What I would suggest is that the recent electoral disappointment brought with it a reason to disconnect our daily emotions from things which are in fact abstract, distant, and as-yet unreal. Few if any of us are suffering from “tyranny” in any major way. We FEAR it–rightly in my view–but there is little we can do at the moment. So why not focus on personal growth, on “particularizing”?
Do you reliably do everything that you decide to do? Are you behaviorally coherent? Are you capable of expressing great joy and empathy? What gaps are there in your factual knowledge of our world? In what ways can you grow your business?
As I have said repeatedly, things will have to get worse before they CAN get better. I just signed up to donate $30/month to Freedomworks indefinitely on autodebit, and would encourage others to do the same. Matt Kibbe is more or less trying to bring to maturity something in a few years that the Left has been building for the better part of the century. It would be an impossible project, were the facts not on our side.
I like RandPAC and Campaign for Freedom too. Think of this as a long battle, as it will be. I have said before and will say again: imagine you were Churchill, who had been saying for nearly a decade that Germany was a major threat, finally being put into office only to face immediate and apparently catastrophic military reversals, including mass bombing of civilian populations. He had few resources and no allies other than the US, which did not formally enter the war for several years after the assault on Britain began.
We have no death, now. We have no food shortage. What we have are abstractions that cause us fear. I feel, obviously, that they are correct, but it must be said that we may be wrong, and it is CERTAINLY the case that nobody knows what the future holds, not even those who think they are planning it.
I had some very positive dreams last night. My defenses against my past are apparently complete. This is reassuring to me. And I see no reason I can’t keep growing until somebody puts a bullet in my head. I have even made plans for prisons and work camps, the notion of which of course seems ridiculous to any Leftists reading this, but the fact is I read history, and the inmates always say “I didn’t think it could happen here”.
The Left is MAKING it happen here every time they murder a needed truth, so all possibilities are on the table. I see this, to be clear, and still feel like my life is working to a purpose, to a good, to something better.