SOMETIMES IT JUST HITS YOU IN THE FACE

By Bob Walsh

 

Some things that have a huge effect on history and on the way the country or the world work sort of sneak up on you.  Sometimes they run up and smack you in the face.

This coming Sunday is the one year anniversary of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA.  That was, IMHO, in many ways a tipping point.

When I saw that still of Donald Trump, bleeding down the side of his face, surrounded by Secret Service agents, holding up his fist and shouting FIGHT, I said, "The election is over.  Trump has it.  That photograph will do it."  Obviously there were other issues involved too (like Harris' manifest incompetence as a candidate) but I firmly believe that was the tipping point.  That sealed the deal.

What if it had gone the other way?  Had Trump been killed would Biden have tried to muscle his way back in?  Could Harris have actually won against whoever the Republicans pushed forward?  (Maybe Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis?)  Had whatever Democrat won there is no doubt in my mind that the invasion of illegal aliens would have continued, there would have been increasing pressure to "legitimize" the ones here already and the balance of power might very well have tipped to the Democrat-Socialist side for the foreseeable future.  

Would the US have turned into Cuba or Venezuela?  Maybe, but probably not.  Would it have turned into semi-socialist Great Britain or Sweden?  Very possibly.  Would Americans have a better life?  IMHO absolutely NOT.  The nanny state would have continued to extract more and more from an increasingly small taxpayer class and use it to bribe non-taxpayers to keep it in power.  This would continue until the system collapsed in on itself due to net tax payers fleeing, either physically or economically while the net takers continued to take and take and take in the firm belief that they were entitled to do so.  Schools would continue to turn out a worse and worse and worse "product" and the power grid would continue to fail.  It might not be Mad Max but it could easily turn into North Korea where the only reliable 24/7/365 electrical power in the country is the spot lights that are required by law to illuminate the statues of the Maximum Leader at night.

Not only did Trump dodge a bullet (mostly) but so did the US as a collective entity.  We are safe from social collapse for another three years.  Maybe another eleven years if we are lucky.  That might manage to embed some actual values in the voting public to keep us above water for another 250 years.  It would sure as hell be nice.      

FIGHT.  FIGHT.  FIGHT SOME MORE.