Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st-Century American Dissident.
What we are, where we are, what we need to do.
By Brent Hamachek | May 15, 2021
The following is an abridged version of a longer essay published in January 2021 on BrentHamachek.com.Since the events following the 2020 election and the swearing-in of Joe Biden to the Office of the President, those of us who still believe in and embrace the ideas of our founding, those who believe that the individual and their liberty are of paramount importance and prime value, and those of us who believe that free market capitalism is the most moral and just system for organizing economic activity have increasingly come to feel as though we are American outsiders looking in.
We do not have the same voice as our ever-strengthening oppressors, and we do not have the same rights that they enjoy.
We feel that way because it is, in fact, true. While it might be possible to argue that there are just as many of us, maybe even more, than there are those who favor a more collectivist future for America, I would suggest that you should not confuse a simple headcount with total political atomic mass. The positions within society that our opponents hold and the institutions and machinery they control gives them leverage beyond simple membership numbers. Whether or not we are outnumbered, they weigh more than we do.
There is a need for the realization that, regardless of our numbers, we are no longer on equal footing with those in control. We are now dissidents! We do not have the same voice as our ever-strengthening oppressors, and we do not have the same rights that they enjoy.
As to our being cast in the role of dissidents, we have no choice. How we conduct ourselves in that role will be the difference between having a chance over the long term to ultimately prevail or having to spend a century or more under the totalitarian’s thumb. We need to understand the role we are in, the most effective course of action we can take, and above all, we must understand and accept our limitations. A failure to understand and accept limitations will only deepen and prolong our subjugation.
We are not in uncharted territory. People have had their freedom taken and have been persecuted before. True, we are not used to seeing it happen in 4K resolution or in real-time street-scene videos, but the general mechanics are all the same.
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