Posted on 12/19/2021 4:11:21 AM PST by Kaslin
Conservatives have watched, with varying degrees of horror, as leftists have, in recent years, embraced radical ideas and schemes such as: court-packing, abolishing the filibuster, lockdowns/mandates, censorship on an industrial scale, cancel culture, critical race theory, abolishing the police, open borders, runaway spending, the stigmatization of dissent as “insurrection”, “white supremacy”, “fascism”, and more. Left-wingers have talked openly, and sometimes gleefully, about how richly we, their conservative enemies, deserve slow and painful deaths – and, when in a feisty mood, how they would quite like to be the agents of our demise.
Much of the time, we on the right are inclined to scoff at such wild-eyed pronouncements, but should we dismiss them so lightly? Consider the apocalyptic, hectoring tone of so much political analysis on the Left these days. This is a small sample of some of the recent articles that left-wingers are gobbling up:
“How to Tell When Your Country Is Past the Point of No Return”
“The GOP is an Anti-America Party”
“Democrats Need a Three-Year Plan to Save Democracy”
“We're Edging Closer to Civil War”
“American Democracy is Tottering. It's Not Clear Americans Care”
"The GOP is a Grave Threat to American Democracy"
Such breathless analysis expands on the line that Nancy Pelosi's January 6th Committee pushes on a daily basis: that Republicans, conservatives, and Trump supporters are anything but a loyal, honorable opposition in America. Instead, we are un-American, unpatriotic, immoral, and indefensible. We seek, in fact, to negate and destroy everything which this country stands for.
For some on the Left, presumably this is hyperbole. For all too many, it has become the substance of their (hateful) ideology, or, given the fervency with which they hold such views, we might more accurately call this virulent anti-Republicanism a dogma, to which leftists practicing “true religion” invariably assent.
Many have tried to describe, or trace the origins of, these leftist delusions, but few have asked the more pressing and germane question: where do they lead?
Conservatives need to take this issue seriously, because, regardless of how most Americans may vote in 2022 and 2024, increasingly, the majority of our political, cultural, and economic elite devours incessant, toxic propaganda that demonizes Republicans and conservatives in horrifyingly stark terms. America's opinion leaders are thus being primed, at least potentially, for extreme, extra-constitutional measures designed to keep the insurrectionary, white-supremacist, fascist horde at bay.
For instance, suppose, just for a moment, that Republicans capture the House majority in 2022 and a narrow majority in the Senate. They proceed to obstruct the Biden Administration's legislative agenda and most of its executive and judicial appointments to boot. Sensing that his old adversary – emphasis on “old” – is stumbling, Donald Trump makes the fateful decision to run again for the presidency. As the campaign unfolds, it becomes painfully obvious to the Dems that their worst case scenario, a second term for Donald J. Trump, is a realistic possibility. As the election nears, in fact, that possibility becomes a probability. The Left, and the entire Democratic establishment, go into panic mode.
The question we need to start asking is: how do Democrats, terrified of an imminent revival of Trumpism, and absolutely contemptuous of the intellectual, moral, and human worth of their political opponents, react?
Does resident Biden deploy the military to intimidate Trump voters into staying home on election day? Does he deploy thousands of rioters across the country to accomplish more or less the same thing? Does he detain Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans and conservatives, to prevent them from campaigning effectively? Does he, before the votes are even counted, declare the results from some states preemptively void, because of alleged “voter suppression” or other irregularities? Does he, à la 2020, mobilize Democratic state legislators to send alternate slates of electors to Washington, D.C., to obscure who the victor was or will be in the electoral college? Does the FCC pull the rug out from under the conservative media at a critical time in the campaign, perhaps in combination with the coordinated suspension of all elected Republicans' social media accounts? Does the Biden administration strong-arm corporate leaders into condemning Trump and Republicans as far too “dangerous” to be allowed back into the halls of power? Does Biden, other expedients proving unsatisfactory or ineffective, order the military or the federal bureaucracy to re-run the election in the critical states where the Democratic candidate fell short?
The obvious objection to all of these fanciful suggestions is, of course, that the American people, as faithful exponents of democracy, would never allow such chicanery. They would rise with one voice to condemn any effort to thwart the will of the people.
But would they?
Does anyone doubt that the same Democratic base which spent four long years despising every second of the Trump presidency, and accepting uncritically every anti-Trump narrative which arose, and supporting unstintingly every act of “resistance,” would hesitate to endorse any stratagem, no matter how unconventional or controversial, in order to deny Trump a second term? Does anyone think that the rights or feelings of Trump supporters would weigh on the consciences of these leftist true believers even for a moment?
A more serious objection is that the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, would surely step in to disallow extra-constitutional, authoritarian maneuvers such as those contemplated above.
Indeed, for all of our country's history, up to now, an adverse SCOTUS ruling would have definitely shut down any attempt to impose a dictatorship. But can we rely at this juncture in our history on the moral probity and self-restraint of Democrats to prevent them from testing, or exceeding, the legal and constitutional limits on their authority?
I don't have a definitive answer to this question, but I do know that the leftist/Democratic leaders who will make such calls in the years to come are the very same people who, in their spare time, read articles such as:
“The Case for Ending the Supreme Court As We Know It”
“The Supreme Court is Drunk On Its Own Power”
“The Courts Have Served As an Anti-Democratic Force For Much of U.S. History”
“The Supreme Court: Anti-Democratic, Anti-American, Immoral?”
“The Supreme Court Does Not Deserve Our Trust”
Still think that defiance of SCOTUS's authority is unthinkable? Guess again.
The sad fact is that Democrats, as the party that currently wields executive authority, have vast powers at their disposal that could allow them to obstruct the democratic process in 2022 or 2024, and thus deny the American people the chance to restore Republicans, conservatives, or Donald Trump to political dominance. We would be foolish not to anticipate some of these potential Democratic moves, and to contemplate how we, as conservatives, could or should react to them.
Like it or not, in Biden's America, just as in Trump's America, norms are not what they used to be. To put it another way, in 2022, 2024, and beyond, all bets are off.
... and it’s time we stop posting the history of how we got here and start generating the history of how we stop and correct ourselves.
Their next step should trigger a claymore.
Stop waiting for the knight in shining armor who will come to rescue us, we are that knight, the people. I think its time we make the donuts.
Never forget it is democrat taliban party voters who are directly to blame for the chaos and terrorism of government.
We're currently in the "Extermination Phase", the "Final Solution".
The only "next step" is when the humans start fighting back, if they do.
With plenty of help coming from RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and their minions.
They need to be held to account as well.
“The Road to Serfdom” (Hayek) details the inexorable march from soft socialism to brutality.
Basically because as government policies fail or falter, they are replaced by other policies that become increasingly draconian, until only a sociopathic leader can bear to bring them into being.
What next? Attempts to game A.I. to regard white people delivering packages as “suspicious behavior” is evidently part of the game plan. I’ve noticed lots of non-suspicious people doing non-suspicious things being reported as “suspicious” on Ring. No doubt that data will be gathered and used later.
Next?
War and left winger extermination
There can be non more coexistence
I can tell you this, issue-base populism is the road back to sanity. Swings into State religion-religion, or that other State religion known as Communism, hard Right, hard Left, are going to keep the drama and b.s. going. We’ve got a lot coming up; China, robots in the workplace, and A.I. everywhere else. I do think that abortion, RFK, Jr.’s antivaxxers, or Abbott’s shenanigans in Texas are the only things that can stop the Democrats from being destroyed in next year’s election. Even if they are, though, you’ve got A.I. in American being hobbled by woke pseudo-science, and that needs to change if we are going to be competitive, and if you want delivering packages while white to not become a crime.
Like get rid of all the Liz Cheney and Mitt Romneys who think the Dems are good people.
Whatever democrats accuse the opposition of doing, democrats are doing those same things in greater magnitude. Then they’ll use their accusations to justify it. The “findings” of Pelosi’s Jan 6 committee will be used by democrats to justify their own violent insurrection and actions that are clearly illegal to seize permanent control. I don’t think it’s just for smearing republicans for 2022 or 2024. It’s insurance against in case republicans manage to win. As sickening as it sounds, they’ll claim they had to cancel the constitution to save America. They’re Marxist assholes.
Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable, but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. It is not a linear process, but logically the later stages must be preceded by the earlier stages. Logically prior stages continue to operate throughout the process. © 1998 Gregory H. Stanton
Classification
Dehumanization
Symbolization
Organization
Polarization
Preparation
Extermination
Denial
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to obtain or secure their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them”
The willingness to use is the key.
It’s interesting to see some cuckolded conservatives flutter their eyelids and write essays about how they think maybe they smell coffee somewhere.
Many Democrats have said they want to kill us. How many Democrats have said that’s wrong and tried to stop that talk amongst their Comrades?
What I’d like the writer to understand is that when people say they are going to kill you, you will be killed if you don’t take them seriously.
Apathetic crowd conservatives will cower in the arena and be eaten by like lions rather than fight
It is time to realize we cannot vote ourselves out of this.
The goal is to collapse world economies and reset. Make no mistake...Biden has been in attendance to the WEF for DECADES. His feeble mind right now is focused on one thing and he will do whatever it takes. He was and is one the plan makers for where the world is going.
“Apathetic crowd conservatives will cower in the arena and be eaten by like lions rather than fight”
And unlike the early Christian martyrs, I’m afraid most will die in the arena spectacle without hope or a purpose.
The American Democracy verses Marxism war will end as soon as some come to their senses the last election started it now they feel the pain of it 2022 election can be the answer if if the cheating can be put in check.
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