“Many believe we are approaching a tipping point, that we are on the verge of a ‘revelatory storm,’ that the truth is finally coming out…. What if we never reach it? What if the guilty are never held to account? What if we forget only to transgress again and again?”
-https://eadn-wc01-3158345.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wirepointslogo-corrected-border.png Ponese, The Epoch Times, October 7, 2022
By: Mark Glennon*
Years ago in Texas, I went to a luncheon talk by Pres. Lyndon Johnson’s former press secretary, George Christian. He said he and the rest of Johnson’s staff tried to stick to just three themes in most every message from Johnson: “help the poor, educate the kids and beat up on the communists.”
The themes change but that’s widely accepted wisdom for politicians – maintain the discipline to stick to very few issues that work for you because that’s about all most voters can digest. Most research says the average American spends only about an hour per day following the news.
That’s far too little time for voters to digest the number and gravity of the catastrophes America and Illinois are suffering through, most of which were inflicted by our own government.
The far left now controlling Illinois and the federal government lie and lie and lie again, at a pace too fast for the public to follow.
They’ve flooded the zone, as said in sports. Most voters are simply too busy busting their backs to keep the bills paid, or are too indifferent, to get the entirety of what has become of us into their consciousness.
Most importantly, public understanding has been willfully retarded through censorship by most of the traditional media, big tech platforms and the government itself.
Many of those failures are genuinely existential threats to the nation and Illinois. To wit:
An open southern border and broken immigration system; inflation and a stagnant economy; energy independence thrown away; unaffordable renewable energy goals; censorship by tech platforms, media and the government; incompetent and dishonest healthcare officials as exposed in the Covid pandemic, particularly on school shutdowns; higher education that despises viewpoint diversity; schools teaching hateful racialism; violent crime; criminal prosecutors unwilling to prosecute; plummeting academic and school performance; a dangerously senile president; school officials openly opposing parental control; multiple scandals exposed by the Hunter Biden laptop; a healthcare system that costs far too much; widespread perception of gross wealth and income inequality; breathtaking government incompetence reflected in the Afghanistan withdrawal process; and national debt with an annual interest cost now approaching $1 trillion per year. Particular to Illinois, uncompetitive tax burdens; the highest unemployment rate in the nation; fleeing population and tax base; one-party rule protected by gerrymandered maps; endless public corruption; and an unsustainable pension burden.
What may prove still more important are things being missed because we are preoccupied with that list. Columnist Michael Barone recently pointed out that, even in ordinary times, pending crises are often overlooked in election debates.
“I don’t remember any candidates talking about Islamic terrorism in the midterm elections of 1998 or about the risk of investing in mortgage-backed securities in 2006,” he wrote. “Going back a ways, I can’t recall much discussion about how to win or de-escalate the Vietnam War in 1966 or to cope with rising inflation in 1970.”
He’s right. Foreign policy matters have gone entirely unmentioned this year. The only exception was a group of progressives who recently questioned our level of commitment to Ukraine, but they were immediately slapped down into silence by their own party.
Or how about a questions on what age is too young for trans-gender surgery and medication? Europe is years ahead of us on that debate (and increasingly banning those treatments below a certain age), yet debate has barely reached our shores.
Ponese, that Epoch Times author quoted above, fears that the truth may never come out thanks to censorship by the establishment and our own blind trust. “We have relied for too long on institutions to do the remembering for us, to generate moral responsibility on our behalf,” she wrote. “In the era of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, personal accountability has been trained out of us. We were taught to believe that institutions would act as our surrogate moral conscience, taking account and making apology for us.”
That much is true, but things are changing. Alternative voices exposing the truth are being heard, though gradually. Polls show overwhelming, bipartisan distrust of traditional media. Most everybody knows we are being lied to, though it will take time to assimilate just how thoroughly we’ve been lied to.
That full scope of understanding won’t come before this election.
But when it comes, it will indeed be a “revelatory storm” – a grand epiphany causing future generations to ask how ours could have been so thoroughly duped.
*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Great article: but not sure we will have a ‘revelatory storm’. I think you make my argument for me on this point. You begin the article talking about Liden Johnson and the Vietnam era; a time that was as politically corrupt as the time we are in now. And besides technology, not much has changed. If we were going to have a revelation, don’t you think it would have happened by now?
Do a Google search on “Pritzker transgender” and read the article in Tablet.
https://nationalvanguard.org/2020/02/the-pritzkers-and-transgenderism/
I can’t post links or my post goes into never never land for some reason.
We found one in the spam folder for some reason and put it live.
Tablet Magazine.
The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI).
The wealthy, powerful, and sometimes very weird Pritzker cousins have set their sights on a new God-like goal: using gender ideology to remake human biology.
BY JENNIFER BILEK.
JUNE 14, 2022.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
This is some morale destroying sappy garbage! We’re winning and gaining ground fast!! What kind of twisted locker room pep talk is this? You publish this right before a critical election??? LOL I might have time this evening to ridicule you and this article in person tonight, but I’m not sure. Everyone knows that the whole system is rotten! Any other presentation of the facts is a lie. The status quo is BEGGING for amnesty. They can only print so much money. For anyone even remotely touched by this opposition propaganda cloaked in fear, uncertainty and doubt, I suggest reading… Read more »
Ummm Russia can destroy the west. It’s called the worlds largest nuclear arsenal.
Ignorance is bliss though.
Wow Dave. You’re all over the map and unintelligible. Get some medication.
And Mark’s article, published before the elections, is called GOOD TIMING.
But not according to you?
I think 99% of problem is now everyone’s starting @ their screens 24/7 and have the attention span of a flea. And every pol knows it, particularly when it comes to duping folks into voting for an Amendment 1…my kid works in monitoring/tracking clickbait for big software co, unbalivable what he shows me
We live in an age of internet dis-information, it doesn’t matter if its trumpie right or wackie woke left conspiracy theory peddlers, they’re all the same to me. i’m a fan of non of them. I’m extremely suspicious if anything. your an idiot not to be…last night sleepy joe gave political speech warning of political extremes, dis-information, etc..(it was so boring, I tried to listen but couldn’t). But, I ask, locally are the endless pro Amendment 1 commercials and editorials in supposed politically neutral press that continually spreading the complete lie that Amendment 1 is for all when in fact… Read more »
I respectfully disagree and would suggest that a good many people want, in fact crave, and want the leftist lunacy. These people are ready and willing to head over a cliff. I think this mid-term election will be very telling of where the enclaves of leftist nuttiness are rooted in. These people are not going change, regardless of facts- It is a cult, an ideology, a pagan religion for them. Just look at how they obsess with late term abortion an infanticide. No, these people are lost. And most of America has no desire to live among these radical people.
JackBolly, my view is that the people you describe comprise about 25% of the population. They are the crazies, the “irreconcilables.” I, too, do not expect them ever to be reached. But they have on their side tech platforms, schools, the media and government censors. If they can be defeated, reasonable people in the middle will wise up.
Perhaps 25% on average in IL, but in Chicago I’d say at least 50% compounded with 5-10% ‘surrender Republicans’. Evidence the absolute leftist nuttiness of Chicago government. W/o the western suburbs and downstate, IL would look as nutty and far left as SF.
I think its 45% of the state is crazy. That’s the percentage of people who voted for the graduated income tax. You’d have to be a crazy irreconcilable to vote for that insane law that would raise taxes California style. These are the people who wreck the state. There’s probably some threshold compared to other states where things really start to get bad at X%.
Mark, great article as always!
The truth you tell is spot on, so i fear that Biden and Merricks FBI (aka Gestapo) will be raiding your home at 4am tomorrow.
However, I don’t share your optimism that a revelation will come. The Uniparty and Deep State are way too powerful AND the overwhelming majority of citizens blindly believe anything the corrupt media tells them
Article is spot on. I occasionally ponder how the Nazis were able to wrest control of Germany. Are Germans really that different from us?
It took the combined might if the US, Britian, and Russia to get rid of the Nazis. Think about that.
Propaganda is effective.
ToughLove, that can’t be said often enough. Even when you know you are being propagandized it has an effect when its overwhelming. People who have lived in Russia or other places that regularly criticize the US often say that — that you begin to empathize with their perspective. If standard MSM narratives in America were balanced, the opinion base of Americans would be far different.
Crime and inflation have become the biggest issues this election cycle because they are the most effective and the lowest hanging fruit. The foreign policy issues and cultural issues have been subordinated by ‘kitchen table’ issues like gas/groceries prices and high crime. My neighbors are paying almost $5 a gallon for gas and my local Jewels charges $$$$ for produce and staples. Crime is real too – few people park their cars on the street anymore because of rampant car thefts, and catalytic converter thefts.
I think the grand revelation will be that both the D and R parties are thoroughly corrupted and anti the American people. They both work for globalist interests and against our constitution which guarantees us unalienable rights – they hate that. They are building a parallel world bureaucracy to our national governments in plain sight that is the true source of governance, unelected financiers and bureaucrats in Brussels, DC, London, those are the real leaders. Americans need to get out of the left / right paradigm. Right now the threat is the D party. But lest we forget the largest… Read more »
The paradigm should be right and wrong!
Marko, good to see you recognize neither D or R are the solution. They are truly one party of professional grifters at the Federal level.
President Trump tried to drain the swamp, but they circled the wagons and continue to beat on him 24/7/365
I don’t see this getting any better until many many more people figure this out like you have
Both parties have a lot to answer for. But it’s now a matter of triage- we need to defeat the immediate problem of Democrat rule before we can address the problems with Republicans. I am hoping Republicans have learned a lot watching the last couple of years, and understand they can’t go back to business as usual.
I like your triage approach
Definitely primary focus on removing Demonrats from power
However, getting Republicons to learn isn’t going to happen as they all feed from the same trough as the Uniparty.
Therefore it’s critical to remove the 3 biggest R traitors: Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Ronna (Romney) McDaniel
(Never realized they are all “Mc” until I typed that)
Anyway, those 3 are actively supporting Demonrats and withholding support for R all over they country. For one example, name the R running against Crying Chuck Schumer…
Mitch McConnell is too old, that’s his problem. But to his credit, he added three supreme court justices that just overturned Roe vs. Wade and are about to overturn Affirmative Action, both of which are the culmination of decades of fighting.
I’d like to see someone more nimble than Mitch take over leadership but we can’t have everything all at once.
“The far left now controlling Illinois and the federal government lie and lie and lie again, at a pace too fast for the public to follow.”
The understatement of the year.
How did you come to this conclusion? Who says the public isn’t following? Nobody here is having trouble following. You can’t assume that the “public” isn’t following because of anecdotal evidence. You need to do surveys and research. You’ll never see this research because the results are inconvenient and counter the narrative.
This is a brilliant piece. You managed to put in to words almost everything I think. Thank you, Mark.
I pray that storm occurs, but moving the electorate from apathetic and uninformed to concerned, educated and proactive may take far longer. The ploy of hanging “shiny objects “ in front of us to divert attention has been so effective. Will it take another national emergency to bring us to our senses? The pandemic did – somewhat. I believe the keys to unlocking the nation’s hibernation is the return of an objective press, but alas, that is a lost cause. Better to find solace in God and live in this world, but not of this world. All of it is… Read more »
In addition, years (even decades) of indoctrination of school children will raise the hurdles of recognition even higher.
Things are never going to get taken care of unless you change your attitude. It only takes a small percentage of dedicated individuals to make a huge difference. This is well known throughout the social sciences. I challenge anyone to present facts claiming otherwise.
??? The far left never was more than 30% or so of the country but they took over the federal government, Illinois and Chicago. You seem to think we should act as if they now have zero vote-getting power. Meanwhile, polls say 40% of voters approve of the job Biden is doing. Higher in IL. Optimism is one thing. Naiveté and denial are another. You apparently want an article that says the far left is heading for overwhelming defeat across IL. Show me any poll that says that.
“The far left never was more than 30% or so of the country but they took over the federal government, Illinois and Chicago.” This isn’t exactly true, but I’ll work with it. Yeah, and they massively over played their hand in the last 2 years. If the Fed money is cut off, the Chicago machine is done. I just read earlier that team R could be gaining 4 seats in the Senate and 30 in the House. Trump wasn’t supposed to win either. I have a Madam President cover framed on my wall to remind me of this fact and… Read more »