There’s a reason we opened this conversation by reading Communist Goal Number 42 out loud: create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition, and that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve political, economic, or social problems.
What we’re watching unfold in Minnesota isn’t an accident. It isn’t spontaneous outrage. It’s the deliberate normalization of chaos, framed as civic virtue. When civilians are encouraged to harass federal officers, obstruct enforcement, and “document atrocities” as a pretext for future prosecutions, that’s not accountability. That’s pre-justified resistance.
And resistance, in this framework, is always allowed to escalate.
When Protest Becomes Permission for Violence
There is a hard line in this country that used to be understood instinctively: protest ends where physical interference begins. The First Amendment does not grant the right to surround vehicles, chase armed officers, grab equipment, or provoke confrontations with people carrying guns.
What’s dangerous right now is that large segments of the public have been taught the opposite. They’ve been trained to believe that if they label themselves “protesters,” the rules no longer apply. That the presence of a moral narrative suspends consequences.
That belief is going to get people seriously hurt.
We’re watching people—many of whom have never been in a physical altercation in their lives—run directly toward armed agents as if reality will bend to their slogans. They don’t understand force. They don’t understand escalation. And they don’t understand that law enforcement is not obligated to absorb violence to validate someone else’s feelings.
The idea that officers have no right to defend themselves once assaulted is a fantasy. And fantasies collapse violently when they collide with reality.
Chaos Is the Strategy, Not the Side Effect
What makes this moment so dangerous is that the chaos is intentional. Political leaders and activists are encouraging confrontation while insulating themselves from the consequences. They call for resistance, film the response, and then pretend shock when things spiral.
This is exactly how you create the impression that insurrection is not only acceptable, but necessary.
Once the public is convinced that institutions are illegitimate, enforcement is tyranny, and violence is self-defense, there is no neutral ground left. Everyone moves into their corner. There’s nowhere to back up. And every confrontation becomes a test of will.
That’s not how a republic functions. That’s how a society fractures.
Why This Keeps Escalating
What we’re seeing isn’t courage. It’s confusion paired with arrogance. A generation raised without discipline, consequences, or respect for authority has been handed revolutionary language without revolutionary understanding.
They’ve been told resistance is noble, but never taught what resistance costs.
In every other country on earth, attempting to rip weapons from police vehicles or swarm armed officers would end instantly and brutally. The reason it happens here is because Americans have been conditioned to believe the state will blink first.
That assumption is wrong. And when it collapses, the shock will be severe.
Standing for Truth Means Preparing for Reality
None of this means we seek conflict. It means we refuse to lie about where this road leads.
Truth matters. Order matters. Law matters. And pretending that sustained agitation, dehumanization of authority, and glorification of confrontation will resolve peacefully is dishonest. History says otherwise.
There may come a point where physical conflict is unavoidable—not because people wanted it, but because it was engineered, encouraged, and normalized until no off-ramp remained.
Standing for truth means refusing to romanticize that outcome. It means calling lies what they are, even when they’re popular. And it means understanding that peace is preserved by clarity, not denial.
If violence comes, it will not be because Americans failed to protest loudly enough.
It will be because too many people were taught that force is virtue—and believed it.
