Two articles have surfaced, and I believe they should be read one after the other.
The first is by Victor Davis Hanson, and of course is therefore worth reading all by itself:
[U]ntil recently there were still a few institutions we considered sacrosanct, incorruptible, and invincible amid faith-based assertions, toxic woke fads, civil dissension, and hatred of the past. One certainly was the military. Another was “science,” or rather the scientists, researchers, and investigators who devoted themselves to disinterested empiricism. And, a third, was the sacred idea of the “law,” or the idea that Americans respect our statutes because they were crafted by ourselves and applicable to all, equally, and without exception.
All three have lost their luster. Americans do not trust them, at least not in the old way. Perhaps it was the 2020 perfect storm of plague, quarantine, recession, riot, a contentious election, and red/blue antipathies that ripped off the scab and exposed beneath something far different than what the public had assumed.
Read it all, then follow up with this one:
It isn’t just BLM against bikers, or school systems against parents, or black against white, or Hispanic against Asian, or young against old, or left against right, or gay against straight, or vaxers against anti-vaxers, or mask wearers against mask refusers; it is the intent of government officials to inflame these conflicts to the point of violence that is the concern. His response was a slow shake of the head, a shrug of the shoulders saying what he preferred not to say.
The fact is, there is no D-Day, but rather the slow accumulation of grievances until the load can no longer be carried. His words came back to me over the whole conversation. “We’re not that stupid.” The trouble with combat veterans, like my father (Korea), is they tend to be non-confrontational in such situations, because they can smell an ambush, not because they fear engagement, but half measures won’t suffice and until they are ready to go full-on, all other responses seem tepid, but the rage builds.
This climate is being manufactured. Those who are sure they will win are goading on the conflict. Those who are not sure they will win, refuse to fight at half measure, harming only their families and friends, enraging a brutal enemy without the resolve to complete the mission. What the enemies of the people should be afraid of, if they had any sense, is a fighting force having put it off until there was nothing left to lose, but coming out dedicated to the eradication of their enemies as the only possible solution.
Caught in the middle of this brewing conflict is law enforcement. This is something they should recognize, but they have not thus far. They seem willing to be the fodder; the useful idiots of the tyrannical regimes. If they could only look into the face of what confronts them, they might choose differently, but I doubt they would. Most of them agree to impose tyranny as a means of securing their pensions, as if they can suspend their duty as American citizens while in uniform and pick it back up when they shed it. Consciously or sub-consciously they are making a decision to violate their oaths in order to receive their shekels from tyrants.
This situation, by the way, seldom turns out well for the camp followers. At best, they’re treated as collaborators and shunned, or else they lose everything — rank, prestige and respect — and at worst they’re killed, either by the resistance in situ or by the regime that follows. “Just obeying orders” has held no water ever since 1945.
Both the above are bleak theses; but these are bleak times we live in.
I’m beginning to think the best use of the scratch I have saved for my retirement might be to pay off the house and buy another to fall back to when it all goes to shit. 3 – 5 years once it falls till stability at best estimates.
I am waiting on the results of the audits. If they are shoved under the rug all bets are called.
>>”I am waiting on the results of the audits”
Do you really think that anything that casts serious doubt as to the legitimacy of the outcome of the election of 2020 will be allowed to see the light of day or generally acknowledged by anything anyone considers to be an “authority”?
SCOTUS has their chance, and bailed knowing full well that Antifa and the black bloc were prepositioned to raise hell if the “election” didn’t go their way. They were not going to let cities burn.
“…when it all goes to shit. 3 – 5 years once it falls till stability…”
Incorrigible optimism, that.
More like 20-24 months; November 2022 is 18 months away, and the stunningly obvious theft and corruption we’ve only seen hints of from 2020 will be fully “front and center.” When it becomes obvious to the Mostly Disengaged – which it hasn’t, yet – that “elections,” for all practical purposes are just political theater, the rumblings will begin.
What comes next is anyone’s guess. By then the economy will, almost certainly, be in shambles or close enough to it not to matter, starvation will be quite rare but hunger and deprivation won’t, the society itself will have changed a lot with more to come.
The answer, as it was 250 years ago, will be a choice between “submit” or “resist;” neither will offer salvation of any kind, but the choice will have to be made, and that choice embraced to the fullest extent possible.
This is why we need the National Divorce before it is too late. Not going to try to guess as to when it all blows up but it is going to blow. No matter how difficult the ND will be, it will beat a civil war which is the likely alternative.
These local kapos need to realize that people know where they live.
“A friend of mine who is a political activist said something interesting the other day, and that was for most people on the left political violence is a knob, and they can turn the heat up and down, with things like protests, and riots, all the way up to destruction of property, and sometimes murder… But for the vast majority of folks on the right, it’s an off and on switch. And the settings are Vote or Shoot Fucking Everybody. And believe me, you really don’t want that switch to get flipped, because Civil War 2.0 would make Bosnia look like a trip to Disneyworld.”
-Larry Correia
https://monsterhunternation.com/2018/11/19/the-2nd-amendment-is-obsolete-says-congressman-who-wants-to-nuke-omaha/
The Progs will find out that this country has too many Damn Jacksonians, and that they screwed up when they pushed past the Line Of Return.
Something completely unexpected will set it off. It is mostly out of the hands of the commoners, and we can do is sit and wait. Voting doesn’t work. New thieves are worse than the old thieves. There are no good choices. Leviathan is an insane drunken maniac and you must stay out of it’s way as it stumbles and falls, don’t let if land on you. It is unable to support it’s own weight. Gird thine loins in all ways.
“… having put it off until there was nothing left to lose, but coming out dedicated to the eradication of their enemies as the only possible solution.”
This has happened before in America, in the late 1700’s.
It can happen again.