Bill Collier

It’s NOT Whataboutism To Criticize An Imbalanced Legal Scale

Bill Collier August 10, 2022

By Bill Collier

It’s not whataboutism to cite the fact the DOJ comes down heavy and hard on the slightest things Republicans may do wrong and ignores the gross and out in the open misdeeds of Democrats. The claim is not that anyone is above the law, the claim is that the DOJ gags at a gnat to prosecute and destroy Republicans while swallowing the camel of massive misdeeds by Democrats. It is an uneven and crooked balance.

Anyone claiming “Trump isn’t above the law” and then saying that us citing how major Democrats like Clinton get a pass is “whataboutism” is not an honest broker and is not arguing in good faith. They know full well that criticism of a legal system that makes the misdeeds of some carry a far higher weight than the misdeeds of others is injustice.

These same people, rightly I think, question how crimes are prosecuted against the poor or minorities versus how they are not prosecuted for the rich or majority ethnicity. To gag at a gnat to destroy people on one side while swallowing a camel on the other side is injustice.

If you don’t think it matters that Hillary got off without consequences, or an FBI raid, for the very same thing the partisan FBI allegedly raided Trump for after spending YEARS falsely and illegally getting warrants to spy on him and destroy anyone associated with him, then you are inept or dishonorable or both.

If you don’t think the burying of Epstein clients and the lack of prosecution against them by the same DOJ that is trying to jail Steve Bannon for a process crime matters, then you are not arguing at all in good faith.

If you think the DOJ should not be investigating Hunter and Joe Biden to either prosecute or clear them of serious allegations based on publicly known and verified evidence, while they try to destroy Trump, matters, then you have no moral compass.

Again, criticizing the DOJ for gagging at a gnat to prosecute Republicans and destroy them through lawfare while ignoring the camel-sized misdeeds of Democrats is not whataboutism, it is a well established critique of any legal system.

Trump is not above the law and if he broke the law the consequences are his. But if Trump is prosecuted to radical maximum extremes for a relatively minor crime while his political opponents, who had to sign off on this, are not even investigated, than we can consider this to be an injustice.

As for planting evidence: the FBI has already been proven by publicly known facts to have manufactured evidence and claims against Trump which it knew to be false. So we cannot and will not trust an organization that has proven itself to be more like the armed wing of the Democratic Party than a law enforcement agency.

The problem here now is twofold: if Trump did a misdeed worthy of prosecution half the country has a very good reason to suspect evidence was planted or manipulated and many good reasons to argue that this is a political witch hunt. This is especially true when considering the scales of justice are weighted against one side in favor of the other. We have a DOJ who prosecutes to the extreme letter of the law anyone they don’t like while ignoring and covering up any misdeeds done by people they do like.

ON AMERICA’S TRUE MANIFEST DESTINY AND WHY I LOVE MY COUNTRY

Bill Collier April 17, 2022

By Bill Collier, Publisher- TLDR: Loving America Means Loving Our TRUE Manifest Destiny As a Free and Pluralistic Society of Equals and An Empire of Liberty and Justice For ALL

I love my country. If America ever needs me, I am there. Period. This country has given me far more than I could ever give back, and that includes my life. I meant it in 1987 when I donned a military uniform and I mean it now and always will.

Every country has its flaws and I don’t cotton to the idea America is objectively superior to every other country, but for me, America is the greatest country in the history of the world and is the best country for me. I will defend her always and until my last breath.

America has not always been America to EVERYONE.

Over the years we have been more and more inclusive and we have yet to fulfill our potential for every person, national people, or even community in this land. But the arc of our history has bent every more toward including everyone in this dream of true freedom surrounded by opportunity and fairness so that no person regardless of anything is ever left behind in our progress.

This work is ongoing and is being threatened by forces that come from a place of hatred, anger, and authoritarian control. The hazards to our true manifest destiny come from left and right, and even the middle, as a grievance culture, cancel culture, and jingoism compete as dark alternatives. We are seeing people look to the past to both condemn the future and their fellow Americans who weren’t alive as well as others who see in the past some idealized reality they think they can return to.

I look to the future, being informed by the past, good and bad, without using it to condemn or idolizing it to stop progress. I crave to see a time when our true manifest destiny as an empire of liberty and justice for all, an empire that protects and nurtures a totally free and pluralistic society of equals without favor or discrimination, is achieved and will always work toward that future, a goal which we have never fulfilled.

This is in fact the manifest destiny of America as a free and pluralistic commonwealth of multiple nations of people and totally sovereign persons within a federal union of free republics and local consensual democracies. This FUTURE is what makes me feel so proud of my country. I take this as an a priori article of faith that this land and its many peoples and sovereign individuals has a true manifest destiny to become an empire of liberty and justice for all.

To clarify, the “sovereign citizen” movement is a wacky, often jingoistic, archaic, and pathetic misrepresentation of what it means to be a sovereign individual in this world.

I am speaking to the future instead of getting lost and mired in the past. When we fulfill our manifest destiny to a substantial degree, then we can look back more dispassionately on the past and be more frank and honest. I do not ask you to idolize our past any more than you should use the failures of the past to condemn people or our country today. I ask you to love our future based on striving toward the goals of our manifest destiny.

As I see it, I know of no other country has the ideational framework, natural resources, or heritage and diversity of peoples that could create a future such as America could fulfill. That doesn’t mean I am right, but I suspect I am right.

Until everyone in this land almost always feels and experiences this manifest destiny, until THAT America of our IDEALS is America to EVERYONE almost all the time and in every place, then looking back is not a guide to the future but a way to keep us chained to the past. We must replace recriminations with aspirations. We must replace blame for the past with responsibility for the future.

The fact so few really understand and then also embrace and work toward this noble manifest destiny makes me grieve for my country.

Regardless of that, I love America, my country, and will always stand for her, for our flag, and for a more glorious future which will advance the cause of human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing like no empire in the past has yet done. This is my hope and it is a hope not limited by the past or present.

If perchance this future never arrives and if in future centuries America is no more, it will not be said that Bill Collier did anything other than fight for that future out of love for this country and its many peoples.

If all the national peoples and every free and sovereign person as well as every resident of every local community as a consensual democracy were to embrace this vision for our land then they would all, regardless of how they got here and even if they came illegally, be true Americans worthy of this manifest destiny and worthy of being treated as my equal and my countrymen.

But if even the “legal” citizens, by birth or naturalization, do not embrace such a vision for our country, then in truth they are no better than than the “illegals” they so staunchly fear will overwhelm this land and be used to turn it into something far worse than it has ever been. By rejecting or just neglecting this vision, these legal citizens are as much a hazard to our country’s long-term survival as anyone wants to claim the illegal migrants are.

We need people who love America and that really means loving our manifest destiny and as for me, anyone, regardless of legal status, who embraces this becomes my ally and everyone who rejects this is at least my political opponent, regardless of their Party or citizenship status.

How The US Could Counter Putin

Bill Collier March 13, 2022

William Collier- Regardless of HOW and WHY we, the US, got to this place of Russian revanchism, which was certainly goaded on by the would-be globalist hegemonic ruling class of the West, the situation now is that Russsia has become a hazard to our country and its allies. We can leave for future articles how we the freedom-loving masses ought to deal with our own corrupt ruling class who are to blame for this and focus for now on how we, as the US, might contend with the Putinistas, basically Putin and the oligarchs who support him.

We can start with the premise that Putin’s strength comes from a 60% to 70% approval among the Russian people because, basically, although it’s never quite as simple as this, he is viewed as a strong man and Russians, in the main, but not all Russians, adore the strong and despise the weak. There may be many reasons for this, but in general, when a leader is seen as strong they enjoy support, even if in character and in how they treat the Russian people, they are corrupt and evil.

This may SOMEWHAT be shifting as more and more Russians do not cotton to such thinking, but among most, among at least 60% if polling is accurate, it still holds that “strong is good and weak is bad.”

Keep this in mind.

Next, let’s consider three other factors: Russia has a basically under-developed and corrupt economic system, Russia is essentially a gas station, and the only real power Russia has is their nuclear arms.

So now we have four key things: Russians support the strong and hate the weak, Russia has an underdeveloped economy due to massive corruption, Russia’s only economic asset is gas and oil, and the only real military strength they have is nuclear arms.

The Putinistas are authoritarian and corrupt. While they cater to the Russian nationalist sentiment and some rightly see them as a counter to the West’s vision of a globalist corporate-government hegemony that is directly against nationalist sovereignty, the Putinistas are mostly for themselves first. Perhaps in Putin’s mind he and his cronies ARE the living embodiment of Russia, but the net effect is all wealth and power centers on Moscow and to hell with everyone else.

Add to all this that we, as in the US, have other fish to fry, as it were. We face threats in many quartets.

Internally we have this corporate-led assault on our history and way of life through the cancel-culture wokatariate and their rather intolerant behavior toward anyone who refuses to ditch their Judeo-Christian values for the new alt-gendered fantasy they call progress. On the other hand we have a reactionary core who, in response to this, are embracing things like identitarianism and either racial separatism or racial supremacism, and this could grow.

But externally we have threats coming from places like Iran and China, North Korea, Pakistan, Cuba, and Venezuela, among others.

Thankfully, at this time, our internal and external threats haven’t unified. The true powers, as in the actual shot-callers behind each of these threats, are as much against each other as they may be a threat to the people of the United States of America.

With all this in mind, how do we, as in the US, counter Putin and his cronies?

At the basic level we have to seek ways, in every possible arena, to make him and his cronies look weak and powerless. His chosen arena is Ukraine and while countering him there may be important, as we analyze all the arenas Russia must operate in we will find many opportunities to out Putin on his back foot.

First, there is the more obvious fact Russia depends on energy exportation. Second, there are Russian goals in Syria whose regime Putin props up. Third, there is the Russian defense industry which exports weapons all over the world. Fourth, there are Russian territories claimed by Japan and China. Fifth, there are Russian economic and investment schemes in Africa.

All these vulnerabilities present opportunities to bring pain to bear and make Putin look weak.

In Syria, for instance, and with Iran as her ally, Russia has severe disadvantages if we care to exploit them. The US can shut Iran off from all exports and imports via the sea. The US can arm anti-Assad forces in Syria while Russia cannot bring seaborn reinforcements as long as the war in Ukraine is happening. These moves would potentially force the Russians out of Syria and would demonstrate how Russia could do nothing to help their ally Iran.

As for Ukraine itself, efforts to continue to supply Ukraine with anti-air and anti-armor weapons and munitions should continue apace, albeit through many points and not via massive convoys the Russians can bomb. The erosion of Russian military might in Ukraine plays into a narrative that Putin is weak.

Now let’s consider all the places where Russia is vulnerable internally and use our covert means to foment trouble on every periphery. Russia has a substantial and growing, and disaffected, Muslim minority, some of whom may feel strongly that Russia is their foe. Russia has cordial relations with the Central Asian countries, this is something we ought to be undermining.

We can support the opposition in Belarus and Khazajstan, for instance, and foment unrest at a time when Russia cannot spare forces to put them down.

Instead of thinking holistically about a global response on Russia’s periphery, the present US administration, whose policies in line with past Presidents have goaded the Russians into attacking Ukraine, are thinking in a very limited and one-dimensional way. They are actually perpetuating the mythos of Putin as a strong man who they are powerless to stop because it might “escalate” things. Having goaded the Russians we are now saying we don’t want to escalate things further with them lest they unleash nuclear holocaust.

It would have been better to counsel the Ukrainians to pursue strong neutrality, to cool their ambitions to join the EU and NATO, and to actually invest in a credible air defense, which they neglected up until now. As for whether or not the US actually operates or funds biolabs and whether or not they are former Soviet labs or present-day bioweapons programs, the activities of the US, under Fauci’s management, in these things remains suspect.

But, be that as it may, the mythos of Russia as being 10 feet tall and Putin being beyond our reach stems from the fact we are playing in his sandbox and on his terms instead of taking a holistic approach. Goading the Russians into a war that is spiraling out of control was bad policy, but now that we have, the question is, “should we retreat and let Putin be the strong man or should we take the battle into arenas where he is helpless?”

Undermining Putin’s standing as a strong man is the easiest way to depict him as weak and undermine his support among his people but, most importantly, his fellow oligarchs.

The fact the US is not taking a holistic view of limiting Putin’s power and is not encouraging peace in Ukraine based on neutrality may prove that the people pulling the levers of power in Washington today aren’t really doing so in the interest of the American people.

Politics Drives Medical “Science”

Bill Collier March 11, 2022

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How ONE man, a certain Andrew Hill, single-handedly torpedoed serious medical science in service of a political agenda. Why are medical scientists and medical professionals being pushed so hard to ditch the science and alter the evidence and facts? The answer is, we propose, a wonton and deliberate effort to EXPLOIT a man-made crisis in order to gain power and wealth. Suppressing the science is all about not treating a known disease, one probably man-made with the collusion of official persons, because the regimen sought by officials, namely lockdowns and mandates, is more useful than simply treating and curing people.

To be clear- the ruling class, through their organs of control, have pushed an agenda that is as anti-science as it is anti-freedom, and the result is not only needless deaths due to the disease, but needless deaths caused by the lockdowns and disruptions of health care and basic services they caused, Basically, human lives were sacrificed in a bid to further erode human freedom and transfer more productive wealth to unproductive legacy billionaires.

This is a crime against humanity in which dozens, or at most hundreds, of powerful people have betrayed billions of people.

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The Root Cause of The Demise of Our Culture: It’s NOT What You Think!

Bill Collier November 13, 2021

Bill Collier, Publisher- What is the real cause of the demise of our culture, which involves moral confusion and depravity, the prevalence of corruption in every major institution, and the rise of authoritarianism, throughout all Western Civilization?

It’s not what you think!

Darbyism and other form of pessimistic millennialism represents the first stage of failure of what was once a mostly Christian civilization, our once noble and ever advancing Western Civilization, and the retreat of men and women of faith from their role as salt and light within a fallen world. This is the root cause of why our culture is a failed culture and why, even in our lifetime, we may see failed states replace our country unless this death spiral is somehow halted.

Darbyism and post-millennialism writ large and taken to literal extremes have undermined this civilization and relegated the church to the corners and edges, with neither economic/political influence nor challenging ideas.

“The imminent return of Christ totally forbids all working for earthly objects distant in time.’ Francis William Newman, Phases of Faith; or, Passages From the History of My Creed (London: George Woodfall and Son, 1850), 35.)*

This idea pervades the western church and has made it easy prey. Its idea of “engagement” and “relevancy” is mostly a marketing ploy to gain parishioners by accommodating their embedded assumptions and sociocultural constructs that contradicts core Christian ethical, moral, and basic doctrinal essentials. The church establishment in most mainline churches, including the Catholic church, has adopted the priorities and sociocultural constructs of the worldlings, with few marked exceptions, such the Catholic stance on abortion.

This reflects the negative eschatology in which it is believed that darkness alone will grow while light recedes and no advances or victories other than the “moral victory” of persecution and martyrdom, are possible until the Return of Christ.

I do not hold to such a negative, passive, eschatology.

If I am wrong but I diligently seek both to be a witness and influence, as salt and light in in proclaiming the Gospel, for Jesus and to build structures and institutions that will reflect the Christian worldview and last for generations, then what harm have I done? At the least, I have occupied until He Comes, and I have been a light in darkness without compromise.

But if I am right and the negative eschatology is wrong, and I say negative because merely waiting passively for the Return while the institutions around you devolve, insures ongoing defeat in this life and a lessening of the Christian witness and presence, then what of that? If you are wrong in your eschatology and you take Darby’s advice and then within 100 years the Christian witness and presence is virtually non-existent, because followers have been cancelled and starved and future generations brainwashed and prevented from even knowing the truth, then what guilt do you bear?

A negative eschatology is the best way for the enemy to triumph and to stamp out our Christian witness and if it is wrong then it is doubly problematic and harmful. But a positive eschatology that propels us to witness, to be an influence, to build our own sociocultural constructs and structures independent of the world, and to seek in our careers and livelihoods allows us to be a witness and influence. If then the end comes suddenly or the darkest days emerge, we have done no harm and have only saved more souls from eternal death.

The discarding of the Darbyist claims and all those that stemmed from them is essential both to the emergence of a Christian civilization and, more importantly, to the preservation of the Christian witness and presence for generations to come.

On November 2nd Let’s Hope that Virginia Voters Will Send a Loud Message to Washington

Bill Collier October 30, 2021

By Ralph Benko- We approach the 30^th anniversary of America’s noble victory in WWIII—the Cold War. On Christmas, 1991, the USSR dissolving itself, lowering the hammer and sickle for the last time.

As a (civilian) veteran of the Cold War (a junior White House official under Reagan) I really, really thought that the Era of Biggest Government, Communism, was totally over! We won!

Silly me. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a specter is haunting Washington DC.

The Lunatic Fringe of the Democratic Party has proposed massive confiscation of the property of the 700 richest Americans, dressed up as “taxing unrealized capital gains.” Having spent almost 40 years wandering in the desert of national politics it takes a lot to shock me.

This proposal shocked me. It’s right out of the Communist Manifesto.

As Marx and Engels therein wrote:

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

So, what’s a Red Blooded American to do?

Well, in 2022 all American citizens will be able to vote the current bums on Capitol Hill out and vote our team’s bums in. But a lot of damage can be done in the year before that election.

But we, the people, may be able to stop it. As it happens, all eyes of the politicos of Washington are on the Virginia governor’s race.

Candidate Joe Biden shellacked his predecessor, Donald “Covfefe” Trump, in Virginia by a ten-point landslide. The Donk’s standard bearer, Terry McAuliffe, should be cruising to victory. He’s not.

So unhappy are the Virginia voters with the current state of America under President Biden that the race between former governor Terry McAuliffe and businessman Glenn Youngkin is a dead heat.

And that was even before leading Senate Democrats’ proposal to literally put into American law one of the key provisions of the Communist Manifesto!

Now, there are many legitimate factors in deciding for whom to vote. Now, I live on the wrong side of the Potomac River, in Maryland. I don’t keep up with Virginia commonwealth politics.

That said, it is a fact that the politico-government complex based in Washington is incessantly looking for clues as to the mood of the voters. The outcome of the Virginia election will be searched for clues.

The Donks have a paper-thin majority in Congress and, with the VP’s power to break ties, in the Senate. They fully expect to lose one or both of those majorities on November 8, 2022, and have their agenda thwarted for another decade.

The hard left is seeing how much of their “class warfare” agenda they can push through in the time remaining. Electing Youngkin would be heard round the world. Or at least Capitol Hill.

A Youngkin victory could persuade a critical mass of Democratic legislators from moderate and conservative districts that it is just too politically suicidal to succumb to the social pressure of the House Progressive Caucus and the media pressure from the left-leaning establishment media.

A Youngkin victory could strengthen the spines of enough pragmatist Democrats to get one Senator, or four Congresspeople, to pull the emergency cord on the orgy of taxing, borrowing and spending now running riot in DC.

Youngkin might end up being a good, or average, or even mediocre, governor. That said, if Virginia elects Youngkin that surely would be seen in Washington as a vote to stop the enactment into law of a page torn right from the Communist Manifesto.

Why Ronald Reagan Would Have Been A “Upadarian”

Bill Collier October 25, 2021

Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet Union. He understood the times in which he lived, the hour of visitation, and the real crisis facing the free world. He was able and willing to evolve and grow and learn from his mistakes and always sought to be on the cutting edge of the advancement of freedom for all peoples, not just Americans. It is for this reason, as we consider the true threats to freedom and the radical necessity of the hour, that we are convinced Ronald Reagan, had he known about our vision for a new civilization emerging within people’s hearts and lives, would have identified with what we call Upadaria as a shield against the evil empire of our day, namely the authoritarian phony wokatarians and their corrupt corpostate ruling class.

Let’s start with what a Upadarian is. The word is pronounced “you pah darian” and comes from what we propose are the four core ideals of Christian civilization. These ideals are a balanced understanding and application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law within the framework of historical Christian moral and doctrinal orthodoxy.

The concept behind what we call Upadaria is basically the idea that we can intentionally create a nationality based on these ideals and then principles and practices stemming from them to sow the seeds for a Christian civilization within our own hearts, lives, families, and communities.

A Upadarian is someone who embraces things like the four core ideals, historic Christian moral and doctrinal orthodoxy, principles such as liberty based on the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, and the call to both be a witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations and to provide aid to Christian refugees. A Upadarian is someone who seeks to restore to social fabric of faith and family within communities based on trust and freewill participation within a free and pluralistic society of equals.

The radical necessity of the hour is to unilaterally build alternative connections, relationships, associations, and structures together, based on a new intentional nationality that transcends things like race or politics, to shield people from the rapacious and freedom taking powers that be and thereby build a global movement as a witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations.

Ronald Reagan understood that America was a city on a hill. Sadly, he would realize today that this land and its institutions have fallen prey to a darkness of moral degeneracy and authoritarianism coupled with petty corruption and graft. An evil empire has emerged and taken root from within our system and only the building of a sort of empire of freedom from within our homes and neighborhoods can counter this threat.

Reagan knew God was the source of freedom and only through faith in God could we build a free society that was just to all people, leaving nobody behind. He did what he could, but no doubt, being a man often ahead of his time, he would have realized that the mantle of freedom must pass to a new effort. This effort is not predicated on the political state as his efforts were but, rather, on a form of nationhood that doesn’t depend upon or isn’t easily controlled by what has devolved into a corrupt corpostate system.

Reagan would realize that as in his day it was America a political state versus the USSR that today it is Upadaria a spiritual nation versus a global corpostate system. The great challenge of his day was to end the USSR, the great challenge of our day is to build a parallel sociocultural construct with its own social, cultural, and economic arrangements and organizations that will essentially shelter people from today’s evil empire and eventually challenge that evil empire.

In short, because he was a proud American, a Christian, and a conservative who had a heart for the downtrodden and disadvantaged, Reagan would have proudly been a Upadarian, if not in formal name, definitely in spirit and intent of its meaning.

What McAuliffe vs. Youngkin Means To You and to America

Bill Collier October 25, 2021

By Ralph Benko- The race for governor of Virginia between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin is considered by many political observers a referendum on President Biden’s performance in office. Let’s dig into that.

But first, carry me back to Old Virginny! McAuliffe’s last tenure as governor left a weak record of economic growth. McAuliffe’s Virginia ranked well below the US national average. It was far, far below the peaks of prosperity we enjoyed under Reagan and Clinton.

McAuliffe’s campaign rhetoric now promises prosperity. His record in office really doesn’t support that.

Meanwhile, Youngkin hasn’t held elective office but has considerable experience as a businessman. This included 2+ years as co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, in charge of its real estate, energy, infrastructure businesses, and investment solutions businesses.

Youngkin can be presumed to be business friendly. Wouldn’t be a bad thing in uncertain economic times.

Last time Terry McAuliffe was governor of Virginia its economic growth rate bounced around from 0.3% to 1.1% to 1.7% to 1.5% to 2.4%. Virginia underperformed the US growth rate in every single year of his tenure.

Worse, both the US and Virginia continued to dramatically underperform the robust economic growth rates achieved under Reagan, where the US economy mostly grew at more than double that, a 3.5% rate. Or under Clinton, who saw 4% economic growth annually and record job creation.

Meanwhile, now the US economy is experiencing the highest inflation in 30 years. What’s up with that? Smells like Nixon/Ford/Carter!

Joe Biden campaigned as a capitalist and had the track record to back it up. As a US Senator he voted for both Reagan income tax rate cuts, dropping the top rate from 70% to 28% in two stages. Sen. Biden voted for the Clinton capital gains tax cut, too, from 28% to 20%.

These tax cuts are widely seen as contributing to the sizzling economic growth of the Reagan and Carter eras. That was then.

This is now. Upon election Biden surprisingly pivoted to support the “eat the rich” agenda of self-identified socialist Bernie Sanders and the House Progressive Caucus. Biden, who seems to have forgotten not to “kill the goose that lays the golden eggs,” signed off on multi-trillion-dollar federal tax hikes and spending increases.

President Biden thereby began to look a lot more like the feckless Jimmy Carter than the prosperity-inducing Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

McAuliffe has, in the words of Politico “repeatedly tried to distance himself from Biden and the Democratic Congress.” That said, American politics is nothing if not tribal.

If McAuliffe gets elected, he surely will toe the Democratic party line. And we voters know it.

Moreover, the Virginia governor’s race is widely seen by political analysts and politicians as a bellwether. Thus, Virginia voters have an opportunity to send a message to the president and to the Congress by rejecting the Democratic nominee.

Voters to Washington! Turn back from your tax-hiking, IRS doubling (adding 87,000 new IRS personnel) and extravagant spending spree! Turn back while there’s still time!

If McAuliffe loses, many federal legislators from red and purple states will think twice about succumbing to the pressure of their party’s left-wing activists. They will become much bolder, like Sens. Manchin (D-VW) and Sinema (D-AZ), in opposing tax hikes and promiscuous borrowing to provide lavish new welfare benefits. A good thing!

American politics is a “tale of two cities.” In the 2020 election cycle the political class, including most of the mainstream media, was all in for the leftmost candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Then, the voters had their ups!

The actual voters nominated for president the candidate with the most conservative track record and rhetoric in the Democratic field. Joe Biden then crusaded as a capitalist to win the general election.

All the while, elite progressives were licking their chops anticipating an electoral blue wave giving them not just a majority but dominance in the federal legislature. And the progs expected to win the states.

We voters rebuffed them. The Dems won the slimmest of majorities in the House and Senate.

They were thwarted in the states. The progressive DailyKos bemoaned the Democrats’ failure to take over any state legislatures. “Election night delivered nothing short of an unmitigated catastrophe for Democrats….”

Upon election, how quickly our Democratic elected officials forgot our message! Time to remind our politicians of the wisdom of the motto of the late South Carolina Congressman R. L. Mendel Rivers: “There’s no education in the second kick of a mule.”

On November 2^nd let’s send Washington that second kick: a reminder that we, the voters, want lower taxes, less spending, and better jobs! Sending Glenn Youngkin to Richmond would send Washington exactly that message.

Exposing The Faux Wokatarians

Bill Collier October 24, 2021

YOU ARE NOT WOKE!!!

You are not woke if you think people should be punished for stating things you don’t agree with or denying the veracity of your claims. If you think anyone who thinks the marital household of a mom and dad and their own children is far superior to any other form of marriage/family then you are not woke. If your rights must include boycotting, shaming, shunning, canceling, or punishing people who will never agree with your alt-gendered theories, then you are not woke.

Woke is the attainment of open-mindedness, independence, tolerance, and a passion for seeing every human being be free and prosperous. It is a passion for equal treatment and opportunity that leaves nobody behind who is willing to pursue success and happiness through hard work or anyone who is disabled and unable to work hard. Woke seeks peace and liberty without favor or discrimination for every single human being.

Woke knows that the end never justifies the means. It knows that using authoritarianism and hatred to advance even social justice is archaic and regressive. Woke knows that forcing anyone to parrot your theories and ideas is really just totalitarian backwardness.

All you parrots invoking all the very ideas being pushed by every institution, major corporation, and media establishment think you are edgy and progressive and you imagine you are somehow an underdog coming against an evil establishment. You are the establishment and your flaky, famtastical alt-gendered ideas are merely part of an effort to destroy our social fabric and transform our country into an authoritarian one-party regime. You are digging the grave of your own liberty and prosperity and you are foreclosing your own future.

There are real problems of inequality and injustice which the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights can address and solve if we, finally, seek their fulfillment en toto for all human beings in this land. But the phony wokatariate are attacking these things and seeking a form of totalitarian top-down control which treats anyone who remains faithful to millenia of useful and beneficial sociocultural constructs as a domestic terrorist. You are the baddies!

The AUTHORITARIAN OVERREACH of lockdowns and mandates is NOT justified on the basis of the true nature of this pandemic. These lockdowns have enriched the ruling class and made us all serfs. The great reset has occurred and while you pursue alt-gendered faux wokatariate propaganda and bogeyman fears, your very liberty and livelihood are being buried. It is no coincidence the alt-gendered wokists are also passionate advocates for lockdowns and mandates and push the establishment’s narrative that the unvaccinated are a grave threat, as in “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

We who are woke are not wedded to an unchangeable past nor obsessed with a fantastical, utopian future. We are woke to the real state of affairs, the real power dynamic, and to the need to see the high-water mark of freedom and happiness that was obtained for some Americans now be fulfilled for all Americans.

We know that reverting to the archaic totalitarian ideas of the 20th century, or ancient imperialism, in the name of justice or anything else is not “woke” and all the phony wokatarians who parrot these orchestrated top-down ideas are not woke, they are MINIONS AND SERFS on a corpostate plantation.

We are the true woke. We may call ourselves liberal or conservative, we may be Democrats or Republicans, or Independents, but we are wed to the notion that we cannot advance the equal achievement of freedom and prosperity for all by reverting to archaic authoritarianism.

We know that exploring new ideas and technology doesn’t ipso facto demand we discard or dishonor the past, even though it is imperfect and the advancement of the spirit and intent of our liberty has been inconsistent and uneven, and not shared fairly and justly with all. We know that if our ideas demand punishing those who reject them, even of that punishing is unofficial and limited to just shunning people for wrongspeak, then our ideas are bad ideas.

To be woke doesn’t equate to parroting all the nonsense about an alt-gendered atomized future sans the social fabric of marital households and kinship-based communities founded upon faith and shared values through freewill participation alone. To be woke is to recongize that even though we believe the marital household and kinship-based communities founded on faith and shared convictions are the future of human civilization, this must be acheived through freewill participation alone and cannot include punishing or shaming anyone who doesn’t agree.

The advance of human civilization looks like absolute personal, familial, kinship, and local autonomy so that the socioeconomic and sociocultural norms and standards which most govern your life are based on freewill participation with people and associations of your own choosing.

The revelation that top-down hierarchical systems of command and control are always bad and should always be avoided is the true heart of being woke, just as an embracing of all human beings as dignified and free persons deserving of respect and humane treatment, along with equality of liberty, opportunities, and treatment is also essential to being truly woke.

The faux wokatariate isn’t truly woke. It’s ideas and, more importantly, both its practices and its leaders, are simply pushing archaic barbarism as a means of creating an authoritarian state as the god of every human being. Many earnest people parroting these party lines, while sincerely claiming independence of thought, have no idea how they have become deconstructed into atomized alt-gendered or non-gendered, but overly sexualized, serfs and pawns slaving away on the corpostate plantation.

You are not woke. You are fast alsleep in a matrix. You are being spoon-fed “edgy” notions about sexuality and gender, “institutional racism” (a claim made by EVERY major institution to justify authoritarian measures), and other bogeyman fears, to appeal to your own ego and desire to find purpose. Meanwhile, you are helping to build the architecture of tyranny which, one day, will turn on you and clap you in chains!

The Emerging Processes of Civilizational Decline and New Birth

Bill Collier October 24, 2021

Withdraw, regroup, and rally! This is how, according to Arnold Toynbee, a new civilization emerges from within an old civilization.

Ironically, the pioneers of the new civilization are usually a fraction of a small minority of people who still admire the original spirit and ideal of the old civilization. These pioneers withdraw and firm their own inner, alternative, and parallel communities that seek as much as they can as much material independency as possible from the structures of the old and dying civilization.

Put more simply, often the new civilization’s initial champions are actually trying to save the old civilization. They are withdrawing inwardly from the now alien sociocultural and socioeconomic system that, to them, is almost like a foreign occupation. The present system, to them, is a result of some form of hostile subversion of their civilization and their efforts are aimed at preserving the heart and soul of their civilization’s best features and ideal.

One who studies historiology, the inner and cyclical logic of human history on the rise and fall of countries, national peoples, and civilizations, realizes that we live in an age where all the world’s major civilizations, especially the West, are entering a stage of decline. This stage is the era of moral and spiritual depravity, confusion about fundamental facts of human existence, destruction of the social fabric provided by things like faith and family, and, as this proceeds and the population are dumbed down, the rise of a Caesar.

Many, including those who seek to save the old civilization, focus on the decline and fall as it is emergent. The truly awakened and enlivened focus instead on that which must follow, knowing that the new will build upon the best elements of the old but also transcend that old civilization’s highest achievements.

We live in the a time of decline and fall on one hand and genesis to new dawn on the other hand. Most people are only tangentially aware of the decline and fall, rather fewer are even vaguely aware of the new dawn. But the princely families, and please don’t take this analogy too literally, of the new kingdoms which will exist after the new civilization emerges will arise mostly from the noble few who both see and act on the vision of a new dawn.

If you want to be among the princely families, if you want to secure noble standing for your progeny (both biological and spiritual), then you need to be among the vanguard of people who adopt the new civilization in its ideals and principles. This is the urgent call of the hour: to choose and adopt the new paradigm and participate in building the alt parallel structures of the new civilization.

It is admirable people are trying to save the West and their ongoing work is still essential insofar as it actually sowes the seeds of the new civilization.

For us Upadarians, saving the West is not so much our focus as preserving the best elements and ideas through their inspiration for the new civilization, whose ideals and principles will go further, in a positive way, then the high-water mark of the old civilization.

Loss of economic opportunity, higher prices, lack of supplies, woke cancel culture depravity, being canceled, and increasing authoritarianism are SYMPTOMS of the collapse of culture and the replacement of the organic social fabric with a top-down hierarchical system of absolute control. If we wish to PRESERVE the core ideal and the values we associate with Western Civilization in its prime, we must consider the path of deliberately creating a new form and expression of nationhood as the vanguard people of a new civilization.

The new paradigm honors those from the past, it is a continuum of advancing human civilization, and those who adopt it have the best chance ever to escape the baneful effects of the decline and fall of Western Civilization. As Western Civilization is either present all over the world or deeply influential, its translation from a civilization whose arc of progress is toward universal freedom and prosperity to one whose arc is a return to archaic authoritarianism and corruption it will cause upheaval and ruin all over the world!

The quicker the new paradigm is adopted and the more prevalent it becomes among the people, the easier will be the transition and the less pain those lands and/or national peoples will experience.

Sometimes our rhetoric about the old civilization may seem like a refutation of Western Civilization. We refute the present state of that civilization, we reject a paradigm that must lead to debauchery, loss of our social fabric, loss of freedom, prevalence of poverty, and the emergence of a Caear figure.

Atomization of the individual, destruction of kinship and community founded upon faith and mutual self-reliance, the redefining of the marital household outside millenia of marital orthodoxy, libertinism, “woke” cancel culture extremism, corporate-government collusion that enriches the few at the expense of the many, pitting groups against each other, and all the such are betrayals of the best ideas and the spirit of Western Civilization!

All these things are piling up on each other to create an unsafe, unhealthy, and anti-freedom environment which the average person who still respects the ancient orthodoxy will increasingly struggle to navigate and thrive within. Essentially, it gets to a point where if you stubbornly refuse to betray your sacred beliefs and values you will not be able to thrive in this system or you may be canceled and utterly ruined.

The natural instinct to fight, to try to turn back the clock, or to somehow overturn the powers that be through the election of your own heroic leader, will tend to lead many down rabbit trails that go nowhere.

In the original spiritual experience of the First Founder of our spiritual nation, the pathway envisioned was similar to that described by great historians like Toynbee.

Toynbee described this withdrawal to regroup and rally among the pioneers of the new civilization as the only viable response to the emergence of Caesarism.

The First Founder foresaw the emergence of an intentional spiritual nationality adopted by people as individuals who then form groups and associations, namely a reconstitution of the ancient extended multi-family household kinship community (oikos). These become a globally-distributed commonwealth and sow the seeds of a new civilization whose ideals are adopted by other national peoples and even by landed sovereignties.

Perhaps then this was no coincidence as the First Founder was not aware of any of these historians or the concepts and principles of historiology.

We should then look to the future with a positive point of view, albeit with a strong awareness of the dangers that confront us during these unstable times. We should realize that in embracing a new nationality as the vanguard people of a new civilization that we are also preserving the best things about the old civilization and carrying them into a more glorious future.

Pictured: what an Estate for a kinship group of around 3-5 marital households and connected single adults might look like as the new structures of the new civilization come into physical being.