Ottawa police are currently seizing fuel supplies from the Freedom Convoy. The CCP is hosting the Olympics in Beijing and people are *finally* making the comparison between them and when Hitler hosted the Olympics in Berlin. Australian police are patrolling churches to ensure mask compliance. Russia is considering invading Ukraine while the United States government is doing their best to will it into existence. China has successfully cracked down on dissent in Hong Kong and is eying Taiwan and regularly invading their airspace. North Korea is launching missiles. Iran has promised retaliation inside the United States for Solemani’s death. The Coutts border crossing between the US and Canada has been closed by truckers protesting covid restrictions. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after the US spent countless dollars, and more importantly, thousands of citizens’ blood, to prevent that.
At some level, it’s important for everyone’s mental health not to dwell on these things.
But on the other hand, by not paying attention it is very easy to be caught off guard.
Which is what concerns me.
Let’s say 10% of American’s felt strongly enough about something to protest on it. That is approximately 33 million Americans. Now, let’s just say repeated protests have no effect. Perhaps, 1% of that 33 million Americans is willing to do more: to vandalize, to risk arrest, to stage sit-ins, etc. Well, that’s a lot civil disobedience. If those people are spread out across 50 states, then it could be handled and suppressed. Not easily perhaps, but still, it’s not the end of the world.
But let’s go one step further. Let’s say that out of that 3.3 million who are willing to commit civil disobedience, there is another 1% who are willing to commit political violence. That’s 330,000 people.
Sure, it’s 1% of the 1%…..but what would happen in your town if 10 people decided to plan acts of political violence. What if it was 100?
It is a myth that it takes the majority to accomplish change. The course of history has been changed by 1 man more times than we know. Essentially, one man shot an Archduke and caused two world wars, and from there the nuclear arms race.
I don’t think anything like this is going to happen tomorrow, but I think it’s easy to see that we are on a path to a future where western democracies tear themselves apart.
Why?
Because the men and women who lead our countries are criminally incompetent, which means they have to hold onto power by being corrupt and unchallenged. Cancel culture has become the new term for censorship and the elites are using it to crack down on any information that doesn’t match their propaganda. What’s happening with the protest in Ottawa could not be a better example. The left is terrified of it because it’s a genuine working class protest, but it’s been far more peaceful than almost every BLM protest that has happened in the last five years. So now the elites will do whatever it takes to put the working class back in its place.
The problem is that while the elites are removing freedom of speech and expression they are also removing the things that make such totalitarian policies easier to live with. They want your entertainment to be wokeified. They want your churches policed and your religions watered down. They send jobs to China and have their buddies lobby against bills banning goods made by slave labor.
You want a family? Well, they will offer you abortion on demand and preach about how bad it is to have kids. When you do have kids they are going to brainwash them to hate themselves and to be any sexuality or gender except straight.
You love your country? Well, you can’t because it’s too problematic. In fact, any value or virtue you can believe in is problematic - unless you’re the most oppressed group at the given moment.
They don’t care about people. Lockdowns killed people by isolating them? Too bad. Kids are committing suicide because of loneliness and remote learning. Too bad. People are self-medicating themselves to death. Too bad. If it doesn’t line their pockets or further their political agenda, they don’t care. Oh, you passed a law to reign them in? Too bad. They ignore laws now. Laws only matter if the justice system will enforce them and prosecute those who break them.
The elites are going to keep pushing. They have shown no signs of self-awareness, humility, or even foresight. Eventually they will push a small group of people all the way up to a wall. When that group fights back, then all hell will break loose. Our systems are fragile. Cities need food - every day. The lifeblood of our society is in our infrastructure - which is already decrepit. It would take no effort to sabotage it. Honestly, it would start to fail in days or hours if people were just too afraid to go to work.
The comfortable lives we live every day require hundreds or thousands of other people doing their jobs days, weeks, and months beforehand. The elites can’t conceive of true resistance, so instead of leaving the working class with something meaningful, they will take it all away.
At my core, I’m an American. I love an underdog, come from behind victory story. We can’t control Canada or Australia, but we can vote for freedom at local, state, and federal levels. We can sue and protest and build better platforms. America is still the sleeping giant that Yamamoto feared awakening because America was founded on the belief that freedom wins - that when people are set free and left alone, they can win any competition and undergo any hardship to stay free. Machiavelli even said that when conquering free peoples, you must kill them all and salt the earth, or the spirit of freedom will rebel again and again.
*It’s enough to make you think twice about the whole lizard people conspiracy. It’s like they have no understanding of human nature.
P.S. I will say that due to my faith I know that no matter how bad the western world gets, the Christian Church will survive. Its survival is not linked to any political movement or system but is instead ordained by God. That alone is reason enough to keep hope alive.
I hope each of my kids marries somebody (of the opposite sex) who learns to think and write like this. And the P.S. will help deter self-defenestration. Thanks for adding that.