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The mid-term election results, sadly, look as mediocre for Republicans as before:

Well, that was disheartening, dispiriting, and demoralizing. We went into the party with a president with some of the lowest approval ratings in history and Americans (at least according to the polls) focused like lasers on issues that could be chalked up to Democrat policy failures; namely, inflation and crime. And yet Republicans are hanging on by a thread and, as of this writing, it’s still possible that Democrats will retain their majority in the House and gain a full majority in the Senate. If that happens, the American experiment is over, and the Marxist experiment truly begins.

So, how did we get here?

In a way, the easiest answer is that our election system is completely corrupt. It’s easy to blame the GOP for letting that happen, but Mollie Hemingway reminds us that a corrupt judge and a 40-year-long consent decree meant that, beginning in 1981, “The RNC had been prohibited by law from helping with poll watcher efforts or nearly any voting-related litigation.”

That 40-year period gave the Democrats the ability to lay the groundwork for a fortress of election corruption. Then, thanks to COVID, the Democrats were able to build high walls for that fortress, walls built from mail-in ballots, drop boxes, ballot harvesting, drivers licenses for illegal aliens, no ID for actual elections, endless pre-elections and, most importantly, machines that can be gamed.

Unfortunately, there's a very valid point here. Many RINOs are also to blame, along with news commentators who turned out to be charlatans. And of course, failures to maintain vigilant and realist positions. I've said before, and will again, that anybody in the past who scoffed and said, "it couldn't happen in the US" is exactly why it did.

A few days before, Auguste Meyrat reviewed a new book by radio host Kurt Schlichter, "We'll be Back: the Fall and Rise of America", where he ponders whether the USA could collapse in the worst ways possible:

Although entertaining on its own, Schlichter’s crash course in classical history has a deeper point that applies to today. Like Rome, America will fall, but this fall won’t be anything sudden or even perceptible to most people. He explains that America’s fall will probably “be a transformational change. … The old ways can simply stop meeting the needs of the present, and something different replaces them.” For the past three decades, Schlichter charts the mounting corruption of the American government, the departure from constitutional limits, and the growing unrest among Americans, particularly conservatives. Even if these problems are fixed, the system will be different than it was in the early ’90s.

Even though President Trump turned away from this apparent trajectory somewhat, Schlichter acknowledges that Trump’s administration suffered from personnel issues for his first two years, and then was sunk by Covid-19 and trusting the experts. Now, “when Biden was sort-of elected, the Democrats pushed hard as they could to the left even though the voters had seen fit to literally provide them the barest imaginable legislative majority.” Consequently, certain checks on political abuses like the Electoral College, election integrity measures, the filibuster, and the authority of elected officials (vs. unelected technocrats) are being challenged or eliminated.

This brings Schlichter to today’s precious present in which an ascendent leftist elite imposes its will on a resistant population. Indeed, the global response to Covid offered a taste of this, as national governments stripped populations of most of their freedoms in the name of public health. What distinguishes the U.S. from other nations, however, is that Americans have the right to bear arms. For Schlichter, this is the ultimate check on power: “They [Americans] understand that the decision to allow or disallow any act by the government ultimately resides with themselves.”

This leads him to think that a time will come soon when violence breaks out. He grants that quite a few things will need to happen before this happens: “What this [a civil war] means is that for America to reach a state of tyranny, there must not only be massive and systemic violations but, simultaneously, the elimination of any meaningful ability to address those wrongs, either under the Constitution or otherwise.” So long as Americans can vote out tyrants or overrule them through the other branches of government, then resorting to arms will not be necessary. Sadly, there’s good reason to think that such recourses may not exist in the near future, leaving the possibility of civil war on the table.

Yes, that's tragically a likelihood, the worst part being the left in the USA doubtless wants it that way. Also noted in the review is that China's influence is another something to worry about. With the way things are going, it's a sad conclusion that too will have a bad impact in the future.

Bad tidings are surely looming in north America, and the signs are all about.

Labels: anti-americanism, China, Moonbattery, political corruption, RINOs, United States, US Congress