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| Collapsing Narratives, Converging Catastrophes |
| 2021-06-26 |
| [News With Views] Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, has been quoted several times as saying he believes Trump will be reinstated as president later this year (he mentioned August). I’m very doubtful of this, if for no other reason that, realistically, at this point it would take military action, and I don’t think our "woke" military would do it. That aside, the U.S. is clearly facing an onrushing conjunction of crises likely to hit around that time, if not sooner. First, the number of voters convinced that last year’s election was stolen refuses to budge regardless of the volume of the Establishment’s denials and ridicule — and no matter the lawfare being waged against Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Rudy Giuliani, Lindell, and others. If anything, the Establishment appears terrified of what will turn up in Maricopa Co., Arizona, and that calls for independent audits will spread to other states. This is America’s collapsed and partly delegitimized political system. All the propaganda about how talk of a stolen election "threatens democracy" is just that: propaganda. The U.S. has not been an actual democracy, answering even to a majority of voters, at any point in our lifetimes. Gilens & Page showed this. That article is dense and restrained in its conclusions, but worth slogging through. The approved narrative about the election could collapse, and if it does, a reckoning of some sort is inevitable. It might not happen this year, but it will happen eventually. And this is not the only narrative at risk of losing all credibility. If you want to see what a collapsed approved narrative looks like, think of the theory that the coronavirus said to cause Covid-19 evolved in bats and jumped to humans, possibly through an intermediary species, in a Chinese "wet market." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Yesterday: We are gong to have to open stadiums to deal with the number of people wanting the vax. Today: If you want your child dying of cancer to get their last wish, you must give them the vax. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-26 11:30 |
| #2 Yesterday: People in socialist utopia will work their fair share. Today: People who are paid whether they work or not, decide not to work. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-26 11:12 |
| #1 If you want to see what a collapsed approved narrative looks like, think of the theory that the coronavirus said to cause Covid-19 evolved in bats and jumped to humans, possibly through an intermediary species, in a Chinese “wet market.” Spot on ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-26 08:48 |