{"id":67040,"date":"2017-02-26T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67040"},"modified":"2017-02-26T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T15:14:40","slug":"just-how-violent-will-the-lefts-endgame-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67040","title":{"rendered":"Just how violent will the Left&#8217;s endgame become?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"headline\">Straightforward From Here To The Left\u2019s Fascist, Maybe Violent, Endgame<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Schlichter<br \/>\nTownhall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/d1be5349-84ed-4b79-b9cc-66f4f1951ec9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67041\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/d1be5349-84ed-4b79-b9cc-66f4f1951ec9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/d1be5349-84ed-4b79-b9cc-66f4f1951ec9.jpg 665w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/d1be5349-84ed-4b79-b9cc-66f4f1951ec9-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Democrat Party, its Media serfs, and Social Justice Incorporated are all outraged because we uppity normals are again presuming to rule ourselves, and their agony is delightful. Less delightful is how, in the process of trying to claw their way back into power, they are incinerating the norms and rules that preserve our political order. That stuff Hillary babbled about honoring the legitimacy of elections? Yeah, no. There\u2019s an invisible asterisk only liberals can see that explains that the norms and rules are void when liberals lose.<\/p>\n<p>So, where does this crisis end?<\/p>\n<p>We know where the leftists <em>want<\/em> it to end, with us silenced and subservient forever, toiling to pay taxes for them to redistribute to their clients as they pick at, poke at and torment us. You look at the things Trump stands for and <em>all<\/em> of them are about lifting the yoke <em>off<\/em> of us \u2013 cutting taxes, slashing regulations, guaranteeing the Second Amendment, protecting our religious liberty, and safeguarding us from terrorists and illegals. But everything liberals want, everything Hillary ran on, is about clamping the yoke ever tighter around our necks \u2013 raising taxes, issuing more regulations, disarming us, limiting our religious freedom, and putting us at risk from terrorists and alien criminals. The whole leftist platform is about putting us down and keeping us down.<\/p>\n<p>Think what they will do if they take power again.<\/p>\n<p>They are certainly not going to risk us ever being able to repeat November\u2019s rejection. California\u2019s decline lays out their tyrannical road map. When the Democrats took power here, they \u201creformed\u201d the election laws to lock-in their party, co-opted the \u201cnonpartisan\u201d redistricting process, and changed the ballot initiative system to make sure we will never see another unapproved proposition. They ensured there is no way to stop illegal aliens from voting because they <em>want<\/em> illegal aliens voting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aside-wrapper pr\"><\/div>\n<p>But even that\u2019s not enough. The state government <em>chose<\/em> to allow its unofficial catspaws to intimidate and beat dissenters at UC Berkeley. California\u2019s governing class <em>wanted<\/em> the thugs to prevail; it was a lesson to its opponents. I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01M0H7WQZ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B01M0H7WQZ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drhelenblog-20&amp;linkId=27586fc0e6d0f934da1bdc58fac5b78a\">my novel <em>People\u2019s Republic<\/em>, about post-freedom California<\/a>, was an action thriller, not the first draft of a future history.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Hillary Clinton or whatever aspiring Hugo Chavez they offer up next is going to protect us from violent leftist thugs, or encourage them? Remember how Obama weaponized agencies like the IRS against conservatives? Multiply that by a thousand. Think about the \u201chate speech\u201d rules used to silence conservatives on campus; imagine them as federal law. That\u2019s coming, just like in Europe \u2013 it\u2019s now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2017\/02\/16\/france-passes-law-to-put-operators-of-pro-life-web-sites-in-prison-for-two-years\/\">a crime in France to speak out against abortion<\/a>. Do you imagine leftists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/france-adopts-law-against-misleading-anti-abortion-websites\/2017\/02\/16\/5f313384-f45d-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html?utm_term=.e13b4256bdff\">don\u2019t dream of doing that<\/a>? No, once back in power they will ensure we will never be able to challenge their rule. One man (or woman or other), one vote, one more time, then never again.<\/p>\n<p>How will they do it?<\/p>\n<p>This massive resistance campaign against everything Donald Trump has done and a lot he hasn\u2019t done is one way. The media\u2019s liberal advocacy and tsunami of fake news is another; the press is now just one more partisan political player campaigning to restore the establishment to power. These same liars who fantasize about Trump silencing critics will cheer as the next Democrat <em>commandante<\/em> does it for real. Remember how they said nothing when Democrats voted to repeal the First Amendment <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/01\/14\/thank-citizens-united-that-you-can-see-13-hours-this-weekend\/\">so Congress could control speech during elections<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And they think they\u2019re winning.<\/p>\n<p>Sally Kohn, a CNN commentator perfectly personifies the left\u2019s combination of utter cluelessness and utter certainty in its own moral superiority. Drawing from her bottomless well of stupidity, she recently became infamous for wishcasting about what happens \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sallykohn\/status\/831871003412295682\">[s]traight forward from here<\/a>.\u201d Her scenario starts with Step 1 (\u201cImpeach Trump &amp; Pence\u201d) and ends with Step 6 (\u201cPresident Hillary\u201d), thanks to a Constitutional process she created herself by blending ignorance, fascism, and wanting.<\/p>\n<p>Sally, however, overlooked Step 2.5, where several dozen million Americans defend the Constitution by taking out their black rifles and saying, \u201cOh, hell no.\u201d I assume the patriots determined to protect the Union would be confronted, for a short and awkward time, by a pro-coup <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2015\/08\/10\/hillarys-hipster-army-prepares-for-the-second-civil-war-n2036475\">hipster army<\/a> locked and loaded with vinyl LPs, participation trophies and unearned self-regard.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no reason not to believe that for these seditious Democrats, the second time will be the charm.<\/p>\n<p>But this amusing idiocy highlights a much more frightening possibility. Dennis Prager has written that America is locked in a <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/dennisprager\/2017\/01\/24\/americas-second-civil-war-n2275896?utm_source=TopBreakingNewsCarousel&amp;utm_medium=story&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingNewsCarousel\">Second Civil War<\/a> already, albeit a cold one. And in light of the absolute rejection by the left of any legitimacy of the grievances, the interests, or the right to participate in governing this country of the tens of millions of red Americans, it\u2019s reasonable to wonder how this can end peacefully. You see read it on social media, you hear it whispered. Are the wounds to our body politic so deep they can\u2019t be healed.<\/p>\n<p>I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtSchlichter\/status\/826248435737128960\">polled people on Twitter about what they thought<\/a> of the chances of serious violence in the coming four years, and the results from 6,159 people are alarming. \u201cStop being a nut\u201d got 10%; I was hoping it would get about 95%. \u201cWe\u2019ll wise up\u201d and find a way out of this crisis, got 13%. But \u201c50\/50 leftists may try violence\u201d got a stunning 41%, while \u201cIt\u2019s coming. Gear up\u201d got a terrifying 36%.<\/p>\n<p>So, 77% of the respondents fear serious violence during Trump\u2019s first term. That\u2019s scary, especially since political warfare is <em>not<\/em> unprecedented in history. Forget <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bleeding_Kansas\">Bleeding Kansas<\/a>. Just reflect on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revolutionary\/dp\/0143107976\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1487539481&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=days+of+rage\">the low-grade insurgency the American left undertook in the 1970s<\/a>, with more bloodshed than most people remember, and consider how today the left has significantly more cultural, institutional and media support. The reality is that there is the potential for this to get out of control, way out of control, especially considering the likelihood that leftist violence would be met in kind. That 77% indicates that the red side is, as the left loves to say, \u201cwoke\u201d to the threat. And the red people have the guns and training, should things degenerate into serious chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, this country is a powder keg, and leftist fools who do not understand the danger are figuratively standing around it, firing up their bongs.<\/p>\n<p>Now, understand that leftist liars will meet this column with the slander that I (and by extension, you) hope for violence. Skim down the comments and check out the idiots no doubt infesting <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtSchlichter\">my Twitter feed<\/a> \u2013 you\u2019ll see plenty of such lies. Actually, this is yet another of my <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2016\/11\/07\/stop-hillary-n2242151?utm_source=TopBreakingNewsCarousel&amp;utm_medium=story&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingNewsCarousel\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2015\/04\/05\/liberals-may-regret-their-new-rules-n1980933\">pleas for sanity and peace<\/a> (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01M0H7WQZ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B01M0H7WQZ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drhelenblog-20&amp;linkId=27586fc0e6d0f934da1bdc58fac5b78a\">in my book\u2019s preface<\/a>). But the left\u2019s favorite tactic is to deny substantive truth in favor of narrative; what I (and you) actually believe is irrelevant. This infuriating tactic makes reasoned discussion and argument impossible anymore, which itself makes violence more likely since it forecloses the primary method of peacefully resolving disagreements. If you can\u2019t argue, if you can\u2019t even speak, there\u2019s only one way to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>The left\u2019s combination of evil and stupidity is the driver straightforward from here. With <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2017\/02\/06\/the-left-hates-you-act-accordingly-n2281602?utm_source=TopBreakingNewsCarousel&amp;utm_medium=story&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingNewsCarousel\">the grim understanding that they hate us<\/a>, we need to accept that there may be no easy return to peaceful coexistence. Our goal in electing Donald Trump was to remove the left\u2019s hand from our throat, not to put our hand around blue peoples\u2019 collective windpipe. We don\u2019t care how they live their lives, but leftists care very much how we live ours. Their goal is to lock both hands around our throat and squeeze until we submit to leftist tyranny or die.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to see how we compromise. Do we just <em>somewhat<\/em> submit, or only die <em>a little<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>This crisis has to culminate somehow. It could end peacefully, with a return to the old norms and reasoned competition between ideas. But it seems no one is interested in that; instead, one side has to win decisively, and one side has to lose decisively. If so, I say we win and they lose, since I\u2019m not ready to submit or to die.<\/p>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2017\/02\/23\/draft-n2289256\">http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2017\/02\/23\/draft-n2289256<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straightforward From Here To The Left\u2019s Fascist, Maybe Violent, Endgame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}