Extraordinary if The Great Awakening drags on until all or most of America are Awakened, only to learn that it was *we* who failed: 1) to water the tree of Liberty, (in a variety of forms) and 2) therefore, have fallen under control of the globalsts and Chinese Communist Party, while musing about the journey and who, why, what,when, where, and how we got here,.. or there, whichever the case may soon be.
It’s possible that, for the last 20+ years, we were online, therefore not actively engaged locally, inside the American grassroots political system, which does begin, after all, in our own neighborhood.
No one knows what is going on.
Certainly most all wars, or deciding battles, prove to share one universal regret for one side or the other— that of, “waiting” too long to act, or too little, too late.
The patience of the enemy is simply masterful, in the true sense of the word, “master” “filled”. Just entertain the masses, rolling the clock forward, until the old guard simply die off.
With “normalcy bias” rather predominant, and words like “thought leaders” gaining usage, in conservative circles, we could and should reason about harder things that we aren’t very free to talk about. Like...
Who IS our military, in today’s post Christian USA?
Who is today’s soldier, among them?
Who IS the force, behind the non-miltary combat machine?
Who is the non-military combatant?
This doesn’t answer any of your questions, but is only a “small slice of real life” observation... An older, very conservative friend of mine has two adult children. Both are conservative as well. The younger, a former somewhat wayward child, is pretty thoroughly red-pilled, while the elder, a retired career military officer who should know better, is completely stuck in ‘normalcy bias’, and dismisses the other’s talk as so much tinfoil-hattery. My friend herself tends to be more red-pilled, partly because she’s my friend.
FWIW (probably not much)
Apologies for the double post.