By Brandon Smith
Whenever you delve into the modern history of internal national conflict you’re bound to come across post-crisis accounts from people who said “We never saw it coming…” or “The violence hit us from nowhere…” Generally speaking, these were the people who weren’t paying attention and they just happened to survive by sheer luck.
I think of this dynamic a lot these days. I see a large contingent of American society (perhaps 25% of the population) which has been radicalized or brainwashed beyond all reason or repair. These people (leftists) operate deep within a protective bubble of propaganda and zealotry; they function within a hive mind that does not deviate from the demands of their gatekeepers. They cannot be reasoned with, nor can they be satiated. They lust for power and the suffering of anyone who opposes them.
One can see an immediate difference between the sides. Conservatives are so independent we in-fight constantly. We might agree on basic values (even in this we sometimes argue), but in terms of policy and action we rarely shake hands.
For the political left, any disagreement with the majority leads to immediate ostracism. The hive mind does not tolerate individual rebellion. Only the gatekeepers can change the mindset or the mission of the mob.
It is strange then that this dichotomy has resulted in conservatives, with their values of liberty and independence, seeking order. Meanwhile leftists, in their Orwellian uniformity of thought, seek chaos and the deconstruction of civilization. You would think the relationship would be reversed, but this is the way it has always been.
Looking back on the events of the Bolshevik Revolution and the long list of Marxist disruptions in Europe following WWI, it should not have been at all surprising to Europeans that domestic conflict would erupt. It should not have been surprising that people would follow their natural inclination to rally around their founding heritage rather than submit to the cultural and moral relativism of the radical left.
Fascism was popular exactly because it offered shelter from the chaos and degeneracy of communism. The war and brutality that followed was seen as a balancing of the scales. Europeans wanted to ensure that the communists would never get a chance to wreak havoc again.
To be clear, both systems of governance are authoritarian and can lead to monstrous outcomes, but communism’s love for economic sabotage, mob actions and political violence are almost always a precursor to a fascist crackdown. The public does not embrace fascism in a vacuum, they must be compelled by an existential threat.
The question is, can communist subversion be defeated without using “authoritarian” measures? Is a constitutional republic equipped to deal with this kind of threat? When someone wages war on your society internally, is there a way to fight them while being civic minded? Probably not.
What we are witnessing in the US and Europe today is, in every way, a Marxist/Communist insurgency. It’s difficult to determine what stage we are at in this war. We have moved well beyond the stage of propaganda and mob influence into the realm of political violence, with multiple assassination attempts and terror attacks against civilian targets.
The gatekeepers for the woke communist movement are obviously Democrat politicians and media influencers. They have been consistently and actively encouraging mass hysteria and violence. They have used media spin to protect activist groups like Antifa, pretending that such organizations don’t exist. Whenever activists cause harm or death, the media and political leaders immediately move to defend that action as if it was justified.
When asked why Democrats are continuing down the path of militancy, their response is that Donald Trump is a “dictator and a fascist.” Yet, these same people can’t seem to come up with a single legitimate example of HOW Trump is acting like a dictator.
Deportations of illegal immigrants? Most countries on Earth have basic immigration laws and enforce them much more harshly than the Trump Administration does. Cuts to federal programs and employees? The President is perfectly within his power of office to reduce waste in the federal government. How about using the National Guard in US cities? Democrat leaders in those cities have aided violent activists, helping to disrupt ICE operations while threatening the lives of agents. If they don’t want the National Guard in their cities they should stop waging war on immigration officials.
From Trump’s remodeling of the White House ballroom to the US troops countering drug smugglers, everything Trump does is blown out of proportion by Democrats into an “end of democracy” scenario. Their useful-idiot followers then take these claims as permission to create even more turmoil.
The government shutdown in particular is becoming a nexus point for this agenda. The Senate needs only five Democrat votes to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, but Democrats refuse to see reason. Meanwhile, they are blaming Republicans for the consequences of the shutdown, specifically seeking public pain as leverage over conservatives.
Trump is already being held accountable for a prolonged shutdown of EBT. The Democrats know their audience well. They know that the free-stuff army is entitled, vicious and easy to manipulate.
I warned about this outcome at the beginning of the month; Democrats are fighting hard for the shutdown to continue because it creates greater fear in their constituency. However, if Republicans fold then Democrats will use the same threat of civil unrest over and over again. The government will be under their control even though they lost the elections.
Democrat rhetoric has been even worse than usual. DNC Chair Ken Martin recently argued on MSNBC that:
“The Democratic Party’s job right now is to win elections. That’s our focus. But we may be nearing the moment where we are truly in a dictatorship and an authoritarian regime here has completely shredded the Constitution. Then elections don’t matter, and then the resistance looks completely different. And we may be nearing that moment.”
Senator Chuck Schumer also made provocative statements calling for “resistance” against Trump:
“This is tyranny. This is what happens in dictatorships… I don’t care if you’re Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, moderate – people should be forcefully rising up against this…”
In an odd and obviously inciting discussion on MSNBC, Joy Reid and Jasmine Crockett sent out multiple signals to leftists, barely disguising their intent:
Joy Reid: “We’re in a moment where the MAGA crowd is armed to the teeth, and they’re not shy about it. So, everybody needs to pick up a weapon – whether it’s a vote, a protest sign, or whatever it takes – because this isn’t just politics anymore; it’s survival.”
Jasmine Crockett: “Absolutely, Joy. This is a war, this isn’t a battle. We’re talking about the soul of this country, about whether democracy survives or gets crushed under fascism. And yeah, we need to arm ourselves with everything we’ve got—truth, turnout, and tenacity. The other side declared war on us long ago.”
Numerous Democrats across social media are announcing, in no uncertain terms, that they want conservatives dead and Trump allies humiliated or eliminated. When they return to a government majority and get power back, they say conservatives are going to pay a terrible price for daring to oppose them.
But if we’re living under a fascist regime as they assert, then how could they possibly expect to return to government power? If elections are still an option, then leftists must not be too serious about their claims of fascism.
A perfect example is the New York mayor’s race, which is is going much like I predicted months ago. Zohran Mamdani (a champagne socialist/communist with wealthy parents) is holding a steep lead in polling over all other candidates. As I noted when the race began, Mamdani is the natural end game of the political left – A combination of all the groups that hate western civilization, concentrated into a single man.
Democrats are doubling down. Mamdani proudly mentioned this in a recent campaign speech, arguing that the correct path of Democrats is to blindly charge forward. In other words, they should not self reflect on their long list of failures, but dive headfirst into radical chaos.
Prominent Democrats like AOC and Bernie Sanders are openly endorsing Mamdani. Like it or not, this is the course that their party is taking, which means violent conflict is inevitable. If Dems are being honest in their rhetoric to “get revenge” on conservatives once they return to power (there’s no reason to think they are joking), then the rules of survival dictate that leftists can never be allowed to return to power.
If Democrat leaders continue on the path of disrupting deportations of illegals and threatening immigration officials, then Americans will increasingly support National Guard intervention. The public may even support the arrest of those same politicians.
If leftists incite mass violence over the loss of SNAP benefits, the gatekeepers will have to be arrested or removed from the country. One can question the constitutionality of the reaction, but the path that led us to this is undeniable. Leftists are provoking these responses; they are making peaceful resolution impossible.
They have gone so far over the top in their behavior, I have to ask: Are they doing this on purpose to trigger a civil war, or an authoritarian response? Do they really believe they will be able to use national instability as a weapon to get what they want?
My long running theory ever since Trump ran for office in 2016 is that he represents a perfect scapegoat for a leftist/globalist induced collapse of the US. In fact, for many years I have posited that if real conservatives and patriots (not Neo-Cons) ever gained legitimate government power, the elites would simply crash the system around our ears and make it look like it was our fault.
This plan seems to be unfolding right now. Progressive gatekeepers are using far-left activists as cannon fodder to induce a crisis, or a domestic war.
Think about the Bolshevik Revolution: The gatekeepers spurred a revolution of the poor and the working class, yet Lenin and Trotsky both came from upper-middle class wealth (like Mamdani). Hell, Karl Marx came from an upper middle-class family and married into his wife’s riches. When his debts and refusal to work a steady job caught up with him, he lived off the money of rich benefactors.
The gatekeepers of the left rarely share the struggles of the downtrodden workers they purport to represent, they only use the working class and the poor as tools to gain power and destroy their ideological enemies.
This is what Democrat leaders are doing with the mentally ill rabble they have accumulated. They are aiming the naive and unhinged horde at the guts of the country and they are hoping to create enough mayhem that Trump, conservatives, nationalists, all of us get blamed for the uncompromising response that follows.
Maybe they are hoping that in the process, conservatives will haphazardly jump on the bandwagon of totalitarianism; that we will look like the villains. I think the progressives are underestimating the average American’s resolve to see order restored. Playing the victim may not help them garner much public empathy this time.
It’s hard to say what the end result will be, but I’m finding it difficult to see an outcome that doesn’t include considerable conflict and, unfortunately, bloodshed. And, to be frank, most of it is likely to befall the leftist side. For the sake of their own self preservation, I hope they realize they’re only being used to further an agenda, and their gatekeepers don’t actually care what happens to them in the end.
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34 Comments
Bravo! Excellent piece, Brandon!!
Agree. The piece alludes to violence and bloodshed. A saying oft used is “all’s fair in love and WAR.” It is a truism if you want to live. Unfortunately there are too many men on the right who are compromised by their left leaning women in addition to the false Christianity. They will not fight collectively but maybe individually in self defense. I am hoping this gradual build up of hostilities against Russia does not dissuade conservative men to come to the aid of liberty. Fighting a war against Russia and her allies is stupid when the real enemy is already in our country.
Please explain what you mean by a “false Christianity “.
– A concerned Child. of God
I have sought for the same explanation you asked for. I don’t think such commenters know what Christianity really is and just want something to blame for their troubles. If he means those who claim to be Christian but are not, then I agree that’s a problem. The phrase “the false Christianity” does not allude to that, but if my english language understanding is correct it means all Christian religions. That means the commenter is against something he does not even understand. Even those who once were believers in Christ but have since rejected Him lack comprehension of those beliefs. I have seen more and more comments like this and that is not a good thing.
The church of universal acceptance and unlimited tolerance. Anything and everything is OK, you are not to judge. Turn the other cheek every single time. Christ was a woman. The Jews are bad but Muslims are ok. I could go on and on, but the git is many day modern churches and I am talking about mainstream denominations, are far left and believe false teachings or just make shit up. They are woke and reflect woke culture. Then there is big business churches and denominations who play at Christianity. Clergy living in mansions and preaching they need more and more money. Mainstream congregations attacking fundamentalists or other more traditional Christian practices.
When you alter a religion to conform to the world in order to thrive and become powerful, that is not Christianity.
“Are Democrats Trying To Start A Civil War?”
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Democrats are not trying to start such a war. The fact is that Democrats have been CARRYING ON an active Civil War against America and (real) Americans since they reclaimed National power under the Arkansas Ghoul Mob in the ‘90s.
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When Democrats began to side with Deep State Money Interests… when they began to represent illegal aliens and not actual Americans… when they turned their backs on sound legacy American values in favor of all forms of perversity… that’s when their War on America began. Decades ago. It’s been sad and embarrassing for Them, and tragic for America.
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Democrats used to represent Middle Class and Blue Collar Americans. They turned their backs on those real Americans in favor of being the functionaries for Deep State interests and interests of foreigners and all ‘Persons-Who-Are-Anything-But-White’. Democrats declared war on White America and they continue to execute that war with vigor and sickly delight.
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The Democrat Party is a Dead-Party-Walking. They are currently conducting their own going-out-of-business sale. They have no good ideas and simply recycle failed Marxist and Communist ideas and principles. In short… They chose their own path of destruction. It did not have to be this way. They wanted this, and they chose it. And they want to sacrifice America and real Americans on a filthy altar of anti-American values and a pro-perversity and raging anti-White hate-based philosophy of flaming racism against All Things White and Decent.
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Democrats do not seek “Equality” for America’s minorities. Democrats want institutional favoritism and Favored Status For Anything Not White. This agenda is at the heart of everything they believe and do these days. Democrats are failed Party who seek to take down America along with them.
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You think Halloween is scary? Not nearly as scary as the way Democrats appear every day of the year these days in America. The scariest costume is not some skeleton or ghost or ghoul. The scariest costumes are those who dress as Democrats in Washington, D. C. and in Red State capital cities around America.
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It would great if we had the best of what the Democrats used to be – representative of real, working Americans. Those days are gone. Democrats did this to themselves. No one did this to them.
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With Democrats today these are no treats and nothing but tricks. All day, every day. When was the last time that a Democrat actually accomplished something that was actually good for America. You probably have to go back over 60 years and more for that.
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The rest of the World is watching America self-destruct in real time. Yes, indeed. Now very day is a Nightmare. And ghouls and vampires with titles fly and slither among us..
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Democrats have a Halloween message for us every day… “TRICK… OR TRICK!”…
Both parties are responsible, not just the democrats. That is the problem. While we hold our noses and vote republican, they still knife us in the back. There are few who really care about the US. They are mostly lawyers who do lawyer things to get rich and powerful. They have become the guild that controls everything in the US including the elites and the banks. They are the law givers. We are seeing that clearly now. They run the country, not protect it. They defile the Constitution for their own ends.
Big difference between “Republicans” and “MAGA.” The dems constantly denigrate MAGA, proving that it is the effective part of the party. The rest are merely part of the Uniparty sewer that has ruled DC (and the country) for decades.
For the first time, we have a chance to beat back all the “isms”…and we are growing our “big tent” every day, w/those all over the world exclaiming in envy that “We need our own Trump!” However, the more effective and united we are, the more they hate us.
So yes, we will have to crush the opponents once and for all and never mind the name-calling. (The constant trolling and ridicule is a tremendous weapon for us and against them.) It’s unfortunate, but true, that unless we go-along-to-get-along, they will hate us more w/each success (and they are coming fast and furious these days. The admin of Trump 2.0 is killing it) (in a good way!)
Do you remember the TEA Party? I sure do and went to rallies and such. What happened? The establishment republicans attacked and cajoled until they were able to bring the TERA Party under control. By aligning with “republicans” we expand our base but lose control of the party. Based on what I am seeing and reading, it won’t be too long before MAGA was just a movement like the TEA Party. I hold no hope MAGA will be able to defeat the entrenched bureaucracy. As evidenced by the RINO faction of the party, the establishment people are already pitting MAGA against itself. Fuentes, Carlson, Jones are recent examples. They are being attacked by the likes of Shapiro, Levin, Loomer and big guns like AIPAC, Adelson, and ADL. As they say, a house divided against itself will not stand. “MAGA” is being targeted by the Establishment republicans like, Fine and Cruz just to name a few. The writing is on the wall. All that remains is how MAGA responds.
The Tea Party didn’t go away, it just became something else. Now the Republican Party is forced to acknowledge and debate our policies and positions. I think the opposite is happening – We are taking them over and they are desperately battling to retain control. BTW, Fuentes said he admires Stalin, I wouldn’t put much stock in his opinions. People focus WAY too much on the Israeli issue – Israel is irrelevant, Gaza is irrelevant.
Whether or no, Democrats are trying to start a civil war, that is where this is all heading regradless. The country has become to polarized by incompetent and corrupt politicians who care not so much about the country but as to get re-elected. As such is all about giving handouts and freebies to their constituents while promoting “class warfare”. They blatantly operate out of the “Cloward and Piven” handbook.
The deep state is facilitating the uprisings. The permanent government is threatened and they are striking back.
Fine with me. Just warn them what their bodies will look like after and how they will be disposed of so we can get on with our lives with more food and money, not being given away anymore to our enemies.
Thank you an excellent review of present conditions and displaying a thought process no longer used by the majority. We are at a point in history where the masses no longer think for themselves and are easily maneuvered into a long term psychopath’s agenda. How does it end ? I believe it is so broken a society , it will have to completely breakdown before it can be repaired, if ever. If people would just read your article, that would be a great start to get a real thinking majority started again. Sad thing is people do not read, they watch TV , biggest propaganda tool ever invented.
On a far larger scale than Jonestown, the left is a death cult. People who want to live wouldn’t say and do the things the left does. Whether it’s demonic possession or brainwashing the result will be the same. One way or another they’re going to get the death they worship.
Who was behind the death vaxx? I know the left was, and am wondering if Trump was also since he has no interest in getting rid of it.
IIRC, it was Trump who was behind the death vax. He put in motion “Operation Warp Speed.” He actually took credit for it.
I would say Trump was more of a misguided salesman of the vax, and he never pushed for forced vaccination like the Democrats did. Obviously, operation warp speed and the vaccines were planned out long before Trump took office, and he had a lot of evil people in his ear (including Fauci) telling him this is what he had to do. He owns that blunder, but I don’t think his intent was malicious.
This is one of his many faults. He lives in the “Elite Group” and acts accordingly. We are quick to blame his advisors for his missteps. I do not believe they are missteps. Trump knows what he is doing and he knows he cannot tell us what his plan is. We have to trust him until he breaks our trust. I just hope he knows what he is doing, otherwise we will end up in a world war while fighting a civil war.
Hospitals have “quietly “ reclassified vaccines as “biogenics”- allowing injections without consent. A shocking whistleblower from within the hospital system has come forward with a grave warning: the term “vaccine” is quietly disappearing from medical consent forms-replaced with the broad and deceptive category of “Biologics” or “Biogenics.”
One way or another, everyone is going to have to start being responsible adults. This womb to tomb benefit system and commie pipe dreams of UBI, free shit, and poor college decisions has to end. I am not against public assistance I just believe it should be there for those who really and truly need it. And it means treating it like a charity where ppl donate to the cause not forced with threats of jail time or government gestapo robbery to hand over their tithing. Regular auditing, means testing, proof of employment searching, and drug/alcohol testing should also be mandatory. Also restricting what it buys to only healthy food, no sugary snacks, ice cream, or sodas.
So are Democrats trying to start a Civil War? Democrat James Carville wouldn’t mind that. This is the same political party that always wants to seek vengeance on its opponents and they don’t mind if there’s violence and chaos included.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/james-carville-wants-walk-shame-collaborators-once-trump-leaves-office
I am fortunate enough to live in a state where individual security is provided by Smith and Wesson and cleanup is provided by Caterpillar. We don’t call 911 here, we call 811.
Conservatives and moderate Democrats may come and go but Radicalism persists. It’s that persistence that gives Communists the unshakeable belief that in the end they’ll triumph. It’s a plague that rears up from time to time but never really goes away.
It doesn’t go away because it is supported by rich elites using NGOs for funding, and because Neo-Cons and Democrat leaders are helping it from behind the scenes. Ultimately, average conservatives will be required to rise up and eliminate the problem if we are ever to have peace in this country.
Kunstler gave you a nod, Brandon.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/last-ditch
“The question is, can communist subversion be defeated without using ‘authoritarian’ measures? Is a constitutional republic equipped to deal with this kind of threat? When someone wages war on your society internally, is there a way to fight them while being civic minded? Probably not.” — Brandon Smith
Democrats are rejoicing the Mamdani win as NYC mayor and Democrat elect of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger. Lets see if they keep it civil. NYC is setting itself up for failure when capitol takes flight before the new Mayor steals it.
I would not be surprised if Mamdani puts in place, capitol controls so it doesn’t leave NYC.
Brandon, great article. I couldn’t agree more!
I don’t want to see the leftist hordes preserved. In or to maintain a functioning republic, they must be destroyed. You cannot reason or compromise with insanity.
The DOJ must arrest the likes of Schumer, AOC, Pelosi etc. They are clearly and deliberately fomenting civil unrest and violence. I cannot believe their arrests haven’t happened already. But that plays into your long running thought that Trump is in power only so that the globalists can blame him and we Conservatives for their deliberate destruction of the West.
This is where, I think, the well armed citizenry comes in. For our survival, we can take unconstitutional actions that the government is prevented from doing. The basis and reasoning for this is found in the Declaration of Independence, eloquently put forth.
The continuation of Freedom and Liberty for future generations is beyond the scope and ability of government and one man. That responsibility rests on our capable shoulders.
“The DOJ must arrest the likes of Schumer, AOC, Pelosi etc. They are clearly and deliberately fomenting civil unrest and violence.”
IMO, they are the Patsies. The real players behind the scenes pulling their strings are George Soros and his son Alex and Bill Gates. And Pelosi the old crow left a multi-millionaire from insider trading whose husband made a fortune from her information.
I wouldn’t call them patsies, I would call them partners. Sometimes you have to go through the middlemen before you can get to the people at the top.
This is the guy funneling millions in the US and around the world to destabilize it. He took over for his dad. He even took a picture which added to his LONG list of pictures taken with high profile politicians and candidates supporting their campaigns.
https://x.com/AlexanderSoros
He was behind the candidacy of Zorhan Mamdani. We’ll see if that works out for Soros because Mamdani hates billionaires. He’s even said that but perhaps he bribed Mamdani with enough campaign funds to look the other way.
Mamdani SAYS he is opposed to billionaires. But he certainly accepts billionaire $$.
I care not what a man says he does, but what he actually does.
The one good thing about Alex Soros is, unlike his father, inept at making money. He just knows how to spend it.