Today I had a Christmas get together with some good friends that I used to work with.\u00a0 All of them are on my side of the aisle and in addition to talking about the old company and people we know in common we of course talked about the sorry state of things.\u00a0 First off, we were in a small bar and grill.\u00a0 That meant that we couldn\u2019t move a couple of tables to sit together.\u00a0 When I tried to, the waitress acted like I was trying to light the tablecloth on fire or something.\u00a0 She worriedly explained that the health department would shut them down if we were caught messing with the floor plan.\u00a0 But she whisked us away to a larger table that was isolated from the rest of the guests in a corner where we could spread COVID to our hearts\u2019 content.\u00a0 So much for a casual get together.<\/p>\n
After we ordered our drinks, I heard all the complaints about the old firm and its latest idiocies in the face of the \u201cpandemic.\u201d\u00a0 Then we talked about the COVID madness and the election.\u00a0 And I was a little surprised.\u00a0 They were much more fed up with the lockdown than even I am.\u00a0 One of the guys says he was talking with some friends of his on the local police force and they told him that they\u2019re reaching their limit of tolerance for what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 Many of the older and even some of the younger cops are disgusted with the damage that has been done to the owners of restaurants and the other small businesses effected by the shutdowns.\u00a0 A lot of those business owners are friends and relatives of the cops.\u00a0 Some of the cops are talking about the idea of a strike.\u00a0 I asked him for details but he didn\u2019t have any.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s just grousing but it\u2019s interesting to know that cracks are beginning to appear in the state and municipal workforce even here in New England.<\/p>\n
All of my friends were convinced that the COVID shutdowns weren\u2019t going away anytime soon and that they were basically a way for the state to take control of our lives and make us grovel.\u00a0 And they all know that vaccinations will be considered a condition for being allowed to keep their jobs at the old firm.<\/p>\n
Then we talked about the election.\u00a0 There was unanimity that the elections were blatantly stolen.\u00a0 They were all pessimistic about the attempt to reverse the electoral college votes.\u00a0 Some of the strongest anger was aimed at John Roberts and the part he played in the fraud.\u00a0 And everyone agreed that William Barr was not trying to help get to the truth on any of the investigations he was supposedly working on.\u00a0 Most felt he was just another swamp creature.\u00a0 And everyone agreed that things were going to get much worse if Joe Biden gets into the White House, especially up here in New England.\u00a0 They were already talking about sending their guns out of state to forestall the confiscations they were expecting.<\/p>\n
But the most surprising reaction I heard was from one guy in particular.\u00a0 He is one of the staunchest conservatives in the group and an avid consumer of the information on line.\u00a0 He listens to everything that\u2019s out there and he follows back links and does his own research into the facts instead of just reading the pundits and the cable channel stuff.<\/p>\n
He said he\u2019s done.\u00a0 He\u2019s not going to listen to anymore talk.\u00a0 He\u2019s shutting off the pundits and he\u2019s not going to get involved in the issues and politics and he isn\u2019t going to support anymore politicians.\u00a0 He says he\u2019s just going to enjoy his life and let the world go straight to hell.<\/p>\n
I asked him what had been the last straw.\u00a0 He said the election fraud was what did it.\u00a0 From his way of looking at things, if the Left can steal an election blatantly and no one on the Right is doing anything more than running around in circles and wetting their pants then it\u2019s all over.\u00a0 I asked him if there was anything that could change his mind.\u00a0 He said yeah, if the Right finally puts some of those hundreds of millions of guns out in the street and used them to make the Left walk back the election fraud.<\/p>\n
I had no answer for that.\u00a0 Because he\u2019s kind of right.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been outmaneuvered by crooked bureaucrats and third-rate thugs and moronic political hacks.\u00a0 No one has come forward to lead a popular revolt against this tin-pot junta that has weaponized the intelligence agencies and the social media platforms against us.\u00a0 They have shown us that this isn\u2019t a democracy.\u00a0 It\u2019s a banana republic and we\u2019re the peasants who pick the bananas.<\/p>\n
But I am hopeful that some brave and powerful individual will decide to make a stand somewhere out there in Red State America and begin pushing this thing back in the right direction.\u00a0 My friend is waiting for that sign.\u00a0 And the more I think about it I think we\u2019re all waiting for a sign that there\u2019s still some fight left on our side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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