The Left Should Think Twice About A Civil War

Earlier this week a rabid Trump hater -- whose Facebook posts could easily get lost in the jumble of diatribes dappling my own newsfeed -- gunned down several members of Congress on a baseball diamond. This is just the latest and most prominent of several violent attacks by the "enlightened" and "tolerant" cohort, who apparently believe that enforcing immigration laws and preserving any semblance of a sovereign nation are hanging offenses. There is talk of how this simmering resentment will burst forth into a new Civil War at any moment.

Fine by me. If America's fifth column really wants to come out in the open and make war on the rest of us, it will be signing its own death warrant. These people are accustomed to wielding violence through the ballot box and are amateurs when it comes to getting their own hands dirty. Consider that the would-be congressional assassin got off 50 shots on an open field of sitting ducks yet made only a few hits with no fatalities. The violence of a leftist is nothing more than a temper tantrum; it can and will be put down hard by millions of quiet, purposeful Americans who own guns, practice with them, and know how to use them if and when necessary to defend themselves.

I would be much happier if some states seceded and took this rabble with them. We could peacefully go our separate ways and let them pursue their failed and fevered visions elsewhere. But deep down I suspect this won't happen because, as parasites, these people know they can't make it on their own and feel entitled to compel all of us to support and subsidize them.

Game on, then. Let us bring the ugliness of political violence out into the open and deal with it, rather than administer it antiseptically while pretending that we still have a rule of law. We haven't for a long time now. As soon as we made the Faustian bargain to reject the law in the pursuit of "the good," we sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.