State of Terror

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Those with a truly catastrophic agenda never let us open the door. It opens when they’re ready to release it. Your General is right, Madame Secretary. The true nature of terror is the unknown. The truly terrible thrives in silence.”

Time to turn the lights on!

“While you were looking outward, scanning the horizon for threats,” he continued, “you missed what was happening in your own backyard. What was taking root right here, on American soil. In your towns, your shops, in your heartland. Among your friends, in your families. The sensible conservatives moving to the right. The right moving far right. The far right becoming alt-right. Becoming, in their rage and frustration, radicalized thanks to an internet filled with crazy theories, false ‘facts,’ and smug politicians allowed to spew lies. “I saw from a distance what you could not see close up. The unhappiness here growing into outrage. The so-called patriots had the rage, the intent, the financial backing. They had the fuse, all they were missing was the one thing I could provide.”

A knowledge of history gives us 20-20 vision into the plans of those who would destroy our democracy.