Orion's Cold Fire

If the times we live in were a suspense novel we would have a plethora of villains.  There’s Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, George Soros, Christopher Wray, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, William J Burns, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, William Barr, Gavin Newsom and on and on and on.

The sheer number and power of this group is staggering and downright depressing.  Everywhere we look, the status quo is controlled by some part of the enormous coalition that is working relentlessly to destroy what’s left of our civilization.  Whether it’s Anthony Fauci directing bioweapon research and then lying about its release or legal and medical authorities encouraging social services and grade school teachers to convince young children that their sex is other than what their bodies demonstrate, we are surrounded by a tidal wave of evil people protected and spurred on by the elite systems of control that run this country.  But every novel has a hero, a protagonist that comes along and opposes the villains and fights to overthrow that evil.

That is what we are lacking.  No one has stepped forward and proven that he is strong enough and determined enough to free us from our tormentors.  Currently Donald Trump is applying for that job.  He has identified many of the mechanisms that the Left uses to pin us down and prevent us from stopping them from harming us.  He said illegal immigration is the largest threat to our sovereignty and he tried in his first term to stop it.  He had some success.  But it was clear by the end of his term that the Deep State has enormous resources and absolutely no fear of using them.  It’s entirely possible that the COVID release was intentional and that the whole vaccine and lockdown catastrophe was part of a disruption used to prevent a popular president from being re-elected.  None of that seems remotely unthinkable once you see what kinds of actions these people have already demonstrably committed.  So, all of this is the build-up to my familiar and at this point, tired thesis that life isn’t fiction.  We’re not going to be rescued by the plucky hero using a trillion to one lucky shot to blow up the Death Star.

But what is true, is that psychologically we expect that miracle to happen.  And not only regular people believe it but even a rich famous New York real estate tycoon talked himself into it.  Our culture is suffused with the idea that the people are the rightful owners of this country and if you can harness their anger, it will allow a hero to move mountains and fix the problems that we have.

And as I’ve said before, all of that is make believe.  The people in charge want to stay in charge and since they can rig the system any way they deem fit, they will do whatever is necessary to prevent anyone from threatening that power.  Just look at the landslide of indictments they’ve brought down on the head of the former president of the United States.  They hold all the cards and they’re willing to use them as needed.

But there is a caveat.  All of this great power is tied up in the prestige of America being this invincible colossus.  For two hundred years a myth has existed that America is this miracle.  It was a land where success was based on the freedom of its people.  Each man was a king.  His sovereignty was over his house and his family and if he didn’t like the neighbors, he could pull up stakes and go where the air was sweeter and the rules weren’t so onerous.  He had dozens of “states” to choose from and he could tell anybody he pleased to go to hell.  And a country of such men could also tell the rest of the world to go to hell too.  And if other countries made trouble for him, he’d organize a raid and put them in their places.

And after two hundred years of this it turned out that the rest of the world wasn’t much of anything compared to America.  It was the Unipolar Power; the Hegemon.  And the rest of the world took orders from us.  But the people in charge realized this.  The whole world did what they said.  And so, they took the next step.  Why not have the American people become their slaves just the same as the Brits and the French and the Germans.  So that’s what they did.

But they didn’t figure turning the Americans into sheep would cause any issues.  I guess they figured that the elites are what made America great and they could get the same results without all those annoying free men.

But what they missed is that a nation of sheep, even three hundred and sixty million sheep are still just sheep.  And you can’t scare the world with sheep.  No one ever heard of an invincible colossus being just a flock of sheep.  So now Russia and China and soon Iran and maybe Saudi Arabia and who knows soon Mexico will start thinking that sheep aren’t very effective soldiers.  Neither are men in dresses or women in pants.

So, the people in charge may have their way for another few years.  And they’ll do a lot of damage to us.  But the stink of failure is starting to get stronger.  It won’t be much longer before something very bad happens on the international scene.  And when they try to rally us around the flag, it will go over like a lead balloon.  And that will cause a very serious military defeat.  And after the powers that be take a few hard hits, a lot of people in this country are going to look around and say, “These aren’t leaders and we need real men to clean up this mess.”  And when someone steps forward, a lot of things will change.  And unfortunately, that is when a Caesar or a Napoleon is likely to appear.  But that is just how these things roll downhill.  And at this point that might be our best option.

Anyway that’s my prediction on how this plays out.  What can’t go on, won’t go on.