Thread by @ThyConsigliori

19 November #MAGAanalysis

Freedom of Tyranny

I think some may forget that @GenFlynn not only spent 33 years in the military, but cumulatively over 5 years in combat. Of the warriors I've met, to a soul, they worship him as their own beloved general.

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1329311312275451910?s=20

2) General Officers are not uniformly loved. Respected and obeyed, of course. But love is s different thing. Perhaps you can detect a small portion of why he is so loved in his greatest mandate, Pat, he said, don't just to the right thing, do the harder right thing.

3) Of course, if you look back to the 2016 RNC, or any of the speeches and rallies General Flynn led, you can instantly see the precise same greatness of soul, and strength of command. I want to delve that a bit more.

4) I've struggled to name it. The best I've got so far is: clarity and cogency of thinking. I can only imagine what that must have been like for his warriors on the field of fight. The rest of us require that same cogency and clareity.

5) He tells us above, the moment we're in right now, it is NOT about which candidate you support, which you oppose. He tells us we face the question of freedom or tyranny. He tells us we must choose.

6) I can't quite recall the last time I attended a July 4th Celebration where there were speeches. My most recent attendances were on the Mall in DC, and they put on an amazing show. Who remembers a local small town mayor or sheriff giving such a speech?

7) As I look back over the decades, how often did I hear the words, "freedom or tyranny?" How many countless times have themes of our Revolution and Founding been extolled and those words there by statement or spirit? How often were my ears deaf to their true meaning?

8) Do you remember how, last summer before President Trump quelled the statue destruction, even the sacred field of Gettysburg was under threat? For a time, I lived about 50 or 60 miles from Gettysburg and went there many times. I'll never forget the first.

9) No, I don't recall the day or the date. I can't tell you the day or the date I first visited Arlington, either. The overwhelming presence of the spirits of those who paid the ultimate price for freedom over tyranny shines in every stone and sounds in every whisper of wind.

10) Are we worthy of their sacrifice? I can't honestly say I know. I know that as I look back on my life, I hold profound regret over so often simply not realizing the truth of General Flynn's mandate to do the harder right thing.

11) Perhaps the great burdens of truly realizing something, and remembering, remembering what that something means. Remembering so that one's actions may rise to the call. It is no easy thing to remember. How will I fight for freedom today? How shall I oppose tyranny?

12) I've shared many times that my philosophy is to treasure my regrets, holding them dear to my heart, so that I may extract every ounce of learning and every last lesson they offer, even as they ripen and grow old. I will burden you with one just such right now.

14) I forgive myself for my silly youth as a near-communist with the proud term "radical" or maybe, "natural radical." I forgive myself the family-centered decades of my 20's and 30s. I feel I did well following 9/11. It changed me forever.

15) But it is the short years, say from 2004 to 2012 that I find myself soarly wanting. Not so much from 2016 to 2016, and after that, my only real regrets stem from weaknesses of reach or such, but I feel I have arisen to remember, certainly since 2016.

14) As a veteran failure analyst, I always have my trusty time machine to hand, in which I may go back and make changes, and in this case, carry with me in its control space General Flynn's Command to do the harder right thing.

15) I even know the exact moment. It was the night of Obama's speech to the DNC. The first thing I'd change is I'd actually listen to myself. I knew he was a rising demagogue and felt he'd attain the White House. It was on everyone's lips, no great genius on my part.

16) Specifically, I remember hearing about his having been a community organizer. This following law school, both as student and professor. I'd never heard the term before. And here's the single act that would have been right.

17) I should have read Saul Alinsky's work. I am a reader. I would have loved reading it, as I love reading it now. I am not only no Alinskyite, I am very truly an Anti-Alinskyite. What I didn't do was probe and prod the idea. What is a community organizer? Had no idea.

18) We may call that my moment of oblivion. What I forgot to do was think. I forgot to follow a critical path, and target my study, learning, analysis. I hope you already see how profoundly all this ties to General Flynn's commandment. In case not, please consider...

19) Obama was a tyrant.

I do not say that as a slur or insult. I say it in the fullest weight of its literal meaning. The single example of Obamacare should be adequate to illustrate. This is the reality of tyranny.

20) I have NOT gone so far as to name Bush 43 a tyrant. I may have to do that one day, but if so, not today. But I do remember the tyranny he imposed over one seemingly small thing. Light bulbs. I still curse him for that when I buy them to this day.

21) But Obama's community organizing background is the truly pivotal thing for me. Why so? As our 2018 election proved, we in the MAGA Movement have not been adequately organized. And that brings us right back to General Flynn's question. Freedom or tyranny?

22) How, in actual fact, will we rise up for freedom? How is this to be done? At what risks, at what costs, by whom, where, when, and how will the decisions be made, once made, how will they be executed? Shall we learn from our victories and defeats? If so in what medium?

23) Let's ponder spontaneity for a moment. When the true heart of the people grows so fed up with that which is wrong, with the tyranny, they will assemble all on their own. We've seen this through the entire history of democracy. The questions is, will that be enough?

24) It may be enough to salvage our democratic freedom of the vote, this election. Maybe. Assume it does. Then what? Unless we make a fundamental change within ourselves and our Movement, it will surely fade.

25) Let's look another direction. What if we fail to safeguard the truth of our vote? As General Flynn says, I am NOT talking about who's in the Oval Office, but rather, how he got there. I utterly oppose Biden, but if he won fair and square, then I'm ready to face that.

26) So sadly, from what I see, though, a legitimate victory appears completely out of reach for Biden. No path to legitimacy at all. It may seem partisan, but I simply do honestly trust both @SidneyPowell1 and @realDonaldTrump. I trust them.

28) And that brings me to the answer I've been offering these days since the election. I will wait for instruction. And, my instruction will come from them. As a patriotic citizen, I am honored and proud to follow their lead.

29) There's a strange blessing always locked up inside the painful pangs of remorse, when you know how to find it. I have become a very, very good reader of Saul Alinsky's works. I have embraced the lesson of my failure with all I am. I have done some of the harder right things.

30) On that note, I close for today. I simply repeat General Flynn's question and command, again.

The Question is Freedom or Tyranny?

The Commanded Answer is do the harder right thing.