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Welcome to a Wilderness of Lies
Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 01/07/2021 4:08:34 AM PST by Kaslin

Well, this is going to be cheery. Have you noticed that everything is a lie and a scam? Everything.

See, the problem starts when our elite realized that it could break the norms and betray the principles that we all thought we were all abiding by without accountability, at least for a little while. The Establishment realized that it can simply not enforce the norms, and then there will be a lag time while the normals continue on as if the norms were still in effect. It’s inertia – this is why you get these sad sack RINOs lecturing us on how we’re subverting the institutions when what we are really doing is pointing out that the institutions have subverted themselves.

It’s willful blindness to the corruption because the weakhearts don’t want to admit there is corruption because that would then require them to act. It’s easier to live on scraps.

As you read this, I expect that we will be hearing how the GOP blew Georgia. Either we lost Tuesday night – no delay in calling it for the commies! – or we’ll enter the endless recounts leading up to the inevitable Dem victory. I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it. If I am, feel free to mock me for my lack of faith in the system. But then, sometimes you draw a five when you have 16 in blackjack. You just don’t bet on that happening.

I guess this is all necessary. The structures and institutions of American society have all been in place with little real change for nearing a century. Nothing lasts forever though, particularly when they are run by grifty idiots. The disruption caused by the tech revolution has helped speed up inevitable processes of change – you know, the creative destruction we hear about in unwoke economics courses. The institutions we relied on – our churches, the NFL, the political parties – are now focused entirely upon preventing that inevitable change. The lackluster losers who inherited their sinecures in these institutions (not literally but by being adopted into the establishment by going to the right schools) want to maintain a status quo that is great for them and poison for the rest of us.

Joe Biden* is the quintessential example of this, a failed retread with zero accomplishments promising business as usual with a veneer of wokeness slathered on top of it all. He wants to hold on to his ruins. He’ll entrench his corporate masters and do everything he can to stifle the potential for reform and dissent. Remember when dissent was patriotic? Now, the media’s whole job is to angrily reaffirm the divine right of our garbage elite to rule us.

BREAKING: All the people in power are good and wise and benevolent and competent and to say differently is treasonous sedition of treachery! Film at 11.

And they have carefully cultivated a class of drones to support them. You see them on the street, healthy people wearing face diapers as they walk alone. They can’t all have immunity conditions. Most are just brainwashed, and eager to be. There’s this funny outtake of The Office where they elaborately prank Dwight to think he is in the Matrix, and they offer him the blue pill that sends him back into the false reality or the red pill that opens his eyes. He asks for the blue pill. And that’s what so many of the losers who are our fellow citizens want, desperately. They yearn for a blue pill to make the reality go away.

It never occurred to me until recently that maybe a lot of people don’t like freedom. Maybe they are happy enough with Netflix, Trader Joe’s chardonnay, and serfdom.

I told you this was going to be cheery.

And yet I have long-term optimism even if I have short-term predictions of chaos. History doesn’t just stop. There’s no locking us into this forever. And enough of us are woke that we remain a threat to the garbage status quo and the mutants who run it.

It’s easy to focus on the bad – a Mitt Romney or a tool like that useless Georgia secretary of state – to draw our attention and become a focus for our anger, but look at the bigger picture. We have more squared-away folks out there doing our work now than ever before. The GOP, which we will not abandon because in a two-party system you can’t really start a new party, has been dragged kicking and screaming our way. Oh, not completely, not even close. But it is moving our way over time. The Jeb!s and Nikki!s think they stand to inherit it when that mean old Trump leaves. Nope. Not happening.

This is a long war. If you want a quick win, you won’t get it. If you think some sort of magic even is going to fix everything, wrong. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Our Rome won’t be torn down and rebuilt in one either.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; election; joebiden; lies
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Red Pill: Unpleasant reality

Blue Pill: Blissful illusion

Facebook and Twitter are dispersing blue pills by the truck load.
21 posted on 01/07/2021 6:13:11 AM PST by Bratch
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

“The Office” was a comedy show on TV. I never quite got the humor because more than half the stuff going on I had seen in reality for myself and it was distinctly NOT funny.

“Matrix” was a cool sci-fi movie series that started very strong but ended up very dark and stupid. There was an iconic scene where the main character was offered 2 choices, red pill or blue pill. Red pill meant you would see life as it really in truth existed, with all its ugliness. Blue pill meant you get to continue on with the facade.


22 posted on 01/07/2021 6:26:51 AM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: pierrem15

Well, then, let’s move along at such a fast pace to the era of tearing down the Berlin Wall.


23 posted on 01/07/2021 6:28:45 AM PST by Kevmo (I'm in a slow motion Red Dawn reality TV show. The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: DesertRhino
Our current propaganda does the same in reverse: watch TV and you'd think the US was full of happy, prosperous minorities and gay couples fostering children.

Just ignore the poverty caused by outsourcing, illegals, H1B visas, regulatory strangulation and taxes as well as the criminality stemming from failed social welfare policies and out of wedlock births among protected classes.

24 posted on 01/07/2021 6:36:47 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: \/\/ayne

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
― Samuel Adams


25 posted on 01/07/2021 6:55:59 AM PST by Pythion.net
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To: Kaslin

Kurt, what have you been smoking? Must be REALLY good stuff, care to share?

“We won’t abandon the GOP because in a two party system...” In case you haven’t been paying attention courts all over this once great country have nullified voting by giving their imprimatur to vote fraud. GOP, Libertarian, Constitution, the only party that matters, the only party which will win going forward, is the Democrat Party.

“The GOP is moving in our direction...”
Really? In what parallel dimension is this happening? Watch as the Mitts, Niki’s and Jeb!s take over in Trumps wake.


26 posted on 01/07/2021 6:56:00 AM PST by tnt1554
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To: pierrem15
Look on the bright side: with Joe Biden, we’ve already moved from Lenin right to the Brezhnev era.

Don't be so sure, Biden is Obama's sock puppet.
27 posted on 01/07/2021 7:35:44 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Kaslin

Yes Kurt I’ve noticed everything is a lie and a scam. Thanks.


28 posted on 01/07/2021 7:40:54 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MarDav

You got that right. There is no Republican rep or senator worth the price of the ammo to shoot them. They are all part and parcel of the two headed snake. If I saw one of them drowning I’d throw them a rock.


29 posted on 01/07/2021 7:44:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: polymuser

/bingo


30 posted on 01/07/2021 10:01:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

They won’t prosecute Antifa instigators.

Photos, Reports Show ANTIFA Infiltrators Stormed the Capitol Building
https://gellerreport.com/2021/01/photos-reports-show-antifa-infiltrators-stormed-the-capitol-building.html/

Liberals instigated violence at Trump’s rallies in 2015 and 2016 to make conservatives look bad.

The same thing is happening here. And it was done to justify systematic oppression of conservatives by Biden-Harris AND scare Republicans into rolling over on the Electoral College vote that was going on.


31 posted on 01/07/2021 11:45:27 AM PST by tbw2
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To: afchief

They won’t prosecute Antifa instigators.

Photos, Reports Show ANTIFA Infiltrators Stormed the Capitol Building
https://gellerreport.com/2021/01/photos-reports-show-antifa-infiltrators-stormed-the-capitol-building.html/

Liberals instigated violence at Trump’s rallies in 2015 and 2016 to make conservatives look bad.

The same thing is happening here. And it was done to justify systematic oppression of conservatives by Biden-Harris AND scare Republicans into rolling over on the Electoral College vote that was going on.


32 posted on 01/07/2021 11:45:33 AM PST by tbw2
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