Control, Coercion, and Collapse

By Tim (xrugger) Stebbins

It has been quite some time since I have written anything at all, let alone any commentary on the madness engulfing my country. I’d like to think that I’ve been suffering from a form of writer’s block, but that would saddle my psyche with the presumption that I am a writer. Perhaps I possess some small talent, but my efforts in the area of commentary are erratic at best. Prolific I am not. That being said, what follows is a re-write of a previous post blended with a previous comment. Both seem appropriate to the current state of affairs in this fractured nation. I leave it in the hands and heart of the reader to decide its value.

Control and Coercion

The political spectrum in this, or any nation, is not linear, it is circular. Choose any point and call it the middle, now travel to the “far left” or the “far right.” You will find yourself at the same stopping point.  There is no “far left” or “far right,” as we commonly think of the terms. The “far left” and “far right” paradigm should be more properly perceived as a sort of political singularity. Whatever currently “acceptable” label they wear is irrelevant. They stand on the same ground and are equally destructive of human liberty. The spectrum is circular and revolves around a central core. That core is made up of two things: Control and Coercion.

The historical era does not matter, nor does the particular milieu in which any given political system arises. The political spectrum is always and only about control and coercion. Apply whatever political labels you please, control and coercion remain the twin suns around which the myriad of arbitrarily labeled political systems swirl. The American experiment, while uniquely conducive to the blessings of ordered liberty, is still a political system subject to the same defining characteristics. To be fair, it is an experiment based on the concerted efforts of the Founders to place limits on how control and coercion are exercised in the political and social arena. Our nation was, and is, an experiment to test the ability of fallible humans to fashion a society and culture impervious to the control of tyrants and the coercion of deviants…and we are failing spectacularly.

Who gets to be in control and for how long? How and when is control established? Who gets controlled and how much control is exercised? These are the important questions. How control is established and maintained is the function of coercion. Since some type or variation of coercion is required to establish and maintain control, who gets to hold and use the instruments of force is of paramount importance. Are the instruments of force overt or subtle? Whether control flows from a constitutionally mandated judicial system or a kangaroo court, it is still control and control is, by its very nature, coercive. Attempts to control a system or a population must ultimately be backed up by the latent threat or actual use of some level of force.

It is no accident that the worst tyrannies of the modern age were predicated on removing the instruments of force from the hands of those to be controlled and giving a deadly monopoly on those instruments into the hands of those who lust to have the whip hand over the mass of the people.

It matters not whether it is the Nazis, Fascists, and Communists of the past, the SJW’s, Cultural Marxists, and transgender lunatics of the present, or some unknowable label applied to some nameless faction of the future. The central contest will always be about one thing: Whose hands will most ardently and completely hold the instruments of control and coercion. The butcher Mao Zedong said it best, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The label that history affixes to those who seek control over others changes all the time. The level of “success” they achieve determines the longevity of those labels. It appears that the greater the slaughter done in its name, the more persistent the label. The label is remembered. The slaughter is not.

One of the salient differences between the United States and other countries (past and present) is that the instruments of force-by accident of history and geography-wound up largely in the hands of the people before there were any governments large enough or close enough to say any different. This was a fact long before the Founders enshrined that fait accompli in the Constitution. There are forces in this country and in the world, however, which would dearly love to change that reality.

The millions that have been murdered in the name of this or that “ism” did not die at the hands of an “ism.” They died at the hands of a human being who possessed a weapon and was willing to use it. The dead either did not possess the means of their own defense, or they were convinced that they should not defend themselves. They were just as dead either way. Millions will suffer the same fate in the name of future “isms.”

The central question remains. Will we voluntarily give up the means of our own defense. Will we let some “ism” convince us that we have no right to defend ourselves. Will we allow a monopoly on the instruments of force to rest in the hands of those who march under the blood red banner of some innocuous-sounding political label? That banner has been dyed red with the blood of millions who did just that. If I’m called a “Nazi” or a “Fascist,” should I throw up my hands, throw down my gun and give up? Will I let evil wear the mask of good and browbeat me and those I love into wearing some imaginary scarlet letter? Call me what you will. If you come for me and mine, you will not find a willing victim.

I pledge allegiance to no banner. I wear no political label and subscribe to no dogma invented by man. I am free because it is my nature. My God created me that way. To be truly free is to understand that we are sojourners on this unhappy world. It is a sad commentary on man that our very nature as free creatures must always and forever be defended tooth and nail against the depredations of the human scum that seek to bestride the world. Power does indeed “grow out of the barrel of a gun.” So too does freedom.

Collision and Collapse

When control and coercion finally fail, the remaining free men of this nation will come into violent collision with the brainwashed janissaries of the tyranny now ascendant. Then the maelstrom into which we are descending will reveal itself to even the most indoctrinated. When American society comes crashing down, we will see how incredibly thin was the civilized veneer that allowed us to think that our culture was anything other than a rapidly decaying gangrenous clot of wishful thinking and false premises.

All of the social and cultural unicorns currently prancing across the national stage will be revealed for the mythical creatures they are. One of the first to be eviscerated will be the completely silly notion of male/female equality. Men and women are indeed complimentary, but the myth of male/female equality is the true social construct. It does not exist in any objective sense. When the real fun starts, the screeching, finger-wagging termagants currently lecturing the nation will quickly realize that their ability to keep themselves from becoming sex slaves and scullery maids will be directly proportional to the moral qualities and physical abilities of the men with whom they associate.  The waddling cohorts of pierced, tattooed, foul-mouthed harridans currently assaulting the eyes and ears of the nation will not survive for long on the other side of the world that is coming. They and their pussified, mincing, lisping, rubber-wristed, “male,” auxiliaries will be ground to pixie dust under the weight of reality reasserting itself.

The same fate awaits the mentally ill minions of the so-called transgender movement. This lunatic assembly of freaks will soon find themselves on the business end of various blunt instruments wielded by mothers and fathers fed up with the drugging and butchery of their children. The crimes against humanity perpetrated by this most diabolical of cults will suffer the righteous retribution that is the due and payable price for the evil they have done. The damage inflicted on our culture by these purveyors of chaos and confusion is difficult to calculate. The insanity of it will cease when ordinary men and women refuse to be cowed any longer by the bluster of the mentally ill deviants who currently control the narrative.

The onrushing barbarism of the coming age will slash the fantasy world of the SJW’s and their enablers into bloody ribbons. The entire array of sexual silliness, which endlessly assaults the senses of normal men and women, will vanish like a puff of smoke in a howling wind. It will be as if it never existed.  The destruction of the culture that has produced all this lunacy will not be pretty; something akin to cutting away the rotting flesh of a long-festering wound, but it has to happen to allow for the follow-on healing and rebuilding.

I, for one, will not lament the demise of all the diseased philosophies that have been allowed to thrive in this dying country, nor will I shed a tear over the destruction of those that have embraced them. That is, of course, assuming that me and mine make it through to the other side and get to see what’s next. Finally…maybe…a nation where vice is held in check by virtue, a country where freaks and weirdos are considered to be…well…freaks and weirdos. Perhaps when the howling of the perpetually aggrieved is finally silenced and the lunatic cadres of the deviant elite are in the ground or hanging above it, perhaps then we may once again know a period of peace.

When will all these things come to pass? Who knows. I’ve been reading about it for years, but things just keeping chugging along getting worse and worse. The important thing to know is that all the deviancy, all the intellectual dishonesty, moral turpitude, political chicanery, and economic stupidity will end. I’ve said it before. We are not special. We will not escape the ravages of history.

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