Author Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea to China in 2007. Since, then, she moved to the United States and wrote two harrowing memoirs about her path to freedom, and her fear that America is rapidly becoming as totalitarian as North Korea.
In North Korea, government control of speech, and even thoughts, was so bad that they didn’t have a word for “freedom”, “liberty”, or “love.” the absence of those words made it very difficult for Yeonmi to express herself when she moved to the west, and impossible to think of those things when she was in North Korea.
Americans may have a similar problem. Because we don’t have words for what we now face, it is difficult to think of a way to deal with it. The idea is slippery because it lacks definition, making it difficult to pin down for analysis. We are at war, but a war so different from our expectations that we have yet to figure out how to respond.
It is waged against the US by foreign enemies, but they never declared war. They just started doing things that harm America, kept it up, moved their operations to US territory, stepped up their operations here, and continually increased the damage, year over year. Now, it has reached catastrophic levels of devastation, particularly in Democrat-controlled cities and states.
The war is carried out by corrupting or threatening public officials, industrial espionage, political influence, counterfeiting American products and currency, introducing destructive ideologies into American society (communism, open borders, support for Ukraine, LGBTQIA, etc), undermining law enforcement by supporting weak prosecutors and hiring violent protesters. They use traditional fascistic propaganda and censorship techniques to quell all dissent while blocking the view with massive quantities of false narratives.
This isn’t a corporate war, like between Coke and Pepsi, where the outcome is one brand being more dominant than the other in the marketplace. The outcome of this war is shaping up to look like any other war; concentration camps, torture and murder of disfavored members of society, and the total collapse of American government.
We watch as it happens, wondering what to do. I wonder what to do. J6 protesters who did nothing illegal are tossed into prison. President Trump is arraigned on phony charges for phony crimes he didn’t commit. Our media is saturated with so many perversities it is becoming difficult to watch without inducing a vomit reflex. Our schools are being used as indoctrination centers, just as in China during the Cultural Revolution.
If only the war had been declared. Then our men at arms would know who to shoot, and could be confident that their government supported them. After all, defending our nation against foreign threat is among the most noble of causes. It is something most Americans can support.
In the absence of an open declaration, we are left with ambiguity, wondering what to do. I put my time, three years of it, into studying voter rolls. As far as I can tell, they reveal fraud and incompetence. Others have done the same and found both fraud and incompetence in election administration across the country. Enough has been found to thoroughly discredit election results. And yet, we continue to behave as if our “elected” officials were indeed elected.
Any official who did not receive a majority of legitimate votes cannot claim the authority of the office they hold. And yet, due to lack of interest, stupor, or corruption, few have the stomach to deal with the outcome of questionable elections. This leaves us in a position where we know that many of our politicians may have lost their elections, but we don’t know what to do about it.
There are ways, but they involve thinking outside the box, outside of the words we use, words that we were taught as children, describing the wonderful checks and balances in American government available for the redress of grievances. The bad guys have substantially infiltrated and corrupted those mechanisms, leaving us in an odd place where we know there is a problem, have a fair idea what it is, but stop thinking at that point due to blocked avenues of redress.
I recently watched all five episodes of Jeff O’Donnell’s recent film about his election investigations. It did an excellent job explaining why we shouldn’t trust our election systems. And yet, we continue to move toward the 2024 election with many of the problems identified by O’Donnell and others still in place. That has to change.
We are at war and our best defense is an honest election. For that to happen, the corruption must be identified and ripped out by the roots. Every single fraud-enabling measure introduced by crooked lawmakers claiming benign intentions: ballot drop boxes, automatic registration, mail-in ballots, electronic tabulation, early voting, late voting, vote count stoppages, etc., must all be stopped. For our continued survival as a nation, this is not optional, it must happen.
You've certainly captured my concerns. The frustration of knowing that the "rule of law" is currently broken - with the exception of the Supreme Court, on which they are working overtime to kill its effectiveness. One little ray of sunshine I saw was a video by the United Sovereign Americans, called "The Case of the Dollar Bill". It broadens the concept of counterfeit money by showing briefly the consequences in everyday life. Then applies the concept to "counterfeit" voting, and the bad results. The video is short enough to be highly viewed, if spread. Another potential positive is that Mike Lindell has the Kari Lake case (enhanced with two new elements) at the Supreme Court. If accepted and adjudicated sanely, may produce a breakthrough. Thirdly, Marly Hornik and friends have a strong legal case (their first) in Maryland. I'm less familiar with this, but watching. I too saw the Yeonmi video and found it riveting-scary.
The result of dumbing down society and citizens for decades now creating useful idiots until their usefulness has expired