To go along with
endorsing a never-ending policy of bailouts, "stimulus packages," and
foreign military adventurism, the establishment of neither major party
questions the assaults on Americans' liberties... the American people
are fed up. Many realized heading into Tuesday that regardless of who
won the presidential election, the status quo would be the real victor.
--Ron Paul at ronpaul.com
The country of
Washington and Madison and the culture of old Europe are as dead to the
modern American as the Rome of Cicero and Augustus was to the medieval
peasant who grazed his herds in the ruins of the Forum.
--Virgil C., comment at amnation.com
VERBATIM
This election year Mitt Romney, a committed and
practicing northeast progressive, lost the presidential election to
Barack Obama, a committed and practicing international Marxist. When
an admitted left-liberal fronts the opposition, it means the regime is
running the opposition. Comparison shopping is useless when they own
both stores and the products within. Some are rightly enraged the votes
and the counts were rigged, at least at the margins, but this has more
to do with entertaining the believers than affecting the outcome. The
fix was in before the first vote was cast. It's all Chicago now.
There's no losing an election the regime wants won.
The statist hardliners win elections because they
know Americans are timid. When frightened—and Americans are frightened
of everything—they back away and the statists advance once again. It's
said Americans imagine themselves the descendents of hardy pioneers.
Pioneers were admirable folks in an admirable era, but truth is they'd
have failed without the textile mills of Burlington or the nail
factories of Wheeling or the rifle makers of Lancaster. In the end
pioneers were settlers, and settlers require industrial support and
lots of it. So did the colonists before them. Colonist to pioneer to
condo committeeman, there's the real story, a devolution embarrassing
to pioneers and stay-at-home yeomen alike.
The schools would be doing the nation a service
if they produced more bullies. Americans are astonishingly
faint-hearted, terrified of the least unpleasantness, which is why they
want everybody to like them and "just get along." And like the proper
hausfrau it aspires to be, America believes the real world is
antiseptic and tidy by nature, merely in need of a diligent
housekeeper. Men who knew better lie on the battlefields of Europe and
Asia while their descendents are suspended from school for pointing
their finger and saying "bang." Perhaps we need to rethink who goes to
the noisy part of future wars.
The regime will likely face a televised revolt
complete with stirring events that will live forever in the annals of
human liberty. But they'll lose and be destroyed in detail because it
will be a sting, an in-house enterprise. They know Americans want an
opposition with a cafeteria and a Rebel of the Month parking space.
Only the regime can provide such a thing, and provide one it will. It's
almost a rule, anything that appears to be as the regime declares it to
be is bogus at a deeper level. It won't be pointless however. People
deluded enough to confuse Mitt Romney with "Seldom Seen" Smith will be
thrilled with a well-produced scam telecast in HD, the better to press the cautionary tale deeply into their minds. The part where common sense used to be.
However, the regime is not like gravity,
something that 'just is'. It can be opposed for real and may well be.
You'll know it's the real thing when you don't see it. Example: during the Korean War of the early 1950s Russian pilots were taking on the US Air Force. The US
government knew it. The Soviet government knew it. The American people
didn't know it. Both sides kept the secret from them, with cooperation
by the news media—deeply captured toadies even then. So it would be with
a real opposition. That's how it works.
A real opposition would likely be a resistance
movement, ultraorthodox and non-confrontational. Imagine the Zealots
informed by 4GW rather than ghost
dancers. Just as no one rang a bell and announced the economic collapse
had begun, so there would be no declaration a genuine resistance was
underway, in fact, its existence would be in doubt until the era was
over, by intent all around. Their doings would be put down as terrorism,
not without cause, just as the Zealots had the Sicarii. If it
materializes, a genuine resistance would eventually dominate substantial
territory and conduct themselves as a parallel, legitimate government
functioning as state agencies and public utilities do now, all but
forcing the regime into the role of an invading or occupation force.
The press is an appendage to the permanent
government. Accept it as such. Nonetheless, should a resistance arise
assume there is covert understanding to be had from their reportage.
Weigh carefully: deaths or disappearances of key figures, catastrophic
failures of infrastructure, implausible 'routine' military exercises,
unlikely retirements and sudden resignations at high levels of
government, weird prohibitions and outlier regulations, serial
transportation mishaps or any similar occurence that happens over and
over, headline news recast or retracted or abandoned in the days
following the event, shortages of common items, or the like.
Life will be all the more unpleasant because
panicky politicians direct the response of the police and military,
and do it badly. This plays into the hands of a resistance. Asymmetrical
warfare relies on big, bureaucratic opponents grossly overreacting
and expending itself in the doing. Think of this when you see video of
high-dollar helicopters firing $70,000 Hellfire anti-armor missiles at
single riflemen in Afghanistan. Add the cost of flying and
maintaining a helicopter, supporting the air crew, supporting and
equipping the ground crew, and the bill for transporting all this to
Afghanistan. Compare it to the cost of putting an Afghan rifleman in
the field and you have the logic of asymmetrical warfare. The rifleman
bleeds on the battlefield, the other
bleeds figuratively but massively, continuously and uncontrollably.
The manic excesses of the "war on terrorism"
would be intensified, tipping ever more Americans into true
rebellion. They know it, it's an accepted side effect. This is usually
talked about in political terms but the practical downside is
significant. Americans are a well armed people even aside from
firearms. For instance, critical nodes are known most intimately by
those who install and maintain them, and it's easier to get thermite or
microcircuitry in Minneapolis than in Mogadishu. If much of the
populace were to participate in small ways the cumulative effect would
unhinge the establishment. DC would
go full retard if countermeasures produced no lasting results.
Imagine a thermostat where the "on" and "off" setting is the same. The
furnace it controls cycles itself to destruction while accomplishing
nothing. So says 4GW theory anyway.
On the other side, it's always a stretch to
believe random violence and willful destruction of wealth is an
honorable thing, it diminishes the perpetrator as well as his opponent.
Resistance outfits also have a history of making unsupportable
demands on the populace. Often they devolve into criminal enterprises
of the basest kind. It's been said as far back as Plato there are no
good crowds, at the least not good for long. Recall the Mafia had
respectable origins.
Take special care when partisan fervor is afoot,
the life of the mind is fully capable of destroying the life of the
body. Recall it was the Zealots who destroyed the food stores of
Jerusalem* to stiffen the people's
resolve during the Roman siege
of the year 70. A much reduced Jerusalem surrendered when the last rat
was eaten. Duh. Core Zealots fell at Masada years later, well fed.
Secular zealots are already among us and their numbers aren't getting
smaller.
It's foolish to turn your back on a bear, if it's in sight
at all
it's too close. That said, all this is improbable. It takes an
industrial grade tinfoil hat to entertain such notions. But history is a
good predictor, if pretty much the only predictor, and there are
parallels to times past.
The so-called Business Plot of 1933
comes to mind.
The venerable formula still applies: risk equals severity times
probability. The severity is about as high as it gets, the probability
is not nothing and appears to be rising. And consider this: the tinfoil
hats may be
underestimating what's coming. Now is the time to
think about these things. The prudent have already achieved something
approaching self sufficiency, well away from crowds. There are no
do-overs.
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