Independence Day and the 'Woke' Revolution

Frontpage Mag ^ | July 3, 2020 | Bruce Thornton

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Not since the Civil War has Independence Day been celebrated amidst such threats to our country’s political heritage. The riots and bombings of the Sixties and Seventies were more lethal and destructive, but the political consensus from the center-left to the center-right––that the democratic process rather than violence should be the agent of change––hence rejected the revolutionary narrative of the New Left.

Today, however, the recent shift of the Democrats to their progressives and Marxist wing has put the authority and power of Congressmen, Democrat Party leaders, governors, mayors, city councils, media, corporations, sports teams, and entertainment industries on the side of rioters, vandals, and looters. The outfits behind this disorder, whether the self-proclaimed Marxists of Black Lives Matter, or the juvenile anarchists of Antifa, have with near impunity added widespread violence to illiberal tactics like “cancel culture”: the vandalism of public monuments and proscription of cultural artifacts; and the shaming, silencing, and ostracizing of dissenting voices.

The alleged “crisis” of racist police targeting black males for slaughter is in fact a specious pretext for this disorder, a Reichstag Fire for justifying a revolutionary political agenda to “burn down this system and replace it,” as a BLM honcho put it recently. This legitimizing of an illiberal political ideology and violent tactics by civic, business, and cultural leaders now threatens to dismantle the Constitutional order and American civic identity of which American exceptionalism and political freedom are the fruit.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Steely Tom]

And they are convinced they have the right to impose their views on us without putting the issue to a vote, while we are convinced that we don't have the complementary right.

[frank ballenger]

...The riots and bombings of the Sixties and Seventies were more lethal and destructive"

Please....Give the leftists time!/S

A few short weeks ago articles said Confederate Generals' statues are being destroyed but at least they aren't coming for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln or Mount Rushmore....

Soon: The latest five bombings by BLM and Antifa supporters are more peaceful in a sense than the earlier ten bombings which involved more fatalities.... Several national polls show voters, especially young people and women, are supportive of BLM and critical of President Trump for his denunciation of the bombers....Trump's tweets against the BLM Antifa bombers were called "harsh" and "unproductive."

[Midwesterner53]

There is nothing liberal about the left these days. They are as fascist/marxist as they can be. They will destroy anyone who dares challenge them, they have no reeducation camps only because we still have a constitution that they will throw out the window at first chance. These thugs give liberal a bad name.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The riots and bombings of the Sixties and Seventies were more lethal and destructive”

Just wait. I think this is just the overture.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Several national polls show”

The same polls that show Biden ahead by 14 and showed Hillary had a 99% chance of winning in July 2016?

[A Navy Vet]

I predict that the Fourth of July being on a Saturday we will see the worst of the thugs. Think about how they've been using fireworks to cover some of their illegal actions. I suspect they will use those large displays for background noise with gun fights in the streets.

I hope not, but it would be a big opportunity these SOB's. If only they will just shoot each other, with no well-meaning civilian casualties. I also believe many police in the now notorious Dem/Soc/Commie/Anarchist cities will call in sick.

Saturday could become the Wild West in certain areas. Please let me be wrong.

[frank ballenger]

Right. Fiction is not dead in American culture-—the pollsters keep it alive.

My article satire played into that for (hopefully) comic effect.

Someday the pollsters will say to each other “Trump was far ahead in 2020 and the majority wanted law and order but they’ll never know it. Everybody was depressed and stayed home on election day when we discouraged them. Where’s my payoff from Soros?

[antidemoncrat]

“Not since the Civil War has Independence Day been celebrated amidst such threats to our country’s political heritagehelping them “

As long as the Democrats think the rioting and looting are helping them it will continue. Just like the Mayor of Seattle thought Chop was OK until the “peaceful protesters” threatened her house did she finally get rid of it.

[unread]

"racist police targeting black males for slaughter is in fact a specious pretext for this disorder."

Gee, you really think so..? :(

[foreverfree]

Bump

[Falcon4.0]

They're not "Woke"
They're "Broke".

[ronnie raygun]

The dope revolution, they dont know history, dont want to know facts, only scream in your face like a spoiled brat.

[elbook]

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Need to call it not THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE but the

IDIOTS CRUSADE

The real Children’s Crusade (in the middle ages) was a huge disaster with mass death of the children involved and many being enslaved . There were Charlatans leading THAT crusade too.

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BAN LEFTISM - For the Children.

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[RaceBannon]

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