The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown

Our adversaries can’t quite believe their good fortune. Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown.

This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment from our festivities to ask how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity?

A pandemic caused by the leak of a Chinese-engineered virus and its coverup was cause enough for nationwide madness. But the spread of COVID–19 was followed by a nationalized and often politicized “flatten-the-curve” quarantine that soon ensured a stir-crazy nation. Tens of millions saw no people, and heard nothing human other than what was fed to them through television and computers. No wonder they grew paranoid, conspiratorial, and angry, and soon forgot the therapeutic nature of personal interaction and the shared humanity of being in the physical presence of others.

Our first self-induced recession came next and lasted over a year, destroying all the hard work of the prior three years. Next ensued the death of George Floyd and a subsequent 120 days of rioting, looting, and arson. The immediate costs were $2 billion in damage, over 25 deaths, 14,000 arrests, and a Lord of the Flies anarchy with no-go zones in our major cities. A McCarthyite frenzy followed, as remote-controlled America hunted down the supposed “racists” among us—while career agendas, personal grudges, and ideological hatred fueled the cancel culture.

All this was antecedent to our first election in which Election Day voting was incidental, not essential, to the outcome. This was also our first presidential campaign in which the incumbent was stricken by a pandemic virus. And his opponent, due to his age and infirmity, simply reverted to the 19th century style of staying home

we can conclude America’s richest are placing their bets on a Chinese-Communist controlled 21st century, and will adjust accordingly.

Something that would be interesting is if the Three Gorge Dam were to give way. Frankly, it is something I hope for. I would like to see communist China devastated. Flat out crippled for many years to come. No 21st century control for them. And then? Would America's richest shrug and support home-grown efforts? What other game would be in town?

So we can cut America some slack when we ponder why the entire country is now descending into a collective madness, given the amount of propaganda and media distortion pumped out during the quarantine, and since.

The opportunity provided by CoVid to place not just the country but the entire world into a gigantic re-education camp was simply too good for the Left to pass up. Keep us confined, expose us to an unrelenting diet of controlled information flow, ruthlessly suppress contrary opinion - these are hallmarks of a prisoner of war camp in some communist hellhole rather than a free society. It has been carefully contrived and its maintenance is now being desperately pursued by authoritarians for whom freedom is an obstacle, not an objective.

Some of it was, I think, deliberate, much of it simply opportunism; it hardly matters, really. I get the sense that the political class is slowly coming to realize it has an existential threat on its hands for overreaching and are panicking a bit. That's likely to lead to such abuses as the 6 January protestors in solitary for six months, unthinkable as little as a year ago. What is clearly not simple opportunism is the systematic corruption of the legal system that has culminated in the outrages of asymmetrical law that now empower a revolutionary class to violent action against the others with impunity. That is very deliberate indeed, and the only "transformation" that is likely to achieve is anarchic violence and vigilantism. In theory that will lead to the abused middle class calling for an authoritarian leadership and order - both the Bolsheviks and the Nazis came to power that way, and neither journey ended well for anyone concerned.

Still, there's no fool like a new fool, and one more generation appears to be popularly succumbing to old promises that were never even once fulfilled. Many of us who are trying to call out an alarm are feeling like we're sitting in crosshairs. We are.

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