{"id":28501,"date":"2020-09-16T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28501"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:57:28","slug":"the-barbarians-are-inside-the-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=28501","title":{"rendered":"The Barbarians Are Inside The Gate<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Enemy is Within<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Sally Zelikovsky
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n

Watching Democrat-aligned radicals raze our cities over the past three months has felt like a thousand mini-Pearl Harbors — only the enemy is within and the damage is in our backyards.\u00a0 While beleaguered Democrats dig their own graves as they prop up the riots, the ordeal has been exhausting, dispiriting, and frustrating for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Evidence of an alliance between Democrats and BLM couldn\u2019t be more glaring.\u00a0 Pernicious riots have persisted, unchallenged, in Democrat strongholds with the imprimatur of untold Democrat mayors, city councils, and governors.\u00a0 The Democrat media delivers the news with an Orwellian blackout of the word \u201criot\u201d as our cities immolate before our very eyes.\u00a0 The \u201cit\u2019s all Trump\u2019s fault\u201d blame game is relentlessly hawked by Democrats from Biden, Pelosi, and her minions in Congress, to state and local authorities.\u00a0 Democrat sympathizers in sports, entertainment, and corporate America kneel and capitulate to BLM demands with alarming ease, accede to cancellations, and willingly attend and promote mandatory re-education programs on white privilege.\u00a0 Most glaring is the DNC convention love fest with BLM and the shameless promotion of BLM at the\u00a0DNC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That the violence would endure and balloon as it has, should come as no surprise.\u00a0 BLM never hid their incendiary Marxist agenda targeting the police, our political system, free markets, and the family — all of which are products of white supremacy and privilege. After a month of rioting, BLM leader\u00a0Hank Newsome<\/a>\u2019s threat to \u201cburn it all down\u201d if BLM demands are not met, is nothing compared to his closing exhortation in that June 25, 2020 interview with Martha Macallum: \u201cI just want black liberation and black sovereignty by any means necessary.\u201d Two months later his dreams are being realized with whites and \u201cwhiteness\u201d in the cross-hairs.<\/p>\n

Imperious media, academic, Hollywood, and Beltway wokesters torment the rest of America with accusations of a type of racism that permeates everything we say, do, and are.\u00a0 Denying its existence is further evidence of it. Everything white people have created is saturated with institutional and systemic racism that can only be eradicated by public renunciation of one\u2019s white privilege and an admission it has spawned nothing but evil.<\/p>\n

However, taking a knee, denouncing one\u2019s privilege, and embracing the demands of those wielding the executioner\u2019s sword in the hopes of evading punishment — a Torquemada-like tactic — just isn\u2019t enough anymore.\u00a0 Today\u2019s race tyrants in the Church of Woke pressure heretics to confess to the sins of being white and privileged, then force them to abnegate all that they are and have achieved.<\/p>\n

Thus are whites admonished to give up their jobs (see\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0and here<\/a>) and “transfer [their] power<\/a>\u00a0to black people\u201d (as white husband of Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder\u00a0Alexis Ohanian<\/a>\u00a0did when he resigned from the Reddit Board,\u00a0as have other corporate luminaries<\/a>).\u00a0 They will no longer\u00a0voice black<\/a>\u00a0characters and are advised to\u00a0relinquish their homes<\/a>\u00a0to blacks. White restaurant patrons must allow black demonstrators to drink their\u00a0beer<\/a>. White citizens exercising their right to self-defense face criminal indictments, as happened to the McCloskeys in St. Louis and Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha.\u00a0 They must kneel in solidarity with BLM even if that goes against their sense of patriotism, as happened with\u00a0Drew Brees<\/a>. \u00a0They must attend mandatory, segregated training to \u201cundo whiteness.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 (Can you imagine if homosexuals were forced to attend \u201cundoing homosexuality\u201d training?)\u00a0 And, white Sacramento Kings announcer\u00a0Grant Napear<\/a>\u00a0found out stating \u201call lives matter\u201d was grounds for dismissal from his job of 32 years.<\/p>\n

\"\"These punishments for past and present invisible sins are a form of reparations — a variation of wealth and property transfer.\u00a0 If traditional forms of redistribution like welfare, affirmative action, and public housing haven\u2019t worked, why not appropriate the wealth and property of others by force?\u00a0 Got Marx, anyone?<\/p>\n

As in the Salem Witch Trials, where those accused of witchcraft were convicted whether they survived or drowned from a dunk in the water, White Americans stand convicted of racism whether they cop to it or not, whether the evidence supports it or not.\u00a0 No trial.\u00a0 No due process.\u00a0 The fix is in with Soviet-style justice.<\/p>\n

One thing we\u2019ve gained after three months is greater insight into the psychology of this mob. What started out as a legitimate concern about black deaths at the hands of America\u2019s law enforcement, quickly morphed into a collective temper tantrum by a motley and very dangerous collection of disaffected whites, blacks, and LGBTQ+ fueled by anger about a panoply of societal grievances.\u00a0 Many are criminals, drug addicts, and mentally ill; most have copious amounts of rage they direct at whites, parents, people in authority, successful individuals, and society at large.<\/p>\n

They are unwilling to engage in peaceful resolution.\u00a0 Their self-righteous indignation is reinforced by CNN hosts and Democrat politicians telling them they represent the best of America. Once invisible, they now feel invincible.\u00a0 Truth is, having grown up on a diet of \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that,\u201d they have no stake in what has been created over time — so they tear down statues, deface landmarks, burn buildings, loot property, and cavalierly take lives.\u00a0 As destroyers, not creators, they have no clue how to build back, let alone build back better.\u00a0 Their guiding principle is Obama\u2019s shame at being an American.<\/p>\n

What makes us squirm is being forced to relinquish our jobs and property on the basis of our skin color — to others based on the color of\u00a0their<\/em>\u00a0skin, as if this somehow evens the score:\u00a0\u00a0We were once oppressed, now you must be.\u00a0 We were once slaves, now you must be.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have opportunities, now you must suffer.\u00a0 You were once our masters, now we are yours.\u00a0 Welcome to the cancellation plantation.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not about justice, but vengeance.\u00a0 It\u2019s a coup and we are angry.\u00a0 So angry that our instinct is to fight back harder than we\u2019ve been hit.\u00a0 We are frustrated.\u00a0 So frustrated that we aren\u2019t sure if we should fight back or continue to let this play out even if it destroys our cities.<\/p>\n

Many want to take action; many want the feds to intervene. \u00a0But that is exactly what these Marxist ruffians want.\u00a0 Recognizing there will be times we are forced to defend ourselves, we must decide as people who love this country and believe in the perfectibility of our imperfect union, is it worth losing another Kyle Rittenhouse or Aaron Danielson to subversives, who taunt us in the hopes we respond, so they can further escalate the pandemonium?\u00a0 Or, do we outplay them and direct our energies to giving Donald Trump four more years?<\/p>\n

Image:\u00a0Pixabay<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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