Daily Verse | Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.

Happy Wednesday, faithful readers. Hold the sugar.

Like most of you, I am deeply concerned about our current state of affairs. We no longer have a constitutional republic, but an oligarchy of Marxist politicians, Technopolies and Big Businesses who are running roughshod over the American people.

If you haven’t seen it reported yet, Resident Biden “has issued more executive orders and actions in the first three weeks of his presidency than any president in U.S. history.” He’s been in office 21 days and has already signed 52 executive orders.

Good thing we got rid of Literally Hitler^ᵀᴹ so that we could be ruled by Literally Mussolini.^ᵀᴹ But that’s only a piece of the puzzle.

Two cultural observers that I read are Victor Davis Hanson and Daniel Greenfield. Each recently wrote sobering columns about what’s happening to our country.

In “Our Animal Farm,” VDH compares what has happened over the last 60 years to Orwell’s novel. He writes,

Orwell saw that the desire for power stamps out all ideological pretenses. It creates an untouchable ruling clique central to all totalitarian movements. Beware, he warns, of the powerful who claim to help the helpless.

Something so far less violent, but no less bizarre and disturbing, now characterizes the American New New Left. It is completing its final Animal Farm metamorphosis as it finishes its long march through our cultural, economic, and social institutions. Leftists may talk of revolutionary transformation, but their agenda is to help friends, punish enemies, and to keep and expand power.

He then catalogues the 1960s revolutionary ideology where students agitated for “free speech,” spoke “truth to power” and railed against historical norms as nonconformists.

After tracing those developments, VDH gives us a chilling summary of what we now have.

Yes, the downtrodden pigs, the exploited horses, and the victimized sheep finally did expel Farmer Jones from America’s Animal Farm.

But in his place, as Orwell predicted, revolutionary pigs began walking on two feet and absorbed all the levers of American cultural influence and power: the media, the bureaucracies, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, publishing, the academy, K-12 education, professional sports, and entertainment. And to them all, the revolutionaries added their past coarseness and 1960s-era by-any-means-necessary absolutism.

We are now finally witnessing the logical fruition of their radical utopia: Censorship, electronic surveillance, internal spying, monopolies, cartels, conspiracy theories, weaponization of the intelligence agencies, pouring billions of dollars into campaigns, changing voting laws by fiat, a woke revolutionary military, book banning, bleeding the First Amendment, canceling careers, blacklisting, separate-but-equal racial segregation and separatism. 

Against that backdrop, Daniel Greenfield zooms in to look at our present-day circumstances in “The Reichstag Fire of the Democrats.” It’s a long excerpt, but it helps fill in the contours of what we’re witnessing.

Democrats deployed 26,000 troops to Washington D.C. at a cost of $500 million. Thousands of soldiers, authorized to use deadly force as they were forbidden to do either at the border or during the Black Lives Matter assault on the White House, will stay to fight an imaginary threat.

While walls, razor wire, and military encampments rise outside the halls of government, inside them the Democrats have unleashed a true coup. Protesters have “stormed” Congress before, from both the Left and the Right, which cannot be called overthrowing the government. But Democrats began their own overthrow by launching an unconstitutional post-office impeachment of President Trump for speaking at a peaceful protest and a push to remove Senate members who objected to the stolen election by abusing the 14th Amendment.

The fake emergency has been extended to March. The FBI continues falsely claiming that there is some sort of threat that requires 7,500 soldiers to conduct a military occupation of the nation’s capital. The FBI’s claims that this threat would occur during “First Amendment-protected protests” has a massive credibility problem because there have been no protests in D.C.

Even though these protests have yet to emerge for over a month, the occupation goes on.

The fascist theater of the military occupation is a pretext for a political occupation with Democrats inciting political purges in legislatures, both state and national, of any Republicans who criticised the stolen election and called for accountability on behalf of the voters. A purge is also underway of the military and law enforcement to root out “extremists” from the same forces that the Democrats have deployed to intimidate Americans and suppress political dissent.

Having pulled off a coup, the Democrats are seeking partisan political control over the military.

There are plenty of precedents for a political faction declaring a false state of emergency, occupying the center of government, and unleashing a campaign of political repression.

Those precedents don’t come from America. And they have no place in the United States.

He then describes Hitler’s use of the Reichstag Fire and Stalin’s use of the Kirov assassination as pretexts to consolidate power and eliminate their enemies. He winds up his essay with this:

The Democrats have only begun exploiting their permanent state of emergency. And they intend to use it to usher in a one-party state while purging the political opposition. Russia and Germany show us how these purges by megalomaniacal fascists will end once they are set into motion.

Republicans must push back against the occupation of Washington D.C. and against a fake state of emergency whose goal, like those of the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Great Purge, is the suspension of political norms and the rule of law by keeping the people afraid all the time.

It’s a lot easier to stop a purge before it starts than to try to pause it once it’s underway.

There is no room in America for show trials, government surveillance of political opponents, and smearing political dissent as incitement, sedition, and domestic terrorism. The only emergency here is the leftist plot against the Constitution under the guise of manufactured emergencies.

I can tell you right now that the Republicans won’t “push back against the occupancy of Washington, D.C. and against a fake state of emergency.” That’s because, with a few exceptions, the Republican party is made up of squishes who are as interested in keeping their power and privilege as much as the Democrats are.

Listen to this clip from Tucker Carlson’s guest Lee Smith, who is also wise to the game.

“The oligarchy that runs this country now is not primarily loyal to the United States.” Here’s the article Smith wrote and was discussing with Carlson. It’s long but essential reading. Just choosing one paragraph, he writes (with my emphasis),

For nearly a year, American officials have purposefully laid waste to our economy and society for the sole purpose of arrogating more power to themselves while the Chinese economy has gained on America’s. China’s lockdowns had nothing to do with the difference in outcomes. Lockdowns are not public health measures to reduce the spread of a virus. They are political instruments, which is why Democratic Party officials who put their constituents under repeated lengthy lockdowns, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, are signaling publicly that it is imperative they be allowed to reopen immediately now that Trump is safely gone.

As I’ve indicated, I’m a local guy with an attitude and a keyboard. I don’t understand all that’s going on behind the scenes, but I’ve read enough to begin piecing together some of what is behind the chaos in our country. If it’s true, then it’s frightening because there is no one to protect mainstream Americans from being sold out.

We’ll have to do it ourselves.

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