On November 3rd, 2020, every warning light on the dashboard of America’s election system lit up. Every chime and every buzzer demanded our attention. The citizens of The United States, the supposed owners of the vehicle, asked one mechanic after another to please take a look. Just take a look. None of them would even lift the hood. We were told, there was “no evidence,” that nothing was wrong, and to keep driving the vehicle. Yet the dashboard lights remain lit. The buzzers and chimes remain as loud as ever. And we still can’t get a mechanic to take a look. The January 6 protest was the result.
When the vehicle breaks down, and leaves us stranded, will anyone listen, or will the elites who deign to rule over us try to shift the blame on We The People?
Over the last year, some things have remained the same, with just a few minor tweaks. “Without evidence,” a fashionable term during the 2016 campaign, though no one over at National Public Radio ever bothered to learn it’s meaning, has been dropped. In a sane world, “without evidence” would be the tagline of every member of the Whitehouse press corps covering the current administration. Given the whoppers and deteriorating performance of Jen Psaki during the Whitehouse daily briefings, one would think it would follow as night follows day.
Old and Busted: “Mostly Peaceful Protest.”
New Hotness: “Insurrection”
I’ve also heard and read, “Attack on The Capitol,” and “Capitol Riot.”
“Mostly Peaceful Protest,” the overused term during the 2020 riots is clearly out. I have certainly not heard anyone from the legacy media use it in connection with January 6. On the other hand, I have heard the idiots actually compare it to – wait for it – the attack on 9/11. Without irony. Never mind that the only weapon fired that day was held by a Capitol Police Officer. After going through a summer of witnessing our American cities burn, we’re told that the January 6 protest was an “attack on democracy.”
This is why I have been stripped of all my trust in nearly every institution. I trust my wife and some other members of my family. I still trust my Church – but only because I know my Pastors and consider them friends. Almost everything and everyone else is suspect. With exceptions. I have neighbors I trust to get my mail and watch my house when I go away for a few days. Other than that, personal trust is rare. My doctor? Suspect. My employer? Suspect. Every grocer, merchant, “influencer” and product I purchase is suspect. This goes down to the purity content of the virgin olive oil I pull off the self. Yeah, I don’t trust it.
Fortunately, we still have informal trust which continues to grease our society. For now. I went to work this week and shared the state highway with thousands of commuters. Everyone behaved, everyone stayed in their respective lanes. Off the highway, everyone observed the traffic lights. The informal trust in our society remains high, because when someone violates that trust, often unintentionally, it will make the news. In this, and in hundreds of other interactions with fellow passerby’s and store clerks, there is an unspoken agreement that it is in our best interest to behave which just happens to be in the other persons’ best interest.
Again, for now. At some point, the mistrust resulting from the November 3 elections and the subsequent treatment of the January 6 protestors is going to trickle down. Not today and not tomorrow. It took decades of corruption in the Roman Senate before the frontier garrisons along the Rhine abandoned their posts. At some point in the future our own soldiers will look at our corrupted election system with its “mail-in ballots,” and ask themselves ‘what exactly are we defending here?’
Selah.
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