There's No Ambulance

Spence – Let me say from the outset that I would be much happier writing about sunrises over the Bay of Bengal or a thousand other astounding minutiae of Asian exotica. Unfortunately, the political landscape in America has changed so dramatically since Obama’s election; it’s sucked all the air out of normal concerns. I'm not showing anybody anything. I'm like you: I observe and try to articulate what I see.

You do the same, but the Zeitgeist has overtaken you. You’re seeing it all alright, but you refuse to connect the dots. That’s because the picture that emerges is so egregious, so alien to anything we’ve come to expect, we instinctively recoil from it and say, “This is America; and it can’t happen here.” But it’s already happened. Check out the backgrounds of the new science and climate czars.

When a man is fatally shot, it usually still takes a little time for him to die. During this time, we still hold out hope that he will live. We tell him, “Hang in there, old buddy. The ambulance is on its way.”

This is where we find ourselves today: waiting for the ambulance. Only, the ambulance is not coming. The shooter is driving the ambulance and he has no intention of returning to the scene of the crime.

We all know instinctively that there’s no ambulance on the way. Some of us (you, for instance) still have the audacity to hope.

I believe that America has seen nothing yet. Things will get worse. And the reason it’ll get worse is because what is being done is deliberate.

We’ve fixed it so that there are no longer any checks and balances in the system. The government is going full tilt in a singular direction. The only thing left to stop them is the people themselves. That can’t be good.