COVID is winding down — at least for now. The precedent has been set for lockdowns, mask mandates, vax mandates and all the rest. You can be sure those (and additional) tactics will be used again and again, the next time we have a flu season, and the next time the tyrants (all of them still in power) feel like it.

Yet for COVID to wind down at all, something else must be in the works.

Tyrants don’t want to relinquish their power. They have something more in mind.

It might have to do with Russia; it might have to do with the upcoming Congressional elections. But you can be certain: They have something in mind.

This is not a “conspiracy theory.” It’s the nature of human psychology. Most people don’t want to control others, at least not on the scale that sociopaths and narcissists do. Our corporate and political worlds (now one and the same) are dominated by sociopaths and narcissists. It’s a marvelous time to be them. Throughout 2020 and 2021, they got away with things that would have been unbelievable as recently as 2019.

Given the near-total lack of any principled opposition, they have an unblinking green light to go further. My bet is on the green agenda. Manipulating world events (angering Putin, curbing oil drilling in America) to raise gas prices is well underway. That will force people (they think) to adopt otherwise unsustainable, uneconomical “green” energy. Of course, we won’t adopt green energy until or unless it’s affordable and it works, which it presently isn’t and likely will never be. So, by raising gas and energy prices, all they’ll do is impoverish the middle class and leave the 1 percent politically connected elites in charge of everything (including what you say, think, write and do in daily life). Fun! But that’s what happens when the great majority will not fight back or resist as America’s founding colonists did.

Probably a third of Americans — that truly sick, twisted third who actually think Biden is doing a great job and we’re on the right track — actively encourage more tyranny. They want to be controlled, and they want dictators to control others because they are sick and watching others suffer makes sick, evil people feel good.

Brace yourself. Granted, I’m asking you to brace yourself for what you do not know — and cannot know. But I guarantee with 100 percent certainty: There is no “back to normal.” Thinking we can get back to normal would be like thinking — if Hitler and the Nazis had WON World War II — “now that the shooting’s over, we’ll be just as we were before.” No. If we had unseated, defeated, prosecuted and jailed the criminals (Fauci, Biden, governors, mayors, school boards) who did this to us, it would be a different story. But they haven’t been held accountable and it looks like they never will be. So they’re on to their next obscenity.

It won’t be pretty, because life under tyranny never is. But unless or until you find the will and the courage to fight back — REALLY fight back — then it’s only going to get worse.

Michael J. Hurd

It is important that you understand that according to news reports the US government and its British puppet are sanctioning the persons of Putin and Lavrov as I write. Putin has already said that any such insult will result in the break of diplomatic relations. Either the governments of the US and UK are intentionally driving the situation to a wider conflict or they are too stupid to be in office. Historically, a break in diplomatic relations is a step towards war.

The sanction is a gratuitous insult as Putin has no assets abroad to be frozen, and I very much doubt Lavrov does either.

Clearly, Washington is doing everything possible to inflame the situation, not reduce the tensions. All the trouble can end now by the West supporting the demilitarization of Ukraine.

Instead, a crazed, insane, psychopathic US government is pushing the world to nuclear war. Dumbshit conservative Republicans and dumbshit liberal Democrats are united in inflaming a dangerous situation. The world has never seen such irresponsibility.

Insouciant Americans have failed to pay attention for so long that, if truth be told, the situation is out of control. There is zero intelligence in Washington. In its place is a blind Russophobia. There are no objective Russian experts in the US to encourage a sane foreign policy. Objective analysis is regarded as Russian propaganda and ignored. Everything that Washington has done leads to conflict with Russia. The mix of a total lack of objectivity with nuclear weapons is disaster’s recipe.

Paul Craig Roberts

“We can’t trust a vaccine pushed by President Trump.” Then at 12:01 on January 20, 2021, when “President Biden” was installed — that changed in an instant. Not only was the “vaccine” wholesome, trustworthy, and medically safe. It was mandatory.

That’s life in the Communist version of America. Enjoy!

CLICK HERE for the discussion with Rob Arlett and Dr. Hurd.

Breitbart conservative writer and commentator John Hayward penned an epic thread on Twitter explaining the illusion of “Benevolent Authoritarianism” in connection to the spread of elitist dictatorial aspirations across the planet.

Last week, Hayward began delving into the politics of control, writing, “Authoritarianism is the hottest political product in the world right now. Western elites believe their governments must become more dictatorial in order to compete with technocratic despotisms like China. Public submission is the most desired commodity.”

He expanded on those musings in regards to “Benevolent Authoritarianism” and what that flawed philosophy actually entails in a thread on Twitter.

“The myth of Benevolent Authoritarianism is second only to the myth of Honest Big Government in terms of dangerous ideological delusions. Authoritarianism cannot be harnessed to ‘fortify’ democracy, any more than wolves can be taught to guard sheep,” he posited on Twitter.

supposed to make democracy stronger by making it smaller. High walls of authoritarian power will be constructed around the shrinking meadow of liberty. The walls will be policed by wise, compassionate autocrats and their business partners,” he noted alluding to founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab and his globalist cohorts.

“Sure, there is a growing list of things you Little People don’t get to vote on, but don’t worry – those are issues you’re not smart enough to understand. The notion of middle-class boobs or trailer-park rubes daring to defy the Consensus of Experts is absurd,” Hayward snarked.

supposed to make democracy stronger by making it smaller. High walls of authoritarian power will be constructed around the shrinking meadow of liberty. The walls will be policed by wise, compassionate autocrats and their business partners,” he noted alluding to founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab and his globalist cohorts.

“Sure, there is a growing list of things you Little People don’t get to vote on, but don’t worry – those are issues you’re not smart enough to understand. The notion of middle-class boobs or trailer-park rubes daring to defy the Consensus of Experts is absurd,” Hayward snarked.

“But you see, only by trusting a morally and intellectually superior elite to manage the population and most of our national wealth carefully can we achieve true, meaningful ‘freedom.’ You will be liberated from the burdens of need, consequence, and responsibility,” he wrote, nailing the intentions of globalist elitists.

“It will never become tyranny – don’t be silly! How could it be, when you Little People get to cast a few votes every couple of years? That’s the only check needed on power. You can just ‘throw the bums out.’ It can’t be a dictatorship if people get to vote against the dictator!” Hayward commented, tongue-in-cheek.

That’s a key element of the myth of Benevolent Authoritarianism – as long as people get to vote, the only real fail-safe needed against tyranny is in place. Ballots become the only accepted proxy for ‘the consent of the governed’ – which is utterly absurd,” he astutely pointed out.

“‘I won 48% of the vote so everyone must do as I command’ is NOT AT ALL the same thing as ‘just government deriving its powers from the consent of the governed,’ but too many of us have been tricked into accepting it. Nor would winning 90% of the vote be an acceptable substitute,” Hayward remarked.

“Using votes as a proxy for the consent of the governed to justify Benevolent Authoritarianism is like the villain in ‘No Country for Old Men’ telling his victims they authorized their own executions by participating in his coin toss,” he continued.

“Whatever happened to the ‘tyranny of the majority,’ the rights of the minority, and keeping politics out of private life? You don’t hear much about any of that stuff anymore, because the Ruling Class is lusting hard after its post-pandemic vision of Benevolent Authoritarianism,” Hayward contended.

Authoritarianism is like the villain in ‘No Country for Old Men’ telling his victims they authorized their own executions by participating in his coin toss,” he continued.

“Whatever happened to the ‘tyranny of the majority,’ the rights of the minority, and keeping politics out of private life? You don’t hear much about any of that stuff anymore, because the Ruling Class is lusting hard after its post-pandemic vision of Benevolent Authoritarianism,” Hayward contended.

“One reason Benevolent Authoritarianism is a myth is the other, even more pernicious political fantasy: Honest Big Government. We’re supposed to forget about the corruption of power and place total faith in the autocrats who will build the fences around Safe, Small Democracy,” the conservative said, slamming those who push massive big government as the solution to all our ills.

“And power is not only corrupt, but ravenous. Power requires obedience for fuel, and like any other resource, obedience begins to offer diminishing returns. The populace must be squeezed ever tighter to make the next drops of obedience ooze out,” he warned.

“Dissent is antithetical to obedience, so it cannot be tolerated. Aspiring benevolent dictators always promise they’ll have full respect for dissenting views, but it never lasts, because they have to keep squeezing those precious drops of obedience out of the public,” Hayward asserted, referencing the power-hungry demand by dictators for submission from the masses.

“That safe little Great Reset meadow of democracy is going to keep shrinking, because the damn sheep will keep trying to climb over the walls. They must be taught not to question their betters or disobey their commands. It’s absolutely inevitable. Rulers require subjects,” he added.

“Beware the myth of Benevolent Authoritarianism, because it’s never benevolent at all, not even at the outset. Those managing the system simply cannot respect their subjects as equals, even if they claim to love them and want the best for them. Liberty dies, absent respect. /end,” Hayward concluded, issuing a grim warning of what those such as Schwab and adherents of the “Great Reset” are planning for all of us.

Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future.

“Inevitable!” predicted some pundits, for demography is destiny.

Moreover, in 2020, Democrats, who had won the popular vote six times in seven presidential elections, swept the popular vote again, by 6 million ballots. And they captured both houses of Congress.

The future did seem to be theirs.

Progressives dominated the major culture-forming institutions of society — academia, the media, Hollywood — not to mention the vast bureaucracy of America’s national administrative state.

Their core constituencies — women, the young, Blacks, Hispanics — were growing as a share of the electorate, while the core Republican constituencies — white males, seniors — were shrinking.

One sensed a confidence among Democrats that one or two more elections and the nation, like the California of Ronald Reagan, would turn irretrievably blue.

What happened to the dream?

First, President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, after 20 years of war, had about it the aspect of Saigon ’75.

The rout of our Afghan allies and humiliation of our departure delivered an irretrievable blow to Biden’s reputation for competence.

There followed the visible failure of the administration to defend and secure America’s southern border as 2 million migrants from all over the world poured across in Biden’s first year.

Then came a surge in crimes of violence, shootings and murders in major cities. And people recalled that our media and political elites who had cheered on the Black Lives Matter protests and excused the riots after George Floyd’s death had echoed the BLM-antifa calls to “defund the police!”

Also, suddenly, an inflation rate not seen in 40 years was back, driving up the price of gasoline and groceries and everything else at a rate of 7.5%.

Then came news that the U.S. trade deficit, which helped to propel former President Donald Trump into the White House, was at an all-time record of over $1 trillion, and the national debt had crossed the $30 trillion mark, exceeding the entire U.S. GDP.

Late in Biden’s first year, COVID-19 reached its omicron stage with infections, hospitalizations and deaths suddenly exploding again to record numbers in a pandemic deep into its second year.

Then, there were the manifestations of cognitive decline in the president, seemingly with each new televised appearance.

Unable to defend America’s borders, control the surge in violent crime or cope with an inflation unseen in 40 years, Biden began a steady slide in the polls to where, currently, all have him underwater and some put his approval below 40%.

That a crisis for the party may be in the cards for this fall has not been lost on Democratic leaders. Fully 30 members of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority in the House have announced that they will be retiring and will not run again in 2022.

The latest bad news came out of the Golden State, where three progressives on San Francisco’s school board were recalled in an election where more than 7 in 10 voters cast ballots to be rid of them.

The problem for Democrats is that the issues for which the three were recalled are the issues dividing communities all across America:

Are America’s elite schools whose student bodies are chosen by academic performance and test scores consistent with the progressives’ concept of racial equity? Or should student bodies of those elite schools be mandated to mirror the ethnic and racial composition of the communities they serve?

How are issues of race, morality, sexuality and history to be taught in the public schools? Who decides what is to be taught?

The issue was elevated in Virginia last fall when former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a favorite for reelection, blurted out during a debate with Republican Glenn Youngkin, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Virginia’s parents buried McAuliffe’s hopes.

The San Francisco school board also plunged into the culture wars by attempting to re-name 44 high schools, while purging the names of all four presidents on Mount Rushmore — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — as well as Paul Revere and Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

San Francisco’s Lowell High School is one of the elite high schools that selects its student body on academic performance and test scores. And that student body has been heavily Asian American, who make up a far higher share of the student population than of the city itself.

This issue of Asians being overrepresented in elite high schools is replicated at Northern Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High, and in New York City at Stuyvesant and the Bronx School of Science.

Who gets into these schools and who does not and who decides pits the leaders of Black communities against those of Asian American communities and divides the Democratic Party on the lines of ethnicity and race.

Among other issues that have gone national are critical race theory, which teaches that, due to the systemic racism in American society, all whites are born oppressors, while Black Americans are from birth among the oppressed.

Critical race theory, too, divides the Democrats.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”