Something's Gotta Give
The ruling elite do not believe they are better than you, they KNOW they are.
I don't believe Covid-19 is a bioweapon.
But I do think it was a precursor to one.
I think it was on its way to being weaponized before some Chinese researcher breached containment and let it out before they were finished with it.
But isn't it interesting how our ruling elite uses it as if it was one?
You have Fauci condemning the Sturgis motorcycle rally while zipping his trap about Obama's birthday party. You have a NYT reporter saying Obama's superspreader event was "different" because the attendees were "sophisticated" and "vaccinated". It is as if King Barack's god-like "lightworker" powers cast an invisible dome of protection over his estate the virus could not penetrate.
Before the event, the media sycophants were falling all over themselves to explain why Obama concentrating 700 people in a tent at his Martha's Vineyard oceanside estate was just peachy keen and no problem at all.
Only dirty, unwashed people with dirt under their fingernails, people who didn't go to the right schools, don't have a certain level of wealth and political power and hold the wrong beliefs can get sick. They are just too stupid to make their own decisions about their own health.
They are using the existence of this virus, one that is real but seemingly far less deadly than firs thought, as a mechanism of control over this nation. It isn't the virus that is the issue, it is the REACTION to the virus that is the problem. As it was with President Trump, he was never the issue, the Democrats' reaction to him was what caused the problems.
Don't listen to what these people say, just pay attention to what they do. This is more than just sickening, irritating and offensive, it shows you who they are.
These people do not believe they are better than you, they KNOW it.
And they mean to rule - by any means necessary.
If you consider what has happened over the past 18 months or so, the pandemic lockdowns (and those that continue today), the authoritarianism at the state level hidden under the rubric of “public health”, the steel ring Pelosi set up around the Capitol after the 1/6 riot, you get the sense that we have come to a point where it is the state vs. the people.
In 2004, the then Democratic pick for Vice President, John Edwards, spoke of two Americas:
“I stand here tonight ready to work with you and John to make America stronger. And we have much work to do, because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different Americas…one, for all of those people who have lived the American dream and don’t have to worry, and another for most Americans, everybody else who struggle to make ends meet every single day. It doesn’t have to be that way.”
Well, the philandering, serial lying baby daddy had a point – there are two Americas. We are split so evenly between these two that the last five presidential elections have been determined by a very small percentage of the vote in a select few counties in states with critical electoral votes.
There is the America that believes in God, self-reliance and hard work, the American dream, American exceptionalism, equal opportunity, secure borders, sovereignty, the sanctity of a baby’s life from conception, private property, the Second Amendment and an originalist reading of the Constitution – a small and limited state.
Then there is another America that is filled with secular humanists, believes in collectivism and government handouts, and believes that the American dream is dead (if it ever existed) and that America is inherently evil and imperialistic. They believe in equal outcomes, open borders, a nation subject to the whims of international governance, abortion, abolition of private property, no right to self-defense and a “living” Constitution that can be “interpreted” to create approval for the current political fad and in turn, an overweening and expansive state.
I can see no way that these two radically divided positions can ever be reconciled. The narrow division and fiercely contested elections that produce razor thin margins indicate that if these divisions exist, there is guaranteed an inherent tyranny of the majority. Winning or losing elections 52% – 48% gives neither winning party a governing “mandate” and renders any party line decision one on the edge of tyranny. Party identification is no longer relevant; the divide is between classic liberalism and so called “progressivism”. Look at what the Democrats in the Senate are doing – passing massive legislative initiatives based on a tie-breaking vote by the Vice President.
By the end of the Age of Obama, we had lived through 16 years of divided rule and rancor, a rancor and division that deepened even more during the term of President Trump. I once believed amending the Constitution via a convention of the states was the answer. I no longer believe that. I believe that the divisions are too deep and too painful.
Since the current ruling class (and evidently over half of the country) think that my belief in God is believing a myth, that I must be forced by law to accept “alternative lifestyles” that I have been taught are evil, that killing a “clump of cells” that will grow in to a baby is a “right”, that I am a bigot because I want to stop illegal immigration, that I don’t believe I am a servant of government to be taxed so that my productivity can be given to others or that my love of country is the equivalent of Nazi nationalism, I can see little other recourse.
I, and most like me, just want to be left alone to form the associations that I choose, support the people who deserve my support and not to bear ridicule for believing in the founding principles of this country. I don’t believe that these principles merely granted freedom, but true liberty. I believe the Constitution outlines the plans to execute the promise of liberty enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, which lay out the methods of protection of that liberty for every individual citizen of this country. I don’t want to be told every day that I am an evil person because I oppose illegal immigration and I object to my tax money being wasted and used for things I disagree with. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules – but I’m also not ignorant enough to blindly believe that all the rules are just.
I am not an anarchist, I do not believe in no government – but I do believe in clearly limited government, a government that does not presume to dictate to me and infiltrate every single aspect of my life…and do not be fooled, today we are licensed, taxed, monitored and managed from cradle to grave. There is a hegemony of sorts that dominates individual conduct. If one steps back to take an objective view, we are living the world of Rand, Orwell and Huxley.
In the degraded nation that America has become, I cannot live a life according to my own convictions and faithfully execute my duty to my God and my family.
In a sense, Marx was right – freedom is an illusion – but not because it is a fairy tale, because we have allowed far too much government for far too long. We have allowed collective government fiat to replace individual common sense, common courtesy, faith, trust, honor, and duty.
A while back secession was all the rage. Maybe that is the answer – or maybe the answer is just to create massive city-states where progressives can pursue their Utopian dreams and leave the rest of us alone.
Sooner or later, something must give.
While you and I agree on much, I'm still holding out hope for an Article V convention. It's the only way forward that I can see that does not involve open, civil conflict, an actual shooting war the likes of which this nation hasn't seen in 157 years. The devastation that clash brought divided families, friends, and neighbors, on a scale that still sees that four years as the deadliest war in our history. There's nothing to indicate should it come again that it would be any less calamitous. If anything, we've gotten better at wholesale destruction, except in matters where it's truly needed, like the wars we've engaged in the last twenty years, with seemingly no appetite for actual victory. You hear some of the more braggadocio types on the Right claim they look forward to the brevity such a contest may display as, 'we have all the guns and ammo and are ridiculously proficient in their use'. But the first "shots" have already been fired by the Marxist, Progressives, calling themselves antifascist while employing fascist tactics and those seeking sympathy simply because of their skin color, but lashing out with assaults, arson, looting, rioting, and murder, with little to no fear of repercussions, because their supporters in government are enabling that behavior, while accusing any and all that don't support their insanity as the cause of their criminality.
If the Constitution still means anything, we must use it in order to try and rectify the dangerous ground we've allowed ourselves to wander into. Don't get me wrong, should the COS movement suffer the same ignominious fates the TEA Party and Trump received, we have to be able to say at least we tried before we start stacking bodies. When the current asterisk and in my belief illegitimate Administration makes statements like, “If you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons. The point is that there has always been the ability to limit — rationally limit the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it.” Followed by, “The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon,” Biden said. “Those who say the ‘blood of patriots,’ you know, and all the stuff about how we’re going to have to move against the government. Well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots.” It clearly shows the utter contempt the Left holds for the Right. As you said,
These people do not believe they are better than you, they KNOW it.
And they mean to rule - by any means necessary.
We have to at least say we tried to do it right before they take that option away. Since I joined the 21st century in 2012 I always tried to caution those saying we need to burn it all down and start over. In doing that, we'd lose the Constitution and its Amendments, almost certainly guaranteeing America as the beacon of Liberty would be lost forever, no matter what emerged from the other side. Lately I've let others know I've got five gallons of gas and a book of matches. But I only want to use them as a last resort after it becomes clear the Constitution is lost. Something like what Kurt Schlichter has written of in his "People's Republic" series looks almost better than the open hostilities we seem to be grinding inexorably toward, but even that possibility ends up with casualties.
All I'm saying is exhaust all possibilities before the shooting starts.
Elegantly stated & bursting with truths, sad though much of it is, including these two paragraphs:
"There is the America that believes in God, self-reliance and hard work, the American dream, American exceptionalism, equal opportunity, secure borders, sovereignty, the sanctity of a baby’s life from conception, private property, the Second Amendment and an originalist reading of the Constitution – a small and limited state.
Then there is another America that is filled with secular humanists, believes in collectivism and government handouts, and believes that the American dream is dead (if it ever existed) and that America is inherently evil and imperialistic. They believe in equal outcomes, open borders, a nation subject to the whims of international governance, abortion, abolition of private property, no right to self-defense and a “living” Constitution that can be “interpreted” to create approval for the current political fad and in turn, an overweening and expansive state."
Sadly & even more importantly:
I can see no way that these two radically divided positions can ever be reconciled.
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Sooner or later, something must give.