A year ago we had historically record unemployment across classes and racists. We had reduced troops in foreign wars to a level not seen since the 80’s. Stock markets were roaring, wages were soaring, and record numbers of businesses were starting. North Korea, China and Iran were in control, illegal immigration was controlled and the world knew that America was going to look out for it’s own best interest for the first time in thirty years.
All this despite that the president was just being impeached after three years of investigations based on fraudulent material, altered court documents and years of manipulation of the media. Everything that he promised he delivered, including several vaccines for a pandemic, millions of masks, tens of thousands of ventilators, multiple new hospitals (never used) and the structure for distributing the vaccine that happened on schedule based on predicted manufacturing rates worked despite several liberal cities and states wasting hundreds of thousands of vaccines in the first month.
He was decried as a dictator, a despot and an insurrectionist because he rightly questioned the legitimacy of the election and was denied any legitimate legal review of the votes (much different than Gore was allowed in Florida). The governors still deny access to voting machines, records of votes are missing and even the laws passed to change how votes were counted were unconstitutionally passed and very vague in application.
Now that the ‘savior’ has been elected preaching unity… Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Youtube have started a massive lock down on speech, first on Trump… through the right… and now to the radical left. There are troops protecting the capital, barbed wire fences around the capitol, checkpoints and green zones in our capital. This is based on a ‘deadly insurrection’ that happened while Trump was speaking, across the mall, where thirty minutes after the start of the insurrection he called for peaceful and patriotic protest.
Meanwhile some people identified as BLM and ANTIFA (along with radical right-wing groups, admittedly) stormed the capitol building. The first death was an unarmed woman shot in the neck by Capitol Police. One officer died horrifically (and I am all for prosecuting both deaths all the way). There was a stroke, a heart attack (yeah… Trump supporters getting excited) and a woman trampled. Earlier in the year BLM rioters were shooting cops in the head point blank and hunting down Trump supporters to kill them… and that was ‘mostly peaceful’.
Now Senators are apologizing for being racist for suggesting hiding in the Republican side of Congress because minority representatives would still be unsafe, AOC goes on a dramatic rant about how much danger she was in despite being a quarter mile away in her office bathroom, and a duly elected representative has been removed from all committees because she said some controversial things while repetitively antisemitic Omar is celebrated (silly 1st Amendment).
They are printing money, but it will be for certain ethnic groups. $2000 = $1400 (I bet the Georgia voters are pissed that he bribe got cut down!), Conservatives are now terrorists, Gun owners will need to register and pay $800 a year to the Federal Government (silly 1st Amendment), Drone strikes against Americans are being celebrated (well, if Obama did it), immigrant child caging is back (well, if Obama did it)… all in three weeks.
And they are now bragging about the manipulation.
I posted the actual Time article on my Facebook page yesterday (not the right-wing take, the actual article, there was a link in Reality’s post on it). No one I know on my friend’s list has seen it… I’ve asked (23 of them). Not one person. I was posting a liberal source, telling people to read it and nothing (elsels or mohit, if you did please let me know).
I don’t know what’s ahead, but this is far from the country I (thought I) grew up in and raised (and am still raising) children in. I’m tired of being called a racist, privileged, and homo/trans-phobic. I’m not. I will own Islamaphobic, they would kill me and my family if they ever took over the country. Well, actually I lie… I do know what’s ahead because this has been laid out by Saul Alinski in Rules for Radicals. Everything happening now is in that book from the 60’s, and that man hated this country. If you can get it, read it.
/end rant