Daily Verse
“The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth,
and his heart was filled with pain.”
Genesis 6:6
Wednesday, January 6, 2021—another day that will live in infamy if the joint session of Congress chooses to kamikaze our Republic with the falsified results of November’s election.
Trump has been building up to what he promises is a major reveal today. He says he received 75 million votes, about 12 million more than he received in 2016. I hope he’s got the goods. He needs to show up with something profoundly compelling, something that can’t be explained away. We’ve heard the evidence of massive fraud; whatever Trump produces needs to be more than a regurgitation of what is already public knowledge.
As I’m writing this post, votes are being tabulated in Georgia for the runoff between Kelly Loeffler (R) and Raphael Warnock (D), and David Perdue (R) and Jon Ossoff (D). With 97% reporting, both races are very close. Like, within 1-percentage-point-close. Waffahr theen.
So far I haven’t heard of any water main breaks or Republican observers being asked to leave early but, hey, there’s still 4:00 AM on Wednesday. Since this blog is delivered at 5:00 AM, maybe you’ve heard something. To keep the Senate and to blunt the damage of a possible Biden administration, we need both Rs to emerge victorious.
It’s hard to say what will happen if the two lose. At the very least, Republicans will suspect further fraud and jerry-rigging of the votes. How could they not after what we’ve seen the last two months? What will the response be?
I’ve noticed as I scan social media that those on the Right are more frequently and openly talking about armed conflict. The sentiment seems to be that our country is under siege and we’re in danger of permanently losing our constitutional rights. I can’t disagree. I’m as alarmed as I’ve ever been as I watch what is happening—but what to do?
The list of options grows shorter every day. We could continue to fight conventionally, using the ballot box to vote in the best candidates and vote out the worst. The problem with this approach is that, until Trump, it got us mostly nowhere. Plus, look at who has already been voted into office: severely radical, anti-American activists like AOC, Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar. The subversive fox is already in the hen house.
The other major problem with dependence on voting people in and out is that ballot box integrity is now a thing of the past. Even if Trump prevails, we can never trust the voting process again until there’s serious reforms (starting with voter ID cards) nor the Democrats. They’re a fully compromised and corrupt mob led by the Biden Crime Family.
I suppose we could become the resistance and mimic the Democrats, confronting them in restaurants, shouting them down at town halls, protesting in front of their homes. The problems there are many, not least of which is that conservative, patriotic Americans believe in the rule of law and don’t like the idea of breaking it. Nor do they generally wish to harm or harass others. But that’s partially why we are where we are: we’ve not learned to punch back twice as hard.
The best option apart from a shooting war is to accept that it’s going to take a couple of generations to right the ship. The “long march through the institutions” started back in the mid-1900s, subverting American society by infiltrating its cultural and professional institutions and rotting them from the inside. What’s needed is a counter-march, whereby we rebuild them over the next several decades. A tall order, to be sure.
The only other option to save our republic is to use kinetic action to immediately clean house and start over, something akin to the Battle of Athens, Tennessee or to God’s decision to completely wipe mankind from the face of the earth and start again with Noah (see the rest of Genesis 6). No one wants to do that, and no one wants to say it, but as things continue to deteriorate, we may have little choice.
[Image credit: Banksy]