{"id":2381,"date":"2020-12-09T02:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2020-12-09T02:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T07:05:06","slug":"an-outsider-looks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/an-outsider-looks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"An outsider looks in"},"content":{"rendered":"

They know not what they do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK, the first thing to say is to apologise for the sheer cheek of some upstart limey like me commenting on the election in America, but I have to say something because I am sitting here in shocked astonishment looking at what appears to be an engineered tyrannical coup d\u2019\u00e9tat against not just President Trump but against the very ideal of democracy itself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to go into the details of the numerous unprecedented issues of corruption and fraud surrounding this election because those details are many and some are already in the public domain anyway. I am simply going to observe that this is a monumental moment not just in the history of America but in the history of the world, and a monumentally catastrophic moment in terms of freedom, democracy, morality decency and honesty. Those who understand what is actually happening don\u2019t need the whole thing spelled out to them, but those who think nothing terribly untoward is happening other than that President Trump is behaving badly, should listen carefully. Very, very carefully.<\/p>\n

The world outside the democratic West is a very brutal place. No left-leaning liberal would wish to live in Saudi Arabia, or Sierra Leone, or countless other such places. No left leaning liberal would wish to have lived in Europe during most of the decades of the 20th century which saw so much devastation and death courtesy of political totalitarians seeking nothing more than power and nothing other than power. These corrupt, totalitarian systems were finally defeated because America fought on the right side of good v evil, of freedom versus tyranny and did so at great sacrifice in terms of the many young men who never made it home again, who died in foreign fields and foreign seas in order to preserve freedom and democracy.<\/p>\n

Yet here we are, toward the end of 2020 looking at the very real possibility of the breakdown of democracy in America itself. What would have been unthinkable for so long, over so many generations of Americans, can no longer be considered unthinkable. If this gross subversion of democracy is not dealt with in a satisfactory manner by the lawyers then I see no reason, no reason at all why America should not descend into violence and potential civil war in the worst case scenario, or simply lose all confidence in any future elections as a best case scenario \u2014 which can only and inexorably lead to the worse case scenario again.<\/p>\n

Destroying the democratic foundations of America will certainly have real world consequences. When Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016 the far-left cried Russian collusion and displayed their visceral hatred across the entire left-wing spectrum, but their anger wasn\u2019t based on the undermining of democracy; their anger was merely that of the petulant, spoiled child denied a shiny bauble. Their anger was lukewarm, false, unjustifiable. Their anger was mere political posturing and they now think the anger of Trump supporters is the same \u2014 mere political posturing.<\/p>\n

But how wrong they are. How dangerously wrong they are. The anger of Trump\u2019s supporters is white hot, it is incendiary, it is real and it is entirely, eminently justifiable, and it is not the anger of the loser, it is the anger of the wronged and is about so much more than Trump, this is about the democratic future of the United States of America. When a country reaches the point of such legal corruption and such moral degeneracy that democracy can be overturned in full view of a complicit and unquestioning media and liberal establishment there is very little guarantee that democracy will ever recover. This is why the anger is at boiling point, and even now, the left cannot understand what they have done.<\/p>\n

I hope and pray this will be resolved by the legal process, but I implore the Democrats, the left-wingers, the socialists and the communists to stop pretending what you have done is acceptable. It is not, and the consequences could be catastrophic both for you, for America and for the world.\u00a0\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They won’t heed a word of it, of course, badly as they need to. As Herschel so aptly puts it, our British cousin “understands the danger the corruption has caused for America better than the people who caused it, or aided it, or who simply looked the other way.<\/a>” As is so often the case with arrogant fools, the lesson will only be learned the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They know not what they do. OK, the first thing to say is to apologise for the sheer cheek of some upstart limey like me commenting on the election in America, but I have to say something because I am sitting here in shocked astonishment…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? An outsider looks in<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,45,52,54,162,62,66,83,89,114,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-tsimmis","category-commies","category-domestic-disputes","category-fuwar","category-fucking-morons","category-hard-times-are-here-to-stay","category-hubris-and-nemesis","category-deaddeaddead","category-our-enemies","category-read-and-heed","category-counter-revolutionary-ideas","category-where-do-we-go-from-here","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-30-id","wpcat-45-id","wpcat-52-id","wpcat-54-id","wpcat-162-id","wpcat-62-id","wpcat-66-id","wpcat-83-id","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-114-id","wpcat-122-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}