It seems appropriate somehow that Charlton Heston’s post apocalyptic epic Omega Man is playing this Sunday morning. Large parts of America are now engulfed in lawless anarchy. Everywhere the BLM/Antifa terrorists have exerted their influence they seem to have defeated the hapless police. Like the terrorists themselves, police act real tough when they have a numbers or weapons advantage. But when the odds are somewhat even, the cops cower in helplessness.
On most sites the commentary dismisses this as the disgruntled lashing out of a few malcontents. Nobody is looking at why this is happening. The picture above is of 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse. As someone put it, the police have abandoned the streets to the terrorists, and its a few brave people like Kyle standing up for civilization. The Democrats want as much chaos as possible before the election. They are helping the anarchy by their passivity.
That is one of the funniest things out of all this, just how incapable the cops are. They think they’re going to die stopping a little 73 year old lady for a speeding ticket. I can imagine how terrified they are with angry armed organized young adults operating in the darkness. I often wonder what cops think they were hiring on for? The majority of them don’t seem emotionally capable for the job at hand.
But back to the why. Big societal movements die out if they don’t have traction, an underlying reason to exist. Undergirding all this is communism (socialism, whatever). Our leaders like to pretend America is the land of laissez faire free market capitalism. Bullshit, never has been, never will be. We operate under a system of corporatism. Corporations own Congress. Anybody that doesn’t admit that is a liar or a fool.
During the good times there was enough to go around for everybody. But now things are getting stretched. The pendulum swung too far away from the people. We’re trying to take in the world in our immigration system on top of our outlandish guest worker programs. Our regulatory and tax structures encouraged our tax base of good jobs to go to China and Mexico. We’re still trying to be the world’s policeman.
It was too much. Karma’s a bitch. They wouldn’t play fair with people, and now some of those people are trying to replace the system.
What’s funny is this movie is nearly 50 years old.
“The Omega Man is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a global pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by the American writer Richard Matheson. The film’s producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science-fiction film Soylent Green in 1973.”
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