> Yet, this doesn’t seem to end in any kind of policy concessions or compromise for rightwingers like the ones you saw for the violent Black Lives Matter rioters in 2020
That wasn't a case of concessions to rioters. That was a case of using the rioters as an excuse to implement the policies they already wanted to implement.
“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
Notice how Clarence always posts the same few messages with links to his blog, regardless of their relevance to the topic under discussion. I think we have a spambot here.
FIGHT YOUR OWN WARS, YOU KIKESUCKING ZIONIST ASS-WHORE . . .
Sweden: Jews Call for Ban on Nordic Resistance Movement . . .
❝I ALWAYS LIKE to take note of Jewish organisations calling for bans on immigration resistance parties. You could say “Why bother? We’re surrounded by Jews screeching for White Genocide in various, usually artfully disguised, ways. This is just another twig on the bonfire.”
This is true. But arguments about the JQ and its relationship to White minoritization are open to various kinds of objection. You can quote this or that Jewish journalist calling for open borders or abolishing White people. Objection? “It’s just one guy; no proof he’s representative of anything other than himself; besides, he’s making a legitimate argument that’s open to democratic debate.”
That is why calls for bans on political parties assume a special moral significance. It’s a demand for the suppression of debate. And when it comes from an organization that claims to be representative of Jewry, and that claim goes unchallenged, then a special moral culpability attaches to the Jews.❞
Addendum to the boomer posting phenomenon you describe. Sorry in advance bc this is an advertisement for the GOP but everyone here needs to hear it. My local GOP is all boomers, and v few millennials or zoomers. The boomers are lovely people and to a T pro Donald. Some of the commenters (not on this article but elsewhere on your substack) have been stigmatizing local political participation. This is wrong. The only way forward is through the Republican Party, at local and state levels -- which will become national power. In addition to advancing our policies, you will meet great older guys and ladies who will enrich your life
Nous socialistes nationaux est venu à libéré Paris, nous ne l'avons pas détruit.
Aucun pays ne mène sa propre course dans cette invasion parce qu'il s'agit d'un programme politique dirigé par l'ONU et poussé en avant par les Juifs et leurs marionnettes (les politiciens). La plupart des gens ne sauront tout simplement pas ou ne comprendront pas qu'il s'agit d'un programme politique. Cependant, certains parviennent à comprendre que les politiciens travaillent délibérément à importer des musulmans et à remplacer les gens, mais c'est à peu près tout, ils sont comme un ordinateur qui ne peut pas fonctionner parce que le programme ne le permet pas... Les banquiers juifs inondent l'Europe de musulmans et l'Amérique de déchets du tiers-monde.
Les gens demandent parfois pourquoi la gauche européenne s'entend si bien avec les musulmans. Pourquoi un mouvement qui a souvent été ouvertement anti-religieux prend-il le parti d'une religiosité farouche qui semble s'opposer à presque tout ce que la gauche a jamais prétendu représenter? Une partie de l'explication est que l'islam et le marxisme ont une racine idéologique commune: le judaïsme.
Meh, the GOP have done jack shit in power. The way forward is to build your bunker in the trackless wilderness, with at least a year of stolerable food, Ivermectin tabs, salt, gold, and tens of thousands of rounds of .22, 5.56, .308, 12 gauge, 9 mm, etc, etc. This is not a drill your time is almost up, move, move, move.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol No. 7 – World-Wide Wars
❝We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.❞
Always follow the money. Revolutions are not started by the rabble but the wealthy. Even the so-called Peasant Revolt after the plague came about because they felt they’d secured enough power and wealthy to overturn things.
Same goes with The French Revolution. Wealthy, educated, atheistic liberals who’d bought small offices and became lower nobles wanted to become the nobles.
Elon needs to tighten down, like CC says in the article. Yelling about white genocide and the ADL on “X” might make for good rabble-rousing, but it’s about the least productive thing a redpilled billionaire can do with his time and money. Like boomer fedposting, it paints a massive target on one’s back, and the lawfare has just begun.
I'm not sure he's so easily targeted by lawfare, but it's a bad political strategy. The left never comes out and says what it really wants, it gets there incrementally. "Just this, don't be unreasonable, just this" and then the next thing and then the next thing. That's how it's done.
The legitimate hope is that people get angry enough to get out of their chair once every two years and vote. But ironically, that's what these fantasies stand in the way of. Too many conservatives have bought into the idea that some means other than voting will be what straightens everything out. It's pure poison, a red herring of hope that pacifies and deactivates them from acting on real solutions in favor of an illusion of an inevitable solution that's just around the corner.
Surely, Chris Christie and his gaggle of neo-cons will save us! If you think you can vote your way out of this, at this point you are beyond naive, hint it's 1934 in German right now, not 1924.
> The legitimate hope is that people get angry enough to get out of their chair once every two years and vote.
People did. We saw how that went.
> Too many conservatives have bought into the idea that some means other than voting will be what straightens everything out.
Notice that all these other means involve much more work and much more risk than merely voting once every two years. That should be enough to see that your attributed motive is nonsensical.
It's much easier to imagine that a hypothetical future badass you will fight a noble war than it is to make a right now you get off the couch and go run an errand that will be uncomfortable and take hours.
In my lifetime and I am 57 so not young, Presidents have either maintained the status quo like the wondrous Trump did, or made it worst like Biden. The empire is way too far gone for voting, that is baby talk, and the author is correct that direct resistance isn't going to win. Your best hope is to find some place off the map and hole up until this all blows over, which may take decades,
For what it's worth, and I know you read it too, McMeekin estimates that the German high command gave the Bolsheviks the equivalent of ~$2bn in current money for their propaganda and bribery efforts.
Excellent analysis of revolution with a flaccid ending that we are going to vote ourselves out of this. Hint how did Trump do in round one v.s. the deep state? What's that, I can't hear you, did you squeak out NOTHING? And Trump is the one GOP candidate with balls, LOL!
As you may know, there were *two* Russian Revolutions. The first in March 1917 deposed the Tsar and brought to power the Provisional Government - a group of constitutionalist, centre-left cabinet ministers. They continued to prosecute the war.
The Germans wanted Russia out of the war and realized the Provisional Government was very weak politically. So they financed the Bolsheviks (and allowed Lenin to travel across Germany from his exile in Switzerland) in order to topple the Provisional Government, which occurred in October 1917 - Red October. Once in power, the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
We just spent the better part of three years having a nationwide argument about the right to show one's face in public. But, sure, the rightwing pendulum swing is right around the corner, guys.
I agree with all these, but am wondering what an effective counter would look like in this day. You brought up how some people in a European country created "volunteer firemen" who were just a front for violent resistance to the commies. What would be a modern equivalent?
Are we thinking about infiltrating current institutions? If so, how do you avoid people smelling you out or, worse, becoming like them?
Are we thinking of creating alternate institutions? If so, how do we avoid intelligence agencies with near infinite funds?
Are we thinking of becoming wreckers? If so, how can this be coordinated?
I think the key is radical deceleration: creating conditions where mass social disruption cannot occur and therefore where positive social cohesion can develop . A lot of problems in America stem from the fact that people correctly recognize that their country is turning into a shithole. Public beautification, personal fitness campaigns, aggressive enforcement of quality of life laws, regulating things like gambling and smoke shops out of existence should be priorities. I also don't think protests don't work. Some definitely do. Rather than having to infiltrate systems, people can walk in the front door of many of them. There's also a lot of mental scaffolding that needs to be built by shifting conservative culture away from things that are totally captured. This scaffolding probably needs to be built before anything positive can occur. It's a multi-faceted problem. You have to rebuild the nation to save the country, or at least a part of it.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
Mr Conundrum has in the past advocated for red states to form government-backed militia units, to be deputized in case of significant unrest. I think that's a very useful idea.
As to the last question in your list - I remain surprised there is not more political violence in the country. If or as things deteriorate, such may come to pass.
What I would like to see happen is the FedGov runs into some sort of crisis that it can't handle and that seriously harms its reputation and its ability to keep the lights on. As the feds can no longer hobble together a plausible and meaningful mandate, the several states start to tell FedGov to fuck off when it comes to various directives. As this happens, the states regain their prominence in American affairs, allowing people to self-sort in some capacity. This is my blueprint for a relatively peaceful process of the death of Leviathan.
They won't have to. You're going to have to expose yourself in order to find enough food. People tried hiding in the woods to avoid Soviets or Nazis. It mostly didn't last very long.
Your advice is to "tighten things up" rather than "fed posting?" You may be dead right about everything you say but your prescription is pure essence of nothing.
He should've just voted Republican? When the power in R leadership is in on it as much if not more than D's that not a solution. They've all been rigging elections for longer than most of us knew or cared to admit. Do you really believe Murkowski won a write-in election in Alaska? A write-in? For her?!?!? A sore loser rejected in a primary? Right. Rigged.
I take no issue with the rest of you piece. But voting alone in this corrupt and rigged system isn't solving anything. The results are fraudulent, counted by the thieves themselves.
Perception. Public perception of the declared winner. That's what counts. Is the declared winner a *plausible* winner? Plausible enough to retain the public's support for the declared winner.
What factors into the plausibility perception? The conversation. The national dialogue. And state. And local. Within churches. Within families. Which is influenced by mass media and social media. And anecdotal daily human interactions.
Mass media and social media are heavily censored and filled with propaganda to give false perceptions that support politcians and policy. We know this. But we limit ourselves to echo chambers that don't reach enough minds to dispel the plausibility of election results. The numbers in alt media are growing, but not there. And if they become a true threat they are neutralized. The powers that be own that battlefield; they built it. All we have on them is a guerrilla warfare campaign.
But our interpersonal day-to-day interactions. We control them. For now. Until the idea of a Stasi becomes acceptable we have our voices and our relationships, formal and informal. Family, co-worker, teammate, congregant, cashier, rideshare driver. We have these opportunities to shape public discourse and perceptions. Yet we've been taught not to talk politics in polite company. We seek not to divide. We avoid conflict.
We consent. Our silence is consent. We must stop self-censoring, feeling the need to preserve the peace by allowing the false narratives of popular support for values and leaders that isn't there. When you speak up, bravely defying the attacks by haters and indoctrinated others who feel and believe as you take note. Courage is contagious. Others will join something but fear to lead it.
Our voices. For as long as we have left to share our voices freely in our immediate world we must speak up. Inspire others. Change perceptions. So that vast majorities will speak as we speak, our numbers reflect our true strength. So that when the illegitimate rulers we suffer under announce winners entire communities will know the results aren't plausible.
Because that's all these rulers need, plausibility. They rig the most important elections to their agendas. Always. But it's always with an eye on plausibility. Once they lose that they have nothing. And we gain everything. Yes, we still must vote. But primaries matter. And plausibility is the threshold we must defeat. Not just a rigged vote tally.
This is the ending the otherwise brilliant article should have had. The GOP are just more ass sucking enablers of the professional managerial class establishment, does anyone really not get that, at this point?
The threat to our beliefs and worship of God, the *ACTUAL* on going sexualization of our children and promoting pedophilia, the threat to our very constitution and way of life, our very GOD GIVEN freedoms.....if these aren't the hill to die on...then I ask the author this...... if not now, when? If not this, what? If not here, where?
A lot of boomers think there are still rules. Like, if the government gets out of control and starts censoring people, running false flags, and arresting political dissidents, we have 2a and a responsibility to set things straight. That's a rule.
We're dealing with people who have no rules. That should be reciprocated. They tar us as racists? Fine. We tar them (rightfully) as pedos that butcher kid's genitals. They burn down small businesses and call it "justice"? Fine. We moralize and racialize injuries from the vax and blame white liberals. The idea we can shoot ourselves out of this is pure cope. The idea we can get these assholes to kill each other isn't.
> Yet, this doesn’t seem to end in any kind of policy concessions or compromise for rightwingers like the ones you saw for the violent Black Lives Matter rioters in 2020
That wasn't a case of concessions to rioters. That was a case of using the rioters as an excuse to implement the policies they already wanted to implement.
“Oh how fond they are of the book of Esther, which is so beautifully attuned to their bloodthirsty, vengeful, murderous yearning and hope.” — Martin Luther
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/zelensky-biden-satanism-war-greed
Notice how Clarence always posts the same few messages with links to his blog, regardless of their relevance to the topic under discussion. I think we have a spambot here.
FIGHT YOUR OWN WARS, YOU KIKESUCKING ZIONIST ASS-WHORE . . .
Sweden: Jews Call for Ban on Nordic Resistance Movement . . .
❝I ALWAYS LIKE to take note of Jewish organisations calling for bans on immigration resistance parties. You could say “Why bother? We’re surrounded by Jews screeching for White Genocide in various, usually artfully disguised, ways. This is just another twig on the bonfire.”
This is true. But arguments about the JQ and its relationship to White minoritization are open to various kinds of objection. You can quote this or that Jewish journalist calling for open borders or abolishing White people. Objection? “It’s just one guy; no proof he’s representative of anything other than himself; besides, he’s making a legitimate argument that’s open to democratic debate.”
That is why calls for bans on political parties assume a special moral significance. It’s a demand for the suppression of debate. And when it comes from an organization that claims to be representative of Jewry, and that claim goes unchallenged, then a special moral culpability attaches to the Jews.❞
https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/03/sweden-jews-call-for-ban-on-nordic-resistance-movement/
Addendum to the boomer posting phenomenon you describe. Sorry in advance bc this is an advertisement for the GOP but everyone here needs to hear it. My local GOP is all boomers, and v few millennials or zoomers. The boomers are lovely people and to a T pro Donald. Some of the commenters (not on this article but elsewhere on your substack) have been stigmatizing local political participation. This is wrong. The only way forward is through the Republican Party, at local and state levels -- which will become national power. In addition to advancing our policies, you will meet great older guys and ladies who will enrich your life
Nous socialistes nationaux est venu à libéré Paris, nous ne l'avons pas détruit.
Aucun pays ne mène sa propre course dans cette invasion parce qu'il s'agit d'un programme politique dirigé par l'ONU et poussé en avant par les Juifs et leurs marionnettes (les politiciens). La plupart des gens ne sauront tout simplement pas ou ne comprendront pas qu'il s'agit d'un programme politique. Cependant, certains parviennent à comprendre que les politiciens travaillent délibérément à importer des musulmans et à remplacer les gens, mais c'est à peu près tout, ils sont comme un ordinateur qui ne peut pas fonctionner parce que le programme ne le permet pas... Les banquiers juifs inondent l'Europe de musulmans et l'Amérique de déchets du tiers-monde.
Les gens demandent parfois pourquoi la gauche européenne s'entend si bien avec les musulmans. Pourquoi un mouvement qui a souvent été ouvertement anti-religieux prend-il le parti d'une religiosité farouche qui semble s'opposer à presque tout ce que la gauche a jamais prétendu représenter? Une partie de l'explication est que l'islam et le marxisme ont une racine idéologique commune: le judaïsme.
Meh, the GOP have done jack shit in power. The way forward is to build your bunker in the trackless wilderness, with at least a year of stolerable food, Ivermectin tabs, salt, gold, and tens of thousands of rounds of .22, 5.56, .308, 12 gauge, 9 mm, etc, etc. This is not a drill your time is almost up, move, move, move.
You will be found by your body heat signature. You will be killed by a drone
You will be die sad and alone forsaken by God as you are too cowardly to resist evil.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION . . . Protocol No. 7 – World-Wide Wars
❝We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.❞
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/protocol-no-7-world-wide-wars
"Right wing hippy, Kaczyznskyist. Old fashioned, anti AI, anti simulacra. Mutli-polarista"
Gobbletygook to you too.
Yes, and? Do you have a point?
We'll follow you. Get going.
Always follow the money. Revolutions are not started by the rabble but the wealthy. Even the so-called Peasant Revolt after the plague came about because they felt they’d secured enough power and wealthy to overturn things.
Same goes with The French Revolution. Wealthy, educated, atheistic liberals who’d bought small offices and became lower nobles wanted to become the nobles.
Pardonne mon français . . . Va te faire foutre toi et ton dieu juif . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
Elon needs to tighten down, like CC says in the article. Yelling about white genocide and the ADL on “X” might make for good rabble-rousing, but it’s about the least productive thing a redpilled billionaire can do with his time and money. Like boomer fedposting, it paints a massive target on one’s back, and the lawfare has just begun.
He could learn a thing or two from Thiel.
I'm not sure he's so easily targeted by lawfare, but it's a bad political strategy. The left never comes out and says what it really wants, it gets there incrementally. "Just this, don't be unreasonable, just this" and then the next thing and then the next thing. That's how it's done.
Death stars? Yes Elon allowing a tiny sliver of free speech on Xer is cool and all, but he is literally a transhumanist, "neurolink" ring any bells?
Thanks for this. People need to join the county GOP and organize!
And of course, the typical boomer is not actually interested in dying over the right to fedpoast.
Once it becomes obvious to them that the feds *will* in fact kill you for doing this, they'll just stop doing it.
The legitimate hope is that people get angry enough to get out of their chair once every two years and vote. But ironically, that's what these fantasies stand in the way of. Too many conservatives have bought into the idea that some means other than voting will be what straightens everything out. It's pure poison, a red herring of hope that pacifies and deactivates them from acting on real solutions in favor of an illusion of an inevitable solution that's just around the corner.
Surely, Chris Christie and his gaggle of neo-cons will save us! If you think you can vote your way out of this, at this point you are beyond naive, hint it's 1934 in German right now, not 1924.
> The legitimate hope is that people get angry enough to get out of their chair once every two years and vote.
People did. We saw how that went.
> Too many conservatives have bought into the idea that some means other than voting will be what straightens everything out.
Notice that all these other means involve much more work and much more risk than merely voting once every two years. That should be enough to see that your attributed motive is nonsensical.
It's much easier to imagine that a hypothetical future badass you will fight a noble war than it is to make a right now you get off the couch and go run an errand that will be uncomfortable and take hours.
In my lifetime and I am 57 so not young, Presidents have either maintained the status quo like the wondrous Trump did, or made it worst like Biden. The empire is way too far gone for voting, that is baby talk, and the author is correct that direct resistance isn't going to win. Your best hope is to find some place off the map and hole up until this all blows over, which may take decades,
You actually said something sensible! Faints.
Glad you think so. Now maybe you could return the favor by saying something sensible yourself. I'm not holding my breath.
Still a bitter asshole though, lol!
Did you read “the Populist Delusion”? If so, what did you think of it?
Good question. Academic Agent posts here, would like to see him rip through this GOP happy talk.
Yes in practice I do hope an anti-establishment popular front can arise, so fair point.
Excellent article as always.
For what it's worth, and I know you read it too, McMeekin estimates that the German high command gave the Bolsheviks the equivalent of ~$2bn in current money for their propaganda and bribery efforts.
Excellent analysis of revolution with a flaccid ending that we are going to vote ourselves out of this. Hint how did Trump do in round one v.s. the deep state? What's that, I can't hear you, did you squeak out NOTHING? And Trump is the one GOP candidate with balls, LOL!
Why? Just to destabilise a rival?
As you may know, there were *two* Russian Revolutions. The first in March 1917 deposed the Tsar and brought to power the Provisional Government - a group of constitutionalist, centre-left cabinet ministers. They continued to prosecute the war.
The Germans wanted Russia out of the war and realized the Provisional Government was very weak politically. So they financed the Bolsheviks (and allowed Lenin to travel across Germany from his exile in Switzerland) in order to topple the Provisional Government, which occurred in October 1917 - Red October. Once in power, the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Well, they were in the middle of a world war that had ground into a stalemate.
We just spent the better part of three years having a nationwide argument about the right to show one's face in public. But, sure, the rightwing pendulum swing is right around the corner, guys.
This! Buy your hideout folks, and hunker down.
Okay so:
- Fedposting does not work
- Public protesting does not work
- There will be no civil war
- No one with power cares about the rules
I agree with all these, but am wondering what an effective counter would look like in this day. You brought up how some people in a European country created "volunteer firemen" who were just a front for violent resistance to the commies. What would be a modern equivalent?
Are we thinking about infiltrating current institutions? If so, how do you avoid people smelling you out or, worse, becoming like them?
Are we thinking of creating alternate institutions? If so, how do we avoid intelligence agencies with near infinite funds?
Are we thinking of becoming wreckers? If so, how can this be coordinated?
I think the key is radical deceleration: creating conditions where mass social disruption cannot occur and therefore where positive social cohesion can develop . A lot of problems in America stem from the fact that people correctly recognize that their country is turning into a shithole. Public beautification, personal fitness campaigns, aggressive enforcement of quality of life laws, regulating things like gambling and smoke shops out of existence should be priorities. I also don't think protests don't work. Some definitely do. Rather than having to infiltrate systems, people can walk in the front door of many of them. There's also a lot of mental scaffolding that needs to be built by shifting conservative culture away from things that are totally captured. This scaffolding probably needs to be built before anything positive can occur. It's a multi-faceted problem. You have to rebuild the nation to save the country, or at least a part of it.
The Frankfurt School adapted Marx’s theories on revolution to include Freud’s theory of the subconscious. The Cultural Marxists’ main focus was to reshape the subconscious of Western men and women and thus create new type of person: one who would react passively to provocations of all kinds.
Cultural Marxists encourage abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexuality, “carrier women,” drugs, miscegenation, the destruction of the traditional family, and unrestricted immigration of racial foreigners into white countries. This is a reflection of what the Cultural Marxists preach: white reproduction is evil, and that which prevents white reproduction is good.
https://nordicresistancemovement.org/what-is-cultural-marxism/
Mr Conundrum has in the past advocated for red states to form government-backed militia units, to be deputized in case of significant unrest. I think that's a very useful idea.
As to the last question in your list - I remain surprised there is not more political violence in the country. If or as things deteriorate, such may come to pass.
Thanks, I assumed he's talked about this in the past, but my knowledge of his past Twitter life is limited.
You don't know what a militia is.
What I would like to see happen is the FedGov runs into some sort of crisis that it can't handle and that seriously harms its reputation and its ability to keep the lights on. As the feds can no longer hobble together a plausible and meaningful mandate, the several states start to tell FedGov to fuck off when it comes to various directives. As this happens, the states regain their prominence in American affairs, allowing people to self-sort in some capacity. This is my blueprint for a relatively peaceful process of the death of Leviathan.
Hide out in your fortified shack and pray a lot they don't find you. File under uncomfortable truths.
If the country goes totalitarian, you won't be able to hide.
LOL, you don't know all the fractal nooks and cranies in the woods. They will be too busy corralling the chimps to bother with us.
They won't have to. You're going to have to expose yourself in order to find enough food. People tried hiding in the woods to avoid Soviets or Nazis. It mostly didn't last very long.
> You shouldn’t count on common decency to stop them from acting against you in horrible ways, especially when you give them the perfect excuse.
You shouldn't count on common decency to stop them from acting against you in horrible ways without an excuse either.
Your advice is to "tighten things up" rather than "fed posting?" You may be dead right about everything you say but your prescription is pure essence of nothing.
He should've just voted Republican? When the power in R leadership is in on it as much if not more than D's that not a solution. They've all been rigging elections for longer than most of us knew or cared to admit. Do you really believe Murkowski won a write-in election in Alaska? A write-in? For her?!?!? A sore loser rejected in a primary? Right. Rigged.
I take no issue with the rest of you piece. But voting alone in this corrupt and rigged system isn't solving anything. The results are fraudulent, counted by the thieves themselves.
Perception. Public perception of the declared winner. That's what counts. Is the declared winner a *plausible* winner? Plausible enough to retain the public's support for the declared winner.
What factors into the plausibility perception? The conversation. The national dialogue. And state. And local. Within churches. Within families. Which is influenced by mass media and social media. And anecdotal daily human interactions.
Mass media and social media are heavily censored and filled with propaganda to give false perceptions that support politcians and policy. We know this. But we limit ourselves to echo chambers that don't reach enough minds to dispel the plausibility of election results. The numbers in alt media are growing, but not there. And if they become a true threat they are neutralized. The powers that be own that battlefield; they built it. All we have on them is a guerrilla warfare campaign.
But our interpersonal day-to-day interactions. We control them. For now. Until the idea of a Stasi becomes acceptable we have our voices and our relationships, formal and informal. Family, co-worker, teammate, congregant, cashier, rideshare driver. We have these opportunities to shape public discourse and perceptions. Yet we've been taught not to talk politics in polite company. We seek not to divide. We avoid conflict.
We consent. Our silence is consent. We must stop self-censoring, feeling the need to preserve the peace by allowing the false narratives of popular support for values and leaders that isn't there. When you speak up, bravely defying the attacks by haters and indoctrinated others who feel and believe as you take note. Courage is contagious. Others will join something but fear to lead it.
Our voices. For as long as we have left to share our voices freely in our immediate world we must speak up. Inspire others. Change perceptions. So that vast majorities will speak as we speak, our numbers reflect our true strength. So that when the illegitimate rulers we suffer under announce winners entire communities will know the results aren't plausible.
Because that's all these rulers need, plausibility. They rig the most important elections to their agendas. Always. But it's always with an eye on plausibility. Once they lose that they have nothing. And we gain everything. Yes, we still must vote. But primaries matter. And plausibility is the threshold we must defeat. Not just a rigged vote tally.
This is the ending the otherwise brilliant article should have had. The GOP are just more ass sucking enablers of the professional managerial class establishment, does anyone really not get that, at this point?
You're the only one.
The threat to our beliefs and worship of God, the *ACTUAL* on going sexualization of our children and promoting pedophilia, the threat to our very constitution and way of life, our very GOD GIVEN freedoms.....if these aren't the hill to die on...then I ask the author this...... if not now, when? If not this, what? If not here, where?
Good essay except for the glimmer of hope if we should only "tighten things up." That phrase means nothing and has no place here.
A lot of boomers think there are still rules. Like, if the government gets out of control and starts censoring people, running false flags, and arresting political dissidents, we have 2a and a responsibility to set things straight. That's a rule.
We're dealing with people who have no rules. That should be reciprocated. They tar us as racists? Fine. We tar them (rightfully) as pedos that butcher kid's genitals. They burn down small businesses and call it "justice"? Fine. We moralize and racialize injuries from the vax and blame white liberals. The idea we can shoot ourselves out of this is pure cope. The idea we can get these assholes to kill each other isn't.