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Some Actual Political Power Exercised

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One of my very old friends sent me this interview of Matthew B Crawford whom I was not familiar with.  The discussion was about the various aspects and causes for our current imprisonment by a managerial state that uses endless states of emergency to control us.

When the interviewer Freddie Sayers concluded the discussion by asking whether individual people should seize more control over their own lives, Crawford replied, “I do think it’s one by one from the bottom up, is how social change happens.  But also, it is political, because I mean you don’t have the option of disengaging from this stuff.  You’ve got an HR department at your work or your kid’s in school that again, have this sort of militancy to them.  So, I think the response, by way of defending the space of normal human activity, normal human life and ownership over the things that are most meaningful to us.  There has to be I think, some actual political power exercised in reining in these sort of Messianic transformative social engineering initiatives.”

And that sounds right.  Individually we can try to resist, get on with our own lives and try to move in our own direction.  But the forces of coercion that are arrayed against us are more than daunting.  They’re implacable.  So, unless a power center immune to this coercion creates an oasis of freedom in the current desert then it doesn’t seem possible for us to live normal lives.

So that seems to be what era we now live in.  We’re like the Jews of the 1st century AD waiting for the Messiah.  Will it be Trump, DeSantis, Gaetz or no one?  Will it be a president or a governor or something completely unexpected?  Maybe it’ll be a holy man who begins a religious revival.  Or maybe it’ll be a labor leader who declares a general strike and shuts the country down.

It’s like the flame of freedom is being snuffed out across the country and someone has to build a shielded fireplace to protect it and allow it to warm the inhabitants.  Then it can be a template for the next neighbor to copy.  I like to think that Ron DeSantis might be that champion down in Florida.  Maybe he’ll strengthen his state to the point that the feds finally give up trying to ruin it.  That would take a remarkable effort to face them down.  Because we know that the Justice Department would come after him hammer and tongs.  I wouldn’t doubt that they’d come after him personally with trumped up criminal charges and try to imprison him.  But if he won, that might be a breaking point.

But whoever steps forward, this is probably our last chance for at least a generation.  The Millennials and the Zoomers are pretty much locked down by the safety culture.  The Boomers are too old and Gen X is getting up there too.  If it doesn’t happen soon, we’ll have that Great Reset that Dementia Joe spouts on about.  We’ll have electric cars without electricity.  Homes without heat.  Cricket tacos for dinner and jobs at Uber and Amazon.  And childless forty-year-old girl bosses cohabiting with their cats and goldfish while their male counterparts are playing video games and waiting for euthanasia.

“There has to be I think, some actual political power exercised in reining in these sort of Messianic transformative social engineering initiatives.”  Very true Mr. Crawford.  But who?

 

How Does This Movie End?

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Every day something crazier than the day before appears in the news.  It’s like the name of that old tv show. “Can You Top This?”  If Biden starts emptying out the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, then OPEC deducts two million barrels a day of oil from the market.  Ukraine stages a kamikaze assault on the Russian lines and Putin annexes the Russian provinces of Ukraine.  Italy elects a right-wing woman as prime minister and the EU threatens to withhold funding due to too much democracy.  The Germans warn they are running out of fuel so the United States sabotages the Nord Stream pipelines.

It seems that the only strategy anyone can think of is doubling and redoubling every time they lose a bet.  It feels like we’re at the “go for broke” table at some insane global casino.  Going all the way back to 2001 more and more bizarre actions by the US government has been the rule.  A disconnect between reality and events has occurred.  It’s like that road runner cartoon scene where Wiley Coyote has run off a cliff but keeps going in a straight-line walking on thin air.  And somehow gravity doesn’t catch up with him until he looks down and sees nothing under his feet but thin air.  Then he drops like a stone.  It feels like the whole world is that coyote running on air, running on empty.

The only question is, have we looked down yet?  I get the idea that it is beginning to unravel.  The first sign is the oil prices.  Joe ran us off the cliff by announcing that he was going to wean us off petroleum.  He poured a trillion dollar into the green new deal.  No more gas cars, no more natural gas to heat our homes and run our businesses.  No more pipelines, no more federal leases for exploration.  The only thing he forgot was windmills and solar panels aren’t real.

And what do you know.  The price of oil doubled.  So, he panics and starts drawing down the strategic reserve.  But that’s a temporary fix.  And now the Saudis and the Russians and the Iranians smell blood in the water so they’re gonna start torturing us.  Winter comes and oil becomes scarce and expensive.  But what is he going to do?  What new friends will he turn to?  He doesn’t have any left.

The economy is very weak.  The recession that American officials want to claim won’t happen is already in full bloom in Europe.  And the green new deal is already riling up the farmers in Europe and anyone who has to pay a fuel bill or a food bill.  In the words of Howard Beale, “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.  …  We know things are bad. Worse than bad. They’re crazy.”

So he’s driven us off a cliff and now he needs a nuclear war to distract us from being cold and hungry.  And who knows, maybe these sociopaths will do that too.  At this point I’ll be far from surprised.  I’ll be horrified but not surprised.  But for the sake of keeping this from becoming apocalyptic assume for a minute that the Russians don’t launch any nukes.  Then the way things are going, where does this all end up?  Assume that the Dems lose the House and the Senate.  What does Crazy Joe do for the next two years?  Does he tack to the middle?  Does he reverse his energy policy?  Or does he stay the course?

If he continues down this road, the recession is going to be very painful.  Millions of people will be out of work and that spells disaster for the presidential election in 2024.  He can arrest Donald Trump and anyone else he cares to.  But a recession in 2023 is a political disaster in 2024.  He’ll sink his party for sure if he lets that happen.  But that’s what the green new deal equals.  My guess is he stays the course.  Joe is just the front man for more important people.  And this is what they want to do.  This is what they will do!

So that brings me back to the original question.  How do this end?  The surprising answer is that they make this happen.  They crash the old system and keep the rest of us on life support while the Great Contraction whittles us down to nothing over time.

The only way it turns out otherwise is if someone steps forward and stops it.  Someone with the smarts and the stones to derail this plan and send us down an alternate path.  Is there such a man?  The answer to that question will tell you how this ends.  I’d guess it’s one chance in a hundred.

An Open Letter to Anyone Who Would Like to Lead a Great Nation

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A couple of days ago a commenter asked why I would write about why we need to get organized since everyone already knows that.  And I commented back that it was an open letter to someone powerful to step in and do something.  So here I’ll make it more explicit.  What we don’t need is a bunch of campaign letters from republicans asking us to send hundreds or thousands of dollars to get someone elected.  Nor do we need an outrage list telling us what Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer is plotting.  We already know what they’re doing and we know you want money.

What we’re looking for is a plan to do something positive that can’t be undone.  We want a win.  We want something that tells us that there’s hope.  Build up a social media platform that won’t be de-platformed by the Amazon Cloud.  Start an entertainment company that produces first rate movies, games, music and books.  Charter a bank and a payment processor and a crowd sourcing company that we can put our money in that won’t close our accounts because we don’t bend a knee the LGBTQ mafia.  In fact, do all of these things and make a fortune doing it.  If you promote it the right way you’ll be swimming in money.

And if you do all that you’ll have an enormous megaphone to talk to the half of this country that is sick unto death with being pariahs in their own country.

In short, GIVE US A HOME.

We used to be considered the owners of this country.  Now we’re the dispossessed.  Our richer neighbors are working hard to get rid of us and replace us with easily controlled peasants from the third world.  Eventually they hope to replace them too with robots or something even more horrible.  If one of the rich and powerful wants to short circuit this process, then step in on our side and give us a voice and organize us.  We want to be led by someone who believes in the things we believe in.  But even if you don’t believe in our values.  Do it anyway.  You can become an immensely powerful man if you leverage the numbers and the anger that we represent.

And you don’t have to do it all in one day.  Just make a start.  How about the bank and the payment processor?  That’s a money printing business if there ever was one.  Just call it the MAGA Bank or the America First Bank.  Call it whatever you want just let all of us know it’s meant for us.  Say explicitly that you won’t deny anyone service who isn’t breaking some real law like drug running or bank robbing.  But explicitly say you don’t care about hate speech or someone’s views on transgender rights.

So, all you people on the right with dreams of being the king.  Step up.  Build something for us and we will come.  We’ll line up around the block just to get on board.  Take our money and give us what we’re looking for.  Respect.  Fair treatment.  A home and an identity.

Who Are We Waiting For?

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Who is Real America waiting for?  I’ve been saying for a while that we need someone who’s smart and brave.  I’ve been trying to imagine what that looks like.  I think what it will look like is someone who figures out how to beat the FBI and the White House.  It’s someone who will trigger the FBI to come after him and come up empty.  He’ll do something they don’t like and they’ll get a court to give them a warrant and they’ll come to get him and they won’t be able to.

And I’m trying to think how that happens.  He can’t be a governor or a sheriff or anything they can go after because they will.  They’ll go after family to get at the man.  That’s what they did to General Flynn.  He’s going to have no family that they know of.  Maybe he won’t have a name.  Or at least not a real name.  He’s going to have to be good at disappearing.  But he’s also going to have to take action from time to time.  And those actions are going to be ones that rally the people.  Maybe he’ll attack an Antifa or BLM riot.  Not necessarily a violent attack, in fact something that humiliates them would be even better than a violent attack.  Maybe some kind of foul-smelling glue that will take days to remove would be the best result.  The point would be to disrupt and demoralize them.  Doing that would give our side a win.  But the bigger win is if they can’t punish the perpetrator.  He needs to remain at large to do it again somewhere else in some other way.

What we need is some kind of Robin Hood who hits the bad guys where it hurts but doesn’t pay the consequences.  The ultimate would be if he could hack the intel services and publish the most embarrassing information to discredit people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper.  Or better yet, people like Biden and Obama.  That would do our enemies great harm and provide us with a morale boost.

So, let’s review.  I’m looking for a Robin Hood working for our side.  Do I really think anything like this will happen?  No, not really.  What we’ll have to settle for is someone like Ron DeSantis who will have to stand up to the White House and the Justice Department and risk being targeted by them.  They’re already unleashing all the media and bureaucratic minions they can to attack him for all the good he’s doing.  They’ll try to accuse him of endangering Floridians because he won’t mandate masks and vaccines.  They may even try to blockade his state using the airlines and other useful idiots who can make trouble for Florida.  Will he have to give in?  Let’s hope not.  Because if he can resist long enough for the COVID spike to subside Biden is going to look stupid again and DeSantis will look like a hero.

So, what I’d like to see is Robin Hood fighting the Sheriff of Nottingham and Price John and rallying the Saxons.  But I’ll settle for a politician who has the smarts and the guts to figure out a strategy that makes the Biden Administration look like the slimy crooks that they really are.  Setting a precedent by winning a staring contest with Washington is what we need.

Arthur Milikh Writes On A Way Forward for Conservatism – I Beg to Differ

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Over at Real Clear Politics Arthur Milikh of the The Claremont Institute’s ‘Center for the American Way of Life’ has an essay called  “A New Conservatism Must Emerge.”

His thesis is that the Left has conquered all of the institutions of America not because of any inherent strength of its point of view but because the Right is so unaware of what it stands for that it never even knew when things were slipping away.

Actually I reject this thesis.  I think we were sold down the river by the supposed conservative leaders of the Republican party who were really only part of the Left in disguise.

Now his solution to fight back against the current situation is to attack the institutions of the Left and to re-affirm the tenets of the “American Way of Life.”

Well, I guess so.  But all of that is kind of vague.  Mr. Milikh does list the symptoms of the disease that is now killing us but a more straight forward approach to how to save us from the Left is to say we need a leader to gather up the splinters of our resistance and shape it into a weapon with which to club our enemies into submission.  Because no amount of defensive action is going to make them stop.  Their teeth need to be pulled.  Their ability to assault us needs to be neutralized.  Someone with brains and guts needs to call a conservative convention to plot out a survival strategy.  America has been turned into Orwell’s 1984 and people are acting like it’s just a slight inconvenience.  We all know what must be done.  But how can it be done and who can do it?  It will take a bold leader who finds some strong position and fires the first shot and proves that he can’t be taken down by all the forces of the Left.  If someone does that it will cause a chain reaction that will shatter the illusion of the Potemkin Village that the Left has built up like a strong wind blows down a house of cards.

So my short counter proposal is “We Need a Champion.”