Don’t Be Black-Pilled – We’re Winning

Conservatives online typically are in one of two phases that are subject to change at any given point. The phases are “we are so back” and “it’s so over.”

These two phases are also known as being “white-pilled” and being “black-pilled.” Majority of people who are either perpetually online or have at least seen the 1999 movie The Matrix will recognize what the terms “red-pilled” and “blue-pilled” mean. In it, Morpheus offers Neo a choice between a blue pill, which will allow him to continue living in the matrix in blissful oblivion, or a red pill, which will awaken him to reality and allow him to discern the lies of the matrix. So when liberals and “normies” (people who either have little interest in politics or only parrot mainstream talking points without doing any in-depth research) become disaffected and awaken to the realities of the matrix we live in today — one designed by our ruling elites to trap us in a prison of enslavement and quiet submission — we call them red-pilled.

Over time, the proverbial pill bottle has expanded to include other types of pills; most notably, it includes the white pill and the black pill. The white pill can be very difficult to swallow, especially for conservatives. Conservatives for years have been forced to take the black pill every day, as the left seems to gain more and more ground as time goes on. The black pill is the pill of pessimism. A black-pilled person sees no victories because there are none in their eyes. Their enemy continues to prevail, and they see no chance of ever winning again. The white-pilled person, however, is optimistic. Not to a point of delusion or blissful ignorance of reality, but to a point where they recognize small victories as opportunities to gain new ones. Michael Malice, a prominent libertarian who penned a book about the white pill, describes it like this: “It is possible we will lose…it is impossible that we must lose…that is the white pill.” The reason conservatives are not accustomed to this way of thinking is because of a long-instilled belief that our predetermined “fate,” if you will, is to be perpetually defeated. After so many years of losing, we know little else. We had a small taste of winning from 2016-2020; yet we were promised that we would “win so much” that we would even get “tired of winning”; alas, that never seemed to happen.

This is how the black-pilled person sees things.

This mentality was prevalent in right-wing circles from the 2020 election onward. Trump’s “loss” (yes, I placed the word “loss” in quotations for a reason) left many conservatives devastated and confused, especially those who, like me, believed the election was rigged and stolen. If the left could steal that election, they could steal all future ones as well. There seemed to be no visible path to victory. And so for 4 years, a portion of the right wallowed in self-pity and “woe is me” sentiments. Another portion remained white-pilled, seeing the progress that the right was making (however small it might be); these were the same people who emphatically predicted Trump’s 2024 landslide victory. The red tsunami that we witnessed just a couple weeks ago gives no allowance to be black-pilled anymore.

Amazingly, these despondent right-wingers who, for years, did nothing but complain on social media and throw pity-parties for themselves and their equally miserable compatriots, still found ways to force the black-pill down. It wasn’t enough for them that Trump won in a clean sweep after taking a sledgehammer to what liberal pundits called the “blue wall” states — not to mention the impressiveness of capturing every single swing state. It wasn’t enough for them that Trump tapped the tough-as-nails ex-ICE director Tom Homan as border czar, or anti-DEI/wokeness veteran Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defence, or, even recently, outspoken critic of Fauci and lockdowns Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as Director of NIH. To my knowledge right now, even former Florida AG Pam Bondi as US Attorney General seems like a solid pick. And I dare not neglect to mention the new Department of Government Efficiency spearheaded by leading conservative thought-leader Vivek Ramaswamy and billionaire tech titan Elon Musk. There are definitely some lesser-great picks Trump has made, like South Dakota governor Kristi Noem as head of the DHS, Congressman Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, and Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as Surgeon General. But the great picks far outweigh the less-great picks (as I’ll go more in-depth about in my next post). Trump is giving the right a multitude of reasons to be white-pilled about the next four years.

Even apart from all the outstanding decisions Trump has made before even taking office, there is no place for a Christian to be black-pilled about the future. Regardless of your eschatological leanings — whether you believe the world is only going to get worse or only going to get better from here (of which I believe the former) — we have a firm faith and God’s promise that Christ will return again at any given point. Christians hold the eternal white pill. Whatever evil happens here on Earth pales in comparison to the amazing things Christ has promised will happen when He returns. Why are you black-pilled, brothers and sisters?

So let’s look back and examine. The 2020 “loss” laid four years of groundwork for what happened in the 2024 election. Four years of smaller victories for the right allowed for the major victory on November 5th. We didn’t just win by the skin of our teeth; we won by massive margins — “bigly,” as Trump might say. Trump was delivered a clean sweep of the country, proving to the left that conservatives are the majority. With the aid of strong, patriotic, intellectual activists, Trump and his powerful administration have four years to build the foundation of an agenda that will hopefully exceed past his term and into the future of America, influencing the countries that witness its effects to do the same. We’re winning — but we’re not tired of it yet. Let us not rest on our laurels and be as the perpetually-critical and pessimistic black-pillers who only talk and don’t act; we must not sit back and declare total victory just yet. There is still work to be done.

Trust in God. See the wins. Remain white-pilled. There is much to be hopeful about.

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