Children playing with dynamite
American Thinker,
by
Edward Thal
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
8/22/2020 12:05:07 PM
The Antifa and BLM rioters doing their best to destroy leftist cities ruled by confused idealists are the outward manifestation of a more dangerous impulse threatening to destroy all of America.
It is an impulse to self-deification that motivates the rioters and their enablers to see themselves as righteous crusaders saving the world. They insist that the rest of us conform to their lofty worldview, but they are like children playing with idealistic dynamite, oblivious to its destructive power while they earnestly fumble with matches to light the fuse.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
fishbone 8/22/2020 12:17:42 PM (No. 517521)
The politicos and (sadly) many of the police are not your friends in this situation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/22/2020 12:33:10 PM (No. 517537)
They'll lose the attitude when they start dying.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Krause 8/22/2020 12:35:28 PM (No. 517540)
And it's silently condoned by democrat politicians and the extremely stupid left media.
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Sooner or later the kids are going to march into the wrong neighborhood.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mushroom 8/22/2020 1:00:57 PM (No. 517569)
They are entering neighborhoods of those who have a LOT to lose. Oh not in the night's activities, but in the expected legal actions after the fact. The rioters have nothing. So it is a lose lose situation. WAIT until some foolish bunch of school teachers try it in a 'blue collar' neighborhood... SOMEONE will oblige them with a response...and it won't be pretty.
Remember, they are just doing this for show in areas they know they will not be challenged.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 8/22/2020 1:13:55 PM (No. 517581)
FTA
"It is an impulse to self-deification that motivates the rioters and their enablers to see themselves as righteous crusaders saving the world"
I call it the Frodo syndrome. People who get so emotionally attached to their cause that all reason and reality is stripped from it. They perceive their cause as a fight of all that is good in the world against the most evil and detestable beings of darkness ever known. They think they alone stand between the light and the darkness. Governors "fighting" covid fit this group as do ANTIFA and BLM,
The real problem is that such blind devotion and emotional investment completely robs the sufferer of reason. They can no longer think, their entire thought process has been boiled down to essentially a bumper sticker. A bumper sticker many think they should commit atrocious acts of violence for.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/22/2020 1:36:43 PM (No. 517614)
They won't stop until they get serious push back: in the form of 9, or .45. Cops (and the city and state execs.) used to be the line of defense. When they are restrained, we citizens must protect ourselves. I'm not wishing for this battle, but with each lawless day it's becoming more inevitable.
Maybe that's what ANTIFA/BLM/Democrats want: a new revolution conducted in the streets.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 8/22/2020 1:37:42 PM (No. 517615)
In Portland, police are being struck by rocks thrown from a distance using-- lacrosse sticks! This is not a weapon improvised by the impoverished and oppressed. Lacrosse! The sport of middle class and upper middle class kids from white suburbs and prep schools. But these white "privileged" kids are filled with self-loathing and ennui, which they attach to Marxist contempt for the capitalist bourgeoise.
They are, however, really playing with dynamite. Beginning months ago, suburbanites began buying guns in record amounts, many of these first time buyers. My regular weekly visits to ranges have been stifled by the crowds now filling all the lanes. It might still take a while, maybe a few more months, but then we are going to witness a sea change: rioters will attack citizens in their neighbourhoods and get shot down. They will pounce on trapped cars and meet hot lead in return.
If police continue to fail in their duty, ordinary Americans who have had more than enough of this **** will protect themselves, their families, and their homes in the only way they can. And the vicious little snots will wish they had stayed on their lacrosse fields.
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Dynamite?
Yeah, that’ll look good up their keisters!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2020 2:33:29 PM (No. 517667)
They seem to think it is a game without consequences since the police have been pulled back and told to stand by and let them destroy. It will cease to be a game one day, sooner than they imagine.
The young thug in Austin discovered that blocking traffic and pointing a rifle at people in trapped cars isn't a game. And he is dead for his stupidity.
It will happen again. I am really surprised that more drivers haven't just mashed the throttle and run over these folks, but have let themselves be trapped and pulled out and beaten. People see that happening, and many vow "Not going to happen to me." They don't need a gun, that vehicle is a good self defense weapon as they exit the area.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2020 2:59:59 PM (No. 517687)
Good point, #6. I like the term "Frodo syndrome"....and it fits a lot of these loons. Raised on Marxist propaganda, so they are fighting "the forces of the Dark Lord of Mordor.... President Trump.
Lunatic, violent children - playing very dangerous games.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/22/2020 3:30:07 PM (No. 517704)
The problem is that most of the Left is easily manipulated. Someone cries "racism" and they open up all the baggage they carry around with them. The reality is, most of the declared racism simply is NOT racism. Then, if there actually IS a problem, they ASSUME it is because someone has acted unfairly toward someone else. An example is Blacks in school being disciplined more often than whites. Leftists assume racism and never ask why Blacks are acting up more? I'm not saying that is the answer, just that Leftists never even consider the question.
Then the Left throws out solutions that don't work because they can't work. They are fundamentally flawed. When their "solutions" fail, they double down to spend more money and invoke more control; which also fails. They never question if their "solutions" are flawed.
In short, Leftists are dangerous because they don't THINK. They act as a mob, following the mob's mentality to no good end. They think they are failing because WE are opposing them but the truth is, they are their own worst enemies. If all Conservatives vanished from the face of the earth, they would still fail. Who would they blame then?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 8/22/2020 5:24:32 PM (No. 517780)
Bring back Mayor Daley. Or perhaps the commander of troops at Kent State. That'll wrap it up quick.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2020 1:48:46 AM (No. 518072)
#7, I tend to lean more towards 12 ga or 5.56 or 7.62 being more appropriate at the range and the size of the group.
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Stand WAY back. If you live in one of these big Dem run cities, you really do need to look at getting far away from their coming violence, although some is going on now, not "coming".
And be able to provide your own personal security. Things look like they are going to be getting "historic", and not in any kind of good way. Historic like Atlanta in 1864, or Dresden in 1945.
Be elsewhere.