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Saturday, August 1, 2020

Reflections on the Revolution, Lockdowns, and Riots

Dying is indeed one of the risks of living. As a society, we have completely overreacted.

By July 31, 2020

The almost five-month domestic virus lockdowns and the more recent two-month urban riots have produced a profound variety of political consequences for our country, many of them premeditated and intentional. What began as a brief, two-week quarantine to “flatten the curve” to avoid overwhelming hospitals, has devolved into an unrealistic (in the short run) mandate to “find the cure.”

Even before the arrival of COVID-19, everything had become political in the ruling class’s effort to defeat Donald Trump. First, we had the political spying, then the Russia hoax, and then impeachment. Trump’s true crime? He had the gall four years ago first to insult, and then to attempt to clean up the Augean Stables of the establishment after foregoing the customary genuflecting to which this same ruling class had become accustomed.........

These same urban pathologies are slowly spreading to rural areas, decimating communities in their wake. All the while, the Left is performing backflips to divide us by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference, all as part of a cynical political strategy to defeat Trump on November 3. The Left is largely angry and confrontational, with a barely-concealed hatred for America and its early heroes. Many on the Right cowardly acquiesce, hoping that with a little kneeling appeasement, the mob will disperse. But cowardice only emboldens the mob, as history has shown us repeatedly..........To Read More......

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