Embrace the Chaos

Picking Up and Moving Forward in the Light of a New Day

In the week leading up to the election, I put out two complementary pieces less projecting the Actual Events to come on November 8 and the following days, and more focusing on what I do best—that being taking stock of the Potential/Narrative Events at play, and examining how they might map onto future Actual Events.

In Lay of the Land, I highlighted the interesting Narrative Convergence I had observed between ‘our’ side and [theirs] as the time between projection to reality began to narrow. While the Media Industrial Complex and all its communicative power structures had been breathlessly and confidently asserting an emphatic Blue Hold as recently as August and September, something in the internal metrics they had access to began to reflect the general sentiment most awakened Americans in this nation have been feeling on the ground level for far longer—that being the general observation of the degradation of our shared society in the wake of the Biden Administration’s ongoing reign of fiscal, economic, administrative and cultural terror.

I believed at the time that this sentiment projected, if not an actualization of the Red Wave narrative, then certainly a more nervous, uncertain disposition out of the information (or disinformation) dissemination arm of the increasingly-fractured and siloed fraudulent and even criminal collective we often refer to as the Deep State.

While the results—such as they are—on November 9 do not paint the rosiest, reddest picture many of us imagined in our MAGA-tinged dreams replete with populist referendums in the place of dancing sugar plums, this general observation holds in hindsight, just as it holds now, watching the same media waffle between confident and strangely reactive, even defensive as vote totals continue to roll in in something of an odd, mirrored reversal of some of the rug-pull trends we all witnessed—and no doubt carry the psychological scars of—on the week of November 3, 2020.

Following that piece, Death Spiral represented my attempt to distill the BIG picture of the 2022 Midterm Elections into something that, while intended to be encouraging was also meant to apply reason and rationality to that positive intent. After all, it is never my intention at Burning Bright to spread hopium or to ‘cope’ with situations by inventing increasingly-complex and unlikely scenarios in order to placate the minds of my readers, and my own.

And I don’t believe I did any such thing in Death Spiral. The assertions I made in that piece heading into the day—that being that we could see any one of three scenarios, from an actualization of the Red Wave to as fraudulent a result as 2020 to something in between the two—the net effect on the Collective Mind of American society would ultimately fall in line with the increased exposure of [their] election fraud system and a swing in public sentiment toward election reform and transparency.

Thus, as the lay of the land today is one of building tension, when magical ballot drops might actually serve the interests of some of our favored candidates this time instead of [theirs]—wouldn’t that be delicious irony?—it is both reasonable to feel a sense of disappointment and emotional and psychological tension while also keeping from falling into the realm of doom and despair.

As my good friend and co-host of the newly-launched DEFECTED show, Just Human often says, understanding is always greater than reacting. This isn’t just emotional advice; it’s practical, and follows the same logical foundation as many of the most long-running expressions in the English tradition, from appeals to the 40,000-foot view to not missing the forest for the trees.

What, then, does the forest of the 2022 Midterm Elections look like if we manage to take a step back, take to the skies, and scan the valleys and canyons of an American world seemingly on fire as far as the eye can see?

Herein, I will ask that my readers attempt to apply the Bicameral Thinking I often push around these parts, so that you might hold seemingly-contradictory paradigms in your mind as you observe the information world around you and attempt to orient yourselves within it. Again, this is not an appeal to ignore evidence that goes against your core beliefs, projections and hopes regarding the week’s events, but rather an appeal to separate emotional reaction on either side of false hope and frivolous doom from the realities of the Actual Events that continue to map onto the paradigms we set forth.

As an example of this seemingly-contradictory paradigm, I believe it is a reasoned observation to make that we did indeed see the much-pushed and much-maligned [by them] Red Wave on many levels, while understanding that this seeming wave did not seem to materialize—or hold onto its materialization—through to the final and finalizing vote counts in many of the States in the union. Voter turnout was quite strong for a Midterm cycle, and early reports in some of the most contentious and highlighted swing states in the country indicated Republican turnout that didn’t just supplant that of their blue-tinged counterparts, but utterly routed it to the tune of 4-to-1 ratios, more than double the GOP turnout ratio we saw during the contentious 2020 election in these same regions.

What’s more, these turnout figures were widely reported throughout the information sphere, as were the predicted and much-maligned (by us) ‘malfunctions’ and counting delays that seem now to be a function of [their] Democracy, and nothing but a shadow of the Republic we would seek to erect—or restore—in its place.

On the other side of the equation, we most certainly did not see the dominant Blue Hold that the Media Industrial Complex and the powers that would be projected with confidence in the waning days of a scorching summer, and I believe this is a comforting and confidence-inspired sign that the Red Wave turnout by sovereigns across our land was and is a mighty thing to overcome, even with a generational System of Systems that controls virtually all levers of institutionalized and administrative power in this nation.

So, then, it looks like we’re left with the ugly, purple-tinged split down the middle as the ‘Actual’ paradigm on November 9, one that will likely slowly lean in one direction or the other as real or fraudulent votes—or both—continue to be ‘found’ in the coming hours, days and dare I say weeks.

This is not a happy paradigm to be caught in, or for reality and Actual Events to be mapping onto, and yet, when revisiting the projections of both myself and many of the other minds in this community that you folks follow … we aren’t surprised. In fact, many of my colleagues and peers believed we would see even more rampant examples of (successful) voter fraud than we have so far.

To me, this implies a few potential readings:

1. The aforementioned Red Wave was so powerful, attempts of brute-force fraud have proved to be more difficult to actualize than [they] believed.

2. [Their] election fraud system is comparatively weaker than it was in 2020, before ‘conspiracies,’ investigations and yes, even the occasional arrest regarding U.S. election administration and infrastructure saturated the Collective Mind for two years, compounded with the psychological net effects of life under the ‘Acting’ Administration.

3. Some mix of the two, along with the unhappy, albeit necessary and confidently-predicted NEED for more stark, contentious and galvanizing exposure of the rot at the very core of the Democracy [they] highlight and defend with the covetous desperation of a dragon over its cache of stolen gold.

If there was one voice that rose above all the others in the realm of projection and analysis for me over the course of the last 24 hours, surely it was that of Captain Seth Keshel, a leading figure in the election exposure and truth movement over the course of the last two years.

While Keshel was far from a ‘doomer’ on election day, I found his steady realism to be a guiding light in a storm that, again many of us expected, projected and have been weathering as the hours turn into days.

“True change agents in this election are on the State level,” Keshel said during one of several appearances on the Badlands Media live stream, which ran for 12 hours yesterday. “And we have a lot of State candidates that are extremely important.

Kari Lake can unseal a lot of corruption in Arizona,” he continued, “including the 2020 election and anything they may be doing with Cartel activities … [and] Mastriano is critical for pulling the pin out of election fraud in Pennsylvania.”

In addition to these more specific highlights, Keshel’s overarching projections were that, in order for the collective enemy to stage the coup they no doubt intend to stage in the coming days, the degree of fraud needed to overwhelm the aforementioned candidates must be so significant and so obvious in the absence of the Narrative and Administrative Shielding provided by the COVID-19 lockdowns and mail-in fiasco of 2020 as to be rendered clear as the cold light of day.

And we are now in that new day.

While Keshel’s commentary might not seem particularly illuminating to some of you, what struck me about it was not its sound foundational logic, but also its simplicity. Keshel drew attention to the foundational rot at the core of our voting institutions, just as many of us have been for two years—and like Democratic voters like to conveniently forget that they did in the two years following Donald Trump’s initial election to the highest office in the land.

Our election systems need to change. [Their] System of Systems needs to come down, and this foundational system is at the heart of all those that are built atop it, from the Administrative to the Legal. In allowing for or watching as the very soul of our Republic—that being our free will and the sovereign mandate to lead inherent in the act of voting in the first place—was corrupted, we have given tacit, collective approval for that sovereignty to be taken from us, paraded in front of us like a freedom-eschewing and mocking skin suit, used as a mandate-implying lash with which to whip us and cudgel with which to bludgeon us in every walk of American life not just for the last two years, but for decades—perhaps generations.

And yet, while most of you are no doubt nodding along with the above statements, perhaps even doing so with arms crossed or with your head threatening to tip back, jaw working and ready to unleash the very wails of despair we saw the other side release in the days following that glorious election in 2016, these observations are not meant to be cynical, but motivating—not tinged with the despair that comes so easily on days like this, but in the hope that must be recognized so it can be sought, and prized so that it can be seized.

At the end of the day, the week, the month or the election cycle—however long it takes—how were we ever going to demand change, how were we as a nation ever going to muster both the sovereign will and the decree to see it done if the very systems we acknowledge as the embedded termites eating away at the pillars of our Republic remain burrowed in place, paused as a glorious, all-too-brief ‘Red’ era of America First sentiment takes the stage, biding their time for the next election cycle and the next set of regulations to chew and eschew with stored fervor and subversive energy?

This Republic—this Democracy—needs to see wholesale changes. We all know this. We’ve been screaming it from the rooftops for years, and for the last two in particular, and those calls should not quiet in days such as these, but should redouble.

Of course, the contrarian might read this appeal and shout it down, arguing that we as would-be sovereigns have done our parts. We voted. We turned out. We showed up. And so did [they] with all of their systems and their control. And it still wasn’t enough. Isn’t enough.

I won’t disagree with that, and I won’t argue against it.

And that is why I tend to focus on the narratives being advanced by the key figures that were highlighted heading into this election cycle, and from Kari Lake to Lee Zeldin and beyond on the candidate side, from Steve Bannon and General Michael Flynn on the observer side and from the heart of the America First movement itself, Donald Trump, the demeanor I read and the energy I take from their words and their sentiments last night, this morning and I would project stretching into the immediate future indicates not an ending of a fight over this System of Systems, but the start of it, and the welcome escalation.

In the interest of seeing that such a fight is not abandoned, and that swings or crawls unerringly in the direction of reform and reclamation, that is a fight I intend to continue in whatever way I can, secure and at peace in the knowledge that I can only control what is in my power to control, inspire whom is within my sphere to inspire and most importantly, trust whom I have determined through a mix of independent research, ruthless cognition, engagement, introspection and yes, perhaps a bit of faith … who I have chosen to trust.

As I said in the days leading up to this momentous day and this momentous period of time in our nation’s history, embrace the chaos, my friends and my truth-seeking family.

Embrace the chaos, lest it embrace you.

Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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