For all the latest blather regarding “civil war” and “insurrection,” President Joe Biden’s administration and its leftist enablers certainly are not doing anything to quell those growing concerns. In fact, it is only further intensifying and fomenting them with blatant attacks upon and disregard for the Constitution and liberties guaranteed every American citizen. In particular, free speech enumerated in the First Amendment and gun rights protected by the Second Amendment - the latter incontrovertibly securing the former. Yet, we are only in the early stages of Biden’s supposedly “unifying” presidency.
Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the United States indeed is a house divided along extreme ideological and polarizing lines. Perhaps, irreparably given the damage caused by hostile partisanship and tone-deaf politicization over the past several years. For leftists, the only way to heal these fractures, in their warped mindset, is to comply and heel to their authoritarian demands. Otherwise, one faces the prospect of cancellation, your personal life, career, etc, destroyed for no other reason than not acquiescing to and embracing the liberal mob and their radical agenda and policies with which you disagree.
Leftists currently are attempting a Soviet-style censor and purge of media outlets they accuse - without actual evidence or facts to support the allegation - of spreading disinformation and lies. In other words, conservative and other right-leaning news organizations that do not conform to and report leftist falsities espoused as the only prevailing truth. Any dissent from this perspective is not allowed in their delusional and hypocritical worldview, and will be met with exacting persecution. Maintaining “lines of communication” is vital in any conflict; propagandizing the narrative is as important in order to control the masses.
Speaking of control, Democrats, and liberals in general, have a longstanding inability to understand “shall not be infringed” when it comes to gun rights. Despite counterarguments, the Second Amendment does not cause gun violence; in fact, most statistics indicate a reduction in violent crimes due to legally armed citizens. Gun control measures are continually aimed more often than not at law-abiding gun owners and would make them criminals, while failing to address the circumstances that caused the violence. Naturally, the party of slavery and Jim Crow does not want anyone to have the means to defend themselves as inscribed in the Constitution.
What has been the response from conservatives and right-wingers? For starters, to paraphrase, some people did something at the thingy, you know, the thing with the government people weeks before Biden’s inauguration…but what difference did it make? Certainly, you heard about it in the predominate 24/7 news cycle. Never mind that it was a roguish mob intent on…what exactly? Overturning an election? Stirring up (un)civil war, pushing forward an (un)armed insurrection? Or, did a majority simply wish to have their voices, and concerns, peacefully heard, while a minority acted idiotically and in an ill-advised manner?
Well, who really knows, but rest assured that zealous Democrats undoubtedly will persist in pursuing yet another exhausting, wasteful investigation into the matter. Simultaneously, they fail to feign even the slightest interest in election integrity concerns and investigating conspicuous irregularities that precipitated the situation in the first place.
A proverbial line has been drawn in the sand between left and right ideologies. This is a perilous fight, but the banner still waves over the republic. For now. The task is to keep and maintain its principles and values against those committed to and intent upon tearing them down. Those who believe themselves our saviors, rather than instigators of their own folly. For if they prevail, it will be nothing less than the very dogmatic cultism and authoritarianism from which they have deluded themselves to believe we, the people, need saving.
©2021 Steve Sagarra