We Must Win The Battle Against ‘The United States of Passivity’
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The left’s most powerful weapon is using psy-ops to demoralize conservatives. We must be happy warriors to win.
What did Russia, China, the Roman Republic, the Weimar Republic, Cambodia, and Iran all have in common? The answer to this question is vitally important to all of us, as the same conditions that led to these societies’ original fall are starkly in evidence here today. The common denominator is that the governments did not take the threats against them seriously enough.
Let me walk you through how I got here:
Many Americans are on tenterhooks, unsure what to do or whom to believe, as they see Democrat agitation play out across the country.
Someone wrote to me, “I see this country coming apart. Look at California, Portland (Oregon), Seattle, Minnesota, Illinois, NYC, Maine, and even my state (Virginia). The Democrats and the mainstream media are working as a team to destroy this nation, and there’s no effective pushback. As a result, I’m tense and despondent.”
I am less despondent because I separate wheat from chaff when I read the news. What helped is that, in last week’s American Thinker “Member Weekly Newsletter” (available only to subscribers), J.R. Dunn wrote that much of the left acts like “revolutionary cosplayers.”
I had to look that up. It turns out that phrase refers to the practice of dressing up as a fictional character—usually from anime, video games, comics, movies, or TV—and then performing or embodying that character’s personality. It’s both a creative hobby and a social subculture, with events, competitions, and communities built around it.
The fact that “crazies”—and they are actually quite small in number—seem willing to confront and impede armed federal officers is because they confuse reality with a fantasy game, believing that there is no risk of any real danger or cost, much like an online fantasy game. Recent events in Minnesota have proved them wrong.