If as one Dem put it, "We settle our differences at the ballot box. We don't have coups and we don't have riots,"
Oh really? Then what was the 4 years of rioting, looting, and arson by ANTIFA and BLM all about? Democrats kept saying that was a legit way to solve their differences with the president.
So does that mean if we want to settle our differences with President Puddinhead, we should do 5 or 6 billion dollars worth of damage to American cities? Dems would probably applaud that as it would give them an excuse to roll in the troops and toss the Constitution. Look at how they over-reacted to the January 6 protest, calling it insurrection and the worst thing since the Civil War. You'd be forgiven for thinking they were kidding, but you'd be wrong. Like spoiled kids the howling and foot-stomping has been a sight to behold.
The only thing about a conservative set of riots is, (1) it would be better organized and (2) conservatives would likely do damage to Democrat cities rather than to their own. When a child throws a tantrum, he tends to destroy his own things. When someone seeks redress of grievances against an oppressor, he tends to go after his oppressor and his things. As I remember, one of the things ancient Israel's laws prohibited was doing damage to yourself as part of worshiping the various pagan gods. It strikes me as significant that when a Democrat is angry he seems to destroy his own communities and his own fellows.
That's kind of a familiar political move in history - in fact quite an ancient one. Every time the devil makes a move to make himself the Prince of this World, he starts with rioting, violence and bloodshed, then proceeds to gather fighters to whip the populace into shape, and appoints one of his more cruel minions as king, emperor, pharaoh, Czar, Tsar, Caesar, President or potentate who proceeds to drive the nation to ruin.
It happens every time. We saw it in the kingdoms and empires of Europe where rule by privileged elites, nobles, kings and princes enslaved the proletariat (Karl Marx's word for peasants, peons or the masses). The rise of the United States opened a window that for a time allowed brought about the end of slavery (at least in the West). The old devil has tried mightily over the past 200 years to restore the rule of tyrants and succeeded at the cost of hundreds of millions of people slaughtered in the name of some promised utopia for all. All anyone ever got was shared misery and death.
The devil's argument was always that free will was too dangerous a thing and that people should be ruled by a superior creature (namely himself). The rise of Nazism, Communism and other collectivist totalitarian socialist states is nothing more than Satan's effort to make himself the ruler of all and to take the place of God.
The good news? It ain't gonna succeed. When you see these things, when knowledge shall be increased and men shall run to and fro, and when it becomes evident that our adversary is growing ever more frantic in his efforts to by force mold this world into his own image, then know that time is very short and we can look to the coming of Christ. Never forget. It will be a rescue mission, not a conquest. It will leave the world in ruin for a thousand years. And I, for one, believe that those who remain will destroy themselves. They have a pattern and for the first time in human history, they have the weapons with which to turn the Earth into a blackened husk.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
© 2021 by Tom King
