Friday, December 05, 2008

We Did it to Ourselves

As Tonto asked when the Lone Ranger informed him they were surrounded by Indians, "What you mean we?"

[Via Featherless Biped]
Posted by David Codrea at 12/05/2008 08:54:00 AM

9 comments:

Sean said...

They said it can't happen here, it happened anyway. If we did it to ourselves, I'm willing to undo it. But I don't believe we did it to ourselves, I believe we were lied to and decieved into doing it to ourselves. But whatever, yes or no, up or down, III.

12/05/2008 9:22 AM
Anonymous said...

Good song and I get his point. I also get the "What do you mean we,Kemosabe?". I think he means the collective sense of "We the People". All of us together, as in, we must all hang together for surely if we don't we will all hang separately kind of thing. If there are too many of us on one side of "we" or the other and we don't all stick to, or even know, the fundamental principles, then we're all screwed. The trouble is I don't think that there are enough of the "we" on our side of the principle to prevent a conflict that will be very unfortunate for all of us. It's a pity. Good song though, eh?

12/05/2008 10:16 AM
chris horton said...
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12/05/2008 10:51 AM
chris horton said...

You might be suprised at how many "We" there are..

CIII

12/05/2008 10:53 AM
jon said...

as it is with the non sequitur, "we owe it to ourselves," the two-part question remains, naturally, which group is the "we," and, which group is the "ourselves?"

12/05/2008 11:37 AM
Phelps said...

The version I always heard was, "what's this 'we' shit, white man?"

12/05/2008 1:11 PM
Anonymous said...

Heh.

This is actually a pretty brilliant example of propaganda. It's obviously aimed at the liberal left, with the use of "we" to disarm the hostile response that an "in your face" approach would get.

Also note the first half of the song lulls them into thinking it's about their favorite boogy-man, the Nazis, but then segues into a more modern situation, with the liberals and Jews being rounded up:
the threat is to THEM, not to the right-wing types ....

A brilliant piece of work indeed.

12/05/2008 3:13 PM
tom said...

He is VERY PRO RKBA, FWIW.

His song Me and My .30-06 is also good.

12/05/2008 6:57 PM
Anonymous said...

Chris, I wouldn't be suprised at all. There's definitely a whole big bunch of "us". The problem is that there isn't a sufficient critical mass of "us" to avoid and/or remediate what is likely to come now that the political/social winds have shifted roughly 180 degrees. MVdB has it right, the GOP didn't protect us from the gun grabbers, the GOP protected the gun grabbers from us. The problem is that they (the GFW's) are too blind to see that and while they're all too rapturous of the shift at the moment, and they're all holding hands and singing Kumbaya, they are going to plow blindly along in their rapture, follow their hearts because it's for the children afterall, and they are going to move that line in the sand to a place where they never, in their wildest utopian dreams, ever imagined it would lead. The majority of "them" don't understand "us", they don't get fundamental principles, they are running on emotions and feelings, logic and reason (or even a sound grasp of history) aren't in their tool box, they have no idea of what the Law of Unintended Consequences is and they have no comprehension of the whirlwind that their actions will release in regards to messing with the RKBA. Bummer, dude. I'm pretty sure that we all have much better, more productive and more interesting things to do. Don't you?

12/05/2008 10:28 PM

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