Be a Miracle if it Don't
Black militia at Stone Mountain. Cocky,
heavily armed, outgunning the police. White militias have similar firepower. A
fight is entirely possible. In downtown America.
Hoo-boy. She’s ready to explode, go high order. Smoking ruins,
dead bodies, seething hatreds, and a country that can’t be put back together.
It may not happen, but she looks ready.
No one is in charge in this collapsing shell game of a country. In
Louisville hundreds of armed blacks threaten to
“burn the motherfucker down,” meaning Louisville, if they don’t get their way.
All cringe before them, with reason. They have guns. Larger numbers marched in
Georgia, armed, ready to rock and roll. BLM says it will “go into the suburbs”
to get Whitey. Who will stop them? Not the government. It fears them. Weimar
Kentucky. An American Freikorps.
America today in
video. Scroll down to the New York footage. It’s Planet of the Apes.
Gun sales are way up. A friend in Rhode Island went to a gun shop
and found a long line outside. A columnist in Virginia was told that the other
stores report long waitlists for prize arms, notably the AR 15. People are
afraid, or fed up. They are arming. The spring winds.
There is no leadership, no one in charge. In Trump we have perhaps
the weakest President in history, mouthy, preening, ineffectual, much talk and
no action. He did nothing while the rioters looted, burned, and vandalized,
then disengaged himself from the pandemic, leaving decisions to the states.
Much cawing and gaudy feathers, but no bird inside.
Congress does nothing, one parry neutering the other and all
bought and paid for by special interests, by Wall Street and the arms makers
and the big corporations. Local governments submit to the rioters or stand
aside as the burning goes on. This is not society. It is chaos.
To collapsing countries these usually comes a man on a horse. A
man with a big stick. You know, 1789, 1917, 1933. That kind of thing.
The media encourage the rioters, inflame passions either
deliberately or through partisanship. They have little idea what they are
encouraging. It may seem strange to say that the media do not know what is
going on—it is their business to know–but they don’t. They were blindsided by
the Trump because they had no idea of conditions in the country, in Flint and
Gary, in Wheeling. Today they do not know what is brewing out there, or of how
much they contribute to it.
After all, nothing out in the great mysterious middle land affects
them. Journalists in the Beltway Isolation Cage are rich compared to
deplorables in in Gary, live in a city proof against recession. Their decisions
are whether to go out for Turkish or Vietnamese, not how to pay the rent. They
censor news they don’t like, suppress the seismic rumblings out there in a
country they don’t really know. In censoring others they censor themselves.
They cannot read stories they cannot write. For example, sickening racial
attacks on whites. That would be racism. Perish forfend.
But race is just the most explosive part of an unfunctioning
polity. Other things ratchet up the fury. Add economic decay and you get more
anger, more pressure. People live paycheck to paycheck, maxed out on credit
cards. They don’t have a thousand dollars, or five hundred, for an emergency.
The young live in their parents’ basements because they can’t get jobs to buy
houses and start families. People don’t see doctors because medical care is
both costly and wretched. Student loans crush the young. Grade schools are
propaganda mills; parents know it, but can do nothing. Retirement programs
vanish as employers turn employees into independent contractors, avoiding the
expense of benefits. People see no hope. This makes them dangerous. Watch.
And BLM wants to go into the suburbs to get Whitey. God help us. Then
it will well and truly blow. BLM doesn’t know how many white men are sick of
the chaos and destruction, sick of BLM. They quietly say, “Bring it on. Let’s
settle it.” Laden words.
While these undercurrents grow, the media will chirp and lecture
and say virtuous things. Then, boom.
No one is in charge. No one will tell the rioters “No” and make it
stick. No one, yet. It can blow.
BLM is cocky, aware of its power, made overconfident by easy
victory. It, and Antifa, have never met resistance. If things get really wild,
though, they will. They will also find that food does not really grow in
Safeway, and that a Safeway burned out does not necessarily return to be burned
out again.
A country gets what it asks for, and deserves what it tolerates.
Most of the social problems engendering chaos result from the failure or
collusion of government. Other countries have good national medical care.
America does not. Student loans are a calculated scam, just as credit card
companies deliberately entice people to buy what they cannot afford and then
charge them usurious interest. Retirement plans exist elsewhere. European
countries have them. But the Pentagon and Wall Street get America’s money.
It’s gonna blow. Short of a miracle.
The deadliest question is how to accommodate blacks. One mustn’t
say what everyone knows, that blacks are the least educable, least productive,
most criminal, most violent, most dependent, and least assimilable of the
population. If anything can be done about any of these, it won’t be, because no
one is permitted to name the problem. No one is in charge.
As whites lose economic ground they will be less willing to pay
for welfare, food stamps, free housing, and other charity. When a pie shrinks,
someone will get less pie and, if the pie shrinks a great deal, some will get
almost no pie. Meanwhile, gun sales are way up.
At least six cities had serious riots last night with the mob
throwing bricks at the police. A thrown brick is a lethal weapon. It would be
met with equally lethal force. Yet governments, mayors, city councils back
away, back away, back away. If they stop, it is going to be ugly.
America does not control its streets. The mob does. Everywhere.
Name another country that permits this.
If confronted by force, the white rioters, mostly young, will melt
away. They are Snowflakes, Millennials, young, stupid, ignorant, having the
most exalted time of a life boring before and soon to be again, Blacks, more
virile, will not. If they do not, the resultant mayhem will make our starter
riots like like a PTA meeting at Lake Woebegone. Then what?
Here we come to the joys of diversity. Cultures can be too
different to live together. Whites and blacks have almost no common ground,
little common history. Whites trace their history back to well before the
ancient Greeks, through Rome, the Renaissance, Europe. Blacks had no part in
this and, it seems, have no interest in it. Aristotle? Thomas Jefferson?
Einstein? Madame Butterfly? Galois? FORTRAN? These might all have come from
some remote galactic civilization.
There is no agreement, anywhere, at any level, over anything.
Hardcore conservatives insist that the coronavirus is no worse than the common
flu as hospitals report overwhelmed ICUs and epidemiologists cry the alarm.
Blue states favor lockdown while red states open up. Libertarians peddle
cockamamie conspiracy theories. Mask laws are ignored or fought over. China,
South Korea, Singapore shut down, control the virus, go back to work. Not
America. Nobody is in charge.
Nothing holds the country together. There is no social glue, no
dominant culture. We have no shared history, language, dialect, ethnicity, or
religion. Diversity turns the country into rubble.
Diversity? It is the end of America. The country once was
overwhelmingly white, European, Anglophone, and Christian. It worked, as
approximate monocultures usually do. No longer. The North hates—the word is not
too strong—the South and seeks to erase its culture and uniqueness. The Bible
Belt is intensely Christian while the northern elites, heavily Jewish, seek to
suppress Christianity. The coastal elites hold the central deplorables in
contempt. Blacks hate whites. Feminists hate men.
Hispanics float in indeterminate limbo, not having jumped either
way. Amerindians maintain a demanding apartness. Jews, neither Christian nor,
in the minds of many, neither quite European or quite American, control the
media and finance, generating perennial hostility. Bulk lot Somalis, having
nothing in common with Minnesota, are in Minnesota. On and on.
It is going to blow. If it doesn’t, a miracle will have happened.
Currently, if weirdly, blacks hold the whip hand in the country,
but it will not last and won’t improve racial relations. it is lighting a fuse,
fertilizing hatreds that cannot be expressed but, if ever they are, Katie bar
the door.
Statues come down if blacks don’t like them. Universities abandon
teaching English grammar because blacks can’t understand it. Whites are fired
for saying, “All lives matter.” The country lowers standards for blacks in
medical schools, lowers required scores on the bar exam for them. High schools
give diplomas to blacks who can barely read.
Gonna blow, boys and girls. At least that’s the way to bet.
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