Is This the Moment?
31st August 2021
A lot of us no doubt have been wondering what act, by whom, will catalyze an uprising against the increasingly oppressive regime? I remember years ago an ABC program that demonstrated that good people will remain frozen in the face of wrongness until someone moves, someone acts, and then all of a sudden everyone moves to confront evil. So it is that many of us are watching and calculating and simply need to see the flow start and then we, too, will add out weight to the change that must come.
As many of you may recall I attended my first protests in 2020 in Sacramento against Covid restrictions that were trashing the livelihoods of small businesses, running over the rights to religious practice and assembly, and generally oppressing the people. The protests had little, if any, effect. Covid fear was high then, and as it waned in the latter part of the summer California calculatedly eased restrictions just enough to stave off dangerous discontent. When California started ramping oppression up again toward the end of the year is when I moved to East Tennessee.
And now our national oppression is in full force. Well, not actually full force if you have read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. But certainly at unprecedented levels in this country that for so long embraced individual rights and freedoms. As we have been watching this regime take control and promote destructive policies, we have wondered how long will the people stand for it? What will cause the people, whom the regime sees as an existential threat, to see the regime as an existential threat to them? When will they make demands for change that cannot be ignored?