Will We Go Gently Into That Good Night?

The most challenging pieces I author address overwhelming topics, or verbalize what many of us are thinking yet fail to say; obviously, “blackpilling” isn’t the goal, and the threat of violence from lowbrow political mobs is a serious concern. Apparently, I’m not the only one: each year, I read thousands of well-considered articles, blogs, and emails presented by frightened, angry, or resigned individuals. They believe the America we knew is gone, never to return. I speak to many more who express much the same sentiment. We commiserate with each other. We talk tactics, candidates, and ideas, and refer to historical moments that comfort us. But, in the end, many of us feel we are lying to ourselves. Free elections, an educated public, patriotism, and a clear-eyed view of history are now an illusion, or simply a spasmodic recollection of how things used to be.

These are dangerous times for thinkers and people of conscience. There are crazies everywhere! Recently, federal judge Kyle Duncan was escorted off the stage by marshals at Stanford University because a mob prevented him from engaging with the school’s Federalist Society Club. Also shocking is the backstory from the Dean of Diversity, Jenny Martinez; Stanford’s president forced Martinez to apologize to Duncan, as she was the voice of the mob, shouting him down and lecturing him on his lack of Wokeness. In response to her apology, her class was vandalized by fellow wokesters. From the New York Post:

At the end of her class, all but a handful of Martinez’s class of 60 stood and stared at her silently to suggest they were also being silenced[.]

I think you’re just going to see red states coalesce more and become more vituperative against outsiders.

DeSantis’ bill barring gender discussion/brainwashing from all K-12 classes is a great example of this.

We were at checkmate a long time ago. We did nothing then, we will do nothing now.

I know, I know. Molon the labia and all that. Well, even that is bogus, mostly because it's based on a false premise to begin with. With very few exceptions, they won't be coming door to door for the guns. They aren't that stupid. And even if there were door to door confiscations, the vast majority would comply mostly peacefully.

The reason? They don't want their 14 year old kid shot in the back by FBI snipers or their wives to be shot and killed while holding their small baby by the same snipers. They don't want to be in a group of "religious fanatics" when the feds decide to poke a hole in their buildings and start pumping CS gas into the building shortly before a round is put into the building to ignite the gas. They don't want to be gunned down on a snowy road in the middle of nowhere. And they sure as hell don't want to be thrown into a gulag indefinitely for taking a tour of the capitol buildings.

It's that simple. We prefer our creature comforts of today. We like the lifted pickups that we tow the wheelers or the RV with too much. We have sold our freedom for big mortgages on fancy houses and booze to drink while watching the "Big Game" on that new, stimmy paid for big screen TV. To speak out would put all of that at risk and, in some cases, our lives.

Republicans deserve the same scorn as Democrats. The Uniparty is interested solely in lining their own pockets — the best interests of the public be damned.

We need a new party. Trump thought it best to “convert” the GOP into a better form instead of launching a third party. Not so.

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