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2019-11-12 Home Front: Culture Wars
'The Looming ‘1984' Election
[AmGreatness] For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump’s record and his Democratic opposition.

The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism.
What kind of revolutionaries promote class stratification?
The choice in reductionist terms will be one between a growing, statist Panopticon, fueled by social media, a media-progressive nexus, and an electronic posse. Online trolls and government bureaucrats seek to know everything about us, in Big Brother fashion to monitor our very thoughts to ferret out incorrect ideas, and then to regiment and indoctrinate us to ensure elite visions of mandated equality and correct behavior‐or else!

In other words, the personality quirks of a Trump or an Elizabeth Warren or a Bernie Sanders will become mostly irrelevant given the existential choice between two quite antithetical ideas of future America. In 2020 we will witness the penultimate manifestation of what radical progressivism has in store for us all‐and the furious, often desperate, and unfettered pushback against it.

...the Democratic Party as we have known it, is extinct for now. It has been replaced since 2016 by a radical progressive revolutionary movement that serves as a touchstone for a variety of auxiliary extremist causes, agendas, and cliques‐almost all of them radically leftwing and nihilistic, and largely without majority popular support.

...If the leading Democratic presidential candidates openly embrace the Green New Deal, reparations, abolishing the Electoral College, welfare for illegal aliens, open borders, amnesties, wealth taxes, a 70-90 percent income tax code, Medicare for all, and legal infanticide‐what is the alternative vision and who stands between all that and a targeted traditional America?

...Our universities effectively have eroded the First Amendment and the due process protections of the Fifth in matters of sexual assault allegations. Higher education is now controlled by a revolutionary clique. It institutionalizes racially segregated dorms and safe spaces, matter of factly promotes censorship, and either cannot or will not prevent students from disrupting lecturers with whom they disagree. What or who exactly say not to all that? Who would dare say that America in its third century is not going to change its use of English pronouns or decide that there are not three and more biological genders?

...On the national level, what or who created a landscape in which the highest echelons of the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department sought to surveil American citizens, undermine a presidential campaign, and abort a presidential transition and then a presidency? If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, would anyone have objected? Do any object today that she hired a foreign national to work with foreign sources to discredit and smear her political opponent?

Who or what is behind the constant remonstrations that the American people are racist, sexist, homophobic, nativist, xenophobic, and oppressing the transgendered? Who lodges such charges? Who believes them to be true?

...Like it or not, 2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four. One side advocates a complete transformation not just of the American present but of the past as well. The Left is quite eager to change our very vocabulary and monitor our private behavior to ensure we are not just guilty of incorrect behavior but thought as well.

The other side believes America is far better than the alternative, that it never had to be perfect to be good, and that, all and all, its flawed past is a story of a moral nation’s constant struggle for moral improvement.

One side will say, "Just give us more power and we will create heaven on earth." The other says "Why would anyone wish to take their road to an Orwellian nightmare?" The 2020 election is that simple.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Americans will always have their Guns. That essentially is what they are FOR. And then, there is always the military. The US Marines take an Oath directly to the President and to the Constitution.
Go on, Laugh.

Posted by Deadeye the Fragrant7875 2019-11-12 04:35||   2019-11-12 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 It would break the military as it was in 1860. Which is where we'd find ourselves most likely next November.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-12 07:49||   2019-11-12 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Most of the combat units in the military lean heavily republican/libertarian in their political makeup. They would support the legally elected president.

National guard units are different. Most would support their state and go with what side their state did.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-11-12 10:45||   2019-11-12 10:45|| Front Page Top

#4 When Trump wins in 202, and he will, all hell will break loose. The media will fan the fire of riots and civil war. It will not go easy.
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-11-12 14:04||   2019-11-12 14:04|| Front Page Top

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