'If the Foundations Be Destroyed...'

Well worth the read!
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“Throughout the last century Communist leaders alternated in pretending to be nationalists, agrarian reformers, and/or democrats. The same is true today, only the Communists have grown in sophistication even as their dupes have declined into stupefaction. There is nothing to be gained by talking with liars and tricksters who plot the West’s downfall. Yet we talk and talk as we lose and lose again.” —J.R. Nyquist

Where are we? What sort of time is it? What is its name?

Last Saturday, I was reading The New York Times and read the word “Omicron.” It seems a new variant of the COVID virus was spotted in South Africa on November 24. Last Friday, an emergency meeting of the World Health Organization was called. Panic erupted, and by Sunday the stories of nation after nation shutting down were in the headlines. “Does this thing not go away?” I asked myself. Is this the new normal, and with it, stuttering economies, death, more government overreach, and high-tech surveillance with the attendant eroding of once-sacrosanct liberties?