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    The left would like to do all those things but in all likelihood, the court will be even more conservative, the Republicans will still control the Senate, and in blacklash perhaps even retake the House.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    Who owns the antifa blm army?? it's democrats. THIS is a war. It is the democrats fighting tooth and nail for their existence and power.

    WE are their enemy. Not the president. US. And if this president loses. WE are in the crosshairs easily.

    LOL We didn't need this article to tell us this. We already knew it.
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    and THEN came COVid. NEVER let a Crisis go to waste:


    The full story of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the riots that followed is yet to be told and is beyond our scope.

    The readiness and ease with which the ruling class turned these events into something like a coup d’état might lead one to imagine a vast conspiracy.

    But no conspiracy could have accomplished so thoroughly what the ruling class’s single-mindedness did. It illustrates the power of a hate so shared among diverse groups that each acts pursuant to it, more coherently than they would have were a general staff to have coordinated them.


    Yes, in January 2017 Dr. Anthony Fauci had ruminated publicly about how the next epidemic to hit America could redound to Trump’s disadvantage.

    Independently, other ruling class figures went on the record to the same effect. Yet none could have known precisely how such an epidemic might hit. When it did, they exploited it, at first tentatively, but following the logic that already possessed them. Yet they were able to do it only with Trump’s help.

    In January 2020, when COVID hit and Trump cut off travel from China and Europe, the ruling class predictably indicted him for racist excess. Fauci and the CDC claimed that the virus was not particularly contagious to humans, and Democrat officials urged people to attend big gatherings.

    After contagion became obvious the media, following Fauci, did not apologize for their errors. Instead, they spread estimates that the virus would kill some two million Americans, that U.S. hospitals would be overwhelmed, and insisted that Trump urge Americans to avoid contact with one another “to slow the spread and flatten the curve” of infections.

    No one suggested that any measures available might stop the virus. Trump took that step—unnecessary, but possibly politically analgesic.


    As of this point in mid-March, nothing extraordinary had yet changed the balance of power in America. But then Trump let himself be persuaded to extend the suggestion of “lockdown” indefinitely, subject to such conditions as the CDC might make for “reopening.”

    Thus, having made “lockdowns” his own, did Trump largely disempower himself, enabling and legitimizing the ruling class’s seizure of powers that are reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984. Subsequently, the entire ruling class—the media (especially the social media giants), every officeholder, politician, and publicist associated with the Democratic party, and corporate America—took upon itself powers over the American people such as not even Woodrow Wilson had wielded in World War I.

    Foremost of these is exclusion of criticism of itself from public circulation. Banning church services and other voluntary organizations, interactions among neighbors, as well as closing small businesses reduced communications of whatever the ruling class might decide largely to one-way, top-down conveyance.

    Thus did the oligarchy manage to convince the public to let it treat a virus the infection/fatality rate of which (circa 0.01%) is either equal to or lower than that of the average of seasonal influenzas, as if it were the plague. Worse that, for the sake of public health, the public should acquiesce in restrictions—such as quarantining uninfected persons and staying indoors—that reverse the logic of quarantine.

    The ruling class use of COVID-19 is medical nonsense. But the “lockdowns” made perfect political sense because they disadvantaged primarily the sort of people who vote conservative. The lockdowns also made ordinary people more economically dependent on government, while enriching those best connected with it.

    Most remarkable has been the unbroken consistency with which every part of the ruling class’s entourage joined the campaign while piggybacking its own priorities to it—to the complaisance of all the others.

    That is the meaning of “intersectionality.” Teachers’ unions, for example, conditioned returning to the classroom on the government banning charter schools; Black Lives Matter (BLM) claimed that “White Racism” must be treated as another public health menace.

    All other components supported them.

    All signified solidarity by demanding that all Americans wear masks outdoors, and that those who don’t be jailed.

    Meanwhile, they insisted that persons convicted of rape, robbery, and murder be released. The world turned upside down.

    The riots that began depopulating America’s major cities in late May are intersectionality’s apotheosis. Since blacks commit homicides at five times and other violent crimes at three times the rate of whites, confrontations between black criminals and police are quotidian.

    Violent reactions to such confrontations are common. Any number of personalities and organizations, mostly black, have made fortunes and careers exploiting them, e.g. New York’s Al Sharpton.

    Increasingly since 2013 BLM has become the most prominent of these, founded as a project of a hardline Communist organization based in Cuba and funded lavishly and unaccountably by a high percentage of America’s major corporations. Its stated goals of protecting the black community against police brutality notwithstanding, it functions to mobilize black voters on the Democratic Party’s behalf. Along with Antifa, an organization of violent Marxists and anarchists, BLM organized the physical side of the ruling class’s campaign of intimidation against the American people.

    The patently counterfactual claim that months of burning, looting and personal attacks by mobs professionally armed, marshaled, and effectively authorized are “mostly peaceful protests” doubly serves the ruling class by warning the victims that they are alone, can expect no help, and that even resenting the mobs is culpable.

    Yet the riots may be intersectionality’s downfall because ordering people to tell each other things they know are not true is the most hazardous of political power grabs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post

    In 2016 Hillary Clinton had tentatively called her opponents “deplorables.”

    By 2018 the ruling class had effectively placed the “deplorables” outside the protection of the laws.

    In any confrontation, the ruling class deemed these presumed white supremacists in the wrong, systemically.

    By 2020 they could be fired for a trifle, set upon on the streets, and prosecuted on suspicion of bad attitudes, even for defending themselves.
    we gotta put a stop to this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    The left would like to do all those things but in all likelihood, the court will be even more conservative, the Republicans will still control the Senate, and in blacklash perhaps even retake the House.
    With all that is going on now then you would already expect that backlash. It isn't happening. It doesn't cost over half the population anything anymore to continue wasteful spending.

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