To defeat your enemy you must know your enemy, and know yourself … said Sun Tzu. The NHGOP, however, doesn’t appear to even recognize that the enemy is the enemy and not the “loyal opposition,” “our colleagues on the other side of the aisle” blah, blah, blah. More specifically, dear NHGOP, Matt Wilhelm … who may very well draw enough RINOs to become the next Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives … is the enemy.
Consider the following tweet:
Tonight @RepWilhelm, a contender to lead @NHHouseDems, says he's open to bipartisan cooperation but he thinks Granite Staters sent a message in Tuesday's election "…which is that they don't like the idea of right-wing extremists running the State House." #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/Ij8MJ58gxj
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) November 10, 2022
You may laugh at the idea of Sherm Packard … a RINOs’ RINO … and his team being called “right-wing extremists,” but Wilhelm believes it. He shares NONE of our values. NONE. Let me repeat that: WILHELM SHARES NONE OF OUR VALUES.
A rather obvious example is that he doesn’t believe in free-speech in the sense we do. Rather, free-speech only includes speech that he and his ilk do not deem “disinformation” or “hate speech.” So in his mind there is nothing inconsistent at all with saying that he supports free-speech and that he also supports censoring “disinformation” and “hate-speech.”
Another example is that Wilhelm and his ilk see nothing inconsistent about saying “your body, your choice” to rationalize unrestricted abortion, while at the same time supporting vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.
To cut to the chase, what underlies the values of Wilhelm and his ilk is the notion that the good of the collective overrides the individual AND … and this is the most important part … the belief that Wilhelm and his ilk, and only Wilhelm and his ilk, know what the good of the collective is. That is why, to them, democracy is not a process, but an outcome.
These beliefs about the good of the collective or the common good, or however, you want to phrase it, and who gets to decide what that “good” looks like are the same beliefs that underlay Fascism, Stalinism, Naziism, Maoism, and Pol-Pot’s implementation of Marxism, to name some examples.
Am I getting through to you, NHGOP?
