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The anarchist, quasi-Marxist, anti-capitalist, prone to violence, virulent anti-Jewish “protesters’ on the left in Governor Gavin Newsom’s California will ratchet up their reactions to the police authority everywhere in the United States if they are not effectively checked by rational congressmen. Not all the protestors in Los Angeles fall into the above category, of course, but there is an undeniable undertow in the movement that directs the course of events.
Long ago, when discipline in public schools was enforced by teachers, parents and school administrators, disciplinarians agreed on the importance of what then was called “reality testing.”
Suppose a student, for instance, had interrupted the order and discipline of a class by, say, shouting an obscenity in the midst of a teacher’s presentation. In the absence of a response other than a verbal chastisement, the student would, it had been supposed, continue the misbehavior until he or she had been effectively checked.
This was called “reality testing.” Disruptive students generally test the reality of verbal responses to unwanted behavior by repeating the behavior until effective and just sanctions are applied. If no effective sanctions are applied, the behavior will continue in a higher key in the absence of a real deterrent. Words are only words, prisons are full of reality testers, and politics generally is a theatre of reality testing. The reality tester probes the borders of reality by repeating or accelerating a destructive behavior until he or she is effectively deterred. It is the inescapable duty of teachers and school administrators to open students’ eyes to reality – so it had been thought for centuries.
Reality testing lies at the root of all impermissible behavior, whether in the family, in the school or in the U.S. Congress. The juvenile delinquent will probe the boundaries of the permissible as vigorously as any scientist testing a scientific thesis. And juvenile delinquent congressman will do the same.
Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy is regarded by leftist journalists as a reliable early-bird apologist on the left. Here is Murphy hawking the widely accepted left of center message on the L.A. riots: President Donald Trump was, Murphy said almost immediately after the usual L.A. mayhem, “trying to turn a protest that is pretty small into something that involves an even bigger confrontation, so that he might actually be able to invoke the Insurrection Act… obviously, this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what’s happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly, to protest what’s happening to our democracy. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country, and we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets.”
The protests in L.A. were not small and insignificant and, following Murphy’s instruction – “… this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what’s happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly, to protest what’s happening to our democracy” – the crowds will be much more expansive and perhaps more disruptive.
As to law and order and Murphy‘s favorite foundational principles -- no one is above the law and democracy in the United States must be preserved by all means possible -- one imagines such principles apply equally to both presidents and violent border jumpers who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border during the administration of President Joseph Biden.
The crowds that threw rocks at the police authority in L.A., looted stores and set police vehicles afire were not elected by the vast majority of Americans in a democratic process, and the secret springs of their actions that arise from neo-Marxism and the anarchist itch to destroy public order, are profoundly anti-American.
It would be refreshing, for once, to hear Murphy say this with as much passion as he has deployed in undoing the democratic results of the last election.
A recent Real Clear Politics headline reads: “Sen. Chris Murphy: Trump Wants To Turn ‘Pretty Small’ LA Protests Into A ‘Story Of The Week.’" It has now become real clear that Murphy wants “The Story Of The Week” to last far beyond a week, perhaps through the midterm elections.
They are NOT immigrants. They are illegal aliens. Murphy is a jackass.