I’ve been writing a great deal about buyer’s remorse. But just when I think I’ve said everything that needs to be said on the subject, it suddenly gets even worse. President Asterisk’s poll numbers are going south faster than a Minnesota snow-bird in October. But, not to be undone, President/Designate Harris is racing old Joe to the bottom of the scale. Even liberals are starting to disclose how truly nasty and unlikeable the duo really are. Has Joe Biden actually “red pilled” Americans?
The “red pill” reference comes from the movie Matrix. In the distant future, all humans live cocooned in a giant machine known as the Matrix. Via drug induced dreams, people believe they are living on 20th century Earth. During a brief awakening from his dream, our protagonist (Neo) is offered the choice of a blue pill or a red pill. The blue pill will allow him to return to the comfort of his dreamscape. The red pill will fully awaken him to the reality of the world. It’s a choice between truth and fantasy. Upon taking the red pill, Neo is freed from the machine, and begins his struggle against the harsh reality of the real world.
I submit that in our current-day matrix, accepting the propaganda of the left is taking the blue pill. Opening one’s eyes to truth and reality is taking the red pill. Blue for the leftist Kool-Aid and red for truth. The color choice seems appropriate – no?
The blue pill provides comfort – at least in the short term. It dulls our sense of reality and inhibits our ability to reason. It provides a sense of security – even if it’s only an illusion. The blue pill allows us to accept:
- That America was founded by evil men for evil purposes
- That individuals are ill prepared to make smart decisions
- That individual liberty is an impediment to utopia
- That the killing of human beings is not murder, if done in the womb
- That human beings can change the weather with legislation
- That science is settled except when applied to biology (humans are the only species in which DNA is not a determinant of sex)
Conversely, the red pill offers a life of struggle. It requires that we cope with the world as it really is – not as we wish it were. It allows us to choose our own path. We can languish in sloth – with 200 cable channels at our fingertips. Or, we can strive for greatness. The choice is ours, but the red pill requires us to accept:
- That liberty is a higher priority than safety and security
- That we are responsible for the conduct of our own lives
- That we accept accountability for our own successes and failures
- That there are no victim classes – only outcomes which we individually determine
A number of years ago, my employer sent me to a seminar. The attendees included people from consumer goods manufacturers, the bio-medical industry, and one defense contractor – me. The instructor started the seminar by having everyone introduce themselves and describe what their work involved. When I said that I was a defense contractor, the instructor snidely commented, “Oh, peace is your profession.” It was a reference to the slogan the Strategic Air Command had adopted in 1957. I responded, “No. Supporting those who defend liberty is our business.” The whole class erupted in laughter. That’s when I realized that for many people, defending liberty was considered an obsolete and absurd notion. It seems the blue pill has been in general use for a while now.
All Joe needed to do was provide normalcy rather than demand unity – and issue everyone their daily dose of the blue. Instead, He’s behaved like an unsupervised child with matches – burning everything to the ground. He shocked the body politic with too much radicalism, too fast – and it awakened the citizenry for a brief moment. Joe “red pilled” us.
In reality, the blue pill (leftist propaganda) is losing its efficacy. What the media doesn’t seem to grasp is that once people know propaganda is propaganda, they stop believing the propaganda. The left always thinks that their failures at the ballot box are because they need to message better. Baloney, people are turning against them because they’ve been lying to us and we’re beginning to see it. Calling riots “mostly peaceful protests,” while buildings burned in the background didn’t sell us on the need for police reform. It sold us on the need to change channels. The propagandists overplayed their hand. The blue pill (propaganda) is no longer convincing.
At the same time, Joe’s hit us with an unprecedented level of radicalism which runs counter to logic and common sense. We need a higher dosage of the blue to avoid seeing the truth, at the very time the pill is losing its potency. Some of us have become underdosed. Truth and reality are beginning to intrude on the leftist matrix. Just when we discovered that we’ve been lied to, we’re being asked to believe bigger lies. The populace is getting a glimpse of reality and a choice – blue pill or red pill – leftist propaganda or our lying eyes.
We can take the blue and choose to continue living in a leftist dreamscape. It’s a choice to be subjects in a modern-day matrix in which elites feed us, shelter us, and determine every aspect of our lives. It subjugates our life’s purpose to a higher master – the collective. It’s the life of slaves – pampered perhaps – but slaves nonetheless.
Or, we can take the red pill and accept that life’s challenges are an inherent part of the human condition. It’s a more difficult path – particularly in the short term. But it offers endless possibilities. I refuse to be anyone’s subject. I choose to chart my own future. Pass the red please.
This is an update of an article which first appeared in 2021.
Author Bio: John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, and American Free News Network. He can be followed on Facebook or reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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