“Civil war,” wrote Algernon Sidney, “is a disease, but tyranny is the death of the state.”

The aftermath of war extends beyond physical destruction. Not just PTSD in individuals, but rarely does war leave the combatant societies unaffected. The victors of our 1861-1865 conflict imposed their will on an upended South and subsequently opened their arms and welcomed back the vanquished on condition that they submit post-war constitutions for congressional approval. Big changes. But, upon curing the disease, the division over slavery, the US grew to new heights in prosperity. During the war, and less well-known, government for a time suppressed freedom of speech and the press. These are elements of tyranny.

While reason justifies these anti-republican acts for national survival, they aren’t justifiable in peacetime. Thanks to over a century of conditioning, too many Americans are either ambivalent about, or actually support oppressive income taxation, unfree speech, press, and surveillance not for the purpose of deflecting foreign threats, but to suppress domestic political opponents.

The War on Terror, sold to the public as the means to defeat muslim attacks, turned inward. Years ago we stopped reading “islamic” as an adjective to “terror.” Two Presidents either allowed or promoted islamic immigration in such numbers that openly anti-American, pro-sharia and pro-tyranny muslim colonies have representation in Congress. After almost twenty years, Americans endure heretofore unacceptable and outrageous levels of surveillance and intrusive searches as the condition for simply going about their lives.

President Obama didn’t appoint public servants. He appointed public enemies. Together, these people, unburdened by conscience or virtue, work to this day to remove President Trump. Their felonies are open and notorious, yet there is little public rebuke or cries for indictments, because, like uttering the term, “islamic terror,” speaking the truth about the forty-fourth President and his accomplices is dangerous to one’s person or employment.

Commentators and keen observers like Dennis Prager often touch on this civil war, a true revolutionary civil war in which Leftists set out, through any means necessary, to overthrow the existing government, our Constitution, and assume all powers. This isn’t a clash of political parties. The conflict rhymes with the downfall of the Roman Republic, in which afterward, tyrannical emperors kept Rome’s republican institutions. Similarly, if victorious, the Deep State will keep the visible institutions of our republic, meaning the three branches, offices and regular elections. Except, they won’t matter. Once fully corrupted, US elections will serve as comforting placebos, pretend exercises in un-free government.

Citizens risk assault for wearing MAGA ballcaps. In social media, thou shalt self-censor, or else. Few are in greater danger for their safety and liberty than the close associates of President Trump. Imprisonment for non-crimes, financial and family ruin are their rewards. The law, once the hallmark of our republic, has become a snare. No man, brought before Deep State judges, escapes. Should crimes be wanting, diligent prosecutors supply the defects.

Sidney also observed, “It cannot be denied that the best men during the liberty of Rome thrived best, and that so soon as liberty was subverted, the worst men thrived best.” Indeed. As American liberty wanes, the worst among us, the Bidens, Clintons, Obamas openly thrive on pay-to-play, kickbacks, and no-show jobs paying millions that subvert national security.

In this death-struggle with the Deep State for Americas’ soul, there’s no guarantee patriots will emerge victorious, and unlike after the last civil war when our first freedoms returned, who among us expect the renewal of free speech, press, association and liberty?

I constantly hear stories of people getting harassed or threatened for still supporting Trump or even Republicans. For example, I recently heard of two incidents where people with Trump bumperstickers or MAGA hats were told, “I hope you die of COVID.” Yet I never hear the opposite. How many Republicans tell Biden voters they hope they die of COVID? Which leads me to ask: Are leftists/collectivists/DemCom Bidenistas inherently mentally abusive people? Isn’t this behavior verbal abuse, at the minimum? Of course it is. What fuels such hatred? Leftists are getting everything they want. Absolutely everything, with more horrors daily. They consider the horrors good things. How far will they go in their nastiness, vitriol and hatred? Will they ever be satisfied? Or maybe they are like heroin addicts…only their drug of choice is not heroin, but a relentless stream of toxic idiocy culminating in the annihilation of us all.

During Trump’s presidency, PsychologyToday and other blogs relentlessly asked what made Trump supporters tick. 100 percent of the articles took it for granted that all Trump supporters are racist, misogynistic, stingy, etc. Yet nothing — absolutely nothing — can be found anywhere on the questions I am now asking. Where does all the hate come from? Psychology 101 will tell you: Hate usually comes from ANXIETY. Ayn Rand wrote in the 1960s of metaphysical terror within the college radicals “stamping their feet at objective reality.” Are leftists metaphysically terrified? Are they terrified of reality itself? Which would explain why a truth-teller and B.S.-identifier like Donald Trump is vilified by them like nobody ever before. He — and we — have got them all figured out.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”

~ Voltaire

The gullibility of man it seems has no bounds, for if it did, how could so many be so blind? As I reflect on the past 18 months or so, it is quite alarming to understand the scope of this scam called a ‘pandemic,’ and how this entire country (and world) have embraced lies, deception, and tyranny of such magnitude. Mass murder at the hands of the state has already begun, but with the rollout of deadly and poisonous injections purposely mislabeled as ‘vaccines,’ the murder of large numbers that is democide, will be evident among this entire population for years to come. The perpetrators of this genocidal takeover of society are now coming after all children, and will attempt to poison as many as possible with their ‘vaccines’ over the course of this year and next.

Only a nation of pathetic cowardly fools would allow such an abdominal fate for their own defenseless offspring. This type of behavior indicates a total lack of intellect, and a mass ignorance of reality. It also indicates widespread indifference, which is the incarnate of a sick and immoral society.

So, it seems that the so-called “new normal” of totalitarian rule over a slave-like society, is not just the fault of those who wish to rule over us, but more so the people at large for allowing this to happen without proper resistance. Blaming the enemy is easy, but accepting blame of self is avoided at all cost, and this attitude is even worse than that of tyrants. It is expected that the evil among us who are the ruling class exist, but the evil of mass apathy can never be accepted or excused.

In the course of the past few months, this country’s citizens have fully acquiesced to the will of a totalitarian regime, and in the process, have laid bare their weaknesses due to an unfounded fear. Many believe there is safety in numbers, but that is only the mindset of herd animals, not humans. By voluntarily allowing for the death and destruction of part of the herd, the rest survive to live one more day, but when people accept this attitude, they also have to accept the death and destruction of their family, friends, and neighbors as normal for survival. If that is the case, it seems that the evolution of the human species is going backward, and that is exactly what collectivism is meant to accomplish.

With this comes the consequences of non-action, and under these circumstances, those consequences are always at the discretion of the tyrants. What has happened to date should be enough for anyone to see the folly of having confidence in any state or nation. What began with lockdowns and quarantines, led to business closings, job loss, extreme stress, supply line disruption, shortages, higher prices for goods and services, (inflation) and of course economic chaos. This in turn led to much more poverty, despair, and starvation, setting the stage for the next phase of this takeover. By this time, the people should have recognized the totalitarian nature of what was going on, but alas, they remained obedient and passive, and watched as their world was decimated.

In order to see the writing on the wall, one must seek out and accept the truth, regardless of the risk involved in doing so. To avoid the truth in favor of hiding from reality, hoping that someone else will ‘fix’ things, is exactly what all tyrannical rulers seek in the populations they are attempting to control. It is my expressed opinion, that the timing of this takeover coup was based fully on the fact that the master class knew that the general population was too afraid, too dependent, and too apathetic to fight back against this dictatorial authoritarianism that had been planned for decades. The timing of this was genius, because the masses acted in exactly the manner desired.

While no such thing as ‘Covid-19’ actually exists, and has never been identified, the real threat that is the real pandemic, had been held aside for just the right moment, and early this year the ‘vaccine’ pandemic was released. The ‘vaccine’ is the bio-weapon, and the so-called non-existent variants a of a non-existent virus, are the result of the deadly ‘vaccines.’ In other words, the ‘vaccine’ is the pandemic, and all those who have voluntarily taken the injections will be the victims of this staged pandemic. Once the deaths from these jabs reach unprecedented numbers, and they will, the rest of society who have not succumbed to the idiocy of taking such a dangerous concoction, will be blamed. In effect, all will have been targeted by the criminal state, whether they got the injection or not. The ‘vaccinated’ group will be sick and dying, while the unvaccinated group will be hunted by the state. This is why this society has already been divided by stealth in order to pit those vaccinated against those who are unvaccinated; a sinister plot meant to solidify control of both groups.

This is a communistic takeover attempt, that has all the elements of Fascism, Marxism, and Communism rolled into one. It is the most dangerous time in history for the inhabitants of this planet, as it is an attempt to achieve a globalized takeover of all in order to convert to one technocratically controlled system, where there are an ‘elite’ few’ at the top, their enforcers and corporate partners below, including government, with the rest being a slave class known as the proletariat.

While this ‘pandemic’ is thought to be about a mystery virus, it is not, as the virus narrative is just the tool being used to accomplish the real agenda, which has its roots based in the guise of ‘sustainable development’ marketed through the idiocy of man-made climate change. This has been fully outlined in the UN’s Agenda 21 and Agenda 30, and in the aptly named “Great Reset’ agenda described by Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. In reality, it has but one objective, and that is to achieve total global governance and universal control over all. To be successful in this venture, many hundreds of millions, or more likely billions, will need to be murdered. The ‘vaccines’ are the tools of murder, so avoidance of these injections at all cost is imperative.

This is not a new threat, but it has been carefully manipulated to occur at this time in order to coincide with the people’s ignorance and indifference, their prepared division, their weakness and dependence on the state, and therefore their cowardice in the face of adversity. This ‘vaccine’ is the key to success for the evil and criminal rulers, so the fewer of us that take this witches brew, the more of us who will be able to fight back against this heinous attempt to destroy humanity. Our only hope is to remain non-compliant, to disobey every order, and to abolish the current governing system that has assumed dictatorial powers with the voluntary cooperation from the masses.

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

~ Elie Wiesel

A Delaware Wave reader emails that insignificant things often annoy her. She writes that she was upset in a restaurant recently because a child was making some noise. She admits that the kid was just being a kid, and that the parents seemed to be doing their best to contain him. But it still ruined her dinner. This happens to her in other situations too. She asks me what she can do to change her attitude.

One of my favorite techniques in cognitive psychotherapy is “cost-benefit analysis.” It’s a simple process whereby you look at the time, energy and emotional cost of paying attention to disruptive or annoying thoughts. I don’t know what her thoughts were in the restaurant, but they probably went something like this: “I can’t believe these people brought their kid in here! And lucky me — right next to my table!”

Notice that I’m calling the THOUGHTS disruptive and annoying. That’s the key principle of cognitive therapy. It’s not the child (or whatever) that’s directly causing the anxiety. It’s your mind. You can change your mind by changing your thoughts, and you can change your thoughts by changing your perspective. For example, she could have tried thinking, “Just because this kid is making noise doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy my food. His parents really are trying to deal with it, and most likely he’ll settle down. And, if it gets bad enough, I can leave.” The point is that you can CHOOSE how you look at something.

I realize it’s hard to do this when you’re under stress, so why not try a little (free) cognitive therapy on yourself. Get a notepad, and make two columns. The first column says “costs” and the second says “benefits.” Consider your frustration on the road. One way to think while driving is, “This is terrible. I’m stuck behind this slow person.” Then write down the costs and benefits of that thought. Maybe something like, “It makes me feel good to be angry about the slow driver. I release some stress, and then it passes. I move on.” Feeling angry and upset (cost) is outweighed by the immediate stress reduction you get by complaining about it (benefit). But what if the cost of being angry turns out to be more anger, and escalates into bad decision-making while you’re driving? Are these costs worth the anger? Probably not. It might make sense to think of another way to respond.

Cost-benefit analysis, originally developed by psychiatrists and therapists such as Aaron Beck, David Burns and Albert Ellis, is not just an intellectual exercise. It can truly change the way you react to troubling situations. You start with the premise that your thoughts determine the way you feel. If you don’t like the way you feel, then find alternative thoughts, which, in turn, will create different feelings. Consistently applied, it becomes a habit.

I look at situations like road rage or anger over children in restaurants as the “is/should” conflict. People get mad because they feel like there SHOULD not be a child in the restaurant, or the slow driver SHOULD not be in front of them. But it doesn’t matter how it should be — all that matters now is the way it IS. There IS a child sitting next to you. You can leave or you can change the way you think about it. Deal with it, because anger will change nothing (other than, possibly, your life expectancy).

There are times when we are surrounded by stupid behavior. But at the same time, our outlook on those behaviors can determine how we feel. The choices we make apply not only to how we act, but to how we think. If you want to change how you feel about something, then either take action or change your thinking. The choice is yours.

Michael J. Hurd

In a free country, the government matters — but only so much. The President, in a free republic, would matter for foreign affairs/defense, foreign trade, and the borders. Now that our federal government has overtaken nearly every aspect of daily life — finances, health care, policing, medical care, small business funding and operations, every aspect of schooling.– with no end in sight, the federal government and the President matter much more than they should.

Your life and livelihood could turn, in an instant, on the whim of this unelectable, unelected and thoroughly rotten-to-the-core parasitical figurehead. How unjust is that? What are your own thoughts about what to do about it? How are your children and grandchildren to survive under the kind of regime now set in motion? Because in the new “United States,” you really don’t have the luxury of ignoring politics. Government is everywhere you turn, and it’s only going to get worse, on the present course.