ANTI-TRUMP
RIOTS: WHAT THEY ARE REALLY ABOUT. Frank Vernuccio 12/2/16
It is the
aftermath, as much as the actual results that explain why the public defied all
expectations and voted for Donald Trump.
Over the
course of the past eight years, the White House’s focus has concentrated on
ideological goals rather than solving problems or meeting actual needs.
It didn’t
seem to matter much that vast numbers of workers would lose their livelihoods
as a result of demonstrably failed socialist-lite policies and a climate change
agenda based largely on junk science. It didn’t matter that the
2016 candidate it vigorously supported repeatedly broke the law, because, after
all, following statutes plays a poor second to the “fundamental transformation”
it so urgently sought to impose not through consensus but through executive
fiat.
That is
why President Obama chose to implement his agenda via executive orders rather
than the constitutionally mandated process of Congressional legislation. It’s
why his supporters fully approved of the White House practice that ignored the
requirement to have treaties approved by the Senate.
Far too
often, a biased press overlooked, even cheered on, blatant violations of laws
and Constitutional mandates. The concept of equality under the law, and
truth itself, was apparently considered mere collateral damage in the effort to
recast the United States in a very different mold than that intended by its
founders.
The
dishonesty and hostility that have become the hallmarks of the radical left
that now dominates academia, much of the media, and the leadership of the
Democrat Party have been on ample display since the election.
Consider
the hideous and utterly false comments of outgoing Senator Harry Reid, who has
used the protection of the Senate floor, which provides immunity for even
overtly false and slanderous statements, to render false accusations against
those who oppose his views. “White nationalists, Vladimir Putin, and ISIS are
celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent, law-abiding Americans are
wracked with fear—especially African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim
Americans, LGBT Americans and Asian Americans.” Reid has also written that
“white nationalists” are celebrating while “innocent Americans “cry tears.
Strangely
similar language has been observed throughout a number of left-wing
sites. Counterpunch writes that the voters
have “Given the Oval Office to a white-nationalist-arch-sexist racist and
nativist climate change-denying quasi-fascists.” The term “climate
denying” is particularly important to note. In the lexicon of the hard left,
disagreeing with their point of view—“Denying” climate change for an example—is
a crime. Recall that Attorney General Loretta Lynch seriously considered
criminally prosecuting those who disagreed with President Obama’s views on
climate change. Various Democrat state attorneys general have indeed engaged in
legal harassment of those with contrary views.
Some on
the left have reflected on their blindness. Nora Ranney, the Executive Director
of the National Priorities Project, emailed supporters: “As someone who has
been an organizer, an advocate…I know we cannot walk away from nearly half the
electorate…” To their credit, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton have
called upon their supporters to give the new occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue a fair chance.
However,
they may be in the minority of those who have sought to forward the
“progressive” agenda. Across the nation, violent demonstrations, which have
included the destruction of property, attacks on innocent people, and calls for
the assassination of the President-and Vice President-elect, have been more
illustrative of the character of those on the hard left.
And that
is where the true character of that portion of the ideological divide is truly
revealed, along with its commonality with hard-left governments in areas such
as Cuba, China, Venezuela, and Russia. The firebrands who are rioting in the
streets of New York, New Orleans, and elsewhere are not interested in dialogue,
democracy, or debate. They are convinced that they alone are entitled to
determine how the nation is governed, and how your life should be lived. They
are shocked and furious that the voters have expressed disagreement with them.
They cannot fathom that what they perceive to be the ignorant masses have seen
through their stranglehold on many universities, much of the media, and the
vast federal bureaucracy, and have risen to express their freedom. Having
lost at the ballot box, despite all the advantages they secured for themselves
legitimately or illegitimately, they now seek to overturn the results through
intimidation and violence.
Originally
published on New York Analysis of Policy and
Government.
Comments
Riots are
what the Left does. They do it to gain sympathy for “victims”. They want
“victim”-centered laws that ignore current laws and encourage leniency for bad
behavior. They are feeling and sensing without thinking or judgement. They
don’t think there should be consequences for mistakes or evil-doing. They blame
“society” not the criminal. The 1971 movie, “A Clockwork Orange” shows the
murder and mayhem leniency produces.
The Left
went even farther during the past 8 years. They were ready to issue fines and
jail-time for anybody who complains about their favored “victims”.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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