Thesis–Antithesis–Synthesis

The ICE war in Minneapolis.

Emotions are intoxicating.

I’ve tuned this whole saga out for the most part. I heard about the two American civilians that died. One was carrying a handgun or so I’m told, which isn’t illegal in Minnesota as far as I know, or shouldn’t be. Personally, I would have left it at home. I also wouldn’t be at the protest in the first place. Bringing a gun to a protest seems zealous, reckless, and fatal - as we know.

Starting with our factions:

The left - people who want to protect the illegal immigrants - are knowingly obstructing federal law enforcement for ideological reasons. It’s bumper-sticker stuff: coexist, all people are people, etc. They have constructed an image of ICE being Gestapo enforcers, which is a fallacy because the Gestapo targeted Jewish citizens in Germany. As per usual, hyperbole is rampant.*

The right - generally in support of ICE. They’re just as eager to blindly accept whatever talking heads on the news or podcasts have to say that agrees with their worldview.

Now, being that ICE is enforcing the law, which should only concern ICE and illegals, this war shouldn’t even be happening. American civilians should stand clear. That’s not even my opinion; it’s the law. The conflation with fascism has done a massive disservice to the footsoldiers of the left - civilians who believe they’re stopping NAZIS. It’s romantic and hyperbolic, as I’ve stated.

My general rule of thumb is that if you’re seeing something, it’s meant to be seen. George Floyd, Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Charlie Kirk were all sacrificial. They were sacrifices for the spectacle. It’s not surprising to me that after Charlie Kirk’s very public assassination, we now have two civilians - left-wingers - being publicly auctioned as martyrs. The spectacle is near perfection: Charlie Kirk represented the establishment, a figure close to Trump, and Renee Good and Alex Pretti represent the common man. The dialectic works through these martyrs—the establishment (Kirk) versus the oppressed populace (Good, Pretti). For the right leaning you can flip this dichotomy.

It’s bad practice to argue from hypotheticals, but would anyone raging against ICE house and financially support these illegals? Beyond extreme cases, the answer is no. It just wouldn’t happen, because it logistically and financially makes no sense. So multiply that by millions and you begin to see the issue. The taxes you pay are meant to support American citizens, not foreigners.

Culturally it doesn’t make sense either. Let’s put a Haitian guy, a Pakistani guy, a Honduran guy, and a Chinese guy in a house together, like a buddy-buddy sitcom, and see how it works out. Most of the Americans I know hate their roommates who all speak English and even share the same music tastes. My buddy sitcom would end in bloodshed.

The sad thing to realize is that the neoliberal idea of coexistence is a farce. It’s a cartoonish idea. It doesn’t work beyond what the systems of 21st-century America have allowed it to work, which is why you need a green card or a visa to live here.

It’s like people see one infographic on Instagram and forget that every nation in the world has these requirements. I don’t know if that’s mass delusion or proof of a decline in cognitive function. This is not esoteric information.

I believe the general acceleration of the culture war has to be intentional. Americans fighting Americans is fertile ground for mass control - hence the title of this article: thesis-antithesis-synthesis, or in layman’s terms: problem-reaction-solution.

I don’t see this escalating into anything major in American history beyond furthering the divide of our native population. The system will continue. The Technopoly will advance.

It’s really a shame that America has fallen so far. Corporations like Tyson function on an illegal workforce. Wages and hours are so bad that Americans don’t and shouldn’t want these jobs. It makes a nanny-state version of communism seem more appealing when you have to work so hard and can’t afford anything of lasting value. I don’t see a future where Americans can work a job in a factory and live a comfortable life in a way that was so prevalent before the 1980s, and I can’t see Americans even striving for such a future.

I hope young Americans can break this hypnosis of leftism and have some pride in themselves and their country. Trump wasn’t the solution. The solution is borderline mythological at this point. It’s described in our founding documents, and ever since the day they were written, America has been on a fast decline. Such an idealized conception is bound to breed mediocrity. It’s forgotten how much of a liberal idea America originally was. And it’s ironic how our Constitution is seen as a decree of authoritarian control when it’s consistently debased for that exact purpose. Foreign wars, the Patriot Act, Flock and Palantir… If paper could speak.

*I will note the irony of this whole Nazi thing because in general the left is calling Israel’s bluff with the mythologizing of Jewish suffering. I just think it’s funny(?) to also build up this mythos by invoking Nazi cruelty.

*A2SAN is agnostic on the affairs, wars, and genocides of populations offshore of American soil, currently and historically. One must see to believe... In person.