What is the worst aspect of living under a hostile occupying power? That’s what I’ll try to figure out. Now, some may say that we are not occupied. Rather, we’re conquered or colonized. Well, sure cases can be made for each of those designations. I’ll leave that to the hair splitters out there. Suffice it to say that the Right has the distinct impression that we have lost our rights as Americans and are living under a hostile regime imposed from outside and backed up by a military force that is lurking behind the scenes waiting to haul away into a gulag anyone foolish enough to oppose it.
Living under an occupying power, subjects you to many evils. You may have your property seized. The laws that used to protect you can be arbitrarily changed or even eliminated. New and unjust laws can be invented to punish the conquered people. Economic conditions can deteriorate due to the occupying power’s conflicting goals. The occupier may employ propaganda to indoctrinate children in school. The military authority may employ paid informers to spy on the inhabitants. And so on.
But under our occupation most of the evils we suffer are tied to the enforced adherence to the Left’s cult of wokeness. This cult has as its tenets that white Americans but especially sexually normal white men are inherently racist, sexist and homophobic and that this evil must be atoned for with a permanent program of anti-white punishments. Obviously living under such a regime is brutally painful and damaging. I’ll try to break out the individual aspects of this trauma in this series of essays. For tonight’s theme I’ll talk about what it means to lose your voice.
What do I mean by “lose your voice?” I’ll give an example. Let’s say you’ve somehow survived through the first Obama term and after the hideously poor results of this regime you hope to see a conservative replace him. And after the Republican primaries you realize with horror that “severely conservative” Mittens Romney has emerged from this debacle and will almost certainly lose to Barry Sotero because Romney doesn’t actually differ from Obama in any real way and because he really has no desire to win anyway. He’s a placeholder meant to mark time while Obama puts on his Hope Redux pantomime act.
So, whenever Obama talks about how Black Lives Matter all Romney can talk about is reducing the deficit or reforming Medicaid. Not a word can be said about foreign wars or illegal immigration or FBI tampering with policing in the failing Democrat cities like Baltimore or Philadelphia. All of the things that we see as outrages and as the primary problems facing our society are taboo. That nitwit Paul Ryan can only talk about reducing corporate taxes and deregulating tech monopolies.
And even when we finally had a candidate in 2016 who wasn’t a Uni-party shill and who, against all odds, snuck past the election gatekeepers, what kind of coverage did he get in the media? We got Russia-gate 24/7/365. Maybe, just maybe Fox News may have had a few opinion types who talked to the issues but the news was still read by Shepherd Smith who pronounced every proclamation by Adam Schiff or Nancy Pelosi that the walls were closing around Trump and never mind about his policies, they wouldn’t see the light of day once he was safely in prison.
And now that they’ve closed the gaps in their election scam and ejected the only honest president we’ve had in thirty five years even Fox has reverted to shilling for the Dems and all we hear is transgender surgery for minors and trillions for Ukraine but not a penny for East Palestine, Ohio.
And if you’re unlucky enough to also be stuck in a Blue State well, then you’re really without a voice. Because in one of these places you’re not only unable to get your voice heard but if by chance the wrong people hear what you’re saying you’ll find yourself scooped up by the Stasi and deposited in a dungeon where you’ll sit and rot for a few years before being sentenced by a kangaroo court to hard time in a hellhole prison.
But even ignoring the fear of being persecuted, the primary trauma of being silenced is hopelessness. After all, how can things be fixed if you’re unheard and alone. Even if the internet allows for some way to contact like-minded people, the social media companies have elevated shadow-banning and algorithmic siloing of conservatives to a fine art. Google, Facebook and until recently, Twitter did everything they could to minimize the reach of voices on the Right. We are shadow-banned while the Left is amplified.
It may be the case that the beginnings of a change are appearing. Alternative news sites are beginning to gain ground. A few mainstream names like Tucker Carlson are starting to talk to us in our own language and tell the truth. Elon Musk has let much needed light flood in to show how the feds and Twitter conspired to silence the Right and protect Biden and others on the Left. And more and more regular people go to their favorite websites to find out what is happening in the world. Sites like Whatfinger even let me amplify my reach to many times what I normally can. Recently someone like Michael Anton was able to find his way to my site. Maybe we’re not as alone as we were. Maybe we’re starting to regain our voices. But it’s still a lonely fate being occupied.
Figuring out that the “Of the people, by the people, for the people” talk was an entire charade and farce is not an overnight realization for most of us. It is a process that takes place as one notices a pattern of deception that began centuries ago. A few examples: Woodrow Wilson campaigning for president in 1916 on the slogan “He kept us out of war.” Less than a month after inauguration, American boys were stepping foot on French soil to add more bodies and carnage in a useless conflict, one that would be continued by their sons a little… Read more »
Arthur, even after we see what’s going on the part that isn’t clear is what can be done about it. We all want a way out of the trap but who will figure out the solution? After all even Caesar turned out to be just another patrician master or at least his heir proved to be.