You are so right, and Dennis Miller was touching on this last night. The Left tried to engender fear immediately after 9/11 that there would be a backlash and muslims in the U.S. would be targeted and killed. As Dennis (and I) recalled, only one mistakenly i.d.’d Sikh grocer in AZ was shot. Dennis mentioned how amazing this was given how we had been attacked. The Left is using the same fear meme now, but it’s more like a taunt: “Bring it on!!” Didn’t zer0 actually say that in Iowa yesterday??
I think we are actually being ridiculed for being the peaceful ones with class. But how much can we gain by continuing in this way?
I don’t know. It was odd that I happened to see this video (The Tudors, season 3) last night because I have been wondering about this. Leftists have attacked us time and again by claiming that we are violent, but it is so clearly not the truth that even the press can’t make it stick.
But at some point, they are going to lose their fear of us precisely because we are not violent.
When I think of the Henry VIII scenario, the biggest problem was that he cheated them and told everybody that if they turned back, he would give them what they wanted and there would be no recriminations. Of course, once the people had turned back, he peeled off the leaders (even though this was essentially a leaderless movement, that is, none of the leaders was doing it to obtain power or for any reason other than his skills or ability) and killed them, and this put an end to the whole thing.
What would happen to us if they removed Rush or JR? We have to be ready to figure out our next step.