The Tactic of Turmoil

Please stop saying that President Trump is the cause of the current unrest. 

While the election of Donald Trump/the Democrats’ loss of power may have had something to do with the Democrats’ nearly 4 year long temper fit, this unrest cannot be pinned on President Trump.

From the moment that Donald Trump was announced as the winner of the 2016 presidential race, the Left has been distraught.  They refuse to accept the election results, blaming one manufactured evil after another.

When things like the Russian collusion hoax and the impeachment circus were unsuccessful in removing the duly elected president from office, the Left increased its efforts to foment discontent among the people to the extent that now even their VP candidate praises the ongoing protests along with key promotors such as the BLM organization as “essential for change in the US.” 

The protests began when the Democrats refused to accept the duly elected president.  They have escalated over the past 3 plus years and are now becoming more and more violent.  The divide among us created by the identity politics of the Obama administration are a basis for fomenting discontent and fomenting “protests” about one grievance or another, protests that are more and more likely to turn into riots against our history, our institutions, and our country itself.

Kamala Harris is right – these protests (turned riots) are essential for the type of change that the Left is truly seeking.   In 1848 Marx stated, “there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.” 

Lenin, Trotsky, and other leading Bolsheviks recognized mass terror as a necessary weapon in the intermediate stage between capitalism and communism.  Stalin wrote, "Terror is the quickest way to new society." 

In 1918 Bolshevik Martin Latsis wrote, “The first thing you have to ask an arrested person is: To what class does he belong, where does he come from, what kind of education did he have, what is his occupation? These questions are to decide the fate of the accused. That is the quintessence of the Red Terror.”

In his book Terrorism and Communism (1920), Trotsky emphasized that " We are forced to tear off [the bourgeoisie] class and chop it away. The Red Terror is a weapon used against a class that, despite being doomed to destruction, does not want to perish."

Today’s Left has created a class struggle of a different kind.  Not a struggle between working and ruling classes, but a struggle between those whom the Left has labeled victims and those whom the Left has labeled victimizers.  I do not know what the Left’s ultimate purpose is in creating this struggle other than its leading to their own power.  Perhaps their intentions are somewhere in the area of the idealism of some other socialist leaders and dreamers, perhaps they are more sinister. 

What is clear is that the Left wants to overthrow our current system entirely.  Not mend it, not use it as we have done in the past to move ever closer to the ideals propounded by America for the past 244 years. 

And, following the playbook of Marx and his followers the Left seem to believe that something akin to violence or mass terror is necessary to make those who support the current system succumb and make way for that new world that the Left will control. 

President Trump is not responsible for today’s unrest.  He is simply the excuse that allows the Left to stir up the discontent that is needed for their revolt against our current systems. 

Blaming others for any negative results of their own well-calculated actions just makes no sense.  The Left cannot blame the other side for their own tactics of revolt, whether those tactics involve the use of lies, unfounded investigations, frivolous litigation, or “protests” that turn to riots. 

These tactics are being used to remove from office someone whom the Left does not want there.  That is not how our system works.

The Left wants new rules that allow them to have whatever they want and to do whatever they want when they don’t get it.  Rather than looking to their own policies and possible inadequacies they just blame the other side.  Since November of 2016 they have been trying to  subvert our system and the will of the voters. 

Blame is just one more tactic that they are using to get their way and remove President Trump from office.   It is one more attempt to make him the bad guy.

To justify a temper fit by blaming someone else for causing it is just another example of the Left’s refusal to take personal responsibility.   Donald Trump may anger some people, but he did not make anyone throw this nearly 4 year long divisive fit.  He does not encourage the turbulent behavior (unless one believes that simply holding office and carrying out one’s duties based on policies promised during his campaign is somehow sufficient encouragement for those holding different policy views to create turmoil and strife).  The President does what he can within the bounds of our Constitution and our governmental system to stop the unrest.   

Those who do not like the President’s actions have many remedies other than displays, encouragement, and praise of unrest and those who carry it out.  Indeed, the very systems that this unrest is directed against provide civil means to oppose actions of the President or others with whom the Left disagrees.

The Left wants to remake America into a different place – they tell us it is time to “re-set”.  Unrest is a proven tactic to move towards that goal.  Regardless of how one feels about that ultimate “re-set” (to what?) goal, honesty requires that one admit that the actors and promoters of the unrest are the only ones responsible for it.