AMERICA MUST NIP CONSERVATIVE INSURRECTION IN THE BUD

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree 

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

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AMERICA MUST NIP CONSERVATIVE INSURRECTION 

IN THE BUD

It is essential that America come down on Donald Trump and his conservative insurrectionists with both feet. Conservatives, by definition, are dedicate to “conserving” the traditions of the past at all costs. There’s a very simple reason for that - because past traditions have always given them a leg up. Preserving tradition guarantees that their stature in society is based on the color of their skin rather than their intellect or their ability to compete. For that reason, conservatives tend to be the most dangerous and reactionary group of any society they’re a part of, because they're fighting to maintain a tradition they view as essential to preserving their way of life. We see evidence of that all over the world.  
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In the Middle East, it’s the devout Muslims who are responsible for most of the death and mayhem throughout the region. They’re willing to kidnap and even murder young women for nothing more than bucking tradition to get a formal education, the right to drive, or to obtain the right to handle their personal business without a male sponsor. And what makes conservatives particularly lethal is they tend to be highly religious, so they've deluded themselves into believing they're acting on behalf of God. Thus, in every nation around the world, conservatives tend to be the society's closed-minded zealots.
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The struggle against the conservative tendency to suppress human rights is ongoing in China, Russia, India and Africa. Now, here in the United States, reckless conservatives have mounted a violent insurrection against our government to "conserve" White supremacy. But instead of nipping it in the bud by coming down on them with both feet, we've just sat back and casually watched it play itself out on television. Due to the mindlessly naïve attitude of most Americans that fascist oppression "can't happen here," we're currently doing our very best to fluff off a full-blown insurrection as just a bunch of 'good ole boys' blowing off steam.
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But what we saw in the nation's Capitol on January 6th was just the beginning. Due to changing demographics, the Republican Party recognizes that their power and influence is slowly, but inevitably, slipping away, so they no longer have any use for democracy.

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Conservatives have been in revolt mode ever since the election of Barack Obama. And Obama's success as President made the situation even worse. Trump's inability to measure up to President Obama made the situation intolerable for those who based their self-concept on cultural superiority rather than personal accomplishment, because it contradicts the very foundation of White supremacy.
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It was Donald Trump's inability to compete with Barack Obama that actually led to both "The Big Lie", and the insurrection. Because in the eyes of bigoted conservatives, Trump's inability to compete not only debunked their claim of White superiority, but constituted the ultimate assault on the nation’s White supremacist tradition - and the fact that Trump lost to the former subordinate of a Black man, only served to poured salt in the wound. 

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Thus, the current situation provides the perfect opportunity for a demagogue to exploit conservative anger for his own selfish interests. That's exactly what we saw in our nation's Capitol during Trump's first desperate attempt to save face. So as we speak, a humiliated Donald Trump is currently at his Mar-a-Lago retreat contemplating the most effective way to further exploit conservative anger to bring this nation to its knees.
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Trump is much too childishly petulant to simply lick his wounds and disappear, so as we saw in his mindless attack on Mitch McConnell, at this point it's all about payback. Trump is only thinking about Donald Trump. He's much too selfish, immature, and intellectually deprived to care about America. It's just not his nature.

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So we'd be fools not to come down on Donald Trump like a sledgehammer, because if we don't, he lacks the common sense to realize he can't win, and he's so narcissistically deluded that he undoubtedly has visions of becoming King Donald. And beyond that, it's more likely than not that he's also under the influence of Vladimir Putin. If that wasn't the case, Trump would never have had the courage to try to pull off an insurrection against the United States on his own, because he's much too much of a blustering and braggadocios wimp. Bigmouth braggarts like Trump are always cowards. That explains why he didn't show up after telling his supporters he was marching to the Capitol with them.

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Newsweek reported that "Putin loyalists were quick to jump on the insurrection at the Capitol this month. Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's Federation Council, said in a Facebook post, 'The celebration of democracy is over,' arguing the U.S. had lost its claim as the world's democratic model." So the Capitol insurrection wasn't just a matter of happenstance. Vladimir Putin was in on it up to his collarbone, because Donald Trump has neither the courage nor the intelligence to plan such a thing on his own.
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The Russians have been grooming Donald since the 1980s, and Putin has spent a lot of time preparing him for just this moment. The Guardian reported that "former Russian official Yuri Shvets claimed that the now-former president [Donald Trump] was one of many people in the west targeted by the former Soviet Union to grow into assets that would further Russia's causes." The article went on to say, Trump's narcissism made him a perfect target.

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It makes perfect sense. How else do we explain away the fact that Trump tried not once, but twice, to establish a "back-channel" means of communication with Russia that couldn't be monitored by our intelligence services? And why else would Trump side with Putin before the entire world against our own intelligence community in Helsinki? And why would Trump completely ignore the fact that Putin placed a bounty on the heads of American troops? Trump also acted in Russia's interest when he turned on our loyal allies, the Kurds. In my 2019 article, DONALD TRUMP - A RUSSIAN ASSET MASQUERADING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, I pointed out the following:

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"Trump turned his back on the Kurds after they lost over 11,000 men helping the United States fight terrorism. Following a mere phone conversation with Turkish president, Erdogan - in the middle of the night, and without consulting either our NATO allies or the American military - Trump agreed to withdraw American troops from northern Syria that were in place for the specific purpose of protecting our Kurdish allies.

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"As a direct result of Trump's self-serving treachery towards the Kurds, over 300,000 people have been displaced - and beyond that, now there's a Russian flag flying over a base in Syria that was built with American taxpayer dollars."

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And finally, Trump's been on a mission to destabilize and discredit both our intelligence community and the press since the day he stepped foot in office. Why? Why has Trump been so determined to destabilize the very pillars of our democracy? Take a moment to consider that question. The answer is glaringly obvious. 
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If Trump had been intelligent enough to try to hide his treachery we would have been all over him. But in this case his gross ineptness worked in his favor. We felt that he was so open in his behavior that it must have somehow been justified. And he's benefiting from that very same kind of thinking regarding the insurrection.
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The primary reason that Trump is not in jail as we speak, is because the American people can't believe that anybody could be dumb enough to try to stage an insurrection right in the open and on national television. So we've assumed that Trump's insurrection was intended to be lawful a demonstration that just go out of hand. We also assumed that Trump simply didn't have the common sense to understand what he was putting into motion. But we mustn't forget that prior to the "demonstration," when Trump was urging his supporters to attend, he promised them that it "will be wild" - and, for once, he didn't lie, but how did he know it was going to "be wild" in advance?
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So, Donald Trump's "cozy" relationship with Vladimir Putin is clear, and anyone who can't see a pattern in all the so-called "coincidences" attendant to it is blind. Donald Trump is undoubtedly a Russian asset. That's why he insisted on the intelligence community declassifying their files to allow Bill Barr to investigate their investigation into the Trump-Russian collusion. He wanted to know how much they knew.
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Yes, it seems unbelievable, but then, we've never had a person as self-serving, intellectually flawed, and totally corrupt as Donald Trump in the White House before. So we've got to open our eyes and recognize the fact that America is not invulnerable to tyranny. Before January 6th, we never thought our nation's Capitol would ever be attacked by our own citizens. But times are changing, and so is the Republican Party. The Republican Party has become so radicalized that Ronald Reagan couldn't be elected in today's environment. So it's essential that we address that issue.

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Conservative leaders have clearly connected the dots, but now that they're rapidly losing both power and clout, they've placed their own interest before the interests of the nation. They're continually ignoring the will of the American people. So they're no longer interested in democracy, because now that they're losing the majority, democracy is no longer in their best interest. As hostile towards Russia as Republicans once were, they've now come to the conclusion that they're willing to be Red if it'll keep America White, and that's exactly what Trump represents. That’s why now that they’ve failed in their attempt to overthrow the government, they’ve started generating conspiracy theories claiming that they weren’t actually the ones responsible for the insurrection. They know the seriousness of what they tried to do, so now they’re trying to cover their tracks by saying “It wasn’t us.” That gives them time to regroup and figure out their next move. 

Conservative Republicans now claim that the insurrection was mounted by undercover left-wing groups pretending to be Trump supporters – and that’s in spite of the fact that after hundreds of arrests, the FBI has found no evidence of their claim whatsoever. But Trump used his clout as President to convince a large segment of the American public that the FBI can't be trusted - no one can be trusted, but "The Donald."
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Trump has been engaged in the most blatant act of treachery in the history of this country ever since the day he stepped foot into office, and conservatives are playing right along with him. A Reuters/Ipsos poll has found that “Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists 'trying to make Trump look bad.' That points out another thing that makes conservatives such a dangerous enemy of American democracy – they're mindlessly undereducated followers are willing to believe anything convenient that serves to validate their desperate and distorted view of reality. 

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A perfect example of that is the way they’ve distorted the teachings of the Christian faith. Christian conservatives have become so radicalized that they've discorded the teachings of Jesus Christ that we should “Love thy neighbor," and replaced it with Donald Trump’s philosophy of “America first” - and even when they say “America first," they say it with a wink. What they actually mean is “White supremacy first,” and there’s ample evidence to substantiate that as well. 

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CANADIAN BORDER WALL

While Donald Trump claimed to be determined to “protect our borders”, he only found it necessary to build a wall on our Southern border. The border we share with Canada has been completely ignored. So the fact is, Trump wasn't interested in protecting our borders at all - what's to keep our enemies from crossing into America through Canada? Trump was only interested in putting on a show of protecting our Southern border, because he was catering to the bigotry of Trump loyalist to prevent the "scourge" of non-White hordes from entering the country from the South.
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One would never know that Trump's own wife, Melania, is in the country illegally. She lied under oath to get into the country. She came here on an Einstein Visa reserved for people with special talent by lying about her education. Politifact reported that "Melania Trump falsely stated that she graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture when questioned by an attorney in 2013. The inaccurate credential was also on her old website." That alone is enough to get her deported, but she's an Eastern European White woman, so she was made First Lady instead.

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Conservatives have been living in a delusional bubble of assumed superiority since this country’s inception. They saw minorities as being innately inferior to themselves, so they were looked upon as merely "the help." But people like Barack Obama, and now Kamala Harris and many others, have popped that bubble. Now conservatives are beginning to realize that what they so casually dismissed as Black “soul” is not just limited to singing and dancing, it’s a manifestation of intellectual creativity straining to be unleashed. As a result, many conservatives now feel desperately threatened, thus, their chant, "You won't replace us!" Now Trump is playing on their natural propensity for bigotry and the insecurity that spawned it.
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Bigotry is what conservatives yearn for, and bigotry is what Trump has promised them, in return for allowing him to place a Trump sign on the American White House. 

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BIGOTRY IS A CONSERVATIVE
TRADITION
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Vladimir Putin has undoubtedly long since recognized that Trump was the perfect leader for this motely crew of insecure conservatives, because they have much in common. Trump's entire life has been dedicated to hiding his own shortcomings and insecurities. That explains why Trump is so thin-skinned, defensive, and braggadocios. 
He's always been given everything he’s ever had in life. As a result, his becoming incensed over losing the election was just the natural reaction of a spoiled brat. Even though he lost the election, Trump expected the America people to simply give him the presidency, like his daddy would have done.

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Donald Trump suffers from a pathological sense of entitlement. Never having earned anything on his own merit is why he's so incompetent and intolerant of disloyalty. He's never had to actually earn anything in his life. His father simply gave him everything. Even when he wanted to go to college, he just paid someone to take the SAT exam for him, and his older sister did his homework. Then later, his father got a doctor to lie to get him out of the draft. As a result, Trump thinks that's the way life is supposed to work. He thinks he's "The chosen one", and the world is obligated to cater to his desires. 
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Then after his father died, and his gross incompetence sent him into bankruptcy, and every American bank turned their backs on him, that's when Putin stepped in and took his father's place. That accounts for Trump's unwavering loyalty to Vladimir Putin. The Russians, literally, saved Trump from financial disaster - and they may still be propping him up to this day. That's undoubtedly why he's been so secretive about his financial situation. Donald Trump is such a braggart that if he didn't have something to hide, and his business acumen made him look good, he'd have his financial documents blasted in strobe lights on Times Square.
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Putin knew that as a direct result of always having the road paved for him throughout his life, Trump never had to develop the character, intellect, or fortitude that most of us are forced to develop just to survive. That made him a severely flawed individual, and easily manipulated. In that sense, Trump is just like his followers – but on steroids. Many of them have also been given their stature in society - not by wealth, but by virtue of their White skin - and both they, and Donald Trump, are desperate to hold on to their life of entitlement, and neither want to ever be forced to compete on a level playing field. So Trump and his supporters have a symbiotic relationship, and an unbreakable bond.

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THE GOP:
BIRDS OF A FEATHER

So with Putin's help, Trump began formulating “The Big Lie” months before the election, because even though he would never admit it, Trump fully recognized his shortcomings as President. But in spite of his incompetence, Trump was desperate to hold on to power, both because he was cognizant of the legal challenges that awaited him outside the White House gates, and also because his fragile ego was much too weak to tolerate a loss. A loss would validate everything that

Trump has dedicated his life to hiding - that he's a fraud, a daddy's boy, and an incompetent wimp. But worst of all, it would mean that he couldn't standup to the former subordinate of Barack Obama, that "uppity" Black man. That’s why Trump couldn't conjure up the class to attend President Biden's inauguration, and even to this day, he’s still claiming that he won a landslide victory – and that’s in spite of over 60 (SIXTY!) losses in court before judges that he appointed, and his former attorney, Sidney Powell, admitting the claim of election fraud was a lie. 

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TRUMP ATTORNEY, SIDNEY POWELL:
ELECTION FRAUD WAS A LIE

Law & Crime reported, “Facing more than $1.3 billion in liabilities over her post-election conspiracy theories, lawyer Sidney Powell told a judge that the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against her earlier this year should be dismissed because ‘no reasonable person’ could believe that her well-publicized comments about an international plot against former President Donald Trump were 'statements of fact.'" In other words, she's basing her entire defense on the fact that the people who believed Trump's "Big Lie" of election fraud had to be stupid. 

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So, there we have it – Trumpism in a nutshell. It’s a colossal fraud, and based on lies, bigotry and insecurity. Yet, even though Trump’s “Big lie” has been thoroughly debunked, Republican Trumpsters are still trying to use it to stack the deck in their favor. Republicans have proposed over 361 voter suppression laws in 47 states based on Trump's lie of election fraud, because, due to changing demographics, they no longer care for democracy. They've become the enemies of democracy, and therefore, the domestic enemies of the United States. So no matter how many claims the Republicans make of being the ultimate patriots, or how many flag pins they attach to their lapels, the bottom line is clear - now that they’re facing the loss of power and influence, they no longer have any use for either American democracy, or its ideals. 

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18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy 

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If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

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TRUMP IS GUILTY OF BOTH

INSURRECTION AND SEDITION

Eric L. Wattree 
Http://wattree.blogspot.com 

Ewattree@Gmail.com 
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA) 
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.