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I Have a Nightmare…

Posted by Russ99

on April 30, 2010

Those that know me, know that I have a vivid imagination so take this post for what you will…

Reading the story about the riot police in Quincy, IL being called out to protect the President from the grandmother terrorists of the local Tea Party got my mind to working. I then found another story about military at Ft. Knox performing exercises in preparation for Tea Party terrorists. At this point a “what if?” scenario began to form in my overactive little brain. NERD ALERT: I love “what if?” scenarios both from a historical perspective (What if the Germans had not let most of the British army escape from Dunkirk at the beginning of WWII) as well as possible future situations (What if irrefutable evidence is discovered proving that man evolved from apes?). They require one to view the world through multiple paradigms.

Anyway, back to my scenario. In light of how the Dems used every method they could dream up to shove their health care agenda down the throats of the American people despite the public’s overwhelming disapproval and their suggestions that they will use the same tactics to push through other parts of their agenda (cap-and-trade, amnesty, bank bailout bill, etc.), I do not think that they will go quietly this November in what even Democratic pollsters predict will be a bloodbath for Democrats. So what if the Democrats realize that come September that they really are about to get creamed at the ballot box and they have been unable to enact all of their progressive initiatives to transform this country into Utopia? Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel stated in early 2009 that you “never want a serious crisis to go to waste…” At the time, he was speaking about the dreadful economic situation, but let’s consider a very different scenario for a moment.

What if there were a significantly dramatic and horrific terrorist attack on American soil in mid- to late October? What if the terrorist attack is not by muslim extremists but instead by a white supremacist group much like the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995?
What if the President and Congress decided, that as a matter of public safety, the elections scheduled only a couple of weeks later would need to be postponed citing threats from other domestic terrorists who expressed anger at the current government? Would you support this decision?
What if the terrorist(s) was linked to the Tea Party movement in the subsequent weeks and that the government performs admirably in its clean-up and investigation of the disaster?
If the elections are then held in February, 2011 after successful capture of the perpetrator(s) and passage by Congress of several laws that make us all safer from domestic terrorists, will you still feel the fervor to “vote the bums out”? Think you might vote differently for your Representative and/or Senator than you would today? Would you even make it out to vote that day?

The point of this mental exercise is not to suggest that such a terrible event would actually happen but rather to explore one’s willingness to stay true to their stated beliefs in the face of unprecedented circumstances. Many of those on the political Left claim that, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Bush administration took away many of our civil liberties under the guise of national security and a shell-shocked public stood idly by while it happened. While I do not believe that Bush & Cheney had some nefarious plan behind the Patriot Act, it is worth noting that we have far less privacy from our government today than we did prior to 9/11 and we gave up it up with far less outcry than we have shown with regard to health care.

So I say to all the Tea Partiers and those currently expressing outrage at the current government, will you remain resolute in your stance against incumbent politicians regardless of any short-term circumstances that shake our core?

And to those who think the policies of the current administration and congress are the greatest thing to come along since the New Deal and would leap at the first opportunity to demonize the Tea Party movement, I will leave you with one final wrinkle in my little “what if?” game: