Orion's Cold Fire

As the political system of the United States descends ever faster into farce, I find myself wondering if there any depths to which the people running this carnival ride won’t descend in order to prevent the citizens of this country from regaining control?

Think about it.  They let a dementia patient pretend to be in charge of the US nuclear arsenal while they performed brinksmanship with Vladimir Putin.  They apparently were willing to let Biden try to stay on the job until he was eighty-six years old, only his inability to remember the word “healthcare” torpedoed the only public speaking appearance they’ve allowed him in years.  They’ve now anointed an emotionally unstable nitwit to be their candidate.  And four years ago, they were willing to shut down the world economy by releasing a tepid bio-weapon against us in order to prevent Donald Trump’s reelection.

So, let’s suppose somehow Donald Trump “wins” the election.  What makes anyone think they’d be unwilling to do whatever it takes to destroy his administration?  Maybe this time they release a deadly bioweapon and all the people who refused the vaccine last time, die this time.  Or now that we’ve seen how the secret Service can be weaponized what will prevent them from finishing the job after the inauguration?

I don’t want to come across as a doom and gloom-er (well, maybe somewhat) but I think there’s a pretty strong case to be made that the people who run the Deep State are pretty damn vicious and unafraid to throw a wrench into the works that keep this country running if it will damage their adversaries.

Let’s look at the best-case scenario.  Donald Trump gets back in the White House and has a House and Senate that aren’t dead set against him and he begins implementing his plan; deporting illegal aliens and restoring fossil fuels as our energy source.  Will the powers that be allow him to defang the Deep State?  Will he be allowed to fire the people in the Justice Department, FBI and CIA who have been working against him for almost ten years?  It seems highly unlikely.

After all, we’ve reached the go-for-broke stage of this battle.  At this point there are probably a lot of people who know terrible secrets of illegal activities by people in high and middle levels of the bureaucracy.  They must be pretty frightened that at some point someone will rat them out.  That somewhere in the FBI or CIA there might be someone who wants to put an end to the endless string of unconstitutional covert actions against Donald Trump and the normal people in this country.  In such an environment I have to think that the people running things must have a policy to avoid losing power by any means necessary.

If you follow how this has been going, the actions needed to keep the lid on all this seems to be escalating.  And the rate of escalation seems to be accelerating.  By my way of looking at this, that’s a recipe for disaster.  Eventually the lies and excuses will become completely transparent.  Even the stupidest or laziest observer will realize that the whole system is a sham.

That will be the point where our situation corresponds to last stages of the Soviet Union.  “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.”  At that point reality no longer controls the actions of the state and collapse will ensue without warning.  Well, at least I’ll be able to say I told you so!