Riots

I've said before that if the events on January 6th were a real armed insurrection from my side of the aisle, President Trump would have been sworn in for a second term and there wouldn't be hardly a congress critter present who could still talk after becoming a street lamp decoration.

My side of the aisle isn't the type that initiates violence, so Jan-6 wasn't an insurrection at all.

It wasn't even a riot.

But I'm watching riots from the other side of aisle.

I'm watching these riots succeeding at getting what they're after.

I'm noticing that we don't dare say boo about Islam after some Islamic terrorists went off and murdered a bunch of people.

So I have a question for the left side of the aisle:

Do you think we won't eventually figure out that violence is all you understand and all that works to get our way?

Because you don't want us to draw the conclusion that violence is our only recourse to affect political change.

Why?

Because if we get to that point it will be The Great Reset and the French terrors will be a pale shadow and the world will speak of the horrors in hushed tones for generations about it.

Things have progressed to a point where a reckoning is due and you shouldn't discredit our civility in trying to use civilized means to achieve our goals.  Because we have a clear understanding of how society and civilization should work based on examples that DO work, we're far less afraid of tearing it all down and rebuilding... on a foundation of bone with blood for mortar.

Because Western Civilization has this sort of punctuated equilibrium in its DNA.

Western Civ also has a compassionate streak and shame baked into its DNA.  Its dangerous, literally, to push its members to the point where they lose compassion and no longer care what outsiders think of them.

We'd much rather talk.

Can we talk?

Or would you prefer to take rioting to its logical conclusion?