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Reboot America: Step Back From The Brink Before It’s Too Late
Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2016 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 07/11/2016 5:29:06 AM PDT by Kaslin

Welcome to 1968 2.0, the new and improved chaos, featuring a cutting edge assault on our foundational principles by an idiot elite that thinks it can gut the rule of law without consequence. Time to reboot, to wipe the hard drive and reload the factory software coded two-plus centuries ago by those dead white male geniuses.

Except I don’t think this country’s elite has the character, nor understands our constitutional technology enough, to do it. I think it fails to appreciate what is going on outside its cloisters, among those weird, patriotic, religious, and – significantly – armed people living in uncool places between the coasts. I think it believes this anger is a passing fad, that it can bluff and bully its way through it the way it did to previous challenges to its rule.

Obama and the progressive elite were not satisfied merely with exonerating the clearly guilty Hillary Clinton of charges that would have sent any mere mortal to the slammer. They had to shove it in our faces. The AG met with Bill Clinton. Then the FBI director laid out a devastating case, followed by an “and…nope.” Then President Faily McWorsethancarter swept her away in Air Force One – at our expense – to campaign with her and even placed her at a podium with the presidential seal while the liberal media thrilled and quivered. This is beyond mere corruption. This is them gloating over what they see as their unassailable power. This is them laughing at us.

Then Obama made yet another speech telling us how cops are racist. Understand that his attacks on cops are an attack on all of us normal Americans. Like soldiers, the police come from the ranks of us normal Americans, not the elite. And just as with soldiers, we normals revere cops as symbolic of the best of how we see ourselves – loyal, brave, patriotic protectors of order and decency. Obama – the guy who immediately assumed a Cambridge cop acted “stupidly” – as well as Hillary Clinton and the liberal elite, attacked cops as racist and evil as surrogates for attacking us as racist and evil.

And then yet another racial malcontent went on a shooting spree. The Los Angeles cop killer, the Virginia TV reporter, and now this creep in Dallas, all full of racist hate, and not one damn word about it from the elite. The motive hurt the narrative; they wanted to talk about cops oppressing people, so the elite simply lied by its silence about the Dallas killer’s expressly racist motive. And their media love-slaves obliged; when it became clear that this clown who couldn’t make E4 after six years was essentially just a Black Lives Matter supporter in a hurry, the story faded away.

But the lies did not fade away. Obama came out, feigned ignorance about motive (“We many never know what motivated the guy who expressly said that he was motivated by a desire to murder white cops.”), and blamed us yet again – this time for our stubborn refusal to disarm ourselves to please people who hate us and who refuse to acknowledge what drives those who say outright that they intend to murder us.

Did Obama try unity? Of course not – he divided Americans into the good ones who agree with him and us bad ones who refuse to kneel and bow. Leftists don’t want unity and they don’t want peace. Community organizers succeed when they divide; they need discord and hate to survive. Understand that all this discord and hate is not a bug. To them, it is a feature.

And this strategy is really, really dumb. It’s dumb because this country is not one big Chicago. It’s not one discrete, dysfunctional tumor surrounded by healthy tissue. The progressives can afford to play their games in the Chicagos and Austins and Berkeleys because outside the city limits there are normals of every race, color, and creed whose work feeds and powers and defends the elite’s urban petri dishes of blue model failure. They can live out their lefty fantasies because we normals subsidize them through our normalcy, like parents from Orange County paying tuition at Oberlin so their blonde daughter can learn how there’s no such thing as gender while she majors in Anti-Colonialist Pottery.

But what happens when they try to do that to the whole country? This time, the normals can’t just move away. Instead of driving them out, now the elite has to suppress normal Americans in place. They don’t realize that they are putting our backs against the wall.

And you have to wonder – have the elites considered their endgame? Because they may have learned the wrong lesson when they drove all the normals out of the Chicagos and Austins and Berkeleys. They may actually believe that normal Americans can just be bullied and badgered into submission. This is a very, very, very dangerous notion.

Have you elitists ever met normal Americans? Try this little experiment. Jump in your Prius and drive to, say, Oklahoma. Go ahead, Google it – I’ll wait. Then find a bar and go in after work. Look for a guy at a table in boots and jeans and a work shirt enjoying a Coors or some other non-craft, non-pumpkin-infused beer. Then tell him this:

“Hey stupid, you’re dumb because your parents couldn’t send you to college. You’re also dumb for believing in Jesus. You’re a sucker and a baby killer for joining the Army and fighting in Iraq. Plus, you have privilege because your great-great-great-great grandfather came from Glasgow. So I’m going to tell you what to do from now on. I’m your boss and moral superior. You’re going to let any dude dressed like a woman into the bathroom with your daughter. You’re going to turn in your global warming-causing pick-up truck. You’re going to be out of your job when we finish off the oil industry. You’re going to give up your guns. And I don’t care what you say about any of it. You don’t matter. You don’t get a say. Also, you’re racist.”

See how that works out, but check your dental coverage first. Now, think about how that strategy is going to work out in our country as a whole.

What’s the endgame here, liberals? Do you see over half the country just . . . giving up? Surrendering? Throwing in the towel once you have sufficiently nagged and insulted them? Or do you see them getting mad? Your media lackeys keep attributing phenomena like Trump and even Sanders to “anger.” Well, yeah. Right now, they are expressing that anger through legitimate means, at the ballot box. But what happens when you decide you’re going to step outside the law once again to ensure that their lawful expression of that anger is silenced?

Do you expect that normals will just shrug and submit? What if they don’t? How many of the 60,000-70,000 guns Americans buy every single day do you elites purchase?

What’s the endgame? What happens when – and the day will come – the normals say “No?” Does the elite try force? There’s no doubt it would if it could, but in the end, it needs to ask itself another question: Exactly who is willing to fight and die for their liberal Utopia? The elitists themselves? Their snowflakey kids Kaden and Ashleigh? Do they think they can pay enough people to suit up and go make people conform? How much money will you need to pay somebody to risk his skin to go down to Texas and try to take those Lone Star knuckle-draggers’ guns?

Oh, this is crazy talk! Hey, another right winger threatening rebellion! You know, the elite’s tactics of attacking strawmen and deliberately lying about political opponents pioneered by Obama and the Jon Stewart clones makes reasoned discussion almost impossible, and the malicious dishonesty underlying these ploys only ratchets up the anger. Eliminate the legitimate modes of opposition and you’ll leave only illegitimate modes of opposition.

I am not advocating the consequences that I see coming from the elite’s actions; to say so is a lie, though I suspect that will not stop them from lying about this column in the comments and elsewhere. I am only predicting the likely consequences of the elite’s unwise and malicious campaign against those it hates and seeks to rule.

But here is another way. Step back from the brink and reboot. Stop the corruption. Embrace the rule of law. Listen to those you have ignored. Hear what they say. Drop the divisive initiatives designed to humiliate and bring normals to heel – the gun grabs, the bathroom edicts, the Christian cake baker pogroms.

But if you can’t do that, if you can’t give up the money and the power, if the joy of inflicting petty oppressions and humiliations upon the people you look down on is just too satisfying to pass up, then ask yourself: What is your endgame?


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1 posted on 07/11/2016 5:29:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

By the bullet or by the ballot, we will be free.

Don’t want a civil war?

Simple have a very honest election where only US Citizens vote, no computers are used, only paper ballots and every ballot is counted.

Steal this election and there will be civil war, a war like none before has been seen on earth.


2 posted on 07/11/2016 5:32:10 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: Kaslin

BFL


3 posted on 07/11/2016 5:33:24 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: Kaslin
Welcome to 1968 2.0, the new and improved chaos, featuring a cutting edge assault on our foundational principles by an idiot elite that thinks it can gut the rule of law without consequence.

That is exactly the tactic Democrat used to get Richard Nixon elected back in the leftist anarchist's glory days.

They must want to see if the tactic still works.


4 posted on 07/11/2016 5:36:40 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

May the deceitful leftists repent or go to the hell they so promote.


5 posted on 07/11/2016 5:39:20 AM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: Kaslin

If libtards stopped lying and relinquished corruption they would be conservatives...


6 posted on 07/11/2016 5:42:16 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

It is too late. The commie libs have all the institutions and are mobilized and have the UN/CFR New World Order behind them.

Against that juggernaut, what do we have? Rush Limbaugh? Paul Ryan?

Good luck with that.


7 posted on 07/11/2016 5:42:43 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: tflabo

regarding hell

they will not go, they must be sent


8 posted on 07/11/2016 5:42:44 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Iron Munro

?


9 posted on 07/11/2016 5:43:41 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump is the only reboot for America in 2016.

Clinton, or whomever may replace her before November, will only lead America into civil war.

And yes, it can happen.

There is precious little room to back up anymore.


10 posted on 07/11/2016 5:45:14 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

I agree with you on everything you said except for the paper ballots. Do you think the rats didn’t steal elections when only paper ballots were used? Just get rid of the Soros approved voting machines. The machines they use in my county can not be tampered with and that is factual.


11 posted on 07/11/2016 5:50:06 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needI have beeed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
Except I don’t think this country’s elite has the character, nor understands our constitutional technology enough, to do it. I think it fails to appreciate what is going on outside its cloisters, among those weird, patriotic, religious, and – significantly – armed people living in uncool places between the coasts. I think it believes this anger is a passing fad, that it can bluff and bully its way through it the way it did to previous challenges to its rule.

Tune in to Salem Radio for ten minutes and you'll become absolutely convinced of this.


12 posted on 07/11/2016 5:52:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin
Oh, this is crazy talk! Hey, another right winger threatening rebellion!

It's not a threat. It's a promise.

Remember the Ceausescus.

13 posted on 07/11/2016 5:54:53 AM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: Kaslin

This deserves to be copied and forwarded. It is a reasoned and rational observation of the state of our Nation.


14 posted on 07/11/2016 5:55:06 AM PDT by Finnwolf
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

The fix is in. They intend for Hillary to follow in Obama’s footsteps. It won’t matter how many of us vote against her.


15 posted on 07/11/2016 6:00:52 AM PDT by jch10 (Obama, now out of excuses.)
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To: Kaslin
Hillary Clinton made more for one 26 minute long speech than 10 Dallas police officers make in a year

Treason and selling out your country for personal gain pays very well

16 posted on 07/11/2016 6:09:10 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraereh)
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To: Kaslin

Hanging CHADS fiasco comes to mind.


17 posted on 07/11/2016 6:17:04 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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To: Kaslin
"But here is another way. Step back from the brink and reboot. Stop the corruption. Embrace the rule of law. Listen to those you have ignored. Hear what they say. Drop the divisive initiatives designed to humiliate and bring normals to heel – the gun grabs, the bathroom edicts, the Christian cake baker pogroms."

I don't see this happening. The country is careening over a cliff.

18 posted on 07/11/2016 6:20:15 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: Iron Munro

Nixon’s opposition for the VP under Ike was Teddy McKeldin, a Trump by any measure. He nominated Ike at both conventions but was passed over by the party elite in favor of Nixon, a red baiter. By the time Nixon came back to beat Humphrey the country was fed up with Vietnam and wanted out of the War on Poverty. Flushing Nixon was no small task but was aided by his own paranoia. Not that he had no reason to be paranoid.
When Reagan defeated Carter we had our first taste of Trumpism since Teddy Roosevelt, both men were bigger than life and double the pleasure. Now we come full circle again and every day Americans know it and are more than ready to celebrate all that being an American means.
It is absolutely true that Trump’s defeat by whatever means will bring down the government. This truly is the last chance to save us from the chaos progressives have been planning for 50 years.


19 posted on 07/11/2016 6:20:49 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop the Left and save the world.)
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To: Kaslin
I really like this article... But I'm totally pessimistic about our chances of recovery.

I think we've already gone around the bend......

20 posted on 07/11/2016 6:27:27 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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