Wednesday and we’re a day closer to December 14, the date on
which state electors meet and vote. This year’s electoral college should be something to watch. If you want to better understand the process, click here.

It’s tough to regularly opine negatively on what’s happening in the U.S. I hate to come off as a pessimist, but the truth is that we are living through an enormous upheaval of seismic proportions in this country. It’s been in the works for some time, but we are witnessing a pivotal moment in our history that may well make or break the nation.

We are a nation severely divided between different visions of and for America. During the Trump era (the last four years) we’ve learned that there is a significant portion of our population that believes that, at our core, we are a racist country, that we were founded on racism; that our economic, political, religious, and educational institutions were built to oppress and marginalize non-whites; and that systemic racism exists today in our country. We’ve seen the violence and mayhem destroying so many of our cities over the last six months as Antifa and BLM have rioted and burned and looted and murdered in the name of “racial justice.”

In the last four years, we’ve discovered that many of those same people believe that socialism is a better system than capitalism because it would somehow solve the inequities inherent in a capitalist economy. Hence the talk of “fair share” and “taxing the one percent” or “making the rich pay more;” the ideas of “free” college and canceling debt and the government providing a “basic” income.

The Chinese Lung Pox has brought out the latent dictator in many of our Democrat governors and their “ministers of health” as they have single-handedly brought a hot economy to a halt, throwing millions out of work and suffocating many small businesses, all based on the fear of a virus for which the survival rate is between 99.5 percent and 99.997 percent for anyone under 70 years old.

These are all threats to our historic freedoms and the vision of America as our Founders intended. The other half of the country still believes in self-government, personal responsibility, the freedom to say what I think and worship whom I please and associate with whom I want. We believe that our government exists to secure our rights as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments). That should mean mostly providing for the common defense and “securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

These two ideas of America—that she is a grossly racist nation or that she is a unique blessing in human freedom and self-determination—cannot long exist together side by side. That’s why we hear talk of states wanting to break from their liberal urban centers (Illinois, California, Oregon) or of states wanting to secede from the U.S. (California).

It’s also why we increasingly hear talk of a new civil war.

This election fight is a symptom of the disease we have. There are abundant examples of voter fraud, not to mention the absurd circumstances under which the Democrat supposedly won. Should Trump win this fight, expect there to be a fresh outbreak of violence that is worse than what we saw this year. Should Biden prevail, expect conservatives to resist his presidency, which will surely try to restructure our government in such a way that Democrats will keep and expand their power.

Finally, that peaceful and trustworthy elections are likely no longer possible in America means Americans no longer have any peaceful options should the ruling powers do things that the public doesn’t like. Eventually, the response will be violence, and bloodshed, and brutality.

I am not calling for it. I am simply predicting that it will happen, all because the Democrats refused to accept the legality of the 2016 election and then used any means to steal the 2020 elections, and the Republicans stood by and let them do it.

And just remember, power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Democrats are gaining that absolute power. They’re coming for you next.

— Robert Zimmerman

As Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

I don’t believe we can permanently endure, half socialist and half capitalist; half “racist” and half “anti-racist;” half traditionalist and half progressive. We will be either one or the other.

I started this post by saying that I don’t like writing about the negative stuff happening in our country. But I’m a realist, and a realist defines reality. We need some brutal honesty about where we are, and it does no good to ignore it and hope it goes away, or close our eyes or look away because it scares us. Ignorance may be bliss, but it can also get you badly hurt. You and I need to look the situation in the face and be thinking about what we’ll do if the worst happens.

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