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The United States has a new "President," and I am starting a new blog.  The record of this blog will be stored on a database somewhere and will one day be read back to me in a courtroom.  I will doubtless have the opportunity to face my accusers, but what response will I give?  The accusation will be something like this: "you don't think like we do."  I will have no response.  My words will speak for themselves and I will have no defense.  I will be stripped of my rights, my freedom, my property, and I will be sent off to a camp somewhere to be re-educated.  Or perhaps I will just be imprisoned for the crime of wrong-think.  This is the future I am imagining for myself as the Harris  Biden Administration takes office.  If I am thinking these things, what is the likelihood that other people are having similar thoughts?  Why am I thinking such thoughts?  I live in Oregon, the liberal capital of the country.  Everyone around me is so sure of themselves, and they as

By now everybody ought to be familiar with the scene from The Matrix in which Morpheus offers Neo the red pill.  References to the Red Pill have, by now, become ubiquitous in mainstream culture.  The Red Pill has come to be a connotation for the truth, however depending on your own personal relationship with truth the Red Pill could also represent everything that is evil and vile in the world.  What many people don't realize is that the original use of the term "red pill," was in the online community of pickup artists in the early 2000's.  From there, the use of the term expanded into politics and culture.  But it's original use was in the "game," community. At a time in my life when I was (quite unsuccessfully) beginning to  make a serious effort to find a wife, I was told by a trusted friend to read a blogger who went by the name Roissy.  I went and visited Roissy's website, read his most popular post, and for the most part forgot what I had read a