The inevitable caravan of MAGA Trump supporters has arrived in Portland to drive straight through the BLM zones, and the inevitable outcome, senseless violence, has occurred. A Trump supporter has been shot to death. Murder? Self defense? No info yet on that.
Antifa rioters try to physically block the Trump cars from driving in downtown Portland. They get maced instead of run over. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/qx3mJFz24K
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 30, 2020
One thing about the current crisis that has really bothered me (but hasn’t surprised me much) is the number of people now shouting about the inevitability of a civil war/violent conflict to reclaim freedom. The signs have been here for decades, and these people did nothing. Ignored it. And when the inevitable crisis emerges, when the manure hits the fan in epic fashion, only then do these people pipe up: “Hey something must be done here!” These are the people that end up rushing to take sides in the coming violence, arming themselves, and talking big about getting a few good licks in for “their” side. But violence only results in authoritarianism and fascism. This is a battle of ideas, which is a conflict far above the knuckle-draggers among the Trumpists and the BLM animals. An all-out civil war will add a new oppressive layer of totalitarianism on top of the medical martial law we are currently suffering under.
The violence between these two groups will only get worse. Resist the urge to take a side. This will be a bloodbath between two warring tribes, it does not concern those who wish to save the modern world from self-destructing.
