Could This Be an Antebellum Age?

[PaceAdvantage]

WSJ opinion piece:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/politic...ar-11655997537

If it's behind a paywall, this link will work:

https://archive.ph/hP4NH

Sometime in 2020 or 2021, Americans seem to have crossed a psychic barrier and plunged into new territory, a place where things aren’t quite as forbidden as they used to be. Citizens fell into dubious battle with one another, to use Milton’s phrase. People taught themselves to think outside the box. Crowds learned that they could, for example, burn down a police precinct and the police would flee. You could try to set fire to a federal courthouse; you could try to torch the Church of the Presidents in Lafayette Square, across from the White House. You could loot stores and walk away with stuff and the law wouldn’t follow.

The pandemic churned up tremendous new parables: the scene in which Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck and Floyd died; the scene in which Americans—some in a kind of tourist’s trance, some in a fanatic’s rage—poured or pounded their way into the U.S. Capitol. It was something between a pep rally and a lynch mob.

The routine at the southern border reminds me of the scene in “Casablanca” in which Captain Renault orders “a bottle of your best champagne” for Victor Laszlo. When Laszlo protests that the gesture is too extravagant, Renault smiles and explains: “Oh, please, monsieur. It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient.” Security at the border has become such a game. There are laws against illegal entry; the Biden Democrats tear them up. It is very convenient.

In all of this, the relationship between fantasy and actuality—and, more deeply, between self and country, between Americans and other Americans—has changed, has darkened. The rules (written or unwritten) are different now.

Very good piece, IMO

[boxcar]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

WSJ opinion piece:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/politic...ar-11655997537

If it's behind a paywall, this link will work:

https://archive.ph/hP4NH

Very good piece, IMO

It's just things lawless people do. And there is no political party more lawless than the dimwits.

[Inner Dirt]

The average person in this country lacks a moral compass and will get away with as much as they can, law enforcement stops a lot of them. The carnage of the George Floyd riots is the fault of the Democratic mayors that ran those cities and told the police to stand down. The Capitol riot went as far as it did because of an inept unprepared police force led by an equally inept mayor.
The unpreparedness could have been caused by the fact a gathering for a Republican cause as a whole never get close to the violence of a Democrat one.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Inner Dirt

The unpreparedness could have been caused by the fact a gathering for a Republican cause as a whole never get close to the violence of a Democrat one.

Very true. They really tricked them that time!

But still, not ONE PERSON KILLED AT THE HANDS OF A PROTESTER / RIOTER.

So really, their record is still kinda intact....

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

Very true. They really tricked them that time!

But still, not ONE PERSON KILLED AT THE HANDS OF A PROTESTER / RIOTER.

So really, their record is still kinda intact....

I saw mostly a bunch of pushing, shoving, and yelling. I would equate it to a
big time soccer game across the pond when the crowd trying to get in was told there was no more standing room areas open and to go home. They all then storm in.


How you get insurrection out of that is mind blowing. The way liberals exaggerate everything negative done by those they stand against and minimize their own destruction behavior is mind boggling. Who the hell do they think they are fooling?

[dlivery]

Originally Posted by Inner Dirt

I saw mostly a bunch of pushing, shoving, and yelling. I would equate it to a
big time soccer game across the pond when the crowd trying to get in was told there was no more standing room areas open and to go home. They all then storm in.


How you get insurrection out of that is mind blowing. The way liberals exaggerate everything negative done by those they stand against and minimize their own destruction behavior is mind boggling. Who the hell do they think they are fooling?

Just staying hard on the front-line was good for the sheep in side.
Bah!