The V-Word Ain't "Vagina"
As Democrats participate in and initiate nationwide anti-Smitty (Trump) protests a sobering reflection is required because "US" history proffers an inconvenient truth.
From its very inception, pivotal moments in U.S. history have been accompanied by violence. Major social and political shifts achieved through peaceful movements and legislative change are exceptions anomalous to the aforementioned rule. The “Birth of a Nation” itself is resultant of violent rebellion against its own government (British Crown) and the subsequent unspeakable violence directed at Original Americans and Alkebulanians. Violence has been a recurring force in shaping U.S. history. Peaceful change is more of an exception than the norm and change achieved through nonviolent movements or legislative processes are highly unusual deviations from this pattern.
From revolutions to resistance movements, political violence refers to violent acts carried out with the intent of achieving political goals. It can take various forms, including assassinations, terrorism, riots, armed conflict, and state repression. Political violence often arises from ideological disputes, power struggles, or social movements seeking change.
Some key types of political violence include:
State-sponsored violence: Governments using force against their own people, such as suppression of protests or political purges.
Revolutionary violence: Armed uprisings or coups aimed at overthrowing a government.
Terrorism: Non-state actors using violence to instill fear and influence political outcomes.
Election-related violence: Intimidation, attacks, or unrest linked to electoral processes.
By Any Means Necessary: All Options Are On The Table
Anyone familiar with me knows that I am an acolyte of my “forefather,” Malcolm X. I was but a toddler at the time of his assassination. Yet, I have read every speech he ever wrote or spoke, and studied his life prolifically.
I once had a European-Amerikan male that labeled himself as a Democrat tell me: “We like MLK Blacks, we don’t like Malcolm X Blacks.” A comment as profoundly stupid as it was revealing, white supremacist, paternalistic, arrogant, hypocritical and insulting. Needless to state, I put as much distance between myself and that moron as possible, quickly. Problem is, idiots and stupid people are allowed to procreate thereby ensuring a fresh supply of new idiots. Subsequent to the interaction and considerable rumination, I realized he was just being honest; however ignorantly so.
Both Malcolm and Martin died violently via assassination. Not only was the so-called “Civil Rights Movement” replete with unutterable violence, its effectiveness is still being relitigated, if not questioned and retarded. I meant “retarded” in every possible exegesis. Think long and hard about this paragraph as we advance our current disquisitive journey for there is an end, to the means. Just stretch out with me a bit longer.
How long?
Not long.
As previously referenced, the so-called “Civil Rights Movement” (a social bowel movement as far as I am concerned) not only was replete with violence, that violence continues in various forms, to this very day. Just as it did prior. The Vietnam War protests directly and indirectly killed scores and maimed thousands for life.
From Kent State, to Jackson State to Anti-Vietnam war protesters in Washington on Saturday, October 21,1967. In the first national demonstration against the war, the Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organized the protest to get national visibility for the anti-war movement. Nearby, military policemen stood at ten-foot intervals around the Pentagon. Things got very ugly.
Descendants of kidnapped and enslaved Alkebulanians in the United States know violence, on a sustained basis, like no other demographic. For a change in “police-y” they have encountered from slave patrols, to voting rolls, continues as a most nebulous and evasive pursuit. In 1965 I was a toddler, not even two years of age and barely walking. Yet, I have the memories of tanks in the streets of Los Angeles burned into my mind and for evermore has my soul been branded. 27 years later, as a married grown man with two very young children, I would see those same tanks, in those same streets. Worse, so would my babies both of which were about the same age I was when I saw it the first time.
Lynchings. Rapes. The Red Summer. Tulsa. Detroit. Baltimore. Atlanta. East St. Louis. Omaha. Chicago. Ferguson. Too numerous to mention.
And it will surely happen again, sooner than later.
A Precarious and Dangerous Precipice
Donald “Smitty” Trump is a clear and present danger, but there exists something far more ominous and dangerous than him. That something is the denialistic need for his detractors to blame him in ad hominem attack, as opposed to blaming the system that brought him to power. Not once, but twice and, frankly, he would tell you thrice.
For the millionth time, I am informing you that Smitty is not the disease he is a symptom of it. It is the same dis-ease that has plagued the United States from day one. It is denialism, delusionality and racism cloaked in a blood streaked flag and “exceptionalism.” Smitty was coming no matter name. Because “US” has been on a trajectory to Smitty for four centuries and if one is genuinely surprised at the current state of affairs that is the dumbest M.F. that ever set foot on Gawd’s Green Earth.
Now, “woke” up to that.
The damage that has been done to the psyche, the economy and the stability (if there ever was) of the United States will take decades to recover from; if ever. Smitty hasn’t been in office 100 days, and if he were to drop dead at this very second, I assure you something even worse. A point of sociopolitical critical mass has not only been reached, but exceeded. Smitty represents a political paradigm shift that has altered both duopolistic parties. The entire governmental triumvirate has been neutered and castrated by a craven bully.
A Thousand Times
It has been said that coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. Show me a bully and I’ll show you a coward, and Smitty is both. This also makes him lethal; particularly when he has millions upon millions of psychos, sycophants, supporters and uniformed minions chomping at the bit for marching orders from the dear leader.
Eight months into his first term, Smitty’s followers engaged in deadly racist violence in a Charlottesville “Unite The Right” equivalent of a KKK rally. They regularly show up with confederate flags and assault rifles to compensate for their little frosted mini-wheat dicks. Trump has exhorted people at his political events to beat up dissenters promising he would pay their bail. He’s “tough,” you see.
On January 6, 2021 Trump’s rednecked, illiterate, inbred, racist minions attempted to recreate the very thing that started this violent “shithole” known as the “US.” And, to some degree, they succeeded. Though that is another essay for another time.
They tore up the place. They overran barricades. They erected gallows replete with nooses to lynch people. They vandalized and destroyed. They took a “Crap” in the hallways of the United States Capitol and smeared the “Crap” on the walls. The police not only ran from them, they assisted them and many of the police took a thumping. Think about what type of filthy, degenerate, nasty Neanderthal would do such a thing. A human capable of that, is capable of anything.
It is my informed belief that the “US” is in more trouble that it has ever been; both domestically and geopolitically. In fact it faces existential peril. A course correction is required for mere survival and it will not take place through “peaceful” means. It cannot.
Unless Smitty’s opposition, particularly those that self-identify as Democrats, are just going through the motions of some self serving group-grope engaged in psychosocial masturbation they had better realize that there will be blood. One of my favorite speeches by Father Malcolm is “The Ballot or The Bullet.” And I’ll leave that, at that.
I have limited this piece to a domestic perspective. The elephant in the room would be for me to provide an international or global application which would turn this piece into a set of encyclopedias. Albeit a sobering reality, at least to the drunken, his-tory has a way of reminding us that struggle and conflict often pave the road to transformation, even when we wish it weren’t so. While peaceful change has occurred pertinent to milquetoast matters on the rarest of occasions, the imprint of violence on pivotal moments in U.S. history is undeniable.
Unless, of course, one is in denial.
And I don’t mean the Alkebulanian river.
With gratitude and humility for and to you, I thank you again for your razor sharp commentary. Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing about where this country is and will certainly be, was or is unpredictable to anyone who has any idea or knowledge of the actual reality of their own life and the history of their own families in this country.
You have sharpened to a fine edge the reality that so many people in this country have decided to deflect, ignore or delay due to their complete willful denial about the truth of theirs and our existence here in Amerika.
I am confident that your exacting commentary will cut through the apathy.
I am dismayed that what you know and share with your readers has not been digested and assimilated many years prior.
The reality of generations of poorly educated disenfranchised populations of this country propagating morons who then propagate idiots who then have no choice but to follow propaganda because critical thinking was lost to them generations earlier is an observation that has an important place in the responsibilities and consequences that we are all facing and dealing with on a daily basis.
I continue, after many years, to regret that so many of us are so incapable of recognizing what should be predictable consequences of our actions.
You, my friend, put detail to those actions and their consequences in a way that few are willing, or possibly able to. Your studies and respect for Malcolm's work are serving you and all of us well, for this and future life times.
Thank you again for sharing your pride, your knowledge, your talents and your wisdom.
Joel Bartels
I agree that only violent resistance to fpotus's et al regime will be effective to get rid of the ongoing white supremacy. Not necessarily started by liberty supporters, but definitely met in kind. This regime, like others in the US before it, will not, has not, hesitated to use violent means to achieve its goal of complete domination by white men over everyone.