We often hear people expressing fears of a civil war in this country. That ship has sailed. We already are in a civil war. Just look around.
Consider the past weekend, when Donald Trump angered the hate-America crowd by having the audacity to hold a parade in Washington, D.C., celebrating the 250th birthday anniversary of our U.S. Army.
Many of my family have served in that Army and while they almost all no longer are with us, I’m sure they would have approved – unlike the select group of unhappy military veterans dredged up by left wing media to quote for a story about veterans feeling uncomfortable with the parade.
In advance of the event, the Army parade had been likened to a display of force one might see put on in Russia, or North Korea, or China. Instead, if you took the time to actually watch the festivities, it was a history lesson, timely since such history no longer seems be taught in schools.
Military bands, soldiers and equipment from various eras paraded with the announcer recounting snippets of information on each. I learned a lot and I’m sure I’m not alone.
It was a happy mood on the ground as far as I could tell from the televised coverage. But, don’t take my word for it. Fox replayed a clip Monday night of a triumvirate of dour-faced MSNBC types – including the disinJENuous one — admitting their anticipation of a dystopian, authoritarian event had been wrong. Imagine, if these leftist propagandists felt moved to concede their error, just how wrong they had been.
Meanwhile, in stark contrast to patriotism and normality, this was the weekend that oligarch leftists hiding behind the scenes funded No Kings protests around the country, neatly coinciding with ongoing riots in Los Angeles, where mayor Karen “Rhymes With Ass” Bass daily sides with the rioters against law enforcement.
I’ve read estimates that the military parade cost $25 to $45 million. I’ve read the No Kings funders in the shadows threw maybe $65 million into that supposed grassroots protest effort.
AstroTurfing the streets costs big.
It costs a lot of money to print all those signs, hand out expensive face shields and, in many cases, pay professional agitators to appear and gin up the brain-dead masses. Hell, they even advertised publicly for these rent-a-goons, such is their arrogance.
A neighbor told my wife she had the unfortunate experience of going to downtown Johnstown for another event the past weekend, unaware this was a minor outpost of No Kings tomfoolerly. She found the yelling, threatening and generally uncivil behavior so unsettling she had to retreat to a nearby food outlet, then come home early.
I can only imagine why people think it’s a good idea to encourage loose cannons to congregate, which is why I steered clear. Seeing footage of these protests around the nation makes one marvel that we have so many elderly hippies, pimply faced and pencil-necked youth short on common sense, and general malcontents ranging about in search of a place to vent their frustration at themselves for being wastes of oxygen.
These people will not change their minds and will not go away. This is the mission of their miserable existences. It’s all they’ve got.
Sure, you have a job, a family, religion, friends, purpose. They have ….. this.
The current Civil War has yet to progress to armies of uniformed combatants battling it out, and maybe it never will. But, it will get worse from here, with the traditional types moved to combat rising lawlessness being fostered by leftist politicians and judges.
Americans can be tolerant up to a point, then they tire of tolerance and resort to pragmatic solutions.
Stay tuned for that next step in this Civil War.
Before we go, I will concede that this nation does have more than its share of royalty. Ever hear of the Los Angeles (NHL) or Sacramento (NBA) Kings? Maybe you’ve spent money at Burger King or, in the interest of DEI, Dairy Queen?
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