Revolution in the United States? (Part Two)

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This is a quite interesting discussion below by Robert Reich and ties in with our piece discussing “Revolution In The United States?” below. Everywhere we hear talk of revolution from the top of society in the power centers of the US to the bottom and that we are facing another Weimar German situation. It is important to note that Hitler was a protege of the German military and served as a military spy in the early 1920s. It was Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg that raised him up over the stab in the back of the German Army in World War One which we have covered. The German Army was not defeated and could have successfully retreated behind the Meuse River which was a natural tank barrier and reorganized. It had plenty of agricultural supplies and natural resources from conquered portions of Russia. It was a stab in the back as the US military sees Afghanistan while others see it as caused by the upheaval created by the patented coronavirus reset plan. Hitler was born at the Treaty of Versailles. See piece by Ray Dalio below one of the most important financiers in America predicting revolution in the US.

The unrest is particularly extreme in the US military, the National Guards, and the police all over the country as there is a frantic Biden search for dissidents in these groups to weed them out before it is too late. The police are under attack all over the Untied States and are told to turn their back on crime as they did when 200 cities burned in the summer of 2020. Some believe there is an effort to create a war with China and Russia over Taiwan or the Ukraine to enable the US to rally its population over a war to avoid internal disintegration. This tactic could completely backfire creating the very nationalist revolution that they are trying to avoid. The faithless are always entrapped by their own crafty devices (Proverbs 11:6).

From: Robert Reich
To: David Lifschultz
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021, 02:55:35 AM GMT+1
Subject: More death threats on Capitol Hill

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

My friends, I don’t need to tell you we are living in a time of increasingly virulent politics and violent political threats, perpetrated in and by the Republican Party.

Just minutes after the U.S. House formally censured Representative Paul Gosar yesterday for posting an animated video on his official congressional social media accounts in which he assassinates Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacks President Joe Biden, Gosar retweeted the violent video.1 Only two House Republicans joined Democrats to censure Gosar, who had defended his video by saying it “symbolizes the battle for the soul of America.”2

The New York Times reports that at a conservative rally in western Idaho last month, a young man stepped up to a microphone to ask when he could start killing Democrats. “When do we get to use the guns?” he said as the audience applauded. “How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” The local state representative, a Republican, later called it a “fair” question.3

Republicans who break party ranks and defy Trump have come to expect death threats—often fueled by their own colleagues who have denounced them as traitors. The 13 House Republicans who voted last week for President Biden’s infrastructure bill are getting death threats—such as a caller who told Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to slit his wrists and “rot in hell”—and party leaders are calling for them to be stripped of their committee assignments … because they voted for a bill that invests in roads, bridges, and broadband in their communities.4,5

This is the modern Republican Party, and we cannot allow them back into power. Not this Republican Party. Ever.

Control of the House and Senate are up for grabs in the midterm elections next year, and every single indicator of who will win those elections—presidential approval, gerrymandering, the generic congressional ballot (which asks people if they’d choose a Republican or Democrat to represent them in Congress), special elections, retirements, and candidate recruitment—is pointing in the wrong direction.

Let’s be clear: We have a path to win. It’s turning out the 26 million people who did not vote in 2016 but voted for Biden in 2020. But it’s an uphill battle, David, and we have to get serious right now to be able to make it happen.

And that’s why I’m writing to you today. MoveOn is building a war chest to replicate the grassroots get-out-the-vote effort that was so successful in 2020.

Unless those at the highest levels of government who foment or encourage violence—or those who remain conspicuously silent—are held accountable, no one in political life will be safe.

According to The New York Times, violent threats against lawmakers are on track to double this year.6

GOP Representative Fred Upton of Michigan has received multiple death threats in the days since he voted for President Biden’s infrastructure bill. One caller left a voicemail saying, “You’re a f—ing piece-of-s— traitor. I hope you die.” The man went on to say he hopes Upton’s family and his entire staff die.7

This is today’s Republican Party. We have to be clear-eyed about it, David.

Imagine what members of Congress like Marjorie Taylor Greene would do if Republicans had the majority and the power to subpoena witnesses. Or what senators like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz would do if they were allowed to chair committee hearings.

We could see the racist lies and conspiracy theories currently confined to fringe corners of the internet thrust into the halls of Congress and given official legitimacy. The election fraud lies that sparked the January 6 white supremacist attack on the U.S. Capitol would be once again lifted up front and center at the highest levels of our government.

We must do everything we can to make sure these people are never allowed back in power.

I remain hopeful because of you and what we can make happen, if we come together starting right now.

Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

David Lifschultz