{"id":1762,"date":"2017-02-07T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T01:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:27","slug":"they-all-look-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/they-all-look-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"They All Look The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I worry about things.<\/p>\n

The average American person responds to images, sometimes in a powerful way.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0911 they all saw images like this. They do not run the ones with the people falling anymore.<\/p>\n

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Over the years they have been treated to imagery from various terror attacks, all with a terrible sameness.<\/p>\n

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Now we have the Black Lives Matter anti police riots.<\/p>\n

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We add the Berkeley Left Wing goons to the photo album<\/p>\n

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The net effect of all of these is to remove distinctions from the images and condense the people responsible into one mental group.<\/p>\n

The Progressives are playing a dangerous game with their riotous reaction to the new administration.\u00a0 They are becoming the bad guys and are attacking America in the imagery of their acts.<\/p>\n

In the minds of a large group of law abiding Americans, they are all\u00a0 terrorists. All of those groups are spreading terror to seize power.<\/p>\n

The polarization is deepening\u00a0 and the cold civil war is being waged.<\/p>\n

This may be the real test of Trump and his team. A Seattle Federal Judge is hopefully not Fort Sumter, but refusal to turn over felons may become one.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I worry about things.<\/p>\n

The average American person responds to images, sometimes in a powerful way.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0911 they all saw images like this. They do not run the ones with the people falling anymore.<\/p>\n

\"911150120115629-wtc-attacks-file-0911-super-169\"<\/p>\n

Over the years they have been treated to imagery from various terror attacks, all with a terrible sameness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now we have the Black Lives Matter anti police riots.<\/p>\n

\"ferguson-protest-oakland\"<\/p>\n

We add the Berkeley Left Wing goons to the photo … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}