the spectacle of wholesale voter fraud being openly displayed in the Democrat strongholds of swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona during the presidential election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n2022 just reinforced the sense that normal Americans no longer have a say in how their government is run and in fact are viewed as the enemy by the federal bureaucracy, the media, academia, the public-school teachers and big business.\u00a0 If any final proof was needed that there is a far-reaching conspiracy to disenfranchise and discredit normal Americans then reading the reports from Elon Musk on how the government and Twitter management suppressed and silenced any conservative voices over COVID or any other meaningful dissent should cover that nicely.<\/p>\n
Before 2020 we thought that we were vying with the Left for control of the levers of power in an America that was troubled but fixable.\u00a0 After 2020 many, many of us know that the whole political set-up is a sham.\u00a0 We know that the federal courts and Department of Justice are a sham that provides a two-tier system of justice depending on whether you are a Democrat operative or not.\u00a0 We know that vote counting can be drawn out for days or weeks in order to \u201cfind\u201d additional votes needed to change an election result.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve seen urban crime become a joke with revolving door justice for repeat offenders who commit anything from massive retail theft to gang banging murder.\u00a0 But we\u2019ve seen political enemies jailed without hope of bail for years at a time for misdemeanors like trespassing.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve watched a feckless military turn the withdrawal from Afghanistan into a rout while bringing us to the brink of nuclear war in the Ukraine because they don\u2019t like Putin\u2019s policy on gays.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen our economy cratered and inflation destroy our standard of living, because nitwit greens think fossil fuels are evil.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve watched all this and we\u2019ve watched half the country approve of all this.<\/p>\n
So, what\u2019s my point?<\/p>\n
My point is you can\u2019t unsee this.<\/p>\n
There are probably at least thirty percent of the people in this country that will never believe in the old concept of the United States again.\u00a0 That belief has been sand blasted out of them.\u00a0 All that\u2019s left is the reality of what really goes on here.\u00a0 Any appeals to their patriotic spirit or their feelings of fellowship with their fellow Americans will at most summon up a feeling of nausea.\u00a0 All of their loyalty is now for their friends and family or whatever local community of normal people that they belong to.\u00a0 Their feeling of belonging to a group that includes people who voted for Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi is weaker than the bonds they share with Jeffrey Dahmer or some other deranged psychopath.<\/p>\n
Their opinion of government organizations like the CDC, FBI and IRS corresponds to what they used to think about the KGB, the Mafia or al Qaeda.\u00a0 They know they are filled with evil unscrupulous people working against their interests.<\/p>\n
And what will be the result of this change in feelings toward this country?<\/p>\n
Well, I have to confess I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Maybe nothing.\u00a0 Our enemies may be so much smarter and more powerful than us that our hatred of them is completely meaningless.\u00a0 They will bury us and change over this country into the global paradise they intend where even our graves will be blotted out when they build back better.\u00a0 Maybe they\u2019ll go from strength to strength and never even look back.\u00a0 So be it.<\/p>\n
But I tend to doubt it.\u00a0 For one thing they don\u2019t really seem to be that smart.\u00a0 They believe in things like green energy that just don\u2019t make any real sense.\u00a0 And the people they favor (like the trans freaks) are extremely dysfunctional.\u00a0 And the way they run their cities borders on the insane.\u00a0 I tend to believe if we leave them to their own devices without trying to fix their mistakes, they\u2019ll run themselves into a pretty deep ditch sooner or later.\u00a0 My way of thinking is that we should concentrate on the places we control and do our best to exclude the Left and their policies to the best of our abilities.\u00a0 And when they crash their areas be ready to salvage what can be saved and let the rest sink back into cannibalism.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s my takeaway.\u00a0 Old America is dead and buried.\u00a0 We need to take advantage of the real world we live in now without sentiment or false ideas about who our countrymen are.\u00a0 The Left is our enemy and seeing them fail is a victory for us.\u00a0 Whatever we can game out of the current system is to our advantage but the idea of being treated fairly by the powers that be is nonsense.\u00a0 Wake up and see things for how they really are and you\u2019ll stand a better chance of surviving in the world that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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