John R. Houk
© July 2, 2018
Dems are promoting confrontation against those that have an
ideological difference with the Leftist line of thought. Those that differ
ideologically are Conservatives and President Trump supporters in particular.
The current face of the rabble-rousing Dems is Rep. Maxine
Waters. Soon after she began a campaign of pushing her comrade listeners to
confront members of the Trump Administration – which turns out to be
Conservative Republicans not actually in the Administration – Maxine
acolytes have been accosting people so viciously with verbal abuse and
profanity, I am surprised fists haven’t flown.
There are probably several incidents, but what comes to the
top of my mind are Secretary Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
and Florida Attorney General Pam
Bondi all accosted in public venues by Trump-hating Leftist Loons.
Kirstjen Nielsen, Sarah
Huckabee Sanders & Pam Bondi
In the case of those three women I can see a scenario in
which a chivalrous male or group of males physically takes a swing at idiot
Leftists. From there I can see groups of Trump supporters begin engaging groups
of hostile Dems, Leftist Loons and downright Marxists like Antifa.
Eventually rioting escalates into armed confrontations. Then
what follows? Probably the next Civil War in the United States of America.
JRH 7/2/18
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America's COMING civil war? Too late, it has already
begun
By Glenn Reynolds
Published July 2, 2018
The other day, author Tom Ricks asked whether we're heading toward
a civil war. "I don't believe we're to Kansas of the 1850s yet. But we
seem to be lurching . . . in that direction," he wrote.
Ricks was commenting on "What Democratic rage would look like," a Bloomberg opinion column that quotes political scientist Thomas Schaller as saying, "I think we're at the beginning of a soft civil war. ... I don't know if the country gets out of it whole."
That sounds pretty serious. The column by Francis Wilkinson
presents a catalog of things Democrats are mad about -- from the existence of
the electoral college to Trump's "propaganda apparatus" -- and
predicts that if Democrats lose the midterm elections, there will be hell to
pay. (And Republicans, you know, could make a similar list of their own
complaints.)
"I don't know exactly what that would look like," Wilkinson writes. "But liberals have a great deal of cultural, academic and economic heft, stretching from Hollywood to Harvard. Just this week, some Hollywood powerhouses flirted with leveraging their clout against the Trumpist Fox News. There are endless variations on such a power play. If Democrats opt to use their power more aggressively -- breaking rules -- Schaller's soft civil war hardly seems unlikely."
THE CIVIL WAR IS ALREADY STARTING
Well, actually this sort of thing seems to be well underway.
Hollywood has basically turned its products, and its award shows, into
showcases for "the resistance." Americans are already sorting
themselves into communities that are predominantly red or blue. And in heavily
blue Washington, D.C., Trump staffers find that a lot of people don't want to
date them because of their politics.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was even kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, because the owner and employees disliked her politics. This seems like a small thing, but it would have been largely unthinkable a generation ago.
And, in a somewhat less "soft" manifestation, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was bullied out of a restaurant by an angry anti-Trump mob, and a similar mob also showed up outside of her home.
Will it get worse? Probably. To have a civil war, soft or
otherwise, takes two sides. But as pseudonymous tweeter Thomas H. Crown notes,
it's childishly easy in these days to identify people in mobs, and then to
dispatch similar mobs to their homes and workplaces. Eventually, he notes, it
becomes "protesters all the way down, and if we haven't yet figured out
that can lead to political violence, we're dumb."
Apparently, some of us are dumb or else want violence. As Crown warns, "We carefully erected civil peace to avoid this sort of devolution-to-a-mob. It is a great civilizational achievement and it is intensely fragile." Yes, it is indeed fragile, and many people will miss it when it's entirely gone.
POLITICAL CONTEMPT IS THE PROBLEM
Marriage counselors say that when a couple view one another
with contempt, it's a top indicator that the relationship is likely to fail.
Americans, who used to know how to disagree with one another without being
mutually contemptuous, seem to be forgetting this. And the news media, which
promote shrieking outrage in pursuit of ratings and page views, are making the
problem worse.
What would make things better? It would be nice if people felt social ties that transcend politics. Americans' lives used to involve a lot more intermediating institutions -- churches, fraternal organizations, neighborhoods -- that crossed political lines. Those have shrunk and decayed, and in fact, for many people politics seems to have become a substitute for religion or fraternal organizations. If you find your identity in your politics, you're not going to identify with people who don't share them.
The rules of bourgeois civility also helped keep things in check, but of course those rules have been shredded for years. We may come to miss them.
America had one disastrous civil war, and those who fought it did a surprisingly good job of coming together afterward, realizing how awful it was to have a political divide that set brother against brother. Let us hope that we will not have to learn that lesson again in a similar fashion.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law
professor, is the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save
American Education from Itself and is a columnist at USA TODAY.
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June 28, 2018
The “tolerant” left will tolerate nothing that doesn’t
comport to their radical orthodoxy. And seeing their policies rejected by the
electorate, they have sought to use government, the courts and a bullying media
to force their will on others. Now they’re employing a new tactic: encouraging
and engaging in outright bullying and physical confrontations.
In the last several days we’ve seen President Donald Trump’s
Department of Homeland Security Secretary and her staff harassed as they ate at
a public restaurant, Trump’s spokes puppet [Blog Editor: Poor choice of
words for a victim of the Left] Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked to leave run
out of a restaurant (where the restaurant owner then followed her family to
another restaurant and verbally harangued them), Trump staffer Stephen Miller’s
apartment swarmed by protesters who tacked up “Wanted” posters, Senator Mitch
McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation, surrounded and
shouted at by a mob of “students,” a DHS staffer reporting a decapitated and
burned animal carcass being left on his porch, and Representative Maxine Waters
(Communist-California) calling for organized mobs to look for “anybody from
that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station,”
and for them to “get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and
you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
The mainstream propaganda media are providing cover and
granting legitimacy for these actions both subtly and overtly. Any calls for
tamping down the vitriol are tepid and feckless, at best.
The violent, radical left seems to be revising its playbook
from the 1970s. We’ve seen their protests and demonstrations escalate since
Trump’s election.
Civility in political discussion is now passé. Of course,
name-calling, expletives, ad hominems and physical attacks are the refuge of
the ignorant. It’s a convenient fallback position for those unable or unwilling
to defend their positions with facts.
It is also a common practice of the ignorant to
automatically assign evil motives to a person or group expressing a counter
opinion. Many reach the conclusion that any person or any group that disagrees
politically or philosophically is somehow bad and intends to inflict as much
harm or heartache as possible on their opponents.
But incivility in political discourse is not new. And anyone
who takes an honest look at American history understands this.
Thomas Jefferson once said, “It has been a source of great
pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the
liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who
transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political
opinions.”
It pains many of us still, because as long as this practice continues
we will be opposing one another rather than mounting opposition to those in
positions of power who continue to steal our freedoms by passing
unConstitutional laws and steal our wealth by debasing our currency.
As the left is increasingly inciting violence, it should
bear in mind the maxim that for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. There will eventually be a response by equally radical right.
Remember that governments — all governments — need crisis,
no matter how much lip service they give to “peace.” Crisis is a well-known
Machiavellian strategy to gain and solidify political power and persuade public
opinion.
Crisis provides the stage where governments can control all
sides. At least they can arrange events to “naturally” unfold.
We are living in critical times. We are seeing before our
eyes the breakdown of the rule of law, which leads to the breakdown of law and
order. It’s increasingly obvious that mass chaos if not outright civil war is
the agenda of the radical left. Remember there is nothing “civil” about civil
wars.
Bob Livingston
founder of Personal Liberty Digest™, is an
ultra-conservative American author and editor of The
Bob Livingston Letter™, in circulation since 1969. Bob has devoted
much of his life to research and the quest for truth on a variety of subjects.
Bob specializes in health issues such as nutritional supplements and
alternatives to drugs, as well as issues of privacy (both personal and
financial), asset protection and the preservation of freedom.
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Conservative Vision vs.
Leftist Vision – The Next Civil War
John R. Houk
© July 2, 2018
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