As MrsMac and I have passed from one house to another during this Holiday season, we are amazed to the return of normalcy bias by may of our prepping friends.
For what ever reason, be-it political fatigue or the feeling one gets from exiting the other end of a drama whole, many of us are still basking in Mrs Clinton's defeat. It seems like we are all taking a collective breath of relief with the knowledge that in X days the past eight year drama will be coming to an end.
How many times in world history has this happened? The battle of Troy comes immediately to mind however we can point out other events including events within your life. Well folks, the other shoe is about to drop.
Here is a very thoughtful piece written by Matt Bracken called,
Burning Down the House. Here is a short exert from the short essay.
The proto-Marxist Jacobins of the French Revolution put it this way: “Out of order, chaos.” But first the Jacobins had to create the chaos, with an artificially engineered grain shortage leading to food riots, which they exploited for their revolutionary ends. Vladimir Lenin put it this way, when told that bread riots were breaking out in Russia: “The worse, the better.” The better for creating the optimal revolutionary conditions. The Black Panthers, revolutionary Marxists of the 1960s, said, “Burn, baby, burn.”
I am predicting now and posting here in the General Board so that subscriber and non subscriber alike, starts to get off their high and moves back to being prepared. We are all in for a very rough time after the President-Elect is sworn in. Not unlike President Hoover, the Elites in DC, the MSM (Main stream media), Hollyweird, along with other factions will make his Presidency the worse in our 225 year history.
For you folks who live outside the North American shores don't chuckle. Just understand that if the US
ofA has the sniffles the rest of the world will get pneumonia. It is not bragging it just happens to be a fact.
So don't wait till January 20th, get out there today and pick up the prepping mantle again and get with the program.
