Posted on 05/02/2017 4:32:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a recent column, I made the case that Americans are fighting the Second Civil War. The deep chasm that has opened up between the left -- not liberals, the left -- and the rest of the country is so wide and so unbridgeable that there is no other way to describe what is happening. But I noted that at least thus far, unlike the First Civil War, this war is not violent.
Unfortunately, there is now reason to believe that violence is coming. In fact, it's already here. But as of now, it's only coming from one direction.
Left-wing thugs engage in violence and threats of violence with utter impunity. They shut down speakers at colleges; block highways, bridges and airport terminals; take over college buildings and offices; occupy state capitals; and terrorize individuals at their homes.
In order to understand why more violence may be coming, it is essential to understand that left-wing mobs are almost never stopped, arrested or punished. Colleges do nothing to stop them, and civil authorities do nothing to stop them on campuses or anywhere else. Police are reduced to spectators as they watch left-wing gangs loot stores, smash business and car windows, and even take over state capitals (as in Madison, Wisconsin).
It's beginning to dawn on many Americans that mayors, police chiefs and college presidents have no interest in stopping this violence. Left-wing officials sympathize with the lawbreakers, and the police, who rarely sympathize with thugs of any ideology, are ordered to do nothing by emasculated police chiefs.
Consequently, given the abdication by all these authorities of their role to protect the public, some members of the public will inevitably decide that they will protect themselves and others.
This ability of the left to get away with violence is one of the gravest threats to American society in its modern history. Since the Civil War, I can think of only two comparable eruptions of mob violence that authorities allowed. One was when white mobs lynched blacks. The other was the rioting by blacks, such as the Los Angeles riots 25 years ago, and the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.
Today, authorities in what we once proudly proclaimed the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" are intimidated to the point of paralysis.
And exactly what do they fear? Not violence -- they have made peace with left-wing violence. What they fear is the left-wing media. If the Black Lives Matter movement is forcefully prevented from blocking tens of thousands of cars from entering or leaving San Francisco, the police and local authorities will be labeled racist by black leaders, a smear that will then be echoed by The New York Times and rest of the left-wing media.
Likewise, if a college president requests enough police to come to a college campus so that a Heather Mac Donald, a Charles Murray or an Ann Coulter can deliver a lecture, some of the student-gangsters engaged in violence might be injured -- and that college president will then be pilloried by the mainstream media.
Furthermore, left-wing violence doesn't only succeed where it takes place. It succeeds where nothing happens. The left can now shut down places and events just by threatening violence. This is what happened last week in Portland, Oregon. One leftist called in a threat to the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, saying that the Republican Party contingent marching in the parade would be beaten up. The business leaders organizing the parade canceled the whole event for the first time in its 10-year history. If they'd had any reason to believe that the police would have adequately protected the marchers in left-wing Portland, one assumes (hopes?) that they would not have canceled the parade.
An email sent to parade organizers perfectly summed up the left's dominance of America through violence. It said, "You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely."
Meanwhile, the press lies about alleged white supremacists in President Trump's administration and an alleged massive surge in anti-Semitism in order to do what the left has done since Lenin: blame others while it alone organizes violence.
So, here's a prediction: If college presidents, mayors and police chiefs won't stop left-wing mobs, other Americans will. I hope this doesn't happen, because electing conservative Republicans and not donating money to colleges will be more effective. But it is almost inevitable.
Then the left-wing media -- the mainstream media -- will enter hysteria mode with reports that "right-wing fascists" are violently attacking America.
And that's when mayors and college presidents will finally order in the police.
“Detroit? Baltimore? Chicago?? “Cities destroyed and thousands dead” ARE happening in slow motion in what is an ideological war, but it just has no front lines. And it may never have a front line as in the first Civil War.”
Gang violence =/= civil war, nor is a degraded neighborhood = a destroyed city.
It helps to keep things in preservative. People go to sporting events in downtown Detroit on any given day. Hardly an example of a even a slow motion war.
When you have people going about their mundane lives in these same towns, and business is normal, it makes a lot of the alarmist talk sound kooky.
like I said, these little street fights in a couple of college towns are being overblown into something they are not.
Not saying the nation doesn’t have some deep divides, just that we have always had them, and they were far more pronounced at other points in history.
Bingo
Nope.
A civil war, like the last one, was based on geographical lines and very segmented cultures. You were from the south, or you were from the north.
Those do not exist. Someone from MA is not going to go to Texas to “join the cause.” Sure, you will get your “Davey Crocketts” but you will not get masses of people.
Finally, snowflakes do not have the heart for the fight (as a cohort—I am well aware of the small percent that have gone to war over and over.) Think about the first day of Antietam: Could the US even begin to conceive of that many war deaths in a single day?
Once it started to “hurt”, they would quit.
And folks our age would get tired.
You don’t think in the last 8 years we have lost our jobs, mortgages, cars, RVs, toys, etc??? Um,,, because we HAVE. Just not enough to reach critical mass, but we are getting there....
Obviously vetting would be needed... but the libs that flee to Oregon, Colorado, Arizona etc & try to replicate the destruction of California elsewhere should be sent back if California got booted.
Trump’s presidency is already lost man, face it, no wall will be built, sanctuary cities will be unfazed, nothings going to change under him, nothing.
Sanctuary cities will be fazed when a few vigilanties get revenge on the mayors etc for a dead or raped relative.
People in power “care” more about the people they hurt, when the people they hurt demonstrate an ability to hurt them back.
You’re dreaming, will never happen, sorry, the havoc done by illegals is immeasurable and nothings been done, nothing will be done, it’s the way of weakness
The Founding Fathers fought back under much less. We should be ashamed, calling ourselves "patriots". May our chains rest lightly.
That’s only because someone like me hasn’t lost a family member due to their policies. When that happens and such a person loses a family member (as opposed to a mangina or cuck losing a family member), then its going to be a real shock to those who think they have power.
I have a totally different opinion. The republican goop in congress is trying to hold on to the global paycheck and keep the demonicRats form blackmailing them.
Yeah.....man caused drought
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I beg to differ.
bump
Isn't that what Democrats and other liberals want?
Pure insanity thinking California has a chance to “exit” the union. This talk is worthless. South Carolina secession was based on very legitimate grievances. California is run by a bunch of leftist imbeciles who think Brexit was cool but have no understanding of it. If anything break the state up.
Preservative or perspective?
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Perspective. :-\
Autocorrect struck again.
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