Just waiting for the revolution to start.

I commented elsewhere a few days ago that the right rarely starts fights, but has historically almost always won them, generally with the use of disproportionate force.  At least up until the Second World War.  We have been oddly constrained ever since.*

As we run down the last 24 hours before polling begins in earnest, it looks to me like we are more and more likely to be slugging this one out in the House of Representatives.  Some Democrat elector from Oregon (I think it was) Washington State was reported to have said he would not cast his electoral ballot for Hillary, which, the way things were looking the other day, had the potential to result in a 269-269 tie or even a 270-268 win for Trump.  Either way, I fully expect weeks of contested BS in close states.  Hanging chads aren’t going to be the half of it.

The clowns on the left who think that a Trump win will be the signal for a revolution, though, are forgetting who has all the guns.  That’s not a threat, by the way, it’s just a fucking fact.  Liberals have been trying for so long to suppress the individual right to bear arms that either a) they are true believers and possess no defensive firearms, or b) they’re hypocrites and either have guns or are protected by men and women who do.  Politicians and celebrities falling mostly into category b), of course.

The jokers on the right who think that arming and ammoing up and then refusing to relinquish said arms and ammo to the State after Hillary promulgates her Australian Ban Executive Order, well…can’t say I won’t be one of them.  I’ve pointed out on this blog before that a quarter of my family were taken from their homes in Austria and relocated to the camps, where they were exterminated, for no more crime than being Jewish.  But even before that, the Nazis had prohibited them from owning firearms for their own defense — so even those who might otherwise have been wolves were reduced to little more than sheep.  It’s such a large, sticking, and pustulent point that Alinsky — he of the 12 Rules for Radicals — made a point of insisting that the American public would have to be disarmed in order to put over his radical revolution.  So far the left hasn’t managed that, although Lord curse ’em, they’ve tried.

But the point is that I will never relinquish my right of self-defense.  What the government did not give, the government cannot take away.  The left pretends to believe (hell, it may believe, for all I know) that the 2nd Amendment “grants” the right to keep and bear arms (and we won’t go into the penumbral bullshit about the militia and the meaning of “well-regulated”).  The fact is that the Constitution only guarantees the right, by saying it shall not be infringed.  Meaning that the right is a basic human right that pre-exists governments of men.**  And the writings of the Framers consistently back up this assertion.

To remove from us that basic human right makes us slaves to whomever we place in authority (or to whomever seizes extra-legally the reins of that power).  If we cannot defend ourselves from governments, we are not free men.  Which is precisely what the left has been gunning for (pardon the pun) for the past century.

The left hates personal freedom because personal freedom means one may legally dissent from the “received wisdom” of the elites.  To the left, it is clear that elites must guide the ignoble unwashed citizenry to a higher plane of thought, i.e., everything you proles produce should be for the benefit of the State, viz., the left elites, and we will live high on the hog in Capital City while you work and starve and die and hope out in the Districts.  Huh.  Haven’t I read this novel before?

What’s scary about The Hunger Games is that the run-up to such a society is beginning to play out right in front of us.  Not unlike certain portions of Atlas Shrugged, which I have long thought was overstating the case — at least until the Clintons and their thugs and successors (including Barack Obama) came along, and the jokers on the right started slipping toward the center as the clowns on the left started slipping farther to the left.

The Tea Party was a response to that, trying to fill the vacuum on the right, but unfortunately I suspect that the “nice” Tea Party is going to be replaced by folks from the farther right of the spectrum as we edge closer and closer to real socialism.  All the BS about the soi-disant “alt-right”, which from what I’m reading appears to be no less than the left’s projection of a presumed resurgence of the John Birch Society (or worse), seems to be in response to that.  I can discuss the alt-right another day (maybe, depending on whether or not Hillary is elected and whether or not free speech is curtailed under her despotic rule — see The Last Centurion for the likely results of a Hillary Clinton administration), but it seems to me that projecting essentially left-wing ideology (the KKK, given that the alt-right is presumed to be full of white supremacists) onto the conservative right is just another Alinskyesque tactic of demonizing the enemy.

There is a long history in this country of the “silent majority” simply sitting by and waiting out the demagogues and the would-be dictators (like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt).  Unfortunately we have been so polarized by both sides (plus the bleacher bums shouting from the sidelines) in this election cycle that I don’t think the majority will remain silent much longer.  Certainly an administration that starts restricting or removing basic rights that have been guaranteed our citizens for over two centuries is going to find a lot of resistance coming from people who are no longer going to simply sit and take it.

There are 300 million guns in this country, and billions if not trillions of rounds of ammunition.

Come and take them, bitches.

From our cold dead hands.

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* “Fortune favors the bold” is not a particularly good motto in the nuclear age.  Something that Macarthur (perhaps my least-favorite American general) never understood, or he wouldn’t have advocated using the Bomb in North Korea.

** I’m less enamored of the Indiana Constitution’s Bill of RIghts, Article I Section 32, which states that “The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State.”  “The people shall” smacks a bit too much of “The State giveth, and the State may taketh away.”  But I’ll take it, even if it should be up around Section 2, before all the other things the State purports to protect.  The Florida Constitution (my wife plans for us to retire in the Sunshine State) is somewhat better, closer to 2A, but unfortunately spoils it by giving the legislature the right to regulate the “manner of bearing arms”.

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