What Now

It's pretty clear that America is fractured - the only question is:

Is the fracture terminal, or repairable?

 I'm not all that sanguine about the chances of recovery. Every time we come to a crisis point, in the aftermath, there is a period of what in the Con Game is called Cooling the Mark.

After the blowoff has occurred, one of the operators stays with the mark and makes an effort to keep the anger of the mark within manageable and sensible proportions. The operator stays behind his team‑mates in the capacity of what might be called a cooler and exercises upon the mark the art of consolation. An attempt is made to define the situation for the mark in a way that makes it easy for him to accept the inevitable and quietly go home. The mark is given instruction in the philosophy of taking a loss.

Sound familiar?

It should - that's the last part of the con, when the perps try to slow down or stop any reprisals.

Most of us can understand why stopping any return action is good for the perps, but slowing it? What value can that have?

• It allows many of the most implicated to leave - out of any possibility of either finding them, or bringing them back for prosecution. What's left is the stooges - many of whom won't know the details of the con, just their small part in it. Most of them won't even know the true names of the top guys.
• It allows the perps to hide the evidence - shred/burn the paperwork, erase any audio or video evidence, bribe peripheral people to develop poor memories, and 'put the arm' on those not inclined to let it go - usually by threatening those close to them.
• It starts the clock ticking - the statutes of limitations are a factor, but also the fact that memories will fade, people will lose their fervor for hunting down the malefactors, and most people will decide to give up and say 'screw it'.

Keep in mind that the bulk of the public - those guys who don't follow the news much, those that echo what 'everyone' around them says is true, those that "leave that stuff to the wife" - and that's an unfortunately high number of Americans - well, they just aren't cynical or smart enough to follow the history of the Takedown of America (brought to you by George Soros, assorted Leftists, and the majority of academia at all levels).

They shy away from connecting the dots - needed the movie version of All the President's Men to even begin understanding what happened - from the Leftist's viewpoint, of course. The complete refusal to permit movies from the NLD (Non-Leftist Dissident) perspective has hampered our outreach.

Test it yourself, ask:

• What happened in Watergate? (you'll get some garbled hash of Leftist Truth)
• Was Nixon impeached? (dollars to donuts, almost ALL will agree he was - a factual mistake - he resigned, under pressure from his so-called party, before impeachment)
• Who was Deep Throat? (nearly 100% of those asked will not know the identity of Mark Fell, nor the reason he betrayed the President, and lied about much of what he knew)

That's just ONE example. If you are the kind who likes to make those online quizzes, you could make a neat one that lays out the MANY Lies, Errors, and Omissions of the Left, including:

• The 1960 Presidential race
• The Johnson family's many shady deals with their television station
• The Great Society programs, and how almost ALL of them failed - and for bonus points, where the money went (and to whom)
• The Antiwar movement of the Vietnam years - funded by Leftist NGOs, and directed by the Left
• The Carter Years
• Iran-Contra - the Truth, and the many Leftist fantasies. How the various 'intelligence agencies' were involved, and who ran those agencies
• Clinton - have fun picking the abuses, thefts, lies, and cheats from all the possibilities
• Bush II - Daddy's Revenge on the people for not voting him back
• The commercial interests behind the distortion of the budget for military wishlists - and, Cui Bono?
• Obama - ALL the MANY lies, evasions, half-truths, and assorted scoundrels that surrounded the Legend, and how he managed to play them ALL
• Biden - how the hell did such a nonentity get into office?