The Chickens Came Home
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You
Fall of 2014 was an interesting time in my life. I was a senior in high school, training every day in my sport to prepare for the upcoming season, and ready to move on to college. My personal life was never better and I began the journey from “boy” to “older boy/young man” that every man goes through, one that’s becoming more and more convoluted.
My friends and I loved memes. In school, we were the ones who started “Bush Did 9/11, Dick Cheney Made Money off the Iraq War, Obama is a Shape Shifting Lizard” and sheesh, people ate it up. One of my friends even did a presentation on why Jet Fuel Doesn’t Melt Steel Beams. We were having too much fun with it, and it was pretty much the “Lets Go Brandon” before “Lets Go Brandon,” but it was rooted in some truth: none of us trusted politicians, none of us liked the American Establishment.
This was about 4-5ish months after the previous school year, where our favorite teacher, the best I’ve ever had, “didn’t have his contract re-newed.” Coincidentally, this happened after speaking against the Common Core at a statewide Board of Ed meeting - where he said: education, not entertainment will make a difference in students’ futures. Kids at the school were pissed, some spoke out against it, but the decision stood. It never sat right with me, and it made me question a bit of what I had originally believed to be true: adults are sensible, education is pure, and schools put kids first.
What I didn’t know, and what none of us did at the time, was that this incident was a warning shot. Within the next 7 years, it became criminal to step out of liberal orthodoxy, the Establishment media picked a fight with half the country, and freedom of association became less and less respected in daily life. Those same friends that started the memes with me became consumed with Establishment liberal talking points or straight up leftism, and went down rabbit hole after rabbit hole.
Nobody was speaking up.
Nobody was saying no.
I knew given a long enough time frame, human nature would kick in - people would get sick of it, but I didn’t know when and I wasn’t sure if the country would even have a chance of avoiding a Hot Civil War.
Looks like we’ll live to fight another day.
I knew Virginia would go Red. I knew there would be backlash locally down ballot. I knew the Common Man was becoming increasingly skeptical and I knew that there would be some kind of referendum on out of control liberal orthodoxy.
But. I was wrong on one thing:
Anti Lockdown is a winning strategy.
For the past few months, I saw the value in anti lockdown as a winning strategy (something a guy like DeSantis could use to fire up the conservative base and win over skeptics), but I didn’t think it would be a premier issue. Despite my growing audience, I thought that the majority of the country saw the Covid Protocols as “things that we just have to do” no matter how much we hated doing the same old song and dance. I didn’t think that most people were skeptical enough to voice their concerns, and that the best of us would be lost in the noise. I also didn’t think we had enough stones to really tell people like Fauci to go shove it.
I was wrong.
Anti Lockdown is a winning issue.
Whoever says it’s not is lying to you.
School closures is what won in Virginia. Fairfax County, a blue area, closed their schools for roughly 18 months. The media, the Expert Class, and every Liberal dismissed any criticism, any outcry from parents as a “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation” because Covid was their winning issue in 2020. Like I said months back, and we’ll re-visit these claims, Biden/CDC re-instituting mask recommendations/mandates was for a political victory. I also told Dogg Readers very clearly: Never Interfere With the Enemy in the Process of Destroying Himself.
Here’s a look at some predictions from this article:
Well. Look what happened. Glenn Youngkin won Virginia and the Republicans secured victories down ballot. In New Jersey, Jack Ciatterelli is currently neck and neck with First Team All-Lockdown Starter Phil Murphy, and Republicans won down ballot. Local Trucker Ed Durr, who has no experience in government, is currently leading State Senate President Leader Stephen Sweeney - a top Democrat in Jersey. Here’s Durr’s campaign video, let’s look at what he talks about:
Nursing Homes and Covid - 8,000 deaths
Lockdown Policies destroying economy (they didn’t save lives either)
People leaving New Jersey
Think this isn’t solely a liberal problem? Don’t take it from me:
That’s from Gavin Newsom.
Now lets take a look at something from a Politico article:
The article mentions that people are over Covid, “Fatigue” has set in, and people are ready to move on. Who do you think they’ll vote for? The candidates in favor of school closings, school masking, testing, etc., or the candidates promising normal life. Newsom himself said that Covid unites the Democrats, and when Covid is no longer issue #1, well, you might get yourself in trouble. See, if Newsom and other Democratic operatives read The Dogg, they would’ve seen it coming!
I’m seeing a lot of talk - both in the MSM and Twitter, that Critical Race Theory played a big hand in the 2021 Elections. As in - it was issue #1.
That’s not necessarily true.
Critical Race Theory, as of now, is mainly Fodder for FOX News/MSNBC/CNN to have a cope session about. I’m sure you know where all 3 of these organizations are on CRT, so I’m not going to explain it.
I’m not saying CRT isn’t an issue that’s cared about yet, but what I am saying is that it’s not #1.
People are fed up with everything the Dems have done this year, and as Gavin Newsom just told us, all of their politics are downstream from Covid.
People don’t like school closings. People don’t like masks on toddlers. People don’t like inflation. People don’t like disrupted supply chains. All of this is because the Democrats refuse to move on from Covid - making CRT an afterthought. I don’t think they’ll learn anything from it, I think they’re going to double down for the 100th time and “mask harder” (whatever that means) and propose more mandates. All of the economic issues, from employment, to WFH, to disrupted supply chains, to inflation, is because of testing/lockdown/maks/vax mandates. It’s completely unnatural to disrupt life this much for any pandemic, much less a now-endemic virus. It’s time to let it go - live normally, and move on. Or, they can keep eating it down ballot and inevitably Ron DeSantis wins the Presidency. Their choice.
Here’s the bigger, underlying issue though:
Remember last week’s article on why institutions need reform, and when I mention that Western Liberal Institutions are being ran by the wrong people? You should read it:
People are finally starting to see that modern day liberals/leftists are smug and annoying. We’ve seen this with race, gender, economic, and climate debates. Covid was the epitome of all of that: Did you get Covid? You didn’t mask hard enough. Are you un-vaccinated, or have questions about the vaccine? Shut up and listen to Fauci. Are you worried about your business? Stay the fuck home. Are your kids not allowed to attend school? Kids are resilient. Did your kids drop out of school, fall behind, or become depressed? These are necessary sacrifices. We’re all in this together! Did you protest or speak out against lockdowns, masks, mandates, or the origins of Covid? Stop being a Trump loving, anti mask, granny killing science denier.
This was more destructive than any issue they’ve touched. It perverted everything we did. Schools were closed, you couldn’t sit down at the bar and watch a game after work, and you couldn’t shop in Walmart without a mask. These drastic changes to day-to-day life not only didn’t work, but were championed in unison by the mainstream, the establishment, and their supporters. Questioning and speaking out against this orthodoxy was the worst thing you could possibly do, and we truly lost the plot in regards to the entire founding ideologies of the country.
As I’ve said before, I don’t expect Establishment Liberals to learn from this. But the public is figuring it out. They’re continuously losing people because of the academic/bureaucratic “theories” and “studies” that aren’t based in reality, much less what constitutes actual policy. Institutional reform will take years, if not decades.
A few days ago, I told one of my friends that I was optimistic about things. I thought that true anti establishment attitudes had a chance of being re-born, and that people would soon turn towards questioning everything and demanding better from Western Liberalism; anti lockdown is just the first “red pill” for some (and I couldn’t think of a better one). Walking away from Covid is the step we need to take to understand how we got there in the first place. Skepticism will begin to prevail as long as people stay even mildly engaged, and I believe it’s possible to elect better leaders.
I think Wokeism has peaked, and while it won’t go down easily, won’t do many more “degrees” (for lack of a better word) of damage. The first step to reforming institutions into something that can actually work took place last night, and people are realizing that we have been lead astray - and they’re demanding answers. This will not end will for the Establishment. To any Democratic politician, operative, or voter reading this, well, Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You.
Nice article thanks.
The leftists seem to have no ability for self reflection or introspection. When things blow up for them they look for a new boogie man.
The way they've build their whole message based on covid makes it seems more plausible for a bait and switch with climate change once the juice is squeezed out of the covid fruit.
"People are finally starting to see that modern day liberals/leftists are smug and annoying." And the most narrow-minded, arrogant people anywhere.