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For most of my life I was a basic talk radio neoconservative. The election of Trump and the media's reaction had me asking questions but even as 2020 approached I still had the standard conservative opinion on how power worked.
The pandemic, the BLM riots, and the 2020 election shattered that illusion. Every law was broken, every right was thrown in the trash. Separation of powers, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights, it all meant nothing. When tyranny came all the rhetoric about freedom and liberty meant nothing, and the people who had spent their whole lives telling me about the wonders of our Constitution and the system of government it established all found a way to justify what was happening.
I felt like I was taking crazy pills. Was I the only one who understood what was going on? Slowly I discovered that I was not the only one, but most people still needed to pretend the old story was still in place. Most people could not make the mental shift necessary to see reality as it was. This was especially true for GOP politicians and most of the commentariate who need people bought into the process. If your job is to pass laws or comment on the passage of laws you better pretend laws still matter.
When I listen to people talk about voting harder as 10 million illegals stream across the border or talk about the subversion of democracy by Putin as our own government jails its political opponents I still feel like I am taking crazy pills.
People often call me a black-pilled or pessimistic, but I'm not. I think that a more honest and real future sits on the other side of what we are going through now. But I simply don't understand how people can watch what is happening and pretend that our system will right itself. Whatever we are governed by now, it is not the Constitution, whoever we are governed by now, it is not Joe Biden, and if we are going to have any hope of fixing this we must start with a very simple truth.
The left understand power and wield it to crush their enemies, the right can learn to secure power for itself or it can relegated to the dustbin of history.
@bdomenech@EliCraneAZ So you're saying politicians shouldn't do what they feel is right for fear of losing their seats?
We all know that's exactly how the majority of them think and that's also why Congress has a 22 percent approval rating