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The Fracturing Of America:
A Weak Government, Complicit Media, And Radical Silicon Valley Might Have Finally Set It All Off
Sure, our leaders in Washington, cowering from death behind COVID masks and ideologically vetted Guardsmen, might be convinced of their own power, but is Jeff Bezos?
Weak Government, Complicit Media, Silicon Valley Are Torching America (thefederalist.com) A Weak Government, Complicit Media, And Radical Silicon Valley Might Have Finally Set It All Off
Sure, our leaders in Washington, cowering from death behind COVID masks and ideologically vetted Guardsmen, might be convinced of their own power, but is Jeff Bezos?
22 Jan 2021 ~~ By Christopher Bedford
Wednesday marked the four-year anniversary of the Capitol Inauguration Day riots.
That day, cars were set ablaze, rioters blocked a bridge. There were well more than 200 arrests and dozens of injuries.
Violence had taken a few months to get to Washington, but the country had been watching as masked wanna-be revolutionaries terrorized the elderly and young women at Trump rallies and Republican and conservative events across the states.
Americaās corporate leaders didnāt join the riots, but they might as well have. President Donald Trump and his administration werenāt like any previous administration: They were different. They were dangerous. They needed to be stopped.
So over the four years following the reintroduction of street violence to Washington, Big Tech and its friends launched a campaign of shadow-banning, suppression, and misinformation, first targeting crazy and less sympathetic elements on the fringe, before moving onto the simply helpless, and then even the powerful ones whom acceptable opinion had turned against.
What began with suppression of cynical conspiracies quickly grew into suppression of inconvenient facts. What started as shadow-banning morphed into outright banning. Independent, outsider fact-checks became arbitrary and unexplained internal decisions. Eventually, legitimate scientific and political views pushing back on COVID mandates were targeted.
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But the Alps werenāt the goal. So when a fringe element of Trump supporters launched an attack on the Capitol, Big Tech had all the justification it needed to take its campaign to the next stage.
More than justification, it would be easy: The Democrats had won control of the U.S. Senate that same day. But donāt be fooled: Even a robust Republican Senate majority would have lacked the power and nerve to stand up to Americaās tech titans. Why? Simple: Americaās political class is weak.
Our political leadership is āfrail, old, and out of touch in a rapidly changing world,ā The Federalistās Ben Domenech wrote in his Wednesday newsletter.
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In a free society, if you see an opportunity or donāt like whatās already out there, you can try to make your own. You can accept payments for services, turn a profit, hire, expand. These are both fundamental aspects of the American dream. In the span of one week they were shattered, not by government, but by private and unelected businessmen.
Itās a moment in Big Businessās campaign unlike any before: Itās the sacking of the American Dream. Thus far in Washington, our leaders have remained quiet, busying themselves with impeaching a man who is no longer even president.
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While all eyes are glued to an ugly, deadly, and tragic but ultimately isolated riot and the arrests that follow, the religious zealots of the Commanding Heights have thrown our freedoms from the tower window. With a partisan corporate media in support, a frail political class in agreement or in fear, and a conservative resistance hopelessly compromised by Silicon Valleyās money and influence, Americaās leaders lack the power and wisdom to end it.
The American people are not in for the kind of bloodshed and misery that characterized The Thirty Years War, at least not yet, but we may well be in for the complete fracturing of American society as weāve known it. And make no mistake:
This incident, more than any other incident in this stormy time, may have lighted the fire.
Comment:
It is becoming quite clear that Donald Trump had to go because he is an outsider and, having somehow gained entrance to the inner sanctum of the White House, learned the secrets that had been protected by the insiders who had always run the government (and everything else of substance in the U.S.).
It wasn't just the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Left, or even the Deep State who knew Trump had to go. It was the elites of both parties.
All these insiders, PM/DSA Democrats, the Deep State, RINO's, elites probably didn't realize how closely knit they were to each other until Trump breached their defenses. They would comprise an "oligarchy" but an oligarchy is much too small a group.
Even the corporations joined the battle. While they had often been at odds with the government, they were happy bedfellows with Washington when it came to an outsider--a populist--like Trump.
Trump's crime was unforgiveable. He was independently wealthy, was beholden to no one and couldn't be bought. Trump's crime was much, MUCH worse. He represented the voters.
Without the courage of the PEOPLE to confront that group that owns and controls American media all is lost, I mean everything western civilization has created.
No matter the original source: āTo know who rules over you notice who you are not allowed to criticize.ā
Those who ārule usā care little for our freedoms, on the contrary, they fear free honest men, as evidenced by how many troops in Washington?