{"id":12667,"date":"2020-11-17T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2020-11-17T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:43:34","slug":"political-realities-of-america-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/political-realities-of-america-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Realities of America \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first installment of this article<\/a> I listed the available choices I see for right-wingers in America.\u00a0 To reiterate what I said in the first part, \u201cI think we have three choices.\u00a0 Fold, flee or fight.\u00a0 Surrender to the hive, leave the areas under their control, or fight them.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve given my thoughts on the first two options.\u00a0 I will now hold forth on the last option, fight.<\/p>\n

Now full disclosure, I\u2019m not former military, law enforcement, a ninja or an itinerant samurai.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even study military history at the enthusiast level.\u00a0 I will not be able to discourse on what kind of strategy or tactics are needed to wage any kind of war on our enemies.\u00a0 And that is fine because I don\u2019t think we need anyone who is qualified in those things for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 The battles we will be fighting will take place in courts and the court of public opinion.\u00a0 They will take place in the public square and in the electronic versions of it.\u00a0 And it will take place in the state legislatures and state houses, the schools and colleges and unions and churches and grocery stores and department stores and book stores and the electronic equivalent (Amazon.com) and it will take place in the homes of Americans.\u00a0 Or it won\u2019t take place at all.<\/p>\n

And I want to tell you a little secret about my original three choices.\u00a0 They are not really completely separate.\u00a0 For instance, suppose you live in one of the bluest of blue states and actually serve in the managerial state.\u00a0 From my original division you are classified as someone who has folded.\u00a0 You are living under the yoke of the woke state.\u00a0 But who is to say that you aren\u2019t maintaining a clandestine existence as a right-wing blogger providing support and encouragement to our side?\u00a0 He may be part of a secret cell that coordinates activities and transfers information back and forth from behind enemy lines.<\/p>\n

According to my division, if you leave a blue state and move to a red state then you are a fleeing the field.\u00a0 But what if you prefer to chose the ground from which to fight?\u00a0 I\u2019ve always heard that picking the high ground is the only way to win a battle.\u00a0 I don\u2019t deny that guerilla tactics are effective in some cases.\u00a0 But trying to lead an insurgency in one of the deep blue states like in New England is almost an impossible prospect.\u00a0 Finding a red state home to embrace seems like a much better opportunity to be part of the struggle.\u00a0 The added advantage is that while you\u2019re fighting you can enjoy the benefits of living under a friendly regime.\u00a0 The laws won\u2019t be stacked against you and your neighbors truly will be like neighbors.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of hard to reason against any of that.<\/p>\n

Putting all of that aside what does it mean to fight for our side in America?\u00a0 It means working to change the system and the institutions that we live under.\u00a0 It means building social networks for people like us.\u00a0 And it means electing leaders who will have the courage to stand up to the federal government and tell them no.<\/p>\n

With respect to this last item, I am waiting for a state legislature and governor to write a law that doesn\u2019t cave into the non-Constitutional decisions that the Supreme Court has decided on some issue, probably on a social issue.\u00a0 And once the Supreme Court rules against it I am waiting for the governor to say, \u201cI don\u2019t care what the Supreme Court says, that is the law of our sovereign state and we\u2019re not going to back down.\u201d\u00a0 That is what I\u2019m waiting for.\u00a0 Even under a democrat president I do not think we\u2019ll be seeing troops on the ground to enforce the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.\u00a0 If that happens it will be the beginning of something big.\u00a0 It will be the first crack in the dike.\u00a0 And hopefully it will be the beginning of the end of leftist tyranny.<\/p>\n

What fighting the Leftists means is working against their interests in any and every way we can think of.\u00a0 Because that is the surest way to further your own interests and the quickest way to gaining freedom for all of us.\u00a0 Tens of millions of Americans have awakened in the last five years to the realization that the system has been rigged against us all along.\u00a0 This last election has proven that voting is no longer an option for fixing the system.\u00a0 We are going to have to forget about compromising with our enemies and we can\u2019t assume that the Constitution is going to protect our rights.\u00a0 We are going to have to take what we want and only strong leaders are going to be able to help us do that.\u00a0 All of the weak-willed Republicans who are only interested in maintaining their perks and their place on the government gravy train have to go.\u00a0 If they aren\u2019t signed up to change the system then they are part of the problem.\u00a0 Fighting means getting involved in the government and maybe even running for office if you have the skills.\u00a0 But at the very least you are going to have to get involved in process if you really want anything to change.<\/p>\n

And finally, what do I think are the odds that one day it will come down to real fighting?\u00a0 Based on what I\u2019ve seen of Antifa and BLM I don\u2019t doubt that in blue cities and states the creepy thugs that flock to our enemies will stage riots and attack innocent people.\u00a0 But you notice that they don\u2019t go outside of blue areas.\u00a0 That\u2019s because in red areas they\u2019d be shot dead and the local sheriff will say it was justified.\u00a0 But it could come down to federal law enforcement or even troops being sent into a state to strong arm the state government into complying with some federal law that people hate.\u00a0 That would be the test of how committed the locals are.\u00a0 Do I think there could be a shooting war?\u00a0 Yeah, I do.\u00a0 I hope I\u2019ll never see it but I\u2019m not dishonest enough to make believe it couldn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 After that just about anything is possible.\u00a0 If the resistance is from private citizens then it will be pretty difficult for the feds to investigate it without the cooperation of the locals.\u00a0 And I can\u2019t see the state law enforcement going out of their way to help the invaders.<\/p>\n

But this is stuff way down the road.\u00a0 First, we have to elect officials who actually believe the same things we do.\u00a0 Then we have to hold their feet to the fire and force them to take the stands we want.\u00a0 After that we\u2019ll have something to actually fight about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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