Harry Reid referred to Donald Trump as “a sexual predator who
lost the popular vote,” and further claimed, “White nationalists, Vladimir
Putin and ISIS are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, while innocent,
law-abiding Americans are wracked with fear.”
This is the same Harry Reid, who on the floor of the Senate
of the United States, no less, claimed Mitt Romney had not paid taxes when it
was absolutely false.
Reid’s response when Romney’s released tax returns proved
that he lied? “Romney didn’t win, did
he?” Washington Post - Reid Not
Sorry He Lied .
Why, then, does anyone even bother listening to Harry Reid,
let alone publish anything he says? Moreover, are things like shutting down interstate highways, vandalizing
cars and buildings, setting fires, and getting into fights the acts of
“innocent, law abiding Americans?” How
is that showing they are “wracked with fear?” Looks more to me like these folks lack fear
and are willing to do whatever they want, regardless of the law.
Harry Reid proves what is absolutely wrong with the many
so-called Anti-Trump protests. These
folks have been taught to believe, as Harry Reid does, that the ends justify
the means. In fact, we are seeing a
whole language being developed that is downright Orwellian and feeds into this
phenomenon.
I previously posted about a Duke Ph.D. student who explained
my “white fragility” and how I was a racist because I don’t accept nonsense
like “white privilege” and that words are “violent.” When you begin to accept, as many of these
foolish people have, that words which upset you are “violence” against you,
then it becomes very easy to rationalize actual physical violence in
return. People like Harry Reid are
frighteningly evil because they have turned things upside down. Donald Trump is a racist, misogynist,
xenophobic, homophobic, etc. etc. etc. bad guy, and his rhetoric is hateful to
blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities, women, immigrants, LGBTQ and anyone
else who takes offense at things Trump has said. Therefore, Trump, according to Harry Reid, is
“unleashing hate” which is a form of violence in the current parlance. Pushing back against this verbal “violence”
is not only acceptable but proper and morally necessary, even if it means using actual violence.
In fact, it becomes easy to even argue for actual physical
violence in advance of such verbal violence as a way of stopping it before it
begins. (Sounds an awful lot like the
hated Bush-era notion of preemptive war – which is incredibly ironic, given
that people like Harry Reid claimed what Bush was doing was improper and
immoral).
So the protesters aren’t interested in democracy (as they
allegedly claim), nor are they interested in any kind of peaceful determination
of what they want. We just had a
peaceful election and Mrs. Clinton lost.
These folks, I suppose, are even taking the election results as some
kind of “violence,” because they assume
every person who voted for Trump is, by definition, all the things they believe
Trump to be. One sign I saw from an
anti-Trump protester said “Your Vote is a Hate Crime.” Never mind that many Trump voters held their
noses and voted for him out of distrust of Hillary Clinton or out of a desire
to keep the Supreme Court from becoming just another form of “protest” and not
out of love for Trump. These protesters
seem unaware that such a thing as rational behavior even exists. So they just assume Trump voters are nasty, vile,
contemptible human beings who don’t really even deserve to share the same land
as the pleasant, virtuous, agreeable human beings that make up Hillary Clinton
supporters and protesters.
These protesters are simply pawns in a game they don’t even
understand. People like Harry Reid use
them because they are disposable and fungible.
Do they think Harry Reid actually cares about them? Do they really think Hillary Clinton cares
about them? Should it not dawn on them
that any man who will blatantly lie, then gleefully point out his lie got him
what he wanted, will turn on them just as quickly? Has it dawned on them that Hillary Clinton,
who has clearly proven herself equally mendacious, would do the same?
Protesting is fine.
But what’s going on here isn’t just protesting. What’s happening is an entire shift in how we
talk about events. What’s real simply
doesn’t matter; it’s only what people feel that matters. So people “feel” violated and “feel” that the
way Trump talked during the campaign was “violent.” As a result, they feel free to react
violently because they have determined it’s morally acceptable. What’s worse is that the more protests that
occur and the more violence that breaks out around these protests, the more
police will become involved and the more the protesters will claim they need
more violence to offset the “violence” of police being called to keep things
under control. After all, they’ll “feel”
scared because police are there, so that gives them a moral right to then react
violently, since they have a right to “feel” safe and secure while they’re
committing violent protest in the name of stopping the verbal violence
unleashed by Donald Trump.
After all, the ends justify the means. Feels good, right, Harry?
