{"id":7826,"date":"2019-07-28T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T02:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2019-07-28T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T02:37:48","slug":"the-great-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/28\/the-great-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent post<\/a> I stated that back in 2015 the Alt-Right\/Dissident Right (or whatever your favorite term is) predicted that the identitarian politics and globalist economic policies of the Left would push the civic nationalists over the edge and radicalize them into their own identitarian group.\u00a0 In that post I called it the Great Awakening.<\/p>\n

The term Great Awakening is actually a description for several religious revivals that occurred in British North America and later in the United States between the 1730s and the late 1800s.\u00a0 I am stealing the term to use for a completely different phenomenon.<\/p>\n

What I am talking about is the phenomenon of normal apolitical Americans waking up to the fact that the Left has been systematically destroying this country for the last fifty years.\u00a0 And that they\u2019ve been doing it with the tacit approval of most of the Republican hierarchy for most of that time.\u00a0 When I say the Left I am including the progressives that make up the Media, Academia, the various bureaucracies at the state and federal level that lately are being called the Deep State and all the other entrenched organizations that have been pushing a radical agenda that works for the destruction of the family and traditional life in general.<\/p>\n

Up until recently, most normal people assumed that the way to resist these progressive institutions was to vote for the Republicans at the state and federal level and support their efforts to preserve traditional values and cultural norms.\u00a0 But the Great Awakening was catalyzed by the spectacle of the 2016 election in which the mask finally dropped and we saw the republicans for what they really were.\u00a0 They were the gate keepers for the Democrats.\u00a0 They ensured that no matter who was elected the progressive agenda would continue unabated.\u00a0 During that election Donald Trump called out all of the republican presidential candidates and exposed them for their weakness and lack of courage.\u00a0 He identified illegal immigration as the weapon being used to destroy America and said he wasn\u2019t afraid to fight against it.\u00a0 And when the Republican voters threw him their support, the Republican Establishment showed their true colors and became the Never Trump movement and declared that they\u2019d rather elect Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

But even after voting for Donald Trump many Americans didn\u2019t recognize the fact that they were personally the target of the progressive agenda.\u00a0 Even after eight years of Barack Obama and all the hate and lies that attended his \u201cfundamental transformation of America,\u201d these sleepwalkers assumed that nothing could or should be done to change the trajectory of the culture.<\/p>\n

Luckily for us there are two things happening to wake these sleepwalkers up.\u00a0 The first is the President.\u00a0 President Trump makes it a part of his duties to call out the progressive fanatics.\u00a0 His bombastic style is an effective means for exposing the ugliness and stupidity of these people.<\/p>\n

The other thing that is waking the sleepwalkers up is the acceleration of the Leftist agenda.\u00a0 We now have immigrant congresswomen from the Middle East openly spouting anti-American and antisemitic sentiments openly.\u00a0 And not being censured by their Democrat leaders.<\/p>\n

And we also now have the transgender phenomenon on full display.\u00a0 We have high school girls who\u2019ve worked and trained to become competitive athletes being forced to compete against essentially men.\u00a0 The dispiriting result of such an unfair practice is opening eyes even among communities that normally would have nothing to do with traditional groups.\u00a0 A schism is opening up in the so-called LGBTQ community between lesbians and transgender supporters over the primacy of biological identity.<\/p>\n

All these increasingly strident and unappealing spectacles are waking up normal Americans to the reality that the country is being hijacked by a concerted effort to undermine the normal way of life that makes life worth living.<\/p>\n

So, what makes me think things are changing?\u00a0 Look at the intersection of the two factors I mentioned above.\u00a0 When AOC\u2019s \u201cSquad\u201d started dumping on America, President Trump told them to go back to their dysfunctional craphole homes and fix them up before they complain about America.\u00a0 And when the Media breathlessly interviewed Republican women expecting them to condemn the President they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 A few years ago, they would have.\u00a0 But defending the Squad is a bridge too far.\u00a0 Most Americans have had enough of strident leftists.\u00a0 And this week when President Trump went after Representative Elijah Cummings for his inaccurate statements about the ICE border station and told him to spend more time improving the conditions in his own Baltimore congressional district most Republicans may have been uncomfortable but they could see the relevance of the comparison.<\/p>\n

The worm has turned.\u00a0 The Overton Window has shifted radically and the truth can now finally set you free.\u00a0 President Trump has made it thinkable to call the Leftists on their lies and people are starting to do it.\u00a0 And that neutralizes a big part of the scam that they\u2019ve used on the right for the last fifty years.\u00a0 And that will cause the whole thing to accelerate even more.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what I call the Great Awakening.\u00a0 We\u2019re waking up and finding out that the Emperor has no clothes and we don\u2019t have to pretend anymore.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean we automatically win.\u00a0 We may find out that we\u2019re outnumbered.\u00a0 The awakening isn\u2019t an end it\u2019s a beginning.\u00a0 We still need to figure out how we get what we want.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have to find out who we can work with and who we can\u2019t.\u00a0 But at least we\u2019re awake.<\/p>\n

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