This is part of the movie shown in the very first Star Wars film, A New Hope, where they are flying in deep space, and Ben Kenobi says to Han Solo as he was chasing down a Tie Fighter headed for a small moon, or so they thought, “that’s no moon, that’s a space station.”  Han Solo says, “That’s too big to be a space station.”  Kenobi says, “Turn the ship around.”  Solo says, “I think you’re right.” But it was too late.  Their ship was caught in a tractor beam, and they were all prisoners because they didn’t recognize what had been hiding in plain sight fast enough.  The Empire had been growing quietly in power in the background, and nobody had thought they had weapons like a Death Star at their disposal.  It had been built secretly, being too big for people to assume it could be real.  And by the time they realized what it was, it was too late.  That’s why people across many generations so loved those old Star Wars movies.  People naturally have an uneasy consideration about power and what it can do through the influence of the government.  The more recent Star Wars movies don’t get it; they are primarily concerned with silly stuff like the color of a lightsaber.  It was not the content of the struggle itself, which few films ever managed to capture, but the first two Star Wars movies did.  People are always uneasy about what power can do to their lives, and those old movies dealt with that issue in a way that meant something to many people who couldn’t quite put their finger on what they fear most.  And that point in that first movie best articulates people’s true feelings about the natural world around them, presented in a fictional context. 

I talk about these things all the time; I have been exceptionally well aware that many space stations out there threaten the human race.  Most people don’t think about those things and will only let themselves consider such a possibility in the kind of fiction they consume.  But what we have been learning about Joe Biden and his replacement, Kamala Harris, is that there is a real menace functioning behind the scenes of the Democrat Party, and a lot of people are jumping ship because they realize that the menace is a form of Death Star, a machine of globalism that is threatening to destroy everything regarding the freedoms we hold dear.  So this election with Trump in the fall of 2024 is no longer a Republican versus Democrat kind of thing; it’s now a joint effort of rebellion against a globalist machine that has been in power for a long time.  But we refused to see it until we were caught by a tractor beam and pulled ruthlessly toward it.  As everyone knows, in Star Wars, after the heroes are captured, the rest of the movie is about escaping and destroying that ominous machine, and it’s a lot of fun watching them do it.  And that fun has now lasted for several decades.  But we are no longer talking about fiction here; the Death Star is real, and it has been against America’s choice in government and has been seeking to destroy it.  And the more President Trump was involved in politics, the more it forced them to reveal themselves.  They never planned for him to survive this long, but because he has, the plot of this movie has moved from conspiracy theory to fact, and that realization has been terrifying to people.

You could hear it in Nicole Shanahan’s and Robert F. Kennedy’s voices as they moved from an independent ticket after quitting the Democrat Party and running for president, only to join Trump in those efforts.  She was recently on the Glenn Beck Show explaining why California Democrats are joining the Republican Party behind President Trump, and it was fascinating to hear.  These are the people in that Millennium Falcon cockpit who are wondering if that small moon was a massive space station run by an oppressive galactic government.  And they are realizing now that it is, and they want to turn the ship around and escape.  But there is no escape.  Now they want to join people who can help them fight this menace.  The same could be said of Tulsi Gabbard, who has been turning away from the Death Star for several years, starting as a Democrat Congresswoman and evolving into an independent supporting President Trump with an endorsement and even helping campaign with him.  And we all know how this movie ends.  All the heroes are joining to fight a mutual enemy and save the day.  At this point, I think that is more than an optimistic appraisal.  Yes, the machine has been running in the background, but its power is in secrecy.  Once people know what’s going on, they can attack and destroy it, which is the essential plot of the Star Wars movies.  The power of the bad guys is in secrecy, and what they conceal behind masks, such as the character of Darth Vader or the Emperor, a Sith Lord pretending to be a typical senator serving his constituents, is the real threat.

The new Disney Star Wars movies don’t understand this because they are part of that machine.  Even in Star Wars, the bad guys think they are doing the right things, and we must know that many of the tyrants of the World Economic Forum and the United Nations think they are on the right side of history.  But what is at threat is something that everyone can agree on, and even Democrats are seeing it these days.  If people like Nicole Shanahan are seeing it, you know there are a lot of traditional Democrats who are also seeing it, and they are going to be voting for President Trump.  These aren’t the kinds of things that polling traditionally captures in its analysis.  Should we turn away from the Death Star or not?  That’s not a typical polling question, so what’s going to end up happening is that there will be a massive turnout for Trump that is not being noticed at this point in the movie.  But destroying the machine is something everyone can rally behind, and that is what the 2024 election has become all about.  And Kamala Harris and her cackling communists are the Darth Vaders who pose a threat to the world.  And that world is uniting behind President Trump.  It’s not that any of this is new.  But people see it for what it is.  Perhaps that is the point of the big picture: people had to go through all this to appreciate the real threat in the world.  Kamala Harris isn’t a person; she’s a machine, and Constitutional principles do not bind the people who run her.  So, to them, there is no Bill of Rights and no American sovereignty.  There is only service to the system of tyranny of global politics.  And nobody wants that, especially now that they see that was the threat.  We didn’t see it fast enough, and that machine captured us.  But the point of the movie and life is to escape from that machine and, ultimately, destroy it so it can never threaten us again.  When they raided him at his home, prosecuted him, and threatened him with jail, then they tried to kill him and missed, the Empire showed who they were.  And now people from all kinds of backgrounds and political beliefs are rallying behind Trump for the destruction of the Death Star, once and for all, before that threat turns on them too as it always does.

Rich Hoffman

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