I'm seeing more and more timid souls on Facebook express shock about the incidents of violence, both for and against Trump, that are springing up this election cycle. Such people yearn to go back to the status quo, when violence was administered in a clinical, organized fashion by party elites and government officials with badges.
Sorry, but you all have chosen to live by the sword, so you're going to have to die by it. A long time ago you made a bargain to jettison the rule of law and live according to the arbitrary whims of men in power, be they executives, legislators, or judges. In exchange for this, you relieved yourselves of the responsibility of knowing your country's history, understanding and upholding the Constitution, and defending your own life, liberty, and property.
Trump is not the cause, but rather merely an effect of years of lawless violence. The establishment could not expect to do whatever it pleased and get away with it forever. Once you unchain violence from the law, it is only a matter of time before violence spills into the streets.
At least now we can stop lying to ourselves and come face-to-face with the violent and chaotic system we have allowed to emerge, as Republican insiders threaten to ignore the will of the people on the one hand, while the people threaten mayhem on the other. Let's have it out and stop this insulting charade of liberty and justice. As Abraham Lincoln once noted in the years leading up to the War for Southern Independence: "I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy." Luckily, we don't have to emigrate, because the pretense is now falling apart.
I believe in the rule of law. However, since that was sold out many moons ago, we might as well enjoy the ride we're on now.
