Posted on 07/05/2020 7:13:08 AM PDT by Tippecanoe
Where is this insurrection of socialists leading us? Here. But it doesn't need to be this way. ---- O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man 1485
That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,— Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue— 1490
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar 1495
That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds: And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, 1500
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
-Mark Anthony; Act 3, scene 2; Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgcI-iGO0TQ https://poets.org/poem/julius-caesar-act-iii-scene-i-o-pardon-me-thou-bleeding-piece-earth
“O judgement, thour art fled to brush beasts, and men have lost their reason.”
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Thou art fled to brutish beasts...
Damn autocorrect...
A number of states don’t give a damn about the constitution. I would expect any of them to do anything in good faith.
Where is it leading us?
It’s leading me into anger. For Democrats, into stupidity, timidity, and hopes of using it as a tool without getting eaten in the process.
Because if its after a November loss the the options will be few and the cost will be high.
it is leading to the 1970s.
A low grade guerrilla war.
Hollowing out of blue cities.
High crime rates.
Fiscal insanity.
The election of law and order politicians (like Nixon)
Let see, north of the equator,
we’ll spin counterclockwise down the toilet.
Where is this uprising leading to? Reelection of Trump, for starters.
Have you ever seen a political party destroy their own voter base? That’s what we’re witnessing in the D party.
Slow Biden is insulting Americans. “You suck, vote for me.” This is gonna work? NOT.
These are the times of stupid. Trump is systemically disassembling every scheme thrown against him, laying out the battlefield, and the D’s are throwing everything.
IMPEACHMENT???? Not a single crime made it into an article of impeachment. This is how empty the left’s arsenal is today. They. Have. Nothing. Now even impeachment is an empty threat.
What’s coming will make anything that occurred in the 1970’s seem like parochial school. Get ready.
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think there’s ever been a Communist or Socialist uprising where they weren’t able to take over and seize power once this starts.
They have a near perfect track record. They also have a track record of total failure once in control but getting control has never been a problem.
We may be the one exception because I don’t think a society has ever been so heavily armed. Unfortunately they have control the courts, schools, media, and much of our federal law enforcement. Standing up to these thugs for rioting, looting, burning and tearing down property, assaulting innocents, will so far, get those defending themselves in more trouble then being part of the mob.
Hard to say where this will end.
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose... And other devils that suggest by treasons Do botch and bungle up damnation With patches, colours, and with forms, being fetch'd From glist'ring semblances of piety; But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up, Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. -- William Shakespeare, 'Henry V'
Key points. Will add the Left's growing involvement in local and state governments does not offer hope for the survival of our right to bear arms.
It may finally rest on the oath of military officers to defend the Constitution along with our local sheriffs.
Through this process the states are being taught about the Constitution.
But the Founders knew these problems would exist.
How can we trust a convention when we don’t trust state legislators?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2LkM1FGOnjc?start=2530&end=2603
Here is the history of communism.
Over 100 million killed, See numbers at>The Black Book of Communism>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
The Black Book of Communism
> https://archive.org/.../TheBlackBookofCommunism10/mode/2up
HISTORIC FAILURES (of socialism)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kk3uooy90fcij9/VOA-Historic-Failures-%28of_Socialism%29.PNG?dl=0
Jamestown Colony, Virginia, was started in 1607, on the communist plan of public ownership. Under that system the colony passed through the “Starving Time.” It did not thrive until the lands were divided among the settlers. Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, was founded in 1620, also on the communist plan. The colonists suffered as they did in Jamestown until Governor William Bradford, a wise and practical administrator, gave to each colonist a lot of land to till and to hold in severalty. Then the colony prospered. Under the public ownership plan, if we may credit the statement of Governor Bradford, the colonists would not work industriously. They “let George do it,” and there “were no bones in the boneyard.” After the lands were divided, practical individual ownership succeeded where theoretical comradeship and brotherhood had failed. “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s concern.”
The Founders of the Republic were familiar with the history of Jamestown and of Plymouth. Is it not probable that a prescience of statesmanship enabled them to discern the basic reasons for the failure of communism when they framed our Constitution and defended private ownership.
At least fifty communist colonies have been attempted in America, and many in other parts of the world. Not one of them has survived. Communists all over the world came to admit that “Utopian Socialism,” as these failures are now called, can never be made to succeed. But they insisted that communism on a national scale could succeed, and that it would solve the economic problems of the ages.
When Lenin and Trotsky seized the reins of government in Russia and established the “Soviet Union of Socialist Republics,” the event was hailed with delight by communists everywhere. Now, for the first time, communism was to be tried on a national scale! A tremendously large national scale! Now, at last, communism was to vindicate the claims of its disciples!
As starvation, desolation and despair settled upon Russia, and her industries refused to revive under communism its deluded followers proclaimed the doctrine that communism could only succeed on an international scale—that all the world must be “socialized.”
They admit that they were mistaken when they thought “Utopian Socialism” could succeed, and that they were mistaken when they thought that national communism could succeed. They are equally mistaken in the belief that international communism can ever feed and clothe and house the world. The same reasons for the failure of communism on a small scale apply with multiplied force to communism on a world-wide scale. Enlarging the pest house does not cure the disease. It only exposes more people to its ravages. It were better far to keep it isolated in the already stricken country of Russia, where America and other unaffected countries can send relief.
-GW Cartwright 1925, California 2 term Democrat State Senator. https://remnantshighway.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/voiceofamerica-hilite4.pdf#historic-failures
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