Mugged By History

America and her citizens lost a decade of progress due to a vendetta against one man.

I don’t know how to explain the way I am feeling. Words don’t do it justice – or maybe I just don’t have them.

I posted that the last twelve to eighteen hours after Trump was projected to win back the presidency have brought to me the greatest sense of peace and calm that I have felt since before all the Covid ridiculousness began back in March of 2020.

Of course, I am happy my chosen candidate won, but it is not a “set off the fireworks” kind of feeling.

The best description is that it is more of a sense of relief and resolve, combined with something I can only describe as a profound sense of lost time – a decade of it, give or take.

I had already built a mental model of what to expect if Kamala Harris was dragged across the finish line (or at least America had a taste of being ruled by a cabal of America-hating globalists) and after being conditioned since November of 2020 to expect the worst, I mentally set that as the default, preparing for some rough sledding for another four years. America may not have been officially ruled by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum but most times it was difficult to tell.

It began with the attacks on Donald J. Trump, the Unexpected President who derailed the ambitions of Hillary Clinton, a person who has chased power her entire lifetime and who believed it was her turn to be president. President Trump’s agenda was frustrated by two impeachments made from whole cloth and faced opposition from Democrats and people inside his own camp, mostly because he wasn’t supposed to win. I can remember Trump being promoted by his enemies during the primaries and their collective sigh of relief when he gained the GOP nomination. They thought he was the easiest to beat, so they were smugly satisfied with Trump to run against.

America went through three years of frustration, consumed with invented scandal and political maneuvering as the media, for perhaps the first time, exposed to the public that it had picked a side.

Then came the “two weeks to stop the spread” lockdowns that turned into months of “distancing”, limitations on travel and spending time in groups and with our families in group settings, the scarcity of common goods (like toilet paper), supply line disruptions, the conduct of a Soviet style election, mandates for vaccines that did not vaccinate (so the CDC changed the definition of “vaccination” and “herd immunity”), massive fear mongering from “public health” agencies and the complete tyranny of state governments that abused public health laws.

After the pandemic panic began to subside it was clear that federal agencies, state, and local governments were addicted to their newfound paths to power. They noticed how a large percentage of America we susceptible to fear - there are still people who are completely freaked out and are still following pandemic protocols that were proven to be a waste of time, and state and local government still requiring social distancing and masks in certain situations.

And amid all of this, the Soviet style 2020 election (that we could not question) led to mass unease that something very untoward had happened – but we were not allowed to look. Turned away by “lack of standing”, lawsuits were deflected and requests for review that went all the way to the Supreme Court were turned away by technicalities, leaving at least half of America questioning whether we would ever know if a mentally deteriorating man, a man who never was the brightest bulb in the pack and “campaigned” from his basement, truly garnered eighty-one million votes.

On January 6, 2021, the final nail in the coffin was pounded in when frustration with a government entirely unresponsive to public concern boiled over from a protest to a riot and more Soviet style crackdowns began. To this day, people who were simply in Washington during that period are being hunted and arrested. People have been held for months and years without trial and when they get to trial, they are handed harsh sentences by regime judges who favor sending the message that this is no longer a government that draws its power from the consent of the people, it is an entity unto itself and only answerable to itself.

We all know what has happened during the past four years. Stimulation programs that didn’t stimulate and costly legislation were enacted to cover up destructive policies and placate the public became the norm. After a few of these, people came to understand they were a lot like those massive class action lawsuits you get invited to join through a postcard, but when they are settled the law firm gets hundreds of millions of dollars and you get a check for a dollar and nineteen cents.

Effective executive orders were reversed, and America was shackled once again to the same bad deals carved out during the Obama administration, further draining public coffers, and directing aid away from citizens in favor if countries that hate us and illegal immigrants who love the public benefits they received as a reward for breaking our laws.

None of this moved served to move anything forward, it wasted time and retarded America’s progress.

I will never get back the time that was stolen from me.

I was fifty-five when it started and am now sixty-five. A decade of progress, opportunity and fulfillment was lost to me – to all of us. The things I could have achieved and enjoyed are forever gone. A generation of young adults were infantilized and things were made more difficult for my children and your children to start their careers and lives.

And therein lies my sense of loss.

Maybe we were just mugged by history because as they say, “Shit happens,” but on the positive side, I am more resolute and determined than ever to see America set on the right path.

And I don’t think I am the only one.