American Uprising

American Uprising -

“Everything is about to change” (by Daniel Greenfield 11/9/2016)

 

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

 

This wasn’t an election.  It was a revolution. 

 

It’smidnightin America.  The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down.  They stood there even though the liberal media told them it was useless.  They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.

 

They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore.  They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care.  They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries.  They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves.  They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns.  They took a deep breath and they stood. 

 

They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped. 

 

The Great Blue Wall crumbled.  The impossible states fell one by one.  Ohio.  Wisconsin.  Pennsylvania. Iowa.  The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet.  It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.

 

They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing.  They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election.  They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say.  They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families. 

 

They fought and they won. 

This wasn’t a vote.  It was an uprising.  Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them.  And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been.  And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.

 

Who were these people?  They were leftovers and flyover country.  They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks.  They were the white working class.  They didn’t talk right or think right.  They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.

 

They were wrong about everything.  Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay.  Black Lives Matter?  The new civil rights movement.  Manufacturing?  As dead as the dodo.  Banning Muslims?  What kind of bigot even thinks that way?  Love wins.  Marriage loses.  The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.

 

They couldn’t change anything.  A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future.  Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote. 

 

And they changed everything. 

Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America.  A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America.  It was his. 

He was JFK and FDR rolled into one.  He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.And they voted and left him in the dust.  They walked past him and they didn’t listen.  He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles.  He came to plead for his legacy.  

 

And America said, “No.” 

 

Fifty millions Americans repudiated him.  They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons.  They ignored the celebrities.  They paid no attention to the media.  They voted because they believed in the impossible.  And their dedication made the impossible happen.

 

Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened.  That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won.  It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.

 

It was all impossible.  And fifty million Americans did the impossible.  They turned the world upside down.

 

It’smidnightin America.  CNN is weeping.  MSNBC is wailing.  ABC is having a tantrum.  NBC damns it.  It wasn’t supposed to happen.  The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.

 

Instead the people stood in front of the machine.  They blocked it with their bodies.  They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless.  They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration.  They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold.  They waited in line.  They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future.  They bet on America.  And they won. 

 

They won improbably.  And they won amazingly. 

They were tired of Obama-Care.  They were tired of unemployment.  They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country.  They were tired of being called racists and homophobes.  They were tired of seeing their America disappear.

 

And they stood up and fought back.  This was their last hope.  Their last chance to be heard. 

 

The media had the election wrong all along.  This wasn’t about personalities.  It was about the impersonal.  It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back.  It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star.  It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania.  It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures. 

  

No one will ever interview all those men and women.  We will never see all their faces.  But they are us and we are them.  They came to the aid of a nation in peril.  They did what real Americans have always done.  They did the impossible.

 

America is a nation of impossibilities.  We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants.  Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done. 

 

The day when we stop being able to pull off the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist. Today is not that day.  Today the Silent Majority Americans did the impossible. 

 

Midnighthas passed.  A new day has come.  And everything is about to change.

The above was written on 11/9/16.

 "We will not go quietly into the night! We won't vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"

A well-written article.. That gentleman who wrote it was paying attention.  

The press was attacking his age, not his policies.

If it were not for those meddling kids...grrr..

-Scooby doo villain's line.

Bombastic, sentimental, empty rhetoric and poorly written to boot.  No substance whatsoever, just hollow slogans and cliches.

QUOTE Originally Posted by Hugh_Jorgan:

I'm not a Trump supporter ... and I fully understand the trepidation that some have as it relates to him being POTUS ... but one thing I could never understand is burning the flag.

this greenfield guy is all over the place.  he starts out talking about ordinary people fighting back against elitists who send jobs overseas, oppress the people and skirt the law by voting for an elitist who has now paid a total of $31 million for defrauding these same people and ships all of his jobs overseas as well as buying his garbage overseas and making his trump garbage overseas (along with his daughter)

and then we have a Berlin wall reference as trump talks about this ridiculous mexico wall as he transitions into black lives matter (ironically an organization which actually does oppose the biggest oppressor of all- big government), banning muslims (because we all know that if you're some hayseed in kansas who is having financial problems, muslims are your problem) and metrosexuals.  and of course there is a happy marriage reference.

they ignored the celebrities . . . by voting for a celebrity.

finally, americans were told that wars couldn't be won?  what does that mean?  who does this guy want to bomb?  some random muslim country or key west?


i'm with my ganda on this one.  i think this guy is a ghost writer for rick santorum.  possibly pastor jones. 

you guys remember pastor jones. 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/09/11/221528510/pastor-terry-jones-arrested-before-planned-quran-burning

I'm as a pro Trump as they come but i have to agree with Ganda and Clubdirt on this one. The piece goes way over the top and for a guy who supposedly studies radical Islam for him to say that the people were tired of receiving their sons in coffins to protect a Muslim country is absurd. Which Muslim country are the US protecting? Both wars were started for a whole host of different reasons other than to protect the people of those countries whether it be Afghanistan/Iraq or even to some extent Syria, Any one with half a brain knows that.

i agree that this guy uses the very same tactic that he purports to criticize.  how do politicians get people to vote against their interests?  by lying to them, having them focus on tangential issues (at best) and stoking irrational fear. 

if he has a point to make about a guy in wisconsin who can't pay his bills, there's definitely a good argument there.  instead, this guy throws all of the standard buzzwords out there- muslims, gays, metrosexuals, marriage, blacks mexicans and so on.


i'm going to rewrite this article for mr. greenfield and do him a favor by making it much shorter.  here it goes:

your life sucks.  blame all of these people while those politicians over there continue to f*ck you while you aren't paying attention. 

also, i hate to tell greenfield this, but automation and the dot coms really are the future. 

They thought they were taking the country back from minorities and political correctness or whatever

No........he picked a helluva day to quit drinkin'.


 Alien fool.