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Tyranny Watch
In my waning years, I find the state of our wonderfully conceived nation deeply disturbing. We once were rightfully the land of the free. Now? Tyranny is not complete but getting extremely close:
- Vaccine mandates.
- Use of fear for manipulation (mask mandates, shutdowns).
- Changing the rules to favor cronies (producers of vaccines rather than cheap, effective treatment alternatives such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, which they made illegal to prescribe in many places).
- Barriers to emigration (vaccine passports, exit taxes).
- Department of Justice intimidation of public meeting protests and keeping Jan. 6 protestors in jail with overcharges.
- Conspiracy of the deep staters and complicit media to bring down an outsider who became the country’s leader (Russiagate).
- Fraud, irregularities, and elimination of voting security to manipulate “elections.”
- The death of free speech due to the technopolitical complex’s cancel culture.
- Making criminals of folks who tell the truth about government incompetence.
- Consistent lies from the technopolitical complex (e.g., false claims that Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” while the Antifa-BLM riots and burnings were “mostly peaceful,” unvaccinated citizens threaten the health of the vaccinated, masks don’t work, then so and on and on).
The continued judicial support of the Second Amendment offers some comfort, but I don’t see any movement toward flexing that muscle.
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Can you think of even one public liberal with any power except for maybe Bill Marr that doesn’t approach things like this? They might act like this for one day, and that’s it. I think it’s extremely naïve to think otherwise.
Maybe John McWhorter. But your point is well taken.
Another reminder of this gem:
I was thinking that might refer to Reading Rainbow, and poor Levar Burton…
Act accordingly. Try to keep a fairly broad opinion about broad public policy in your head at all times.
The bottom line is central planning doesn’t work, and the government produces too many public goods. When you get into the social stuff, Deirdre McCloskey has the answers as they translate into what a communist is going to argue about.
Many people have turned to home-schooling when their public schools were closed, and I suspect a lot of them won’t be going back.
The Purpose Of Public Education Is Indoctrination, And To Steal From The Parents, Students, And Taxpayers™
It’s atrophied.
I know we should take the latest polls with several tablespoons of salt. But latest poll of the Generic ballot shows the GOP leading the Democrats 46 to 43. The Generic ballot asks people if they prefer the GOP Congress or a Democrat Congress.
Historically, even when the GOP was losing in the Generic ballot, the GOP would sometimes, but not always, win the US House of Representatives.
So, I do think that the Democrats are already paying a political price for Biden’s incompetence and/or mendacity.
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Case closed.
It is becoming easier to identify domestic terrorists. They are on government payrolls (DOJ, FBI, IRS etc.)
Department of (in)Justice
Federal Bureau of Instigation
Internal Resource Scavengers