Coincidence.

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Watching television this evening, I found two channels which I could switch to avoid commercials and still get most of the content. One was a documentary on Jim Jones, the other was "Rambo", the one where he takes missionaries upstream into a war zone. They seem to be very different, and yet they are not. Not at all. I guess the notion struck me so strongly about a quarter of the way through the viewings, something clicked.

Jim Jones, if you do not remember, was a self-styled preacher socialist egalitarian leader of what we would call a cult. He made promises, spouted about a God he could not have believed in, and collected the lost and the weak. He, after either real concerns he would be shut down in the states or merely because he was becoming ever more paranoid from drug use and criminal behavior, moved many of his "parishioners" to Guyana. There, it seems, he did whatever he wanted to whoever he wanted. What all really went on in there will probably never be fully known.

The movie "Rambo", if the victims are more hapless or weak than not, describes a camp of men much like the people who killed those who would not commit suicide for Jim Jones. Only, they were stolen as youth and indoctrinated in the harshest of manners. They murdered, stole, raped, tortured, burned, looted, and did whatever they were told or were "trained" to do. I have no doubt that as they became grizzled veterans they came to enjoy what they had.

It still seems unlikely that the two stories are all that connected. But if you skeletonize the two stories, looking at the initial and final means of getting people to obey, the lengths taken to the ends of those in charge, the promised ends, and the real ends, you begin to see similarities pop out as you would discover similarities in two real skeletons. It is amazing, to me, that whenever socialism, said to be nicer or softer than communism, pops up and power is allowed to accrue, lots of people die.

Why all this? Ah, that. Because last election we handed just such people power. Deny it if you will. Denounce me if you want. That is who holds majority power in this nation at this time. Democrats you say? No. Democrats and at least a third and more like half of Republicans in office. What does that have to do with a couple of shows? What happens when people with certain beliefs believe they are about to lose power? You answer that for yourself, not my job.

All I am saying is that I am glad to live in a place with a low population. I am glad to be living among people who have stocked up, are armed, where I have started to store my own food, water (well, soon), and goods. Our government, right now, is more of a threat than all the terrorists on the planet, foul as they may be. I remember when "our government" put out a terrorist watch list regarding certain citizens. Ah, what was it? Former military personnel, gun owners, Christians, and those who believe in the fundamentals of the Constitution. And still you doubt?

The only question is, are the socialists (truly or in their minds) close enough to enough of the levers of power to try to pull them? Though I must be honest with you, if it does not happen this time, it will next time. American people are failing. Our institutions, from courts to academia to law, have been invaded, subdued, indoctrinated, and armed to do what socialists do. It is obviously working considering who is acting as president.