DONALD DON’T CARE: Midterms as Anthropological Ritual

It is one of those necessary evils in politics that good people continue investing in it emotionally, even after suspecting or even believing with the faith of religion that the system itself is illegitimate.

Perhaps no other topic applies to that than elections.

And perhaps no other topic reveals more clearly how modern populations can be spiritually conditioned through repetition, emotion, ritual, and electronic immersion while still believing themselves entirely free.

To a majority degree we would guess, the modern political system still derives much of its power from convincing Americans that elections are real. We would also venture to say that the notion that elections are fully controlled by powers who have everything on the line, if not fake altogether, is still in the realm of conspiracy theories. The spectacle itself is meaningful enough to keep people emotionally investing in it, particularly when it is an easy way to feel as though we’re taking part from time to time when we choose not to take part at all in the day to day business of paying attention to what they’re doing to us.

It wouldn’t be a bad guess to posit that the spectacle has transcended even politics and has moved into the realm of anthropology—the study of human cultures and societies and their development. It has seemingly moved into the replacement of reality itself.

And that should disturb Christians especially, because man was not created by God to live inside a permanent electronic abstraction, reacting to shadows and slogans all day long while mistaking that emotional stimulation for real life. Civilization itself was meant to be rooted in family, duty, law, memory, sacrifice, worship, and ultimately, the pursuit of Truth Himself. The deeper battle underneath modern politics is not merely over elections, parties, or policies, but over whether society will begin orienting itself toward what is real and eternal or continue toward a synthetic and suicidal imitation of both.

It is this latter one that we should be most concerned about, because it hides. It doesn’t readily reveal itself as an enemy. But it is, just as assuredly, anti-Christic.

A Look Back: The ’22 Midterms

Before we get to the hook of this article, a confession. And it is a confession in the way of an excerpt from an article I wrote back in 2022 before those midterms, when the belief that everyone needs to “care” that I still harbor was misguided, directed in a political direction. Indeed, I would venture to say many are still there or have recently arrived there. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, don’t get me wrong, if that is the process through which God is taking a well-meaning person.

That is the key, though. Good intent has to be there. Blind, prideful allegiance is not good intent.

Here is that pull:

In my posts, whether they be motivational, cautionary, or just plain informational, I try to always end them by pointing to the importance of American patriots rising to the occasion in the face of our enemies to ignite a revival in our country. I often remind readers of the magnitude of the coming midterm elections. I sometimes wonder if patriots know exactly how important every one of them is in making this happen. Every single soldier willing to fight for the future of this country and for his or her loved ones must know that even the seeming-littlest of things–like simply educating ourselves on facts and the multitude of perspectives on these issues, helps to create a certain energy in this information war we are in…. Words and ideas spread, and according to a phenomenon called the tipping point, they can spread quickly.

They absolutely matter….

In other words, while ultra-gifted and powerful people play their seemingly more important roles in this war, the very “least” of us must do at the minimum one thing.

We must care.

There’s little doubt now “it” is about to happen. There may even be a scare-event, a “precipice” moment General Michael Flynn talks about in an article above. We are seeing the slow creep of the importance placed on monkeypox, the increasing propaganda for people–even babies–to get the jab, and the explosion of street hate in the wake of Roe, among other things. This, on the whole, mimics the Left’s playbook seen in 2020. It indicates the likelihood that the push for public health mandates in order to open the door for mass mail-in voting is on the way. The deep state globalists know that the red wave is about to hit and hit hard this fall, and they are putting the pieces in place to ensure that they circumvent that process.

Evil is here.

But evil isn’t the only thing here. In this singular moment in time, where the chasm between good and evil is as wide as the Pacific Ocean, where it has gotten abundantly easy to choose the side you are on, the onset of such evil is not subsisting without a patriot red storm that represents all that is good in the world.

And that red storm is upon us.

“Inspiring,” right? I was getting a whole lot more traffic back then. But… for what?

Midterms As Ritual

The “for what” here may help explain why Donald Trump’s recent comments about not caring about the midterms struck some as more unsettling than inflammatory. Granted, the “not caring about midterms” appears to be more about Iran contextually here, but we ask that you suspend your disbelief only for a moment while we offer our points. We return to Badlands Media, specifically Chris Paul and Ashe in America, both names that have popped up in this space from time to time:

Trump Says He Doesn’t Care About the Midterms

In a cabinet meeting Wednesday, President Trump said Iran “thought they were going to out wait me, you know, we’ll out wait him, he’s got the midterms. I don’t care about the midterms, look what happened last night, that was the prelude to the midterms.”

Chris Paul: Trump does not care about the midterms because:

• Elections are fake
• The GOPe is Trump’s actual enemy
• The system cannot be defeated while operating within its controlled framework
• The Congress and the Senate are illegitimate (and if you mistakenly believe otherwise, they remain feckless and useless)
• The US is post-constitutional, or perhaps retro-constitutional is more accurate

Nearly 100% of MAGA still refuses to grasp what Trump is saying, often because they are heavily incentivized to protect the system, in opposition to Trump.

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Ashe in America: Chris Paul is 100% correct and, from where I sit in the Communist Country of Colorado, where the gubernatorial contest has made pretty much everyone retarded, the pageantry of democracy (h/t: Marc Elias) is a bad reality TV show.

Think I’m being hyperbolic?

The gubernatorial candidates in Colorado include a local pastor and state representative that claims there are pedophile rings in the state government (Scott Bottoms), a state Senator who has excoriated Bottoms for his claims – whose former staffer was just arrested for pedophilia (Barb Kirkmeyer), and a vaporware wanna be cowboy who claims to have decapitated a cat when he was three years old and forced to wear the cat’s carcass on his head (Victor Marx) – and that is one of his least sensational claims.

If elections were real, a Republican could actually win Colorado. 51% of the state has defected from the two party system, and the people are engaged in a battle of ideas.

But elections are fake, so the main topic on the debate stage is – I kid you not – the roads. Should we get GMONEY out here on the campaign trail? There is also a heated debate about whether fraud is fraud or just mismanagement. (Both of those narratives are being led by Kirkmeyer who the establishment LOVES.

For the record, given the legislative agenda of the Colorado General Assembly, I would be shocked if there weren’t pedophile rings in the Colorado government. They keep trying to remove parental rights and enable pedophiles every single legislative session. Why else would they do that?

Just remember: It doesn’t have to be real for it to be hilariously entertaining, though treating it as real prolongs our collective pain. If you can effectively balance that in your brain, then the midterms are a lot of fun.

The bold there is mine, and really the point of this article. That is an awful lot of cognitive dissonance to ask of the common American soul.

And Chris Paul still defends Trump in a narrative way I once did. He may be right, and he may not be right. But regardless, his takes can be invaluable to someone walking through the process of fully believing government is illegitimate while not being able to let go of Trump just yet. I admit it—Trump can give courage to the sincere soul.

No, the modern regime no longer appears to require genuine civic trust in the visible structures and frameworks of politics. Perhaps it never did. But we are seeing that this was never the point. So long as the public remains emotionally invested in the electronic theater of politics, the real thing—the visible structures and frameworks like elections—becomes irrelevant.

Remember, we often say it: It’s not what happened that these overlords care about; it’s what they can get us to believe happened. That is the “reality” more people need to be cognizant of instead of trying to piece together puzzles that will never be solved and were specifically released into the wild to trigger such confusion anyway. I was once there, so I understand. This is another part of the process out of the cave—because you genuinely feel you are getting off the mental couch to actually do something about this war between good and evil for a change.

But it’s a fruitless path. The midterms, from my humble perspective, are a ritual, a key component of the Revelation of the Method. See my article from just yesterday for a description.

Think about how they laugh at us behind the scenes: The American people distrust media, Congress, all big government, corporations that have destroyed the mom-and-pops, and yes, even elections. Yet the same Americans remain fixated on debates, electronic outrage, polling, memes, and tribal warfare on that same social media that is controlled by the algorithm and robots in the first place.

And they still trust Fox News.

This is where the “necessary evil” comes into the reasoning of such well-meaning citizens, like my father for instance. “You have to know what’s going on in the world,” my mother used to say, even as I was simultaneously witnessing her sickness with the “news” and partaking in that sickness by writing things like what you read earlier. It is real—the cognitive dissonance—and what’s terrifying about it is that when you juxtapose those two very distinct perspectives I had in relation to my mother, you realize how easy it is to replace reality entirely.

I was literally living by and believing two completely opposite things about the media.

Can you relate?

And perhaps the greatest question; If so, can you change?

Final Thoughts

There is a deep danger hidden beneath all this politics and pageantry. The cave no longer merely asks Americans to believe in the shadows of narratives. It asks them to emotionally fuse with the silhouettes. Politics has become the soul’s identity, tribe, entertainment, emotional outlet, and electronic worship service all in one. The citizen does not merely vote anymore. He reacts to developments on social media. He performs like a dog.  He rage scrolls till his thumb bleeds. He waits for the next villain and the next savior while Elon and Zuck’s algorithm quietly studies his every emotional twitch along the way.

Perhaps that is also why so many Americans now simultaneously distrust the system while remaining psychologically incapable of stepping outside it long enough to evaluate it clearly. The spectacle has transcended politics altogether and entered the realm of shaping how the human race thinks, reacts, organizes, and even perceives reality itself. It is group-think on morphine, an egregore as Dr Douglass Haugen terms it. We are trapped.

The battle is no longer merely over policies, parties, or candidates. It is increasingly over the reconstruction of man himself, over the gradual alteration of cultural instincts, memory, attention span, family structure, moral reflexes, and the very social DNA of civilization. They’ve long done it with what was once the beauty of Christendom, a word now pejoratively associated with “Catholic” and discarded as something from a dark past, all the while as the same people don’t realize that it is exactly Christendom that could cure all of the ills they are forever complaining about.

That is why the midterms and any election increasingly resemble a ritual more than a civic duty, even if religious duty is invoked as well. The overlords are evil, period, and they want our God-created heart to morph into something Frankensteinic.

And that raises an even darker question—if it can possibly get any blacker than that….

If so many Americans can already recognize pieces of the manipulation and still remain emotionally captive to the cave wall, what happens when the systems guiding perception become even more personalized, more digitized, and more immersive than they already are now?

What happens when an electronic Christ looks real and suddenly appears as described in Scripture?

Think.

By then, it will no longer matter whether elections were ever real in the first place.

Only the shadows will remain. And only the false light will emerge.