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.
