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Chaos and the Threat to Democracy
American Thinker.com ^ | December 10, 2021 | Abraham H. Miller

Posted on 12/10/2021 3:05:14 AM PST by Kaslin

Among politics’ strangest alliances are those between the elite and the mob. They don’t happen often. The few times they have occurred produced devastating effects. The most notable of them was the rise of the Nazi party, which recruited its original and most loyal adherents from the outcasts of society.

When the Nazis became mainstream, Hitler himself remarked how he missed the passionate street fighters of old who had been replaced by political opportunists and office seekers.

There is a method to this odd partnership. It is built on mobilizing the periphery, creating chaos, and enhancing chaos where it already exists.

The Nazi example finds its parallel much earlier in the coup of Louis Bonaparte, the nephew and pretender, who overthrew the French Republic in 1852 and became the last emperor of France. Bonaparte created, from the dregs of the socio-economic system, the foundation of a mass movement. He called it the Society of December the 10th. He just as well could have called it the Brownshirts. Hitler would have easily recognized it.

Revolutionary mobilization of the periphery does not occur in a day. And, in a legitimate democratic society, it will most likely bring chaos, dislocation, and division, but it will not bring about major political change. Nonetheless, for those committed to an ideological view of the world where chaos is the paving stone to revolution, means are significant.

The political nihilists who wrought chaos on Western Europe in the 1980s believed they were the foundation of a revolutionary movement that would take a hundred years.

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1 posted on 12/10/2021 3:05:14 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Yet Chicago’s controversial states attorney, Kim Foxx, refused to prosecute them. “Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection,” according to a Chicago Police Department report.

Mutual combatants? Where is this law loophole? Or has Foxx just showed their hand that the civil war is underway? The criminals are now combatants unable to be prosecuted.

2 posted on 12/10/2021 3:12:56 AM PST by EBH (Never trust the government or a politician . 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: Kaslin

On the other side of the coin the people who are sick and tired of this insanity will rise up, seek and find a leader who will break their backs and then begin to isolate and persecute those who inflicted their mental illness and insanity on normal people


3 posted on 12/10/2021 3:15:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: EBH
DA Kim Foxx dropped Smollett's original charges saying, the $27,000 a week TV player “had suffered enough.”

Outrage ensued but Soros saved her sorry **s and Financed her election along w/ many other woke prosecutorial imbeciles.

CALL Congress at (202) 224-3121. Ask to be connected to the office of your legislator.

Story at https://www.pressreader.com/....Foxx lower right

4 posted on 12/10/2021 3:54:59 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use>)
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To: Kaslin
Nothing unique about the Nazis. It happens a lot. Street thugs make a revolution, which is then co-opted by opportunists.

It happened with the French Revolution. (Talleyrand was a brilliant opportunist, serving Louis VI, then the Revolution, then Napoleon, then Louis VIII.) And with the Bolsheviks.

5 posted on 12/10/2021 4:32:01 AM PST by Angelino97
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From [hard left] Wikipedia:[Sam] Francis’s term “anarcho-tyranny” refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law,[20] or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.[21][22]

Mr. Francis described our current situation decades ago.


6 posted on 12/10/2021 11:35:21 AM PST by pluvmantelo (CRT-Dindunuffinism with a Marxist facade)
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