Posted on 11/24/2020 7:34:06 AM PST by Heartlander
The nasty, murderous old communist Leon Trotsky was wrong about almost everything. He died as he lived, as a bandit, with an icepick jammed in his head. Few men deserved it more. But one thing he said is correct: “You may not be interested in politics. But politics is interested in you.”
Trotsky helped Lenin set up a system where that statement was truer than ever before. Where the state would forbid mothers and fathers from teaching their children about God. And citizens who wrote unorthodox opinions in private letters would disappear into gulags. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a decorated war veteran, was sent to Siberia for writing a friend a joke about Stalin’s moustache.) Where the state made national heroes of children who turned in their parents to the secret police for torture over what they said at dinner.
Under the most tyrannical tsar, the peasants gave little thought to the politics in St. Petersburg. Most citizens even there in the capital doubtless went for days without giving thought to the doings at court. Nor did they have any influence over the government, of course — no more than medieval French, English, or German farmers.
But the state left them alone. They might pay excessive taxes, or be subject as serfs to landlords. But their innermost thoughts, stray complaints about the local baron, and what they taught their children, were none of the government’s business.
Politics wasn’t interested in Joan of Arc, until she decided to enter it. Then and only then did she enter the world where court intrigue, backdoor whispers, and at last a literal witch trial would consume her time and her life.
For most of human history, apart from the side-effects of periodic wars, common people like Joan were unaffected...
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Cue the Far Side cartoon.
Trotsky was killed with an ice axe (a mountain climbing tool) not an ice pick. The ice axe head has an adz side which is like a horizontal axe-like chopping blade and a pick end which is a long implement to drive into hard snow or ice to hold against slipping or falling. The pick end of an ice axe through your head is much worse than an ice pick in your head!
Maybe the news agencies should pay more attention to the lawsuit that David Kallman is bringing to get an audit of the Michigan voting process. The MI Supreme Court justices could not grant in injunction to stop the certification because it was moot by that time but they strongly urged him to return to the trial court and press for the audit.
The justices found that his EVIDENCE was COMPELLING and justified a results audit. They called it serious evidence of fraud and corruption. Didn’t hear that on Fox did you?
Team Trump I believe has the winning strategy of going after elections laws that were changed by election officials who had zero authority to do so.
This is the proper way to go about this
Even though Sydney Powells Dominion accusations are interesting, she needs more then just accusations and imaginary Krakens. She is going to have to bring a case involving software experts, examination of the source code, confiscation of compromised machines, security experts, differences between manual paper ballot count and the machine count, this isn’t something that is going to be proven in 1 week or even 1 year, this is 2-4 year long case. And honestly it should be done by the DOJ or FBI, not a private attorney.
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