‘Where’s Nancy?’ Asked Assailant Who Attacked Paul Pelosi With A Hammer. Pelosi To Recover, What About America?

The attack upon the husband of the Speaker of the House at 2:27 a.m. Friday morning by an assailant who broke in and assaulted Paul Pelosi with a hammer, “severely beating him about the head and body,” and crying out, “Where’s Nancy?!” is not a surprise, unfortunately. It’s almost one of those things where you wonder why it didn’t happen sooner.

The tribalism and hatred that has been sowed in the past seven years ago, since the Era of Trump got into full swing and took over our politics, is the kind of mentality that leads to this level of personalized and senseless violence.

This is not democracy. The democratic process, as well any reasonable person knows, is about the swinging of a pendulum. Sometimes one party is in power, sometimes the other. The pendulum will always swing back and forth. That is its nature.

Fascism, however, is a different kind of political system. Fascism is about killing or destroying the opposition and instituting a one-party state, which stays in power forever. That is what MAGA seeks and it makes no bones about it.

It’s a blessed thing that the assailant was arrested and the Speaker’s husband is expected to fully recover. This could have been far far worse.

And what does it say about America? What it says is that we are seriously out of balance. The two political parties are not, in fact, political parties for the same country. They have morphed into two parties, each representing a separate culture, within a country that has split in two.

This is no longer a metaphorical or hypothetical distinction here. There is a culture war taking place. There are two separate tribes of people in the United States, each listening to different media, each believing a different set of facts, and acting upon those facts. Ergo, it is scarcely surprising that after years of listening to what an abject monster and enemy of America Nancy Pelosi is, that some right-winger would break into her home into the middle of the night, looking to do violence to her, and instead, do violence to her spouse.

This is real. The right-wing ecosystem is a violent one. It’s got its own airwaves and its own social media platforms, its own newspapers. Those outlets are all ruled by people who hold pursuit of profit and power over the masses as their only values. They don’t care about democracy. Screw democracy, in fact, if they can obtain money and power through theocracy, autocracy, kakistocracy, any word that ends in “y” like money does, because that is the name of this game. There is no other. Money and its cousin power, that’s who we are talking about here.

This is the golden age of disinformation. There’s money in fantasy. Big money. And anytime there is big money, look for power brokers who know how to take advantage of peoples’ vulnerabilities and exploit them to show up.

America has gotten lazy. Education is severely on the decline. People don’t know how government works anymore. People don’t study American history as they once did. Combine lack of information with avid disinformation, provided with a side of fear mongering and seasoned with propaganda, and this is what you get.

The identity of the assailant of Paul Pelosi has not yet been revealed. But I’m going to venture that this is politically motivated, based upon the fact that CNN reported a short while ago that “Where’s Nancy?!” were the first words out of his mouth. He knew where he was. He targeted that home.

We will know more as the day progresses, but we already know the gist of what happened, which is that yet another cultural boundary and norm got shattered early this morning. Politics is a war zone. Ask Anthony Fauci. He’s had to provide himself and his four children with security protection for years. And for no other reason than that demonizing the pandemic and the doctor paid out big. Speaker Pelosi has been demonized for the same reason. We are a sick culture right now.