The same people who spent four years delegitimizing an election are the ones sternly lecturing others about delegitimizing an election now. It’s the most predictable and shameless thing. It’s also why Russiagate was extremely reckless, it was always going to lead to this.
Then again, this is what intelligence agencies who want to tear a country apart do, and that’s exactly what U.S. intelligence agencies have done.
This is elementary. If one side refuses to accept an election result, the other side will do the same the next time.
If I wanted to destroy America on purpose I would have launched Russiagate. So we must ask, did U.S. intelligence agencies tear apart the country intentionally?
Surviving four years of Trump was easy, surviving four years of Russiagate proved impossible.
I can't relate to anyone who thinks "back to normal" is coming. It's not. The environment is 10x more combustive and dangerous than it was in 2016. It'll sort itself out in the years ahead and I'll do my part to raise the level of dialogue, but back to normal ain't happening.
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One of the people is the infamous Richard Stengel @stengel, who publicly advocated for U.S. government propaganda aimed at its own people.
Here's the relevant clip.
According to The Hill, "Stengel will be on the agency for global media." An admitted propagandist on the agency for global media. Of course, this is deliberate.
One of the other people moving to Biden admin from MSNBC is Rahm Emmanuel's brother, Ezekiel Emanuel. All good.
Here's the big takeaway from the 2020 election. All the trends I've been expecting have been solidified and reinforced. A total and growing distrust in once revered institutions, especially media and pompous always wrong blue checks.
A feeling that faux "elites," oligarchs and the national security state are constantly lying and manipulating the public for ends that go against the public interest. Also more of an understanding you can't fundamentally change the system via voting for president.
Sanders, Trump supporters and non-voters will all increasingly feel this way in the coming years under a Biden/Harris administration. Both sides that lean populist, even if superficially, will now discount change via voting during these circuses.
With so many states having legalized cannabis via referendum while bureaucrats and “representatives” in D.C. have done nothing, there’s a big lesson.
Let people vote directly on more issues, and concentrate those votes locally. We’re too centralized with most decision making.
Frankly, the presidency shouldn’t matter that much and neither should Congress. States and municipalities should matter more. That’s the best way to deal with the crazy polarization out there. Ironically, we need to decentralize to remain a country.
Colorado and Washington legalized cannabis in 2012. At that point South Dakota wasn’t ready. So people watched how the experiment went, and years later other states followed. Local experimentation. This is how America is supposed to work. More of this, less D.C.
Think about what powerful interests want you to do and how they want you to live, and do the opposite whenever possible and reasonable.
The best response to a twisted system is to opt out.
For some, this will mean radical changes to their lives, for others it will mean small adjustments on the margin. But everyone can do a little something to reject this nonsense.
Ask yourself this. How am I participating in my own destruction; mentally, spiritually and economically. Then do what you can to change course.
I think the power structure in the U.S. underestimates how much the general public hates their guts.
We’re not sure what to do about it and how, but the contempt and disgust is strong and growing.
People need to stop flippantly throwing around “civil war.” That makes absolutely no sense. The actions we are seeing are more revolutionary than “civil war.”
Elites may try to push the angst into a civil war though, but that’s divide and rule stuff. Don’t be stupid.