Posted on 10/01/2005 9:57:59 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
It's become more and more apparent to me over the past five years that all the activism and non-violent protesting in the world will do precisely squat. When you're dealing with evil people who have no shame, the old rules of the game don't and, indeed, can't apply if you have any hope for success. Hundreds of thousands of people have marched, millions of letters have been written, tens of millions of votes cast, and hundreds of trillions of electrons expended pontificating on blogs...for nothing. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. Not unless it comes in the form of something akin to the French Revolution.
We need terror. We need horror. We need the streets running awash in rivers of blood of these thugs and criminals and zealots. Activism didn't prevent 60,000 deaths in Vietnam. All the activism of the Civil Rights era has gotten African Americans precisely nowhere. Segregation may not be the law of the land anymore, but it's still the de facto state of America.
When y'all want to start throwing molotovs and sniping from windows come and talk to me. Until then, I will be content to retire, be a hermit, and laugh at everyone. Even then, I may still just feel like laughing as the world falls apart around me, but at least I'll be willing to listen.
My mental state is collapsing and deteriorating almost daily. It's so consistent you could practically graph it. My life is falling apart at an equally alarming rate, and yet I feel like doing nothing to salvage it. I feel like I'm standing at the bottom of one of the WTC towers, watching it come down on me, floor by floor, knowing I'll be blown to atoms, yet unable to move.
***We need the streets running awash in rivers of blood..
When y'all want to start throwing molotovs and sniping from windows come and talk to me. ***
Which causes one to ask, is this jerk really willing to spill HIS OWN BLOOD for this cause or just someone elses blood.
Revolution looks quite a bit different when the revolutionary looks down and see blood spilling out of his own guts.
Lock and load.
Muhaja-Lib off his meds again.
Another Civil War to finally eliminate the Enemy Within is fine by me. The country would likely emerge stronger and better for it.
My thought exactly. These pricks spend their whole lives screaming about banning guns and now they want violent revolution. DUH!!!
Please see a good therapist.
And it's all their fault.
Has anyone from FR contacted the FBI?
The Democrat Party sold it collective soul to the institutional media culture (the "MSM") during the 1960s. This process started with the elction of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and was completed with the Chicago convention riots of 1968. Forty years of this intimate association have resulted in media values themselves; emotion, passion, subjectivity, and the glorification of revolutionary violence; have become instutionalized within the DNC itself.
Today, with the MSM itself under attack in ways the 60s elite could not have imagined, the DNC is in hopeless decline and its more impressionable and extreme elements will naturally turn to institutional media values, a neo-romantic revolution, as the remedy. The showdown is coming and it won't be pretty.
You just nailed it. Absolutely sums the whole thing up in a single sentence. Well done.
It will be the shortest insurgency in history.
When you blow your brains out don't forget to leave a decent tip for the people who have to clean up the mess.
All the activism of the Civil Rights era has gotten African Americans precisely nowhere.
After all "we" [the left] have done for them ... they have let us down.
Segregation may not be the law of the land anymore, but it's still the de facto state of America.
The best thing to result from the civil rights era is the emergence of a black middle class. And .... increasing numbers of them are beginning to think like Conservatives. I have read that increasing numbers of the successful black middle class are [horrors!] re-segregating themselves in neighborhoods populated with successful middle class blacks like themselves. Is this somehow evil? I think not. How does it differ from someone associating herself with a Quilting Club [because she likes to make quilts], or a Bridge Club [because he/she likes to play bridge], or becoming a FReeper [to communicate with others who see the world through the same eyes]? It seems to be human nature to me. It is the left that wants to recast the world to suit its own agenda. "Why can't we all just get along?" [Rodney King].
Why is the left unable to endure individualism? [Because individuals control their own lives and resist being controlled by the left.]
Nothing has changed. Nothing will change.
The whole concept of the perfectability of man has failed!
All of which should be entertaining, given how much they've preached and practiced voluntary personal disarmament, eg Gun Control.
Maybe I'm older but I used to hear this stuff all the time as a college student.
Didn't we all?!
I have long viewed the left as living in a perpetual state of arrested adolescence. Some have succeeded in puting on a "grown up" mask for a while ... but lurking beneath the surface is the same rebellion against authority. That is why they hate this country so much. All those laws and things ... Their mantra has always been: "You can't tell ME what to do!!"
Some of the rest of us grew up. It was not all that hard to do.
-I will be content to retire, be a hermit, and laugh at everyone.-
Is that a promise?
Anyone have a spare straightjacket to lend him?
It would be a shame for him to hurt himself ... or others.
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