By Peggy Ryan
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n
Pop the champagne corks, set off the fireworks, former FBI Director, James Comey nixed the “Russian collusion.”\u00a0 In his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey cleared<\/a> President Trump of all charges \u2013 no collusion, no conspiracy, no investigation, no there<\/em> there.<\/p>\n Yay!\u00a0 It’s over. \u00a0The Russian conspiracy nonsense is finally debunked. \u00a0Whew!<\/p>\n Does anyone else see the insanity here \u2013 that we celebrate when the president is cleared of phony charges, that we breathe a sigh of relief when the fired FBI director fails to establish an obstruction of justice charge?<\/p>\n Does anyone wonder why we anxiously watch each inane congressional hearing to see if the left gets the goods to pull off its coup, why we wake up each morning terrified that the insurgents have hit their mark, found something, anything they can use to depose a duly elected president?<\/p>\n We are watching, in real-time, a palace revolution<\/a>, an overt effort to remove the president of the United States.\u00a0 Just as James Comey proudly admitted he leaked<\/a>privileged communication to the press, so these insurgents brazenly brag that they want to harm the president, to impeach him, to overthrow our government.\u00a0 The American people seem\u00a0 shockingly oblivious to the looming danger.<\/p>\n How did we get here?\u00a0 Well, let’s give credit where credit’s due: the left has its ducks in a row.\u00a0 Leftists are carrying out a carefully planned, well executed plot to take control of our government.<\/p>\n Oh, it’s not soldiers bursting through the White House gates to forcefully remove the president, or, as the left says, not yet.\u00a0 No, they’re using a form of behavior therapy, systematic desensitization<\/a>, to numb the American people to their insurgence.<\/p>\n Systematic desensitization is a technique used to treat phobias.\u00a0 The patient, while relaxed, is exposed to progressively more frightening aspects of his phobia.\u00a0 For instance, treatment for arachnophobia<\/a>, fear of spiders, might start by showing the phobic an image of a spider.\u00a0 The patient employs relaxation techniques while exposed to the image until he overcomes his anxiety.\u00a0 Next, a real spider may be introduced, far away, in a cage.\u00a0 After the person accepts that exposure, the spider is taken out of the cage and moved closer and closer until the patient is able to hold a live spider in his hand.<\/p>\n Congress, corporate and social media, activist courts, and a contingent in our intelligence community unite to form a cabal (a conspiratorial group of plotters).\u00a0 This cabal uses this desensitization technique to condition us to overcome our fear of losing our freedom, of a disappearing democracy.<\/p>\n Using this technique, the cabal does something wrong, illegal, or unconstitutional \u2013 behavior that’s a threat to our republic.<\/p>\n \u2022 Benghazi \u2013 Obama and his administration to the American people that a video caused the horrific massacre.\u00a0 President and allies openly engage in cover-up<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 FBI investigation on Hillary Clinton \u2013 Comey announces Hillary’s guilty on all counts, then the judgment, and she walks. \u00a0A two-tier justice system; Hillary’s above the law<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 CNN caught giving to Hillary Clinton. \u00a0Democrats rig debates.\u00a0 <\/em>Democrats cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. \u00a0Democrats rig elections.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n These are just a few of the unacceptable transgressions by our corrupt leaders.\u00a0 Each time, outraged conservatives demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice.\u00a0 Each time, the press gaslights<\/a> the American people with a media blackout, acts as though the incident never happened.\u00a0 Each time, the cabal rides out the news cycle until the story fades, and everyone’s home free.<\/p>\n Time and again, the deception, lawlessness, violation of the Constitution, or open act of sedition is met with disbelief.\u00a0 This is banana republic stuff; these things don’t happen in America.\u00a0 The people look to our system of checks and balances to restore order.<\/p>\n Except the only checks the members of Congress care about are the ones from their donors, and some in Congress are actually members in good standing with the cabal.\u00a0 But the courts will intervene, right?\u00a0 Nope \u2013 the courts are no longer confined to interpreting the law. \u00a0They now make the law \u2013 not a reprieve, but another hurdle.<\/p>\n Oh, and our media, that last bastion of democracy \u2013 they’re actually facilitating the coup. \u00a0They ignore the transgressions, excuse them, or explain them until our anxiety wanes and we learn to live with treason.\u00a0 Then it’s on to the next level, the spider moving ever closer.<\/p>\n Conservatives sidestep the seriousness of this open rebellion.\u00a0 National media waging a campaign to usurp our president is not bad journalism; its sedition<\/a>:<\/p>\n To write, print, utter or publish, or cause it to be done, or assist in it, any false, scandalous, and malicious writing against the government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or the President, with intent to defame, or bring either into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against either the hatred of the people of the United States, or to stir up sedition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wow \u2013 that’s like the media’s playbook, right?\u00a0 Well, there are some who see the problem.\u00a0 Freedom Watch’s Larry Klayman is demanding regulatory enforcementaction<\/a> against CNN for “a persistent campaign of dangerous, incendiary, false, and libelous propaganda against now President Trump.”\u00a0 It’s a start.<\/p>\n The media’s role in this conspiracy is why their effusive praise for the newly appointed special prosecutor of nonexistent crimes, Comey’s BFF and mentor, Robert Mueller, is a red flag<\/a>.\u00a0 The dichotomy of a prosecutor without a crime<\/a> to prosecute is troubling.\u00a0 Questions abound. \u00a0What’s\u00a0 his mission?\u00a0 How will he prosecute if his friend, Comey, is implicated?\u00a0 Or maybe we’re just being paranoid, overly dramatic.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s the next level, the spider within reach.<\/p>\n What’s next?\u00a0 Will this cabal one day walk into the Oval Office and escort the president out, to\u00a0 prison, to execution?\u00a0 Ridiculous, you say. \u00a0This is America.<\/p>\n Really?\u00a0 Is it America when national media poison the people against their president, stir sedition, and advocate an overthrow?\u00a0 Is it America when nearly all news outlets publish lies and fake news to indict the president?<\/p>\n Is it America when Democrats “resist” and “obstruct” our government with the stated intention of weakening the president, making him an easier target; when courts establish authority<\/a> over our commander-in-chief on foreign policy; when our intelligence communities use their superpowers to spy<\/a> on the American people with impunity?<\/p>\n Is it America when the left invents a story, Russian collusion, and every branch of our government advances the lie, when the media join forces to turn news channels into indoctrination centers to smear the president, to prop up the Russian fiction?<\/p>\n Even if the Russian contrivance falls through, these rebels will keep the ground they’ve taken, and it’s significant.\u00a0 They’ve recruited a sizable number to their cause with their lies, fake scandals, and Hitler-style indoctrination. \u00a0They’ve normalized lawlessness and deception, rigged investigations, erected a two-tiered justice system, rigged debates, rigged elections, and instituted a national campaign to usurp the president.\u00a0 Seriously, what’s left?<\/p>\n They could still pull the Russian thing off.\u00a0 After all, the only steps we’re taking to stop this coup d’\u00e9tat<\/a> is to whine about witch hunts, call them sore losers, left-wing media, and spineless Republicans.\u00a0 But in the end, that’s like complaining that the guy slashing you to death is using a dull knife.<\/p>\n Lies and fake news are the norm these days, the once unthinkable and now the expected.\u00a0 This cabal is a powerful alliance.\u00a0 If we don’t stop them, if we continue to allow this open treason, they’ll eventually reach their goal, and there will be no way back.<\/p>\n Ronald Reagan warned: “You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, ‘There is a price we will not pay.’ \u00a0‘There is a point beyond which they must not advance.'”<\/p>\n I pray he’s right. \u00a0Their price is our freedom, their next stop tyranny. \u00a0And they’re moving ever closer.<\/p>\n