Have We Reached Critical Mass?

Last week I posted an essay titled What To Do that begs a response to the extreme Marxist-led governmental overreaching tyranny that has become a daily occurrence here in the United States and elsewhere around the world.  And unsurprisingly, other authors, writers and bloggers have come forward with an answer. Some call for boycotting woke companies; some want enforced electoral reforms;  others demand the GOP grow a spine - and testicles - and politically counter destructive anti-American edicts; some think we should bring God back into the culture and live more piously to offset the surge of Godless Marxism as did Poland some years ago.  Poland, you may recall, was faced with the Marxist destruction of their heritage and society.  In response, Poles engaged in a renewal movement, which led to Solidarity and ultimately the end of communist rule in Poland.  That movement - between 1979 and 1991 - subsequently carried over to other nations in Central and Eastern Europe. And Poland to this day refuses to take in Islamic "immigrants" due to sharia's innate tyrannical ethos and its anti-West and anti-Christian culture destroying practices.  These options are all viable.

Most of these responders call for peaceful, non-violent actions.  I'm not sure I'm completely on  board with that line of reasoning.  Here's why.  Look around and you'll notice that for the last hundred years, American voters have changed the political landscape with leaders ranging from progressives like Woodrow Wilson and FDR to constitutionalists like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.  And yet, Marxism creeps along unabated, corrupting our public schools, colleges and universities, our culture, and our even our so-called fourth estate - the media.  From this observation we can conclude that our elected leaders - even those as vile as the Kenyan and our gal Hil - aren't necessarily the issue.  More the case, it's those bureaucrats who no one elected and who can't be removed that are abiding and facilitating this long march into communism. So how, then, do the solutions offered above apply to eradicating the source of the problem?  Well, the answer is they don't.  A new solution must be found, and it's a toughie. 

If elections change nothing, how then do we proceed?  Perhaps we should publicly identify those faceless, nameless bureaucrats who have charge over our lives.  Ridicule and shame them into resignation.  Or in the case of murderers like Fauci and Walensky, indict them and prosecute them fully.  For others less visible, simply apply other means necessary.

Perhaps we are now at a cultural critical mass. In the context of nuclear physics, the definition of critical mass refers to the minimum amount of a given fissile material necessary to achieve a self-sustaining fission chain reaction.  In a societal context it refers to the point when a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.  Have we actually reached that critical mass, that tipping point?  Probably yes.

As the authoritarians double down and increase their iron grip, regular folks by the tens of thousands still attend Trump rallies; they applaud fifty thousand protesting Canadian truckers; they vote with their wallets and counter-cancel social justice nonsense; and even in Denmark they've canceled all the made-up and senseless covid over reaction.

That's all good news to freedom loving folks, but unless and until we rid ourselves of the festering cancerous evil behind the scenes like the unelected Swamp dwellers, George Soros, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Fauci, John Kerry and especially the Kenyan, ain't nothin' gonna change. 

That evil can't be reasoned with; it can't be compromised. It must be eradicated.  In the short term that means a shot in the arm, if you'll allow the pun.  In the long term it must be eradicated by the return of civics, civility and an appreciation of Western culture and history.  And these solutions must be sustained for several generations.  

And that will require dedication:  something more than a midterm election.