Missing the Forest for the Trees. America’s Inability to Grasp the Magnitude of the Impending Calamity.
Nha Trang, Vietnam, November 29th, 2024.
Salaroche

The more I talk to, or text with my friends living in America, the more I get the disappointing feeling that many of them are half asleep. I keep getting the impression that they still haven’t understood the magnitude of the impending misfortune to be unleashed on our country as a result of the November 5th elections.

The barrage of misinformation, disinformation, and outright fearmongering that has been raining on the American people from the part of the Maga forces over the past few years, seems to have numbed them to the point that now they see all those political aberrations we have been witnessing as just normal events, thereby desensitizing themselves to the dark period that awaits the country beyond January 20th.

Just yesterday, a fine lady and long-time good friend of mine from California replied to my previous posting asking whether the American people will “do as they must to preserve the institutions that protect their freedoms or will the majority roll over and play dead?” Which I thought was a fair question.

But I also thought her question implied a failure to consider that the federal government will soon become a Maga-controlled asylum so that, at that level, we will all be at the mercy of a small number of Republicans courageous enough to stand up against Trump’s mad dictates, like some of them recently did regarding Matt Gaetz' insane nomination for AG. The rest of any possible resistance will rest in the hands of local authorities at State level, but ONLY or MOSTLY in Blue States, which I seriously doubt will be enough of a resistance to turn the tide at the national level.

Then, the possibility that the Dems retake the House or the Senate or both in the 2026 midterm elections will depend on how well the Republicans will have rigged the electoral system in their favor at that point. And anyone thinking that those Maga fanatics aren’t already working on that as we speak should consider themselves utterly naïve.

Just recall what by the end of July of this year Trump said quite clearly to one of those pseudo-Christian gatherings: “Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it anymore. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” (see here).

So, to my friend’s question as to whether the majority of Americans will roll over and play dead, my answer is that, first, the majority of Americans won’t have to do that because, according to the election results, the majority of Americans are PRO-Trump and, second, even if a good number of Americans wanted to do something about it, there probably won’t be enough legal levers available for them to pull, as Trump WILL populate all levels of the Federal Government with 100% loyalists. To corroborate this, just check out his Cabinet nominations, which is just the start, just the tip of the iceberg.

So, what will the American people do? Stage public demonstrations and protests? And how much good will that do? Just remember the Kent State University “massacre” of June 4th, 1970 in Ohio, where the National Guard shot 4 students dead for protesting against the Vietnam war (see here). You think Trump won’t send the National Guard to quash any popular movements against him!? Ha! That guy won’t hesitate for a second to send even the US Military against American civilians.

So, ultimately, if and when things start getting extreme and unbearable to the point where the American people feel the compelling, urgent need to do something about it, what options will there be available to them? An armed insurrection? Total civil war?

The November 5th elections represent a serious, quite-possibly catastrophic, ultra-consequential blunder in the history of the United States, and quite-likely in the history of the world too. An ominous paradigm shift of unpredictable proportions.

Yet, in spite of the seriousness of the situation, many, perhaps even millions of Americans still seem to be half asleep, merely engaged in intra- and inter-partisan bickering, thereby missing the forest for the trees, which makes them sadly liable to suffer a very rude awakening sometime in the not-so-distant future.

Quite frankly, if by the turn of the century anybody would have told us that just a couple of decades later the United States would find itself mired in the grim, tortuous kind of predicament where we find ourselves today, I don't think many of us would have believed it.

Salaroche