I know DD, I see it around me too though thankfully not in my house.

It is a long haul and often not rewarding however I encourage people to persist.
I refuse to cede the ground to narrative manipulaters.

While I do see an overwhelming level of ignorance about the actuality of the issues, the thing that drives me is that I refuse to be manipulated. I will pull as many as I can from this manipulation as possible.
I mock them when they play the outrage button.
I probably would have said to your wife, I’m fine with discussing issues in Ukraine but I am outraged that they are manipulating us. I don’t like being lied to. That really is what it boils down to.

There is someone on Twitter with the name The Persistence. It sums up my determination to fight them as well and as long as I am able.

I have my share of faults but the Lord blessed me with a highly tuned manipulation meter.
If you ask me to do something and I can, I most likely will if I believe it is just. Try and manipulate me into to doing it and I almost certainly will not do it.
I’ll use that tool as best I can to fight back and I’ll use every opportunity to open others’ eyes to it.

Bet you did not realize the extent of the stupi(sorry, Unawareness) long ago… difficult, for you.

Is she a blond? Just asking for a friend.

When you look at Europe through the prism of a feudalism, it is not that hard to fathom.
That the ruling class in America seems intent on resurrecting the feudalism construct surprises me not one bit. It is the powerful seeking to subjugate and use the “weak”.

Our form of government, our very country was founded in an attempt to change this. Our Founding Fathers worked so very hard to try and arm the citizenry with the tools to fight back against what was the norm in human history. It was successful enough as to be copied to a degree in other countries. The same countries aligned now to break their own Constitution and Bill of Rights equivalents so as to make us all powerless against the government.

There was a video Sundance linked the other day by Neil Oliver that I highly recommend. I think I’ve prompted this to play at a particularly poignant and relevant point.

FTV,
Here’s the thing, what we have had in the West, some parts of the West at least, is even rarer than truth and gold.
We have had freedom. Freedom as individuals, to go about without undue fear of the State.

Most of the rest of the world is a damned mess and almost always has been. Most people that lived and died for 200,00 years have endured an existence we would find utterly intolerable, unbearable.
All around the world people have been and are ruled by despots, tyrants, gangsters and thugs.
If you don’t know this or don’t believe me just take a look around.

Here in the West, for a few decades so exceptional as to be dream-like, a handful of generations have known something else: individual freedom, body autonomy, equality before the law, the promise of a fair trial so that the State may not punish a person without due process, the right to vote, tolerance of sexuality and religion.

The entire video is excellent.
The above illustrates my point. What we experienced throughout our lives is the exception in human history. Most have taken it for granted. The forces aligned and frankly, prevailing currently, wish to take it away from us.

Rule followers? That one bothers me unless you take out the comma, so it reads: uninformed rule followers. IMO it was the hippy non-rule followers like the Clintons, Bushes, Pelosi’s et.al that got us here in this new dark age even when knowledge is at our fingertips.