From the canceling of Dr. Seuss—If Theodore Geisel was a racist, I’m a Martian—to the President of the United States calling the governors of Texas and Mississippi “Neanderthal” for wanting to open their states and allow their increasingly depressed, suicidal children to go back to school, to the House of Representatives shutting down for fear of something or someones called an MVE, we no longer live in a democratic republic.
We live in something closer to a giant lunatic asylum.
What’s an MVE, you may ask? I didn’t know myself until a couple of days ago.
Well, apparently those are “militant violent extremists.”
Are there a lot of them? Since in recent Senate testimony it was admitted not a single person in the supposed Jan. 6 “insurrection” at the Capitol had a gun or any other serious weapon, the “flying fire extinguisher” having been debunked, I’m betting on something more like three guys and a pickup.
This hasn’t deterred the usual propagandistic suspects at the New York Times and the Washington Post, as Byron York notes in his useful daily email, who trumpet headlines from the same hearing “FBI director says domestic terrorism ‘metastasizing’ throughout U.S. as cases soar,” and “Domestic terrorism threat is ‘metastasizing’ in U.S., FBI director says.
What really is metastasizing is (justifiable) paranoia and craziness in a country where something approximating half the populace no longer believes they have anything close to free and fair elections and the other half wants to suppress everything that half has to say, or said long ago (cf. Dr. Seuss, or even Dr. King).
And don’t look for our elected officials to solve this, even less appointees like stonewaller-in-chief FBI director Christopher Wray who gives out less information than a particularly obstinate clerk at the motor vehicle bureau. The press will continue to lie, for the most part.
So what are we to do to get out of this lunatic asylum before we all suffer from what used to be called dementia praecox, if we aren’t already?
Well, it’s up to us. That may sound bad but it’s actually good, especially in the long run. There are more of us than there are of them.
Look to ourselves and look to positive changes taking place on the ground, try to emulate them in in your own way.
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