Op-ed:
Has An American Race War Already Begun? 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio at rspradio1.com

From the blood of the American Revolution was born the greatest nation the world has even known. A bastion of freedom and “unalienable rights”...rights that while written by man were rights determined and set into motion by the hand of God the Father of us all. And even as we stumbled at times while walking that very path of freedom...with wars, slavery, self-perceived injustices, and misplaced visions of inequalities being but some of the obstacles strewn in our path...the United States of America has remained the guiding light of freedom and hope for those who came and are still coming to our shores.

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Op-ed:
Has An American Race War Already Begun?
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio at rspradio1.com

From the blood of the American Revolution was born the greatest nation the world has even known. A bastion of freedom and “unalienable rights”...rights that while written by man were rights determined and set into motion by the hand of God the Father of us all. And even as we stumbled at times while walking that very path of freedom...with wars, slavery, self-perceived injustices, and misplaced visions of inequalities being but some of the obstacles strewn in our path...the United States of America has remained the guiding light of freedom and hope for those who came and are still coming to our shores.

But now once again our beloved America faces obstacles...obstacles placed not from without but from within by forces who see and relish in playing upon our country's foibles instead of heralding our country's achievements. No one individual is perfect nor is any country perfect, most especially when that country is known as a “melting pot”...a “melting pot” comprised of those whose differences and similarities run the gamut from cultural to emotional to political tangibles...tangibles that more times than not see diametrically opposed individuals tending to view Americanism, American history, and the American dream itself in terms of both partisan politics and figurative black vs. white issues instead of in what should be collectively driven American red, white, and blue.

Now trying to destroy the fabric of our American society... the very fabric that sets us above all other nations in the freedoms and rights we afford our citizens...the fact is that while some on both sides of the political aisle speak of a second 'civil war' fast approaching no matter who is elected president this November, the truth is that America is already somewhat but not officially at war...a Democrat initiated war with herself...and it seems we patriots can only figuratively fight back against the ongoing anarchy and insurrection that surrounds us as partisan driven politicians continue to stoke the fires of hate instead of dousing those fires with the 'rule of law.'

Most folks tend to forget that America is a nation of laws and that no one must ever be above the law. That is the very promise and premise as laid down by our Founding Founders in the Constitution, but it's a promise we now see being broken time and again, a promise broken for political expediency alone. How so...simply...today's new socialist-Democrat party's continued existence, whether they win in November or not, depends solely upon their continuing to allow certain folks...BLM, Antifa, and illegal sorts to be exact...to continue to be above the rule of law. And it's these miscreant folks who are being played simply for their votes, yet they refuse to see themselves as having become the Democrats sacrificial lamb in their “take down Donald Trump by any means possible” ongoing political game. 

And for the Democrats, taking President Trump down even means throwing the law by the wayside and replacing our constitutionally laid out 'rule of law' with unabashed mob rule currently masquerading in the guise of calling itself a democracy...a "pure-democracy" where power is exercised directly by the people...very bad people in this case... instead of by duly elected representatives. And in today's now racially charged and media manipulated America, that truly does become the very definition of anarchy, for he in the mob who screams the loudest becomes the ruler of said mob and hence the people. And for those who embrace anarchism that means we would be seeing an anything goes society where what you have is theirs and it's free for their taking with not a thought being given to the collateral damage involved or even whether said damage is of the concrete and mortar or of the flesh and blood kind.

So, knowing all this the question is, are we now a country hovering on the threshold of a full-blown race war and is our country really ready for that?

Sadly, the answer is twofold. As conservatives we're currently bearing witness to the skirmishes that if allowed to continue unchecked will surely lead to an actual weaponized and bloody race war; while the Democrats are already both vested and invested in such a war. How so? Why else would the Democrats formally condemn white people 15 times in their party platform, thus leading to yet another question, exactly how long will we conservatives allow this to go on without us having to admit that we are indeed at war. 

Welcome to this summer's pre-election, Democrat initiated and funded what they already consider to be a race war, a war Democrats say President Trump started, a war where anarchist tactics are being condoned...actually they're being encouraged...by Democrat mayors and blue state governors none of whom seem to want to condemn let alone stop the violence. And unfortunately, it's anarchy that always seems to gain a foothold in cases like this especially when police hands are tied, which they most assuredly are and have been since George Floyd's untimely death at the hands of the Minneapolis police. And when the media relishes in turning a career criminal...a common street thug arrested yet again right before his death...into a sainted hero, you just know that the Democrats have a specific agenda and goal in mind. 

And said agenda now not only includes the always hoped for removal of Donald Trump from office, but of actually overhauling or totally disbanding via defunding America's police force, as well as solidifying Barack HUSSEIN Obama's so wanted fundamental transformation of America into a socialist state...a state where everyone would be equal at the bottom rung of the socio-economic ladder except for a chosen ever so vocal few. Simply, what the Democrats want is for anarchy to reign supreme with insurrection being heralded as a “just response” for a segmented population's self-perceived black woes.

Again...conservative Americas are already seeing the skirmishes leading up to what the Democrats have already deemed to be a race war...a 'civil war' with both the powers that be and with the police. And while the Democrats instigated this what could become an all out armed war, their troops in the field, so to speak, are misguided BLM and Antifa sorts who once again have failed to learn from the lessons of history...history they want to erase. And with some in the BLM hierarchy alluding that Marxism has always been their driving weapon of war...and as we see the streets of some of America's largest cities turning red with the blood of innocents...can both the weapons and manifesto of Nazism itself really be that far behind especially when the war they engage in is driven by pure unadulterated hate. 

No it cannot, and sadly Nazism in spirit and application is already here it just goes by a different name...appeasement...and it has a slightly different target...as in every white man, woman, and child...coupled with those of any color who wear “blue.” And like it did in Nazi Germany with the now hoped for and being seen defunding and eliminating of numerous U.S. police departments, the BLM and Antifa sorts have openly made the police their prime played for the media target for they know that without the police standing in their way they would be totally free to riot, loot, burn, and beat up and/or murder innocent folks. And it's all in a concerted effort to sway November's presidential election...not unlike Hitler's “Brown Shirts” did back in 1930's Germany...coupled with their own self-serving quest for power. 

And just like in Nazi Germany, the BLM and Antifa miscreants and thugs are in a way being given free reign to do exactly that because the Democrat mayors of certain American cities, cities now seeing violence on a nightly basis, are actually blaming the Trump administration not the rioters for the ongoing and increasing violence in their cities. And it doesn't just stop with the blame game...word semantics if you will...but has now crossed the line into application as some mayors are actually ordering the police not to quell the violence nor arrest the perpetrators of said violence...in other words ordering the police to “stand down.” 

For example, as tensions continue to boil over in Portland, Oregon, a city who has seen violence for over 60 straight nights now, just a few days ago its Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler, along with five other Democrat city mayors, actually pleaded with Democrats in Congress to block the Trump administration's (rightful) plans to send in at least 100 extra federal agents to his and other cities in an attempt to stop the escalating violence. And that escalating violence also includes the ongoing violence in Seattle, Washington, where the police were recently forced by BLM protesters actions to declare this particular protest to be a riot, and were forced by the BLMers increasingly violent actions to pepper-spray the around 2,000 folks who were “behaving very badly."

In fact the left's lunacy...lunacy always fueled on by Democrats and their cohorts in the leftist Trump-hating media...has gotten so out of hand as to who's to blame for Democrat controlled cities going up in flames, that last weekend as both racial tensions and graphic violence increased, thousands of protesters in other key Democrat cities took to the streets to protest not the BLM and Antifa sorts who are the perpetrators of all the violence and mayhem, but to protest what they called “the antics” used by the police as they tried to stop the orchestrated violence...truly bizarre is it not.

And how's this little side note for bizarre...while around the same time that Michael McHale, the head of the National Association of Police Organizations rightfully accused former President Obama of being the one responsible for what he called a “War on Cops”...which I, too, personally believe he was...Google's translation app, 'Google Translate,' actually listed the words “a police officer” as the primary definition of the word “demon,” with but the secondary definition of "demon" being “an evil spirit or devil.” 

And while Google took said definition down after receiving numerous complaints, it leaves one to wonder just where the current what is a “war on the police” will go next what with many black leaders feeling that there are no easy nor quick answers or fixes concerning what they perceive to be ongoing racism, racial tension, police brutality, and their always fall back on complaint of escalating gun violence in America...the excuse the left always uses when trying to take away our firearms and our Second Amendment right to possess them. 

So as the Democrat mayors of those cities destroyed by anything but peaceful protesters now are starting to beg President Trump for federal aid to help clean-up and rebuild their cities, there does remain a way out of this mess and it's not by simply choosing a non-violent path forward as some black leaders are calling for, for that is just putting a band-aid on a problem that will surely resurface and once again stain the band-aid red. Simply, not only must police hands be immediately untied and their departments be refunded so they can do the jobs they became police officers to do, but we as the collective of the American people must take a good hard look around and really see and digest all that has happened, and then not only call to task those responsible for the carnage, but we must vote out all Democrats from office who sat back and encouraged said violence or who did not a thing to stop it.

And if we don't, what are now considered by we conservatives to be but skirmishes will match what the Democrats already consider to be a full-blown race war...and it will be a war that surely will not end well for either side...especially when one side still erroneously believes that only black lives matter.

Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed:

Republic v. Democracy...America v. Mob Rule

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote”...we are "A Republic...if you can keep it.” 
- Benjamin Franklin after the Continental Convention when asked if we are a republic or a monarchy

The Greek historian Polybius wrote that democracy descends into mob rule...“ochlocracy” he called it. And Polybius' words were as right then as they are right now for we can see mob rule...two more words added to the Democrats ever growing list of politically incorrect words we dare not say...becoming commonplace in today's America as Democrats and their misguided ilk take to the streets in protest, as if on cue, over some self-perceived indignation while they relish in trampling on other folks “inalienable rights.”

“Inalienable rights”...Constitution granted rights...have been replaced by ongoing “outrage” from the left with their incessant political polarization helping to divide Republicans and Democrats even more so along strict party ideological lines. And to make matters worse, what was once but Democrat partisan apathy has now morphed into all-encompassing overt hate of any and everything Republicans in Congress propose coupled with a special kind of all-consuming targeted hate against any and everyone President Donald Trump nominates no matter the position he nominates them for.

Total political dysfunction and major meltdown by the Democrats to the nth degree...a true political circus of the absurd...replete with at times violent protests by those who still cannot accept that Hillary Clinton did not become Barack HUSSEIN Obama's third term in office. And these protests more times than not see protesters bused-in when and where they are needed...professional protesters if you will...protesters bought and paid for by George Soros and his ilk whose job it is to incite violence by working up via intimidation what was peaceful protesters into an angry mob and to do so in the name of democracy...their twisted version of democracy that is.

Calling themselves “the resistance” as they scream and spew that “this is what democracy looks like,” the sad fact is that in a way they are right...up to a point that is...for what is democracy but government rule by the majority of its people...and if that majority is made up of mobs than so be it. And in today's volatile political climate if one is not part of the current media anointed majority then threats, accusations, lies, and when needed...violence...is used to turn the fearful, the gullible, and the weak into blind followers of what amounts to mob rule...with it being critical that the majority must not be restrained in imposing its will on the minority.

But these “resistance” sorts do forget that America was never set up to be a democracy...what some call or refer to as a “pure democracy” where the people themselves not elected officials vote on all matters of great concern to them...but that America was set up to be a republic...a federal republic*...where the true power lies within its own citizenry who vote for elected officials who they feel are best suited to represent both their wishes and wants, who while at the same time must be responsible to those who elected them, and who most importantly must govern according to the law...Constitutional law that is. And in the republic that is America most importantly of all is that We the People's “inalienable rights” cannot be taken away by the government even if that government has been elected by a majority of voters.

In fact, some of our Founders and Framers were truly leery of democracy for they feared that overt and dedicated political passions could work the public up into such a frenzy that in a very short period of time it could become paramount to mob rule and abject tyranny. “Democracy never lasts long,” wrote America's second President John Adams in a December 1814 letter to Virginia state legislature member John Taylor. “It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide,” were Adams' words added for he blamed democracies...which he felt were no different than monarchies...for bloodshed and war.

Alexander Hamilton, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, wrote, "We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship.” In fact, in the last letter he ever penned Hamilton actually warned that "our real disease is Democracy.” And James Madison, our nation's fourth president and the "father of the Constitution" wrote in the Federalist Paper No. 10 that, “Pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

In other words, our Founders and Framers were leery of both the concept of democracy itself as well as its ever being the form of government our new nation was to take. And leery they were to such a degree that they placed into the Constitution itself Article IV, Section 4 which states, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” “Republican” as in “republic” not in the Republican party in case the question arises...which I'm sure some liberal sorts will raise in their effort to remove from governance the very document from which our nation was born.

So while the uninformed...which encompasses the vast majority of Democrats...keep clamoring that with America being a democracy...they absolutely refuse to accept the fact that it is not...that they still have the right to protest via any means they themselves see fit. And while we all have the right to protest under the First Amendment as it gives us the right to free speech, but, and this is critical, the First Amendment itself puts the breaks on violent protest via its words, “the right of the people to peacefully assemble.”

“To peacefully assemble” in no way means the now mob tactics being used by the left that either borders on or actually is violence...tactics that not only help to stir the pot of political discontent via bullying, threatening words, and hate...but are tactics that truly do border on both the traitorous and the criminal. How so? Calling for the “removal” of our duly elected president and now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as well, and doing so while gathered in protest while screaming the words "by any means possible” surely does not meet the Constitution's nor the legal definition of “peaceful assembly” for words such as these are a precursor to violence...mob violence.

And while mob violence is sadly indeed a part of “pure democracy,” and while it's been said that “One man's mob is another man's democracy,” neither mobs nor “pure democracy” works well within the framework of a republic. And maybe to some it's simply a case of word semantics but I don't think so for sometimes in order to drive home both a specific point and a fundamental political difference it actually involves labeling people, things, and actions for who and what they truly are.

And in the case of what's happening in today's America as both actual mobs and mob mentality continue to overtake civility and decorum, and doing so all in the name of what the Democrats refer to as democracy, maybe President Trump needs to put a clear and precise label on who these violent Democrats...now sometimes called progressives or socialists...really are...as well as on those that dare to even hint and/or suggest that violence and intimidation be used against the rest of us.

In fact, I think maybe our president should label this vile faction of the Democrat party the "New Brown Shirts" for their tactics are surely not unlike the Brown Shirts of the 1930s...Hitler's paramilitary sorts whose method's of violent intimidation aided in his rise to power. And really isn't power what these vile Democrat sorts want...power so all encompassing that never mind our republic being thrown by the wayside but their version of democracy being done so as well to be replaced by Obama's socialist dream...something it seems most Democrats have wanted all along.

And after this faction of today's Democrat party is rightfully named maybe then President Trump can retweet out Lindsey Graham's famous words used during the Democrat's witch hunt of Brett Kavanaugh...rightful words to the effect that we should never let these people obtain power. And if apathy does by some chance take hold as the midterm election draws near...apathy on our side of the aisle that is...and we don't get out the vote then we must seriously consider the possibility of a future where the most powerful socialist/communist state in the world is not Russia or China, but is these United States...for this is the wanted future envisioned by the very radicals that have taken over the Democrat Party and it's a sad future indeed.

And it seems, at least on the surface, that this is where we are headed for the republic that we are has been replaced in Democrats minds by a democracy that we are not. And when mob mentality dictates how the political game is to be played, and where every political setback is deemed by the Democrats as a criminal act done by we on the other side of the political aisle...the Republican and Conservative side...along with their believing that any who dare not embrace their liberal mindset is but a foreboding of some catastrophic event that will signal the end of the very democracy that we are not, then you just know we as a country are once again in for some troubling times.

Donald Trump to the rescue as together we Republicans and Conservatives have new reasons to unite against those who don't even know who we are as we work together to “Make America...to help make our republic...Great Again.”
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* A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican (federalism) form of central government. It differs from a unitary state in that in a federal republic the authorities of the state governments cannot be taken back by the central (federal) government. The United States is technically a federal republic although we are also referred to as a Constitutional republic as Constitutional republics usually have a separation of powers, which we do.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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