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Democrats and the media peddling false violence narratives

A supporter holds up a sign reading "This is a peaceful protest", as U.S. President Donald Trump rallies at a campaign event in Henderson, Nevada, U.S. September 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

&NewLine;<p>For the past few years&comma; Democrats and their media allies have been peddling fears of right-wing violence&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The fearmongering and largely false speculation were not limited to individual acts of violence by political malcontents but inflated into a massive propaganda-driven conspiracy theory that democracy and the very existence of the Republic was on the verge of collapse in a wave of nationalistic violence to be carried out by the Republican Party&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&lpar;I constantly shake my head in bewilderment at how anyone with an IQ higher than a hockey score could be so gullible and actually believe that nonsense&period;&nbsp&semi; It just shows the power of repetitious mendacious propaganda – and the corrupting role of the biased news media&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This bogus political narrative gained traction after the Capitol Hill riot – which itself was pumped up from an organic riot into an insurrection and coup attempt&period;&nbsp&semi; Who said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;you cannot make this stuff up”&quest;&nbsp&semi; They did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>To understand the magnitude of the Democrats’ conspiracy theory&comma; we should first take a quick look at the record of political violence in America&period;&nbsp&semi; In my lifetime&comma; there have been hundreds of riots and acts of political violence – from the 1960s’ &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Days of Rage” to the most recent attacks on political figures on both sides of the political divide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>If you study them through the political lens&comma; you will see that the VAST majority of the iconic urban riots involved the political left&period; —folks more closely associated with the Democratic Party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Someone once said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Republicans protest&period;&nbsp&semi; Democrats riot&period;”&nbsp&semi; There is a lot of truth to that&period;&nbsp&semi; One only needs to recall the days of Tea Party activism&period;&nbsp&semi; There were thousands of protests across the nation and in Washington – no violence … no injuries … no deaths … no arrests&period;&nbsp&semi; Compare that to the Weathermen Underground in the 1960s and Antifa more currently&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Then and now&comma; we can see individual acts of violence&period;&nbsp&semi; Then we had the Oklahoma City bombers and the Unabomber on the right and left&comma; respectively&period;&nbsp&semi; More contemporaneously&comma; we had the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Gifford … the mass shooting of Republican Congressmen practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game … the attack on a GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York … the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband … the beating of a DeSantis campaign worker …&nbsp&semi; the killing of a protestor in Charlottesville&comma; the assassination of several police officers&comma; etc&period;&comma; etc&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Democrats and the media are promoting if not inciting political violence with their fearmongering&period;&nbsp&semi; Since January 1&comma; 2021&comma; they have been warning … predicting … and even falsely claiming the existence of right-wing political violence – actual violence&period;&nbsp&semi; But where is the evidence&quest;&nbsp&semi; Where are the examples&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Let’s look at the cutting-edge of claims of right-wing violence – groups such as the Proud Boys and the Two-Percenters&period;&nbsp&semi; One can see them as a mix of evil racism … antisemitism … homophobia&period; One can reject their malignant form of nationalism&period;&nbsp&semi; But where do they fit on the scale of political violence&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Certainly&comma; the extremist groups played a role in the violence on Capitol Hill&period;&nbsp&semi; There was rioting&comma; for sure – and they appear to have played a role in the attack on the Capitol&period;&nbsp&semi; Their cases are currently being adjudicated – and justice will be had&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But the claims that even they were hell-bent on violently overthrowing the government by force and violence come up short&period;&nbsp&semi; They did not bring any weapons that would have been necessary to take control of the Capitol Building&period;&nbsp&semi; Yes&comma; they used flag poles as weapons – but that suggests something more impromptu than planned&period;&nbsp&semi; Only one shooting took place – and that was a security guard killing a rioter&period;&nbsp&semi; Ironically&comma; the warnings of possible violence on January 1&comma; 2021&comma; were largely ignored by all the folks who could have provided adequate control and security&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Apart from the Capitol Hill riot&comma; virtually all the later warnings and claims of potential violence were pure speculation … fearmongering … empty warnings&period; &nbsp&semi; In fact&comma; there was very little hard proof that any of the later warnings were justified by evidence and intelligence&period;&nbsp&semi; Consequently&comma; all the fearmongering news reports went flatter than a fashion model’s chest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>You will recall how we were warned of a major outbreak of violence on the first anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot&period;&nbsp&semi; Remember the erection of all that fencing – and the calling up of the National Guard&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>We were told that there &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;could be” outbreaks of violence in major cities across the nation&period;&nbsp&semi; On the day of the anniversary&comma; a couple of hundred protestors arrived on the scene &lpar;with a permit&rpar;&comma; heard a few speeches … and peacefully left&period;&nbsp&semi; There were no … none … nada … protests or unrest anywhere to be found in other locations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>What is underreported and lost in the fog of political bias is the fact that the intelligence agencies said that while there was increased &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;chatter&comma;” there was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;no credible evidence” of planned violence&period;&nbsp&semi; That theory was the creation of Democrats and the media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>We have now seen the same propaganda scenario roll out again in 2022&period; &nbsp&semi; If the election did not go the way the so-called MAGA Republicans wanted&comma; they were poised to take to the streets in violent protest&period;&nbsp&semi; There was a warning of violence at the polling places&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Politicians&comma; law enforcement officials&comma; and left-wing political analysts were constantly being asked&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Are you expecting violence at the polling places&quest;” … &&num;8220&semi;or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What are you doing about the potential of political violence&quest;” … or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Are you concerned about the &lpar;theoretical&rpar; rise in political violence on the right&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The election is now over&period;&nbsp&semi; Trump and the MAGA crowd lost&comma; big time&period;&nbsp&semi; There was no violence reported during the early voting period&period;&nbsp&semi; No violence as ballots were being counted&period; No violence as the supposedly violent crowd was going down in flames&period;&nbsp&semi; No violence as the dust settles on Election Day 2022&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>That is because the Democrats’ entire house-of-cards conspiracy theory – from insurrection and coup attempts to pandemic existential political violence against democracy and the Republic – is based on a political invention&period;&nbsp&semi; It was a cynical and dangerous narrative that accused millions of great Americans of potentially heinous crimes against the Republic&period;&nbsp&semi; It might have had little impact were it not for a politically corrupt media that gave the propaganda an aura of legitimacy&period;&nbsp&semi; They dressed up phony political claims as factual news&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And they are at it again&period;&nbsp&semi; We are now being warned that if Trump gets indicted … put on trial … convicted … or incarcerated … right-wingers will be rioting in the streets&period;&nbsp&semi; Some even predict a civil war&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In reflecting on this latest bogus conspiracy&comma; do not forget how that same combo of Democrats and the media continued a false conspiracy about the Trump campaign conspiring with Russian meddling in the 2016 election – a conspiracy declared to be untrue by the two-year &dollar;35 million Mueller investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Be calm&period; Folks&period;&nbsp&semi; There is no ongoing insurrection or effort to mount a coup against the government – and never was&period;&nbsp&semi; You have again been duped by the toxic combination of false Democrat political narratives and compliant corrupt news reporting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Fool us once&comma; shame on them&period;&nbsp&semi; Fool us twice&comma; shame on us&period; Are you really going to let them fool you again&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>So&comma; there &OpenCurlyQuote;tis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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