A month and three days after Biden destroyed the Trump campaign with his decision to step aside, Pro-Hamas protesters are threatening to literally cost Harris the White House. In doing so, they will ultimately end up costing America its Democracy.
I believe I talked about this on this blog a few times before but I left the Democratic Party in August 2016 in protest of what the party did which was Bernie Sanders to concede to Hillary Clinton. That divided the party and allowed Trump to win the election by default. Now 8 years later, a different woman of the Democratic Party who actually is both worthy of being president and is getting bipartisan endorsements.
Despite that, these paid protesters who have been dogging her and Biden publicly since 10/7/2023 could cost her the White House. They are doing what Trump and his allies ultimately failed to do in fomenting infighting from within the Democratic Party. Getting Biden to step aside was a major victory in their eyes. In their minds, if they can cost Harris the White House then they "won"...even though it would mean the end of the American Democracy as they know it.
Oh and I'm not talking about the election in November. Barring the unforeseeable, it's obvious at this point Harris is going to win by a significant margin. The bigger issue is what happens right after the election which everyone in America is gonna find out at the same time. We already know White Christian Nationalist movements aligned with the Trump Campaign as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson have repeatedly and publicly vowed to do everything in their power to ensure a Democrat is not officially recognized as president-elect on January 6. Their plan is to kick the decision to the Supreme Court which has a 6-3 Conservative super majority like they did back in 2000 to get Bush 43 into the White House.
I'll be blunt: Regardless of the outcome of the election, there WILL be violence in various places across the U.S. The Far Right being so determined to spill blood either way being why.
Civil War is guaranteed if Trump gets back in office though. Largely because the country would stop functioning the day after he's sworn in. Of that you can be certain. One thing regardless of political ideologies that has always rung true for Americans is we don't exactly like the idea of someone thinking they can push us around or worse, use the levers of government to persecute others.
I've been saything his quite a bit on Xitter to a few people but we are only two generations removed from Jim Crow. Yet there are people aligned with the Republican Party who want to roll America back to 1850. Trump may have publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 but privately, his allies have made it clear he is all in for doing it.
The current generation of Americans don't really know what it's like to lose certain freedoms and not get them back. Right after 9/11 happened, everyone has to pass through a metal detector when entering not just federal buildings but local and state government buildings as well as arenas, stadiums, convention centers and even some amusement parks.
The bank I go to has a branch on the ground floor of Boston's City Hall. For the last 23 years, I have had to pass through a metal detector just to do that despite the fact there have been no credible threats or attempts of violence on the building during that time. It's just about "keeping people safe" and so on, I get that. Nothing has happened because of the security protocols, I get all that too.
The problem is the fact it's been largely accepted by our society. Ben Franklyn once said "Those who would sacrifice some of their freedoms to feel safe deserve neither". I'll be blunt: We are conditioning ourselves to be distrustful of ourselves and worse we are teaching our children to live in fear.
This is coming from someone who was in grade school when the Columbine High School Mass Shooting in 1998 happened. I happened to be home sick that day and watched the media coverage. It wasn't until the Sandy Hook Mass Shooting 14 years later that the active shooter lockdown drills started happening nationwide.
I was still working in Education at the time they first started being done. The first thing I thought--and almost said out loud during that initial lockdown drill--was "What are we doing?". By "we" I mean our society. The Gun Debate was settled after Sandy Hook by the NRA and they're proud of it. They have a third of the country convinced owning as many guns as they want is more important than human life.
When a person intentionally shoots to kill a neighbor through their door and is given a light sentance for killing or injuring their neighbor just because the shooter is White and the victim is Black, that's a serious injustice. A few such cases have happened in recent years. Some made national headlines and some did not.
While it is true that violent crime has actually gone down in recent years, it doesn't change the fact Americans are very distrustful of each other these days. The fault isn't entirely due to politics either. The fact of the matter is apathy has set in for too many. Thanks in no small to social media, most Americans have become proficient at making superficial relationships and largely transactional connections with others. People have basically learned to love stuff or ideas and use people or see people as sources of money.
Know what's long thought like that through all of human history? Merchants, businesses and companies.
They view people--especially in Democracies like the U.S.--as revenue streams and nothing more. They use propaganda to shape public perception among the masses. They don't need to do that with the rich and privilaged because they know that most of them will either fall in line or don't need any convincing.
Ever since Reagan got rid of the Fairness Doctrine in the 1980s, that opened the floodgates to the American News Media industry becoming what it now is. It was only 10 years ago that Fox "News" and CNN were at each other's throats. Now, there's no difference between the two networks. The vaunted Fourth Estate has fallen. It fell far and hard to say the least.
The only option left is for independent media to emerge. We need media outlets--not just TV and internet but PRINT media--that isn't beholden to ratings, ad revenue and keeping special interest groups happy. Ramptant distrust in the media in general will persist until this happens.
I want to circle back to the Progressive to Far Right Pipeline I eluded to at the top and explain that. It's something I've been aware of since 2016 that has ramped up since 2020.
Once prominent Democrats Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema all abruptly switched to the Republican Party in the last few years. Gabbard, a former Senator from Hawaii is the most notable of the three due to the fact she was the nation's first openly Hindu Senator as well as the fact she was a Progressive Democrat. She suddenly announced on her podcast in 2021 that she was switching to the Republican Party to shock of a lot of people. What shocked people was her stated reasons for not only switching parties but more recently allying herself with Trump directly. In fact she's currently doing debate prep with Trump.
I read a transcript of what she said and basically, she claimed the Deep State is using the Democratic Party to keep new voices from reaching political office and keep their surrogates in power. Manchin used his position as a Moderate Democrat in a Red State as leverage to basically hold the party hostage during Biden's first two years in office. The reason Manchin did that and later threatened to run as a third party candidate is because he is sponsored by the Fossil Fuel industry in his state. He was paid off to keep the Democrats from doing much in the Senate. As for Sinema, in short she was a coward. She was a Moderate Democrat in a Red State who cared more about appeasing the Far Right extremists in her state than doing her job as an elected official. I am well aware both she and Manchin publicly and separately said they weren't just going to go along with what eveyone wanted but the fact of the matter is their only concern was appeasing their sponsors, not doing right by the people they're supposed to represent.
That brings me back to the paid protesters outside the DNC this week. It's no coincidence the RNC had no such "distractions" and it wasn't because of the gun-toting idiots who were there. The professional protesters at the DNC are being paid to be there. They were organized online to make it harder to trace it back to the masterminds responsible for all that. The masterminds are clearly a combination of foreign governments, Oligarths and Trump's campaign.
You know what bothers me more than those chaos agents? People who've allowed influencers to convince them there's no reason or need for anyone to vote for president because it's already been decided in advance. No I'm not talking about the Electoral College either.
There are concerted efforts by people both foreign and domestic with their own agendas over the last 20 years to get as many people to stop voting as possible. "Voting doesn't matter.", they say. "The president is selected, not elected", they claim. "The election cycle is nothing more than entertainment and grandstanding for the ignorant masses.", they want you to know.
The problem is none of those arguements are factual. It wasn't until 2020 that the peaceful transfer of power was openly and directly challenged and on 1/6/2021 literally attacked by one man who refused to give up power. One thing that the American Democracy had that made it unique was the peaceful transfer of power. One candidate wins and becomes president, one candidate loses and accepts the will of the people.
...Notice I said "was" back there. Trump changed that and it has already started to trickle down to state and local elections. Kari Lake in Arizona is one imfamous example. "The people have spoken" doesn't mean a think to them if they think they can weasel their way into office. See, this is what makes Autocracy so attractive to some. They want to hold the reigns of government for life and be held accountable to no one. If they can't have their way, they'd rather see the country destroyed out of spite.
All that said and putting idealism and national pride aside.
I'm gonna say something that I know will--and should--bother people on across the political spectrum:
Regardless of who wins in November, this will not be a peaceful transfer of power.
If you've been reading Jim Stewartson's Xitter feed on the right in the last few days, weeks or months then you should already have a pretty good idea of what I am referring to. There is a certain irony in so-called "Constitutional Sherriffs" in Red States who have publicly sworn their loyalty to Trump. They are setting the table to deputize White Nationalist Militias so they have the manpower they need to take over government buildings.
The Far Right, Christian Nationalists, Libertarians, White Nationalists and others will then set to work dismantling the government if Trump wins or carving up the country if Harris wins. Either way, it's very unlikely America will not be the same after the election in November.
I know I've said this a lot in my last few articles but folks need to start stocking up on supplies from now and avoid the rush to come later. Work on turning your home into a fortress as much as possible. When the federal government is overthrown or ripped apart and everyone's federal protections are removed, all bets are off. I'll just put it like that.
I have speak realistically based on the evidence I've seen, read and heard direct from those pushing for Civil War for the last four years. They want to violently take their pound flesh and are just waiting for the order to go anytime. All because people don't want to accept the idea of someone who doesn't think like them exists.
You want to know what ultimately happens to a nation that decides they want minority rule and turns on each other just like that? Civil War, Genocide and usually a combination of both. Unfortunately, it's very possible we will see BOTH in the very near future. When the mass killings start, those who carry it out will have convinced the silent majority who turn a blind eye to people they know being rounded up "at least it's not us"...until it is.
I want stress this again: The Democratic Party will win the White House in November but the price will be VERY Steep. At the very least, the party is likely going to break up. More so given the Republican Party is basically not functioning anymore.
One thing the party has become known for--even proud of to an extent--is being the party of compromise in the name of "progress". The Dems largely ignored the warning signs in 2016 of an invitable split to come and WHEN it happens it will come as a shock to them like the outcome of the 2016 election was. Trump figured it out and succeeded it splitting the Dems deeply enough to win by default.
While the Dems clearly learned from an optics perspective in how they're marketing Harris compared to Hilary in 2016, their reputation of compromising in the name of "progress" at the drop of a hat--in truth, they're compromising in the name of politics--is why they're hemmorhaging registered Dems like no one's business. I'll get into this in a separate post at a later time though.
I'm gonna end with the overt antisemitism that has infested the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party no one knew was there until after the events of 10/7/2023. This is again where where being known as "the party for everyone and everything" is not a reputation to be "proud" of.
Benjamin Netanyahu has always cozied up with the GOP because when a Republican is in the White House, he knows he will get blank checks for military spending and permission to do whatever he wants to Palestinians in the name of "National Security". When a Democrat is in the White House, he has guard rails.
Like the GOP, Netanyahu likes having a wedge issue he can use at any time to hold onto and strengthen his political power: In his case, it's Hamas. The reason Israel has never completely wiped them out despite obviously being able to do so anytime is because it benefits Netanyahu to keep them around as an organization.
The only Israelis Netanyahu cares to listen to are the handful of Far Right elites he is a part of. They do not want peace with their Muslim-majority neighbors let alone the black and brown Palestinians with Israeli citizenship in their boarders nevermind the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas is well aware of this as well.
Netanyahu is also playing on the Xenophobia of the ignorant Evangelical White Christians in North America and Europe who don't know a thing about the Middle East beyond the Bible, let alone don't care. Bush 43 looked the other way, Obama refused to play ball and that's why they didn't get along. Trump was a useful idiot, Biden tried to rein him in and Harris is probably gonna back whatever opposition candidate challenges him.
...Whew. This took me a few days longer to publish due to how busy I was this week. I'll revisit some of the threads I touched on here in new posts eventually.
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