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The United States is rich in geographic diversity. What other country has Arizona\u2019s desert, Alaskan ice caps, Mississippi\u2019s swamps, Tennessee\u2019s hills, Florida\u2019s mangrove wetlands, and Michigan\u2019s great lakes? Whatever terrain you like, you can find in America. That\u2019s also true of our vastly different people. Californians are different than New Yorkers, who are different than Texans, who are different than Vermonters. In America, we\u2019re blessed with variety in landscrapes, accents, and \u2013 yes \u2013 belief systems.<\/p>\n
Yes, Americans disagree. Passionate discussion is one of our hallmark characteristics as a nation \u2013 our strength. We are not, and have never been a homogenous people. That means from state to state, the differences \u2013 in the culture and in governance \u2014 can and should be fairly extreme. I actually find it fun to be in the same room as a person from San Francisco and another from Tulsa, just to listen to their differing perspectives.<\/p>\n
These differing perspectives were shown starkly when Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia\u2019s special-election congressional race in the 6th Congressional district. Because the district encompasses many of the northern suburbs of Atlanta, political strategists hailing from all over the nation painted this southern area as a more moderate, sick-of-Trump type of place.<\/p>\n
Things can get ugly, however, when people from San Francisco, or New York, or Los Angeles \u2014 or more importantly, Washington, DC \u2014 start believing they\u2019re morally superior and should impose that moral superiority on everyone else. That\u2019s where we are today. After Handel\u2019s win, people started insulting the voters. David Burge tweeted, \u201cSo I gather GA06 has suddenly gone from Enlightened Sunbelt Suburban Panera Voters back to Inbred Reactionary Neo-Confederate Klansmen.\u201d And then, \u201cThis just in: cornpone Georgia hicks sell Brooklyn Bridge to visiting California city slickers for $25 million.\u201d Even CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper lamented the \u201cfocus on attacking voters,\u201d saying these hot takes come \u201cfrom folks who love \u2018humanity\u2019 but hate people.\u201d<\/p>\n
A small group of people, the so-called cultural, coastal elite \u2014 have come to the conclusion that the rest of us are \u201cdeplorable,\u201d and must be silenced or eliminated. If it can\u2019t be done via elections, it\u2019s fine to do it in other ways.<\/p>\n
What comes of that approach is not pretty. In Handel\u2019s neighborhood, envelopes containing white powder were sent to warn potential voters that she\u2019s a fascist. And after the Democrats 2016 smashing electoral defeat, things haven\u2019t been too great either. In Indiana, a car opened fire on a truck which was bearing a Make America Great Again flag. The Congressional baseball game was postponed when a gunman tried to kill as many Republicans as he could. In Manhattan, a production of Shakespeare\u2019s Julius Caesar, depicts a Donald Trump character being stabbed to death in every performance. On campuses all over America, violent protests erupt when conservatives try to peacefully share their views.<\/p>\n
This is what the left has wrought in America. Fascism requires that enemies be vilified and ultimately dehumanized so that they may be silenced and ultimately \u201celiminated.\u201d This is not hyperbole, it\u2019s just history. The rising fascism on the left is historically dangerous and leads inevitably to violence. Those on the left supporting groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Occupy, and other leftist criminals ought to take a serious look at what they\u2019re supporting. They should also think twice about supporting people in positions of authority who invoke the words, \u201cHitler,\u201d \u201cNazis,\u201d \u201cRacists,\u201d and every form of \u201cphobe,\u201d against the President, conservatives, Republicans, and Christians. At some point, there will be no turning back. We\u2019re close to that point.<\/p>\n
If you want to know where this all leads, I\u2019d point you to Kurt Schlichter\u2019s book, People\u2019s Republic, and the prequel, Indian Wars which chronicles an America divided and at war with itself. But even if our future is not that extreme, it\u2019s inarguable that our nation is growing more divided every day. These books should serve as a serious warning to any student of history or prognosticator on the future. We are walking, and now running, a dark path. We don\u2019t have to go this way, but this is the way of the left throughout history. The left is trying to use force to put its preferred version of the future upon every American. The left is trying to silence dissent. The left is weaponizing the press, the government and social pressure against Republicans and conservatives. And yes, the left is actually fomenting violence against their political enemies. This is the way of the left historically, and this is the way of fascism.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the thing. Americans won\u2019t be silenced, and we won\u2019t be eliminated. We will fight, in the culture, politically, and otherwise if the leftists and fascists continue their attack. But there\u2019s a better way.<\/p>\n
Federalism allows us to believe different things, and live different lives, while still being a unified nation. Both liberals and conservatives should embrace it, in order to survive. To do so, we must join together to take the power away from an overbearing government in Washington DC. Our Founders gave us the ability to do this, by using Article V to call a Convention of States and limit the power of the federal government. The fundamental dividing faultlines of our time are all erupting because we\u2019re allowing the decisions that affect our lives to be made in DC. Whether those decisions are made by the Trump Administration or the Obama Administration is not relevant. Most of them should not be made in DC at all. Important decisions that affect our lives shouldn\u2019t be made in DC, whether it be by Congress, the President, the Supreme Court or a bunch of unelected bureaucrats. It is historically wrong, it is morally wrong. Fundamentally, Americans don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s great that Republicans have been winning elections, but the pendulum always swings back. Instead of turning to DC by electing better people, we should return to our roots and allow the people, at home, in the states to decide. You and me, your neighbors and mine, should be deciding most of these issues. Just as New Mexico is different than Hawaii, our states and our laws can be different too. One size fits all governance, flowing from DC, is turning our nation into a powder keg. It has to stop.<\/p>\n
We can stop it with a Convention of States now before things escalate into a full blown civil war. Why not try a Convention of States first?<\/p>\n