No, my dear boy, Wretchard…it will not collapse, it will go on. And on.

What I have witnessed for the first time in my life, over these 56+ years, is a group willing to cram down their ideas upon us, by any means necessary…and then have their propaganda arm tell us we like it.

This is not my America. Not any longer.

When it is clear that those in power (elected and unelected) steal from us every remnant of truth, every trust, every dignity, every respect…and arrogate to themselves the mantle of keeper of the “facts”, we are doomed to die fighting or die surrendering.

The loyal opposition has no weapons. The media, academia, Hollywood…all of news and entertainment are filled with people who side more reflexively with Chavez than they would with a Reagan.

These are lying cretins who defraud us in an open, naked and taunting manner, sneering and slandering those of us who harbor even the slightest principled dissent.

God help us all. When honor is this cheap, when integrity is this ignored, when truth is so missing…what is left is dark matter. Nothing of substance can survive. And we are fooling ourselves, whistling past the graveyard if we believe that we can fight against a tide of lies, when the ability to obtain facts is tortured daily.

And, when their power over our “pop” culture is so complete, in every corner where we gather to shape our opinions “en masse”, that they are no longer satisfied to pen revisionist history, they are penning a revisionist present.