"One day in the near future, the cauldron will become so hot, it will boil over once again. When that happens, we will be living in another ugly period of history. Will that purge the bitterness? Probably not. It will just make it worse."
It has been said elections settle things. The team with the best ideas usually wins. That may have been the way it once was a long time ago, but not any longer. The election next week will settle nothing. It will do nothing to "bring us together". All it is going to do is make the losing side that much madder. That much bolder. How do I know that? Listen to the Left. James Cromwell for example - "If the Democrats lose, there will be blood in the streets!" And if people on the other side were saying the same thing? What does that mean? No more elections, just civil wars and coups?
Some have said they will be glad when a week from tomorrow comes. Because the discourse in the nation will simmer down? Not hardly. So we can be done with the non-stop political commercials. Some on the Left feel that if only they could get rid of Donald Trump, things would be so much better. We could all go back to la la land. Like under the days of Obama. What the Left has failed to grasp is we have Trump BECAUSE of Obama. Trump is not just a "one off", he typifies what many, many out here in flyover land feel. Anger. Anger at what is happening to our country. When Trump is gone, there will be another, then another, and so forth.
I have said many times before, the best way to calm the seas, to smooth our discourse, is for both parties to start following the Constitution in the way we govern. But when one party starts to tinker with the Bill of Rights, that is when problems start. When lawlessness overshadows lawfulness, that is when things really start to spin out of control.
Some historians have said the month of May 1970 was one of the worst in how we coexisted with each other. The simmering social unrest erupted at Kent State, and when it was all over, students lie dead and wounded in the streets.
This type of thing is the natural conclusion when words, discussions, debates and arguments fail. You end up with actors like James Cromwell telling us to go out and shoot each other. Well Mr. Cromwell, this is not Hollywood. There are not actors shooting blanks out in the streets. Real people, being shot with real bullets, will die. You need to weigh your words carefully, sir.
Who is to blame for how things are today? All of us. Not one person may be excluded. Those on the Left are just as guilty as anyone else. Please - no pious blathering. And with Antifa roaming the streets devoid of incrimination, that just makes the cauldron hotter.
The President is going to be met by protesters when he lands in Pittsburgh today. As President, during a time of national tragedy, he needs to be the "healer in chief" as well as "commander in chief". Will the protests solve anything? Not a thing - except making the cauldron even hotter that it was yesterday.
One day in the near future, the cauldron will become so hot, it will boil over once again. When that happens, we will be living in another ugly period of history. Will that purge the bitterness? Probably not. It will just make it worse.
"Some historians have said the month of May 1970 was one of the worst in how we coexisted with each other"
ReplyDeleteI didn't like it either, but that was because I was enduring the last month of my first year of junior high school--aaarrgh! Others have claimed that '69 was the worst year for political violence in the US. (1968, FWIW, is remembered in Europe as the
year of student revolts.)
"And with Antifa roaming the streets devoid of incrimination, that just makes the cauldron hotter."
There aren't enough of those pests to roam many streets here in our home state. Regardless, something tells me they're first in line for the Kent State treatment!
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DeleteI vividly remember Kent State, it was "just down the road" at the time. My good friend was in the National Guard and I will always remember his quote. "If I am in an area where there are a number of loaded weapons, and I have any reason whatsoever to believe that those weapons might be discharged, I find another area to be in. I do NOT throw rocks and bottles at those holding those weapons."
ReplyDeleteIt is not an unreasonable analogy. These young leftists were attempting to use violence as a means to a political end. They failed, and then attempted to use the tragedy they created to try to advance their own radical agenda.
I would hate to think that our political divides cannot be conquered without bloodshed, but since that would require those on the left to become rational, I'm not holding out much hope.