Stark terror has, throughout the course of history, compelled people to madness.
Unfortunately, this madness has often resulted in the urge to lash out—and sometimes to kill. This sad reality makes the obvious—and obviously orchestrated—efforts over the past several decades to convince Americans to fear the world around them (global warming!) and their fellow citizens (bigots and fascists!) so very worrisome. Chaos is catnip to these unprincipled fear mongers, who see only opportunities for spreading confusion and discord that will enable them to seize power and silence more Americans.
Reasoned debate and discussion struggles for air while inflammatory rhetoric and confrontation now has stepped to the forefront. This goes far to explain why a subset of fanatics seem pleased to today shoot at police officers, convince troubled children that ingesting life-altering hormones will solve all their problems, waste hundreds of billions of dollars on unsustainable “green” energy projects, open our borders to foreign criminals and illegal drugs, and celebrate the recent murder of a man whose only sin was engaging in freewheeling debate with his political opponents.
All of this further erodes the already tattered faith of our citizens—in one another. Given that democracy cannot exist without some basic level of trust, we are understandably experiencing more problems arriving at the compromises necessary for effective governance. The constant and debilitating fights over extremist social and cultural policies consume far too much of our national energy and transform even the most trivial matters into political firestorms. Most Americans are, at this point in time, just praying for a little respite from these wearying and nonstop attacks by brainwashed and emotionally unstable Leftists—which is likely 99% of the reason why Donald Trump won a second term in The White House.
Divide and conquer tactics—and the lies they inevitably involve—have always been successful tools for fomenting the fear and rage that drives the resolve of those who are uninterested in any opinion but their own. This has also allowed today’s crop of academically-trained revolutionaries to exploit the innate social and cultural tolerance of Americans in our diverse nation to force an agenda of breathtaking radicalism upon us. Just take a second to consider a few examples of what passes for accepted wisdom among frighteningly-committed extremists in our country today:
- Christians and Jews are both hate groups (apparently the Bible is a template for mass oppression rather than the path toward the salvation of our souls)
- Recognizing the immutable biological differences between men and women is somehow “anti-science” (imagine being a confused and frightened child being taught by some looney masquerading as your teacher that men can magically become women)
- Free speech endangers our freedoms (try wrapping your tired brain around this bit of inane sophistry that arrives courtesy of our rapidly declining institutions of higher education and complicit legacy news media)
- Judges and prosecutors must allow repeat violent criminals to roam our streets unimpeded (all we have to do, it seems, is wait a few decades for them to become too elderly and feeble to any longer murder, rob, and rape us)
- Americans who think differently than the moral exemplars of late night television comedy, the obsessive posters on BlueSky, and the shrews on The View are all Nazis (if one is to judge by the minuscule audiences for their propaganda, it must seem like goose-stepping fascists are everywhere they look today)
Borrowing a phrase from a well-known book about the active manipulation of public opinion by corporate media and determined interest groups, it must be noted that Leftist efforts to move the cultural needle in our nation have inexorably moved from manufacturing consent to manufacturing crazy—because Americans have stopped playing their games. Their frustrations with the middle-of-road-values of the majority of our citizens likely accounts for much of the rising violence by Marxist-inspired groups. Normal Americans, who have never encountered a pregnant man and are deeply uncomfortable with free-range felons, are doing nothing more diabolical than simply burying the blind extremism of the few with the common sense of the many, which is driving the crazies even crazier than ever.
Perhaps it has been the fast-growing awareness that nations who adopted the nonsensical Green Energy agenda (most prominently Germany and Britain) have destroyed their economies and impoverished their citizens. Perhaps it was the master plan to force us to eat insects instead of beef in our burgers. Perhaps it was the tyranny and lies of the Covid-19 scamdemic that turned us into vaccine test subjects, wrecked our children’s educations, and destroyed our nation’s economy. Perhaps it was the Russiagate hoax designed to derail the first Trump administration and help justify widespread disinformation masquerading as news and state-sponsored censorship. Perhaps it was being told, again and again, that a brain-dead stooge and his cackling sidekick were the greatest President and Vice-President in American history despite the contrary evidence in front of our eyes. Perhaps it has been watching so many of our elected leaders spend our nation into the poorhouse while turning into multi-millionaires thanks to insider stock trading that would put the rest of us in prison were we to do the same. Perhaps it is simply that we’re tired of being told that the solution to every problem is another tax, another bureaucracy, or another restriction on our freedoms.
Whatever the breaking point might have been, our willingness to swallow a steady diet of destructive nonsense has turned into a national gag reflex, which has only convinced the Marxists in our midst that violence is the only possible answer if they are to “save” America. We’re in a very bad place right now because decades of carefully planned infiltration has turned our courts into apologists for riot and revolt and too many of our schools and colleges into indoctrination centers that dedicate their energies to everything but teaching academic skills—all while a tsunami of accumulated public debt is now crashing down upon our heads.
We’re on the cusp of a change, a very big change. The question is will we bend, reform, and transform—or break down and fail?