"With malice towards none, and charity for all"

"I am sorry Abe, that it has come to this. Yes, we would like to get back to having malice towards none, and charity for all. But first we need to do some long overdue housecleaning." 

Ah, those were the days! Lincoln's second inaugural address. The horror of our Civil War with state against state, sometimes brother against brother, was finally over. It was time to rebuild. To heal. Lincoln's one sentence summed up so much. Since a nation divided cannot stand, Lincoln wanted to have no more malice - for anyone. And for the nation to rebuild, charity needed to be ingrained in everything we did. I was thinking how that is working out today. Maybe it could be restated to say, "With hatred towards all, and showing charity towards none."

But who cares about Lincoln? After all, his statue was one which was defaced. The anarchists today want NOTHING to do with Lincoln. Anything good and pure must be destroyed. It must be destroyed and replaced with mayhem, destruction and embers. The contagion of COVID is nothing compared to the contagion of social unrest and out and out rioting which has gripped our large blue cities. It is hard to think of any place in the nation which has not been affected or threatened to be trashed.

Yesterday, the Chief of Police in Seattle was interviewed. He is beyond pissed towards the so called Mayor. She wants CHOP to end, but peacefully. That is in line with her "re-imagining police" initiative. The protesters have said over and over they are not leaving. Certainly not peacefully. No, they want the cops to come in swinging, so they can have "an issue". And the Chief of Police? What say you? "This has gone on too long. It is going to be ugly when we go in to remove them." One of the reasons it will be ugly, is the clueless Mayor has forbidden the use of tear gas. Looks like rubber bullets, tasers, batons or worse will be needed.

Can we be honest on one point? Our cold civil war (part 2), has become hot. Sometimes, very hot. The American hating, America bashing anarchists, are so emboldened right now, all they want is to destroy the old, and rebuild with something horrible. Some people are going to die. Not our choice, but right now there might not be a choice. It pains be to say this, but it might be time for a purge. We will need to choose which is more valuable right now - our heritage, or this splinter group of youth. When the ship hits the sand, it will hit the sand hard. The now silent majority will become the loud, proud (and armed) majority, and the anarchists will find themselves without the aegis they once had. Then it will be over.

I am sorry Abe, that it has come to this. Yes, we would like to get back to having malice towards none, and charity for all. But first we need to do some long overdue housecleaning. Not our choice, but it is a choice which needs to happen. Why must we do it? America is too valuable to most of the world to lose it. And there are way too many of us who will not tolerate America being lost. Not now, not ever.