Posted on 03/23/2024 4:59:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Those who organized the disaster will take advantage of the inevitable discontent arising from efforts to overcome it, for if there is one thing that they are skilled in, it is demagoguery.” —Theodore Dalrymple.
Can you feel it? The tension rising to the red-line? It runs clear through all of Western Civ. We are ruled by governments of fiends. But now, the sun rides higher in the sky. The sap is rising in the northern forests. The earth heaves. The buds swell and blush. Something is in the air. The animals are waking from their long winter sleep. The natives are restless.
The two traditional political divisions, liberal and conservative died with Covid. Now there are simply the sane versus the insane. The sane have had enough of being pushed around by the insane. The insane don’t register much of what reality tries to tell them. They have a body of insane ideas to comfort and protect them from the reality’s rigors. To call that body of ideas an “ideology” is way too polite.
That the insane call themselves “progressive,” is a signature of their insanity. Progress toward what better state of things? Toward a supremacy of fiends, sadists, degenerates, and morons seizing riches and power by every dishonest means possible outside the rule of law and common decency? It’s not even suitable to call them “communists.” They lack the necessary idealism for that. They don’t expect to put their shoulders to the wheel with their fellow man. They just want to grab your stuff and then kill you so they don’t have to hear any complaints.
The insane do not believe any of the theoretical [BS] they want to force you to swallow. They don’t care about climate change. It’s just a cudgel they use to beat everyone over the head so they can steal your stuff. They don’t care about “democracy.” It’s just a line of [BS] to cover up their election-stealing. Do you suppose that sane people would keep using electronic vote-tabulating machines that were demonstrably connected to the Internet, and thus hackable, if they cared about election integrity? Of course not. They would arrange p.d.q. to junk them and use paper ballots, and only in person at polling places, with “absentee” exceptions only for people out of the country.
The insane do not care about public health. Everything that is known about the Covid-19 vaccinations tells you that they are unsafe and don’t prevent infection or transmission of a flu-like illness that might not even be what it was officially labeled as. Our public health officials in the FDA, the CDC, and in other corners of the Department of health and Human Services, lie about everything they’re responsible for. This week, the CDC (under Director Mandy Cohen) released a 148-page study on myocarditis reactions to mRNA shots. Every word on every page of the document was redacted. The CDC printed countless copies of the report with 148 utterly blank pages, and then proffered them to the news media. How is that not insane?
The insane do not care about the rule of law. The conduct of “Lawfare” is the subversion of the law by dishonest means. It is a species of racketeering. And that is why Lawfare rogues such Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Matthew Graves, and Merrick Garland, should be charged under the federal RICO statutes for conspiring to deprive sane citizens of their rights and property in the many cases related to the 1/6/21 riot at the US Capitol.
It is, so far, an abiding mystery of contemporary history as to how New York Attorney General Letitia James managed to get away with prosecuting a real estate case against Donald Trump that was no more than victimless business-as-usual between a borrower and his lenders. Ms. James ran for that elected office promising to “get” Mr. Trump on something, anything. That is not how the rule of law works. Under the rule of law, first you determine that there is a crime and then look for who did the crime.
Letitia James must be insane and/or pretty stupid. The short-term gain of stealing Mr. Trump’s property under a false color-of-law and creating impediments to his election campaign, will, sooner or later, blow back at her as a matter of malicious prosecution and, plausibly, racketeering as well. (With whom did she conspire to bring this case? We shall find out.) She will eventually be disgraced publicly as her teammate Fani Willis has already been disgraced in Fulton County, Georgia.....
The craziness has ramped up to a point I find hard to believe.
BTTT
Very good article. Thanks for posting. Some CRIMINALS mentioned.
This statement demands elaboration and clarification. The use of hyperbole or "bending the truth a little" does not serve the cause of truth.
It was not a study, but rather a compilation of e-mails covered by Exemption 5 of the FOIA, which protects "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency."
Given the circumstances, I still find it outrageous that these e-mails - e-mails about the MOVING study - weren't released, but they did not comprise a "study," and redacting them was in accordance with currently valid law.
Further, I am not as sanguine as the author about Western Civilization now finally "waking up." Sadly, I think that it has to get worse before it gets better.
Regards,
“The craziness has ramped up to a point I find hard to believe.”
It is surreal.
The insanity is hard to witness. It’s depressing to watch our once great nation travel down the current path. I don’t have much hope that it will ever get better and the older I get, the more sure I am of the truthfulness of the Bible because this is all predicted in it. God has done what He said He would do: He’s turned them over to their reprobate minds. That’s exactly what we are seeing: decisions made by those with reprobate minds.
I know people who think everything is fine. Everything is normal. Nothing has changed. Things have always been this way.
And I know people who don’t understand why we’re not shooting yet.
Interesting times.
Daily, repetitively and hourly inundating the news venue with false, conflicting, badly articulated, laughably jejune, demonstrably pejorative material is all part of the Liberal agenda to demotivate voters and to paralyze the system.
They intend to make the US chaotic, anarchic, lawless and ungovernable. Meanwhile, our ‘Republican’ political eunuchs cannot bring themselves to impede, much less end the Liberal march to domination.
Excellent essay by Mr.Kunstler. Thanks for posting.
I woke this morning thinking how none of this is normal, how everything is utterly insane, and how depressing and hopeless it all feels. Then Mr. Kunstler’s fine piece perfectly expressed what I was feeling. None of this is by accident or coincidence.
“The craziness has ramped up to a point I find hard to believe.”
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Brace yourself for a lot more to come. Our society has been conditioned to accept insanity and dysfunction.
The frog has been boiled.
Agree. That was the key take away.
--John Stuart Mill
The problem is that accountability is dead and there is no political will to restore it to any degree.
Corruption is too deeply embedded now and our culture largely accepts it.
Can you point me to any situation of a civilization in a death spiral has gotten better? What does bottom look like? British quiet lives of desperation?
See, and here is my problem. Who? Where?
I cannot figure it out, so I become motionless.
I guess I am no threat.
If you use AI it expresses anarchism as POSITIVE political movement!!
an·ar·chism
[ˈanərˌkizəm] noun
a political theory advocating the abolition of hierarchical government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. anarchists as a political force or movement:
* "ruling-class fears of international anarchism during the 1890s"
That’s an interesting comment.
Recall if you will John Adams’ view that only one third favored the Revolution, one third opposed it, and one third were undecided. Most colonists were willing to let it slide.
Today a lot of people are inclined to not want to change. Its a disruptive, discomforting and unsettling thought process for them. Convincing people that they need to do something, even for self-preservation, is no easy task. Just saying.
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