Last Saturday, the day Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, Foo Fighters were the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live." They debuted a new song, as well as performing one of their standards, "Times Like These."
Despite being written 18 years ago, the song felt reflective of this particular moment in time. The chorus goes: “It's times like these you learn to live again/It's times like these you give and give again/It's times like these you learn to love again/It's times like these time and time again.”
While I agree with your sentiments and would look forward to some kind of normal, peaceful, and productive co-existence between the two major political parties, I am not optimistic at this time.
This whole election cycle, which is still ongoing, has been like none other we have ever seen before.
And I’ve been a politically astute observer for over 45 years.
Something has fractured this time. While not wanting to sound conspiratorial, there appear to be forces at work beyond our control, all of which point directly toward Big Tech/Media.
Whether on purpose or inadvertently, there was and is a direct assault be waged against one political philosophy in a substantially disproportionate way. Despite what you may or may not feel about President Trump, there can be no denying the lockout and censoring of the information that has and continues to occur.
If this trend continues, we will cease to have any discourse, debate, or exchange of ideas any longer. The whole thought of it is not only frightening, it goes against everything this Country stands for, and what our Constitution protects us from.
Even now, the “winning” side is openly talking about “Enemies List”, and “Truth Commissions”, and punishing supporters of the other Party by “DOXing” them into non-existence, and threatening their livelihoods.
These are not the words or sentiments of those seeking to “Unite” or heal our Country. They are in fact just the opposite. These are the words and actions of those that would seek to promote open civil unrest. This is not only extremely dangerous, but they are also technically, lawfully illegal.
So my question to you Alec is where do we go from here in order to return to normal?
However, maybe that was the plan all along- Welcome to the “Brave New World.”
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Alec,
While I agree with your sentiments and would look forward to some kind of normal, peaceful, and productive co-existence between the two major political parties, I am not optimistic at this time.
This whole election cycle, which is still ongoing, has been like none other we have ever seen before.
And I’ve been a politically astute observer for over 45 years.
Something has fractured this time. While not wanting to sound conspiratorial, there appear to be forces at work beyond our control, all of which point directly toward Big Tech/Media.
Whether on purpose or inadvertently, there was and is a direct assault be waged against one political philosophy in a substantially disproportionate way. Despite what you may or may not feel about President Trump, there can be no denying the lockout and censoring of the information that has and continues to occur.
If this trend continues, we will cease to have any discourse, debate, or exchange of ideas any longer. The whole thought of it is not only frightening, it goes against everything this Country stands for, and what our Constitution protects us from.
Even now, the “winning” side is openly talking about “Enemies List”, and “Truth Commissions”, and punishing supporters of the other Party by “DOXing” them into non-existence, and threatening their livelihoods.
These are not the words or sentiments of those seeking to “Unite” or heal our Country. They are in fact just the opposite. These are the words and actions of those that would seek to promote open civil unrest. This is not only extremely dangerous, but they are also technically, lawfully illegal.
So my question to you Alec is where do we go from here in order to return to normal?
However, maybe that was the plan all along- Welcome to the “Brave New World.”
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