Sebastian, writing at The Smallest Minority, puts into words what I’ve been feeling for some time now.
The 2016 election gave me a glimmer of hope, but 2020 ruthlessly stamped out that ember. The Authoritarian Left and its oligarchs in Washington will make sure that their power is never again threatened by the electorate. As someone put it after November 3, 2020, “We knew we had to win by more than the margin of fraud. We just didn’t realize the margin was infinite.”
H.R. 1 legally codifies power grabbing into the future. No more fear of another Bernie or Trump wrecking their plans. The Left controls both houses of Congress, the White House, most of the bureaucracy, and a whole lot of the Justice Department, not to mention the remainder of The Swamp. They can do whatever they want, and they are. Open the border? Done. Raise taxes on the middle cl… I mean, the rich? No problem. Disarm the dangerous “domestic terrorist” publ… I mean, protect the children? On its way!
And anyone who opposes this is a racist and/or a domestic terrorist. A Public Enemy. A Traitor.
I said a while back that I thought all of this insanity had a basis in reality. The Oligarchs aren’t nuts. Well, they may be, but they’re not irrational. They use the irrationality they deliberately created among the general public as a tool, a lever for greater and greater social division so that the chance of any organized opposition of any size is minimized. Why do you think they’re so freaked out about the Capitol riots January 6? Well, they’re not, really. That’s political theater, at which they’re masters. The conditions were set up by them. The Capitol Police were largely stood down and requests for National Guard were refused due to “optics.” Honestly, I think they’re disappointed in the body count. But never mind, it gave them the excuse to clutch their pearls in front of the cameras and claim fear for their lives, and arrest people publicly – the Roger Stone treatment of SWAT teams and armored vehicles, smashed doors and ransacked houses. “This is what happens when you protest wrong.” Turn the thumbscrews one more turn, tighten the ratchet one more click.
There’s more at the link.
I hope and pray that you, dear readers, have been reading, absorbing and thinking about what’s been happening since November last year. It’s as clear as the nose on your face. We’re watching – sadly, we’re participating in – the deliberate destruction of the US constitution, and of the nation built on that foundation. Unfortunately for them, what the radical Left is trying to erect in its place is founded on sand, and its elements are crumbling almost as fast as they can be put into place. The economy will make sure that they fail.
Nothing will be done any time soon. Recently watched the movie Defiance again and it is a good vision as to what will happen. The Jews didn’t accept the genocide that was going on nor did they fight back (only a small number). Maybe the human mind can’t accept the absolute evil that is going on around them (or maybe just willful ignorance).
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I have spent time rallying friends and neighbors but alas they all have too much to lose……”new jobs a hassle and the kids have the flu, but it’s sure been nice talking to you.” Life gets in the way of living.
The ‘government’ can only Impose Tyranny when it is able to Function Effectively. We are heading into an Economic Collapse that will Disrupt it to the point that overt Attacks against it will become viable. Whether we get out of it with an Organized, Productive Society, or go Full-On Mad Max is still hard to Call.