Posted on 05/02/2017 4:32:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a recent column, I made the case that Americans are fighting the Second Civil War. The deep chasm that has opened up between the left -- not liberals, the left -- and the rest of the country is so wide and so unbridgeable that there is no other way to describe what is happening. But I noted that at least thus far, unlike the First Civil War, this war is not violent.
Unfortunately, there is now reason to believe that violence is coming. In fact, it's already here. But as of now, it's only coming from one direction.
Left-wing thugs engage in violence and threats of violence with utter impunity. They shut down speakers at colleges; block highways, bridges and airport terminals; take over college buildings and offices; occupy state capitals; and terrorize individuals at their homes.
In order to understand why more violence may be coming, it is essential to understand that left-wing mobs are almost never stopped, arrested or punished. Colleges do nothing to stop them, and civil authorities do nothing to stop them on campuses or anywhere else. Police are reduced to spectators as they watch left-wing gangs loot stores, smash business and car windows, and even take over state capitals (as in Madison, Wisconsin).
It's beginning to dawn on many Americans that mayors, police chiefs and college presidents have no interest in stopping this violence. Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers, and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs.
Consequently, given the abdication by all these authorities of their role to protect the public, some members of the public will inevitably decide that they will protect themselves and others.
This ability of the left to get away with violence is one of the gravest threats to American society in its modern history. Since the Civil War, I can think of only two comparable eruptions of mob violence that authorities allowed. One was when white mobs lynched blacks. The other was the rioting by blacks, such as the Los Angeles riots 25 years ago, and the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.
Today, authorities in what we once proudly proclaimed the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" are intimidated to the point of paralysis.
And exactly what do they fear? Not violence -- they have made peace with left-wing violence. What they fear is the left-wing media. If the Black Lives Matter movement is forcefully prevented from blocking tens of thousands of cars from entering or leaving San Francisco, the police and local authorities will be labeled racist by black leaders, a smear that will then be echoed by The New York Times and rest of the left-wing media.
Likewise, if a college president requests enough police to come to a college campus so that a Heather Mac Donald, a Charles Murray or an Ann Coulter can deliver a lecture, some of the student-gangsters engaged in violence might be injured -- and that college president will then be pilloried by the mainstream media.
Furthermore, left-wing violence doesn't only succeed where it takes place. It succeeds where nothing happens. The left can now shut down places and events just by threatening violence. This is what happened last week in Portland, Oregon. One leftist called in a threat to the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, saying that the Republican Party contingent marching in the parade would be beaten up. The business leaders organizing the parade canceled the whole event for the first time in its 10-year history. If they'd had any reason to believe that the police would have adequately protected the marchers in left-wing Portland, one assumes (hopes?) that they would not have canceled the parade.
An email sent to parade organizers perfectly summed up the left's dominance of America through violence. It said, "You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely."
Meanwhile, the press lies about alleged white supremacists in President Trump's administration and an alleged massive surge in anti-Semitism in order to do what the left has done since Lenin: blame others while it alone organizes violence.
So, here's a prediction: If college presidents, mayors and police chiefs won't stop left-wing mobs, other Americans will. I hope this doesn't happen, because electing conservative Republicans and not donating money to colleges will be more effective. But it is almost inevitable.
Then the left-wing media -- the mainstream media -- will enter hysteria mode with reports that "right-wing fascists" are violently attacking America.
And that's when mayors and college presidents will finally order in the police.
When you see cities destroyed and thousands dead, then you will have a real civil war.
At some point after being pushed too far, the right, and center, (those too busy making a living to protest) will push back, only it won’t be with picket signs and chants, but surgical executions with military precision for a start, and it goes much worse from there. And don’t misunderstand, I am not condoning it at all, but I do see it as inevitable if present trends continue, so I agree with Dennis Praeger.
But the left shouldn’t fear ‘right wing extremists’, as long as those on the right are not disenfranchised by our system. But the government and education institutions and media better start condoning the enforcing the laws equally, against their ideological comrades or this will get out of hand.
,,,,,, says you ,,,, Trump got elected ,,, I’d say somebody got off their butt . I suppose you stayed home on Nov. 8th or perhaps voted for the Beast .
Oh, so it is better for me to co-exist in the same country as Marxists? WTH? Are you in drugs?
The penetrating silence of an enemedia-free country would bring the sheeple face-to-face with their own ignorance. The L*ft would lose its ability to coordinate the sheeple into a useful lumpenproletariat through large-scale Pavlovian training. They’d be back to the post-Babel situation where no one can understand each other.
It wouldn’t be a war if it didn’t turn violent.
Bump
It looks like what’s really coming is anarchy, not civil war. Govt is taking sides (the left’s) and is sitting on it’s thumbs.
You are correct, there are many forces at play here trying to undermine the US, the last bastion of liberty and strong supporter of nationalism among the economically viable larger countries.
What sometimes troubles me is that our multi national companies have become globalist first, US companies second. I recall some used to say things like what is good for GM is good for the US. That seemed to begin to die off in the 70s and in the later years it was virtually killed off as the US companies began in earnest to off shore both production and corporate structure.
I wasn’t thinking that strategically. My motive was more revenge based. But I agree with you.
“I don’t think the enemy is fighting to overthrow our formal government; the Deep State are on their side. They are fighting together against us. “
That’s the article in a nutshell.
Ha, ha, ha, ha...what a kidder!
That’s a good point about the magnifying effects of the 24 hour news cycle, the internet and social media. It probably does make things seem much more urgent and dire. On the other hand, just imagine what might happen if something happens to the internet/media and the people that have always had it can’t get it anymore. Not sure they know how to occupy themselves without it.
Here are two points that make me think we are probably not too close, at least unless something changes drastically.
The poorest people are now the most likely to be obese. I don’t think this has ever happened before, it’s like something out of Swift. It’s hard to imagine them choosing the hardship sustained civil unrest would bring, at least while these conditions exist.
Also it seems to me folks would exercise their political options before they take to the streets or whatever. We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908. This recent Georgia district 6 special election that got so much attention—only 43.5% of eligible voters bothered to vote. 56% of the people who could vote didn’t care enough about it to even bother, and yet it was this huge story that is supposed to predict how the off year elections will turn out.
Freegards
DUH! Wars ARE violent!
Please don’t do that to me.
Not as long as they let delta smelt shut down their farms.
California, the only state that can suffer epic flooding and a drought at the same time!
How cute. “Civil war” - except that our side is way too civil, or they like their material things, not sure which. Bottom line? Our side is too chickens#!t to fight back. Too worried they’ll lose their jobs, mortgages, cars, RV’s, toys, etc. The left is winning and will continue to win because we refuse to fight back.
Dennis is correct. The good people in law enforcement and politics better play chess with this. Stop it now. It can only get worse. It’s wholly one sided.
Presdient Trump is as close as we are going to get to an Ehrmantraut.
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