Anti-Trump divisiveness a national threat

Has it occurred to the members of the aggressive resistance to President Trump the consequences of a national insurrection?

Groups like antifa have been embroiled in demonstrations across the country resulting in injury to nonparticipants and property damage.

If a far right group should become as equally violent (and there is little doubt that one faction contains as many radicals as the other) and shooting started how far would that go?

The goal of antifa and other leftists is, obviously, to destroy the administration of President Donald Trump.

There once was a time in America when there were smooth transitions from one duly elected administration to the next.

(Wait. Maybe that only occurred when conservatives were followed by what were once called liberals.)

Former President Barack Obama whose eight years as president were dedicated to basically transforming America continues to jeer from the sidelines as the entrenched left in Washington continually works to undermine President Trump’s administration.

In today’s highly agitated national state, it could take only a tiny spark to ignite major fighting. The Harper’s Ferry Rising in 1859 led to four years of a gruesome Civil War that claimed 600,000 American lives – more than any other conflict in the nation’s history.

Portland, Ore, one of the most liberal cities in the nation and a so-called sanctuary city, is an antifa stronghold.

At a recent right-wing Proud Boys rally in Portland, antifa protesters appeared to battle the conservatives.

Rally organizers were calling for antifa to be declared a domestic terror organization.

If a nationwide conflict started today, it would wreck the economy and provide the opportunity for foreign interests (can you say China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and possibly a majority of the UN membership) to become involved, worsening the threat for the demise of the United States’ constitutional government.

There are some spoiling for a fight.

Like the younger members of the population who say they would prefer to live under a socialist government, they don’t know what they’re asking.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has slammed President Trump repeatedly, opposing the Trump administration’s policies on every score. It’s no wonder antifa hangs out there.

It seems inconceivable that leftist Americans would oppose the government which protects their right to express adverse opinion freely, to the extent that they would seek to replace it with a socialist system. History has shown repeatedly that socialism turns to communism, hence tyranny.

Those touting a socialist government also emphatically proclaim support for same-sex marriage, abortion on demand, end of the First Amendment, which gives them the right to express their opinions, doing away with the tax-exempt status of churches and giving them free stuff (and hang the mushrooming cost it places on those who work). They also seem to be strongly opposed to Christianity.

The geniuses who laid the foundation for the most free nation in the history of the world might be aghast if they saw what it has turned into today. Yet, it remains the best system ever devised for personal liberty.

The thing about it, though, its continuance depends on people who think for themselves and are willing to stand up to the powerful anti-freedom elite.

Freedom’s greatest threat is from unscrupulous people who tell them they have all the answers and will make everything easy for them, including providing them free food, housing and health care (and maybe a new car every year). Did we forget forgiving all the college debt they racked up for a useless degree, principally in left-wing propaganda?

Those are very seductive lures for the naive.

It’s a funny thing but when times are good people seem to take it for granted that’s the norm so they begin to tune in to the “Trump is a Russian puppet” and “Trump’s Tax Returns” crazies.

And that doesn’t even include “the world is ending in 12 years” nonsense spouted by the greenies who push for the end of all fossil fuels, airline travel, a completely overhauled infrastructure – all buildings to be more environmentally friendly and only electric cars.

This is all to be completed without considering how all that electricity is going to be generated without oil and gas and even – shutter – coal.

The reminder that U.S. Attorney Gen. William Barr gave the Notre Dame Law School seems appropriate about now:

“We have no government armed with power which is capable of contending with human passions unbridled by ... morality and religion,” Barr quoted from a letter by President John Adams’ which continued:

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”