Since the election, I have not encountered hostility, finger-pointing, nor liberal rage at work, play, or as I walk around a very blue city. The overwhelming majority of us humans continue to go about our ways, providing for our families, and doing what we do.
Sure, lots of people talk tall on FB and social media, and I'm sure Deplorable people are de-friending suddenly-turned Antifa people, but on a daily, interpersonal basis I am not seeing this kind of collapse being promoted in this article. It strikes me like a typical article on the SHTF websites (which I like a lot) ....doom has been right around the corner since 2008; otherwise we can't sell more freeze-dried food.
To be sure, there are lots of demons on the horizon. Further, Reagan said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction, and he argued that it must be fought for, protected, and handed on to our children for them to do the same. Yet...he didn't throw in the towel. Neither did the people who fought back against CNN whey they tried to blackmail the gif poster.
By most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started. AND YET...I see a future. As did everyone along the journey in the US. You gotta have faith, and a serious assessment of the situation. And nerves of steel.
As noted elsewhere, Liberals have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy....for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa...Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
I believe, in part, this is why Trump and his retinue keep using Twitter and rallies to remind we Deplorables that, indeed, there's more of us than them, and to not despair. Our steadfast and visible defense of all that is good and right is a partial antidote to this social virus. Everyone wants to win, and one can only hope that further winning will help turn these misguided souls to our side.
I haven't seen fear in the media like this since Reagan fired PATCO. As I said, it's tense out there (but not to the extent I feel it's ginned-up at times) and I am fearful that we may let this watershed moment in US history be wasted. But I am confident we won't.
Let us celebrate, fellow Deplorables. Let not our faces be long with #NeverTrumpism or CNN or Antifa denizens or talk of breaking up the country. We are on the ascent. Our President - a billionaire from Queens - is more like us than any other guy we've had in a LONG time. The future of our Nation - nay, civilization - where we'll always have 20% of the citizenry being chronic whiners, is bright again.