
After the Elections
I remember talking to a childhood friend a little before the 2016 election. What he said to me sticks in my memory verbatim because it was so stunning.
Whatever shakes out after the circus of November — we must remember whom we're dealing with on the other side of the aisle.
The people who are currently in charge will cheat in the upcoming election. There can be no reasonable doubt about this. The question isn't one of if — it's only how. It is a question of whether or not they'll be successful, or whether or not enough people of our side will show they have the functional remnants of a backbone.
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I hope the election goes well — but we need to be prepared, as a people born into freedom, to rise in civil disobedience whenever our rights are overthrown. We need to be prepared to follow the example of the French Yellow Vests, the Canadian Truckers, and the Dutch Farmers. We need to have the guts to make an ugly, resolute, and inconvenient nuisance of ourselves.