The Unreasonable Man

By Brent Regan

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw

I’m an inventor by trade. The bulk of my day involves creating things that never before existed, solving problems in ways others did not consider, and being persistent in attempts to overcome failure. When inventing the light bulb, Edison first found one thousand ways that did not work. He persisted even though the overwhelming empirical evidence proved his efforts were folly. Nikola Tesla so strongly believed that Alternating Current was essential to the future (it was) that he gave away the technology to Westinghouse.

Our Republican form of government relies on the consensus of the voters; a majority must agree. Politicians must seek this consensus to be elected. It serves them to be ambiguous and vague so they alienate as few voters as practicable and avoid conflict. A person could conclude that this would create a stable system that perpetuates the status quo. Reality proves this conclusion wrong. Enter the unreasonable man.

Imagine a long teeter-totter where people can sit all along its length. The ones sitting near the fulcrum are the “centrists,” while the ones sitting at the ends are the “extremists.” If you are seeking balance, you need to pay the most attention to the extremists because, being farthest from the fulcrum, they have the most leverage.

Progressives have learned that being an extremist moves the consensus in your direction because centrists seek to accommodate. Remember when Obama first ran for president, he was against legalizing gay marriage, but continuous pressure from gay activists moved the fulcrum point.

Activists are the agents of change, and the “reasonable” centrists have no defense against their efforts because accommodation is the centrist’s desire and objective. The need to “get along” puts society on a path directed by extremists. This is why we find men in women’s sports, the surgical mutilation of children to accommodate the “trans agenda,” and the government-sponsored domestic invasion by foreign nationals.

It is not possible to counter an extremist agenda by being accommodating or reasonable. Someone sitting on the exact center has zero leverage and is defenseless against those seeking change.

If you seek to preserve society and maintain values and traditions, the only option is to be unreasonable in the opposite direction from those seeking change. The tragedy in this solution is that the centrists will object to the very action that would preserve the standards they wish to maintain. Their objections will be even stronger because the pushback is coming from those they see as already being on their side. Centrists expect progressives to be extremists, but strong arguments from their own side are shocking. Their immediate need to get along outweighs long-term survival.

We see the economic and societal collapse in blue states like California and Minnesota, and a socialist mayor elected in New York City. We witness Democrat congressmen and senators fighting to enable voter fraud and against voter-identification laws. To say our republic faces an existential threat is not an exaggeration.

We need unreasonable men working to preserve our republic or face collapse.

It’s just common sense.