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Thank you, Bruce
Marshall Kamena is a registered democrat and was elected mayor
of Livermore, CA. He ran on the democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city
would never vote for a republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote
the following.
Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship My Leftist
friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not
bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his
tweets are “beneath the dignity of the
office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet
dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically
motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried
statesmanship.
Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized
“collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human
being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were
always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality
and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife
fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about
Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order
to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.
I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of
four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your
tracks.
I don’t see anything
“statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political
opponents and any dissent.
Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he
in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the
rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where
nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a
war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies
from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the
only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone
who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality
and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is
America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply
aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors.
Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well
have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.
Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and
booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today.
Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I
cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking. In peacetime, this
might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the
normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades
into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that,
like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s,
he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastard,
I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see
that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own
tactics.
That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules
for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America
that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the
subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil,
that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or
those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality,
he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so
fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past
60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive
to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri —
Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which
Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable
and unwinnable position. They need to
respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would
disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report
as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can
double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their
usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they
were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the
Democratic Party they serve.
It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read
propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately
reported then - candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists
(Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko)
or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils
of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their
political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth
about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama
administration’s cover-up.
So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our
president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times.
This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition
for the past 50 years.
So,
say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he
can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this
man. He fights for America!
