehouse (208) 332-1349 (Session Only)

23:06 - Ben  Toews (R) 

[email protected]

Home (208) 209-7791 

Statehouse (208) 332-1322 (Session Only)

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Would you like to share your thoughts with Ralph?  Please email your comments to [email protected] or post your comments on @IdahoSpeaks on Twitter.

Idaho Speaks is a listener supported production.  Please visit idahospeaks.com/support to learn more.

Do you have something so say?  Interested in learning more about publishing on the Idaho Speaks Network?  Our nation was built on ideas and your idea could be the next political advancement for Idaho.  Call Ed at (208) 209-7170 or email [email protected] to start the conversation.

Transcript:

HUMAN LIFE

"Keep Right with Ralph K. Ginorio"

Human life is special because we are the only as yet known self-aware beings in the universe.  While on this world arguments can be made that certain whales, dolphins, chimpanzees, bonobos, elephants, octopi, ravens, hive insects, and even now a few computers possess some form of non-human intelligence, only we Homo Sapiens Sapiens are known to be fully sentient.

By the principles that governs economics, scarcity confers value.  One of gold’s qualities, along with beauty, that makes it precious is that it is encountered infrequently.  Uncommon items and services always command a great price in proportion to their rarity.

In all the known universe, we have not encountered signs of life, let alone intelligent life.  Could it be possible that, in all of creation, only we are awake to our own existence?!

Perhaps, though I think this unlikely.  The sheer scope of our own galactic spiral arm, let alone that of our Milky Way galaxy, its orbiting Magellanic Clouds, the rest of our local galactic cluster, and the near-infinite number of galactic superclusters makes this terribly unlikely.

So, while I personally believe that we are not alone, I acknowledge that in this moment our civilization has no proof of this.  As far as we can prove, our species may be the only thinking, remembering, and planning race of beings.

That makes us precious, because we may be unique.

Even if we eventually encounter nonhuman minds, they are likely to be so different from us that our uniqueness will persist.  Set against alien mentalities, the particularities of our distinct human perspectives will still likely be unparalleled.

We have actually already encountered this phenomena.  Within the past six centuries, as our European and Judeo-Christian Western Civilization encountered the locally evolved cultures and civilizations that existed beyond Europe, unbridgeable gulfs of assumption sundered the Earth’s scattered iterations of human society.

Consider how fundamentally different were the habits, manners, beliefs, and institutions of Muromachi Japan from those of the Iroquois Confederacy; how the Khmer differed from the Incas.  Even within regions, mutually exclusive cultural predispositions proliferated, as with the Mughals and the Ming, the Mongols and the Arabs, the Tahitians and the Aborigines.

We human beings ARE alien to one another.  It is our un-reflected-upon cultural values that determine the meaning of everything we encounter.  As such, there is a value in preserving the stories, languages, and folkways of cultures that are in the process of being erased by contact with the wider world.  Consider how thoroughly human cultures might melt in the presence of an interstellar civilization thousands of years more advanced than the Earth’s apex culture.

Unique human cultures and subcultures should be preserved because of their unique understandings of life, the universe, and everything.  Without their insights, our shared understanding would be incomplete.

However, we are increasingly beset by the sheer numbers of our fellow man.  Human population has exploded since World War II, when the United States led the West in openly sharing modern medical and agricultural technologies with the undeveloped world.  American and allied Universities have disseminated advanced knowledge as our government and businesses have shared sophisticated products.

One result is that societies who never developed industrial and post-industrial resources now have them.  These modern blessings are killing the Third World.

For example, it took Europe centuries of slow growth, plus the first century of industrial development, to alter the size of the average family.  The quantity of children was reduced as the chance for survival for each child increased.  In the modern epoch, the West stabilized at a rate of slow population growth in accord with our society’s growing wealth and expectations.

On the other hand, many cultures around the world equate male value with the number of boys that a man fathers.  More boys equates to higher status and to greater respect.  Over the past eighty years, there has been no significant reduction in these pre-industrial birth rates to conform to changed circumstances.

We are seeing the world’s human population doubling itself in increasingly short intervals.  Unchecked, this will finally outrun our technological advances in food production and medicine.  If nothing changes, we face the apocalyptic overpopulation crisis predicted by Thomas Malthus centuries ago.

As uncommon as humanity is in our universe, individual human beings are uncomfortably common.  Just as rarity confers value, overabundance undermines it.

Today, our would-be social engineers see this population crisis as the greatest threat facing our world.  Their climate crisis language all adds up to their conviction that the uncontrolled proliferation of human life must be stopped.

This is why Western elites like Claus Schwab’s World Economic Forum advocate policies that must inevitably destroy human rights and freedom.  If the West devolves into a new technocratic feudalism, the overpopulating human herd could be culled.

Without liberty, enterprise withers.  Without recognized inalienable God-given rights, the individual becomes subsumed into the mass.  By restricting our food supply, our access to medicine, and the quality of our education, everyday people in the West will be reduced to the status of Serfs.

A distinct West will dissolve into a new global dependency, where technocrats will rule over us without restriction.  They will call all of this necessary for the sustainability of humanity; for the good of the planet.

This all derives from pride, intensified to the point of hubris.  These elites have sloughed off all humility, all reference to the lodestone of the transcendent values of the Judeo-Christian West.

As they deny the existence of God, they can play at being gods.  Without hope of heaven or fear of hell, there are no limits to the extent they will go in service to their ambitions.  Without genuine connections by love and family to the rest of humanity, these elites increasingly see themselves as a natural aristocracy; as a people apart with a manifest destiny to rule.

This disconnection from our shared humanity is coupled by their lack of humility before the imponderable mysteries...

Links:  

Brian Almon - Time Is Not On Our Side (https://gemstate.substack.com/p/time-is-not-on-our-side)

Pocatello-Chubbuck Observer article ‘City Journal’ Reveals the Roots of Drag Queen Story Times (https://pocatellochubbuckobserver.com/2023/01/05/city-journal-reveals-the-roots-of-drag-queen-story-times/)

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Erin Bernard and the Kootenai County Spectator:  https://www.kcspectator.com

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