{"id":72598,"date":"2019-11-12T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72598"},"modified":"2019-11-12T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:43:08","slug":"72598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72598","title":{"rendered":"Pitchforks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The FBI is politicized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal law enforcement system is largely an extortion racket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IRS is weaponized against conservative groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academia from Kindergarten through Post-Doctoral levels is an indoctrination scam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media – on whom we once counted to keep government accountable – is a PR firm for one political party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it seems like our self-appointed idiot “elites” have this thing sewn up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I don’t think they know what a bad thing that’s going to be for them<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what are we to do? When faith is gone, both of the spiritual and the political variety, what remains? People seek peace and prosperity, and will happily live with an untold number of illusions so long as they have those two things. Perhaps we\u2019ve been doing that for a while. But what happens when those are gone? History shows us that when the ruling class and elites refuse to do what they should and instead do what they can, creating a government rigged in their favor, destroying the rule of law, and papering over corruption and injustice, the peasants pick up pitchforks and torches and they come for those who have behaved so abominably. Perhaps our elites should read more of that history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure the “elites” are quite that clueless; it is <\/em>why they’re trying to grab the guns.   And, eventually, the pitchforks.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FBI is politicized. The Federal law enforcement system is largely an extortion racket. The IRS is weaponized against conservative groups. Academia from Kindergarten through Post-Doctoral levels is an indoctrination scam. The media – on whom we once counted to keep government accountable – is a PR firm for one political party. Sometimes it seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72612,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72598\/revisions\/72612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}