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Johnny-O's avatar

Our politics has been inverted in the past five years. Up is down and left is right. Insane times. I just hope enough can see that both parties are shysters and we need to dump them both.

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Mom of 5's avatar

Pretty sure that it is just US versus THEM. They had everyone confused about who “US” is. But I think Substack is helping “US” figure that out.

BTW, I lean Republican and I am uncertain of many of those politicians lately. Maybe this red pill is for all of “US”?

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daverkb's avatar

Yes! The same here. And so very important to discern the 'US versus THEM' distinction.

I was the Constitution Party in Virginia, and I worked with a lot of Tea Party Republicans back in the day. And gradually, I came to see how much most of the Establishment Republican orchestraters were really THEM. And a huge part of it was 'what they would not do'. Like being silent and refusing speak against and to stop all the import of UN communist agenda into the country. And refusing to stop Fed/State law harmonization in bills being 'promoted' in Virginia's General Assembly. And this is pretty starkly shockingly horrible, most of legislature elected officials were being played most of the time. That is, a lot of the delegates and senators swallowed wholesale the Big Lie being sold to us all.

I remember one time I testified in committee that a 'stream' (springs, streams, rivers) bill did not give Virginia sovereignty over all 'stream' like the bill purported and that it was really a Fed/EPA/States law harmonization bill (think Unistate incorporation). The committee chairman (a Republican as it happens) looked around the room and singled out a man (probably a lawyer/lobbyist) and asked, "Is he right?" And the guy said, "Yes." This happened at the time I was beginning to catch on that a lot of these elected people really don't know what the deuce is going on. Yes, they know the Narrative, the words, the dog and pony show but not the truth about what is going on behind the curtain.

US and THEM! Highly important! And the who, what, when and why of it that makes the difference.

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Mom of 5's avatar

Agreed. I have watched local hearings during the covid era-usually vaccine or covid policy related-and would realize that these politicians did not completely understand the subject matter or they would accept the mainstream narrative without any critical thought.

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daverkb's avatar

Yeah! It's like the plane is flying on autopilot ... mindless, not brains ... and all reflexive narrative. It all a bad, maybe worse than ... Drag Queen Story Hour (aka Fairy Land).

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David A's avatar

Do you think it was just incompetence, of that possibly the Tea Party was infiltrated , like possibly Project Veritas, or Front-line Doctors?

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daverkb's avatar

Infiltrated? It's a murky word these days and how it's approached shades any derived contextual meaning. The short answer is that everything is penetrated and watched these days. As to the Tea Parties, the state and local elected officials had the Tea Parties under a microsope. Also ... Lois Lerner's, director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service, attack on the Tea Parties told us that Federal derived power wanted the Tea Parties destroyed. In fact, it was both wings of the Uniparty which wanted the Tea Parties gone. Republicans played a double game. They pretended to be friends, but worked against the Tea Parties behind the scenes in usually non-obvious ways. And really, it has been 5th Generation Warfare against the people, all of us, and all along. Looking back to the time when I was chairman Constitution Party locally and vice-chair of the Constitution Party of Virginia, roughly 2008 to 2013, I would say that this was the case ... only we did not fully understand the full extent of what we were against.

The Tea Parties were their own best worst enemies. They had no idea of what they were against nor how things really worked ... and they were fooled all the time. This, of course, doesn't mean their efforts were worthless, just ultimately highly ineffective. They did not know whom to attack or how to frame the attack. They were continually caught in the snare of that fake 'I'm a conservative' or he's a 'conservative' candidate syndrome. During the time I was active, the Tea Parties people had in fact captured control of three quarters of the Republican county committees up and down the western Valley of Virginia and this alarmed the Republican elites. Yes, the Tea Parties actually controlled the base party but did not, could not parley that new power base into candidates counter the Deep State/Central Banking/Foreign sources of control which were day and night doing us in. Thus, the Tea Parties were like cats in a wet paper bag who could not fight their way out. As to all of this, 'my people perish for a lack of knowledge' is as true today as when uttered thousands of years ago ... and as we read in Scripture.

Incompetence by source is multi-faceted. First, there is knowing competence (according to the beholder's grounding), knowing incompetence ... and plain full throttle getting duped and/or played. I'll only say that most people live continuously in The Matrix (to varying degrees) ... and therefore continuously get play (to varying degrees). But it is also true that a lot of us in the Western populations now have a much higher degree of awareness today than say anywhere from three to ten or more years ago. Let's just hope its enough to save the ship from running into the shoals and floundering. And yes, the Walk-Away of upwards of three quarters of the non-Western world is a new factor in the equation and bears close consideration, study and watching. Already, Walk-Aways has altered the planetary chessboard in way barely imagined two, three or so years ago. Walk-Away and changes in the monetary system of trade/exchange settlement may do more for us than we might be able to do for ourselves and/or offer new opportunities to push back against the Terror States now pushing the jackboot down upon our poor little necks.

What is agin us is Epic Evil, potentially destructive and evil in ways truly staggering and yet still under appreciated by the general run of Mankind. There is much on our plates.

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