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Is the United States in the Midst of an Insurgency?
American Thinker ^ | 4 Oct, 2020 | Matt Rowe

Posted on 10/04/2020 5:49:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber

If we consider the regular trajectory of insurgencies, we're already halfway through the cycle -- but it can still be stopped if we act fast.

The violence and rioting in the US result from far more than just dissatisfaction with the police. Extreme ideological social justice movements today are more likely to carry firearms than items for a food pantry. We currently face nothing less than the early stages of a socialist insurgency.

Insurgency is an organized rebellion to overthrow a constituted government by undermining its legitimacy through protest and disinformation, and ultimately through armed conflict. This may sound dramatic, but consider the steps already completed by BLM/ANTIFA in the Insurgency Pyramid used by the US Army Special Forces community to characterize an insurrection (Figure 1).

Initially, when the insurgents are still weak, they organize around a group that is actively dissatisfied with political and social conditions and desires ideological or other changes. In America, who better to target than the poorest and least educated black Americans, for they already believe they have a legitimate grievance?

Insurgents use propaganda and political efforts to exploit this atmosphere, creating more significant discontent that discredits the government. BLM and ANTIFA have made it abundantly clear that they believe the existing government and socio-economic system are unjust and exclude them.

It’s well known that leftists intimidate people, so they refrain from presenting counter-factual arguments. Then, by spinning the narrative for high-profile events, they build credibility and feed the general sense of public dissatisfaction.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; insurrection
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1 posted on 10/04/2020 5:49:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The polls on BLM support continue to amaze me.


2 posted on 10/04/2020 5:49:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s taken the democrats 170 years to get revenge for losing the civil war. Now they are poised to kill the Federal system


3 posted on 10/04/2020 5:52:42 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: MtnClimber

That’s a rhetorical question, right?


4 posted on 10/04/2020 5:53:22 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrat Party refused to accept the results of the 2016 election.

Democrat Party leaders openly fomented a “resistance” to the elected President.

The riots are a key component of the Democrat Party’s effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election.


5 posted on 10/04/2020 5:53:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: MtnClimber

Insurgency Pyramid. Actions already completed or begun by BLM/ANTIFA are in color. These actions do not have to take place in the order they are listed. Graphic by Matt Rowe.

6 posted on 10/04/2020 5:54:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
The polls on BLM support continue to amaze me.

Do you believe the polls? Ask Hillary about polls.

7 posted on 10/04/2020 5:54:27 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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To: MtnClimber

The polls on BLM support continue to amaze me.

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I’d say that’s largely based on ignorance. Which is qualification number one to be a liberal.


8 posted on 10/04/2020 5:55:40 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. A color revolution setting up the election as the pivotal event as well, per usual.


9 posted on 10/04/2020 5:57:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bramps

Yes, but ignorant people vote or agree to hand over their ballots to the vote harvesters.


10 posted on 10/04/2020 5:58:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes.

Next question.

L


11 posted on 10/04/2020 5:59:29 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes.

JoMa


12 posted on 10/04/2020 6:01:31 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmrk.


13 posted on 10/04/2020 6:02:10 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: MtnClimber

We have been for a very long time

Whitaker Chambers tried to warn us


14 posted on 10/04/2020 6:02:25 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: cpdiii

“Ask Hillary about polls”

The polls were quite accurate in 2016, in that HRC beat Trump among actual voters by several percent, translated as several million votes.

Of course, the US is not a democracy, the President is indirectly elected by State Legislatures, etc, etc.

But the polls were correct in what they set out to measure.


15 posted on 10/04/2020 6:03:42 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: MtnClimber

These a political riots. Throughout history the Left has used riots, looting, assaults and the physical destruction of property to destabilize and destroy a society and transform it toits liking. It is an essential component of revolution. The american people still have not realized the unpleasant truth that the core of the Democratic Party and its leaders support the Leftists ansd share their goals. It cannot be repeated enough that the Leftist rioters are aided and protected by elected Democrat officials that control the police, prosecutors and prisons. These looters and rioters are almost never arrrested and if they are are rarely prosecuted in these Democrat controlled areas.


16 posted on 10/04/2020 6:04:45 AM PDT by allendale
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. What do we do now?


17 posted on 10/04/2020 6:08:53 AM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think there is even one more broad level at the very bottom of that pyramid that explains much about the left.

‘Hate even the concept of the Judeo/Christian God’.


18 posted on 10/04/2020 6:09:31 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: MtnClimber
GREAT post at AT:

Thing is though that just stopping the street violence won't change anything. To actually roll back the Left's inevitable socialist takeover would require:

1) Stopping the street violence

2) Purging the Education system from top to bottom

3) Eliminating the news media's bias

4) Purging the entertainment industry

5) Eliminating bias in the major internet companies

6) Purging the Left from the Bureaucracy

Simple truth.... That's not going to happen. None of it.

They will simply spend a decade or so training and indoctrinating another generation of kids and do it all again.... and again... and again... and again... and again until they either win or the hateful ideology is stamped out as Naziism was in Germany.

I'm not betting on a win for Conservatives. With the education system and now many of our Churches in their hand Conservatives are an endangered species and they AREN'T covered by the Endangered Species Act.

19 posted on 10/04/2020 6:10:40 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: who knows what evil?

You are correct

The only guranteed solution is extermination on a grand scale.


20 posted on 10/04/2020 6:13:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, oh, my, what a wonderful day)
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