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America’s Dark Epiphany: We Are All South Vietnamese Now
The Stream ^ | January 7, 2021 | John Zmirak

Posted on 01/07/2021 6:31:03 AM PST by Heartlander

The GOP and conservative establishment proved themselves as worthless as the venal, do-nothing rulers in Saigon, who let the Communists win.

My political journey began in Spring 1975. Just ten years old, I’d watched with mounting horror as the Communist forces of North Vietnam conquered the South. Meanwhile our vindictive, post-Watergate Congress refused further aid. On April 30, the invaders overran Saigon. I will never forget the spectacle of US helicopters pulling out of our embassy. Or the rooftops crowded with desperate American allies clutching at the landing gear. In subsequent months, the “Boat People” fleeing Communist cruelty started washing up on our shores. I couldn’t shake my sense of helpless, directionless shame. I felt our country had profoundly dishonored itself.

And Winter 2020 has brought me back to that same place. Washington, D.C., this dark Epiphany Day brought me right back to Saigon. I’ll explain, but first a few necessary reflections on the violence.

Shooting Trump Protesters: Good. Shooting Violent Suspects: Bad.

We don’t know yet if the instigators of the violence at the US Capitol were rogue Trump supporters unhinged by the theft of our democracy. Or Antifa members in costume. Or maybe a blend of both, with gullible overwrought patriots following a false flag waved by canny infiltrators. The pro-Communist riots in West Germany, 1967-8, were started by a police shooting of a demonstrator. That cop later turned out to be an East German Stasi spy sent to stir up trouble. Put nothing past the radical Left. Nothing. 

What’s more, if leftists are culprits, we will likely never find out. Even if proof emerges, the same networks that wouldn’t report on Hunter Biden’s laptop won’t report...

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To: Stevenfo

Right; for our local news you’d read the headline then skip to the comments - the body printed by the media puppets was worthless.


21 posted on 01/07/2021 7:43:39 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Heartlander

Who is the tall skinny blonde female over his left shoulder?

https://en-volve.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/antifa-in-dc-capitol-building-758x421.jpg


22 posted on 01/07/2021 8:34:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC and America on election/coup/night, Tues., Nov. 03, 2020!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Not only that but the enemy has invested to capitol.
You kniw what I find really funny? All those traitors who thought they’d ride the back of the dragon. Have they got a suprise coming.


23 posted on 01/07/2021 9:29:11 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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