Us vs. Them
John Hinderaker on the latest assault on Americans exercising their First Amendment rights by Obama’s Brownshirts, and on the question I was mulling over last night:
We are beginning to see way too many echoes of the 1930s, as national socialist and Marxian socialist thugs try to drive competing political views off the streets. The worst offenders so far have been the Service Employees’ International Union, which has repeatedly sent its members out into the streets to beat up anyone who isn’t toeing the Obama line on issues like socialized medicine.
Most recently it’s International ANSWER, a hard-core Communist group supported by shadowy funding sources that have never been made public, but appear to consist of a handful of rich people. ANSWER, notwithstanding its unabashedly Communist ideology, now feels comfortable enough to assault non-communist demonstrators who show up in the streets. In this case, the non-communists were protesting illegal immigration, seeking to uphold the nation’s laws, when they were set upon by ANSWER’s thugs…
We conservatives have long talked about our willingness to fight for freedom. In a sense, that’s generally been metaphorical, especially when talking about domestic rather than foreign enemies. With the far left now on the march, however, it isn’t metaphorical any more. It’s just one more sign of the Age of Obama–fighting in the streets, as the extreme Left has been empowered as never before.
It all comes down to the eternal struggle between those who wish to live free and those who wish to dominate and control them. Viewed from that perspective, Obama’s War on America will never really end — no matter which liberal-fascist Savior of the Month is running it. As Reagan said:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Liberal would-be despots will never stop trying to extinguish the light of freedom with their dark designs. The only question now is when the rhetorical war ends and the physical struggle begins. I don’t pretend to have the answer to that, but I think it’s pretty obvious that there’s a confrontation coming that’s going to amount to way more than the incivility and shouting people are complaining about now. And it will assuredly be the Left that strikes the match that ignites the conflagration.
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Ah! The money quote. Indeed.