As I said, I cannot disagree with your premise. I feel much the same way in many aspects, and I feel in my heart that we are going down the road to dissolution, but I can’t go into that dark night.
Not yet.
I just don’t know how to fight back. I am trying to get involved in my town’s electoral process in this bluest of blue states by getting a seat on the Board of Registrars, which seems utterly futile as the lone Conservative, but I must try.
I cannot reconcile myself to just sitting down and waiting for the end to come. I am a realist, and at a debt level of tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars in debt and nobody hearing our voice and fighting back, I cannot see things lasting forever like this. It just isn’t sustainable.
But I don’t know what to do except prepare for what is coming, and I am only marginally capable of psychologically accepting that as a course of action.
You may be right that it has to collapse. But it is painful for me to consider for a country I hold so dear.
National level politics is futile. The local level is where people can have an impact.
For example. The local congressman was on this county board, so if he was still there he could have blocked it.
Instead he got elected to Congress, but was trying to block this via changes in Federal Tax law (obviously, not possible).
I’m reposting a (hopefully helpful)reply of mine to a FReeper who wrote “ The whole idea of Democrats ruling forever makes me incredibly depressed and angry.”
That’s their intent.
Depressed and angry people tend to act out of emotion - a decidedly leftist trait - and subordinate reason.
The result is often Bad.
There is always hope and Light. This nation has had countless Dark Moments….the Carter years with hostages and inflation and people pointing to the “ascending” Soviets; 9/11; Election Day 2016, and those are only recent Dark Moments.
At every such Moment, there was a Greek Chorus of surrendercons fueling the disparity, dangling poison pills of CWII, armed revolt, cheating, theft, and general abandonment of morality and principles.
Oh, and this lot of surrendercons ALWAYS says “yeah, but THIS time it is DIFFERENT.
Of COURSE it’s always different. That’s the way evil works….it is the master of disguises. At its core, however, it’s the same.
Thankfully, men and women of good character hold tight to God, and He delivers us from the jaws of despair. To wit : Reagan, National Resolve/dead OBL, and Trump.
FReeper SamAdams76’s quote about the 2016 election night is timeless: “I went to bed feeling like I had terminal cancer, and woke up like I was in full remission.
Now, prudence will dictate that we don’t become Pollyanna. It IS nasty nowadays, and situational awareness demands we take threats seriously AND take action morally.
But The End isn’t here yet. And while it’s easy to get down, there ARE moments of brightness that we forget - the whole BudLight backlash, two Ivy resignations, Christmas celebrations, and EVs aren’t selling. I don’t know what tomorrow looks like, but I have seen waaay too many buzzer beaters - and people beating cancer - to Surrender.