I was speaking to a keen observer of the situation two nights ago, and he made a very interesting observation. He said the ruling class made three fundamental foul ups in three years. One they might have gotten away with as a mistake. Two they could have excused as a misfortune. It was the third that did them in.
What are these profound errors in judgment?
First, they panicked the entire population that a deadly germ was everywhere that required the suspension of all normal life, including your right to hold weddings, graduations, funerals, and parties. Church was banned. Travel was restricted. You could not even collect rent from the tenant in the basement. And they flooded the economy with money as a justification.
But in the end, it turned out that the virus, which is very real and probably lab-created with U.S. tax dollars, obeyed the logic of viruses. It was not very deadly at all, which is precisely why it was so transmissible. To make everything look worse than it was, they used phony tests, misclassified deaths, subsidized calling anything and everything a COVID death, panicked the population into sickness and death, and even caused deaths with killer hospital protocols.
And they did all this for a virus that, at worst, has an infection fatality rate (IFR) of 0.09 percent for those under the age of seventy. If we knew the flu IFR precisely, which we do not, we could compare. In any case, nothing about the lockdowns achieved anything at all in terms of virus mitigation. That’s an awesome realization as we sit here with high and devastating inflation and dramatically lower household incomes.
Second, they advertised and pushed and compelled their wicked shots under the promise that they would fix the problem. They did not fix the problem. They didn’t do much at all even in the best case. Mostly they had no positive benefit because they did not stop infection or transmission. Still, the powerful vaccine makers got ridiculously rich. This failure was one of the greatest in the history of public health.
Third, and this was the worst of it, they used the manufactured crisis to impose a whole series of other cockamamie demands from their grab bag of crazy goals, including ending fossil fuels, promoting gender dysphoria, imposing ESG/DEI standards on all corporations, surveilling the public, censoring social media, and dramatically expanding government in every area of life.
It was the third point that blew open the rackets of the other two. With that came new doubts about the whole protocol: masking, distancing, Plexiglas, closures, bans, blocks, restrictions, plus media complicity and social-media censorship. Basically, we’ve been sold a wicked bill of goods.
So many people today are saying: enough and no more! And it’s not just about the last three years. If they would do this to us, what else have they been getting away with for years, even decades? It all needs a rethinking, all the way back to 9/11 and even the JFK assassination. Precisely how long has the Deep State been running the United States?
These are burning questions, and asking them has become ever more common. What I used to consider to be kooky is increasingly mainstream and, indeed, entirely plausible. We can no longer rule out conspiracy theories based on where they fit within the normal standards of permissible thought. The unthinkable has become thinkable, even likely.
At the very same time, we are seeing vicious smears against regime opponents, whether it is Ken Paxton, Lauren Boebert, Russell Brand, Kristi Noem, or countless dissident doctors, scientists, and many others. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is dealing with possible assassination attempts while being denied Secret Service protection.
We do seem to be at the brink of something very decisive. The elites are scared out of their wits by the growing realization of many people that we’ve been lied to, robbed, and bludgeoned solely as measures of transferring money and power from us to them.
As an old friend just texted me, our times feel crazy but they might be the calm before the real storm.
Other times in history come to mind, including the American, French, and Russian revolutions. Those can turn out well or horribly depending on exigencies of time and place. My instinct this time is that we are on the right track finally to do something important about the problems in American life. But getting there will not be easy.