Philadelinquency:
I feel sorry for leftists.
I realize many of my readers are leftists. I have to make a distinction here, because “Democrat” and “leftist” are not synonymous terms, as the whole flap over the Rizzo statue makes obvious to people now.
There’s a lot of them in Philadelphia and they pretty-much signal off each other like cattle moo-ing their way across a pasture. Few of you realize what is coming, but I already see the winds blowing. You will feel that wind turn gale force as the months go by.
The people I’m feeling sorry for are you guys, gals–and other–who have been out marching in circles around City Hall hoping Trump would give a shit about your Magic Marker signs. Standing next to you in those crowds were miscreant humanities students and flunkies otherwise known as AntiFa and Black Bloc. Unfortunately for you, even though you didn’t don AntiFa garb you are going to be lumped in with them; because you’ve been winking and nodding at them and quietly accepting the normalization of extra-judicial unconstitutional violence as if it were protected speech.
That is soon going to come to an end and it’s not because of Charlottesville. Sorry, that’s how it’s going to be spun. Own it. The backspin has already started:
Exhibit A
Even vox is starting to admit that AntiFa isn't anything to tolerate. pic.twitter.com/sP2tJ3e6me
— Your lady-bits are patriarchy, & I wanna smash it (@Powerful_Memes) August 28, 2017
Vox isn’t the only outlet that has had a sudden epiphany on Antifascist Action. It’s spread to the Washington Post and MSNBC.
The black bloc is a menace, taking advantage of peaceful rallies to hurt people and socialize the blame. https://t.co/XJ2ZllpEGH
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) August 28, 2017
And here’s one of America’s most televised Clintonistas…
Nothing could please neo-Nazis, white supremacists and their enablers more than these knuckleheads attacking them. https://t.co/JncLKt1ghu
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) August 28, 2017
Satirical site The Onion has also joined in…
Apparently NBC hasn’t yet gotten the memo…Is "antifa" violence ethical? This author says yes — here's why https://t.co/FNkx7ha9sa pic.twitter.com/P0CdFBprNo
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 27, 2017
I feel sorry for this author–he won’t be getting many calls to appear on network TV for a while. That is because:
The Great Disavowal Has Arrived
You see, there are quite a number of Democratic senators in Congress who are up for re-election next year. Our very own U.S. senator Bob Casey is considered vulnerable being located in a state that voted for President Trump. One of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in Congress is Missouri senator Claire McCaskill. Her state voted for Donald Trump by 57% to Hillary Clinton’s 38%. She has to desperately look as moderate as possible, her Republican attackers will put up ads “Clare’s people think every last one of you is a racist Nazi,” and pair photos of her in ballrooms with Nancy Pelosi set to dramatic music. See how this works?
This obviously has Democratic strategists in a pickle.
It’s very obvious what next year will be like. The worst footage from protest demonstrations will be put on display in campaign advertising and all the claims that Democratic pundits and authors have made claiming America is festooned with 64 million gas-chamber-murdering Nazis. Everyone who voted for Donald Trump is a Nazi. They’re all Nazis. Every fucking last one of them is a motherfucking Nazi.
There are few Republicans up for re-election in 2018 who are really vulnerable. Those 64 million Trump voters still have access to ballot machines and they can still vote. Calling every Trump voter a Nazi, as so many of you have done, is not going to be forgotten. That projection is going to come back to haunt people. It terrifies people who actually do politics as part of their career; namely pundits, campaign strategists and party officials.
Bye Bye Black Bloc
For those of you who love putting on black bandanas it’s going to get interesting as most of your conformist liberal friends grow from disagreement to disavowing political alignment and then that may even contort into a clear divide and perhaps even separation and you two blocking each other on social media. The liberal voting mass will listen to their “smart friend” who is trying to help out Senator Casey or Save Claire! and feel less inclined to march with you. It may turn into complete ostracization at political rallies and events. Political expediency will demand this. It’s a political singularity that is a certainty. You will not be able to escape it.
For those of you who are liberal and hold down a corporate job: as you’ve been more than welcoming to extremism these last few months your new-found discovery that extremism is bad and unproductive in politics will force you into logic pretzels you never thought possible. You’ll cope by ignoring most of the shit you’ve said or done because there’s a ring on the merry-go-round that needs to be grabbed. You can’t have any of your more far-left and green friends holding you back.
Damn right it won’t be forgotten. The link Nan posted whereby Boston’s Antifa crowd told Republicans, capitalists, conservatives, libertarians, and classical liberals that they weren’t welcome needs to make its rounds come election time. In other words, if you are one of the 50% plus of Americans who fall into one of those categories you will be branded a WS or a Nazi and are fair game for their assaults. The MSM and democrats own them. Too late to call them out like Pelosi did today.
Shackling ANTIFA fascists to the Democrats who have failed to denounce their violent tactics won’t be difficult because, well, they ARE shackled together. And not against either’s will, either.
However, I don’t think helping the Democrats is the purpose of the ANTIFA’s. I think they are an act of desperation by Soros who is seeing his hope of transforming the US into another one of his ATM’s. The damage the violence may do to vulnerable Democrats may only exacerbate the desperation and accelerate the ramping up of the overt violence.
I don’t think for a minute they will succeed; I just think a LOT of people are going to get hurt… BAD… before it is over, mainly because the left doesn’t care WHO gets hurt and the right is growing weary of being the punching bag.
Too many witnesses, too many posting film on internet what they were not reporting, Antifa just cant become the democrats neo-kkk, so back to the basement kids your adventure comes to an end, there is no replay on this video game life. Just remember if it comes down to mom feeding you or the cat, you better get a job.
I do appreciate that you have so frequently acknowledged the fact that not every Democrat is an extreme left, black-masked ANTIFA hoodlum.
Antifa are cowards they hide their faces with bandanas and caps they wear red and black and they attack peaceful trump supporters its time to have them declared Terrorists and turned over to Rico laws and long prison time like maybe 200 years
@Greg:
No, but where are the high-profile Democrats who sway public opinion denouncing this fascist violence for what it is instead of constantly blaming conservatives for it? The same place, perhaps, they were when Occupy Wall Street was on its rampage or racist-fueled riots were destroying communities over the media-hyped outrage after police shootings… non-existent.