This is a question many of us are asking …
Some think they know, even now.
Democrats think it ends when they win the House, Senate, and
Oval Office in 2020.
They think the chaos will help them get
there. They are counting on the “energy”
and anger of the protestors to help them win big across the nation. They’ve
clearly publicly supported the demands of those protesting the shootings of
black men and women by police. That’s supposed to help them hold the black vote
and gain more young, white and Hispanic voters.
That, along with the media’s cooperation in successfully –
and erroneously – sticking the entire blame for the coronavirus pandemic and the
economic shut down on Trump and Republicans, should be enough for a Democrat
sweep at the Federal and state level in 2020.
Democrats believe that when they win control, the chaos and
destruction will stop.
Even if they do win everything, things won’t get any better.
The riots will continue. Statues will continue to come down. Monuments will continue to be
vandalized. Cities will continue to
burn. Businesses will continue to be looted.
That’s because what’s driving the BLM and Antifa folks has
little to do with police shootings of blacks, much less with party politics.
They don’t like Democrats any more than Republicans, despite what Democrats
want to believe. For that matter, they
don’t like the media, either. BLM blacks openly mock the white kids and aging
white hippie lefties marching with them.
Candidly, BLM wants everyone to bow down before them and
give them whatever they want, which will never happen because what they want is
absurd. BLM knows this, so they’ll
settle for terrorizing and intimidating everyone until they are stopped,
extorting millions in protection money from big companies until then. Antifa is more straightforward: it just likes
to destroy things.
Any election is not going to stop them, either way.
To their credit, Republicans are under no illusion that if
they keep the White House, the Senate, and get a majority in the House, the
protests will end. Nobody on that side
of the aisle expects the violence and destruction to end anytime soon. So until
the election most Republicans in Congress will do what they usually do in a
crisis: blame Democrats and continue to cower
hoping that a show of submission and ignoring
a problem will make it go away.
The simple truth is that the violence and destruction will
not end until ordinary American citizens decide they’ve had enough and refuse
to be intimidated by the mob anymore. This
will happen when the protestors do something so egregious, so reprehensible,
that the public will no longer tolerate or have any sympathy for the protestors.
Even the media will be appalled.
Then the public will demand police and the Feds step in and stop
the madness. This will occasion a great deal of pearl clutching among the elites
about the need for compromise and reason.
But that ship will have sailed. The line will have been
crossed.
I’m not certain what the dramatic trigger it will be. I am
certain however it will happen soon, well before the 2020 election. BLM and its supporters, and Antifa, keep
stepping up the attacks on statues and memorials to people most Americans still
believe deserve respect. They are even
attacking monuments to abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and those who
fought to free the slaves such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. They’ve also vandalized the monument to the all-black regiment that fought
courageously on the Union side in the Civil War. Why?
It’s only a matter of time before someone within the BLM
supporters or an Antifa thug goes too far and commits an act that galvanizes the
public against both entities.
The 1963 bombing of the South Baptist Church in Alabama that
killed four innocent black girls, the murder of the black and white civil
rights activists in Mississippi in 1964, and the actions of Bull Connor against
civil rights protestors in Birmingham in
the 1960s, helped to change the opinions of millions of white citizens about
recognizing and addressing racism against minorities.
I’m hoping something as gruesome doesn’t happen by a BLM
supporter or some black-clad Antifa wannabe. But it could. There’s already been an videoed incident at a
children’s hospital in Houston where the car of a father and his child was
pelted with bricks and bottles by protestors as he and his screaming and clearly terrorized child tried to get
out. This is a very bad trend.
I believe whatever the trigger is, it will happen well
before the election.
If local and state officials order their law enforcement
agencies to continue to stand down after that, more police will resign or
retire. With fewer police around, crime
will go up even more. With more crime, and unabated violence and destruction by
the BLM and Antifa types, armed citizens will start confronting criminals and the
mobs to protect their own property.
Because no one else will, apparently. Not local officials.
Not state officials.
If you doubt people are already arming themselves because they're scared of how the chaos they see on the news might spread to their neighborhood, you’re not tracking the soaring rate of gun and ammunition sales
and requests for concealed-carry permits over the past few months.
Ordinary citizens are already arming themselves to the teeth.
They’re also stocking up on ammo.
It’s a mistake to dismiss these buyers as merely far-right gun
nuts and survivalists. The media would love to promote that narrative. The facts on the ground say otherwise.
A large number are first-time gun owners. Many live in liberal-run
cities. Many live in the liberal-leaning suburbs; some may also be fervent
supporters of bans on assault weapons. They
aren’t all right-wing loons, white supremacists, or fanatics preaching the end
of days. Far from it.
They are remarkably ordinary Americans. The one thing they
have in common is they are increasingly scared that the chaos will reach them
and their families. They are getting a firearm, just in case the very worst happens. They hope it never comes to that.
But until then they want to be prepared. They'll discover a lot of their neighbors feel the same way. And a lot of them now have firearms, also. Just in case.
When they realize so many of their friends and neighbors are armed, they’ll
start more confidently confronting criminals and any mob whenever these
threaten to appear nearby.
However, it's also a short hop from that to start taking justice into
their own hands. As someone stated succinctly, if the police disappear more
crimes will suddenly carry the death penalty.
In Florida, where I live, people here have a
lot of legal latitude to defend themselves and their families with the use of
deadly force. Google “stand your ground &
Florida” and “castle doctrine & Florida” if you doubt me. Along with our high level of gun ownership,
and the large number of former cops and military who retire here, especially in
Central Florida, Florida is an extraordinarily poor choice to see how far you
can go with threatening anyone with violence.
It's almost inevitable that someone or some group will eventually try. They'll be sorry.
I also believe where
police have been ordered to stand down, violence and destruction
by the protestors will increasingly be met by the threat of violence from the
public. It's already happened, when neighbors from largely Italian South
Philly stood off protesters who wanted to loot their neighborhood Target;
another group guarded a Christopher Columbus statue.
There’s only so much reasonable people will take. And reasonable people with guns who fear for
their lives and property will take even less. We are getting close to that point.
If the attacks and destruction continue across the country,
and if the police and Feds don’t intervene soon, I’m fairly certain the general
public will.
All it’s going to take is a trigger event.
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