Our beloved country has had a rough few days, mostly because of people who clearly don't consider the United States their beloved country. We've seen it before: Malcontents spreading unrest and violence, with local officials either turning a blind eye or even fomenting that rebellion. And rebellion, these events are; we should harbor no illusions about that. The people starting fires and throwing rocks at ICE agents are in rebellion against lawful authority. The protestations of the legacy media aside, that's what the rioters are doing; rebellion it is and rebellion it remains.
The news has been bad, and the legacy media's reporting has been worse. Many of these outlets are shamelessly on the side of the illegal aliens and the rioters, as are the local authorities in some of those jurisdictions. One way or another, though, this will be dealt with; this must be dealt with. The current situation is intolerable.
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Even so, a little perspective is in order. Why? Because those people aren't the ones that make up the bulk of this nation, this unique experiment in governance, the United States of America. They aren't America. We are.
Granted, the country was founded in rebellion. It was a rebellion of the mind as much as a rebellion in arms; a rebellion against a hereditary tyrant that gave rise to a republic. When the British General Cornwallis surrendered, he reportedly ordered his band to play "A World Turned Upside Down," as he realized that everything would change after that moment. And it did. A century and a half later, the United States came to the aid of the United Kingdom to end an even greater threat, one that threatened to engulf Europe. The men who fought that war were America at its best.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
Today, take some time and look away from the phone, the computer screen, and the television. Go for a walk, go for a drive. If you live in a major city, try to get out, even if it's only for an hour. Go out where there are grass and trees. Watch the big tractor crossing a field, planting the grain that will become your bread.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
Visit a small town, have some lunch in a local place where most of the people walking in the door are known to the cook and the servers. Take in the people in that small community.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
Drive a few miles on an interstate highway. Look at the big trucks, hauling goods across a continent or across a county, it makes no difference. Those trucks and the people that drive them are the lifeblood of our economy; if those trucks stop rolling, if their supply of diesel fuel runs dry, everything stops, and our cities would starve. The same applies to the great trains that run the rails day and night, hauling fuel and grain, helping the country move, and keeping the country fed. These roads, these rails, are the arteries of America.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
Go to an emergency room. Watch, for a few minutes, the physicians and nurses who work there, saving lives daily. The vast majority of them care not who the person is rolling through those doors; they save lives. They don't care who a heart-attack victim voted for; they don't care about the party registration of a young person who was just in an automobile accident. They save lives.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
All over the country, millions of Americans are going about their daily lives. For the most part, they aren't interested in politics. Most of them ask no more than a decent job, a home of their own, and in time to retire and enjoy those golden years. Most of them expect no more from government than to preserve their liberty and property, tasks at which the governments of many of our major cities are failing to do.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
Most of all, look at our service members. They have sworn their lives to protect our nation, our experiment in governance, and many of them have done so. From the Revolution to today, they have steadfastly faced down America's enemies, and when they are called to fight, they fight not out of hate for what's facing them, but out of love for what's behind them. And there is a part of the oath they take that applies: All enemies, foreign and domestic.
The rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. They are.
There is much more to America than a few thousand rioters or a few rebellious local or state politicians. The good people of America, the hard-working people who make the nation work, we outnumber them thousands to one. The rebellions unfolding in our major cities will be dealt with one way or another. The people in the country illegally will be returned to where they belong. Why? Because the rioters and rebellious politicians aren't what makes up America. We are.
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