The Case for Optimism
Sept 30, 2021 21:21:29 GMT -5
Post by bloodbought on Sept 30, 2021 21:21:29 GMT -5
September 29, 2021
The Case for Optimism
By J.B. Shurk
I sat down to write an essay about President Trump's energetic rally in Georgia before a massive crowd of ebullient patriots. I wanted to discuss the reasons why this American leader has set himself apart from all others. I wanted to bolster his rallying cry that "we're going to take back our country from these lunatics." I thought I might entitle my final product "The Resplendent Donald Trump," because he has shone a light on the struggles and opportunities facing Americans today better than any public figure in decades.
I put that essay aside, however, when I couldn't get past a recurring theme showing up in the writings and commentaries I read daily. That theme is unmistakable despair. It seems that bad news has piled up so steadily that it is becoming harder and harder to see over that pile toward a future of our own making.
An increasing number of people now understand that the China Virus was not only a tool for drowning the 2020 presidential election with illegal mail-in ballots devoid of chain of custody or security of any kind, but also a mechanism for undermining inherent personal freedoms while ushering in a new Super-State with near-total control over speech, social gatherings, ideas, and economic relations.
For decades, Americans have been trying to put an end to rampant illegal immigration that has both fractured local communities and impoverished working-class Americans already suffering from D.C.'s bipartisan efforts to send America's best manufacturing jobs to China. And after the briefest respite arising solely from the efforts of President Trump (in direct opposition to the bipartisan consensus in D.C. that immigration crimes should be ignored), the border has never been more open. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas brags that he is so opposed to protecting the homeland's security that he spends all his time releasing illegal aliens throughout the U.S. while formulating plans to criminalize as "domestic extremists" Trump-voting veterans who actually sacrificed to protect America.
Censorship is enforced by tech monopolists and corporate boards of directors who have decided that fascism pays better than freedom, and when they're not actively enforcing the new Marxist "social justice" nonsense upon their employees and customers, they're getting rich from overseas slave labor and the Federal Reserve's Wall Street cronyism that artificially pushes up stock values while guaranteeing a future dollar collapse for everyone else.
In America — the Land of the Free — the government now declares that it may mandate what goes into each citizen's body, decide which tenets of religion will be "allowed" to survive, outlaw speech it does not like, and tautologically vilify anyone who resists the State's illegitimate new powers as being an "enemy of the state." Objecting to tyranny now makes one a "terrorist."
The whole thing is so absurd and so unfathomable to most Americans that it is causing them to lose faith in any future at all. We can't vote our way out if vote counts can't be trusted or if the Uniparty just continues seeding battleground states with tens of millions of illegal aliens who will either be granted immunity and voting privileges in short order or be encouraged to break our voting laws, just as they were encouraged to break our immigration laws. Big Tech and Big Media have strangled information so successfully that the need for samizdat has returned. Big Business and Big Government have worked together to transfer all the wealth of the middle class to the richest one percent of the one percent. Vaccine passports promise a future of completely controlled movement. Central bank digital currencies promise a future of completely controlled commerce. Quarantine camps provide a convenient excuse for housing all the troublesome skeptics immune to groupthink socialism. And Americans who are just itching for a chance to push back against the government's abuses are reminded daily that a few hundred unarmed January 6 Capitol "trespassers," whose technical crimes, if any, paled in comparison to those we've been forced to endure from the hands of the FBI-approved BLM and Antifa Marxists for several years, are still languishing in solitary confinement going on a full year now with laughably bereft American due process, proving that justice in the United States is, indeed, two-tiered.
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The Case for Optimism
By J.B. Shurk
I sat down to write an essay about President Trump's energetic rally in Georgia before a massive crowd of ebullient patriots. I wanted to discuss the reasons why this American leader has set himself apart from all others. I wanted to bolster his rallying cry that "we're going to take back our country from these lunatics." I thought I might entitle my final product "The Resplendent Donald Trump," because he has shone a light on the struggles and opportunities facing Americans today better than any public figure in decades.
I put that essay aside, however, when I couldn't get past a recurring theme showing up in the writings and commentaries I read daily. That theme is unmistakable despair. It seems that bad news has piled up so steadily that it is becoming harder and harder to see over that pile toward a future of our own making.
An increasing number of people now understand that the China Virus was not only a tool for drowning the 2020 presidential election with illegal mail-in ballots devoid of chain of custody or security of any kind, but also a mechanism for undermining inherent personal freedoms while ushering in a new Super-State with near-total control over speech, social gatherings, ideas, and economic relations.
For decades, Americans have been trying to put an end to rampant illegal immigration that has both fractured local communities and impoverished working-class Americans already suffering from D.C.'s bipartisan efforts to send America's best manufacturing jobs to China. And after the briefest respite arising solely from the efforts of President Trump (in direct opposition to the bipartisan consensus in D.C. that immigration crimes should be ignored), the border has never been more open. Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas brags that he is so opposed to protecting the homeland's security that he spends all his time releasing illegal aliens throughout the U.S. while formulating plans to criminalize as "domestic extremists" Trump-voting veterans who actually sacrificed to protect America.
Censorship is enforced by tech monopolists and corporate boards of directors who have decided that fascism pays better than freedom, and when they're not actively enforcing the new Marxist "social justice" nonsense upon their employees and customers, they're getting rich from overseas slave labor and the Federal Reserve's Wall Street cronyism that artificially pushes up stock values while guaranteeing a future dollar collapse for everyone else.
In America — the Land of the Free — the government now declares that it may mandate what goes into each citizen's body, decide which tenets of religion will be "allowed" to survive, outlaw speech it does not like, and tautologically vilify anyone who resists the State's illegitimate new powers as being an "enemy of the state." Objecting to tyranny now makes one a "terrorist."
The whole thing is so absurd and so unfathomable to most Americans that it is causing them to lose faith in any future at all. We can't vote our way out if vote counts can't be trusted or if the Uniparty just continues seeding battleground states with tens of millions of illegal aliens who will either be granted immunity and voting privileges in short order or be encouraged to break our voting laws, just as they were encouraged to break our immigration laws. Big Tech and Big Media have strangled information so successfully that the need for samizdat has returned. Big Business and Big Government have worked together to transfer all the wealth of the middle class to the richest one percent of the one percent. Vaccine passports promise a future of completely controlled movement. Central bank digital currencies promise a future of completely controlled commerce. Quarantine camps provide a convenient excuse for housing all the troublesome skeptics immune to groupthink socialism. And Americans who are just itching for a chance to push back against the government's abuses are reminded daily that a few hundred unarmed January 6 Capitol "trespassers," whose technical crimes, if any, paled in comparison to those we've been forced to endure from the hands of the FBI-approved BLM and Antifa Marxists for several years, are still languishing in solitary confinement going on a full year now with laughably bereft American due process, proving that justice in the United States is, indeed, two-tiered.
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