I hope you learned a valuable lesson there, young'uns.

The western man has no allies, least of all in the form of an establishment. There's no voting your way out of this and no one is coming to save you, not from the left, not from the right. To each scheming faction, you are nothing but pair of boots on the ground, both metaphorically and in the real sense as well, just someone to take the hit. You're on your own.