- Left wing violence, riots, looting and autonomous zones are called "peaceful". But conservatives marching are vilified as "racist" and "violent".
- A violent criminal who is killed by cops gets marches and murals. But if you speak about those same criminals in a less than flattering way it's hate speech.
- BLM and antifa burning American flags is ok. But the proud boys burning a BLM banner is a hate crime.
- There are mountains of evidence of corruption and election fraud but they are ignored by the courts and media. But you'll be banned from social media for talking about it.
- The election with "fraud" written all over it is called "the most secure election in history" by the MSM. This is gaslighting 101.
- They accuse Trump of everything Biden is guilty of. But Biden is protected by the media.
- A senile old man with dementia who couldn't get 100 people at a rally got 80 million votes in the election. If you don't believe it you're a conspiracy nutter.
- The party with the most popular and loved president in the last 100 years chose to work against him.
- Big tech CEOs have proven themselves to be more powerful than than the president by censoring and banning him.
- If you march in protest the media will call you the bad guy. If you get killed, the media will either ignore it or say you deserved it.
Everything is inverted.
The bad guys won. They have everything now: the government, the courts, media, big tech.
They are now in a position to recreate America in their image. And nobody can stop them. You can't vote them out because votes don't matter. They'll just conjure them from thin air and give the election to the candidate of their choosing. But it will be called a secure election and the MSM and social media will play along. No more elections.
Any talk of a 1776 style revolution to take back the country is a LARP. It cannot happen. And imo it's a blessing in disguise because any attempt at a revolution will produce nothing other than a pile of dead patriots. The very idea of small rag tag groups of rebels today defeating a much larger and better equipped army is a fantasy from the world of cinema and video games. It happened in the past but that was during simpler times when hi-tech weapons and surveillance systems did not exist.
It's over. There's no holding the line anymore.
You're being extremely reductive, but sure. It definitely is over. My sincere advice would be to find meaning elsewhere. If prisoners serving life sentences can achieve zen, if music can be composed in Auschwitz, then you can find joy in the world you're waking up in today.
"How else can you find joy in a joyless place except by realizing that you are not there?"
It's true, we are more than this little clay we seem to inhabit on this ball of mud. With the horrific theater in front of us, I forgot that often times. Thanks for the reminder.
The funny this is that it takes so little to pull yourself out of the fatalistic mindset, though it often seems like a monumental task. Take a nice walk, paint some watercolors, try cooking a new recipe, call a friend or relative on the phone that you haven't spoken with in a while, turn your phone off and watch a good move.
The screens are very persuasive and clearly designed to bombard us with mind-numbingly bad news (regardless of where your politics lay). But it's not representative of the greater reality, which is something we control.