For the resisters

Note to readers—This essay asks for your comments and stories. Please stick with it until the end and contribute in the comments. This small piece will, I hope, become a record of what ordinary people did to say no to tyranny.

Not enough time has past for our society to collectively recognize the full horror of the direction this country, and the West, has taken in the last 8 or so years. Particularly the past three years, the alleged “pandemic.”

It’s not certain that we still have a culture that will recognize and memorialize this in time. It’s not certain there will even be “history books” for this cultural atrocity to be framed within.

We need to document what happened. An important part of that is documenting the people who resisted, and what they did. Resisters are now in a cultural nether world. A few years ago, they were uniformly condemned, mocked, expelled from their families, their churches, their jobs, their banks.

Today, there seems to be an uneasy silence about resisters. They’re not quite so universally mocked; one suspects the “normies” who went along are waking up to how wrong they were. But most people will not admit how wrong they were, and most people will not apologize or publicly atone for how they did their friends and countrymen wrong. So we have uneasy silence.

If you are a resister, you’re in a minority of people who are braver and more contrarian than usual. This is always the case, in any society. Only a minority resists; this is human nature. You—-we, because I am among you—will not get plaudits. You won’t be given public praise, you won’t be held up as an example of the self-directed man or woman we hope our children will become.

At best, you’ll be ignored. You certainly will not get a sincere apology, and you damned sure are not going to get any emotional, familial, or community compensation or atonement for what others did to you because you said no.

If we want young people to see our example, we have to show them. If we want our children and grandchildren to have a model of strength and resistance that can buoy them when they face their own trials, we’ll have to give them that example.

We will have to content ourselves with planting seeds for trees we will never see grow to maturity, and whose fruit we will not get to eat. It will have to be enough to hope that our grandchildren will enjoy that fruit.

Tell me, tell anyone reading, what you did to resist. Do not say to yourself “it’s so small no one will care.” Someone will care. I will care. Doing the right thing encompasses acts small and large.

”Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to hear". Tell us in the comments what you did, or what you refused to do.

To prime your mind, here’s a short list of the tyrannies, reversals, and outrages against humanity that became our New Normal. This is what happened in the freest country on earth, in the “shining city on the hill.” This is what happened in the country that broke from the British Crown and founded the first nation in history that explicitly recognized the sovereignty of the individual over a king and shone a lamp to the rest of the world that said, “You too, have unalienable rights and inherent dignity.”

-The President of the United States, for the first time in memory, gave direct orders to citizens, reversing the power dynamic completely. He ordered you to take a dangerous “vaccine” at the risk of your job, your reputation, your participating in public life. He did it with a sneer, and he vomited bile from the White House, live, onto the citizens who put him there.

He called you a public health menace. On camera, before the world.

-Governors across the country suspended the Constitution. They issued illegal executive orders preventing you from leaving your house, going to the store, opening your business, serving customers.

-The Centers for Disease Control (I’m still astonished) voided landlord-tenant contracts and stole the money and property from landlords by allowing tenants to live for free, no rent, on “public health grounds.”

The fact that this alone did not cause an armed revolt still stuns me.

-Mainstream media, including the most historically august papers of record, printed lie after lie brazenly. They maneuvered us into believing the streets were full of corpses. They explicitly told you, the viewer, that if you didn’t wear a mask, if you didn’t quarantine in a single room, if you wanted to comfort your elders in their dotage, that you were a murderer.

I do not exaggerate. They called you “grandma killer.” For the first time in history, they convinced Americans that it was not only dangerous, but anti-American, to behave as a normal person with normal human caring and normal human concerns.

And almost everyone did it. Without question.

You learned these past few years who your family really is inside, didn’t you? It wasn’t a blip. It was a character reveal. If you’re a resister, you are, in fact, better and more trustworthy than your compliant family. That’s right. I’m saying it directly: You have better character.

-Companies across the country fired you, or people you know, for refusing to take an unproven injection. You were emotionally blackmailed, just like a pathological narcissist or borderline blackmails, into taking an unjustified risk so that you wouldn’t be seen as “hateful” or as someone who “wanted your family dead.”

If you didn’t comply, you were fired.

-Doctors, nurses, and the entire medical establishment—all of it, from the heights of Harvard to the lowly ghetto clinic—revealed themselves to be psychopathically inclined. They willingly turned off their brains, their common sense, and their moral decency. They refused to treat you if you were sick because, well, you should have taken that vaccine, shouldn’t you?

They lied their asses off brazenly everyday, on the air, in public, and they did it with clear zest and relish.

-At the same time, the psychiatric madness that is “transgenderism” reached the peak it had been climbing toward for more than a decade. Today in America, millions of putatively normal people genuinely believe it is an act of love and care to remove the testicles of their sons, to slice off the breasts of their teenage daughters, and to sterilize them for life with chemicals.

We have ordinary American families literally practicing the vivisection that was famously documented at the Nuremberg trials. And they’re doing it to their own children with genuine tears of joy. I’m speaking literally, not metaphorically.

-Today in America, you can be fired or punished in myriad ways for stating belief in reality. Nothing has been spared. The very idea of sexed bodies is now wrongspeak.

I could go on. And on. And on.

But now I’d like to hear from you. Tell the world in the comments what you did to resist. You don’t have to be perfect; no one is. You may have made mistakes; you may have gone along with some of this until you couldn’t any longer.

Do not worry about that. What matters is where you are now. All of us went along with some degree of some insane bullshit for some period. God knows I spent most of my adult life brain-dead to the reality I can now see.

Readers, the floor is yours.

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