There is a phrase that you may have heard, the Dark State. You may wonder what this phrase means.

The Dark State is a colloquial term that refers to a certain movement that is collectively laboring to bring world affairs to a certain point, even if the different elements thereof aren’t necessarily part of a formal organizational structure.

To understand this, consider the concept of a stand-alone complex. This is a phrase that was coined by the popular anime, Ghost in the Shell. A stand-alone complex is what happens when the activities of different people or groups gives the appearance of collective action, when in reality, the different parties were acting independent of one-another.

Similar to this, the Dark State labors around the clock to bring about a global authoritarian socialistic system that empowers a political class at the expense of everyone else, under the guise of acting in the interest of ordinary people.

The use of the term Dark State allows us to identify the movement as a whole without having to labor to describe the relationship between the different groups (e.g. Antifa’s butt-buddies, the vast left-wing conspiracy, etc.).

For an example of how the Dark State operates on multiple levels of society, consider the effects a riot can have when the Dark State’s individual elements work predictably:

1. An activist group, such as BLM, agrees on a time and place for a demonstration, communicating the intention for it to be peaceful.
2. As the demonstration is in progress, it is co-opted by Antifa, who uses skillful agitation to turn the protest violent.
3. Corporate media outlets with a left-wing bias use any police action against the rioters as examples of police brutality, discouraging their intervention.
4. Left-wing Defense Attorneys dismiss charges against the rioters, sympathizing with their cause. Those released usually return to the riots.
5. Rioters against whom charges have stuck are bailed out using funds raised by the likes of Kamala Harris (the rioters are then radicalized by the prospect of a lasting criminal record).
6. The general population is terrorized, facing the prospect of violent opposition by rioters who can escape consequence, making people less likely to interfere with the Dark State’s agenda.

As this example illustrates, the Dark State is an insidious threat to American national security, in spite of its relative lack of organization.

But that doesn’t mean that the Dark State lacks sophistication, as they’ve already infiltrated corporate information media, the tech industry, social media, banking cartels, the education system, and various subversive movements designed to prey upon the disgruntled and the delusional.

The phrase Dark State may seem to have a flavor of conspiracy theory to it, which helps it to be catchy. Personally, I’m not a conspiracy theorist; I prefer to keep things grounded in what can be demonstrably proven. Those fighting against the machinations of the Dark State already have their hands full with that much.

Dear readers, I thank you for your attention in an important matter that has relevance to every single one of us.

For decades, we have enjoyed the internet as the free and open marketplace of ideas. For the first time in human history, the summation of human knowledge has become available for instantaneous access by nearly every human being. What’s more, anyone could contribute to this knowledge, providing advice, viewpoints, scientific knowledge, entertainment, and much more, with minimal interference from an establishment that controlled that information. It’s not overselling it to say that the internet has fundamentally changed society in a manner comparable to the invention of the printing press.

However, the internet that we’ve enjoyed for decades is now in danger. Even now, a powerful establishment force is coalescing with the purpose of bringing the internet under its own control. With influencers in virtually all levels of society, this movement has been exercising its capacity to cultivate public opinion. What they stand to bring about is nothing less than a change in the relationship between the individual, government, technology, and even marketers. This establishment grows increasingly more powerful as the political scales tip closer to their side.

This growing movement is an enemy to free thinking and critical thought in a manner unprecedented in all of human history, and as bad as they are, if they were to win just a few more significant victories, it would seem that they might actually win forever.

Here is why:

Nearly every browser, search engine, social media outlet, and many retail outlets, are constructing a psychological profile about you. You specifically. Among the information collected includes websites you visit, search engine terms, links that you click, the tabs you have open on your browser and how long tabs are open, your purchase history, and much, much more.

Tech companies and social media outlets profit by selling this information to advertisers, which then use this information to market to you with an automated system using targeted advertisements.

The contents of these profiles may alarm you, as they contain potentially vast amounts of deeply personal information about you. Such information would include medical conditions yet to be diagnosed, sexual preferences that you might not be aware of, whether you’re pregnant, and even when you go to the bathroom.

Your information has long been used for targeted advertisements. Social media platforms use information about your interests to serve you updates relevant to you. However, the potential for abuse of your information is obvious. And even more alarming, your information is already in the hands of those who can abuse it.

Knowing this, consider the fact that the bias in favor of the new establishment is overwhelmingly represented in the tech industry, social media outlets, entertainment media, labor unions, academia, and the corporate information media. With enormous piles of data on the psychology of most human beings alive today in the hands of those with an interest in directing public opinion in favor of an establishment narrative, it’s easy to see why humanity, as a whole, is teetering on a cliff towards a plunge into dark times, from which there is no apparent means of escape.

It’s understandable that most people would not want this to be true. But for the roughly one billion people living in China, it’s already a reality. Currently, in communist China, a social credit system has been implemented which assigns a score to each citizen based on their behaviors. Cameras with facial-recognition technology are placed throughout the streets of certain Chinese cities, monitoring the activities of citizens and making changes to their scores in real time. If a person’s social credit rating drops low enough, that person’s face may be publicly displayed on electronic billboards to shame them. Using this, it’s conceivable that the Chinese Communist Party can determine possible sources of dissent, which they can then quash at an individual level before it has a chance of coming to fruition.

In light of this, consider the fact that in the United States, law enforcement employs drones in many areas, including rural areas, that have highly-sophisticated cameras that can make out the details of doorways as far away as three miles, by zooming in on them. These have the ability to algorithmically identify pedestrians for monitoring.

All this information shows that the establishment ideology is at the cusp of total control of the general population, even as far as exploiting your psychological profile in an effort to defeat your better judgment. I’ve been witnessing these trends develop for a long time, but I bring them up now in light of an important development.

Just last week, Rudy Giuliani came forward with a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, who is currently running for the office of President of the United States. The laptop, which was abandoned in a repair shop in Delaware, contained emails implicating both Hunter and Joe Biden in using their political power as leverage to profit off overseas companies in Ukraine and China. The laptop also contained explicit images of Hunter engaged in sex acts while doing drugs, and a recording of Joe Biden bragging about getting an investigator who threatened his interests fired, who was subsequently replaced with another investigator who cleared charges.

Obviously, this development would sink anyone’s presidential candidacy. But something interesting happened instead.

Social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, blocked the original New York Post article from being shared. What’s more, corporate media outlets largely avoided covering the laptop’s discovery, or opted to downplay its contents, some immediately dismissing the laptop’s contents as “Russian hacking”.

As you may recall, “Russian hacking” was what was officially blamed for the DNC email hacking scandal. It was then that someone was able to guess that the DNC’s password to access their email was “password”, and uncovered email evidence that the DNC had no intention to nominate Bernie Sanders, instead preferring to nominate Hillary Clinton, in so doing subverting the will of the Democratic electorate, and defeating the democratic process.

Sadly, the Republican party isn’t ideal, either. The party has been plagued by “Republicans In Name Only” (RINOs), who upon assuming office turned out to not have the same values as the voters that elected them.

Considering this, it’s understandable that the lead-up to the 2016 election saw two rising stars on opposing tickets: Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. However, the Democratic party would not suffer that an anti-establishment candidate would bring years of grooming Clinton for president to go to waste. As vexing as it was for the establishment, Clinton was defeated, and Trump became president.

As Trump was the best chance to defeat the establishment in 2016, so Trump is the best chance to overcome the machinations of the establishment in 2020.

The establishment realizes this, which is why they are attempting any dirty trick they possibly can do prevent him from resuming office. The party who threatened to pack the Supreme Court to attempt to defeat the conservative majority is in league with the tech giants and social media platforms that block the dissemination of information that exposes the party’s wrong-doings. The party that propagates an outright lie about Russian interference using corporate media as a mouthpiece once again cries Russian interference when more evidence is uncovered of their shady deals, because the same approach has a history of tricking enough gullible people to make a difference.

The primary reason my vote goes to Donald Trump isn’t the historic mid-east peace deals that normalized relations between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, though that certainly doesn’t hurt. Nor is the primary reason the development of the US economy, which reached its strongest point in over a decade prior to the coronavirus, which Democrat governors responded to by destroying the US economy. But the fact that Trump wants to get America back on track doesn’t hurt, either.

The primary reason why my vote goes to Donald Trump is because he is the best chance we currently have to defeat a surveillance society operated by a corrupt left-wing establishment.

While you may disagree with some of the things he says and does, getting behind Trump might be the best thing you can do to help maintain a society where you’re permitted to disagree with the president. Furthermore, a vote for Donald Trump expresses loud and clear that you:

• are interested in a corporate information media that has integrity,
• are opposed to continual abuse of power for profit,
• are in favor of elevating national interest above global collectivism,
• are for elected representatives that actually represent the people, and
• desire a free and open marketplace of ideas that doesn’t just prop up one side of the argument.

In short, the will of the people.

We’ve come to this point because far too many good people are not doing much. Whether it’s a new blog to get the word out, talking with friends and family, or simply voting for Trump, consider taking your first step in combating the new techno-tyranny, which we can colloquially refer to as the Dark State, to resist its efforts to enslave the world. To be honest, there is a lot of work remaining to be done, with little remaining time. Everyone has something to do. We may have differences of opinion, but it’s important that we strive to ensure that we have a future where different opinions can be shared.

It’s important that we act for our future now, considering that in the near future we may not have the same freedom to do so.

It is the tendency of the human mind to take more comfort in an orderly world that makes sense. This being the case, I think it makes intuitive sense that a person can take comfort in the concept of a typical life, even if one’s own life is comparatively atypical.

When a person visualizes the concept of the ideal of the typical life, they can attain an introspective understanding of their own variance from that ideal. Though a variance from the ideal may be recognized in one’s own life, a comfort in a more sensible world may be attained with the intellectual acceptance of the concept of a typical life.

A person with an atypicality, such as a mental disorder, or a history of criminal behavior, or even victimhood of circumstances, can have the comprehension that there is a typical human experience. In having this understanding, the atypical person can find a comfort in knowing that a typical human experience exists within the realm of possibility, and with this understanding, a certain sanity can be achieved in accepting the existence of the ideal.

The reason for this is because the human brain continually strives to make sense of the world. The more consistent the world appears, with less apparently-conflicting information, the more comfortable that the brain seems to be, even as the person lives in a state of continual pyrasmos, transitioning from one form of struggle to another on a near-continual basis.

Where there is perceived inconsistency, there is more potential for cognitive dissonance, and a person feels less comfortable with the reality that they perceive as there is a higher possibility of simultaneously holding conflicting viewpoints.

However, when a person perceives a more consistent world, the world itself seems more sensible to them, and they can continue with a clarity of mind that enables them to maintain sanity even in a more difficult life.

For this reason, the intellectual acceptance of the idea of a typical life can help a person to maintain their sanity, even as the person understands that their own life deviates from the typical model.

Based on the general culture of western life in the 21st century, it seems like the model of the typical life would resemble as follows:

• Being born to a married mother and father,
• Starting to attend school at around the age of five or six,
• Moving to a new home perhaps only once or twice prior to adulthood,
• Obtaining a driver’s license at the age of 16,
• Experiencing one’s first kiss during high school years,
• Graduating from high school at age 18, not having been held back,
• Being accepted to a college, and attaining a degree by about age 22 or 23,
• Being gainfully employed shortly after graduation,
• Buying one’s own house while in one’s twenties,
• Being married before one’s thirties, perhaps to the person that they first kissed,
• Having a number of children that’s around the population replacement rate,
• Saving a consistent amount of money for one’s retirement,
• Eventually moving to a smaller home as the children move out,
• Perhaps at some point taking a vacation to Europe.

As one reads through this list, they might notice some variation between this model and one’s own life. They might even find no similarities at all. Yet, an understanding and acceptance of the existence of this norm can lend one the comfort of a sensible world, even if one doesn’t live up to it. In fact, it’s possible that surprisingly few actually do live up to that model of a typical life, as presented above. Even so, it’s the acceptance of the concept of a normal life that enables the mind to perceive a stable world.

The human mind’s preference for a stable world is one of the reasons the case can be made that the human mind is well-adapted to the acceptance of cultural norms and religious ideas.

Perhaps also the case can be made that too much exposure to novel ideas challenging one’s worldview might have the potential for affecting one’s mental health. If true, this might challenge the conventional thinking that continually cramming one’s head with new worldviews, ideas, and concepts would be the ideal way to develop. It might even be possible that continual learning from the internet might be stressing people in ways they aren’t aware of, as humanity as a whole didn’t in previous ages have the kind of access to information that they do today!

Your life might not be typical. But on the bright side, it’s typical for someone. And there’s comfort to be had in the fact that the world does make some amount of sense.

Article the twelfth… The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

What you just read is the 10th amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. It was an addition to the Constitution which was considered redundant because it was implied by the language of the rest of the Constitution, but was added anyway to satisfy those who didn’t want the Constitution’s intent to be vague.

The 10th amendment grants states significant authority to govern their own affairs, and limits the federal government’s ability to interfere.

You now have a better idea of how the USA is run. Why do I bring this up? Because, apparently, not everyone gets it. This includes Presidential hopeful, Joe Biden.

In a recent speech, and repeated in a political ad, Biden points out that the recent mayhem we’ve been seeing (from left-wing groups) are not legitimate protests. Sounds like something I can agree with.

But as the advert continues, Biden blames President Trump for the mayhem, saying that he’s not doing enough to stop it. In saying so, Biden indicates that he’s not aware of the 10th amendment, or how it’s applied.

What does Biden want, for Trump to send in the feds at the first sign of rioting? Is that how it should be handled? It would be great if states had their own institution for law enforcement, that could step in to restore the peace when things get tense. What would such an institution be called?

The police.

You know, The institution that radical leftists are going full-tilt to try to abolish, so there won’t be anyone to stop the looting.

So Trump can’t just send in the feds when state and city governors should be deploying the police. But (left-wing) governors seem hesitant to deploy police for some reason. So, what is Trump supposed to do?

One idea would be to make the offer to governors for the feds to be sent in to restore order. That way, the governors would have the opportunity to accept or decline assistance, and in either case, the President would be respecting the states’ 10th amendment protections.

Sounds like a great idea, right? As it so happens, that’s just what Trump has been doing, and (left-wing) governors have largely declined. Therefore, Democrat politicians are to blame for their failure to protect the people. And this they continue to do in spite of Trump’s repeated offers of assistance.

Kinda makes you want to vote out the governors that don’t want to cooperate with the President in bringing a bunch of dangerous marauders to justice.

I know it’s tempting to be hard on ol’ Joe, but please be understanding: How can we expect him to uphold the Constitution if he doesn’t know what it says?

It’s a sad thing, but left-wing rioters are making America a more dangerous place. Thankfully, there are many creative ways to defend your home, one of which involves a decent set of speakers.

Just a little disclaimer: Use this method responsibly. Do not use it to annoy kids in your neighborhood who are just taking it easy.

So, along comes Antifa, or BLM, or some other left-wing extremists, marching down the streets and threatening home invasions. You can deter them with sound, and here’s how you do it:

Play the following video, with the sound going to your speakers.

You might not hear it, if you’re a tad on the older side. However, younger people can hear it, and they can hardly stand it!

How does it work? The video plays a high-frequency sound wave (15khz). This high-pitch screech is highly annoying, to the point that many hearing it simply can’t concentrate. However, people lose the ability to hear at that frequency as they age. If you play this from your speakers, the younger rioters won’t be interested in hanging around, and the few older people among them would likely follow them away.

There are a few points about this to consider:

• If you’re on the younger side, you might not like it, either. You and your kids might want hearing protection.
• You might not hear it, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have some kind of effect on you.
• This should not be used to annoy kids that are minding their own business. Using this to harass people is likely illegal.
• The idea that this frequency drives mosquitoes away is a myth. It’s annoying to one kind of pest, but ineffective to another.
• Obviously, this won’t do more to protect you than your second-amendment implements.

So, there you have it. Use responsibly.

Remember when a conspiracy theory surfaced that now-President Donald Trump benefited from Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election? You likely do, seeing as the corporate media ran with it for a long time, in spite of having nothing to show for it, and nothing came of it but yet another waste of taxpayer dollars by Democrats.

So then, we’ve established that foreign meddling in an election is something that the left takes seriously.

With that in mind, consider a prank phone call that recently surfaced targeting Kamala Harris, currently running for VP alongside the presidential candidate, Joe Biden. The fact that she was pranked wasn’t as exceptional as what the prank revealed about her.

The pranksters were a pair of Russian comedians, with one of them posing as popular young environmentalist Greta Thunburg. During the phone conversation, the impersonator offered Kamala a likely-nonexistent recording of Donald Trump disparaging Greta’s efforts, suggesting that it could be of use to Kamala as she campaigns against the incumbent President. Not only did she accept, Kamala said that one of her associates would get in touch with her and work together with her.

Greta Thunberg isn’t an American; she’s Swedish. And Kamala Harris was willing to accept a recording the Swedish girl would have secretly acquired of words that the President spoke to her in confidence. Kamala Harris would have happily cooperated with a foreign entity interfering in an American election.

Of course, this is far from the scariest thing about Kamala Harris, who…

• Kept people incarcerated to exploit them for cheap labor, even paying them $1/hr to fight wildfires,
• Put parents of truants in legal trouble, then laughed at their distress,
• Attempted to prevent a DNA test of a man on death row when the test might have exonerated him, which it did,
• Then demonstrated her accountability by blaming her subordinates for the attempted obstruction.

There is a recurring pattern of abusing and exploiting those who are powerless to resist. While Kamala might not have necessarily been involved, it was the California prison system that decided to experiment on male juvies with involuntary estrogen treatments. Something seems to be viciously wrong with the California criminal justice system.

“Fail with honor rather than succeed by fraud.”
-Star Wars, The Clone Wars

I know that tech companies and social media platforms have oodles of coders that are out to justify their collective existences, but more should be done to prevent them from fixing what’s not broken.

If you’ve attempted to use WordPress lately, you might have had issues with widgets. That’s not as big a deal for me as the fact that the numerous tools used to edit a post have vanished into a non-intuitive interface, assuming that you can still access the media you’ve uploaded through all that mess.

What really stinks of turgid ethics is that to access the classic editor, you have to install it as a plugin. All that would take from you is $300 per year for their Business Plan.

It seems as though it’s not enough for WordPress to intersperse our content with gross-out ads, now they want us to pay to use an editor that we’ve been accustomed to for years.

I’m curious about who is desperate enough for the older, better editor that they’re willing to reward WordPress financially in spite of the fact that WordPress 5.5 is breaking sites.

Let’s consider some of the biggest mistakes that a person can make: In many cases it involves committing a crime. Or it might be investing too much in the wrong stock. Or hurriedly marrying someone only to find out that they’re abusive. Or buying a house in a crime-riddled neighborhood.

Those are some big mistakes, but here’s a whopper: majoring in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET).

If you’re planning on becoming an EET major, here’s an idea of what you can look forward to:

As you get into it, you might have the idea that you’re joining “the winning side”. It’s not like majoring in English or some other elective, you might tell yourself. This is STEM we’re talking about, which all the science people speak of as guaranteeing a bright future. Once they have you believing that, they have you indoctrinated, to the point that it will be hard to change your mind.

For example, if you’re considering an EET degree, you might see someone attempting to warn you against it and you might dismiss them as being someone who made some bad choices.

Once you begin the program, it might actually be the fight of your life. Most college programs flood their students with assignments, but your EET coursework will easily eclipse your rudie-poo electives in terms of difficulty and perhaps even volume. You’ll really be in for it if you have a professor who likes the idea of “weed-out courses” which are filled with arbitrarily advanced material early on in an effort to process out the less-serious students.

In a 25-student class, you’ll likely see a couple students drop in the first week. By the end of the first semester, the class is likely to have been reduced to nearly half, and usually only around eight or nine students make it to second year. Most of the ones left usually graduate.

In case you’re curious, the students that carry on typically make fun of the ones that don’t make it, in some cases as far as a year after they drop.

Considering the challenge involved, and how few students who attempt it actually graduate, one might imagine that there’d be a bright and sunny future awaiting the student that overcomes the hurdles. If that’s what you think, consider the following number:

17

That’s how much money that you could expect to make, in dollars per hour, putting an EET degree to use.

Are you in disbelief? I’ve held three jobs since graduation that paid about the same rate, and I’ve seen another student from my class in the same position, so it seems like that particular rate isn’t extraordinary for EET grads. For comparison, I met an auto mechanic in the 90’s who made more than that even before accounting for inflation. To make the matter hurt more, a grocery store near one of the places I worked at had advertised a non-managerial position that started at about $15/hr.

With that kind of money, you can pick between a car or a one-bedroom apartment. You might even be able to squeak by with both if the apartment is a slum and the car is used. But you’d probably find yourself doing as I’ve done: using the company’s free coffee as an appetite-suppressant so you’ll feel less tempted to spend more money on food.

While this is going on, your dad might wonder why you’re not buying a house, your mom might wonder when she’s getting grandkids out of you, you might feel tempted to convince your friends that everything’s fine, everything’s just fine, and you yourself might be struggling to make sense of what’s going on.

At that point, you’ll realize that you weren’t on the winning side. STEM majors don’t guarantee success, hard work doesn’t always lead to a desirable outcome, and it is possible to work yourself raw for years and have little to show for it. Kind of like with most degrees.

If you’re considering majoring in EET, don’t do it. If you love your children, don’t sign them up for it. As for me, I don’t know what I’m going to do now. I know that I thought EET was a great idea in the past, but sometimes a person’s opinion changes over time and when presented with more information. Obviously, my opinion is different, now.

“What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Two is a natural counting number, and is placed between the numbers one and three on a directly-incrementing number line composed solely of successive integers.

Two is the lowest-value prime number; it is the first in the sequence of natural numbers that cannot be divided by a natural number to achieve a quotient that is also a natural number.

An integer is considered to be “even” if the quotient of dividing it by two would be an integer. Two is the only even prime number.

Two holds the third position on the Fibonacci Sequence, the previous two positions on the sequence being two occurrences of the number one.

It is also the number achieved when adding the multiplicative identity number, one, to itself.

In algebra, an exponent of two is used when a term consisting of a combination of variables and constants is to be multiplied by itself. This is of practical application when finding the area of a square when the value of the length and width are determined to be equal.

In trigonometry, the square root of two is the length of the hypotenuse when the opposite and adjacent lengths of a right triangle are both equal to one.

Interestingly, two is the only non-zero number where the sum of adding it to itself is the same as the product of multiplying it by itself.

Two is the base number of the binary numbering system, wherein each significant digit has two possible values (zero and one), which is of foundational importance in computer science, where the smallest element of data storage has two permutations, a high state (represented by a 1), and a low state (represented by a 0). Machine code uses the base-2 number system, whereas the base-8 (octal) and base-16 (hexadecimal) number systems are used as shorthand ways to represent binary numbers. The base numbers of these number systems are powers of two.

Remember: 2 + 2 = 4

In a legendary move of ideological checkmate, House Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) decided to ride the recent tide of anti-racism by introducing a resolution that would ban any political party that has historically supported the confederacy or slavery in the U.S.. Getting behind the resolution are GOP Reps Andy Biggs (R-Arizona), Andy Harris (R-Maryland), Jody Hice (R-Georgia), and Randy Weber (R-Texas).

“Wow, what are so many Republicans doing getting behind a bill that would dissolve a political party with a racist history?” you might be asking. And, for that matter, why wouldn’t every single Democrat get right behind it? After all, if the Democrats are anti-slavery and always have been, their votes should be magnetically drawn to any bill that wipes out any party with a history of slavery. Right?

Right?

You may even feel an impetus to look into the history of both the Democrat and Republican parties, and their respective histories with slavery and the confederacy. And you may have even come to some shocking realizations.

Which was probably one of the things the resolution was designed to do.

“A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan,”
-Rep. Gohmert

Ooh, snap! The sharp end of cancel culture has just been skillfully turned on it’s wielder! If the left can justify changing street names due to the connection of the names to pro-slavery figures in the past, the same justification could be used to change the name of the Democrat party! As for what to call them from here on, you could probably think of some suggestions.

Gohmert gave some solid examples of racism tied directly to Democrats. But you might be wondering, what about Republicans? At the time of the Civil War, the Republican party was freshly-founded by Abraham Lincoln shortly after the collapse of the Whig party. Republicans were a northern party that was strongly opposed to slavery, with black Republican Fredrick Douglass (whose statue was among those recently knocked down) being a key figure in the Underground Railroad, which freed slaves.

If you think Douglass was passionate, you’d get a kick out of Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican congressman who was so anti-slavery, that he wanted to revoke the voting rights of slave owners! He was a driving force behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which today are used as foundations for civil rights legislation. Not only that, he pursued the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, a racist president. Johnson’s impeachment failed by only one vote, but reduced the racist president to being a mere figurehead for the remainder of his term. By the way, the racist Andrew Johnson was a Democrat.

While there are some racist people who call themselves Republican today, their racist stances aren’t officially held by the party, and the rest of the Republican party regards them as outliers.

So, this particular resolution puts Democrats in a pretty bad spot. They are notorious when it comes to virtue signalling on race issues, apparently due to guilt over the skeletons in their closets. Therefore, one might expect them to vote in favor of the resolution. But if they do, they’d be voting for the dissolution of their own party! But if they vote against it, they’d be disappointing their constituency, and would risk losing minority voters, on top of the many voters who would have learned something about them, in light of this resolution.

This is trolling on a scale never before seen. If Rep. Louie Gohmert were one of the bad guys, he’d be an Avengers-level threat.