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For weeks, the American people have been relatively silent as they digested these ongoing catastrophes. But at some point, their patience will run out.

I doubt it. The vast majority of Americans have a talent for self-deception.

We're living in a new Gulag Archipelago

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[Phoenix8]

PING

I was getting ready to say something very close. Hansen is WRONG on 1 assertion but it’s KEY.

We Americans are like the proverbial frog in the kettle. We will never awaken to the danger until we are cooked.

Why? because the left won their war of propoganda, Americans now think we are not worthy of defending our identity or someone else will do it when it gets bad enough. Too much devotion on TV and schools to slavery, excessive of capitalism, wars etc and no to very little mention of our greatness.