While a trillion words are being written about the Trump victory – and I will be writing more of them myself – there are words that no one else can write because they belong solely to my own experience and personal convictions as they might affect me or others close to me, so I dig in:
Relative to the writings you read here, NERs as I call them, I’ve had a pervasive sense for the past -at least – six months, that if Harris Walz successfully stole the election, that my number might come up, targeting me with ‘lawfare’ and its subsequent consequences for what I’ve written here in NER. You might think ‘that’s ridiculous’ given the negligible size and reach of NER and of course you’d be right at face value, however, there were no logical or legal boundaries to an expanded and emboldened censorship regime that would absolutely have been implemented had Harris Walz won. Web robots, they used to be called ‘spiders’, and new AI, could have been unleashed at the push of a button and could have found and marked all conservative commentary for punishment, probably within hours. The real flesh and blood enforcement, intimidation, legal suits, even imprisonment, all would have certainly taken a lot more time, because as we saw with J6, they were literally hunting anyone that walked near the capital that day and brought them in for questioning and often prosecution, during the entirety of the Biden four years. They did it with electronics. Going after web commentators functioning in broad public domain daylight would take far less effort. Their intentions were clear. Democrats oblivious to their coming defeat at the hands of Trump were openly baying for far more aggressive censorship and prosecution against anyone they deemed to be their political and ideological enemies. Harris would have delivered day 1. Of course, Musk and X were public enemy number One in this matter, shared the same concern as I had, and he would have ended up in prison quickly or fled the country. If Democrats would lock up a frail ‘Trumper’ grandmother just walking around the capital on January 6, 2021, they sure as hell wouldn’t pass over NER and its writer. Consequently, I had to really decide whether to keep writing or to contemplate what it would be like to be bankrupted and thrown in jail for expressing my first amendment rights. I never wavered from the decision to keep going forward. Why risk an impending, hopefully comfortable retirement years to write commentary that very few read? While for me, it’s an academic conundrum, the principle stands: stay silent and risk that evil will prevail or say something, expose myself to retribution for that ‘crime’, and believe that my words will make a difference to prevent the triumph of evil.
While going to prison would obviously be a dramatic personal impact, other impacts would have been cumulative and almost as dystopian. Watching an unleashed lawfare administration systematically hunt and crush all the other higher profile conservatives along with the institutions and platforms that disseminate their influence, these would be quickly felt. Having the numbers of illegal immigrants entering the country double, tiple, or quadruple, taking all the jobs, occupying housing from government largess to make it inaccessible to native citizenry, driving up the national debt even more than Biden and the inevitable resulting inflation would have affected all of us deeply. Having our electoral districts rigged with imported voters to take away our electoral power and choice would have corrupted our governance for the rest of my lifetime and well beyond. None of this is abstract, it would have worked out as devastation in real world life experience.
Due to the Trump victory, I and we can scale back any prepping to just account for natural disasters or other more foreseeable external world events. We no longer must fear an administration that would intentionally and systematically release hundreds of thousands of dangerous criminals, leftist, and violent illegal aliens to wreak havoc on communities, even to targeting conservative districts in an effort to punish and subdue the Democrats political enemies, because as you may be aware, they already started that program under Biden. The fear of that program’s expansion is gone, and we can now expect law and order as our government’s guiding light.
One of the most galling intangible results now avoided is the galling feel to see evil prevail; evil people, liars, gas lighters, cons, corrupt toadies, arrogant celebrities, and vicious bureaucrats all turned away all in just one election day. One day they were a threat. When we woke up on November 6th, they were waking up to a pale sunrise of deserved dread, whether they expected it or not. In the two weeks since, their dread has compounded exponentially as Trump announces his appointments and one planned directive after another, eliminating corrupt, wasteful, and woke government jobs, appropriations, and grants. The metaphorical and mythical train to Canada is filling up.
I’ll welcome lower prices even if it takes a while to filter down to me. Fixing energy policy will bring a fast turnaround but structural debt will be still poisoning for a good while to come. Several years back, we used to like unstructured visits to New York City and did some vacationing in natural areas of Northern California. Progressive governance impinged on taking that back up, especially in NYC as it descended into a woke wasteland. Maybe we’ll go back sooner.
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