From talk radio to Fox News to your average conservative publication, almost without exception Big Conservative media is replete exclusively with accounts of leftist outrages and double standards. Conservative media celebrities with enormous resources in money, influence, and connections—i.e. with the ability to organize a genuine, meaningful resistance to Anti-America—expend most of their energy increasing the anxiety levels of their audiences while dramatically decreasing their morale.
And when they do insist that American patriots “fight back,” short of instructing them to “vote Republican,” they supply absolutely zero direction as to how they can do so.
Beyond useless—counterproductive. Unhealthy.
As a philosopher and a Christian who, upon having spent his adolescent years engaged in violence, reversed course in his early 20s to cultivate an appreciation for rational persuasion over intimidation and coercion, it brings me no pleasure to acknowledge that reason is most emphatically not an option when dealing with the irrational. Persuasion is not on the table if and when one must interact with the violent.
This is an election year. Come November, one way or the other, it’s more than a little bit likely that the environment is going to be quite different from what it is now. Nevertheless, the bottom line is this: until such time that more competent and resourceful individuals come along and organize patriots to do something other than vote Republican and donate to the Heritage Foundation, every freedom-loving American should train to defend -- unto the death (preferably the death of those who would jeopardize innocents) -- themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
To be clear: violence is ugly. It is detestable. No decent, civilized human being should ever engage in it—unless and until the innocent are threatened by the violent.
And then? As USMC Lieutenant-Colonel Al Ridenhour put it, then you’ve just got to “kick that ass.”
This is a more or less flippant way of making the real point that “Colonel Al,” a martial arts instructor, tirelessly impresses upon his students. When physically (meaning imminently) threatened, one must marshal the will, the “ruthless intent,” to “kill the bad guys,” to turn the predator into prey.
The abuses of violence are that much more likely to occur when it is not law-abiding citizens but outlaws who aren’t fond of the prospect of violence being visited upon them or their communities in the name of “anti-racism.” What follows are two examples of this phenomenon.
Upon reportedly threatening to wreak havoc in Placerville, California, Hell’s Angels and the Mongols, two outlaw biker gangs, prepared to meet head on any Antifa that dared to venture into the city.
Antifa never showed.
In the Little Village section of Chicago, Latin Kings put the fear of God into troublemakers (supposedly, this includes, unfortunately, some blacks who had nothing to do with any of the mayhem that others were raining down upon other parts of Chicago). You can see here and here.
What all of the aforementioned examples, including the last two, illustrate is that, as I’ve argued in a past article, in the last analysis, fear, raw, primal fear, is a prime motivator. The Social Justice mobs in the streets no more want to die than any of us. Their targets are prearranged in order to preclude that outcome. When, however, they have reason to suspect that their decision to target one community or other could be all of the difference between their lives or their demise, they tend to choose more or less wisely.
In the meantime, the rest of us need to mind our business, be civil, avoid trouble, and always, always train to protect our lives, our loved ones, and our communities.