The National Rifle Association has issued a video in which conservative talk radio star Dana Loesch declares war on …them. Where “them” is Americans.
They use their media to assassinate real news.
They use their schools to teach children that the president is another Hitler.
They use their movie stars, and singers, and comedy shows, and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again.
And then they use their ex-president to endorse the resistance.
All to make them march. Make them protest. Make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia. To smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law abiding. Until the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness.
And when that happens, they’ll use it as an excuse for their outrage.
The only way we stop this. The only way we save our country and our freedom, is to fight this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth.
In less than a minute, The NRA paints an America irrevocably divided between “we” and “they.” An America where the media has fallen into their hands. Where the schools are instruments of their lies. Where every action is designed to threaten “the law abiding.” Where the only way “to save our country” is strike back with a “clenched fist.”
How many of those Republican Congressmen who were calling for a reduction in rhetoric following the ballfield shooting, will step forward to condemn this video that uses that incident to call for civil war on Americans?