It is obvious that the Left is doing its damndest to goad the not-Left (it isn't the Right, at least not uniformly – as opposed to the uniformity of Left) into doing something about what the Left is doing to "our democracy," as the Left likes to style its one-party dominion over politics and acceptable thought.

How else to explain the Left's obviously political persecution of the Orange pinata? It is clear the Left isn't whacking him so much as goading us to do something useful to the Left. Something like the "insurrection"- as the Left refers to the unarmed protest  that took place after the Orange pinata was removed from office by the Left.

It was far too peaceful an "insurrection" to suit the Left. It needs a real one – and in time to assure "our democracy" does not fall into the hands of the not-Left.

As the character in The Empire Strikes Back warned, it's a trap!

Just the same as January 6 – only worse – because if the not-Left allows itself to be maneuvered into committing the first overt act, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it, the Left will have everything it needs to wage the war it wants to preserve "our democracy."

FDR wanted a war like that, too.

Or – rather – an excuse to get America into the war. And so he goaded the Japanese, first by provocatively stationing most of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii – which was (and is) halfway to Japan. Then he applied economic pressure by cutting off Japan's supply of the oil it had to have in order to fuel its ships (and so on).

The American public – prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor – wanted nothing to do with the war, to the tune of 80-plus percent opposed to America getting into the war. By goading the Japanese to commit the first overt act, FDR also goaded Adolf Hitler into declaring war on the United States and thereby goaded Americans into being overwhelming in favor of going to war with Germany and Japan.