Posted on 12/05/2020 7:05:33 AM PST by Kaslin
It is time for Americans to disregard the platitudes that have been the rationale for the shutdowns destroying most institutions, including small businesses, schools and churches. By now everyone is wearily familiar with the supposedly spotless motives of those who are fast forwarding their “New Normal” and “Great Reset.”
As the toxic effects of lockdowns and regulatory minutiae have become apparent, Americans realize neither their individual nor their collective good has been furthered. Instead, they have found nearly all their social ties and institutions either short circuited or transformed beyond belief.
How are radicals, including the high priests of Covidism, attempting to usher in a new reality? While America presently is not under the sort of totalitarianism characterizing the USSR, the tactics employed by the Left resemble the ways the Soviet Union ushered millions of its citizens into the new reality of the gulag.
First, as Solzhenitsyn detailed in his expose The Gulag Archipelago, the accused was deprived of identity. He or she went from belonging to not belonging; from unique individual to featureless object. The transference to a new identity within a new order was accomplished by stripping the unfortunate of everything that gave a sense of location, be it family, community, citizenship or faith.
For months, nearly everything that has given Americans a sense of location, place and community has been radically changed or taken away entirely, including the ways Americans traditionally have worshipped their God.
As was the case in the USSR, powerful entities such as the media, academia and radicals in seats of power, visible and invisible, are openly hostile to the majority of American citizens. Covid-19 regulations have psychologically strip searched every citizen. Nearly the entire populace has been under the equivalent of house arrest.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We must be deprogrammed before we are reprogrammed.
Takes months to unlearn a habit, and takes months to establish a new habit.
This is equivalent to freshman year at college.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” - Barack Hussein Obama 2008
And if you cannot be deprogrammed, you will be culled.
This is probably the best summary I have read of what has happened or is still happening to us. And she's right that the only solution is to rediscover the concept of man as created in the Image of God, and thus being essentially a good creation and having individual rights and liberties. We've been forced to hand over the very definition of our lives to the state, and that's why the state finds churches and synagogues such a major threat. We are still human in those places, made in the Image and Likeness of God with all the freedom and joy that this entails...and as such, a mortal threat to the state, the rival of God that wants to define us in its own way.
I don’t feel the least bit dehumanized. In fact, I’m getting really pissed off at a lot of things and a lot of people, and it feels right. It’s good to be alive!
Ditto. Approaching exhilarating. Ready to water that thirsty tree.
Imagine if Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. hadn’t invented the internet, and we didn’t know so much about our overlords — their names, their histories, their actions, their plans.
The open Internet must be on their hot list. If I’m thinking it, they are, too. I expect some type of major disruption soon. Then we know with zero doubt. Then...
If D’rats succeed, what do we do when the Internet is grabbed and FR and conservative sites are only memories?
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Cabin fever: extreme irritability and restlessness from living in isolation or a confined indoor area for a prolonged time.
-Merriam Webster
Hurry up vaccines!
Talk radio LIVES!
Vacinese !!?? Be careful what you wish for. The Wuhoo flu ain’t rabies and the shot may be worse for many than the bout of sniffles.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Jack Nicholson in “The Shining” comes to mind.
“Talk radio LIVES!”
In the EU, AM radio is gone (no broadcasters, not in their cars or stores anymore) and FM radio is fading fast. Will soon be all sat radio — tightly controlled and trackable.
I’m going to get a higher end digital P25 Phase I & II trunking radio scanner. Gets it all except encrypted. Need a PC to set the thing up beyond emergency channels in your zip code. Another learning curve coming up.
A phrase worth repeating!
What are you talking about?
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