ScottL wrote:Diogenes wrote:ScottL wrote:
I think the chanting was taken out of context, but as I wasn't there and I didn't see what what caused this chant I can't say. I did notice how the person recording cherry picked what to show. Same old tactics, but that really doesn't matter. This nation is to ideologically split, I don't think there is the possibility of unity any more.
Even if all you say is true, who would think it was reasonable to assert that "you can have sex with animals" ?
As for the ideological split, I read over at "curmudgeonly and skeptical" that the proprietor wishes p51s would strafe the lot of them. I wouldn't go that far, but I certainly understand the sentiment.
Anyways, I am fond of recalling what one commenter said regarding threats of civil unrest from the left: (and I paraphrase)
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I and all my friends are highly armed and trained professional killing machines. The current status quo does a lot more to protect them from us, then it does to protect us from them. "
And as Andrew Breitbart said just recently, "We have the guns."
I think it was pretty unreasonable myself, but that doesn't say anything about my ideology or political leanings.
As for the part about violence and guns, to assume the left don't have guns in just silly. I reserve the right at any point to defend myself, my rights, and the rights of those around me by force against any tyrannical power foreign or domestic. Layman's translation, you come this way looking for trouble, you'll find it.
The First (well known) Socialist revolution was the French Revolution. The policy of the rulers of France for a long time prior was to deprive the citizenry of weapons. This served in a large part to keep them poor and obedient until the pot exploded, at which time custom and law worked no longer.
The Next best well known Socialist revolution was the Russian Revolution. Again, desperately poor peons were dealing with the landed gentry and their hired armies, and there were few who would stand with the gentry.
America is a very different nut. The middle class forms a formidable barrier between the Wealthy and the Poor, and it mitigates disputes between the two in both directions. American's grew up with a sense of rugged individualism but a common belief in some basic rights, among them the right to own stuff, and defend it with violence when necessary.
The Socialists in this nation tend to congregate in the cities, while the Anti-Socialists tend to be more rural. They also tend to congregate on both coasts while their opposition tends to be in the center of the Country.
It is my belief that in THIS nation, the Socialist Army would fold up like wet toilet paper. The Bulk of the population would be in opposition to them, just as in the former two mentioned cases, the bulk of the population was in favor of them. America is constituted as a very different nation than was Tsarist Russia or the Kingdom of France.
In a confrontation, people would be defending their own property from the Proletariat, and not that of a hated and envied Gentry class. Sometimes I wish we could have such a confrontation because it would certainly solve a lot of problems.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —