A thought came to me this evening. Here in the “PreDawn Zone”. Imagine a country where the education system is populated entirely with persons of one political extreme and furiously intolerant of any perspective other than theirs. Also in this country we have bureaucrats of almost uniformity in their opinions and thought.
Over a period of decades the military which was once predominately of the other political thinking is gradually transformed through careful vetting of senior officers into a similar uniformity. in spite of the uniformity it previously had it was a civilian military with very high moral standards and had stayed out of the “culture war” that had been brewing but now it was in the hands of the same folks as the education system has become an “activist military”.
Imagine, as well that the politicians of this country making the laws had no respect for the very laws they were making. Imagine that while the military was being transformed so was the Judiciary in a similar manner.
On the other side of the political spectrum in our imaginary country we have all the folks who once had jobs in manufacturing or businesses that either made things or provided services to businesses that did. All the welders, machinists, engineers, etc. who no longer have careers in those formerly high paying professions and are now working at cash registers and such at a fraction of their former incomes. Still working in their 60s and 70s because their children have not been able to find jobs and live at home. Or their children just came home long enough to drop off a couple of grand kids.
The business owners have shuttered their businesses as they have been smothered in regulations written by bureaucrats that turned once profitable businesses into charities. When they realized they could simply pull the cash reserves from the business and live a comfortable but reduced lifestyle it seemed the smarter of the options.
Imagine that slowly the workers, the business owners, and their families and friends begin to realize they are being collectively punished by the educators, bureaucrats, politicians, Judiciary, and their friends. The other side has allowed central banks to print money because the government just could not make ends meet on the backs of the productive any longer. So what dwindling resources they do have are being siphoned off perhaps not out of necessity but as punishment for having a different set of beliefs. A different moral code.
Imagine that they realize that they have allowed all this to happen over the corse of decades not out of ignorance or disinterest but a sense of “civility” and they have known all along that they outnumbered the educators, judges, bureaucrats, and politicians. Imagine their previous attempts to get the attention of someone, anyone in the political process, in the judiciary, in their churches to coordinate some counter balance to what has been taking place had been thwarted by a dishonest media in conjunction with the politicians and their allies.
How can anyone contemplating such a country fail to see what happens next?
As bad as Trump haters may hate him, like the old “Black Avenger” used to say about lawyers. You can hate him but you have to admit he is better than the alternative.
There’s no doubt that the socialist democrat progressives are working hard to transform America into a godless Marxist/fascist totalitarian state. And they’re getting damned close. Praying Cruz and Trump can wake the people up.
Very well written. I’m just guessing that you have some published works...
At this point, more and more people are seeing Trump as a “Super Hero.” The young, it seems to me, are especially impressed. He looks like he could be a steam roller at this point because people are furious and livid at what has been happening in America, as the party of the destroyers, the Progressives, have taken a wrecking ball to all that is this country. The economy, immigration, drug addiction, anarchy, the war against Christians and the family, ISIS, the in-your-face refusal in government and our legal system to abide by our Constitution, elections which produce no results, etc., etc. are producing a giant roar from the silent majority, both Democrat and Republican..Independents, too. And, it looks as though the now reviled media cannot stop that wave of anger with it’s usual propaganda. Will the leftist slice of the 1% continue their iron grip on us and our future? We will see.
Seems like the only way to get the complete attention of FedGov™ is to lob artillery shells into one of their forts.