06JUN2024 – If This Goes On

Another D-Day, another milestone that has lost its connection to the current day reality.  Imagine if Joe Biden wanted a draft to fight the Russians or the Chinese.  Would the Zoomers show up?  No.  They’d walk away.  Every particle of pride and patriotism has been vacuum-sublimated right out of them.  D-Day is just a subject for a first-person shooter video game.  Dying for their country or for freedom doesn’t have any meaning.  Now they’ll protest for climate change or against oil or to save the Palestinians.  They’ll block streets or occupy the Registrar’s Office or riot if they think the city or state will let them.  But if someone has a gun and is likely to fire it, they don’t want any part of that.

WE live in a different world.  The government has perfected a formula for controlling the populace through perpetual crisis.  COVID or bank failure or economic meltdown or border crisis or race war or terrorist attack or overseas war or, or, or.  They’ve got a crisis du jour to keep the people scared and docile.

So, the only question at this point is:

Can this go on forever?

They’re bankrupting us and making it impossible for us to live a middle-class life.  They insult and threaten us with ever more repressive infringements on our rights.  They lie to us about everything they say.  And now it’s clear they want to replace us with third world serfs that will work for nothing.

Unfortunately, I think the answer is that it can go on forever.  What they’ve done is replaced independent-minded free Americans with impoverished third-world peasants who will do anything not to have to go back to hell.  It would take an army of people determined to resist impoverishment and with an organized and well-thought-out plan of action that could push back the federal government in a wealthy state with enough resources and liberty-minded citizens to push back the feds and make them go home to Washington.

I’d like to believe that such an organization will appear.  But I’m very doubtful that it will.  There have been some individual actions in places like Florida and Texas that gives me glimmers of hope.  But there’s a big difference between that and an army of people united in an effort to free themselves from the tyranny of the managerial state.  I hate to harken back to the great man model but it always seems to come back to it.  All of these ideas come back to someone with money, power and guts organizing the effort and providing the energy needed to organize the effort and keep it going for years.

And of course, the federal government won’t be doing nothing while this “revolt” is taking place.  They’ll be playing hardball including imprisoning anyone they can.  It will begin to resemble a war and there will be plenty of casualties.  And that is the biggest reason why I hesitate to think anything will be accomplished.  Will even a great man risk prison or worse for himself and his family?  Donald Trump is giving us a taste of what that will be like.  Will his example inspire imitators or act as a cautionary tale to warn them off?

What do you think?

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