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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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1 posted on 01/07/2021 6:31:03 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

Good analogy. It was Democrats who sold them down the river but were they worth fighting for?


2 posted on 01/07/2021 6:35:09 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: Heartlander

So true, alas we are South Vietnam now, awaiting a formal capitulation to communism.


3 posted on 01/07/2021 6:36:00 AM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

We have our own “Ameri-Cong”, and they’ve ended democracy as we know it; just as in South Vietnam, funded by ChiComs with Western puppets (political, entertainment, even the street riff-raff).


4 posted on 01/07/2021 6:37:46 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Heartlander

Excellent article!

I’ve been telling people we’ve become Jugoslavia under Marshall Tito, but this is an excellent analogy!


5 posted on 01/07/2021 6:41:04 AM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: kearnyirish2

AC.


6 posted on 01/07/2021 6:42:13 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: Heartlander

That is a very apt way of putting it. Let’s hope it remains a Vietnam analogy and not a Cambodian one. Time will tell whether we are under the regime of Ho Chi Minh or Pol Pot, however. Killing fields? Reeducation camps?


7 posted on 01/07/2021 6:42:19 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: Heartlander

“Or maybe a blend of both, with gullible overwrought patriots following a false flag waved by canny infiltrators.”

I think the author hits the nail on the head with this statement.


8 posted on 01/07/2021 6:42:49 AM PST by suthener
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To: Heartlander

Bookmarked


9 posted on 01/07/2021 6:43:05 AM PST by NonValueAdded (We Are All South Vietnamese Now)
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To: Heartlander; All

Please take the time to read the article at the link in full.


10 posted on 01/07/2021 6:45:32 AM PST by Old Sarge (1/06/2021: The New Reichstag Fire. The Enabling Acts are coming soon)
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To: Old Sarge
This guy nailed it.
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.

11 posted on 01/07/2021 6:46:14 AM PST by NonValueAdded (We Are All South Vietnamese Now)
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To: DownInFlames

Right; let’s make it a thing.


12 posted on 01/07/2021 6:48:19 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Heartlander

An excellent article and good looking site.


13 posted on 01/07/2021 6:48:31 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: NewJerseyJoe

P4L


14 posted on 01/07/2021 6:49:32 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Heartlander

Yesterday’s agressive demonstration is not an anomaly. There is a rage among the people. Decent people realize that an election and power was stolen by globilist elites. As the article states, those that they expected to ensure fair elections and preserve the constitution and liberties of the American people colluded with the vile.

An illegitimate regime is about to take power.Its figurehead is a demented corrupt man who used his own diseased, addicted son as his bagman. It will never be recognized by decent, patriotic outraged Americans. How that resistence is made manifest when those decent people have lost faith in the elective process will soon become apparent.


15 posted on 01/07/2021 6:50:44 AM PST by allendale
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To: Heartlander
"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."

IIRC, the Mossaddegh regime in Iran was brought down by a combined CIA-MI5 operation running on a shoestring. There was already a lot of discontent among the populace due to his bungling of the economy among other things. All that the spooks needed to do was pay a few thousand dollars to a small knot of professional troublemakers to start up a protest march walking to Tehran with anti-Mossaddegh signs and chants. This little nucleus snowballed into an avalanche as they approached the capital. All it took was a few paid rabble-rousers, combined with an existing undercurrent of discontent among most citizens, to bring down a regime. And at the cost of just a few thousand bucks. Talk about "ROI" - eh?

16 posted on 01/07/2021 6:52:59 AM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("May You Live in Interesting Times": Ancient Chinese Curse. The Wuhanic Plague: Modern Chinese Curse)
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To: allendale

The actual theft of the election is one part of a much larger problem; we basically have ChiCom/Pravda misinformation spewed by enemedia collaborators 24/7/365, and it went on for years. So many people are either uninformed or completely Misinformed; there are few outlets for genuine truth.

Early in 2020 nj.com (the website for NJ’s largest newspaper, the Star-Ledger) shut off its comments; they understood from the 2016 election that those comments were providing the truth to correct there nonsensical spin on stories. They’ve been begging fro subscriptions ever since; now they realize that pandering to a group of semi-literate libs isn’t a strategy for business success.


17 posted on 01/07/2021 6:54:35 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Yahoo has done the same thing. Once believed that the truth could not be suppressed in America. Yet after witnessing how the MSM colluded successfully to prevent most Americans from learning about the Hunter harddrive, patriots have a tough task ahead of them.


18 posted on 01/07/2021 6:58:16 AM PST by allendale
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To: allendale

The Hunter story was just one of many; any good wrought by Trump was either buried or spun.


19 posted on 01/07/2021 7:03:53 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

On Yahoo I used to read the headline and skip straight to the comments. The articles were predictable and worthless. Anything to make our country or President Trump look bad. The truth was in the comments, so Yahoo shut them down.


20 posted on 01/07/2021 7:40:59 AM PST by Stevenfo
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