Morning after "Krystallnacht" in Nazi Germany
Article by Fletch Daniels in "The American Thinker":
Cultural tyranny reigns in America, the last step before full-fledged political tyranny.
Lurking
beneath the surface of virtue signaling leftists are tyrants seeking to
exert their will over those they despise. The defining leftist culture
enables them to ruthlessly use all the power at their disposal, both
real and imagined, to enforce a single acceptable viewpoint on society.
In
some geographic areas, this is more obvious than in others, but no area
will ultimately be spared. This week, my wife volunteered during the
Virginia Republican primary. As people came by the booth to get
information on the candidates, she offered these Republican voters an
opportunity to sign up for yard signs. Most whispered that they could
never put something like that up in their neighborhood. That’s
understandable. Unless a family is willing to stand guard 24/7 over
their property, a Trump bumper sticker or sign here is a risky
proposition at best.
And
so the Northern Virginia neighborhoods surrounding us are dotted with
almost exclusively Democrat yard signs and the ubiquitous and
unintentionally ironic “Hate has No Home Here” signs that literally
blare that their home is a sanctuary of vile hatred and small-minded
contempt.
When
people can’t put a bumper sticker for their preferred candidate on
their car, they have suffered a loss of liberty. No Republicans who
have paid even a little bit of attention expect the prevailing powers in
Democrat areas to safeguard their property, or even their lives and
liberty. The very reason for establishing a government has been
upended. In this area, liberty-minded people almost operate like a
secret society sending quiet signals to one another.
Democrats
in this country do not feel they need to hide their political
allegiance or culturally approved viewpoints. Most never shut up about
it, believing they are speaking truth to power, even as they bask in the
approval of the corrupt and wicked power centers.
Nobody
gets to sit this one out. The cultural enforcers expect everyone to
parrot their talking points publicly, to destroy all resistance, forcing
dissenters to grovel in submission. That’s the whole idea behind the
“silence is violence” aggression. Cultural violence is quite the
opposite of silence; it is forcing people to say what no sane person
should believe in order to not be destroyed.
Few
stand against this pressure, which is why nearly all major companies
and organizations have come out with quisling statements of support of
the name of a vile Marxist organization like Black Lives Matter. It’s
why Hillsdale College’s response
was so notable, because it was a rare exception to the rule. [This was
not surprising coming from one of the only places in America still
putting up statues to honor our tremendous heritage of liberty when the
cultural zeitgeist is to rip them all down and start at a Marxist Year
Zero.] Hate groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter operate quite
freely in this environment, serving as the cultural shock troops and the
terrorist wing of the cultural tyrants who have taken over the Democrat
party.
Consider just a few of the displays we’ve watched over the last few weeks. A football coach
had to apologize for wearing a One America News sweatshirt…in
Oklahoma. We watched as most of our senior military leaders bowed
before their cultural masters. We watched as statues of George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Scott Key, Theodore Roosevelt,
Abraham Lincoln, and even an assortment of abolitionists, were either
destroyed or came under attack, even as discussions of replacing the
National Anthem erupted from the propaganda and activist cultural
tyrants
We
watched as the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy by a U.S.
president against a president of the opposite party was unveiled before
our eyes to a massive shrug by the seditious media, who see it as a
wonderful use of state power by their fellow leftist travelers in the
bureaucracy. They are smug in their belief that they can use their
cultural power to protect the perpetrators, who they regard as heroes.
We even watched as a sports league that caters to a conservative audience was complicit
in perpetrating a crazy Jussie. We observed an emboldened social media
giant censoring the President of the United States for promising to
protect Americans.
We
also watched what I believe is the vilest propaganda campaign of my
lifetime when every cop in America was slandered as a racist with barely
a protest. The guardians of civil order, who put their lives on the
line every day, often under unimaginably difficult circumstances, to
protect their fellow Americans, are being demoralized and hounded out of
service. This has created the fertile ground for a massive increase in
lawlessness that will result in a significant rise in the deaths of
black Americans, showing that black lives matter not a lick to those
claiming that name.
I
wish I had a dollar for every American who uttered the phrase, “Never
in my lifetime did I expect to see…” over the last few weeks. We are
living in the upside-down when patriotism is outlawed, the vilest of
criminals are celebrated, and brave law enforcement officers who put
their lives on the line daily are slandered as the worst of society so
thoroughly that it descended into evil farce, when a kid’s show “Paw Patrol,” came under attack since it is apparently racist to have a positive police character in a children’s show.
This
is war and the left is playing to win. Anyone who doesn’t get that by
now, to include most of the NeverTrumpers, is either irredeemably stupid
or an active collaborator. Every pillar of cultural power in America,
to include the unholy trinity of academia, the media, and government has
declared cultural war on at least half the country. And yet
NeverTrumpers reserve almost all of their scorn for those with the
audacity to not drop to their knees and surrender.
It
is long past time for Republicans to fully understand the enemy and
take up this fight. The phrase “silent majority” has been bandied
around quite a bit in the last couple weeks. Americans are silent
because the cultural tyrants ensure there is a price to pay for any peep
of sane protest, which is also why Republicans voters are undercounted
in polls.
The
problem is that the silence enables the leftists to continue to drive
the narrative and normalize ideas and behaviors that would have been
considered unfathomable just a few short years ago while winning more
converts, which shrinks that sane majority. It is their toxic ideas
that are being force fed to every young person in America and we are
paying a heavy price for that.
I’d
like to see far more people vocally pushing back against the mob within
their social circles. Every person who pushes back emboldens others to
do the same. There also needs to be a sustained and concerted effort
to retake academia, the true center of gravity whose main product it is
returning to America are Marxist cultural tyrants.
The
culture war matters when you are living in a cultural tyranny. If you
believe Andrew Breitbart, that politics is downstream of culture, we are
getting dangerously close to losing everything, to include our liberty.