Why I am (we are?) Angry
(liberally plagiarized from Victor Davis Hanson - https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/24/the-river-of-forgetfulness/)
A handful of idiots, out of tens of thousands of Trump supporters, out of 74 million Trump voters, rioted and broke into the Capitol on January 6. (Note they were universally condemned by Republicans and conservatives who support prosecuting these idiots to the full extent of the law.) Does this bother me? Yes. But, what bothers me more and makes me angry is what I see in reaction to this and what I have seen in recent years:
1. These actions have allowed the Democrats and the Mainstream Media to label all Trump voters and conservatives as racists, Nazi’s, white supremacists, abettors, terrorists, seditionists, and traitors and call for the silencing, deprogramming and re-educating of half the country;
2. The Democrats were silent over this past summer when downtowns were ravaged, stores were looted, arson was customary, more than 700 police were injured and spat upon.
3. Democrats and the Mainstream media labeled these riots as “mostly peaceful” protests while causing billions of dollars in damage, leaving thousands of business owners bankrupt, and at least three-dozen people dead;
4. Democrats saw far more election-year political advantage in defending the violence than in suppressing it, and so made the necessary adjustments, at least until Election Day;
5. Democratic mayors of the targeted cities like Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and Minneapolis contextualized and supported the mayhem (“block party” and “summer of love”). They cared little for the thousands of lives that were wrecked by the destruction;
6. Joe Biden excused Antifa as a mere “idea” (a presidential ante facto impeachable offense?)—largely because millions of his supporters condoned or explained away the violence, and they said so publicly;
7. The New York Times architect of the “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones boasted at the height of the unrest, “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence;”
8. Kamala Harris recklessly warned America that the protests, which were increasingly turning more violent, would and should continue;
9. Kamala Harris helped to bail out arrested street activists instead of raising funds for injured police;
10. It was not sedition, insurrection, and treason to try to torch a federal courthouse or incinerate police precincts with all their occupants inside;
11. Slinging around an illegal “assault weapon,” if you were Seattle rapper Raz Simone, was almost cool and neat, even if four people were shot, and two killed in his “autonomous zone;”
12. When the violence spread to the nation’s capital, a church near the White House was torched. Mobs threatened to enter the White House grounds;
13. When the president raised the issue of employing federal troops in extremis, he was declared a near insurrectionary himself;
14. Democrats exempting the violence and rioting that we saw during the 2017 Inauguration when over 200 people were indicted for, and then excused from, felony rioting charges after hundreds of businesses were looted, vandalized, and destroyed;
15. Nobody cared when Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) railed at the doors of the Supreme Court amid a throng of furious pro-abortion protestors, called out the judges in session by name, and threatened and warned them that they were to reap a whirlwind and that they would have no idea of what might soon “hit” them;
16. Nobody complained when Obama told his supporters “I want you to argue with them and get in their face;”
17. Nobody complained when Maxine Waters told America “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents.”
18. For over a year, mobs and rioters have destroyed or defaced thousands of American monuments, and not just those of Confederate generals. We have witnessed attacks on everything from the Lincoln Memorial to statues of Frederick Douglass and Miguel de Cervantes;
19. We see Democratic cities removing the names of Washington and Lincoln from their schools;
20. For four years the American public was subject to the greatest political hoax and scandal in American history. Candidate Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national, disguised by the firewalls of the DNC, Perkins-Coie, and Fusion GPS, to compile dirt on rival candidate Donald Trump. Then her minions used her lifelong government contacts to seed the made-up file by Christopher Steele among the highest echelons of the Obama Administration, the Justice Department, FBI, and CIA—with absolute impunity;
21. We are asked to forget that the FBI deliberately doctored court evidence to greenlight unlawful surveillance, and lost or destroyed evidence and even the phone records of rogue FBI agents;
22. We are asked to forget that it is illegal for a foreign national like Christopher Steele to work for an American presidential candidate, much less to use his work to seek the destruction of a president-elect’s transition and presidency;
23. For four years I saw half of the country say “Not my President;”
24. I saw four years of open active “resistance” with not a whiff of insurrection or sedition claims;
25. I saw Hollywood for four years, in word and video, boasting and encouraging of beating the president up, of burning him alive, of decapitating him, of blowing him up, of shooting him, of torturing his children, of stabbing him;
26. I saw for four years members of Congress and democratic grandees—including former president Jimmy Carter—described Trump as an illegitimately elected president. We are to forget that Hillary Clinton said repeatedly that she was robbed of her actual “victory,” and advised Joe Biden “never” to concede if he lost;
27. I saw the Left sue to nullify the 2016 election on grounds that voting machines were fraudulent. Hollywood stars ran commercials urging the electors to become insurrectionaries and to undermine their constitutional mandates;
28. For years Stacey Abrams was feted by elected officials as the “real” governor of Georgia, as she insisted that she had been “cheated” out of her real victory;
29. I saw Democrats who once warned that massive mail-in and early-voting might be subject to fraud sue and harangue to undermine the existing voting protocols passed by state legislatures, so that 100 million votes might be cast before Election Day, and 100 of thousands of votes were counted that were not cast according to their state legislature’s laws;
30. I saw the Democrats and Mainstream media completely hide and sensor important documented evidence of serious questions related to Biden and his son right before an elections; and,
Perhaps most important to me, I have seen Democrats and Mainstream media lie and propagate the false narrative that the primary cause of the disparities between blacks and whites is due to systemic racism when it is clear that the issue is closer to home (police shoot blacks disproportionately lower than whites when you include the rate of murder and violent crime, black immigrants have the same incarceration rate as whites across all incomes and education, blacks have a dramatically higher level of fatherless homes.) This false narrative is tearing this country apart and is hurting blacks. (https://glennloury.substack.com/p/the-developmental-imperative)
