Dark Days Ahead

Vince Coyner as an article that in many ways matches my own experiences of the last decade or so entitled Book Burning, Name Calling, and the Democrats Praetorian Guard over at the American Thinker:

When Barack Obama ran in 2008, I was virulently opposed to his candidacy. I wasn’t a huge McCain fan, but at least I knew he had America’s best interests at heart, something I never felt about Obama. Four years later I had issues with Romney, but for similar reasons, I voted for him.

Once Obama was in office, I disagreed with almost everything he did for eight years, whether Obamacare, DACA, GM, DADT, or virtually everything race-related. I disagreed with his trading for Bowie Bergdahl, his pardon of Chelsea Manning, and his commutation of the sentence of FLAN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera. I disagreed with his signing the Paris Climate Agreement, the Iran deal, and his servile posture towards China. I disagreed with his policies on housing, on education, and on energy. Essentially, there was nothing I agreed with Barack Obama on. He could have been Chinese or Italian or Jewish or Klingon…I didn’t care. I thought everything he did was simply wrong.

But a funny thing happened on the way to Obama’s inauguration: Apparently, I magically transformed into a racist. Who knew?

I remember a conversation in which I expressed disagreement with the Obamacare bill, and was called a racists. At that point, I said I disagreed because Obama was a Marxist and was pushing a Communist agenda. My opponent then said something to the effect that he supported Obama, did that make him a Communist? I shut him up by saying that if the shoe fit... It's understandable that when the person pushing these unpopular ideas is half black, that they would call average Americans racists to avoid arguing the merits. Having been told that they deserve a share in the wealth created by others, they have nothing else to argue.

But the average American isn't racist, which is why Democrats keep defining racism down. Now they have something called "systemic racism" that is so subtle, that you can't even see it, but trust the Dems, it's there. Except, of course, like the Emperors New Clothes, it isn't there.  In a similar fashion, they have defined "terrorist" down as well.  Terrorism used to require...you know...terror as a means of changing politics.  But now you don't have to do anything terroristic to be a terrorist.  You just need to be a Trump supporter.

From “The police acted stupidly,” to Kaepernick, to Ferguson, America took a giant step backward in race relations during the presidency of Barack Obama. Then came Donald Trump, a guy with no filter, who often insulted delicate snowflakes with language more appropriate for a factory floor than the UN stage. But more than his words, it was his ideas that were abhorrent to Democrats and establishment Republicans: Get government out of people’s lives. Reduce government power! Allow citizens to be free and keep more of their money. Stop endless wars. Those words are Kryptonite to career government apparatchiks, contractors, and the universe of sycophantic lobbyist and media pilot fish who feast on their scraps.

And so, today, we find that Democrats, having fraudulently eliminated the single biggest threat to the leviathan of government power in a century, have decided to eliminate all potential to resurrect any such threats. Not only are leftists seeking to bar Trump from ever running again, but they’re also seeking to demonize and ostracize his supporters.

Then there is the military. The military has heretofore been scrupulously nonpartisan. Yes, individuals in the military may have their private views. But now President Asterisk has ordered the military to "stand down" to confront and get rid of "extremists" in the ranks.

And based on the fiction of widespread “white supremacism,” the Biden administration is “standing down” the American military so commanders can address “extremism” in their ranks. Essentially one political party is seeking to eliminate from within military ranks all those who support that party’s political opponents – despite soldiers taking an oath to uphold the Constitution, not a man or party. In this way, should Democrats call on the military to support its purges, they’ll face less resistance from soldiers who understand the Posse Comitatus Act and who might be averse to raising their weapons against law-abiding American citizens.

The Democrats are using the fiction of Trump supporters being terrorists to mold the military into a Praetorian Guard for use against Americans when and if necessary. Anyone familiar with the Roman Empire understands why that might not be conducive to a free society.

Quite frankly, the Democrats seem hell bent on, even drunk on power. Such greed for power, however, will eventually turn these people on each other. Oh, right now they have an "enemy" to face, but someday that "enemy" will be effectively defeated. The what?

Please go read the highlighted article.  In the meantime however, we face dark days ahead.