I remember being at an MMA fight at Stage AE in Pittsburgh. I had front row seats to watch a local fighter go against a fierce rival. The entire left side of the floor where I sat were the local guy’s supporters, seated immediately to our right was his opponents fans — bikers, lots and lots of very, large bikers. A lot of “smack” was being talked before the fight and that animosity seemed to be carried by the “gym” guys who sat with me and the giant bikers. I could feel the tension in the air and rather than converse with those around me, I scanned the room for the exits.
“Okay, the closest one is down around the dome, quick right, then quick left.”
The fight began and a quick kick from our guys opponent ended it as quickly as it started. It was almost like I heard a giant exhale and in seconds, both groups of guys in the stands rushed one another. I squirted out from in between the two rival groups like a determined sperm, saying to myself, “Nope, nope. Not today, Jesus. Not today.” I’m no coward, but I had just had my heart surgery and a blow to the chest would have killed me. Plus, it wasn’t my fight … it was no ones fight … but, the two guys that were actually getting paid to do it in the ring.
But, it’s hard to tell people that in the heat of the moment, isn’t it?
What we saw today was a culmination of years, maybe decades. I knew it was coming and wrote about it over a month ago in “A Storm is Coming.” No one would listen to me as I was starting to hear the same loud exhales as I did before the brawl at Stage AE. Our politicians are dividing us. Period. The two party system (which is a joke) is dividing us. There are powers at play much greater than what I could know what their true intents are — but, it’s clear that dividing us is the goal.
Why do we play along?
I know people very desperately want to blame Trump and Trump supporters for the storming of the Capitol. But, come on … we watched as Antifa burned and commandeered cities for almost a year during a pandemic and absolutely nothing was done. Those were the moments I started to panic. Being a Conservative, I was like that fight at Stage AE — seated with the “fans on the right”. I watched as the constant ignoring of Antifa by the Press and the Left kept riling them further and further up. I watched as some pretty ordinary people were starting to become radicalized by that. I spoke up about it. I IMPLORED people to stop the Antifa violence and they either completely dismissed me or said it was all part of 1st Amendment Rights.
The burning, looting, assault, violence, property damage that they were doing was NOT a thought. It infuriated me. But, I am not the type to go fight back. I am the loud mouth that will escape like a sperm out an emergency exit. But, the people you were inciting were NOT.
Did the media and politicians miss that? That would be the kinder answer.
Or, did they keep throwing gas on that fire because it makes good television or win votes? Because they ALL did their best to keep feeding these flames of division. WHY? I need everybody to stop for one second and ask themselves why? This government was supposed to be OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people. It hasn’t been that for a long, long time. Perhaps it took all of this to wake up to that fact. These idiotic “liberal” or “conservative” stances are dangling bait fringe issues that they have used for YEARS, way before Trump. Don’t you notice the same politicians or some variation of their family (daddy, son, brother, wife) keep recycling??? Each promising “change”, when the only “change” that comes is we hate each other more and more?
Something is very wrong. Just like the fight at Stage AE. I smell it in the air. I think a lot of you do, too. But, in this … we need to not look for the exit, but find each other again with our eyes open. We are being PLAYED. I don’t know why. I wish I were that smart or that connected to tell you why. But, I know a manipulation when I see one. Do you know what happened after that crazy MMA brawl at Stage AE? The two fighters in the ring actually became friends. All of those people that bare-knuckled it in the stands … they did it for nothing, nothing.
Find each other again. Or, the “United” States of America is lost forever.
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