By\u00a0J.B. Shurk
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n
Sometimes it feels as if we are drowning in a torrent of bad news.\u00a0\u00a0I would suggest, however, that the worse people feel, the more they are waking up to the serious contests of our time.\u00a0\u00a0If you are unhappy with the political, economic, and social powers manipulating the world today, the critical first step in fighting those forces is changing the way people think about them.\u00a0\u00a0By that measure, people today are changing their minds about the culture and institutions around them faster than ever.\u00a0\u00a0Consider some of these fundamental shifts in thinking:<\/p>\n
(1)\u00a0Good vs. evil<\/em><\/p>\n Not long ago, it was common for conservatives to see the Marxist left as foolishly mistaken \u2014 a collection of young and inexperienced troublemakers who would eventually “snap out” of their common delusions once forced to confront reality.<\/p>\n Now people understand that the left’s real mission is to reject reality.\u00a0\u00a0Castrating boys<\/a>\u00a0so that they can pretend to be girls is not “healthy.”\u00a0\u00a0Perpetuating\u00a0racism<\/a>\u00a0as social policy is not “justice.”\u00a0\u00a0Imposing a “woke” State religion over personal conscience is not “moral.”\u00a0\u00a0Aiding and abetting<\/a>\u00a0child sex\u2013trafficking and drug-smuggling at our borders is not “compassionate.”\u00a0\u00a0Stealing property is not “equitable.”\u00a0\u00a0Just as with Leninism and\u00a0Maoism<\/a>\u00a0before, today’s leftism is evil.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0Parties vs. uniparty<\/em><\/p>\n There has been a seismic shift in the way Republican voters see political parties.\u00a0\u00a0After Obama forced government-controlled health care on America, the Tea Party movement began a desperate fight against socialism’s advances.\u00a0\u00a0From the energy of that movement, Republicans eventually took back the House and Senate.\u00a0\u00a0Despite those triumphs, Paul Ryan rubber-stamped Obama’s budgets, while refusing to build Trump’s border wall.\u00a0\u00a0McConnell’s Senate Republicans, who had run on repealing Obamacare, cemented socialized medicine with McCain’s decisive betrayal.<\/p>\n Grassroots voters finally rejected Establishment Republicans and catapulted outsider Donald Trump into office.\u00a0\u00a0In response, Republicans quietly assisted Democrats in their attempt to remove Trump through the Russia hoax.\u00a0\u00a0In the space of a decade, most Republican officeholders were outed as RINOs, before voters properly concluded that they were actually part of a single D.C. Uniparty all along.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0Science vs. political manipulation<\/em><\/p>\n The only good thing to come out of the government’s COVID lockdowns, forced medical experimentation, and masking theater was its inadvertent creation of a\u00a0Eureka!<\/em>\u00a0moment for tens of millions of Americans who realized that “science” has become irredeemably politicized.\u00a0\u00a0When health authorities opted for experimental injections over known medical treatments, they sacrificed lives to push an agenda.\u00a0\u00a0When hospitals\u00a0separated families<\/a>\u00a0and forced vulnerable patients onto ventilators, they acted inhumanely.\u00a0\u00a0When politicians and corporations censored public dissent, destroyed livelihoods, hobbled childhood development, and terrified the public with known lies, they not only proved that objective science is dead, but also committed crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n (4)\u00a0Self-determination vs. global government<\/em> Just as “RINO” and “Uniparty” have entered our lexicon as profanities, so too has “globalism.”\u00a0\u00a0Without respect for the Constitution’s express prohibitions or the American public’s wishes, Deep State bureaucrats and politicians continue to surrender national sovereignty to the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Fund, and their globalist brethren.\u00a0\u00a0Americans have lost their self-determination and are now ruled by an alliance of spy agencies, central banks, multinational corporations, and transnational interest groups posing as charities.\u00a0\u00a0In order to thwart a hegemonic\u00a0global aristocracy<\/a>, citizens must defend their national interests.<\/p>\n (5)\u00a0Elections vs. selections<\/em><\/p>\n Every presidential election this century has been tainted by allegations of fraud.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of remedying this public perception, election officials and courts have made things worse.\u00a0\u00a0Voting has turned into a months-long affair that begins before candidates have even debated and often extends many weeks past Election “Day.”\u00a0\u00a0Electronic voting machines remain vulnerable to hacks.\u00a0\u00a0Mail-in balloting devoid of fundamental security, identity checks, or signature verification has transformed contests into ballot-stuffing fraud-fests orchestrated by paid political operatives.\u00a0\u00a0Secretaries of state refrain from enforcing election law; attorneys general refrain from prosecuting crimes; courts rewrite statutory law to tilt elections.\u00a0\u00a0Battleground states routinely suffer from inexplicable counting problems that delay the timely reporting of results.\u00a0\u00a0Vote-counting lacks transparency and reproducibility.\u00a0\u00a0When lawyers attempt to challenge results, their professional licenses are often threatened.\u00a0\u00a0Americans\u00a0overwhelmingly believe<\/a>\u00a0that election cheating is pervasive.<\/p>\n (6)\u00a0Free speech vs. propaganda<\/em><\/p>\n Western governments are so terrified of losing control over their citizens that they attack freedom of speech as a threat to their continued monopolies over information.\u00a0\u00a0Words and ideas are now labeled as “hateful” whenever they contradict official State dogma.\u00a0\u00a0Debate and argument are censored as “misinformation” so as to stifle dissent.\u00a0\u00a0Corporations and bureaucrats have anointed themselves as high priests for assessing “truth” or “disinformation.”\u00a0\u00a0Their anti-Enlightenment efforts to smother freethinking have exposed the political Establishment as mere propagandists and bullies.<\/p>\n (7)\u00a0Money vs. control<\/em><\/p>\n More and more people realize that free markets cannot exist alongside central banks that engage in rank manipulation of the economy.\u00a0\u00a0Fiat currencies unbacked by precious metals are dying.\u00a0\u00a0While private investment bankers and multinational corporations have benefited generously,\u00a0central bank policies<\/a>\u00a0have destroyed ordinary Americans’ economic security.\u00a0\u00a0Before the privately run Federal Reserve came into existence, Americans’ intergenerational social mobility was the highest in the world.\u00a0\u00a0A century after its creation, income inequality has never been higher.\u00a0\u00a0Now, in order to avert a looming\u00a0economic Armageddon<\/a>\u00a0caused by a century of profligate spending, private banks and coercive governments seek to force everyone into a surveillance system based on central bank digital currencies.\u00a0\u00a0Until we free our money from government control, totalitarian governments will use money to enslave the people.<\/p>\n (8)\u00a0Impartial justice vs. targeted persecution<\/em><\/p>\n There is no faster way to destroy trust in a nation’s institutions than to use the criminal justice system as a machine for targeting political enemies.\u00a0\u00a0Yet that is exactly what the FBI, the Department of (in)Justice, and their unethical allies donning black robes, have done.\u00a0\u00a0In any country suffering from corruption, a telltale sign is when agency heads choose to rebuke ordinary citizens for no longer having faith in the system.\u00a0\u00a0A healthy system, in contrast, never fears public challenge.\u00a0\u00a0The people, upon whose consent government legitimacy rests, have a duty to call out corruption.\u00a0\u00a0Consider it an admission of guilt, then, when\u00a0FBI director Wray<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Attorney General Garland<\/a>\u00a0condemns Americans for correctly noticing their two-tiered application of “justice.”<\/p>\n (9)\u00a0Republic vs. empire<\/em><\/p>\n As Mark Twain succinctly\u00a0noted<\/a>, “America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.”\u00a0\u00a0It did not work for the Romans, and it has not worked for American citizens since the end of WWII.\u00a0\u00a0The U.S. Constitution severely limits the powers of the federal government while maximizing the powers of the states and the people.\u00a0\u00a0Congress alone has the power to declare war.\u00a0\u00a0The vast administrative bureaucracy has been divined from thin air.\u00a0\u00a0The states have no obligation to obey the federal government when it acts unconstitutionally.\u00a0\u00a0D.C. has transformed its limited powers into a\u00a0global juggernaut<\/a>\u00a0beyond accountability.\u00a0\u00a0In the process, Americans’ inherent rights and liberties have been\u00a0abandoned<\/a>.<\/p>\n (10)\u00a0Civil war vs. revolution for independence<\/em><\/p>\n As Americans have come to terms with these revelations, they have also realized something else: the federal government spends an awful lot of time and resources dividing Americans against one another.\u00a0\u00a0Should ordinary citizens ever seek to reclaim their liberties, that future conflict will resemble not America’s regional Civil War, but rather the Revolutionary War’s struggle against government tyranny.<\/p>\n We are living through a combustible era in which common Establishment illusions shatter daily.\u00a0\u00a0Paradigm shifts in the way people see their world advance in short years, rather than over decades or centuries.\u00a0\u00a0Is this\u00a0revolution of the mind<\/a>\u00a0uncomfortable?\u00a0\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0\u00a0It is also the quintessential feature of every great awakening.<\/p>\n Image: WolfBlur via\u00a0Pixabay<\/a>,\u00a0Pixabay License<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ssl-intgr-net\/tags\/7_74_19.gif\")
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