Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revealed before the White House press corps that after Donald Trump won the presidency against Hillary Clinton in 2016, Barack Obama and his cabinet members manufactured and orchestrated what ended up being a years-long coup against President Trump. The fact that Obama is part of the corruption shouldn’t surprise anyone.
But now that we know: what does justice is in this context? Is it the prosecution of a former administration, like what Biden did to Trump or Brazil's Lula did to Bolsonaro? How much power do we really have to right these wrongs? Past totalitarian regimes have shown us that justice is an illusion. Every totalitarian regime breaks, sooner or later, but the question is how and when.
The question for many Americans right now is whether there will be justice in this regard. Many “truth bombs,” to use the internet vernacular, have been dropped over the last few years, and although they are not false, they are more like duds than something that should make an immediate and substantial impact.
Whether as a “community organizer,” president, or former president who likes to insert his opinion whenever he can, Obama still operates under the same principles that make up the essence of who he is—an agitator according to the “gospel” of Saul Alinsky. It’s easy to make a meme or a video of Barack Obama being taken to jail, but it is entirely foolish to think that something like that would be a reality.
By nature, Americans are optimistic people. American optimism is rather singular and can be quite contagious, but where does this optimism fit into the corrupt mess?
Many totalitarian regimes of the past have taught us that victory over totalitarian forces is never clear and defined. It took almost 70 years for the Soviet Union to collapse. The Berlin Wall stood tall for nearly 30 years, and when the first hammer and pickaxe smashed into the brutal concrete, the system was already collapsing and the wall became a symbol of that. The demolition of the wall was an aesthetic expression of the political violence and the rejection of darkness.
When, then, can we speak of justice? There is no such thing as pure justice or pure freedom. We are flawed human beings, but the American people deserve recognition of their voices as citizens. Unfortunately, law doesn’t always translate into justice. Often, the law is used to enact various totalitarian measures. We hear about that all the time, every time some leftist judge blocks yet another attempt at seeking political order.
Can Americans retain the optimism without becoming cynics? The mask has been taken off many twisted faces of the administrative state. This included the knowledge that our political leaders have been lying to us for decades, pitting one American against another, all the while enjoying the personal benefits of politics. But this act of unmasking also meant that some of that political and cultural optimism had to erode.
This is the contradictory predicament that many Americans find themselves in. The political landscape has not only changed but also continues to shift on precarious ground. Sometimes, justice must be sought not through law but through the very act of being (and no, this does not mean revenge). What this means is that we have to momentarily suspend our roles as citizens, and enact “living in truth,” to use the phrase from the great statesman, philosopher, and playwright, Václav Havel.
Even those who try to silence our voice cannot take away our dignity. We must work hard to influence the culture that surrounds us, which may change the minds of our fellow Americans whose eyes may not be entirely open to the realities of the administrative state and its extent of corruption.
Of course, there are no rules for this. A free thinker will not partake in reading and enacting Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, like Barack Obama did and still does. Instead, he or she will affirm the dignity of human life, and seek not only justice but also happiness.
As Havel said: “There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous dimensions, to laugh at others and ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world.”
