There is a scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 where the heroes are closing in on the relics of the villain’s (Voldemort) power, the Horcruxes:
Harry Potter: “He knows. You-know-who. He knows we broke into Gringotts. He knows what we took, and he knows we’re hunting horcruxes.”
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“Well, he’s angry, and scared too. He knows if we find and destroy all the horcruxes, we’ll be able to kill him. I reckon he’ll stop at nothing to make sure we don’t find the rest.”
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Ron Weasley: “Maybe it’s the horcruxes. Maybe he’s growing weaker. Maybe he’s dying.”
Harry Potter: “No. No, it’s more like he’s wounded. If anything, he feels more dangerous.”
This scene came back to me when I was reviewing some stories about the shenanigans the Regime is going through right now. I was thinking, they are getting desperate. They can feel the power slipping through their fingers. All their policies…all their interventions…all their overreach and narrative is failing spectacularly right before their eyes…and the masses are waking up to it in alarming (for them) numbers.
In this context, the “horcruxes” are their lies, distortions, pseudo-intellectual narratives that have blinded large segments of the population and unnaturally extended their political lives. Like Voldemort, the Regime has their own useful idiots…true believers…Death Eaters. These are the ones in the press and celebrity classes (Ministry of Magic) that do the bidding of the Regime without question, and without any intellectual curiosity at all. These too are getting rather shrill in their rhetoric.
To those of us who have not been blinded, or who have recently woken from the spell, this may all seem good…and it may be. But I worry that they may just be “wounded”…”more dangerous.” Like a cornered animal, they may do anything to maintain their power. Here is, perhaps, where we have to be most careful. They have shown over and over that the Constitution means nothing to them, or if anything, a barrier that must be hurdled. We also know that the Regime has run false flag operations on foreign soil (Iran in 1953 to overthrow elected president), and have at least considered it on our own soil (Operation Northwoods). Who knows they may do to keep their power in tact.
I hope, which at my level is about all I can do, that the mid-term elections are a huge setback to the Regime’s power. Hope, however, is not a strategy. People of good will, who really seek the good of society, need to stand up and be heroic to bring to light the horcruxes left…to take away the power of the lies, by shedding light on what is really happening. This will not be easy, or without risk, but our freedom stands in the balance.
