After Trump’s meeting with Putin, I’ve never heard people
clamoring for a war so loudly. “Trump is not protecting us from Putin!” “We’re
under attack by the Russians!” “Someone needs to do something!” “We need to
stop the Russians before it’s too late!” “We need to get tough with the
Russians!” “The Russians hacked into our nuclear facilities and we’re in
danger!” And this gem: “We need regime change in Russia!”
Now these are all die-hard Democrats saying this. I would say
half weren’t born during the Cold War and don’t remember that “getting tough
with the Russians” could entail every American city turned into
radioactive craters and 300 million Americans dead or soon to be dead. The
other half are the worst hypocrites. These are the ones who sat up there and
screamed at Reagan in the 1980s to go, you guessed it, talk to the Russians and
make peace! These are the Democrats who attended no-nuke rallies throughout the
1980s and protested the Pershing 2s and cruise missiles. Who made movies like
“The Day After”. But I guess those codgers are now of an age where, well, to
heck with it. Nothing to lose but the price of another facelift, right?
This truly is beyond pathetic. I generally hear this type of
warmongering and fearmongering from the Republicans. But here’s the party that
runs around touting itself as antiwar and for peace, love, and kale smoothies
for everyone and they sound like General Buck Turgidson and General Jack D. Ripper
had a love child who became the DNC campaign strategist. Hillary loses an
election so it’s worth, what, 5 or so billion lives worldwide in an all-out
nuclear exchange? “Gosh, since Hillary couldn’t bring us fuzzy feelings, meh,
to heck with it. Get NORAD on the line and launch everything we’ve got…”
Have they figured out yet how to wage a sustainable nuclear war?
Is that it? “We’ll put recycling bins outside the missile silos…” When the
clueless are thinking that tough talk does not begin wars, THAT is EXACTLY how
horrific, tragic wars get started. Europe didn’t wake up one day and say, “Meh,
I’m bored. Let’s start the First World War.” That avoidable war began with
tough-talking and bluster and before anyone knew what happened, they’re losing
ten thousand a pop in a battle. Now these tough talkers are living on Ground
Zero where Russian warheads will land and are either too dumb to know that or
too attached to their egos to let that stop them.
Democrats: You DO NOT get to gamble all of our lives on “getting
tough with the Russians” because poor Hillary lost the election. Not even Bush
was that crazy and when Reagan tried “getting tough with the Russians” you all
nearly fainted in fear and sat weeping and crying at no-nuke rallies. And
if “get tough with the Russians” is going to be your election
slogan for 2018 and 2020, not only do you DESERVE to lose, but I HOPE you lose.
Why? Because our elections are not a suicide pact. That’s not freedom or
democracy. That’s insanity.
Jack Perry [send him mail]
is a writer, journalist, and the author of "Regime Change You Can Believe In".
He lives with his wife in the Sonoran Desert where he writes, reads, walks the
desert, and abstains from political party participation. When the government is
speaking or acting, Jack observes his own Rule Number One: Always Assume It's A
Scam. A perennial desert rat, wayfarer, and path pilgrim, Jack also enjoys
silence---especially from the government. Follow him on Twitter:
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