Winding Up Americans

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man

Winding Up Americans

For the last four years, Americans have become increasingly polarised – divided between Democrat crusaders who are determined to save America from becoming a racist, sexist Nazi dictatorship under Donald Trump, versus Republican crusaders who are determined to save America from becoming a liberal Marxist state under a Democratic reign.

This fervour has become so extreme that families can no longer meet for the holidays without a conversational blow-up. No longer are people “entitled to their opinions.” This has become a crusade between Good and Evil. (“I’m good. You’re evil.”)

The absurd nature of this dichotomy has reached the point that even Dr. Phil is increasing his viewership by featuring disputes between siblings who are on opposite sides of the political divide and are no longer speaking to each other.

At this point, all that remains to be done by the networks would be to air a Red versus Blue television game show in which contestants compete with their own family members to “Win the White House.”

Until November, the great majority of Americans appear to have been hoping that the November election would end this strife one way or the other.

My take on this has been that the opposite would happen after 3rd November. The fireworks would increase exponentially after the election. The election would be hotly contested by whomever was the apparent loser.

This should easily have been foreseen, as the media on the right have insisted for months that the Democrat encouragement for mail-in ballots was a precursor to election fraud.

Similarly, the media on the left have insisted for months that Donald Trump’s suggestion that he may not accept the election results meant that he was planning a coup after he (presumably inevitably) lost the election.

And now, the battle has been met.

It’s been estimated that 93% of all Fox watchers are Republicans and 95% of MSNBC watchers are Democrats. Since neither side watches the other’s news programme, each side is cognizant of only its own team’s heavily slanted rhetoric.

The conservative media is awash with details of voter fraud by Democrats, whilst the liberal media states with equal conviction that Mister Trump and his lawyers have provided no details whatever.

Therefore, those who voted Republican will conclude by watching their own “unbiased” news channel that Democrats have tried to steal the election and thereby steal control of the country.

And those who voted Democrat will conclude by watching their own “unbiased” news channel that Republicans have tried to steal the election and thereby steal control of the country.

But how did this get to be so bad? Americans have not been so wound up – nor so polarised – since 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War.

Indeed, the post-election fervour is as strong as though Fort Sumter had just been fired upon.

More importantly, what will be the outcome?

Will the courts rule against the claims of Mister Trump?

If so, that decision will enrage an already angry right-wing crowd, refusing to vacate the White House and defending it against the pinko mob.

Or will the courts rule in favour of Mister Trump?

If so, that decision will unleash nationwide riots, intent on bringing down the evil dictator.

Either way, we can anticipate that the US will be in flames. If for any reason the level of strife is insufficient, those with deep pockets will hire squads of shills as mercenary soldiers.

The populace will be in terror. Republican voters will beg the federal government to bring in the troops to contain Antifa and the BLM mob.

Democratic voters will beg the federal government to bring in the troops to quell the Republican militias.

In such an upheaval, the one thing both sides will have in common is that they will both beg for the creation of a police state.

And the federal government will answer that call. Martial law would be declared, possibly as a “temporary measure,” until normalcy has returned.

But what if normalcy does not return? What if pockets of violence continue to pop up all over the map with regularity?

If that occurs, martial law would need to continue for as long as it was deemed necessary, which would be likely to translate into a permanent police state.

At one time, the media was for the most part impartial and benign, but in recent decades it has been bought out by four large corporations. And some of those corporations own and direct both liberal and conservative networks, which would seem to be at odds with each other.

However, they are not. Today, the objective of the media is not to offer news. It is to create strife – to pit one half of the electorate against the other. In doing so, the ruling elite have the justification to lock down the entire USA under martial law.

Once that has been accomplished, the elite may do as they please. As in all countries where a police state has been achieved – such as Nazi Germany, Mao’s China or Stalin’s Russia – once military control has been put into place nationwide, meaningful protest ends.

In each of the above cases, the populace was whipped up into a frenzy of hate and violence against the Jews or the aristocracy or whatever other demon had been invented. But the real objective and the result were the subjugation of the populace.

The American populace has been programmed like windup toys, with the ruling elite winding up the keys on their backs as tightly as they will go. When the levers are released, Americans will act dramatically and, in many cases, blindly.

At this point, it’s not too late for people to stand back, take a deep breath and ask themselves if they’re not being conned into their own subjugation. But it would appear that they’ve been wound up so tightly that such objectivity is unlikely to occur.

However, if they do not, they risk losing what remains of their once-proud democracy.

Editor’s Note: Economically, politically, and socially, the United States seems to be headed down a path that’s not only inconsistent with the founding principles of the country, but accelerating quickly toward boundless decay.

In the years ahead, there will likely be much less stability of any kind.

That’s exactly why New York Times bestselling author Doug Casey and his team just released an urgent new report titled Doug Casey’s Top 7 Predictions for the Raging 2020s.

Click here to download the free PDF now.

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MrLiberty
MrLiberty

There is certainly no doubt that both sides of the aisle use the supposed differences between the parties (not that different when you really get down to it) to divide us all and guarantee support, regardless of how crappy the candidate is (eg. Romney, McShitstain, Dole, Hillary, Biden, etc.). That being said, it is NOT fantasy that there exist two disparate groups in this country that are at odds with each other because of the use of violence, specifically government violence. Orwell used the dichotomy of authoritarians and libertarians, I have used the terms hosts and parasites, and Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute recently did a talk using the dichotomy of Imposers and Imposed upon.

Those who would rather keep their own money, be able to use their property as they see fit, live their lives as they see fit, and would rather have nothing to do with government or its power over their lives and their freedoms, have EVERY RIGHT to be pissed off at the rest of society that is more than happy to vote in favor of the violence of government to be used on their behalf (or on behalf of their delusional utopian vision).

The problem is that there are still a lot of folks on BOTH sides of the aisle who haven’t yet figured out that government is the root cause of ALL of the problems they are quick to point out. With both major parties in love with big government (in one form or another), neither is willing to actually expose that truth or do anything about it (really).

Anonymous
Anonymous

the rest of society that is more than happy to vote in favor of the violence of government to be used on their behalf

And we should put a stop to it by having Trump declare martial law
/sarc off

rhs jr
rhs jr

If the Communist are allowed to steal the White House, they will implement policies that increasingly enslave the Deplorables; there will be no respite under TPTSNB.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

The scenario Jeff Thomas paints only occurs if Trump remains President. With Donald in the White House the Antifa stormtroopers will certainly strive to burn their blue cities down to show their displeasure. But if Biden is President, the non-Progressives will not ignite a violent firestorm. The sensible, middle part of the country just doesn’t behave that way.

I suspect stealthy civil disobedience to federal and progressive authorities is more likely the outcome if Joe is President.

Just Thinking
Just Thinking

My thought as well, Trapped.

I would guess that most who didn’t “vote” for Biden will just go on with their lives and make the best of it.

There may be some public push back but, like the Obama years, it be mostly manufactured garbage, to be blown way out of proportion by the MSM.

I don’t see Fox as being that much different from the others or that that many people watch them exclusively. I haven’t looked in a while, but last I heard, they are shedding viewers, like most of the large cable opinion broadcasters.

Most Trump supporters are neither inclined nor organized for that kind action.

Non-compliance, as with the China virus stuff, works. For those who choose it.

grace country pastor

“This has become a crusade between Good and Evil. (“I’m good. You’re evil.”)”

Only one realization corrects this awful trajectory and few are willing to go there.

Romans 3:12 KJB… “They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”

Commie killer
Commie killer

What “conservative media” are you talking about? Fox News isn’t even conservative.
“Those with deep pockets will hire squads of shills as mercenary soldiers.”
Yeah, Leftists have plenty of billionaires to fund such “squads.”
Name the “deep pocket” conservatives that will fund mercenaries. You’re delusional.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Any “soldiers” from the right will be purely a grass roots event. With no organization and no leader, it will be hard to take them out, but without leadership and coordination will they be effective? Keep your tools clean and your powder dry.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The state of “being wound up” entirely deals with your “reward system”. Everyone is riding the hedonistic treadmill. The more the stress increases from current affairs the more people dive deeper into their addiction of choice. Drugs, Alcohol, Porn, Caffeine, Sex, Masturbation, anything that will change their frame of mind and make themselves fell better. In doing so they add more stress, increase anxiety, and open themselves up to neurological disorders and depression which will eventually lead to suicide. Going to big pharma doesn’t help, because all the medication prescribed increases dopamine supply and you will feel “better” for a short time. Then it will stop working and you will have to change medication which will never end. If you want to ease stress stop or taper off super stimulating activities and give your mind a break. You will find that the less you do these things the more grounded, self confident, and happier you will become. Discipline is freedom.

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