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Reboot America: Step Back From The Brink Before It’s Too Late
Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2016 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 07/11/2016 5:29:06 AM PDT by Kaslin

Welcome to 1968 2.0, the new and improved chaos, featuring a cutting edge assault on our foundational principles by an idiot elite that thinks it can gut the rule of law without consequence. Time to reboot, to wipe the hard drive and reload the factory software coded two-plus centuries ago by those dead white male geniuses.

Except I don’t think this country’s elite has the character, nor understands our constitutional technology enough, to do it. I think it fails to appreciate what is going on outside its cloisters, among those weird, patriotic, religious, and – significantly – armed people living in uncool places between the coasts. I think it believes this anger is a passing fad, that it can bluff and bully its way through it the way it did to previous challenges to its rule.

Obama and the progressive elite were not satisfied merely with exonerating the clearly guilty Hillary Clinton of charges that would have sent any mere mortal to the slammer. They had to shove it in our faces. The AG met with Bill Clinton. Then the FBI director laid out a devastating case, followed by an “and…nope.” Then President Faily McWorsethancarter swept her away in Air Force One – at our expense – to campaign with her and even placed her at a podium with the presidential seal while the liberal media thrilled and quivered. This is beyond mere corruption. This is them gloating over what they see as their unassailable power. This is them laughing at us.

Then Obama made yet another speech telling us how cops are racist. Understand that his attacks on cops are an attack on all of us normal Americans. Like soldiers, the police come from the ranks of us normal Americans, not the elite. And just as with soldiers, we normals revere cops as symbolic of the best of how we see ourselves – loyal, brave, patriotic protectors of order and decency. Obama – the guy who immediately assumed a Cambridge cop acted “stupidly” – as well as Hillary Clinton and the liberal elite, attacked cops as racist and evil as surrogates for attacking us as racist and evil.

And then yet another racial malcontent went on a shooting spree. The Los Angeles cop killer, the Virginia TV reporter, and now this creep in Dallas, all full of racist hate, and not one damn word about it from the elite. The motive hurt the narrative; they wanted to talk about cops oppressing people, so the elite simply lied by its silence about the Dallas killer’s expressly racist motive. And their media love-slaves obliged; when it became clear that this clown who couldn’t make E4 after six years was essentially just a Black Lives Matter supporter in a hurry, the story faded away.

But the lies did not fade away. Obama came out, feigned ignorance about motive (“We many never know what motivated the guy who expressly said that he was motivated by a desire to murder white cops.”), and blamed us yet again – this time for our stubborn refusal to disarm ourselves to please people who hate us and who refuse to acknowledge what drives those who say outright that they intend to murder us.

Did Obama try unity? Of course not – he divided Americans into the good ones who agree with him and us bad ones who refuse to kneel and bow. Leftists don’t want unity and they don’t want peace. Community organizers succeed when they divide; they need discord and hate to survive. Understand that all this discord and hate is not a bug. To them, it is a feature.

And this strategy is really, really dumb. It’s dumb because this country is not one big Chicago. It’s not one discrete, dysfunctional tumor surrounded by healthy tissue. The progressives can afford to play their games in the Chicagos and Austins and Berkeleys because outside the city limits there are normals of every race, color, and creed whose work feeds and powers and defends the elite’s urban petri dishes of blue model failure. They can live out their lefty fantasies because we normals subsidize them through our normalcy, like parents from Orange County paying tuition at Oberlin so their blonde daughter can learn how there’s no such thing as gender while she majors in Anti-Colonialist Pottery.

But what happens when they try to do that to the whole country? This time, the normals can’t just move away. Instead of driving them out, now the elite has to suppress normal Americans in place. They don’t realize that they are putting our backs against the wall.

And you have to wonder – have the elites considered their endgame? Because they may have learned the wrong lesson when they drove all the normals out of the Chicagos and Austins and Berkeleys. They may actually believe that normal Americans can just be bullied and badgered into submission. This is a very, very, very dangerous notion.

Have you elitists ever met normal Americans? Try this little experiment. Jump in your Prius and drive to, say, Oklahoma. Go ahead, Google it – I’ll wait. Then find a bar and go in after work. Look for a guy at a table in boots and jeans and a work shirt enjoying a Coors or some other non-craft, non-pumpkin-infused beer. Then tell him this:

“Hey stupid, you’re dumb because your parents couldn’t send you to college. You’re also dumb for believing in Jesus. You’re a sucker and a baby killer for joining the Army and fighting in Iraq. Plus, you have privilege because your great-great-great-great grandfather came from Glasgow. So I’m going to tell you what to do from now on. I’m your boss and moral superior. You’re going to let any dude dressed like a woman into the bathroom with your daughter. You’re going to turn in your global warming-causing pick-up truck. You’re going to be out of your job when we finish off the oil industry. You’re going to give up your guns. And I don’t care what you say about any of it. You don’t matter. You don’t get a say. Also, you’re racist.”

See how that works out, but check your dental coverage first. Now, think about how that strategy is going to work out in our country as a whole.

What’s the endgame here, liberals? Do you see over half the country just . . . giving up? Surrendering? Throwing in the towel once you have sufficiently nagged and insulted them? Or do you see them getting mad? Your media lackeys keep attributing phenomena like Trump and even Sanders to “anger.” Well, yeah. Right now, they are expressing that anger through legitimate means, at the ballot box. But what happens when you decide you’re going to step outside the law once again to ensure that their lawful expression of that anger is silenced?

Do you expect that normals will just shrug and submit? What if they don’t? How many of the 60,000-70,000 guns Americans buy every single day do you elites purchase?

What’s the endgame? What happens when – and the day will come – the normals say “No?” Does the elite try force? There’s no doubt it would if it could, but in the end, it needs to ask itself another question: Exactly who is willing to fight and die for their liberal Utopia? The elitists themselves? Their snowflakey kids Kaden and Ashleigh? Do they think they can pay enough people to suit up and go make people conform? How much money will you need to pay somebody to risk his skin to go down to Texas and try to take those Lone Star knuckle-draggers’ guns?

Oh, this is crazy talk! Hey, another right winger threatening rebellion! You know, the elite’s tactics of attacking strawmen and deliberately lying about political opponents pioneered by Obama and the Jon Stewart clones makes reasoned discussion almost impossible, and the malicious dishonesty underlying these ploys only ratchets up the anger. Eliminate the legitimate modes of opposition and you’ll leave only illegitimate modes of opposition.

I am not advocating the consequences that I see coming from the elite’s actions; to say so is a lie, though I suspect that will not stop them from lying about this column in the comments and elsewhere. I am only predicting the likely consequences of the elite’s unwise and malicious campaign against those it hates and seeks to rule.

But here is another way. Step back from the brink and reboot. Stop the corruption. Embrace the rule of law. Listen to those you have ignored. Hear what they say. Drop the divisive initiatives designed to humiliate and bring normals to heel – the gun grabs, the bathroom edicts, the Christian cake baker pogroms.

But if you can’t do that, if you can’t give up the money and the power, if the joy of inflicting petty oppressions and humiliations upon the people you look down on is just too satisfying to pass up, then ask yourself: What is your endgame?


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To: Windflier

Sorry, I dont see anybody planning to use them for political purposes.

I read this all the time. Oh, we are going to rebel and abolish the oppressive government as the Declaration of Independence invokes. CWII. Yes, I read this all the time. It will never happen but people keep spouting off about it as if it would ever happen.

The 300 million guns in our cosets are not worth a single conservative vote. You know i and I know it.

Besides, I am no longer a gun owner. I lost All of mine in a bizarre boating accident.


41 posted on 07/11/2016 9:37:29 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: unread

We dont have 1/100th the moral courage the Founding Fathers had. Dont you dare even compare our spoiled and dependent populace with the courage and morality the Founders had. Not even close. We have decayed to the point we dont even demand political action for lawlessness anymore. The founders would have tarred and feathered James Comey for upholding government corruption and violating the rule of law. Then they would have dragged Hillary Clinton and seen her convicted and sentenced to hard time.

Dont you even compare us to the Founders.


42 posted on 07/11/2016 9:44:09 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I see what you did there < wink >


43 posted on 07/11/2016 9:49:17 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Nita Nupress

Such internpet bravado. Words are cheap.

What has your fighting spirit done to thwart the New World Order commie takeover of Amejrica and losing our rights and freedoms.

Did it stop Obamacare?

Did it stop Chief Justice Roberts from illegally upholding it?

Did it stop James Comey from violating the rule of law?

Did it result in Hillary Clinton’s indipctment for corruption?

Did it stop creation of the abusive, oppressive TSA?

Did it force K-12 schools to balance liberal teachers with an equal number of conservative ones? Did it stop Common Core?

Did it reverse abortion on demand?

Did it stop the Democrats from fixing elections or registering dead people to vote?

Did it prevent this government from fraudulenltly shoveling billions of dollars to slackers and cheats in welfare, food stamps and disability money?

Did it restore Second Amendment rights to people in Chicago or NYC or Washington DC.

Did it keep the goverment frommillegally stealing private property under the guise of eminent domain and police seizure laws.

Did it put Lois Lerner in jail for abuse of power?

Did it stop the Muslim Spring?

Did it make the mainstream media report fairly and cease being a powerful propaganda arm for the DNC and globalists.

Is it stopping UN Agenda 21?

I could go on all week, cipting our losses and defeats at least back to 1900 if not all the way to the Civil War.

False bravado is the easiest thing there is. It actually takes stern moral courage to face the reality that what is coming cant and wont be stopped because we no longer control ANY of the means to power requipred to stop it. The commies and liberals weild all of that power for their New World Order masters.

That fact doesnt change by putting your head in the sound or by pounding your chest before the firing squad.

Enjoy feeling superior for your positive attitude. You are lucky. It may help you sleep at night. I have no such luck experiencing nightmares over what I know is coming and can no longer be stopped. We should have fought this in earnest and vociferously, psince at leadt the 1950s, killing political correctness and countering every move the commie left did. But we didnt. We sat on our hands.

Now the commie left NWO has a 60 year head start on us in the culture war. 60 years! And now it is too late. Like Churchill said, if you wont fight early when you have superior numbers anpd every advantage over your enemy, how can you hope to defeat them when they are stronger than you?

I hope you enjoy feeling superior to those of us who know what is coming. Enjoy that while it ladts and gonfind a mirror and ask yourself what fighting you did since you were 20 years old tomoppose this internal takeover. And dont make me laugh by citing your voting history. Our votes havent counted for a very long time, if ever. The rich and powerful behind the scenes have bought or swayed every election we have had back since AT LEAST the Zcivil War. Your vote is worthless. Voting isnt fighting, it is a cop out.

What have you done in your lifetime to fight the commie left takeover of this nation for the NWO? You can start bpy re-reading that list I gave you.

Meanwhile the REAL fighters like people at Waco and Ruby Ridge are dead. Because that is what happens to you when you really fight the system. Many getvpdisappeared who blow a whistle or write a sensitive article or come out publically. The real fighters get dead or disappeared. You are still here.


44 posted on 07/11/2016 10:20:05 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: Kaslin
“Hey stupid, you’re dumb because your parents couldn’t send you to college. You’re also dumb for believing in Jesus. You’re a sucker and a baby killer for joining the Army and fighting in Iraq. Plus, you have privilege because your great-great-great-great grandfather came from Glasgow. So I’m going to tell you what to do from now on. I’m your boss and moral superior. You’re going to let any dude dressed like a woman into the bathroom with your daughter. You’re going to turn in your global warming-causing pick-up truck. You’re going to be out of your job when we finish off the oil industry. You’re going to give up your guns. And I don’t care what you say about any of it. You don’t matter. You don’t get a say. Also, you’re racist.”

This isn't even much of an exaggeration, it sounds like a run-of-the-mill article in Salon or Politico or the Atlantic or the Huffington Post these days. Try punching one of these guys in the nose, though, and they'll be on the phone posthaste to one of those oppressive cops they hate. Sometimes I think it would be worth it.

What is needed is a well-deserved and long-overdue election thrashing, because any other kind is going to get bloody and there may be no turning back. They're already doubling down on the rioting after shooting cops in the back. We may already may be at the point of no return.

45 posted on 07/11/2016 10:41:38 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
False bravado is the easiest thing there is. It actually takes stern moral courage to face the reality that what is coming cant and wont be stopped because we no longer control ANY of the means to power requipred to stop it. The commies and liberals weild all of that power for their New World Order masters.

You're not in control; God is. I don't have a direct pipeline to Him, but it's ultimately up to Him. We do what we can, then we live with what His plan brings us. It's that "peace that passeth understanding" thing.

And hey, when you really start feeling down about our country, it helps to think about what's probably going to happen to Soros when he passes from this earth. It's bad, I know, and not very Christian of me. But just knowing that evil people WILL see justice one day seems to help. As long as we don't feel gleeful about it and get a smile on our faces while we think such things, I'm thinking God will understand. He Himself said He will have His vengeance one day.

Enjoy feeling superior for your positive attitude. You are lucky. It may help you sleep at night. I have no such luck experiencing nightmares over what I know is coming and can no longer be stopped.

And how do you know how I feel? I just choose not to walk around with a defeatist attitude, that's all. And when it gets bad enough to post negativity here on FR, I try harder than you NOT to, that's all. Negativity is contagious and that's what trolls do. (That's your cue to get all pissed off because you assume I'm insinuating you're a troll. I'm not, because I don't insinuate; I just say it. Life's too short.)

We should have fought this in earnest and vociferously, psince at leadt the 1950s, killing political correctness and countering every move the commie left did. But we didnt. We sat on our hands. Now the commie left NWO has a 60 year head start on us in the culture war. 60 years! And now it is too late. Like Churchill said, if you wont fight early when you have superior numbers anpd every advantage over your enemy, how can you hope to defeat them when they are stronger than you? I hope you enjoy feeling superior to those of us who know what is coming. Enjoy that while it ladts and gonfind a mirror and ask yourself what fighting you did since you were 20 years old tomoppose this internal takeover. And dont make me laugh by citing your voting history. Our votes havent counted for a very long time, if ever. The rich and powerful behind the scenes have bought or swayed every election we have had back since AT LEAST the Zcivil War. Your vote is worthless. Voting isnt fighting, it is a cop out. What have you done in your lifetime to fight the commie left takeover of this nation for the NWO? You can start bpy re-reading that list I gave you. Meanwhile the REAL fighters like people at Waco and Ruby Ridge are dead. Because that is what happens to you when you really fight the system. Many getvpdisappeared who blow a whistle or write a sensitive article or come out publically. The real fighters get dead or disappeared. You are still here.

You're not telling me anything I don't already know. I'm just not gonna let myself die from high blood pressure about it. Give it to God and go do some target practice. Go plant a garden. Go buy a gun. (Have you walked past the hunting section in Target lately? Holy Moly! Maybe it's because I'm in Texas, but I swear half our state is getting their CHL and buying ammo!)

And i really didn't mean to touch a hot button with you yesterday. Whiners get on my nerves, that's all. Anyone who's been here at FR since the Hildabeast was in our WH in the 90's already KNOWS what's going to happen if she steals the election w/o you reminding us just how bad it will be.

Have a great day tomorrow. And i mean that.

46 posted on 07/11/2016 5:41:08 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ("We can't fix a rigged system with the people who rigged it." (Donald J. Trump - June 7, 2016)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free; Windflier
Sorry, I dont see anybody planning to use them for political purposes. I read this all the time. Oh, we are going to rebel and abolish the oppressive government as the Declaration of Independence invokes. CWII. Yes, I read this all the time. It will never happen but people keep spouting off about it as if it would ever happen. The 300 million guns in our cosets are not worth a single conservative vote. You know i and I know it.

I just figured out what's up with the difference in our attitude. It's where we live. You're surrounded by liberals and squishy Republicans, I'll bet, if you go by the stats.

OTOH, every single weekend I am treated to the musical sound of another distant neighbor trying out his/her new gun purchase. And I can't pass a gun range without waiting lines, no lie. The "RememberTheAlamo" attitude runs deep in our veins. Call it hyperbole or whatever you want, but it's true. God Bless Texas!

47 posted on 07/11/2016 5:49:11 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ("We can't fix a rigged system with the people who rigged it." (Donald J. Trump - June 7, 2016)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Wow. I almost called you a Trigglypuff up there. I do apologize for coming across so.. so... hormonal. :-/


48 posted on 07/11/2016 5:52:18 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ("We can't fix a rigged system with the people who rigged it." (Donald J. Trump - June 7, 2016)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
You need to look at some pictures of the siege at the Bundy ranch.

a hundred armed men on horseback holding American flags.

Watch the video of the fed goons having to walk backwards in retreat.

49 posted on 07/11/2016 10:36:41 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
"The founders would have tarred and feathered James Comey for upholding government corruption and violating the rule of law."

"Dont you even compare us to the Founders."

You have valid point...

50 posted on 07/12/2016 5:26:47 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Nita Nupress

I love your attitude. Dont change. But it is not my surroundings, but my analysis that leads me to the bitter depressing conclusion that the commie left are guaranteed to win.

I look at all the means of fighting back politically, and we conservatives have none of those means. All of them were hijacked by the commie left over the past 100 years.

I dont enjoy knowing this, you know.

I love your attitude, but ask yourself, how can we reverse all the incremental successes of the commies the last 50 years and set the nation right. What is your process to do that? What is your mechanism?

I will take one example.

We desperately need to break the liberal monopoly over K-12 schools or the commie brainwashing oof children will continue unabated. This is a necessity to groom future children to be responsible, moral, self reliant people, and not entitlement minded people pushinpg for social justice and save the whales.

The liberal monopoly is not going to fix itself. They will only hire, retain, and promote commie libs like themselves.

One solution would be for the US Congress to end the Department of Education and all federal control. Do you see that happening? I dont.

Next, you would need local parents to flood school board meetings proverbial torches and pitchforks in hand, and demand local control and oversight to insure as many conservative teachers in the District as there are liberal teachers. Do you see that happening?

Are you starting to see my perspective?

Fighting is great, so tell me how we can organize and fight to recapture the schools? I dont see masses of people fighting for this. What makes you think they will in the future?

How do we achieve getting balamced reporting from the print and TV media so they cant protect criminal Democrats, and cant paint republicans as evil or incompetent?. Ehat is your mechanism for achieving thst? Because we cant save this nation while the entire might of the liberal media establishment only supporets one side and aggressively opposes the other side?

Do you see my point yet?

The commie libs own all thevkeys to political power right down to voter fraud, registering illegals, and decertifying absentee ballots from overseas military, to bussing in masses of obedient unemployed people on the promise of Churches zchicken coupons.

Believe me, I have been thinking it through for years how we can fight the New World Order globalist takeover and destruction of America, and it always ends with, we cant.

Because we dont hold any of the keys of political power to win. As the commie left get more powerpful, they become more corrupt and more brazen, making our fight even harder.

I am not making some throw away line that we have already lost and it is over except for the crying. I have thought this through and we dont have any means to fight back politically and save the nation.


51 posted on 07/12/2016 9:53:31 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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