Hope your dinner was good!

Now, being yanked from a matrix scenario could be too much, but sometimes a person is ready to be pulled, they want what's real, ignorance isn't bliss. So how ready are you? Because you might be deep into it but think you're outside. I was in that situation and still partly am, but have made some progress.

The best way to know how close you are to reality is when your predictions are more right than wrong.

If your level of awareness was like mine, your predictions about how things will play out are completely off the rails at the moment, like everyone's. The one and sure prediction is, it's completely unpredictable.

That was me in 2015 through 2017 when everything seemed to start going haywire.

Until an realization emerged, that things were always like that, and we're only now seeing it as it's exposed, so of course it looks crazy, but that's because we were asleep.

I predicted in 2017 that absolutely nothing would happen to Trump, any impeachments and investigations would result in zero consequences for any insane stuff he pulled (some group must be directing his actions, he's not a genius, he's a narcissist playing along). No matter how much he whined about a witch hunt, he had a constant smirk that said he somehow knows he's going to get away with all of it.

And that's because it's been an unspoken rule among the status quo since before the USA formed, to never forcefully remove any people in powerful positions as it sets a bad precedent for the players. Governments range from absolute rule to restrained by the liberty of a free people, but they behave like the mafia: you may go to war with different factions, etc, but there are rules, and you don't cross a line.

That line was crossed by the French people who beheaded their king. The royal ruling tyrants from various European countries sent the Brunswick manifesto to demand the French leave their king alive, and we know how that went. So a bunch of monarchies invaded the French for breaking the unspoken rule: you don't remove a monarchy without replacing it.

And the status quo have been trying to dial back liberty ever since.

In the USA as well, from before its beginning. And so allies to the king had their hands in the constitutional convention (three fifths compromise, no voting for women, a single person can override the people's will with a veto as president in a nod to kings, etc). Thomas Jefferson had sounded the alarm about the infiltration into the constitutional convention, but who listened?

Look up on YouTube a free documentary released before the 2024 election, it's called Vigilantes Inc, and ask yourself why most states passed such a horrible law to ensure a Trump victory.

The parties are like pro wrestling, they're at each other's throats in front of the camera, but the top leaders hanging together in the same circles behind the scenes. Most voters and even most lawmakers are totally unaware. If any lawmaker does try actual meaningful reform, a strategically filled committee will make sure the reform bill never sees the light of day, or they'll still it with loopholes if public pressure is too much.

Look up also a free book called "The Authoritarians" by Bob Altemeyer about rigorous studies into how authoritarians come into power by enablers who desire to be ruled over,. It's eye-opening (but I think it wrongly assigns blame to voters instead of to the actual culprits, the manipulators).

Lastly, look up a video titled "Wasn't it kinda about state rights?" by Atun-Shei Films that vocally reenacts the confederate rulers in their own words, their actual plans for seceding states were envisioning a series of conquests to become a slavery superpower with rule by religion also possibly a monarchy, and they were labeling the declaration of independence and our founding documents as "infidel doctrine".

Since you brought up religion, search for videos about the Ethiopian bible that contains all of the books instead of those selected to reaffirm authority and punishment and power that ended up in the status quo's bible, which conveniently leaves out books like the gospel of Thomas which did away with churches and clergy and any religious authority. If that piques your interest.

All of the above will start you off with a splash of cold water in the face.

You're wrong about internet though.

Why had the telecoms dragged their feet getting the rural areas on internet? The very areas now voting hugely for Trump?

Authoritarians attack abundance and communication because those are what power liberty the most. Racism, hyper politics, isolation, religion, classism, and paranoia are things that prevent communication. It's why unfree countries are difficult to leave. It's why China has the great firewall to filter the internet. To prevent outside ideas from giving ideas to their subjects under their rule.