As IF Times

It’s palpable.  The significant shift in the zeitgeist.  We can see it in popular culture, we can see it among regular people, and we can even see it more in legacy media.  The peak time of woke has passed.  The election of Donald Trump in overwhelming numbers in all but the most hardcore left states is a testament to the change.  And even in those left leaning areas, the shift in voting dynamics is underway. While Trump himself did not start the change, he personified the frustration that the vast majority of the population had felt for decades. They were fed up with the suffocating edicts of the militant left that they endured; at first gradually, then in a torrent.  The vote was a massive rejection of the increasingly severe rhetoric of the left.  Even at Madison Square Gardens in New York, the very heart of left, woke culture, Trump was welcomed as a hero while attending an UFC event.  The adulation and appreciation throughout the packed crowd was electric.  Finally, a champion.

For decades, the over-riding narrative propagated by the left in all sectors of society was “tolerance” and with that, the associated notion of diversity.  Tolerance and diversity were the impenetrable armor of the left as they proceeded to widely suppress and change the mindset of Americans. But something sinister happened along the path to leftist nirvana. That was the realization that a third critical component came with these two ideals:  and that was compliance. George Orwell presciently wrote of this almost 90 years ago in his classic novel, 1984. It’s incredible just how astute an observer of human nature he was.

Who would argue against the benign aspirations of tolerance and diversity? To do so would be as if you rejected ice cream and cake.  The problem was that everything became framed by these ideals and only certain people were allowed to frame them.  Thus, any opposition was characterized as unsociable and subversive to ‘mainstream values’. The term “politically correct” came into being.  They took a page from Henry Ford’s strategy, that is: you can think any way you want, as long as it’s our way.  This was the shield by which the left was able to coerce Americans into beliefs and behaviors more and more at odds with the fundamental values of the majority of Americans….and indeed worldwide.

When the principal concerns for the left became the right to end the lives of babies, to have men participate in women’s sports, to insist that sexually confused people MUST populate positions of responsibility in society, as well as promote unqualified people into jobs based solely on arbitrary demographics, the end was near.  We saw people with clearly deficient mental abilities promoted to positions in the name of diversity.  I suppose dumb can be considered diverse.  Ironically, it is a testament to the very tolerance of mainstream society that we withstood it for as long as we did.  In other words, mental illness was force fed into a population that finally recognized it as such.

This much is evident post the Trump victory as a women’s movement is underway to shave their heads and abstain from sexual relations.  Certainly this will be more of a hardship for some than for others if you’ve seen any pictures.  They didn’t even have the presence of mind to understand that their woke beliefs meant that men would in fact replace women in all aspects of life….apparently even giving birth. We have famous celebrities leaving (or only threatening to leave) because of their irrationally held fears. The charade is exposed; these people are nuts.

Thus Donald Trump is the target of the collective moaning and wailing, but the stark reality is, we’ve likely passed the zenith of woke and hopefully can now return back to an age of reason.  A large part of the population have finally pushed back against the oppression of submission.  They are no longer interested in acquiescing to the bizarre edicts of the insane and continuing down the rabbit hole of woke.  Weird is out; we can all celebrate normal again.

Donald Trump will go down in history as the only man to have ever won 3 national elections. As the results emerged last night, it became clear that the message he has been promoting resonated with an increasingly large swath of voters.

However, even among the media who were notionally pro Trump and certainly among many conservatives, there was still only guarded enthusiasm as everyone is residually scarred by the sudden change in voter numbers in 2020 when Trump had also apparently secured the requisite numbers for victory. The Charlie Brown, Lucy, football scenario lingered in their minds.

There is a scene in the 1983 comedy film, Yellowbeard, in which a blind beggar asks for some food from a Pirate.  The Pirate tells the blind man that he can have some chicken and proceeds to hand him a chunk of bread.  The blind beggar thanks him profusely for the ‘chicken’ and scurries away.  I’m reminded of this scene because of the masterful job of gas-lighting that the left have managed to impose over their years in power.  Regular people were made to doubt even what was clearly evident in front of them in favor of the narrative coming from the left.  Even very conservative media and many people in the general population were not ready to believe the news of a Trump victory.  They had become programmed to become cynical and fearful of optimism after years of a constant barrage of propaganda. Relentless browbeating from all fronts made people accept almost anything as truth.  It almost worked.

Donald Trump refused to be beaten.  He and a very small core population did not succumb to the narrative pushed daily from the left.  While at first marginalized and scorned, his persistence of message gathered more and more believers as it became more and more evident that the nation was collapsing badly on all fronts; economically, culturally, politically and upon the world stage.   As we all know by now, his message of optimism gathered more and more adherents during his campaign, even as there were several assassination attempts on his life. His stature as a hero, one who would literally put his life on the line for citizens, resonated with a growing number of people disenchanted with the inauthentic heroes posted by the left. He was the real guy. He wasn’t manufactured.  Rational people can sense authenticity and his support exploded across all demographics.   Perseverance in the face of adversity is as an American trait as it gets and Trump personified this. People love and identify with stories of overcoming bullies. Detractors could only point nebulously to his unlikeable personality.  Can’t please everyone.

But despite the left’s gas-lighting, their balkanization of the population into their own interest groups and the pleading of ‘celebrities’, the people could feel empathy with Trump’s message.  At the base of it all, most people just want to be left alone to pursue a life with their families. They don’t want to be told how to comport themselves, how to look after their families and to be taxed at every turn.  They didn’t want their tax dollars spent on distant wars, for questionable causes and for illegal entrants.  They reject all the ‘isms’ imposed upon them.  The problem was always that they did not have anyone to strongly champion their cause. They could see the bullying by the left in their attempts to imprison and bankrupt both Trump and his supporters and even exposed him to physical harm.  Trump’s steadfast refusal to back down struck an enormous chord with people who needed a real champion.  This message resonated with some very influential people such as Elon Musk, Robert  Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, all former Democrats who came to support Trump’s vision for America.  They recognized the dangerous path that the nation was on and they chose to support decency for the future.   Decency is not abstract.  It is not what a celebrity tells you it is.  It is comportment by oneself that is performed even when no one else is aware of it but you.  Most people know this and they see that decency in Trump.

The reality is that the US is the only place left in the world in which freedom of speech and of actions are uniquely celebrated and encouraged.  Every other nation in the world has minor to severe restrictions on what their citizens are allowed to do…including all of the notional free countries of the West. The hysterical handwringing from the left on a potential tyrannical regime clearly disregards those 3 recent tyrannical years of forced vaccinations, masking, confinement and restricted travelling enforced by police against people’s wills.

Finally, the euthanizing of P’Nut the squirrel was a clarion call for people who were enraged by bureaucratic tyranny imposed by the state at all levels.  The lack of judgement in so many facets of people’s lives demonstrated by this cruel event probably prompted even the most cynical to vote Trump.  If there’s one tyrannical edict I’d like to see mandated by the incoming administration it would be that people need to be rational and to think for themselves.  The time for groupthink is over.