{"id":26998,"date":"2024-01-04T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26998"},"modified":"2024-01-03T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T20:40:55","slug":"waking-up-to-brutal-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/waking-up-to-brutal-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Waking Up to Brutal Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a discussion with a good friend who currently is about where I was in 2016.\u00a0 He\u2019s seen how fake the GOP establishment is but he thinks things are so bad, based on the polls, that Trump has to win.\u00a0 He talked about the drift of black and Hispanic and youth voters either slightly or precipitously away from Joe Biden this year and he feels that this has guaranteed the election for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So, I asked him what happens if two weeks after election day Joe Biden wins in the usual places; Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia?\u00a0 \u201cWell, then it\u2019s over.\u00a0 We might as well look for a new country,\u201d he said.\u00a0 Based on my conversations with this friend over the course of over twenty years this is a seismic change.<\/p>\n<p>2020 was a wakeup call for the normie-cons.\u00a0 And no one can claim that in the world that we inhabited in 2000 or even 2008 that an economy and a social environment such as we have now would possibly have allowed for the incumbent that caused these conditions to get reelected.\u00a0 It just wouldn\u2019t have happened.\u00a0 Everyone knows that election results no longer track with public opinion polls or even reality.\u00a0 I\u2019m convinced that if Joe Biden \u201cwins\u201d the 2024 Presidential Election the last remaining holdouts on the Right will be fully awakened to truth about American elections; that they\u2019re fake.<\/p>\n<p>Now this is a limited observation and conclusion.\u00a0 I don\u2019t claim that this realization will have any effect or result on our situation.\u00a0 The only thing that will happen will be a collapse in trust in the federal and blue state governments and a search for some other power center that can be invested with whatever monetary and social support these people can provide.<\/p>\n<p>People like DeSantis and Abbott will be looked to for protection against Biden and the unconstitutional power grabs that he and his cronies will enact.\u00a0 It might even come down to a showdown over something like illegal border crossings in Texas.\u00a0 But at the very least most people will finally agree with the statement that \u201cwe can\u2019t vote our way out of this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s huge.\u00a0 This collapse in trust by the least political portion of the population is the death knell for the establishment Republicans.\u00a0 Creeps like Mitch McConnell and Nikki Haley will be recognized for what they are; patsies for the Left.\u00a0 Brave men who are willing to strike out in a new direction, to take matters into their own hands and force the federal government to accept the rights of Red State Americans to the constitutional freedoms that we were promised generations ago will be the true leaders and they will find enormous support from the people who are impatiently waiting for some kind of resistance to the unrelenting attack against us by the Left and their minions in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the day when a whole generation of men who recognize what Trump did and use his example to replace the RINOs in state and federal offices and begin the process of defining and acting upon a concerted program to push back the outrages that have been perpetrated against the good people of this country for generations.<\/p>\n<p>But all this supposes that such men exist.\u00a0 What if they don\u2019t?\u00a0 Well then, if after the upcoming 2024 debacle no one steps forward to lead the remaining people of this country who want to be free, then I agree with my friend.\u00a0 We\u2019ll need to find a new country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a discussion with a good friend who currently is about where I was in 2016.\u00a0 He\u2019s seen how fake the GOP establishment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3344,2056,451,3869],"class_list":["post-26998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-2024-elections","tag-normies","tag-red-pill","tag-red-state-coalition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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