The Reset Button

We all know that – within the next decade or so – we’re going to have some sort of “Reset” within our society. Most of us hope it will be peaceful but we’re mindful that history indicatest it will be anything but peaceful. Our next hope is that whatever violence occurs will be contained in local, relatively minor conflicts, preferably someplace else. In either case and regardless of which side “wins”, the “Reset” will be catastrophic in its own right. At this point we believe that the conflict – whether violent or not – will be between liberal and conservative elements. Whichever side wins there will be die-hard idealists among the “losers” that will never accept the new administration however well it is painted by the “winners.”

Well, in the past, the Turks marched them to death, Stalin starved them to death, Hitler gassed them to death, Pol Pot shot them to death, in Africa they were shot, starved, hacked to death with machetes and/or sold into slavery. Not to overlook an earlier example; here in America the aboriginal natives were shot, starved, infected and marched to death.

While we can engage our imaginations as to what would happen to us if we lost the coming war (and that’s what it will be), it would be a proper exercise for us to individually and collectively consider what we will do if we win.

I such were to happen would we – would YOU – be comfortable with rounding up all the liberals in your neighborhood and shipping them off to some other country? What if there was no other country willing to accept them? Germany had a great exodus of Jews during the early 1930s but we’re all familiar with what eventually happened. I’m pretty sure most people would do anything they could to keep such a thing from happening again.

Knowing as we do about the way liberals work, we would have to devise a way to keep them from infecting our children with their low-key poison so a new “Reset” wouldn’t be required every twenty years or so. But then we have Thomas Jefferson’s famous quote about: "What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." (in a letter to W. S. Smith, 13 Nov. 1787).

I must confess I do not know what to do. In my more frustrated moments I can easily say ALL liberals need to be eliminated. Then I remember my friends and relatives who are liberal and cringe at the thought of them tasting the fruit of my earlier anger. Surely some of those “liberals” who have graduated to the ranks of Communists deserve a death penalty. We all know the names of some of them in high offices but what about the first-grade teacher at the local school? Or the Pastor at the Church who preaches sermons on love and peaceful coexistence? The police officer who got off with no penalty after beating an old man to death is a no-brainer but how about the one who tried to revive the victim?

Folks, what I’m trying to do here is get everyone to plan ahead. Be careful what you pray for – you might get it.

Yeah, we need not trade in a left-wing oligarcy or dictatorship for a right wing one. WE could become the monsters we despise. Some of my ancestors were Russian Jews who suffered under the pogroms because of who they were and my grandfather went from Omaha Beach to the horrors of Buchenwald. Myself I would tend to favor more of a libertarian system like in L. Neil Smith's, ""Roswell Texas." but I digress. I see myself as a "right leaning libertarian." My opinion, I'd give the libs the corridor from Boston to DC and east of the Appalachians and perhaps the "left coast." They can have their "Obama Paradise" if they like and keep it as long as they don't threaten us. I favor a peaceful divide.

“I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgement of God on these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands with so much innocent blood; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which are satisfactory grounds for such actions which cannot otherwise but work remorse and regret.”
- Oliver Cromwell, referring to the siege and subsequent massacre of Drogheda.

I agree with Cromwell.

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