{"id":1748,"date":"2025-02-19T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:32:38","slug":"the-united-states-versus-america-the-time-is-coming-to-choose-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"The United States versus America — The time is coming to choose sides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

February 19th<\/sup>, 2025<\/i><\/p>\n

I picked up a follower on Blue Sky the other day (I must be in double digits by now!) whose page reveled in his love of country and patriotism. He had pictures of himself in uniform, along with pictures of wheat fields and sunsets and dogs and all the other things that make America special in the eyes of hyper-patriots.<\/p>\n

Nothing to take offense to, but I was mildly curious. I\u2019m skeptical of hyperpatriotism for the same reasons I\u2019m skeptical of overt religiosity or guys who scream about \u201cimpure women\u201d or whatever. All are signs of fundamentalism, a mental disorder I\u2019m at best uncomfortable around. My writings and posts don\u2019t attract such people, other than the ones who want to scream about what a degenerate I am. One of the nice things about Blue Sky is that people like that tend to weed themselves out in pretty short order.<\/p>\n

But I was curious. What did my new-found friend think about events over the past month? I scrolled through his past few weeks of posts. Not one word about any current event: nothing about the abandonment of Ukraine, or a psychopathic South African billionaire and his pock-faced juvenile delinquents rummaging through all the national secrets and finances. Nothing about the immense damage Trump has already inflicted on the country, both domestically and in foreign affairs.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t block or mute the guy, but I did elect to not follow him back. (Some people think the number of followers they have validates them, and that\u2019s fine. I measure my reach by the number of people I elect to follow BACK. This eliminates all the people who want to sell me land, drugs, or bitcoin, the illuminati, or who want to sex me all night long for the cost of a penicillin shot.)<\/p>\n

The polls show that Trump\u2019s popularity is dropping at over 2% a week, which in the ideologically rigid present state of public opinion represents a vast and momentous shit. His polls on the economy have dropped 12% in two weeks, even though the economy really hasn\u2019t reacted to his policies. But many idiots still measure the economy by the price of eggs, which is like picking the Superbowl winner by which mound of corn a chicken pecks at first. And the price of eggs is skyrocketing as bird flu decimates the laying hens.<\/p>\n

The malicious ineptitude of the TrumpenMusk regime is starting to percolate through all the propaganda from newspits like Newsmax or the Washington Post. All the redcap morons are starting to realize they really mean the stuff they said in Project 2025, and do hope to wipe out medicare and social security and shift ALL the tax burden to the lower class while they totally raid the entire nation\u2019s wealth. Right now they just see it in them cutting programs that matter to them; day care, product safety regulations, conservation, etc. In short, all the millions of things government actually does because it\u2019s far cheaper and more efficient than the private sector could possibly manage.<\/p>\n

For many years, the right wing has promoted the silly notion that you are a patriot if you love America but want to get rid of the United States. Instead of \u201cUnited States\u201d of course they say \u201cgovernment\u201d and they lie constantly about how the government is wasteful (it is, but so are corporations; but a lot of their operations are \u2018proprietary\u2019 and so they aren\u2019t transparent or responsive to public interest, and unfortunately it\u2019s been nearly 250 years since Americans had to deal with power centers that were unresponsive to the public interest.) Government is oppressive, evil, eats kittens, yada, yada, yada.<\/p>\n

What they don\u2019t understand (and are prevented from understanding) is that the United States, the thing that makes America special, IS the Constitution, and the government which it founded. The separation of powers, the mandated responsiveness to the people, the protection of the oppressed, the Bill of Rights \u2013 that is what the United States is. That is what the rest of the world envied. Not fields and dogs and sunsets, because every fucking country in the world has those, and some are prettier. Without the United States, America is just another patch of land filled with squabbling and destitute peasants, no better than most and worse than some.<\/p>\n

The Constitution\u2014the heart and soul of the United States\u2014exists with the express purpose of using government to defend the people from the depredations of banks, aristocrats, and churches. While it has had an imperfect record with these, it worked well enough to make America the greatest of nations for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

Trump and Musk are the vile faces of an evil consortium of fundamentalist churches, rapacious corporations, and vicious plutocrats\u2014all the evils men like Jefferson and Madison wanted to free the citizenry from. The reason Trump and Musk are dismantling government isn\u2019t to save the taxpayers money\u2014they have zero interest in that, and quite the opposite, in fact. They want to create a power vacuum and fill it themselves, and put every public need on a \u201cmake it pay\u201d basis. Instead of a not-for-profit service such as social security or medicare, they want to run it on a 30% markup, and regard the actual services as outlays that need to be minimized for the sake of profit.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re rapidly approaching a point where all the dog and sunset-loving cardboard patriots have to decide if they love a rapidly diminishing America, or want to fight for the United States.<\/p>\n

I know which line they may cross: when they declare that they are no longer obliged to observe court rulings. That\u2019s where I begin to advocate the overthrow of Musk and Trump by any means possible. At that point, they are outlaw, and enemies of the United States.<\/p>\n

If people want to keep the America they love, they may well have to take up arms on behalf of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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