I am pretty sure, that our problem is that the social contract is not yet sufficiently shattered. The American population can take an awful lot before they wake up from their stupor. I think it's likely that President Trump has a few shock and awe cards up his sleeve that will do the trick.
Think about it - America found out that the ruling elite actually have an island dedicated to the place you go to rape kids. Then, they have an airplane that you ride on to get to the island and rape kids while on the flight. America looked at this, thought it was a bit icky, but ok. Then, they moved on.
Then the owner of the island and chief kid-raper died while in federal custody. Just a comedy of errors, with all the cameras failing, etc. Nothing to see here, just a tragic suicide. America laughed, made memes and moved on with their lives.
So, a society that is pretty much ok with that really requires a mega-dose of public evidence of treason before they stop to notice. We're just very, very comfortable.
We do like our bread and circuses. And I agree with your comfort statement.
I’m a middle aged doc. I also built and sold related IT companies and am well off. I have a lot to lose, the culmination of all that effort and luck.
Yet, we are also not pushing for something revolutionary, but rather a restoration of the basic principles that guided this country since our founding. Core institutions related to justice have been subverted and corrupted; they need to be cleansed or transformed.
Trump’s greatest strength was being an outsider immune from the influence of money. It was also his greatest weakness, as with literally tens of thousands of people to appoint and hire, he had no choice but to rely on insiders to help him build his administration, resulting in deep staters and Trump haters that had to be rooted out after their sabotage.
I pray that SCOTUS recognizes the gravity of what is at stake here. Unless a very high percentage of Americans are very confident in the validity of the election, we are in for chaos. The media is not trustworthy; big tech is in censorship mode. The only process that can result in acceptance by the losing side is an adversarial process of reviewing the votes in contested states with a reasonable framework for observing and objecting to questionable votes, similar to Bush v. Gore in 2000. Dems will not agree to this and have intentionally sabotaged the chain of custody and basic safeguards. IMO, SCOTUS needs to invalidate the elections in contested states where fraud may plausibly have changed the outcome.
I am deriving a new wave of optimism as I watch the comedy of errors in Georgia today. Too bad I canceled cable, I would love to see how CNN and FoxNews are spinning the Judge ordering the computers to be retained. Then, they rescinded and I'm sure it was a grotesque orgy of Orange Man Bad. Then he writes a pissed off order and reinstates the injunction!
I love your response and I absolutely agree that SCOTUS is critical to the road out of this mess.
I think you might be underestimating the difficulty of overcoming the psychologic barriers preventing the comfortable citizen from waking from their stupor. It reminds me of the Revolutionary War, where most Americans sided with the Brits. None of the rape, quartering, plundering, forced impression was enough to wake them up. Once the war was won, and comfort dictated acceptance that the Brits are bad and Yankees are good, then they made the switch. If the Brits had prevailed in 1812, most Americans would have switched and said - Yankees bad, Brits good.
I am pretty sure, that our problem is that the social contract is not yet sufficiently shattered. The American population can take an awful lot before they wake up from their stupor. I think it's likely that President Trump has a few shock and awe cards up his sleeve that will do the trick.
Think about it - America found out that the ruling elite actually have an island dedicated to the place you go to rape kids. Then, they have an airplane that you ride on to get to the island and rape kids while on the flight. America looked at this, thought it was a bit icky, but ok. Then, they moved on.
Then the owner of the island and chief kid-raper died while in federal custody. Just a comedy of errors, with all the cameras failing, etc. Nothing to see here, just a tragic suicide. America laughed, made memes and moved on with their lives.
So, a society that is pretty much ok with that really requires a mega-dose of public evidence of treason before they stop to notice. We're just very, very comfortable.
We do like our bread and circuses. And I agree with your comfort statement.
I’m a middle aged doc. I also built and sold related IT companies and am well off. I have a lot to lose, the culmination of all that effort and luck.
Yet, we are also not pushing for something revolutionary, but rather a restoration of the basic principles that guided this country since our founding. Core institutions related to justice have been subverted and corrupted; they need to be cleansed or transformed.
Trump’s greatest strength was being an outsider immune from the influence of money. It was also his greatest weakness, as with literally tens of thousands of people to appoint and hire, he had no choice but to rely on insiders to help him build his administration, resulting in deep staters and Trump haters that had to be rooted out after their sabotage.
I pray that SCOTUS recognizes the gravity of what is at stake here. Unless a very high percentage of Americans are very confident in the validity of the election, we are in for chaos. The media is not trustworthy; big tech is in censorship mode. The only process that can result in acceptance by the losing side is an adversarial process of reviewing the votes in contested states with a reasonable framework for observing and objecting to questionable votes, similar to Bush v. Gore in 2000. Dems will not agree to this and have intentionally sabotaged the chain of custody and basic safeguards. IMO, SCOTUS needs to invalidate the elections in contested states where fraud may plausibly have changed the outcome.
I am deriving a new wave of optimism as I watch the comedy of errors in Georgia today. Too bad I canceled cable, I would love to see how CNN and FoxNews are spinning the Judge ordering the computers to be retained. Then, they rescinded and I'm sure it was a grotesque orgy of Orange Man Bad. Then he writes a pissed off order and reinstates the injunction!
I love your response and I absolutely agree that SCOTUS is critical to the road out of this mess.
I think you might be underestimating the difficulty of overcoming the psychologic barriers preventing the comfortable citizen from waking from their stupor. It reminds me of the Revolutionary War, where most Americans sided with the Brits. None of the rape, quartering, plundering, forced impression was enough to wake them up. Once the war was won, and comfort dictated acceptance that the Brits are bad and Yankees are good, then they made the switch. If the Brits had prevailed in 1812, most Americans would have switched and said - Yankees bad, Brits good.