Front Seat For the Ghost Dance

Yes, i should be blogging an old book — Anthro the Life Giver — and I bought it and everything. And then…. I’ll be battered and deep fried if I have any idea where I put it. It doesn’t help I’m in the middle of the great organization and cleaning…. I hope I didn’t donate it. It was very expensive. I wish I had it electronic, because then I couldn’t lose it

Anyway… I’d be worried about Alzheimers except I’m better than I was in my twenties. This is mostly ADHD. And right now working on two books at once.

But there are advantages to being old, and having seen this movie before. Movie? Well, a lot of you are getting very worried about Minnesota. Because the media is doing their usual stuff of spinning up the crazies and the poor people who don’t know better — including some my age who blindly listen to the MSM — to think that ICE is Gestapo, or that they are doing anything other than deportations (And not enough of those, d*mn it.)

Look, back in 2004 when I was sure Kerry would win because of all the noise and fury? A friend in the Heinlein group, who was then in his eighties, so I don’t hold much hope of his still being with us — but he might be — said that you can tell when the left is losing because they get unbearably loud.

At the time I doubted him. Look, I was a kid. Barely in my forties. But since I’ve observed he was right. Every time he was right.

So, what is going on? Well, it used to be they made a lot of noise to convince you they were winning. But that hasn’t worked — really — since sixteen. Oh, 2020. 2020 was all fraud. they didn’t even try noise. The only noise was after, to convince us that Trump had justly lost. And if you bought it — so many on the right did — shame on you. And if you’re over some age, usually 55 your college should let you audit mathematics classes cheaply. Oh, there was the second prong to their fraud, which was the theater of Black Lives Matter. That theater and that loud — yes it was just loud theater. That’s why they only could do two cities at a time, why the pallets of bricks, and why the whole thing vanished overnight once they got their puppet in — was on the marginal chance they could get black people to vote for the corpse (likely worked with some. Who knows?) but mostly so people like the supreme court would be afraid to call out fraud, because they thought the country was in uprising and they’d get killed.

Their psyops are rarely aimed the way you think. The “All the right are anti-Semites” thing was aimed at democrat Jews to keep them in line (More the fool them if they fall for it, but heck, some of y’all on the right did. Shame on you. It’s an obvious and transparently naked psy-ops.) It panicked the right, but it was aimed at leftist Jews.

In the same way the insanity in Minnesota and the attempt to wind up more patsies and mentally ill to martyr themselves is aimed not at us but at their side, to shore up belief and fervor.

Ghost dancing. It’s all ghost dancing.

Is it working? Well. Some people are in conquered areas, so it’s really hard to know if the psy-ops works or if they’re making mouth-noises for the equivalent of painting lamb’s blood on the doorposts and hoping the dark angel of communism passes by. This goes for occupied professions and other areas where people falsify their preference. I know people who falsify their preference (And very well at that) exist because I did for years. And I have friends still submerged everywhere from Academia to the arts. They do what they have to do and say what they have to say because baby needs shoes. And sometimes because they’re grimly, stone-facedly engaged in their own version of the long march. I.e. if this all falls apart they want to be our men — and women — on the inside, who can make sure the left’s victory is dead aborning. This of course requires extremely good “passing” so you’ll find them coming out with some of the most hilarious — but not to the left — hot takes.

And then there’s the mentally ill, the disaffected, those without connections, and people who could never ever ever read human emotions one on one, much less over all the country. The left is very “lucky” that 2020 created so many more of them. They’re still a minority. They are also the ones they’re trying to convince with crazy stuff like “ICE is not law enforcement” And “ICE is taking American citizens off the streets and disappearing them.”

They want these people to believe that nonsense, because that creates more martyrs. And they think martyr blood will propel them to renewed power.

They are wrong. They are profoundly wrong. It almost worked in the seventies, at least in a lot of places. Not not in all and not for long.

And their odds in the seventies were so much better than now.

You might not realize that, because you weren’t around or really tuned in to politics in the seventies (I learned early that even if you’re not interested in politics, politics is very interested in you. Like people in beaches at risk of sneaker waves, I haven’t turned my back on it since.)

And I remember the seventies. “The left is going to win” and “communism is the future” was more plausible then. A whole lot more plausible. It wasn’t just that they could point to the USSR and say “See, communism works. They have no crime and no poverty.” and they had the glossy magazines and the fact that the US treated Russia as a peer in armaments and as superior in morality (No? Really? What do you think USAID was about? They were convinced that the USSR was winning hearts and minds, and only way we could compete with that was throw money around.) Yes, some of us saw through it, but even with me, it took till I was 14 and I had NO PROOF. As with being sure world population is much smaller than advertised and started falling earlier than advertised, I had no way of proving it. Not even reports of having visited Those who visited the USSR were usually not of our persuasion, and they brought back stories of wonderful, and it took a jaundiced view to see through it.

So the left had a society that “was working” and was one of the world’s “superpowers” to point at and claim that was why communism would win. And they had the young. Dear Lord they had the young. If you weren’t at least paying lip service to “Both are equally bad” (Us and the USSR, no joke) you were regarded as an imbecile.

And of course, the megaphone of the media was impenetrable. To be not-on-the-left was to continuously apologize for all the manufactured “scandals” they created to marginalize those who opposed them. Nixon was the devil. Carter was a savior. Ford was a klutz. And on down to dog catcher level.

So they could stage big things, sit ins and walk outs and lockouts in every campus. After all, I’m told by those older than me that anti-war demonstrations were the way to pick up the cute chicks. That’s how you tell where the social power is. Being leftist was a positional good.

But even then, here — note, not in Portugal, not in a dozen other countries — the “get a pregnant woman shot so it ignites country-wide revolution” didn’t take. I don’t know the details of the poor woman who got shot at Kent, and whether she was a true believer or — merely — an oblivious passerby (Lord knows in Portugal in the seventies I oblivious passerbyed into some hairy situations. Children, if you learn nothing else from me, learn that it is stupid to walk around reading your science fiction paperbacks when spontaneous street battles can break out around the corner. Oh, also I almost got run over a bunch of times. What can I say it’s an addiction.) I could ask my husband who finished his degree at Kent and whose older brother attended immediately after that debacle, but I don’t want to just listen to ranting the rest of my day. He has opinions about the whole thing. They don’t accord the the “official” version you were taught in school. (Only time I saw my husband about to punch someone in SF was when Eric Flint went into the Kent incident. He got schooled at the top of Dan’s voice and had the good sense to shut up.)

However, even that, in the much more favorable conditions of the seventies failed to ignite the US into leftist (socialist, communist, whatever) revolution.

The Minnesota insanity is not going to ignite it now (Hey advantages of this, I can now spell Minnesota. That’s new!) when the USSR fell and despite the best attempts at covering the dung in perfume everyone knows more or less it was a miserable place. It’s not going to ignite now when the most fervent apologists for communism are either transparently venal or stupid or… well, mentally ill.

They couldn’t even find a normal looking pregnant woman. Think about that for a moment. And they have to blatantly LIE about what is going on. And most of the insanity (look, there’s crazy all over. After all Trump got shot in what was a rural area) is concentrated in one city, because that’s all they can commandeer.

And it’s only “taking” with a small portion of the population, and only because these people mostly follow the MSM which is outright lying, not just embroidering. On social media, you can see the left change opinions in real time and each hot take is worse. I keep staring at them and going “What on Earth are these people?” It’s like a new mountain of insanity appears behind the previous insurmountable peak. Yesterday my favorite were the chickies who convinced themselves the ICE agent in the Good Shot (Note spelling) has fled the country and then started running with that, how they guessed he wasn’t such a good patriot, etc. as though it had been proven. Though the idea that one can get internal bleeding from firing a 9mm one handed was also precious. No. Really.

It’s revolting, because the left is blatantly casting about for more martyrs, trying to ignite a revolution on top of a pile of bodies of those gullible or stupid enough to fall for their tricks. And they don’t seem to realize that the revolution they hanker for is impossible because most people now know that their philosophy is all steaming pile of shit and no pony. They might not know it at a level they can ARTICULATE but the renaming to “Democratic Socialism” didn’t happen because the “communist” brand was so wonderful.

They couldn’t do it in the seventies. They can’t do it now. As pinched and stupid as things were under the autopen we’re not a Latin American nation of noblemen and campesinos where the campesinos can be weaponized with some tawdry promises and ersatz hope. (Look, even Latin America is not like that anymore. The left doesn’t know that, which is why they tried to import it. Poor idiots think culture is genetic and doesn’t change ever.)

So all they are doing is replaying the greatest hits to get their fans to head bop. And most people — those not addicted to the vile politics stuff — are ignoring it.

Does this mean it’s harmless? No. Like with weaponizing crazies to shoot political figures, there are going to be victims on both sides. So minimizing that is a goal. If you have a family member or friend prone to buying this bullshit, if you love them (hey, I love FERAL cats) don’t argue the fundamentals of their belief — that are none, just slogans resonating in an otherwise empty head — but do tell them that yes, ICE are federal law enforcement, and yes, ICE have real guns with real bullets. Taunting, screaming in their ears, etc. will only go on till they feel threatened and then you’ll be dead. If you wouldn’t do it to an FBI agent, or your local policeman, don’t do it to ICE. There are less painful ways to commit suicide.

And if it’s just the elderly relative who believes the MSM, point out casually that no, there hasn’t been a single PROVEN case of ICE detaining (let alone deporting) an American citizen. The closest you get to that is the minor children sent back with their illegal parents, because the parent chose it so. And on that, don’t cry for them. The kids are American citizens. They’ll get welfare/support checks wherever they are. (One reason to nix birth citizenship.) In countries where life is much cheaper this is a huge thing. I went to high school with a pair of twins who were born while their mom was “visiting” the US. The entire extended family lived from their support payments.

Just pour some cold water in the MSM fervid lies. The most effective way is to say “I guess they don’t read social media. All these have been debunked” instead of frontally calling the MSM bald faced liars (which they are.)

What else?

Oh, yeah, stop panicking. I think part of the reason even the left isn’t getting that much “purchase” this time is their continuous whirlwind of “must fight for” causes that get dropped on a dime: Climate change, BLM, Palestine, now ICE. Even true believers at some point notice this get dropped COLD when the utility is past. There is no continuity, just a crazed search for “purchase” in people’s minds.

As for us, remember all the times the world was coming apart, including the kayfab fight in which Musk was now, for sure, going to go left (People, he’s not stupid) and help the left, and yes, all the other variations there of.

Even Gates has admitted the climate hoax was an hoax. It’s over.

The beast hasn’t fallen over, but it’s mortally wounded.

Dangerous? Of course it’s dangerous. But we’re not at danger of LOSING. The danger is the destruction it will create as it dies. And these things play out slowly. The death could take twenty years.

Be not afraid, but be not stupid. Don’t despair. Try to snatch brands out of the fire. BUT don’t run headlong to death. We’re not the left. Our cause is just. We don’t need martyrs. And you’re more precious to us alive than dead.

Now, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Deep breaths. You got this.