Post by NFA on Jan 9, 2021 21:26:49 GMT 8
[Do read the whole thing and tell me the difference to Australia]
Elites’ War on Party of the Country Is Now Out in the Open
Lee Smith January 8, 2021
When a regime sanctions the political violence of one faction against another, events like Wednesday’s bloody skirmishes at the Capitol are a foregone conclusion.
Presumably the country’s corporate, political, and cultural elite assumed that after four years of trying to humiliate and unseat President Donald Trump that his supporters would simply accept their continued degradation, impoverishment, and disenfranchisement.
Or maybe they thought that with their allied press and social media obscuring reality, no one would notice they were waging war on Americans.
Details of Wednesday’s events are still unfolding.
In places, protestors overran police.
A Capitol Police officer died of injuries suffered while holding off protestors and others were reportedly injured.
Elsewhere it seems that law enforcement welcomed Trump supporters into the Capitol and posed for pictures with them.
No doubt there were agents provocateurs among the MAGA crowd, but Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol Hill policeman when she tried to crawl through a window, wasn’t with Antifa.
She proudly supported Trump, as she proudly served her country, doing four tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.
No one in the building the 15-year Air Force veteran entered illegally can explain why America is still committed to those strategically pointless wars.
No one in the building the 15-year Air Force veteran entered illegally can explain why America is still committed to those strategically pointless wars.
Neither can anyone on the Democratic or Republican side rationally justify why large parts of the country are still under coronavirus lockdowns—public health measures draining Americans’ life savings and, as importantly, their hope—to fight an illness with a 99.7 percent survival rate.
No one can say why the senior FBI, CIA, Justice Department, Pentagon, and State Department officials from the Obama administration who plotted against Trump’s White House before he was inaugurated are still at liberty, and why some have been named to the incoming Joe Biden administration.
Nor can the representatives of the American people explain to them why the lights went out in half a dozen states election night with Trump holding commanding leads and came back on hours later with Biden in front in all six.
But don’t blame the people sent to Washington for the fate and fortune of the Americans they’re supposed to represent.
Rep Liz Cheney says Trump is at fault for Wednesday’s unrest.
“The president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob,” she said.
The Wyoming Congresswoman is one of the staunchest supporters of the Afghanistan war, begun when her father was George W. Bush’s vice president.
To hand down a war from one generation to the next is the sign of a careless and depraved elite.
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Both parties within the Beltway are joined in their attacks on Trump because partisan identity—Democrat and Republican—is no longer relevant in U.S. politics.
It’s the Country Party, currently represented by Trump, vs the Establishment Party, representing the interests of an oligarchy anchored by Big Tech and owing its power, wealth, and prestige to its access to cheap Chinese labor and China’s growing consumer market.
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History, simple common sense, tells that when one side shoots at the other, the side taking incoming has two choices: surrender or shoot back.
There is little doubt the party of the establishment will use the events on the Hill to implement further measures to punish the party of the country, for they would use any pretext—a respiratory illness, for example—to serve those ends.
But now they can no longer be sure how the party of the country will respond.