This is a repost of a piece that originally (12/28/2021) saw the light of day on one of my older blogs, namely http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/Bob2084. That site is intermittently unavailable, and all my new contributions will be here on https://bob2084.branchable.com (1/9/2021).
There is something very ODD transpiring. VERY out of the ordinary. Yes we are in the interstice between Christmas and New Year's Day, which in what I recall as "normal" times was always a sort of doldrums: nothing to do but wait for reality to resume its appointed rounds post-Jan-1st. I'll say it again: this time it's different, and, no, I don't think we can safely or responsibly slough it off on the ridiculous pandemic.
There is not a peep to be heard from any quarter in respect ot the election. I haven't looked at the polls lately. Full disclosure: I never actually look at polls, but sometimes the course of my ordinary reading brings me to authors who cite the damn things. As of about a week ago it seemed that the polls were telling us that as many as 48% of the population believed the election was not on the level. Let me be very careful here. If 48% of Americans believe any thing, then that thing ought not be dismissed with nary a glance.
Are we all holding our breath until Jan 20th, hoping we make it to that day with no mountainous upheaval shaking the body politic? When SCOTUS demurred in the face of pleadings from the governor of Texas, charges were made that they were afraid. Throughout the campaign theories were put forward that a portion of the Biden vote was really an anti-Trump vote cast by those who simply yearn for an end to the constant strife that has beset the presidency since Mr. Trump's arrival in that office.
The case of SCOTUS brought forth more specific charges of cowardice, namely that the justices were concerned for their personal safety and that of their families and children. Hint: if the word "dox" does not resonate with you as a semi-term-of-art in today's politics, sit down and feed it into the nearest web browser to your favorite search engine.
Great intuitive powers are not needed to predict possible outcomes should the wheels of progress overturn the victory everyone seems to think was won by Joe Biden, everyone, that is, other than that 48%. Our purveyors of civil unrest have been strangely inactive since the election. Only a few days ago, December 23, 2020 to be exact, a resident of Columbus, Ohio was killed by gunfire from the local police.
Andre Hill, forty seven years old, was armed with nothing more than a cellphone. Mr. Hill was black. Apparently his life doesn't matter to BLM, or antifa, or any of the other collections of those who prefer physical violence as their chosen means of personal expression. But should Donald Trump raise his right hand to swear another oath of office come January, who doubts that the social justice warriors out there will not begin burning down cities again?
I had hoped to say much more when I sat down to create this post, but my mental stamina is not what it used to be. For further reading look up the term "color revolution," then see Michael Anton's "The Coming Coup". Neither of these two assignments will seem new to those of you playing along at home. They have both found the light of day on these pages this past god-awful year.