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...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I se the situation today is not unlike that in France in 1789 with haughty elites lording over what they saw as an under class. That underclass was also seething with resentment and hatred. I fear the next “January 6th” will not be a government choreographed “insurrection”, but something more akin to the storming of the Bastille.
Superb piece.
Because I can live in a bubble, it’s often hard for me to tell if other people are struggling as much as I am, and face it, MOST of us are in the top 5% of world wealthholders.
But we’re many years away from the lid finally blowing off this pot.
Folks,
Are we going to have a French Revolution against what we don’t want. and then another against what we don’t want? The list of things we don’t want is endless.
Or are we going to have an American Revolution for what we want? NOW is the time to influence what is coming.
MAGA.
Again and again I have come across the same tale in the notes and diaries of people who suffered through such difficult eras while recording their thoughts for posterity. One of the recurring observations passed on from generations past is the shocking recognition that the “rules” had suddenly changed forever. Rights once thought well preserved quickly disappeared. “Justice,” as it had been known, evaporated — replaced by loyalty oaths and religious-like devotion to the State. Civil codes of conduct vanished in the shadow of the ruling class’s predilection for intimidation and brute force. The agreed-upon compact binding citizens with their government was summarily rewritten into an indentured servant contract empowering the government to be masters over their citizen slaves. Reading the warnings from the past hits me like a horror movie with an indelible message: beware the moment when long-respected rules are carelessly thrown away.
Everywhere Americans once turned for guidance — their government, the news media, academia, disinterested experts — is now covered in the same “woke” slime and “politically correct” lies. Those lies are building up all around us, choking more and more Americans who see through them.
Reading my devotional this morning, maybe we need a GUIDE more than guidance..........................
The ruling class sits upon a bloated stock market highly vulnerable to buying strikes.
The left use words such as bipartisan to ensnare those who think it means compromise and fairness. While it really means giving into their oppression as they do not compromise nor are their fair, nor equitable. They try to make others feel guilty and shamed by using language that would work in a perfect world, but in an imperfect world is used sway and control those whose want to believe words that they don’t seem to realize are used to control them and oppress and destroy the opposition.
Ugh. Gimme Franco or Pinochet over Cromwell any day.
I loved Pinochet’s free helicopter rides for Commies program myself.
Source: https://twitter.com/HallofFameMemes/status/1693394058016657660
Enjoy a slice of the World Egotists Forum.....
Everyone please read the entire article.
The only thing that could be added, is that RINOs should be included with the elites, as they are sitting with them, on top of a boiling pot, lying to the people.
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