The Coming Revolution

 

I have never been a fan of Trump’s. However, I do believe that his brashness and bombast have been useful. As the now nearly former president leaves Washington (it is still pretty early in the day) and the new president gets ready to be sworn in, we have been treated to a forecast of what is to come. Leftist overreach has already begun in earnest. They can’t control themselves. Their calls for reconciliation committees and bannings and every other typical leftist maneuver started almost immediately following election day. 

On the other hand, Trump set an example of a behavior that Andrew Breitbart began in his dealings with the left. He simply refused to be cowed by their opprobrium. No matter what they said he seemed to walk through it much like a stream flows around rocks in its course. Breitbart, a far more intellectual man than Trump, understood exactly what he was doing. Trump simply did it, but not without effect. And now, with the obvious support of somewhere around 74 million Americans, he may not have won the election, but he proved beyond a doubt the impotency of the left. He walked away unharmed from his first impeachment, and will likely do the same with the second.

Revolutions happen not when people are oppressed. They happen when freedom begins to grow, when the bonds of oppression begin to loosen. That happened during the Trump administration. By example he demonstrated the inability of the left to harm him meaningfully by their absurd charges of racism and sexism. The obvious support of very nearly half of the population of the country showed unquestionably that those claims had little or no power. My sense is that this is or will be the beginnings of a new revolution against leftist political correctness. The pot is boiling over and there will be no putting the lid back on. 

We are all tired of being threatened with cancellation, with having our social networks driven off the web, of people like Tim Cook, who has done a far less than adequate job of running the greatest computer company in history nearly into the ground, telling the rest of us how we are to think and speak. We are tired of media hypocrisy, of double standards and lockdowns. We are Americans with a long history of freedom, and Donald Trump, for all his faults, reminded us of that heritage. Coming from one of the most oppressive cities and states, he has an understanding of what we have been losing through increased governmental power. He sought to bring that awareness to all the people during his term in office. I don’t know that it was a conscious thing with him, but having grown up in that same place at the same time as Trump, and having left it long ago, I shared his sense how overweaning our leaders had become. 

I suspect that, like me, many of the 74 million who voted for Trump weren’t exactly on the Trump train. However, we all felt something, a growing sense of freedom to express our views in public and private that has been diminishing in recent years. That growing sense of emancipation is now, suddenly, being threatened as the Biden Administration takes office and the leftist overreach begins in earnest. I don’t think that those feelings are going to be put back in the box. I suspect that we are at the start of a new uprising, and the reset isn’t going to be the one planned in Davos.

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  1. Steve C. Member
    Steve C.
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    Eugene Kriegsmann (View Comment):
    The story being floated is that Trump was watching the action on TV and was more enthralled with the action than in doing his immediate responsibility. This has been reported on a number of sources, but it is based on statements by unnamed sources. Further investigation with actual testimony will be needed to determine if this actually happened. Also, it is reported that Pence needed to initiate the call for the National Guard since Trump was unwilling to do so.

    No doubt the same sources claiming Trump spent his free time “watching the Gorilla Channel.” Anonymous reports from the White House have zero credibility.

    Pence is not in the national military chain of command. If the DC National Guard is organized like the states, the appropriate official to call out the Guard would be the Mayor. Presuming the DC Guard was not already ordered into federal service. In which case the likely chain of command goes to the General commanding the Military District of Washington.

    But those are inconsequential details. The Congress is responsible for security of the Capitol, they failed miserably. 

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  2. Ammo.com Member
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    Steve C. (View Comment):
    Sex robots will help many social problems

    The scary thing is they’ll be so expensive when they debut that renting them will probably be an option.

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  3. David Coolidge
    David
    @dwlewis

    Eugene Kriegsmann (View Comment):

    I have always thought of political correctness as a form of emotional and intellectual manipulation. It has been used by leftist regimes for a very long time to control the way people are allowed to think and speak. There is an idea in psychology that when you say something aloud it imprints on your subconscious mind and there it takes on its own reality. It is well known that repeating positive ideas when trying to achieve a goal actually does help the achievement. In the same way, speaking politically correct ideas outloud tends to imprint them on the subconscious mind until they take on a reality all their own. Those who do that essentially begin to believe their own BS. When that is reinforced by punishing uncorrect ideas it has a pretty solid effect on insuring that everyone thinks the same way. A prime example of this can be seen watching either CNN or MSNBC. Those people actually do believe the nonsense that they are spouting.

    ‘political correctness’; has it become an oxymoron?

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  4. Steve C. Member
    Steve C.
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    Eugene Kriegsmann (View Comment):
    The story being floated is that Trump was watching the action on TV and was more enthralled with the action than in doing his immediate responsibility. This has been reported on a number of sources, but it is based on statements by unnamed sources. Further investigation with actual testimony will be needed to determine if this actually happened. Also, it is reported that Pence needed to initiate the call for the National Guard since Trump was unwilling to do so.

    No doubt the same sources claiming Trump spent his free time “watching the Gorilla Channel.” Anonymous reports from the White House have zero credibility.

    Pence is not in the national military chain of command. If the DC National Guard is organized like the states, the appropriate official to call out the Guard would be the Mayor. Presuming the DC Guard was not already ordered into federal service. In which case the likely chain of command goes to the General commanding the Military District of Washington.

    But those are inconsequential details. The Congress is responsible for security of the Capitol, they failed miserably. 

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  5. Steve C. Member
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    Ammo.com (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):
    Sex robots will help many social problems

    The scary thing is they’ll be so expensive when they debut that renting them will probably be an option.

    Will “Pleasure Cyborg Sanitizing Technician” be paid a living wage of $15/hour? Or will the Tech Oligarchs ensure it’s part of the gig economy?

     

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  6. I Walton Member
    I Walton
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    We’re too big and diverse to be governed tightly from above but what happens next is far from obvious.  I’m not even sure of the options.    1)Rot at the top and disfunction as the economy deteriorates over several elections, with the Chinese increasing their authority and presence.  Republicans gaining in states with Republican governors but not where Democrats have key positions including national elections. 2)  Business as usual, taking credit for the benefits derived from Trump’s changes and modest adjustments to the left but power shifted from the White House to the Hill. 3) Move toward independence starting with Texas and cascading to just about every state and pieces of others. Which will be a gradual, then growing response to 1 above.   4. ?

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