Chapter 1
We were walking through the windswept wisps of snow that blew across the path. The forest blocked some of the gusts but gave little shelter from the cold. We were hiking the trail, or at least we hoped that we were still on the path. The map that we were provided was vague and hard to follow. I was sure that we were lost. Just so that you know, I never wanted to make this journey. I had a good job and a nice home. I was settled into my comfortable life before it all came crashing down around me.
COVID uncovered the festering underbelly of the beast that had long lurked beneath the surface of our society. People were eager to enforce their rules and implement procedures to ‘keep everyone safe.’ We were being coerced to ‘just do the right thing.’
Later, we all remember the riots and the disputed elections. Moments that shook our faith in the system. I remember the hope we felt after our President tried so hard to fix things. But that hope proved fleeting. His changes only lasted for a short time. It seems the ‘Deep State’ had deeper roots than anyone could have guessed.
Of course, the creature didn’t take back its power all at once. It was designed to take place little by little. We were the frogs in the pan of water, and the burner was turned too high.
Little by little, we lost the right to speak out against our government. Claiming that it was ‘for everyone’s safety’, we were fined or arrested if we dared to take a stand. Along with our lost rights, we were losing control of our finances. Our economy was becoming tied to the world economy.
In the first year of his term, he quietly implemented his evil festering programs. And, the world seemed to be following this same corrupting decay.
Businesses are struggling, neighborhoods are changing, and there is a sense of loss hanging in the air. Religious freedoms began to disappear, and Christians and Jews were being blamed for inflation.
He began to cause Societal rifts, and people began to turn on one another. They blamed one another for the problems that they were facing. Everyone seemed to blame Christians the most.
The President seized the chaos he created to decree his latest Executive Order: police and Sheriff’s departments now served the Federal Marshals – instantly plunging us into autocratic rule.
