I usually am not terribly impressed one way or the other by the actions of Britain's Prime Minister, but I do have to award him and his countrymen major kudos for giving political correctness the heave-ho in favor of saving lives and the English way of life.
Unlike the American President, this is a politician who is not afraid to label violence by Muslim terrorists as what it is: Islamic extremism. His nation is, unfortunately, now reaping the whirlwind of having caved in the past to demands for segregated neighborhoods that have produced the type of home-grown monsters that* have hacked off soldiers' heads in the middle of the street in broad daylight, and felt justified in doing so.
(*Normally I throw 13 hissy fits about grammatical usage that refers to human beings with "that" rather than "who," but in this case [and going forward] I will emphatically embrace this approach when referring to these Islamist animals.)
While I do applaud the more stringent regulations that are being adopted to curb radicalization by the Brits, I do hope that it is not a situation of being too little, too late. Ostensibly, the majority of the British populace is fed up with being victimized and afraid in their own nation. But do they have the stamina to go the distance with this new approach? Given their history of 70 years ago, one would be inclined to answer in the affirmative. However, today's Briton is not of that great generation, and it's hard to know whether intervening years and complacence in the absence of international conflict have robbed the breed of its admirable tenacity.
Which brings me back to the U.S.: How much longer is it going to take for the Silent Majority to realize that the P.C. movement is simply a way for the minority to cow the majority into relinquishing the ideals and mores that were the basis of our birth as a nation? When will we start calling out those who berate us in the name of "tolerance" for their rampant intolerance of any view save their own? (And don't even get me started on the generation of wimps in our colleges and universities who can't handle the thought of a movie like "American Sniper" being shown on their campuses, but have to be molly-coddled with a children's movie to soothe their tattered sensibilities... Dear God, what have we come to?)
Now, I reserve the right to not tell a joke that might be in the best taste if a member of my audience would be offended by it, but that will be MY CHOICE because I respect the person or persons involved. I will not accept compulsory political correctness for some while those on the left are still free to vilify anyone and everything that doesn't contribute to the advancement of their sick, un-American narrative. Maybe if we push back and force our countrymen to resume the thicker skins that we sported in our pre-P.C. existences, we will be truer to ourselves and to the values that our Founding Fathers immortalized in our Founding Documents.
More tomorrow... Let's start thinking about a Silent Majority march on Washington, D.C. to celebrate our nation's 240th birthday.
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