Americas Fear Toxin

    One of the lesser known characters in the Batman universe until recently was Jonathan Crane aka The Scarecrow.  In Batman Begins Christopher Nolan introduced him to the world as Gotham was thrust into chaos due to his fear toxin.  Dr. Crane was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who conducted experiments on the inmates using the toxin to open their minds to the fears they dread the most.  In the film he uses the toxin to drive the citizens of Gotham mad and create utter chaos.  While we do not have a Dr. Crane in our society per say I do think we have a fear toxin that was released unto the world and that is the media.  In 2020 we have seen an escalation of violence, disregard for law enforcement and an increase in domestic violence and drug or alcohol use.  No matter which side of politics you stand on the facts could not be any clearer.

    While Covid-19 has created so many issues for people financially and emotionally it all began with a media blitz about police brutality.  We have repeatedly been told that the entire system we are governed by is systemically racist.  Every single news story highlights the police as the villains and the criminals as the heroes.  It didn't matter that suspects were high on drugs, armed with weapons, fighting police, and engaging in acts of aggression the officers were 100% wrong in defending themselves.  It has gotten to a point many senior officers were retiring early and leaving communities they had devoted their lives to defend out of fear they would be the next video victim for the media onslaught.  They would be the next person outed as a racist for defending themselves.  Major US cities removed the ability for them to defend themselves and we saw cities like Seattle have blocks of the city taken over by armed thugs. Cities were burned to the ground, stores looted, and people made to live in fear.  While there was a very small number of police brutality the majority were a media creation that fed the fear.

  While all this was going on China had an outbreak of Covid-19 and did everything they could to keep the rest of the world in the dark.  This led the media to blame the one person they have wanted to take aim on for three and a half years, the President.  Nothing he did or could do was enough or the right decision.  He shut down travel to China in January and was called Xenophobic and racist.  He followed the advice of his "scientists" and due to the ever changing nature of a virus seemed to contradict himself and that was used against him.  Nothing anyone could do would have kept the damage of the virus down any more than his actions did.  On one side you have people saying lockdowns are a must, mandate masks everywhere, testing must increase, and only then can we "stop" the virus.  The other side is saying masks don't work, business cannot fail, and the virus isn't going away.  Truth is we can wear masks where needed, practice good sanitary habits, protect the elderly and most vulnerable and still keep businesses and schools open and save our economy.  It is not all or nothing either way.  Viruses don't go away, we learn to deal with them, create vaccines, and learn to live with them.

    As the election is nearing the media is falling over themselves to prove how Trump failed.  The problem they have is he hasn't failed.  Could he have said things differently, yes.  Could he have set the example by wearing a mask 24/7 and avoiding people, sure.  No President in history has led by fear and neither did he.  Much like in the movie fear has led our nation all year.  At the end of Batman begins Jim Gordon tells says "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.  So We'll hunt him.  Because he can take it.  Because he's not our hero.  He's a silent guardian, A watchful protector, a Dark Knight."  Am I saying Trump is our savior?  No but I am saying he is the only thing standing against the fear being hammered into us by the media and the corrupt politicians.  Only when we learn that the fear being spread is only there to divide us can we grow as a nation and realize we are all in the same boat.  Burning it all down and starting over is not an option.When we manage our fear we can succeed and thrive.  Hiding under a rock and keeping ourselves locked away will be the end of America as we know it.

I would rather die a hero

  

  In 2008 Christopher Nolan released "The Dark Knight" on the world.  In the film Harvey Dent famously says "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." In the film we see his character transformed through the actions of the notorious madman, the Joker.  The Joker started this transformation by putting Harvey and his girlfriend and Bruce Wayne's long time friend Rachel in 2 separate locations and forcing Batman into a situation where only one life could be saved.  Batman chooses one location and send Commissioner Gordon to the other.  Batman arrives at the location in time to save Harvey, although not in time to save his disfigurement, while Rachel is blown to bits.  It is at this point Harvey loses grip on reality and becomes two-face, thus becoming a villain.  Why is this important to today you might be asking.  Well it is simple, we must choose to die a hero or become the villain.  

    Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic we are constantly being given conflicting and often misleading information which forces us to make daily decisions which is slowly leading us into madness.  In March we were told we must lockdown for "15 days to slow the spread."  What exactly did that mean?  It meant we were to lockdown and slow the spread enough as to not overwhelm our hospital systems, not to prevent us from getting the virus.  In the beginning we were also told not to wear a mask because it was ineffective against the virus, now we are told we must wear masks or we are killing people, although the masks do not protect us from getting the virus.  The validation I get from some of my friends is "Well we are learning more about the virus so of course the science is changing."  So this morning I saw a medical professional from the WHO that was telling us lockdowns do no good and we shouldn't be doing those.  Last week we were told to lockdown again because the cases were rising and we needed to avoid mass casualties, even though the statistics do not back that thinking.  Yes Covid cases are on the rise, but why?  Well we are now doing the most daily testing of any country in the world.  That is why.  Now is the increase in cases a serious concern, not really.  The statistic we need to look at is the fatality rate.  That number has been decreasing at the same time the case numbers have increased.  This means more people are getting it but less people are dying.

     There are so many factors that our Government needs to take into account when making decisions.  It isn't simply how many people are sick or dying.  Sure those are important numbers but there are social, economic, and mental health factors as well.  Since we have been in lockdown we have seen small businesses closed their doors permanently.  People who were waiting for them to open back up so they can get back to work now have no work to return to.  People who have been out of work without pay have been forced to rely 100% on the Govt stimulus and programs to survive, thus increasing the reliance on welfare and other programs which negatively impact all tax payers.  There are families living in incredibly abusive situations.  Where school or work would give the abused a break now they are stuck in the house with their abusers 24 hours a day.  Alcohol and drug addiction is on the rise leading to many more deaths.  Suicide is on the rise due to addictions and the economic impact of it all.

What is the left suggesting we do?

1. Close all schools and stay locked down until we have a cure/vaccine. The timeline for a vaccine has yet to be given and most vaccines take years.

2. Mail-in voting to avoid close contact.  Mail-in voting is unreliable and easily manipulated to achieve a certain result.  So why might the left want this?  They have a candidate who is an empty shell and can use this as a way to fraudulently win an election.

3. Wear masks in every situation.  This is just counter productive.

So how do I propose we stop the descent into chaos?  3 simple things: 

1. Get back to work/school- We all will have to get this virus and build the antibodies.  We cannot sit and wait for a vaccine.  Keeping kids at home is not going to provide the best education and most parents are not qualified to teach.  As for work well simple economics says people need to get paychecks to pay bills.

2. Keep voting traditional.  If we can amass for protests, stand in line for grocery stores, and scream in each others face for not wearing or wearing masks then we can stand in line to vote.  Plus it avoid any idea of fraud and the results cannot be delayed to "find" more boxes of votes to achieve a certain result.

3. Stop believing the experts.  The "experts" change their minds about as often as the sun shines.  Every day it is something that opposes what was said before.  Then often days or weeks later that is reversed again.

    The left is using the virus as a way to rid us of our system of government.  Through spreading of fear and the threat of violence they have successfully placed us in a position where as the government can be the only savior.  They alone can save us from our corrupt and evil systems.  In 2012 Nolan released his third installment, The Dark Knight Rises.  In it we see the villain Bane.  He is an agent of chaos who encourages the underprivileged to rise up against the upper class and the rich.  2 of his most famous quotes are ideas that the BLM movement and others embrace and emulate daily.  The first is "We come here not as conquerors but liberators, to return control of this city to the people." Sounds eerily similar to what happened in the Seattle CHOP zone.  Power was stripped from the police and city and given to the people who occupied the CHOP zone. That zone was immediately taken over by a warlord and martial law as he saw fit was initiated.  This is the personification of Bane.  His second quote is "The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure."  That is a similar rallying cry as the BLM and other Marxist have espoused in the riot and violence we have been witnessing.  The end goal for Bane and his accomplices in the film is a complete take over of Gotham and ultimately using the underclass as their pawns in the war.  The end goal for the far left is complete take over of the United States while using the underclass as pawns in their war.

    In ever instance of Socialism and Marxism we have seen the same storyline.  A group stirs the less privileged to rise up against a govt and in the end the goal has always been the same.  The rulers get rich and everyone else starves.  Yes these two films are entertainment but they both speak to the times of today.  So we as Americans must make the choice on elections day of where we stand.  You must choose to die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.  I for one am going to choose to die a hero.  I will fight until that point to save this country that I love.  We are Americans.  We need to stop highlighting our differences and start highlighting our commonalities.  If we do not equality will happen, too bad the equality will be a shared suffering.