Gaslighting and name-calling are failing for the left. Is war next? By Kurt Schlicter at PJ Media.
When you hear that Donald Trump and, by extension, we patriots are the most fascist, racist, sexist, corrupt, perverted, and also fascist monsters in the history of ever, you have to wonder something. …
They’re liars and dirtbags, and they are losing their grip on power, and they’re desperate. What you have to wonder is “Where do they go from here?” …
They’re kind of in a quandary. Where do you go next when you call somebody “literally Hitler” and nothing happens? Where do you go when you call somebody “racist” and he doesn’t care? …
Where do you go next when you say the worst things imaginable about someone, and it doesn’t matter?
That’s where we are now, and it should be no surprise to anybody who has ever heard about the boy who cried “Wolf.”…
It used to work, but times have changed:
The point is that hyperbolic slander is the best they’ve got. This is their only weapon right now, and it’s firing blanks.
Remember, they don’t have any power other than what we give them. For them to rule over us requires that we allow them to rule over us. In the past, we defaulted to the American political system, where one party would win the election, and it would take power, exercise power, pass laws the opposition didn’t like, then have another election, and then things would eventually change. We took turns running things. America operated on the consent of the governed. We never really thought about not consenting because the system seemed to work pretty well, not perfectly, but pretty well.
But things changed a couple of decades ago. The Democrats convinced themselves that we conservatives are morally unfit to participate in our own governance, that the act of exercising electoral power won at the ballot box by anyone who wasn’t a leftist was inherently illegitimate. …
Democrats stopped consenting to being governed when it is our turn to govern. …
We have learned to ignore the left’s words, to not take them seriously. They had lost their credibility.
Donald Trump is pursuing his agenda with a vengeance, or his vengeance with an agenda – either way is good with us.
Double or nothing:
Where do they go from here?
That’s where it gets concerning. There are two ways they can go. They can try to take power back in the appropriate and proper way, which is by winning elections. Whether screaming like five-year-olds having a tantrum because Mommy took their blankie will work to convince the American people to trust Democrats with power again is an open question. …
But remember that these are religious fanatics, and their religion is leftism. The fight against Republicans is not just a political match but an actual jihad.
Again, we’ve already seen people murdered. That should be no surprise. One of the collateral effects of all this screaming about how Donald Trump, and we, are the enemies of humanity who are literally the worst people who have ever existed is that some of these leftist creeps believe it and will act on it. When you simultaneously label your political opponents as outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse, while also losing to those political opponents, you create a level of frustration that is going to drive some of your acolytes to violence. And that won’t be entirely unwelcome to the Democrat establishment. As we’ve seen, they don’t mind violence. …
Now you have state governors and officials collaborating with the left. That takes it all up a notch. The potential is real for real trouble. The hate is out there, and it’s being fueled by the very language we’re talking about here.
But on the right, we’re not in the mood to take any more casualties. We’re not in the mood for games. We are not giving up our dogs to please Dem constituents. And we are definitely not in the mood to become second-class citizens in our own country….
This could get very ugly. These people are playing with fire, but they don’t understand that we’re not going to play along.
Driven by virtue signaling and blinded by their dishonest media, some individuals will push it too far. Then some nasty events will occur, and they will learn the limits of how far they push it. Let’s hope we all survive and can leave peacefully again afterwards.