Posted on 08/21/2023 4:31:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
And instead of turning down the heat, they're clamping down a lid.
In the history books, great social revolutions are often distilled into digestible reasons for their emergence. Rising unemployment, widespread illness, cultural upheaval, and rapid technological change have all been diagnosed as the proximate causes for various sudden shifts in society. If you look past those antiseptic historical autopsies, though, and concentrate on the feelings and passions of the people who experienced the revolutions firsthand, you will find another symptom present in every single movement for great change: popular rejection of ruling class lies.
People despise lies, especially lies that have had the effect of making them feel foolish. People despise lies so much that they will go out of their way to pretend obvious lies are somehow still based in truth. It is much more comfortable to believe that governing institutions continue to make "honest" mistakes than to accept that those institutions abandoned honesty a long time ago. It is easier to spin one lie away with yet another soothing lie than to accept the darker, harder, bitter truth. However, officially sanctioned lies tend to coagulate in the body politic much like spike proteins clotting in the blood until, eventually, the whole system just bursts.
When that happens, people become rightly mad. They are mad not only because they finally recognize that their government has been engaged in massive deceptions, but also because they are ashamed for having defended obvious lies as truths for far too long. Rage is the inevitable result — a rejection of the people and institutions responsible for such degrading self-delusions. And when rage arrives, a peculiar thing tends to happen: fewer and fewer ruling-class heirs remain to defend the status quo. History records successful revolutions when the previous system's liars rebrand themselves...
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Many young men are being Revolutionized.
Around 2015 I determined that there was nothing worth investing a damm thing in to be found in either major party.
The next politician I actually follow and pay attention to probably won’t be a politician. It will be a person with an actual plan to burn it all down and start over that says let’s roll.
Grok that “National Security” as spoken by any member of the government does not mean that the actual citizens of our nation are protected; oh no... No, national security to these f——ks means that the government survives, even if that takes smoking 300 Million of us to ensure that survival. That a-hole Swalwell talking about using nukes on dissenters and Biteme talking about F-16’s — THEY MEANT EVERY WORD OF IT. The United States Government is an enemy of anyone that wants to live a decent and free life. Once you understand that, you’ll quit wasting time perpetuating the problem.
Which explains why Deep State is busily exterminating the middle class.
No successful revolution without us.
Deep State knows its history.
Deep State’s frontmen are stupid.
The people hiding behind them are not.
Be sure to thank your Democrat friends, neighbors, coworkers and relatives.
I work in an area with a young population. They were almost all educated in public schools. They don’t believe in freedom. In fact they seem to think it’s evil. There are exceptions, the home schooled but they are few.
- "What happens if Trump is not President in 2024?"
- They also said: "I'd like to read just as passionate and intelligent an article giving a "practical solution" to mitigating the lies and injustice of the left."
It's easy to articulate the problem. The right has not been very successful in putting up a plan/solution that mitigates the power and lies of the left.
Yes, but only on weekends. Well, you know, the job... the mortgage, kids... wife's zoomba classes at the Y, and that vacation is already booked, so... But hey, February's free. But gotta be back by March. Ski trip. Doing Breckenridge this year...
Thier ate 2 things that change 5hat: 1. Another attempt at a lockdown, or National Gun legislation.
Every elite thinks they are protected and immune from harm or negative consequences. They have no idea how fragile their world is because they are used to buying anything at any time.
Thunderclap Newman among the best of the one hit wonders
I’m curious, on which issues does your dad disagree with the leftists?
In my opinion there is little or no practical difference between liberals and leftists. You might be able to eke out a distinction by saying liberals are nice or something. But when it gets down to it they’ll support leftist policies and viewpoints and vote for leftist politicians. So as a practical matter they’re in the same category.
No, he knows that his party has been taken over by crazies, but he thinks we are also crazy.
So he thinks parents that don’t want their kids exposed to leftist gender ideology are crazy?
He’s waking up. Slowly.
Well that’s a good thing. Sounds like he may be discovering that he’s not really a liberal.
My list is a tad larger. It includes EVERY DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN and ALL of the 81 Million “people” that voted for Joey the Sniff.
Just not sure where the DEAD, who routinely vote Democrat, fall into that 81 Million number.
You’re not wrong. The MSM protection fortress has only gotten stronger and more biased. Half of the country is truly clueless. The chairman of the GOP is a serial election fraud denier. Because of this fixing our hijacked nation through voting is quickly becoming impossible so what comes next going to be ugly and violent
I think I heard Paul Harvey once say, “Where is Cromwell, now that we need him?”
We may get Franco, but I would rather have Cromwell if we are going to have a period of setting things right.
We will be presented with the Man on the White Horse. Note carefully my choice of words.
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