I feel exactly the same way, and it’s really hard to explain it to people or put it into words because it comes off sounding like you are watching too many disaster movies or something. But it almost feels like we are in a real life version of a blockbuster political thriller and it’s reaching the crescendo. If this was a movie I was watching it it would be at the point where I would be yelling at the people on screen to run or get away from whatever was coming.
It feels very surreal, and most of the time I have this weird feeling that I am the only one who sees that there is something very dark going on underneath the surface level. there is a feeling in the air of weird electricity, the same feeling that you get when you know a very bad storm is coming and you can’t stop it no matter what you do so you just have to hunker down and be ready for it until it blows over. It seems like most people are completely oblivious, meanwhile I have all of these thoughts going on in my head that I have to keep to myself for fear of sounding like I am losing my mind and believing what they toss off as insane conspiracy theories. I have three people in my life who are on the same page as me and I thank God for them. Everyone else I know is not thinking like I am and I have to filter myself and hold it all in.
I never paid as much attention to world affairs and politics as I am now and I keep noticing connections between events and how one thing seems to spur on another. For example, election Hijinx coming into the forefront and the more serious that becomes the more overwhelming the news cycle is with Covid alerts. It all feels like this constant back-and-forth and changing the switch to focus on Covid, the election, and racism. All the racial stuff....it’s all engineered to CREATE racism it’s not organic. And people are falling right into this trap. I sometimes sit here and wonder to myself how are so many people not noticing this?
You hit the nail right on the head, all the way down to that sort of weird energy in the air. One thing I've considered more than ever recently, if all of this shit is bubbling up in the public sphere [even though most seem to pay it no attention] I can't fucking imagine what's going on in the underbelly, the things we don't see and likely never will. In closed rooms and dark corners, if all of this is so chaotic to take in from the perspective of Joe Sixpack, what the fuck is going on that we aren't aware of?
Realistically speaking, I don't expect Joe Biden of all fuckin' people to be the downfall of the United States. Most likely it'll just be more neolib garbage like Obama. But all of what has led us to this very point is much more unsettling than the mere prospect of a Biden Presidency. The wide-open, wanton fraud that led to him being heralded as the victor, the fact that all of the media suddenly started marching in lockstep [even those that would normally diverge are] and all of the events of the past year. I mean, the election fraud is bad enough, essentially what it means is actually more important than the outcome: that there will almost certainly never be anything even approaching a fair, open election again. The fact that most people are more than happy to just take that shit, pretend it never happened, whatever. The fact that the media is working overtime to bury it in a heap of renewed COVID hysteria. Now I'm not retarded [depends who you ask I guess] and I know that our political system isn't, and likely never has been, fair and honest. It was mostly just an illusion agreed upon. But this shit? It was done in the open, broad daylight, blatant and obvious as can be, and it was a huge collaborative effort. And people don't care.
And COVID has essentially become a massive stick to bludgeon the populace over the head with. It's playing out just like the days after 9/11, shock and awe, a brief moment of unity, then it became the cause du jour for the government to clamp down harder and harder on individualism, liberty, freedom of choice, it became an excuse for the government to further invade people's lives and violate their privacy. And...again, people don't care. They wave it away: "Oh the Patriot Act is a good thing so long as it prevents another tragedy, the TSA rifling through my shit is a good thing so long as it's safe to fly, I don't care if the NSA is listening to my phone conversations, I've got nothing to hide!"
Then COVID comes along: "I don't care about these curfews, I'm never out that late anyway. I don't care about wearing a mask, it's inconvenient but it will keep us safe. I don't mind taking a vaccine so I can travel, attend concerts or visit my grandma, it's a fair price to pay to get things back on track."
That's not even touching upon the economic damage [which we have definitely not seen the worst of yet] of all of this fucking nonsense, the almost certainly climbing suicide rate, the Summer 2020 Chimpout and all that it wrought, etc. And all of this creepy "Great Reset" and "New Normal" bullshit that makes Alex Jones seem like a god damn seer. The news has been almost dead silent on China, which worries me as well. And you've got masses of people that cannot even agree on what reality we live in, and many of them have spent most of this year actively at eachother's throats to the point where people were getting shot in the fucking face in broad daylight for having the wrong opinion or wearing the wrong hat. Mandatory vaccines are right around the corner as well, almost guaranteed, and who the fuck knows what side effects it might have?
It's like some kind of machinery suddenly roared to life, and you can hear it now very faintly, but it gets louder and louder and later on you realize that you're on a conveyor belt and this giant machine is about to grind you down to dust. And the wheels are already in motion and there's not a god damn thing you can do to stop it. I'm not naive enough to think that Trump is going to "save the country" or keep things from getting worse, but I figured at least if he won we'd all have a little more time before dystopian clown world reached fever-pitch. Fact is, though, I don't think this thing can be stopped. We might be able to slow it down some or try and figure out its mechanics, but dying miserable and right isn't a good outcome either.
