The above photo shows the results of the 2016 Presidential election by state. Red represents states won by Conservative Donald J. Trump. Blue States were won by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Left-wing Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle have attempted to secede from the rest of the country, occupying a six-block enclave that they are calling the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
It is an echo of the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, when anarchists and socialists seized portions of major cities and camped out until the winter. But it also reflects the current state of mind of left-wing, blue state America: they seem to be living in their own reality.
The United States has a racist past, but it is not a “racist” system. As the year 2020 dawned, black unemployment and poverty were at their lowest ever, and inequality between black and white Americans was shrinking. The majority of black Americans were satisfied with police in their communities. But now, after the tragic death of George Floyd, and two weeks of left-wing protests and riots, major corporations are issuing press releases denouncing “systemic racism.”
None of this matches the truth of who we are as a society. If there is any “systemic racism” at all, it is the system of racial preferences known as affirmative action, which is designed to benefit black Americans — and hurts white and Asian Americans. It is sanctioned by law, and is beyond criticism in polite company. But even those who bear the costs of that system have largely tolerated it. The evil America described by “Black Lives Matter” is a nightmarish delusion.
It is useful to think of the current state of the country as one in which blue state America has actually seceded from the Union. It is not possible, geographically, to carve out the cities, or the Democrat-run states, from the rest of the country, but their residents are already living in a separate nation. And the 2020 presidential election is not an attempt to decide the leadership of the U.S., but part of a proxy civil war, in which the left’s strategy is to make America ungovernable.
Democrats never accepted the results of the 2016 election, and resorted to various methods of attempting to oust the government. First there was the “deep state” attempted coup, the coordination of law enforcement and intelligence with the mainstream media and key Democratic leaders to create the “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory. They failed, but succeeded in convincing 53% of Americans, and 77% of Democrats, that the false “Steele dossier” was really true.
Meanwhile, Democratic governors in states like California vowed to push back against everything the administration did. Ironically, given the Democrats’ sudden enthusiasm for renaming Confederate military bases, they reinvigorated the nullification doctrine of the antebellum South, declaring themselves to be “sanctuaries” from federal immigration law enforcement, which the Obama administration had earlier argued was an exclusively federal power.
Next came impeachment, an attempted legislative coup by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) coordinated with a rogue intelligence official in the White House to claim that President Donald Trump had committed impeachable offenses. He conducted secret hearings and even spied on the White House, the opposition, and a journalist. His effort fell short, but divided the country further.
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