By the time we realise that our principles have died, they will have been dead for a very long time. It takes a while for a corpse to bloat and rise to the water’s surface, or to be uncovered in the woods. We’re gathered around such a corpse, screaming at coyotes that have found its shallow grave and dragged it into the sun to consume it.
This election has signaled the murder of our Republic, but it is only a signal. America was killed years ago. The Shyamalan twist, and perhaps a kind of twisted consolation, is that there is no killer to pursue and apprehend: America has murdered itself.
We’ve long known that the two party system was a farce, that the rulers we named were not the rulers we had; that creeping governmental overreach was a slow boa strangle on private enterprise; that our tech monopolies were degenerating into benighted digital fiefdoms.
We knew where this was going. These lockdowns without consent and without end, these systemic and systematic deplatformings, these coordinated media silences, and even this nascent puppet presidency, are together the precise and predicted sum of factors already named and understood. This isn’t the pain of a slow and miserable dying, it’s the stink of decay.
Now that I understand this, I am no longer angry at the Democrats, the establishment media, the tech oligarchs. It is not reasonable to howl at carrion eaters.
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We have been betrayed by our own government, and we should be mad as hell. But why do these liars and hypocrites keep getting re-elected and spend decades in a job that is supposed to be temporary? Because we collectively are too stupid to see the obvious corruption in front of us, and we just accept it as part of life. If the democrats get away with this election fraud, it will be because all 3 branches of our democratic system is ruled by idiots and cowards, and we’re the ones that keep putting them there.
I do not think it is possible to be betrayed by entities whose motives and modi operandi are understood in advance. When my opponent makes precisely the kind of move I expect him to make, though nonetheless to my detriment, I have not been betrayed. I have been vindicated in the worst possible way.
Ohhh, I am angry! But I agree. When people say they don’t want a socialist country, I want to scream, are you kidding? We have been a socialist country for 100 years! What do you think Social Security is? Capitalism? How about Medicaid, Medicare, all the rest of it? How about a country that celebrates a child who gives all his toys away and ignores the brilliant, accomplished child. Sorry, you got me going…….