{"id":65654,"date":"2021-05-18T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65654"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:49:36","slug":"now-weve-got-them-right-where-we-want-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65654","title":{"rendered":"Now We\u2019ve Got Them Right Where We Want Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By John Green<\/p>\n<p>Like many Americans, I\u2019ve been in a funk since last November.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s time to shake it off and re-engage.\u00a0 George Washington presided over a series of lost battles and tactical retreats during the American revolution.\u00a0 But each battle (regardless of outcome) weakened the enemy, and led to eventual freedom from monarchical rule.\u00a0 The ruling class has taken an election, but they\u2019ve substantially weakened their position in doing so.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to take stock of our relative positions and move on.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is the left\u2019s position now?\u00a0 They lost seats in Congress.\u00a0 Even more significant, they lost power in state governments. \u00a0These are the same state bodies that\u00a0are going to reapportion congressional districts this year.\u00a0 They\u2019ve exposed their true nature to all Americans.\u00a0 Through their actions over the last year, they\u2019ve revealed themselves to be petty, vindictive, dishonest autocrats.\u00a0 It is not an attractive look. \u00a0They\u2019ve also exposed all of their covert operators.\u00a0 \u00a0The media, tech oligarchs, and faceless bureaucrats have taken sides &#8212; and now we know it.\u00a0 Much of their power came from secrecy, which they no longer have.\u00a0 All of this was sacrificed to drag a demented, racist has-been across the finish line.\u00a0 President Asterisk enters office in the weakest position of any president in recent history.\u00a0 We\u2019re not at the dawn of the left\u2019s ascendancy.\u00a0 They have peaked.\u00a0 They\u2019re spent.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they\u2019re not done fighting, but their strategic position is not something to envy.\u00a0 It\u2019s doubtful they can retain power.<\/p>\n<p>However, what conservatives have is quite formidable.\u00a0 We have over 75 million followers.\u00a0 That number is our floor, not our ceiling.\u00a0 Our ranks are growing every day.\u00a0 The more our ruling class attempts to suppress us, the faster our movement will grow.\u00a0 Remember when the left used to warn us, \u201cDon\u2019t mistreat terrorists.\u00a0 They\u2019ll use it as a recruiting tool.\u201d\u00a0 They were right, and it applies here too.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans control a majority of state governments now.\u00a0 Republicans control 32 upper chambers (versus 18 for Democrats) and 30 lower chambers (versus 19 for Democrats and one TBD in Alaska).\u00a0 Republicans are in the driver\u2019s seat for reapportionment.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been on the receiving end of gerrymandering for a long time.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s their turn.\u00a0 In addition, state and local governments stand as a bulwark against tyranny.\u00a0 My home of Star, Idaho recently declared itself a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0amendment sanctuary, as many other communities across the country have.\u00a0 Sheriffs are beginning to step forward and assert that they will not enforce unconstitutional laws.\u00a0 Our state and local governments have the ability to push back, and many are beginning to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and most importantly, we have the truth on our side.\u00a0 We know the election was compromised.\u00a0 We know the left is trying to impose socialism on us.\u00a0 We know socialism never works.\u00a0 We know we are not a racist country and we can no longer be subdued with name calling.<\/p>\n<p>Many on our side are arguing that the left institutionalized election fraud and we\u2019ll never be able to win an election again.\u00a0 That is simply not true.\u00a0 Elections are controlled by the states, and Republicans control the majority of states.\u00a0 Out of 50 states, the vote was compromised in perhaps six of them.\u00a0 Fraud was only able to tip the election because it was close.\u00a0 As Hugh Hewitt used to say on his radio show, \u201cIf the election isn\u2019t not close, they can\u2019t steal it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/images\/bucket\/2021-01\/226770_5_.png\" alt=\"\" \/>Some argue that now that the Democrats have all of the levers of power, they\u2019ll use the military to subdue us.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure a few Democrats have given that some thought and realized the notion is nonsense.\u00a0 Putting aside the optics of another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/04\/us\/kent-state-shooting-50th-anniversary-trnd\/index.html\">Kent State<\/a>\u00a0massacre, it simply wouldn\u2019t work.\u00a0 Soldiers are not robots. \u00a0They are us.\u00a0 Some would follow their orders, but many would not.\u00a0 So no, military suppression of the citizenry is not an option.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the military for propaganda purposes is an option.\u00a0 The left will try to use it to intimidate us, but it\u2019s all a bluff.\u00a0 The Democrats moved five divisions of soldiers into Washington D.C. for the inauguration.\u00a0 Let me ask this &#8212; does putting on a Kim Jong-un style coronation telegraph confidence or fear?\u00a0 The fact is, our ruling class knows that they\u2019ve overplayed their hand, and they are terrified. \u00a0But beyond a bluff, they\u2019ve got nothing else.\u00a0 If they want to retain power, they have to do it through politics.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what they have to work with.\u00a0 They have a propaganda ministry that sacrificed the last shred of credibility they had in the last election.\u00a0 The legacy media approval rating is bouncing around somewhere between that of Congress and used-car salesmen.\u00a0 They have big-tech oligarchs that went out on a limb and then sawed it off.\u00a0 Google, Facebook, and Twitter are now facing legal challenges from state and foreign governments (bet they didn\u2019t see that coming).\u00a0 They\u2019ve got educational institutions which have been politically indoctrinating our children for generations.\u00a0 But COVID-19 lockdowns and remote learning exposed many parents to the reality of what\u2019s been going on in classrooms. \u00a0It was both eye opening and disturbing.\u00a0 The Democrats have a tenuous grip on political power, and are likely to lose it in the mid-term election.\u00a0 Finally, the left has only minority support from the citizenry.<\/p>\n<p>All we need to do, is keep up the pressure.\u00a0 We need to vote nationally and work locally.\u00a0 Speak over the propaganda by talking to friends and neighbors.\u00a0 Take over school boards.\u00a0 Deprogram our children by talking to them.\u00a0 Engage in local politics.\u00a0 Elect local officials based on a constitutional litmus test.\u00a0 As General George (Washington or Patton &#8212; take your pick) would say, \u201cOkay boys.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got\u2019em outnumbered, exposed, and scared &#8212; Engage!<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2021\/01\/now_weve_got_them_right_where_we_want_them.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2021\/01\/now_weve_got_them_right_where_we_want_them.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}