Most revolutions are supported by a minority, although it’s often a large minority. The majority doesn’t usually revolt or demonstrate.

Insufficiently Sensitive:

What if the whole shebang is being controlled by David Icke’s “lizard people”? Huh, huh? 🙂
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The idea of reptilians was popularised by David Icke, a conspiracy theorist who claims shapeshifting reptilian aliens control Earth by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate human societies. Icke has stated on multiple occasions that many world leaders are, or are possessed by, so-called reptilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory
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Personally, I find there are multiple conspiracies going on and our reality is the vector sum of all such forces.

I find it simplistic to suppose there is an Emperor Palpatine behind it all and “Everything is proceeding as [Palpatine] has foreseen.”

–“Everything is proceeding as I have forseen” 720p HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAf0QnLFS7Q“

If you’re talking about McConnell, I agree. But if you’re talking about McCarthy, he’s displayed plenty of outrage, as have many more. There’s also this from the House.

If I happen to mention a political issue or explain it to them, they’ll often retort that it’s all a bunch of nonsense, or they don’t want to think about it.

Throughout history more people are like that than are on either side. When do things change? When do people put down the plow or get off the couch? I suspect it’s when something strikes close to home, something they personally can’t ignore. It’s also when one side’s propaganda succeeds in getting through and the other side doesn’t. Today, the mass media’s job is to prevent dissenting voices from being heard. It’s not that the apolitical are tuned into CNN or MSNBC or the nightly network news. It’s that people have so many other distractions, besides politics, to keep them occupied.

Thanks for the Khayyam/Fitzgerald poem. Very good.

I offer this as a companion piece:

Friends and fighting men of the Danaans, henchmen of Ares,
be men now, dear friends, remember your furious valour.
Do we think there are others who stand behind us to help us?
Have we some stronger wall that can rescue men from perdition?
We have no city built strong with towers lying near us, within which
we could defend ourselves and hold off this host that matches us.
We hold position in this plain of the close-armoured Trojans,
bent back against the sea, and far from the land of our fathers.
Salvation’s light is in our hands’ work, not the mercy of battle

Um, what if Woke is just the latest phase of a bigger intent, and its authors (and their ‘news media’ megaphones) have a yet-more-hideous phase all locked and loaded for 2024?

Example – the NYT has been cheering, and giving maximum space to, Woke since its inception. Stay tuned for the next outpouring!