The Revolutionary War happened for a reason.

I am writing this from Boston. I traveled here to walk the walk. I wanted to see the places where the Revolutionary War happened. I wanted these stunning locations to fry themselves into my brain. I need to understand.

The photographers I work with went to Texas.

We both sought the same thing.

They surreptitiously took photographs of toddlers, shell-shocked, sitting motionless in small, cramped cages. Not crying. Too afraid to weep.

The cages smelled.

No one wanted to change diapers.

Childcare was nonexistent.

Now, it is the photographer who is numb.

I am energized. Not numb. I knew they would find numbness, and I wanted to avoid it.

When I got here, Maxine Waters attacked decorum.

I am with her all the way to the bitter end.

What is decorum in the face of cages.

During the Revolutionary War, the cages were ships. The British did not put babies in their ships of punishment. They just killed them. They called them vermin.

Just like Trump does. King George is turning over in his grave.

The Revolutionary War was fought over slavery. A fact we avoid confronting as we rewrite history to have clean mannerisms that never happened.

This is where the Second Amendment was given birth. Slaveholders wanted guns so they could control their property. Other human beings.

Guns and slaves were understood as the status quo they were. To stubbornly maintain that the Second Amendment is about Nazis and their guns is patently absurd and beneath contempt. The Second Amendment is about racism and murder.

Americans would prefer to not know their history if it conflicts with their embedded illusions.

It’s a sanctimonious rewrite that never happened anymore than the Conner family happened.

Rosanne is not Betsy Ross anymore than Ross Douthat is the Pope of contemporary opinion.

The New York Times likes to trot him out, and prop him up, because what they seek is what they think is balance. It is not balance. It is – one more time – tired rhetoric.

The Revolutionary War was a bloody thing. Americans like Douthat have painted what happened then as a patriotic noblesse oblige. The inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.

Douthat will not be in restaurants screaming in Sarah Sanders fat face.

But I will.

The time of courtesy is over. It is time for mayhem. Trump has instigated it with his bitter version of sheer hatred. Let us emulate exactly that even as the goodiegoodies plead with us not to piss off Republicans.

Go ahead. Rage.

The only good Republican is one who feels cages are an atrocity.

There isn’t a single Republican who thinks this.

To articulate that what we need today is another Revolutionary War will be seen as sedition.

No one can encourage it including me. We better keep our opinions to ourselves or we will find ourselves in cramped cages sitting in our own shit.

It has happened before.

Recently.

Ross Douthat’s POV is not necessarily religious or Catholic (not the religious Catholic, but the ascetic Catholicism), but it does do a disingenuous dance with those dynamics that is unnerving to read.

It’s like listening to King George rant.

In the “balanced” New York Times Douthat represents – not the voice of reason – but the voices of the people who wrote the Second Amendment.

Ross Douthat gives his usual, conservative analysis, and it’s always the woe-is-me mix of rhetoric and fear. My opinion is terribly uncivil, but to have the censors decide what is civil is exactly what Douthat demands.

Example: You dare not say anything bad about the people who work for the New York Times or the gatekeepers censor any alternative, hardly mannerly, POV. They will not publish Radical Me because we are not allowed to criticize Douthat for his antediluvian views usually complaining about the lack of manners that so challenges the uniform lameness institutions seek.

David Brooks does much the same thing only Brooks does not always visit Rome. He deconstructs civilization and he’s nice about it because anything else like picketing Elaine Chao’s condo horrifies him.

Brooks attends marches in Washing, DC. As a journalist.

Seriously. I never kid. Brooks wears sunglasses and hoodies so no one will know who he is. I still don’t know who he is either. Still, he’s at the march.

Physics tells us that the observed always changes spots just by observing it.

I would argue that the same can be said for war.

The French, too, changed everything.

Change is almost never comfortable especially for the people heavily invested in the way things are and have to be.

“Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.” — Voltaire

Elaine Chau: Video Below.

That there is balance to be found between the shepherds and the butchers is a fallacy of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

The cop might push the maddening crowd back, but not back to where they came from. They will return again and again as the rich and powerful twist in the winds of confrontation.

Who is going to fight the policy of imprisoning toddlers in shit-smelling cages.

Children in cages symbolize that what we need is another Revolutionary War.

It’s coming. Civil discourse has had its day.

Bring back the guillotine.

The conservatism of Douthat and the censors of the New York Times think the same – censorship is good – with their inherent need to banish thought that does not exhibit fake courtesy while this strange version of kindness masquerades as just how things are. Out of touch.

Harass Republicans.

Harass Republicans.

Harass Republicans.

Spit in their food.

Throw banana pies in their motherfucking faces.

Leave dog shit on their doorsteps.

Scream at Nazis like Elaine Chau.

Spray paint the White House.

Piss off America.

Bring your knitting needles.

Paint Ball their cars.

Throw pig urine on their fashionable clothes.

Humiliate them in public.

Read Saul Alinsky.

Act up.

Act up.

Act up.

Your lives depend on it, too.

The American Senate and the gatekeepers (include Schumer and Pelosi) represent not civil discourse. But a time that no longer exists. Maxine Waters is right. It’s not about a restaurant.

Walk around Boston. Go to Concord. Educate yourself as to what really happened.

The British prison ships were dismantled for their wood.

The French stormed the Bastille.

Bring it on.