Asylum Under New Management Dept.

     It will probably not be news to the Gentle Readers of Liberty’s Torch that the Left has openly embraced violence. The process is already well advanced, having started before the 2016 presidential election. But I think it deserves a little more explanation than it’s received to date.

     You see, in Twenty-First Century America violence as a political tactic is unlikely to work. I know, I know: What about the Brownshirts and Blackshirts? What about Hugo Chavez’s violent suppression of dissent in Venezuela? Yes, those are cases in which violence worked very well. But note that they took place under circumstances quite different from those that apply in the United States today:

• A disarmed populace;
• A regime of censorship and rigid control of the mass media;
• A regime that supported the violence and refused to act against it.

     The American citizenry is the exact opposite of disarmed. While our mass media are aligned with the Left and unlikely to speak ill of its tactics, the Internet is proving to be a more than adequate counterforce. Finally, the federal government is currently aligned against the violent ones; should the attacks continue, the Trump Administration is likely to act to halt them forcibly and to punish their promoters and organizers. Taken together, these things strongly suggest that the Left’s use of violence will boomerang on it, costing the Democrats heavily in the midterm elections and resulting in large scale opprobrium against those of its luminaries who’ve offered the vandals and thugs aid and comfort.

     However, the Left has exhibited a streak of self-damaging insanity for some time. When a tactic rebounds on them, they do it more and harder. And just now, their overall tactic can be reduced to throwing things:

• First, they threw allegations of various low motives: racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.
• Then they threw accusations of wrongdoing: collusion with the Russians, teenage sexual hijinks, etc.
• Now they’re throwing physical items, including rocks, fists, and Molotov cocktails.

     Present trends continuing, we can expect the Left to graduate to throwing people. In that case, watch out for your children, folks. Being smaller and lighter than most adults, they’d be the Left’s projectiles of choice.

     But all levity to the side, this is actually good news for us in the Right. The Leftist loonies are heavily outnumbered by the good folks, and the good folks are, by and large, not being intimidated. Indeed, physical responses to the Left’s attacks have been making the news lately...and the Left has been crying foul through their media mouthpieces. (“They weren’t supposed to fight back!”)

     While the media have been touting a “blue wave,” and progressive icons such as Nancy Pelosi have likened what’s coming to a “tsunami,” the rumbles in the webs (and on the Web) suggest the opposite. At the federal level, the GOP is likely to hold approximately its current majority in the House and gain seats in the Senate. At the state and local levels, I would expect the trend of Republican dominance to continue. And at the purely popular-opinion level, Americans will continue to move Rightward as they watch the Left descend into rubber-room insanity for the Right’s unforgivable crime of ousting them from power. Ever more will #WalkAway from the Hillary Clintons, the Eric Holders, and the other spokesmen for “incivility.”

     Well, that’s enough feel-good chatter for the moment. Now I have to go out to the barn, clean the lawn tractor, and put it in storage for the fall and winter months. Thanks to the generosity of a local vendor I’ve known for more than thirty years, I now have a tractor jack with which to lift the BLEEP!ing thing so I can get far enough under it to do a proper job. Wish me luck.