Amusement isn't the worst thing. Even soldiers play cards in the trenches.
The thing is, right now, we lack organization, a plan, a common goal, and a coalition for whatever the next step is. We are scattered. We don’t even have pockets of genuine resistance at this time.
And we will be scattered until we are marched to the gulags. That's why I cant find any amusement in this. It's because we are dead. Which I'm fine dying, itll be a fucking relief, but we are abandoning our children to be slaughtered. Our children are dead
I don’t know that all is lost, but it looks grim at this moment. It takes time to devise solutions and to coordinate. It takes people desperate enough with nothing to lose, or fired up enough with some sort of powerful idea to decide it’s time to fight.
I think yesterday was a waste of time and energy for the “good guys,” no matter what the reality behind it may have been. The problem with putting your faith in any person, especially a politician and a shady businessman, is that at the end of it all, he might betray you, and probably will.
This was why the most effective leaders were military men in one shape or another. Alexander, Napoleon, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, even Hitler all understood the weight of war and that once committed it must be seen through to the bitter end. Trump wasn’t the man for this, even if he was on “our” side, as evidenced by his failure to commit to fighting, knowing that war is messy. He’s a populist pragmatist who cares more about his long term holdings than his countrymen if it means making the tough decisions. So, when the tough decision - insurrection act or martial law - became necessary, he blinked. He lost. Because he didn’t have it in him to commit, if he was, in fact, ever really on “our side.”
Edit: All of my wry comments from yesterday about the “storming” of the Capitol building aside, the act itself, if genuine, was a waste of time unless the intention was to take justice into their own hands, even if that meant holding a mock trial on the floor of the house and charging the government agents of treason with the “defendants” being “in absentia.”
I put my faith in the system though...not only in the system of checks and balances we have for these very purposes, but in the faith that the people would stand up to prevent tyranny. Yesterday proved we wont stand up as a unit. The reason I didnt go to the rally is because I knew no one there is actually willing to fight the tyranny. We should be waking up to dead politicians this morning, instead we have dead teens and videos of "patriots" being muscled around. My faith was misguided.
I just dont think great leaders were ever this surrounded on all sides when they came into leadership. Our opportunity to have that leader was Trump, but he flaked. Now I fear it's too late. This generation has already been abandoned, demoralized, poisoned in every conceivable way, and left with nothing. Now the enemy has full control. It's hard to see any light at the end of this tunnel.
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