The Left Is Changing America - And Not For The Better

Gotta love liberals who vilify and boycott a minority owned and operated company and its minority CEO. The crime? Praising President Trump while he (the CEO) was a guest at the White House. Civility has apparently been removed from the left-wing playbook and been replaced with destruction of anyone who does not publicly share the left-wing ideology. The recent Goya controversy demonstrates that perfectly.

Before President Trump was elected Americans were able to speak openly about their beliefs, popular or not, without fear of reprisal. Today, thanks to radical left-wing ideology and the accompanying anarchy, you can be murdered merely for daring to utter "All lives matter." You can lose your job for trying to be inclusive of all people, as in the case of the art curator who was run out of his position for saying publicly that his museum would still feature white artists along with artists of color.

You can resign your job as a writer/reporter for not leaning far enough to the left. Take columnist Bari Weiss, who was hired by the New York Times to bring outside opinions and topics to the slowly failing paper. She resigned this week saying basically that instead of the Times promoting different ideas, discussion and dialogue, they push their opinion on people.

"Truth (at the Times) isn't a process of collective discovery," Weiss wrote in her resignation letter, "but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."

Granted, Weiss resigned of her own volition. But she did so because her articles didn't fit the Times' adopted, far-left agenda. In her letter she stated she was called a Nazi and a racist by her "enlightened" coworkers. Who would want to continue working under those conditions?

2020. Enter the age of the "cancel culture." The left has adopted a seek and destroy attitude against those who dare to disagree with them. "You are entitled to your opinion," they will say. "But don't you dare say it publicly or we'll take you down - first with insults and personal attacks, then, depending on your status in the country, with an all out attack to shut you up." Even some celebrities are participating in this. And no one who doesn't conform is safe.

I believe America has been permanently changed. If the left takes control of the government in January the anarchy will continue unchecked, or at least until the new liberal government gives them what they want. The rioters have tasted blood. They're not going to stop feasting voluntarily.

If President Trump gets reelected the anarchy will only increase until he decides to put an end to it with force. If that happens things will get really ugly before they get better. But if Trump is in a second term he has nothing to lose politically. With so many liberal mayors and governor's allowing the destruction and assaults to continue, federal law enforcement intervention will likely be the best and most viable option to restore order and the rule of law. Otherwise I see fed up patriots getting involved.

Are We Headed Toward Armed Conflict?

ESPN announced recently that the NFL will play the "Black National Anthem" before the actual, legal national anthem before each first game when the season starts.

The NFL can do whatever they wish - I don't and won't watch them anyway. But I am curious when the "Black National Anthem" came about and what law was passed making the song a national anthem. The "Star Spangled Banner" is the official national anthem of the United States. To my knowledge there is no other.

Professional sports organizations are not only condoning racial division but some are promoting it - the NFL and NASCAR being two prime examples. After a decades long struggle for equality it seems some Americans desire racial separation and even self-induced segregation, with black people demanding black only spaces on college campuses, etc.

And before anyone even starts, (and I know some who would) this isn't Trump's doing. Nothing about the current state of racial tension has anything to do with Trump. George Floyd was killed by police on Trump's watch. That is true. But several black people were killed by police on Obama's watch and there were protests and rioting following those events as well. So let's not pretend it's Trump's fault. If you go there you're simply being foolish.

The division is only growing. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are still calling for the murder of police officers while they continue to destroy property and assault people. The violent mobs, made up of mostly young, white idiots, are trying to push the country toward Marxism and most of them probably have no idea what it is.

These groups are destroying historic statues "in the name of George Floyd" without even understanding the significance of many of them. In one city they pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and spray painted "George Floyd" on the base. First - what has Christopher Columbus got to do with George Floyd and second, if it wasn't for Columbus the idiot protesters would even exist. There is no sound logic in their actions. Destroying ties to our history doesn't change our history. George Orwell was more right than even he knew.

Politicians are trying to defund police departments, much to the peril of the citizens. (Politicians don't have to worry. They use our dollars to hire security for themselves.) AOC wants to completely defund the NYPD. Might I suggest the NYPD remove all police from her family's neighborhood initially to see how it works out?

The proposal to defund police departments, and the reason for the proposal, would make an outsider think black people are being slaughtered by police on a daily basis. That's simply untrue. If you're honest you understand that the instances are the exception, not the rule. And in most cases the shootings have been ruled as justified and some of the deaths ruled to be accidental by the courts. But facts and truth don't usually matter to an angry mob.

The now infamous couple in Saint Louis, who armed themselves when a group of protesters broke through a wrought iron security gate and entered their supposedly secure neighborhood and began threatening them with death, are not out of the woods yet. There is talk that protesters plan to return to the neighborhood with violence and the couple has alkegedly been told by the police and several private security firms that they are on their own and to simply leave and let their beautiful home be destroyed. Since when is that acceptable in the United States of America? And where are the couple's friends and neighbors?

Sadly, I see armed confrontations in America's future. Gun sales have skyrocketed since March and many Americans are prepared to defend what's theirs. Black Lives Matter says they are training paramilitary groups to fight police and say they are "headed to the suburbs." But the suburbs are where most of the armed citizens are. BLM and Antifa might not like what they find if they venture out of the safety of Democrat run cities. But I fear it may happen. And it will be ugly.