{"id":11386,"date":"2020-07-05T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=11386"},"modified":"2020-07-05T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T16:12:21","slug":"2020-choice-stand-or-grovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/05\/2020-choice-stand-or-grovel\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Choice \u2013 Stand or Grovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This election will be the perfect indicator of whether or not we have been overwhelmed by the rot that has beset our institutions for the last hundred years.\u00a0 A starker choice could not be imagined.\u00a0 The foaming-at-the-mouth Left has dropped the mask completely.\u00a0 They have embraced the mob in all its nihilistic rage and unleashed it on the citizens of the blue states and the blue cities.\u00a0 Seattle has gone as far as setting up a killing zone in their capitol where the mob patrols with machine guns and doles out death to the black lives that supposedly they are representing.\u00a0 It\u2019s like something out of Pol Pot.<\/p>\n<p>If the election does go to Biden you can argue whether voter fraud, or dislike of President Trump by white women or demographics was the deciding factor but what will be undeniable is that a new nation will be dominant inside the geographic boundaries of what used to be America.\u00a0 The millennials will soon be the dominant cohort within the American demographic and if they decide that what is going on in the streets of our cities is acceptable then nothing will deflect us from the course that the Left is plotting.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s take it one step further, even if President Trump wins this election but only just barely, that still tells me that we are changing for the worse.\u00a0 What happened in 1968, the rioting and the arson, was still an aberration that shocked the country and galvanized the population to support a law and order candidate in President Nixon, to clean up the problem.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t see the same reaction to the even more disturbing violence and anarchy gripping our cities this year then it speaks of a loss of will.<\/p>\n<p>Someone might say that it is the propaganda by the media and the kowtowing by the corporations that is misleading Americans.\u00a0 That these normal people have been fooled by the narrative that the rioting is a reasonable reaction to systemic racism in the police and in American society.\u00a0 But that is nonsense.\u00a0 Only someone already brainwashed by the Left could mistake what is happening for reasonable.\u00a0 Anyone with even a trace of self-respect and an iota of common sense would see what\u2019s happening as an attack on the foundations of our identity and the symbols of the greatest and best country in the history of mankind.<\/p>\n<p>If we do not see a resounding victory for the Right then we are heading down a road to serfdom.\u00a0 It is possible that through the efforts of a Trump administration we can begin to change direction and change the institutions that have brought about this problem.\u00a0 With the right Supreme Court and with legislation and enforcement by the DOJ many harmful practices could be suppressed.\u00a0 But with the current slender majority in the Senate and the Democrat majority in the House and the unreliable nature of the Supreme Court it seems unlikely that much will be done.<\/p>\n<p>So that is why I see this election as a barometer.\u00a0 If President Trump wins a decisive victory and we pick up seats in the Senate and retake the majority in the House then I see a sliver of hope that there is still enough of the silent majority to allow us to try and turn this thing around together as the United States of America.\u00a0 If that happens, we stand.\u00a0 Anything else tells me that the future will require groveling and that is something I won\u2019t stick around for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This election will be the perfect indicator of whether or not we have been overwhelmed by the rot that has beset our institutions for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1799,2565,328,2254,2514,923],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-2020-election","tag-america","tag-antifa","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-black-rioting","tag-left-vs-right"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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