The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

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49. Welcome to DU, Fritz Walter!

Glad you're here! I've thought about this for a long time and I find myself wondering - WILL this happen at some point? Or have the masses become so beaten-down that the "it's no use" syndrome takes over? Because there's been absolutely NO justice, NO accountability, NO restraint for these pirates and vultures and vampires, it helps to fantasize about some extreme remedy like this. I find myself wondering - WHEN might this actually get sparked? Or will it EVER?

Sometimes I find myself in despair - at how well the other side of the aisle has plotted this out. They went about this very seriously, very systematically, very resolutely, and all under the radar - while OUR side, naive and unsuspecting, napped. The Lewis Powell Memo seems to have attempted to think of everything. Link's in my sig line. That's why I think WE need more devious thinkers on our side. People who understand the psychology of the enemy and are equally acutely aware of what happens when our side assumes the problem's been solved, and drops its guard. Our side tends to assume that once the work is done or the goal is accomplished, that's that and the job's done and we can all go home, drop our weapons, and relax. WRONG!!!!!! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!

NEVER forget the words of the (YES I know he's fictional) wizard Mad-Eye Moody in the Harry Potter series. He was always warning Harry Potter of two things:

1) "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!!!"

and

2) You've GOT to KNOW!!!!!!!"

Also known as...

1) DO NOT EVER drop your guard, Part One. The enemy is never fully vanquished. They will NEVER give up. Whether the Supreme Court, the Congress, the White House, the governor's office, or state legislature, or ANY other entity goes against them. They'll find away around it or die trying. If they can't get their way through the folks in the regular channels, then change the channels. And/Or change the people in there. Put your OWN cronies and CONS and crappers in there instead. They're always looking for a back door left open, or a guard slumped over dozing off. The same strategy as - if you can't get them to vote for you, then the answer is do everything possible to make sure they can't vote. You CANNOT AFFORD to lay down your arms. You CANNOT AFFORD to say it's over and call it quits and go home. Because the enemy's not gonna do that. So YOU CAN'T.

2) DO NOT EVER drop your guard, Part Two. Do not ever assume they aren't working like hell, in the shadows and behind closed doors, to destroy everything you built. STAY AWAKE AND AWARE and watch them. Keep watching them. Stay aware of what they're up to. Follow them closely. Listen to all those nice patriotic-sounding platitudes they say and be sure you can decipher it so you know what they REALLY mean. Don't ever take for granted that they might have either surrendered or seen the light and changed their minds. Some, of course, will. A few.

There will indeed be a few who are adult enough and still sufficiently connected to the world outside the insulated Bronze-Age CON bubble to open their eyes, finally, and stop believing the bullshit. But don't count on many of those materializing. Especially when that side of the aisle
A) is LOATHE to admit they're wrong or that they've made a mistake or that the world is changing and they need to change with it to survive rather than try to force the progress backward and the clock and calendar back several centuries (or several millennia) to suit their twisted, ill-informed, obsolete comfort levels;
and/or
B) they're imbued with the belief that God is on their side.