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Greenfield: American Uprising Everything is about to change.
www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/greenfield-american-uprising ^ | November 9, 2016 | Commentary Daniel GreenfieldTyler Durden

Posted on 11/09/2016 3:58:17 PM PST by vannrox

American Uprising

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Submitted by Daniel Greenfield via TruthRevolt.org,

This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.

It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.

They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.

They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.

The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.

They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.

They fought and they won.

This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.

Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.

They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.

They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.

And they changed everything.

Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.

He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.

And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.

 And America said, “No.”

Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.

Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.

It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.

It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.

Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.

They won improbably. And they won amazingly.

They were tired of ObamaCare. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.

And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.

Watch this video. See ten ways John Oliver destroyed Donald Trump. Here’s three ways Samantha Bee broke the internet by taunting Trump supporters. These three minutes of Stephen Colbert talking about how stupid Trump is owns the internet. Watch Madonna curse out Trump supporters. Watch Katy Perry. Watch Miley Cyrus. Watch Robert Downey Jr. Watch Beyonce campaign with Hillary. Watch. Click.

Watch fifty million Americans take back their country.

The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.

No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.

America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.

The day when we stop being able to pull off the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.

Today is not that day. Today fifty million Americans did the impossible.

Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.



TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016; americanuprising; election; greenfield; hillary; trump; trumpvictory
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To: Louis Foxwell

My 4 yr old grand daughter loves Donald Trump.

https://www.facebook.com/amelia.foxwell/videos/10211058634571462/


21 posted on 11/09/2016 4:40:40 PM PST by Louis Foxwell ( Trump is the collective voice of 100 million F U Â’s.)
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To: goldbux
Inspirational writing!

59,611,678 Americans – distributed & weighted in Heartland / Rust Belt / Southern counties – racked up 36 extra electoral votes beyond the 270 threshold required to win.

22 posted on 11/09/2016 4:42:56 PM PST by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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To: vannrox

The only comment I have to this excellent essay is that it wasn’t just hardworking, middle class uneducated males that stood up against the Machine. It was also many millions of highly educated, highly intelligent men and women—like their equally brilliant but under-educated American patriots that the author references—who stood up to the Evil Clinton Machine.

These uneducated rubes are far smarter than the Clinton glamorati and brillianti who detest us so.


23 posted on 11/09/2016 4:44:42 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: vannrox; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; dragonblustar; Dutchboy88; ...

We did it!


24 posted on 11/09/2016 4:46:53 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: vannrox

Great read. I feel the same.


25 posted on 11/09/2016 4:49:36 PM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The elitists got smacked. Now we need a team of advisers that will keep this administration focused.


26 posted on 11/09/2016 4:51:07 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: metmom

Very poignant. Tyler nailed it.


27 posted on 11/09/2016 4:52:12 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance****)
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To: Alberta's Child

Wow. Thanks for posting. :)


28 posted on 11/09/2016 4:58:22 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance****)
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To: Husker8877

I agree with you 100 percent.


29 posted on 11/09/2016 4:59:24 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: vannrox

Wonderful!


30 posted on 11/09/2016 5:06:03 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: MtnClimber

I can hardly wait to discover the Trump cabinet/advisors.


31 posted on 11/09/2016 5:07:14 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: metmom; Louis Foxwell

Great Essay!

Thanks for the Ping


32 posted on 11/09/2016 5:08:40 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: vannrox
This was the very best of the essays I read this morning.
Great drama, expansive prose. Thanks for posting it here.
33 posted on 11/09/2016 5:13:41 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: vannrox

Fifty nine million Americans, right?

Never mind me.

5.56mm


34 posted on 11/09/2016 5:14:29 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: vannrox
From 12 years ago, still appropriate:

The 'hicks' bit back.

35 posted on 11/09/2016 5:15:11 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: vannrox

Spot on. I feel like I could have written it (if I had the talent).


36 posted on 11/09/2016 5:17:13 PM PST by Gritty (This election is our last chance... We won't get another opportunity. It will be too late.-DJTrump)
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To: vannrox

Yeah. May of us who lost their jobs did have bachelors degrees.


37 posted on 11/09/2016 5:18:48 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: vannrox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8


38 posted on 11/09/2016 5:25:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Talisker
Truth of the matter is that we were all toast. Hillary wasn't cackling over nothing - all of the powers of the world aligned against Trump, and went at him with a vengeance. This win is divine intervention, IMHO.

No doubt in my mind. The group of conservatives at my office found time today to go to lunch away from the bitter, angry leftist gang. We all voiced some variation of your comment; this was truly Hand-of-God stuff.

39 posted on 11/09/2016 5:39:40 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: vannrox; lightman

Me too. It’s one of the best I’ve read in a very, very long time. Too damned long.


40 posted on 11/09/2016 5:41:02 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everyone stands around reloading.)
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