(Passages in bold are me)
The Fed-Up Americans
By John Kass
June 12, 2022
You see them every day, the people who don’t call attention to themselves. They don’t preen or lend themselves to hysterics. They don’t scream or demand their enemies’ heads to be put on pikes.
And their numbers are growing.
Here’s what they really care about: Their families, their kids, and keeping their jobs.
They don’t really care about political talk. But with the price of gasoline at an all-time high and inflation higher than it’s been for more than 40 years, and food prices higher every day, taking care of what’s important is difficult.
Their anguish is mostly silent, unspoken, wordless, but it is real.
So, they wait. They watch. They see. They take notice. They remember.
Since they don’t call attention to themselves, it’s been easy for some to miss them. But though they’re low key, they’re out there. As their numbers grow, they reach to the horizon.
They’re Independents, Democrats and Republicans. They’re of all parties with deep interests in issues and ideas, but many more don’t care anything for politics. The political class treats them as livestock to be herded, but they are not livestock. They’re not fools.
They’re not stupid. They’re not chumbolones. They don’t much like being treated as fools. And now they’re angry.
So, what do you call them?
How about if we call them exactly what they are?
They’re Americans. They’re the Fed-Up Americans. If you doubt they’re Fed-Up, just look at the president’s disapproval ratings. Joe Biden’s approval ratings are so low now, he makes Jimmy Carter look like epic hero.
They seek a restoration to how things were, when we could have a difference of opinion, but it didn’t have to end on scorched earth. Some of them remember the days when couples didn’t require fealty to some political ideology to fall in love and raise a family.
All they had to do was swear fealty to each other before God, in God’s house.
Now all are struggling. Many are cutting back, unable to afford the rising price of gas to get to work. If they live in the cities, they worry about taking public transportation where in some cities they could be attacked, beaten, robbed or worse.
They can’t afford to buy the fancy electric cars the president and his administration want them to buy to wean them off gasoline. Political talk doesn’t fill the gas tank. They feel real pain now. They don’t live in some failed banana republic. They don’t live in the so-called socialist paradise of Venezuela where the people were reduced to slaughtering zoo animals for meat. They don’t live in some old Eastern Bloc nation, where the party apparatchiks got what they wanted through political connections.
They live in America. And this is happening in America.
If they live in a big city like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, they worry about becoming a crime statistic, floating away in that urban river of violence. If they live in rural areas, they’re forced to balance the need for paying for gas and a long drive to work with the need for food.
They know something has gone terribly wrong with their country. But there is no other place for them to go.
They’re not all that active on social media. They don’t share their opinions publicly, because they’ve seen what happened to friends and others who spoke their minds freely, the way all Americans were encouraged to do, once, when speaking one’s mind in America was permitted, even encouraged.
What they know is that legacy corporate media and politicians would like to herd them into a group, a party, with banners and slogans, the easier to push them along down the chutes to process them as votes. They feel the goad pushing them along.
They’re worried, upset, angry. They know that something has gone terribly wrong with their country. But they know there is no other country for them now. There is no place for them to go.
For the most part, they’re wordless. Their emotions remain largely unspoken. They see the tens of thousands marching toward the wide-open Southern border. They know about the more than 100,000 young Americans who died from fentanyl overdoses last year.
They take notice. They wait. They watch. They see what the politicians are doing. And they bide their time.
In the great cities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia they’ve seen the rise of lawlessness, chaos and anarchy. The hard political left that has seized the Democratic Party has installed prosecutors who won’t prosecute, exacerbating the collapse of public safety and the rule of law. The lack of prosecutions encourage the most violent criminals , who are not afraid. Much of media ignores the horror stories from the courts, the allegedly violent with criminal records released on low or no bail to make other victims. The people are afraid, exhausted by the lawlessness.
Dozens and dozens of these permissive prosecutors were installed by leftist billionaire George Soros, who spent tens of millions of his dollars to elect them. Journalists who dared warn the people of the lawlessness brought by the Soros prosecutors were hounded by leftists in their own newsrooms. Some were defamed. I personally know this to be true.
Now we’re seeing the people begin to push back. In San Francisco, the most leftist city in America, the people of the Democratic town voted last week to recall and rid themselves of Soros-backed Chesa Boudin, the District Attorney there. The public’s antipathy to lawlessness is growing in Los Angeles, too.
But in New York, two attorneys from Brooklyn convicted of trying to firebomb an empty police vehicle during the Black Lives Matter George Floyd riots had their charges reduced. Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman faced 10 years in federal prison. Yet sentences were drastically reduced down to 18-24 months.
So much for lawlessness when the left is lawless.
As Chesa Boudin was bounced, a man with a gun was arrested in Washington near the home of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He was charged with attempted murder. He had a gun, a knife, restraints, and implements of torture in a bag. He reportedly told authorities he was concerned about the conservative Kavanaugh voting on gun rights and abortion and allegedly said he wanted to kill Justice Kavanaugh.
The New York Times and much of the left leaning corporate media buried the story. But Fed-Up Americans took notice.
Perhaps some of you remember NY Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, then Senate Minority leader, publicly threatening conservative judges.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price,” said Schumer. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
There has been no apology. So much for threats to achieve political gain when the threats are made by Democrats.
The leftist activist group “Ruth Sent Us” continues to protest outside the homes of Kavanaugh and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito. Their home addresses have been disseminated out on the internet by protest groups for any madman to find them. It is against the law to protest at the homes of Supreme Court Justices to influence their vote, which is exactly what the activists are doing.
But no prominent Democratic Party from President Biden on down have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to enforce the law against protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
The New York Times and other left-leaning legacy media outlets downplayed the story of the gunman arrested outside Kavanaugh’s home.
Democrats and media weren’t eager to discuss the reported Kavanaugh assassin. They didn’t want to spend time on the ouster of Soros prosecutor Chesa Boudin by Democrats in San Francisco. They don’t want to talk about the Democrats and Biden Administration role in spending that added to inflation, or the White House refusal to increase domestic oil production.
Instead, they wanted to change the subject to Republican lawlessness in the Jan. 6 riots in Washington on behalf of former President Donald Trump.
The riots were ugly and frightening. It was sickening. It was ugly. I said so at the time that Trump “owns this.”
In wrongly saying the 2020 election was stolen, Trump sounded remarkably like Democrat Hillary Clinton blaming the fantasy Trump Russia collusion after she lost in 2016. You could say he also sounded like Georgia’s Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who refused to concede after losing the governor’s race.
But the media and the Democrats are horrified about Trump. Not Clinton. Not Abrams. Not the “intelligence community” and federal security forces and influential Washington media aligned with Clinton that pushed the Russia collusion hoax that we now know was untrue.
It is logical, that a democratic republic cannot survive long if the losing side refuses to concede.
Isn’t that what Democrats did?
Political force, lawlessness and violence is indeed frightening. It’s almost like burning American cities, costing billions in damage, and destroying businesses and assaulting cops (including killing some) in order to gin your voters up before an election.
That happened through the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. Democratic politicians and their agents fed the cities and businesses to the mobs. And though left-leaning media insisted the riots were “mostly peaceful protests,” Americans weren’t fooled. It was all about political force to engineer the outcome they wanted.
