Posted on 02/15/2021 5:10:46 AM PST by Kaslin
In one sense, the Sack of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was the farce that launched 1,000 snips.
Snip: “From years of covering white nationalists and the alt-right, I already knew that the right contained violent and anti-democratic elements,” Buzzfeed reporter Rosie Gray wrote. “What Jan. 6 showed was how deeply even the nice church ladies and retired grandpas who have nothing to do with those groups have descended into an alternate universe.”
Snip: You could have replaced Gray’s byline with that of Violet Blue, New York Chimes, or Scarlet Green, Chicago Baboon, and the words would have been almost the same. One message has been standard for years among liberals: The right is fascist. The new twist is extreme: Everybody run. The retired grandpa’s got a gun.
The D.C. insurrection would have been tragic rather than symbolic if Vladimir Lenin rather than Jacob Chansley—the farcical horn-wearing QAnon man—had been a leader of the pack. And yet, it’s concerning that some churchgoing chanters joined Chansley in fantasy land.
We should be careful with our critiques. It was rational to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 or 2020, given the Democratic opposition. It was also rational to say NO by writing in Ben Sasse or voting for the American Solidarity Party. But it wasn’t rational to believe in January 2021 that Trump would have a second term—yet millions thought it would happen.
Why? Much to my shame—but Christ’s fame for His ability to change lives—I lived in an alternate universe during 1972 and 1973, so I know ideological addiction. Four years of anti-war agitation had pounded me. I joined the Communist Party USA after media consumption that ranged only from The New Yorker (liberal) to The Daily World (Communist). In my bubble, I believed for a time that revolution would come if only I and others were bold and courageous.
Four decades of disparagement-by-media have pounded evangelicals. Many stopped reading and watching what mocked them. Many entered a right-wing news bubble. After the election, One America News and The Epoch Times became all the rage.
In 1972, one month after Richard Nixon’s landslide reelection, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael said, “I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.” Some recent Trump voters know no one who voted for Joe Biden, so when I or other Worldlings described his victory factually, it’s not surprising that some said, Stop my WORLD subscription. I want to get off.
My Communist Party addiction lasted only 16 months, but even then I needed God’s merciful intervention to leave that drug behind. Others, though, may be able to regain a grip on reality by popping their right-wing-media-only or left-wing-media-only bubbles. One way to do this is by deliberately developing a Twitter stream that includes both liberals and conservatives.
This January I regularly received letters from media addicts asking about my own habits. These days I rarely consume television news or radio talk shows. But since I’m a conservative, I follow on Twitter liberals including Conor Friedersdorf, Emma Green, Michael Wear, Sarah Posner, Michelle Boorstein, Michael King, and Megan McArdle. I also follow conservatives, including unconventional ones like David French, Ross Douthat, Andrew Sullivan, and Rod Dreher.
After last year’s racial tension I wanted especially to read some Christians who are black, so among those I follow on Twitter are George Yancey, Esau McCaulley, Derwin Gray, Jemar Tisby, Glenn Loury, Mika Edmondson, Justin Giboney, and Trillia Newbell.
What else to do? Pray that Joe Biden will be more patriotic than partisan. He’s now the president of all of us. Pray that Christians won’t be fooled by Q or other gnostic heresies that pretend to have secret wisdom. Remember that our deeper problems are theological, not political. Elephant-riding Republicans eventually get stomped. Democrats who worship worldly wise-men are betting on the wrong donkey. Biblical objectivity exists. God is sovereign. Praise His plan, not mine or yours.
Sack of Capitol. Kinda like sack of s....
The writer doesn’t notice how close we are to the ideals of the Workers Party? You’d think being that close, you’d trip over the signs.
I particularly do not appreciate being called a Domestic Terrorists or white Supremacists. Until I get an apology, this administration is nothing to me. I will not comply.
What the Jan 6th riots did show is that, democrats could not stand the peaceful rallies that Trump had every time he held a speech or campaigned. So, democrats decided to send in their murderous rioters to infiltrate and disrupt the peaceful protest on Jan 6th, and make sure that the media and smartphones captured the riots and violence, and then, blame the Trump supporters.
>>But it wasn’t rational to believe in January 2021 that Trump would have a second term—yet millions thought it would happen.
A fair hearing of evidence into vote fraud and unconstitutional changes to election law and unconstitutional application of different standards in counting ballots within a state say otherwise.
It wasn’t rational to believe that Donald Trump would be found guilty in the Senate following either House impeachment. But that didn’t stop the hysteric Democrats who lied lied lied.
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Somebody needs a dictionary to look up “Universe”. It literally means “everything”. There can only be one everything.
Yes, I do know what “Literally” means..
Who the hell is this putz and who gave him a column in townhall?
Sacking and observing velvet rope lines aren’t in the same universe. This guy is clueless and/or a lying piece of crap.
The Capitol “insurrection” was theoretically by the most well-armed half of the most well-armed citizenry on the planet, yet strangely no shots were fired by the “insurgents.” Funny, that.
This whole event, while stupid and regrettable at best, has been totally overblown and oversold by the Left.
Yes, it appears that Democrats stole the election on November 3 and some Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6.
But it's still unknown for certain: who did what when to whom and why?
Despite that, people everywhere are making moral & legal judgments based on very incomplete knowledge.
Sounds like he is divorced from reality, and there's no helping him there.
He also is either oblivious to the direction this country is headed in, or he never really understood what communism was all about in the first place. That makes him an idiot since he claims he embraced communism in the early 70s.
Ok.
"New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael said, “I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.”
And that nasty bitch died of a particularly gruesome form of Parkinson's. Next!
***the Sack of the Capitol ***
After reading news accounts of the “riot” I was led to believe the Capitol was now just a smoking ruin. Other than a broken window and a lot of litter what exactly was damaged?
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