In the great American novel All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren proved that great fiction reveals the greatest truths. The story was inspired by the Louisiana populist governor Huey P. Long and written as Mussolini and Hitler were taking power in Europe. The novel’s narrator Jack Burden is a cynical reporter taken by the Long character, the fictional Governor Willie Stark, as he rises to power on the strength of his connection to, and eloquence speaking for, the common man.
If you’ve never read it, snap this book up now. The cancel culture will soon do it in if the cancel culture doesn’t get done in first, which is not looking likely. And it will be one more shame if All the King’s Men is book-burned into oblivion, for the story is less about politics – and it is great at that, resonating nearly a hundred years later in the politics of today – and more about the individual’s search for truth, and the hard reckoning that comes when all pretense is stripped away.
It is in the moments when the truth looms clearest that Jack Burden indulges in what he calls “the Big Sleep.” In today’s terms, he tunes out. He runs. He hides. He stays in bed days and nights and barely eats. Only when he hits rock bottom does he resurface to deal with reality.
America is in its own Big Sleep. It is failing its Founders and it can’t deal with it. It came to a head in 2020 as it cowered in fear before the Wuhan Virus in March and silently accepted a fraud election in November. The leftists constantly repeat that Trump is telling the Big Lie about that election, yet Trump insists the election itself was the Big Lie. The truth may very well come out in the ongoing election audit in Maricopa County. But the DNC is fighting tooth and nail to have it scuttled. Wonder why? And yet most Americans are asleep at the wheel and if they even know about it, couldn’t care less and would rather live with the lies than face the truth.
Wake up, America. A great democracy cannot live on lies. Not 3/5, not Watergate, not 2020 and all that came with it. The truth will set us all free. Let’s get on with it and do the check of the count and audit of the machines. If there is no crime, it will shut Trump up with his Big Lie. But without a full and fair audit, at least half of us will never trust elections again. And we will all end up like all the king’s men, unable to put Humpty together again.
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