The calls for violence are growing louder and louder by the day. The agitators are calling for the assassination of public figures and elected officials; they are calling for acts of insurrection by federal and local law enforcement.
These are actions that would very likely prompt a second civil war, but the agitators have no thought of that, or, on the few occasions when they register that possibility, seem somehow to think that their side would win.
The people making these calls for violence are, of course, all members of the "progressive" left. Jonathan Turley recently penned an interesting piece on those people.
We have been discussing the increasing political violence on the left. That includes a student who published a column recently on “when must we kill them?” I noted that such views are often reflections of the many extremists currently in teaching. That was evident this week in Maine, where English teacher JoAnna St. Germain of Waterville Senior High School called upon the Secret Service to kill Trump and his supporters.
On Tuesday, St., Germain called on Facebook for the Secret Service to “step up” and avoid a civil war by killing Trump and his supporters. She insisted that it would not constitute an assassination because Trump is not a legitimate president “duly elected by the American people.”
She explained that “If I had the skill set required, I would take them out myself.”
Whatever “skill set” St. Germain possess, sanity does not appear to be part of it.
That much is certain.
St. Germain seems to think that the Secret Service might follow the example of the Praetorian Guard that murdered Caligula. That's unlikely in the extreme. Also, there is further evidence of St. Germain's insanity in her insistence that President Trump was not "duly elected by the American people," which is absolute bug-funk crazy; like him or not, President Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the process defined in the Constitution, the process that has elected every president back to George Washington.
But what would happen if these people ever acted on their fantasies?
It's doubtful that the left would be able to organize anything like an effective military force. It's doubtful they would be able to organize a porta-potty cleaning detail, for that matter, but just on the off chance, let's presume that they manage to put together a large-scale version of the 2020 "Summer of Love" riots and seize control of some federal facilities - and take as hostages some elected officials.
One such incident would be quickly handled by law enforcement. Two such would have the same result. But 10? 20? 50? That would be an actual, no-kidding insurrection on a considerable scale.
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This could lead to conflict on a national scale.
We always say, “It can’t happen here.” I’m still thinking a hot civil war unlikely, although I’m thinking the odds of such a thing are increasing. People in Bosnia in the '90s no doubt thought the same thing.
Jonathan Turley concludes in the column linked above:
After losing the last election, some on the left are turning to calls for violence or committing political violence. Ironically, they do so in the name of democracy. That is precisely why rage is so addictive and contagious. It gives you license to do things that you would ordinarily never do.
This whole thing wouldn't unfold at all the way the Democrats think it would.
Were the fever-dreams of these leftist activists to come true, we would see pitched battles on the streets of our major cities, with what is left of established authority against rioting mobs. Imagine those mobs engaging in raids on the suburbs when the cities run short of food and water. Imagine a complete breakdown of emergency services in those cities as first responders encounter armed gangs willing to kill them for their vehicles, equipment, and medicines.
Imagine hordes of refugees fleeing the cities, into the countryside, under the misapprehension that somehow there is plenty of food to be had in the countryside, but having no skills whatsoever to find or grow said food. Imagine rural residents facing rampant theft and trespassing responding by forming their own armed militias to repel the invaders, and thus escalating the conflict into the countryside. Imagine this resulting in the nation forming into coalitions, and things exploding into conflict.
There is one side that has a large proportion of the nation's military veterans, and one side that has all the guns - and knows how to use them.
That's what really makes these calls for violence from the left so absolutely insane. They call for political violence, they call for the assassination of elected officials, they call for attacks on other Americans - and they have no idea whatsoever how that would end up, and how they would be utterly, catastrophically on the losing end.
