So as Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial winds down, we’re at the point (as of this writing) where we’re basically waiting to see if the Left has successfully bullied the jury into returning a guilty verdict. The whole trial was a joke, from the idiocy of the charges themselves to the stunning incompetence of the prosecutorial team. But, seeing as how we live in clown world, there’s still a better than even chance that he’ll be found guilty, considering the considerable pressure that The Powers That Be are bringing to bear on the situation. I’ll assume that most readers are familiar with the circumstances surrounding this case, so I don’t really feel the need to rehash them here. Rather, with this post I’d like to discuss a few adjacent issues related to, but not specifically about, Kyle Rittenhouse and his trial.
The first of these is that the position which someone takes on the Kyle Trial, whether an “official” commentator or not, is rapidly evolving into a solid proxy for whether that person is sound across the board. The facts in the case are so unassailably in favour of a self-defence plea that there are basically no good reasons why someone would want to see him found guilty, refer to him as a “murderer,” and so forth.
As noted Twitter celebrity FrogButt (@butt_watermelon) observed,
He’s right - the Rittenhouse case creates a clear dividing line between /ourguys/ on one side and soft Right/Establicon types on the other. You either have the moral fortitude to side with someone who was trying to do the right thing or you’re being persuaded/bullied/are genuinely convinced that it’s a horrible crime to oppose rioters and arsonists. At best, people who hope Kyle gets convicted are ignorantly allowing themselves to be used as patsies by the radical Left. Something’s wrong with your thinking that likely makes you unreliable in other areas as well. If your “principles” include siding with paedophiles trying to burn a city down, then you need a new set of principles STAT.
Another issue involved with this case is that it presents to us two lessons about self-defence and defending local communities from Bolshevik wreckers. The first is the lesson that TPTB want us to take away from it, the second is the lesson we actually ought to gather from it.
The radical Left and its handlers in government want the average citizen to see the Rittenhouse trial and take away the lesson that you’d better not defend yourself or your community the next time the Left’s paramilitaries in antifa and BLM want to throw a burn-down-the-block party. If you do, you’ll be prosecuted in a show trial and have your name dragged through the mud, even if you do manage to find a sympathetic jury. We’ll ruin you if you oppose us. That’s what the Left wants you think.
However, the lesson we should be taking away from this is the next time antifa decides to riot, hundreds or thousands of armed citizens from the local community should take to the streets to see them off. As far as I can see, the only real error in what Kyle Rittenhouse did was that he tried to do it alone. The Right needs to internalise the lesson that the way to deal with a riot when the police are standing down is to come out with such force at the point of contact that neither the rioters nor the police will be able, much less willing, to oppose you. In other words, become both unpoliceable and the police at the same time. Don’t say that it could never happen - it will when people decide to organise, which is something /ourguys/ need to be encouraging at the demotic, face-to-face level.
Oh, and the Left knows very well that it could happen. That’s why they’ve so far been careful to curate their rioting into friendly Blue areas with politicians who will stand the police down, but also take prompt action against any resistance to leftist “street persuasion.” They gaslight the citizenry into thinking they can only act separately, and that’d better not try. They desperate want to prevent you from acting together as a community.
Lastly, a point I’d like to make is that, despite the many arguments on our side that our institutions are terminally pozzed, I’m not sure that’s really always the case. Our institutions still work, at least at the local level, when you use them properly. Policing still works as long as it’s not defunded and hamstrung by critical race theory-driven balderdash. Local government still basically does its job so long as it’s not cordycepted by the radical Left.
Institutions themselves are not the problem so much as is the purposeful failure to use them properly. The Left is extremely good at manipulating procedural outcomes, even when it comes to institutions over which they don’t have direct control, if nothing else by using threats and violence to mau-mau local officials into compliance with the progressive agenda. I guess we might say that many of our institutions themselves are fine, but the “control mechanisms” over those institutions are broken, like how a car’s engine can be purring like a kitten, but if the steering wheel is malfunctioning, you’re still not going to get where you want to go.
Anywise, just a few thoughts I’ve been having while we wait to find out the Kenosha Kid’s ultimate fate. Take them for what you will.