I've been thinking about this lately, and while it seems that our side hasn't decided to fight, it's because these people are at a war with their own neighborhoods... Democrats attacking Democrat cities filled with Democrat officials. Should our side really even get involved at this point...? Let them destroy themselves for now, I think.
This is an interesting point, and I think you're right in calling out that we ought to consider the long term outcome from this.
Because it's flatly obvious to anyone with more than a room temperature IQ that the left is, perhaps for the first time in decades, responding as reactionaries rather than having any sort of strategic goal in mind.
What I mean by this is probably best summed up by their plans. For example: We know they want to take away guns, right? But they also decided that the first thing they need to do (and are actively doing right this minute) is to defund the police.
Think about this. There is no reason this is something they should even be considering at this point, which tells me that they're behaving more on knee jerk response to external stimuli than strategically thinking about outcomes as they have for years.
The left has, for years, placed significant effort into controlling things like education and the schools so they could produce people either dependent on the state or so consumed by leftist ideology that they have no capacity for independent thought. Of course, perhaps this was also a strategic mistake, because these are the same people who are largely rioting and destroying everything.
We do need to do something, eventually, but remember: Never interrupt your enemies when they're making a mistake.
I think this is a particular point that was totally lost on Milo Yiannopolous a while back. He was upset that conservatives were just shrugging and happily letting the cities burn. He (wrongly, IMO) assumed the left would successfully pin this on us by way of our inaction and largely neutral response. I think it's backfiring on the left, because they own this.
They own the destruction of their own cities. They can't get out of this no matter what happens, because no matter how much they blame President Trump on national television, the people in the cities know who was proudly proclaiming "let's defund the police" just a few short weeks ago. They know who was telling the police to stand down while their downtowns burned.
which tells me that they're behaving more on knee jerk response to external stimuli
Possible. The other possibility is that they have succeeded in their takeovers of education and media and this is the outcome of the constant decades of demoralization and what we're seeing is the desired outcome.
Chaos, destruction, revolution, splitting the country in two, and we will see the grand finale this fall when they refuse to accept the election results and declare Trumps government illegitimate and begin to secede from the US.
So far they're pretty successful because they know we're decent people who just want to be left alone and live in a Thomas Kinkade or Norman Rockwell painting. We speak softly but put away the big stick, because that's what the good guys do. They know it and count on it. I think there's truth to that quote about strong men leading to good times leading to weak men leading to hard times. We just assume it's the "gibmes" being the weak men, but us "silent majority leave me alones" are too. Things have to get much worse and hopeless for decent people to start mustering courage to replace the complacency.
These peopke are already at war. I wonder if our side will decide to fight.
I have seen a lot of sternly worded letters.
That's the plan.
I'm sure the frog put into the cold water on the stove wrote many sternly worded letters about the apparent rise in the water temperature.
I've been thinking about this lately, and while it seems that our side hasn't decided to fight, it's because these people are at a war with their own neighborhoods... Democrats attacking Democrat cities filled with Democrat officials. Should our side really even get involved at this point...? Let them destroy themselves for now, I think.
This is an interesting point, and I think you're right in calling out that we ought to consider the long term outcome from this.
Because it's flatly obvious to anyone with more than a room temperature IQ that the left is, perhaps for the first time in decades, responding as reactionaries rather than having any sort of strategic goal in mind.
What I mean by this is probably best summed up by their plans. For example: We know they want to take away guns, right? But they also decided that the first thing they need to do (and are actively doing right this minute) is to defund the police.
Think about this. There is no reason this is something they should even be considering at this point, which tells me that they're behaving more on knee jerk response to external stimuli than strategically thinking about outcomes as they have for years.
The left has, for years, placed significant effort into controlling things like education and the schools so they could produce people either dependent on the state or so consumed by leftist ideology that they have no capacity for independent thought. Of course, perhaps this was also a strategic mistake, because these are the same people who are largely rioting and destroying everything.
We do need to do something, eventually, but remember: Never interrupt your enemies when they're making a mistake.
I think this is a particular point that was totally lost on Milo Yiannopolous a while back. He was upset that conservatives were just shrugging and happily letting the cities burn. He (wrongly, IMO) assumed the left would successfully pin this on us by way of our inaction and largely neutral response. I think it's backfiring on the left, because they own this.
They own the destruction of their own cities. They can't get out of this no matter what happens, because no matter how much they blame President Trump on national television, the people in the cities know who was proudly proclaiming "let's defund the police" just a few short weeks ago. They know who was telling the police to stand down while their downtowns burned.
Possible. The other possibility is that they have succeeded in their takeovers of education and media and this is the outcome of the constant decades of demoralization and what we're seeing is the desired outcome.
Chaos, destruction, revolution, splitting the country in two, and we will see the grand finale this fall when they refuse to accept the election results and declare Trumps government illegitimate and begin to secede from the US.
So far they're pretty successful because they know we're decent people who just want to be left alone and live in a Thomas Kinkade or Norman Rockwell painting. We speak softly but put away the big stick, because that's what the good guys do. They know it and count on it. I think there's truth to that quote about strong men leading to good times leading to weak men leading to hard times. We just assume it's the "gibmes" being the weak men, but us "silent majority leave me alones" are too. Things have to get much worse and hopeless for decent people to start mustering courage to replace the complacency.