Overcoming Apathy

Saturday, I was on the road home and stopped into Denver to visit an old friend from High School. I also decided to peek into the No Kings protest to see what it was all about. My biggest learning is that despite highly vocal people on both sides (left and right), the vast majority of Americans aren’t paying any attention to where we are and what is happening to our great nation. They don’t see the crumbling of the wall.

The protest was loud yet peaceful for most of the day. I was able to move around on the inside without any issues, despite obviously not fitting in with that crowd. A few people spoke to me and we had general conversations. I even had a very friendly and open exchange with a young lad in black bloc (ANTIFA) who was genuinely interested in why I was there. I told him that I was interested in hearing what they had to say and that I had my own issues with the administration as a more libertarian leaning person than most (small l, I’m no Lolbert).

What I learned was that no one at the protest had interest at all in changing anyone’s minds. That’s right, the sole purpose was to be loud and to drive up the frenzy on the part of people who already hated the Trump administration, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, to advocate for the destruction of the American system of government in favor of Marxism. I know, I’ve mentioned this before, but these people are committed Marxists who want to rip up the Constitution and replace it with a Marxist system. They truly hate America as an institution, despite it truly being America which allows them to feel that way. It’s such an odd dichotomy.

All day, despite the protestors blocking roads in the Capitol area with marches and loud speeches, the police were hands off, giving them room to vent. Something changed rapidly around 5 PM, though. The black bloc folks marched down Colfax to the freeway and attempted to block it. The Denver PD was having none of it and rapidly declared an unlawful assembly. In less than 10 minutes, the situation devolved from peaceful protest to full-on riot with tear gas, smoke, and pepper balls deployed on one side with rocks, bricks, and fire deployed on the other. The fight raged for hours.

In the middle of it, my High School friend texted me and asked me to meet him for a drink just down the road. I drove about a mile and a half past the riot into a neighborhood retail area and went into the rooftop bar on high alert. I saw a large number of normies……just having a good time. They had no idea that a violent street clash was going on less than mile away. The nonstop sirens and helicopters circling didn’t raise any concerns whatsoever. It was surreal. Afterwards, I drove back over, and the battle was still raging.

This got me thinking. How on earth do these people not realize what is happening? How do we wake them up? What will happen to them when it rapidly falls apart? Zephaniah had a warning for these people in our Tactical Wisdom today:

Their goods shall be plundered,
    and their houses laid waste.
Though they build houses,
    they shall not inhabit them;
though they plant vineyards,
    they shall not drink wine from them.

Zephaniah 1:13

I bet Zephaniah didn’t get invited to a lot of parties.

The biggest example I can point to is, and I hate to say it, UKRAINE. In February 2014, the normies of Ukraine said, “oh, it’s just those kids protesting at the capital again….nothing will ever happen.” Three days later, their government had been overthrown and “those kids” had only taken over a few buildings in a few block radius with relatively little fighting. Three more days saw their nation devolve into civil war, followed almost immediately by invasion from an outside power (Russia) as “peacekeepers”.

I know that’s an extreme example, but it’s the color revolution playbook, and THAT, my friends, is where we are. Whether the normies choose to admit it or not, it is where we are.

The truth is that until something major happens to upset the apple cart, nothing at all will bring the normies into the fold. Until Netflix stops showing mind-numbing movies and Amazon stops delivering everything they need to sit on the couch safely, nothing will convince them.

The bigger problem is the folks who used to train and prepare who are now sitting back on the couch because their candidate won. Violence is actually on the rise, yet they can’t be convinced to come to class, buy books, or maintain their preparations because “nothing ever happens”. Friends, the war between Israel & Iran is indeed happpening and it affects us all.

The best thing we can do is try to educate our friends without seeming like a doomer. We need to remind them of the global situation and the domestic one. We are in the beginning stages of an insurgency and it’s not going to go away without some serious effort. We can preach the need to carry a get home bag, carry first aid supplies, and more importantly to train. Sharing our stories of fun and good times at class will bring more people to class than screaming that the sky is falling.

Don’t try to black pill them. Talk to them about being prepared for severe weather or power outages. Those are easy sells and the lack of power is a second order effect in nearly every potential issue we might face. After that, start talking abiout security, once they’ve bought in on beig ready to operate without power. Ask them what they think the local criminals will do once the power goes out. From there, start them on making security plans.

Ask them how they plan on staying in touch with their families and friends, and then start them on radio. Before you know it, you’ll have them in the preparedness game.

For a little higher-pressure awakening, show them videos from the protests, but not the headline-grabbing violence. Show them the SPEECHES. Hearing these people admit that this isn’t a Republican or Democrat thing, but truly a Marxism versus Freedom thing will do more to wake them up. Let them hear people calling for the elimination of free speech and the freedom to keep the money you earn. Let them hear of allowing people to commit theft without punishment while demanding years in prison for wrong thinking. They need to know that these protests aren’t really about illegal immigration or Palestine, but about forcibly tearing down our system and replacing it with Marxism. Let them hear and see these people calling for the exectuion of anyone who isn’t a Marxist.

We are at a pivotal moment. We need to get others involved without sounding like the cast of Doomsday Preppers. Sure, the situation is dire, but we need to give them hope that it can be stopped. It may end up being too late, but we need to make the fight and we need everyone we can get involved.

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