Posted on 09/01/2020 6:02:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
The murder of Trump supporter Jay Bishop by Black Lives Matter rioter Michael Reinoehl in Portland Saturday night was a watershed moment, an introduction of the political violence that has been common in many other countries but has seldom been seen in America. However, it does have antecedents: the heated runup to the Civil War is the most exact analogy, which is not all that surprising given that we may now be careening toward a second one.
The political violence broke out in the Kansas Territory. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was the main architect of the principle of popular sovereignty, the idea that slavery would be approved or outlawed in the new territories by popular vote. Douglas, who had presidential aspirations, drafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act to establish new territories by those names in part of the land that had been acquired in the Louisiana Purchase and was still unorganized. The act stipulated that Kansas and Nebraska would decide by popular sovereignty whether to allow slavery or not. Since both territories lay north of the 36°30' parallel, slavery should have been outlawed in both of them, according to the Missouri Compromise.
That should have been the end of the matter, with popular sovereignty definitively ruled out for Kansas and Nebraska. Instead, Douglas and his allies were determined to repeal the Missouri Compromise and won President Franklin Pierce over to the idea that doing so would be the best way to bring peace to the nation once and for all over the slavery question. Slavery would be voted up or down in various states and territories, and all would be well.
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Have no doubt that it is coming.
Wars are fought by the young. There are very few young on the pro-America side.
hardly.
Google the Newark riots in the 1960s.
The National Guard alone fired over 100,000 rounds. And killed 11 rioter thugs.
The city looked like Dresden afterwards.
Therein lies the rub. Conservatives would gladly get out and squelch this discord, except, it happens past our bedtime. Plus, we no longer have the energy to fight in the streets.
Yeah, we have. We have had anarchists, union violence, etc.
We have just never failed to respond to it so badly. Instead of stacking bodies, we have allowed the rioting to continue.
It is like some idiot who doesn’t want to be like his parents even though his parents gave him everything he has.
There are plenty of ‘em.
But they get stifled in academia, slandered in the media, and arrested as ‘vigilantes’ if they try to fight back.
“Therein lies the rub. Conservatives would gladly get out and squelch this discord, except, it happens past our bedtime. Plus, we no longer have the energy to fight in the streets.”
Perhaps that is what rooftops are for.
Now we have Bleeding Kenosha
We have been at war since April 12, 1861 (if not since our founding). The DUmocrats may have surrendered in 1865, but they continue to war against us. Look throughout history since and see the DUmocrat's endless pattern of slavery, sedition, socialism, and surrender to enemies of the United States.
Was on a customer delivery and got stuck in that Newark mess in my car...driving all over trying to find my way out.
Was on a customer delivery and got stuck in that Newark mess in my car...driving all over trying to find my way out.
Mr. Spencer must be too young to remember the 60s.
Later.
I remember watching the ‘60’s riots on TV.
It was one of the key items which convinced me to be a Conservative once school indoctrination wore off.
“Bleeding Kenosha?”
A bit over the top, I’d say.
But blue cities will burn as long as their administrations support the rioters.
Sounds like a good argument for letting the South go.
You’ve got to be near 60 years old to have any memory of the ‘60s riots. Few voters have that frame of reference. Especially so in the social media age where every act of agitprop violence is magnified immediately.
This isn’t the 19th century, in the 19th century the Democrats were considered constitutional conservatives of the time.
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