A Great Awakening Decades in the Making

American Thinker ^ | 23 Feb, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

Should America disappear from the map, it will be because decades of government corruption and abuse were never addressed until it was simply too late.

Over at The Conservative Treehouse, Sundance has again managed to generate a treasure trove of anecdotal history, evidence, and analysis from those who visit his site.

Last month, he asked readers: if "[y]ou did not take the COVID-19 shot, why not?" The thousands of personal responses were illuminating and created a kind of timeline showing how irreconcilable conflicts pitting available scientific knowledge and common sense against the government's own actions, orders, statements, and censorship heightened public distrust of COVID mandates and "vaccines," until various tipping points spilled over into outright rejection of political, medical, and media authorities.

This month, Sundance asks a more foundational question: "When did you start really paying attention?" In other words, when did you "recognize that things around you, things you perhaps didn't pay attention to before, were not what you thought they were"? What was the moment when "your political awakening began"?

The thousands of responses to this simple question are a cornucopia of rich history, personal reflection, and insightful analysis. Just as last month's COVID question created a powerful timeline documenting the last three years of COVID-1984 insanity, this month's more general question has generated nothing less than a near-century's worth of details and stories tracking people's "aha moments" as they discovered that the promises of American self-government are often but an ornamental fabrication plastered upon the stratagems of ruthless government actors pushing propaganda, accumulating power, and sacrificing American lives. Interestingly, they come from people traversing back and forth across the political spectrum. From a research point of view, the collected information is staggeringly comprehensive, impressive, and invaluable. From a personal point of view, the selfless entries and

[V K Lee]

When you ask? After taking Civics in middle school in 1960.
This was when teachers taught history, led us in prayer,
began each school day with our Pledge of
Allegiance.

This was the start of distrust which has continued for 76 years. A rebel? No. Only a discontented US Citizen.

[ClarityGuy]

Some time when I was still a kid, it occurred to me that the Soviet Union, as big and bad as it was, must have come from somewhere, must have had sources of support in order to have lasted umpteen decades and overrun umpteen countries in the process. But the MSM never asked intelligent questions about that. All they ever did was to play the drumbeat of imminent disaster for us all, period.

[ClarityGuy]

The public schools exist to create tension within families as the children and parents don’t know what one another is doing during the daytime. Hold children apart from their families for 13 long years and they just give up on ever getting to know each other well. This makes them useful foot soldiers of the industrial proletariat envisioned by people like John D. Rockefeller.