Posted on 06/30/2020 9:47:38 AM PDT by shortstop
This is how it was when Hitler burned books.
Some few frenzied zealots did the burning, and the good people sat home, nervous, anxious, apprehensive, the way a mouse is in the moments before a cat sinks its fangs into it.
This is America today.
Where they pull down statues of George Washington and Ulysses Grant and anybody who held office in the Confederacy. Where anything or anyone involved in the slavery of 150 years ago – except the Democratic Party – is condemned and purged.
Where politicians and poets of earlier days are denounced and desecrated by roving mobs easily traceable by TV news cameras by unfindable by hamstrung police departments. Where people rage online about exactly how dark Jesus’s Middle Eastern skin would have been.
Where the caustic racial, cultural and political battles of today are overlaid on the people, events and monuments of the past. It is an Inquisition, as hate driven and intolerant as inquisitions of history, holding all of the country and the culture’s past to the angry progressive orthodoxy of today.
This is America today, intent on denouncing and destroying the America of yesterday.
It is an effort of leftist internationalism which requires Americans to turn against their history, heritage and ancestors. It is an attack on America from within, in the classroom and on the evening news, in the shouted rants of protestors, in the profanity-laced graffiti of the streets. It is an attack not just on the individuals honored in history and sculpture, but on the very notion of honor, on the belief that there is anything American from an earlier day worth remembering and taking inspiration from.
It is a well-advanced effort to make Americans hate America.
And it takes its cues from the darkest days in mankind’s past.
Because toppling statues is Hitler and the Islamic State, not Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. This is what societies do as they are collapsing, not as they are opening new eras of freedom and peace. This is a sinister assault, hiding behind the worthy cause of equality, hoping to create chaos and impose oppression.
All as an act of horrific intolerance.
Intolerance and bigotry.
A bigotry against the people who founded and built this country, and intolerance for any age or culture not compliant with today’s progressive agenda. The Islamic State blew up statues of a different day and time, and America’s progressives are intent on doing the same thing.
And so we take down the statue of the president who first invited a black man to dinner at the White House, and we have a national debate to take down the statue of the president who freed the slaves.
Because statues are metaphors for civilization, and they destroy one because they hate the other.
Because they hate America that much.
The professors and the newscasters and the politicians, and some of the people in the streets, the ones with the burning flags and the hateful curses and the shouting at the cops. The ones who tell us that the voice of the people is heard in the mobs.
Which is a lie.
In America, the voice of the people isn’t heard in the streets, it is heard at the ballot box. We are a republic, not a mobocracy. And blocked streets and shouted slogans are notoriously inaccurate measures of public opinion. We form public policy, we shape our law, we hold the people sovereign, in peaceful elections, not raucous demonstrations. Certainly, speech can be expressed in protest, but governance cannot.
And politicians seemingly running scared from public protests are merely using the demonstrations as cover for policies and agendas that would otherwise not be tolerated. The mobs want to defund the police, but the voters do not, and the progressive politicians hide behind the one to avoid the scrutiny of the other.
And so it is that America finds itself at war with itself – at war with its past and its present, fighting against its founders and its protectors.
A war that could only be fomented and embraced by America’s enemies, its enemies within.
Because only an enemy philosophy could take America’s first and most fundamental declaration – “that all men are created equal” – and turn it into a weapon of division, instead of its natural role as a uniter of causes and people.It is good that teaches us that we are brothers and sisters, equal and free. It is evil that turns us against one another, separate and enraged.
A war that could only be fomented and embraced by America’s enemies, its enemies within.
Because only an enemy philosophy could take America’s first and most fundamental declaration – “that all men are created equal” – and turn it into a weapon of division, instead of its natural role as a uniter of causes and people.
Nearly all the ones doing the canceling, rioting, and other nonsense are 20-something whites. They are the scourge of the nation.
I am not war with anyone.. the lunatic left is at war with a civil productive society.
America is NOT at war with itself......it’s at war with obvious anti-American groups and infiltration of enemies of our nation...within and without.
What we’re seeing is ‘exposure’ of who they are.
Is America going the route of Hitler? Hitler was not elected before he seized power. The Democrats are currently running a candidate who is mentally incompetent, but the rest of the field is so radical they can’t win. The Democrats are clearly looking to fill the VP spot with a radical that will have a degree of immunity from criticism like Obama. I have no doubt if Biden wins, we will have an appointed president who will be extremely radical, and the left does not intend to make the same mistake they made when Trump was elected, there may never be another free election.
“ Nearly all the ones doing the canceling, rioting, and other nonsense are 20-something whites. They are the scourge of the nation.”
Started with the NFL. Egyptian girlfriend then perpetuated by Roger doodoohead
Lost the chance to educate that the flag represents the opposite of racism.
Well, I’ve seen estimates that only 1 in 5 of protestors are black. I dunno if that’s true, but it pretty much matches up with what I’ve seen online. Maybe ‘nearly all’ is an exaggeration but it sure is a lot.
Those ‘visually leading’ these protestors are blacks....equally those using mega-phones to keep the mob riled up.
Rather, the media is at war with America. It’s an old conflict.
The American Left and the Democrats are at war among themselves. And the Republicans are just about entirely AWOL in this major scrap.
All the major battlegrounds are in largely or completely liberal Democrat strongholds, in the cities or some entire states. The sharpest confrontations are between the Antifa/BLM rioters against the hapless municipal police forces who get NO moral support or freedom to carry their duties as keepers of the peace, and are now faced with being defunded altogether by the surrender monkeys who sit in the city councils and state legislatures, or act as the mayors or governors. Now these emboldened rioters are swarming out to localities far from their present venues.
This may not end well.
IIRC Hitler came to power legally.
“Legally,” but he was appointed, not elected. The Nazis’ high-water mark in free elections was in the summer of 1932. Hitler was appointed chancellor at the end of January, 1933. There were no truly-free elections in Germany from that point forward until after the war.
True to a point, but, to the other point he didn’t seize power...at least initially.
True, he was appointed to appease his radical NAZI base, similar to what Democrats seem to be doing with the VP slot. He then seized power after Hindenburg died.
And to be clear....I'm in no way defending the guy. The point is sometimes the bad guys come to power legally....then they start doing the really bad stuff.
I have seen numerous violent riots on TV that appear to be 100% white college age types...brimming with modern angry radfems.
“In America, the voice of the people isn’t heard in the streets, it is heard at the ballot box.”
That’s the big fear. Better than the bullet box....but their call.
Those anarchists aren’t Americans. They’re products of foreign money and influence.
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