The founders only had one real flaw in their building of the nation, and that’s their inability to determine the gullibility and/or stupidity of the people.
People, starting in the late 1950’s, have been dumbed down and allowed themselves to be categorized into a phylum and have accepted it. Being “neither on the victims nor the executioners side’...they are simply people who follow the current and are complacent with it and consider it normal. There is no extreme, no danger to themselves, and they can full fill their lives quietly hiding in their own collapse until they are over the cliff. That is what’s going to happen if a state reaches the point of antifa control. With their attitude, their actions, and their after the fact commitment to violent control to keep their doctrine rolling, they will cross the line and a lot of people will be harmed or killed. And it will start in their homes when some of the people feel they have been forced out of their phylum enough to fight back. And it will get ugly because the current crop of animals the antifa uses will not be cops...they will be gangs of murderers.
The citizens forgot, or never learned, what happened at chop. It fell apart because they couldn’t get the services like fire, medical, police intending to help....just the normal things the phylum calls for to keep them in that perceived comfort zone. It will happen in Portland even with the mayor’s position. It happened in Seattle without their mayor stepping in. Wait for the fireworks.
And the feds can’t step in as it is a state responsibility for crime unless antifa can be considered a terrorist organization. The bill to do that is still in the senate (S.Res.279) and has been since it was sent to the judicial committee July 18th.
Their members look like a wall at the post office:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members
So don’t look for anything to happen there soon. And in the meantime, it is in the hands of the people of Oregon...until it crosses the line and the citizens become the rioters against their own state and their own elected officials that can be supported by the feds if requested (national guard). A true slippery slope they are enjoying sliding down.
rwood
Only landowners could vote back then.