Alt-Pius Politics

I actually did this post, once upon a time, when dinosaurs walked the Earth and I thought there was some semblance of sanity kicking around, and would be back in popular fashion after Obama left office. 

Nope. Sorry. Obviously, that didn't happen. Last week, we had the meltdown of "China Mike" Glyer and File 770 after Larry Correia took him to the woodshed. We had a Bernie Sanders psycho shoot up some Republican politicians at a ball game, and democrats trying to simultaneously 1) Disavow all responsibility for it 2) Blame Trump, 3)Try to blame guns for the shooting and 4) Laugh at shooting Republicans. All in the same week.

So, no, to quote Chico Marx, "everybody knows that there is a no sanity clause" ... especially in politics.

Myself? Most days, I'm somewhere between small-l libertarian or conservative. Most of the time, my politics boil down to "leave me alone, and no one gets hurts."

But I'm not really Alt-right. I'm certainly not control Left. There are days I'm almost Ctrl+A, Del. Because, good God, "kill 'em all and let God sort them out" really does sound like an action plan.

But no, I'm not a nihilist. I'm at once too Catholic and not energetic enough. Though the world continues to show me just how justified I am in my borderline misanthropic tendencies. I mean, let's face it, the standard response to a terrorist response should be a calm, reasoned investigation, finding the people behind it -- the planners, the money men, etc -- and kill every last one of them in horrific ways that will make anyone who has similar ideas think three or four times about doing the same thing ever again. Heck, if I were in charge after 9-11 ... well, I'm relatively certain that I wouldn't be as calm and as collected as Tom Kratman's response in A Desert Called Peace. And that series includes torturing journalists to death for supporting terrorists, and mining the perimeter of a city, starving them out, including the women and children.

As I've said elsewhere, my overwhelming sin is wrath.

But this is why I don't write anything like that. I'm depressed enough by this insanity we call reality on a daily basis, I don't necessarily need it in my day to day life. I'm already depressive. I don't write nihilistic crap, I don't read it, and I'm easily annoyed with people who see nihilism as some sort of superior art form. I'm also Catholic, nihilism isn't our beat.

Oddly enough, I'm probably more of a romantic than anything else. Pick ... almost any of my books, sooner or later, you'll probably trip over a Thermopolae situation of 100-1 odds, love conquering all, and righteous fury is a positive tool for going just that little bit farther as you're being beaten to death by a 2x4.

...Hell, forget book series, you could say that summarizes several plot points in A Pius Man alone.

I guess I'm just an idealist who hates that the world wouldn't live up to the standard of. ... anything.

But, yeah. My politics don't lend itself to nihilism, though there are days that I think "genocide" is a viable military option. Thankfully, no one ever listens to me.

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