Everything Is Perfectly Normal. Move Along, Nothing to See Here

The Stream ^ | John Zmirak

[KierkegaardMAN]

The nasty, murderous old communist Leon Trotsky was wrong about almost everything. He died as he lived, as a bandit, with an icepick jammed in his head. Few men deserved it more. But one thing he said is correct: “You may not be interested in politics. But politics is interested in you.”

Trotsky helped V.I. Lenin set up a system where that statement was truer than ever before. Where the state would forbid mothers and fathers from teaching their children about God. And citizens who wrote unorthodox opinions in private letters would disappear into gulags. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a decorated war veteran, was sent to Siberia for writing a friend a joke about Stalin’s moustache.) Where the state made national heroes of children who turned in their parents to the secret police for torture over what they said at dinner.

[KierkegaardMAN]

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[MarvinStinson]

“That’s what our post-Christian left has been preparing Americans for. The unfounding of the U.S.”

[skepsel]

The quote about politics is by Pericles, not Trotsky.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Very good article.

And yes, our time is short.

[sasportas]

Outstanding article. Sums up our present situation to a tee.

[preacher]

l8r

[westbynorthwest]

Zmirak!

[Pajamajan]

MUST-READ article.

[aquila48]

““You may not be interested in politics. But politics is interested in you.””

Hey I came to the same conclusion all by myself!

“Politics trumps everything” first and formost because when boiled down to it’s essence politics is about self interest on a large scale.

In the sport of politics if you fancy yourself a bystander you’re actually a pinata.

[SkyPilot]

"Prepping for the New Order. We're already almost there. You know it in your bones. If a mob comes to your home because it objects to your politics, your religion, or even the color of your skin, you know better than to defend yourself. You know that the whole power of the state will be turned against you, as if you were the criminal. You may not be interested in Anarcho-Tyranny, but it's already stalking you."

We gave our "leaders" incredible power and trusted them to do the right things.

We allowed Big Tech to censor us in ways that Stalin and Hitler would have envied.

We hoped that Q, and all his promises of exposure, arrests, and justice were true.

We put our trust and hope in free elections.

We venerated the Constitution, but allowed the courts to "interpret" what our rights actually were.

And when petty tyrants took away our right to assemble, worship, and speak - we didn't stop them.

We put on our masks, allowed our children and grandchildren to suffer, and watched as they destroyed our lives.

In the end, we didn't stand a chance.

[BrandtMichaels]

Boy are you and your post depressing or what?!

Try some of this please...

https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/ep-2337b-trump-dangles-the-baitgsads-takes-the-baittruth-transparency-the-only-way-forward/

[SkyPilot]

It’s not depressing if you believe that Christ is coming.

[SkyPilot]

And I want to believe that (as the Q person has said a hundred times) "Justice is Coming!"

But we know the drill by now.

[tet68]

In the sport of politics if you fancy yourself a bystander you’re actually a pinata.

If you’re sitting at the gaming table and can’t figure
out who the mark is...it’s YOU.