Marxist Activists Emboldened by SEC Shareholder Rulings

Ivo Fysic April 5, 2022

The SEC wants corporations to have to convert their policies to Marxist ideology, but calls it climate change and social change activism. Corporations are being harassed by wealthy Marxist activists seeking to use their power to force companies to not only make a profit, but conform to the leftist ideology.

With a mere adjustment of regulations, with no new laws being passed, Biden’s SEC, RedSEC as we call it now, is now unilaterally deciding that corporations must conform to Marxist policies whenever Marxists target them through their billionaire proxies that are enabling this destruction of the American republic.

Shareholders Up Climate, Social Demands After SEC Policy Shift

From news.bloomberglaw.com
2022-04-04 10:07:30

Excerpt:

The SEC is quashing more company requests to exclude shareholder proposals related to climate and social issues from their proxies after a significant policy change in November.

The agency said last year that it would start factoring in broader social policy considerations when evaluating requests to cast aside proxy proposals that companies see as micromanagement or interfering with regular business operations.

That policy shift on “no-action letters” has emboldened retail and activist investors to be more aggressive with environmental and social proxy proposals, said Derek Zaba, a Sidley Austin LLP partner and co-chair of the firm’s shareholder activism practice.

“Some companies are choosing not to even bother with going through the no-action process because they don’t believe there’s a level of success with years past,” Zaba said.

“No-action” letters are essentially green lights for companies to cast aside shareholder proposals without fear of an enforcement…

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Is it Time to Ghost the Left?

Paul Collier March 21, 2022

Your news outlets are not in the business of making money. They’re mostly subsidized by the mega corp that owns them.

Megacorpos, whatever you want to call them, produce content marketing packaged as news.

These same megacorpos have more lately also been using entertainment production more for content marketing than seeking to make profitable products.

These megacorps have been subsidized, in essense, by foreign markets, with China being bigger than maybe all the others combined. China has become the de facto subsizer of content marketing in America for the past 5-8 years.

The number one content marketing producer, by far and away, with over 80 percent shares in almost every market, is the DNC and the coalition of hate and opportunism that supports this death machine.

The DNC has been using megacorps, and being used by them as well (these folks are all always only frenemies), to push narratives and create ‘realities’ that create support for destroying a Constitutional Republican America, by any means necessary, as this slows down the mega-powered minute few from being able to move as quickly at manipulating society to their advantage as the rest of the world can, especially their number one frenemy, China.

None of these nation-states have a people with such a sense of individual liberty entitlement, and the DNC and megacorp coalition want nothing more than to join the rest of the world at the expense of American individual rights.

None of the major social and cultural means of production owners (and there’s maybe 15 or 20 total companies that own 80 plus percent of most of our major markets) have any interest in restoring or preserving rights for individuals. Not a one.

They want to compete with Chinese billionaires, but they imagine they can keep their DNC dangerous dragon ally on a leash.

This is not about being pro or anti-monopolistic, this is about the values of the leaders of those monopolies becoming fundamentally revolutionary in nature, antithetical to an American Constitutional Republic with a Bill of Rights that emphasizes the rights of individuals to choose their own beliefs, not have them forced on them by the powerful minute few.
Americans have a right to bad beliefs. End stop. No one can be forced to like anyone or anything or any belief or any action they choose not to like. This is America, not Soviet DNC, not yet.

The DNC looks at the megacorp Citadelians in the same way as these elites view them, as a necessary dangerous dragon ally, but one they will ultimately control.

These alliance are all frenemy alliances. Everyone in this ‘cult of self over the masses’ cabal sees themselves as the final highlander, ready to kill their best friend when the time comes. In minecraft, of course….

Perhaps it is time for the rest of us to simply start ignoring them
Those of us not fooled by the hateful agit prop, those of us not choosing to be opportunists and take advantage of the passive aggressive unaccountable type of power the DNC narratives create, and those of us who are not simple cowards afraid to speak up, might want to simply start ignoring these people altogether.

Stop complaining about their wackadoodle bad art woketarian garbage content. Laugh at it, sure, but stop acting angry. Let these fools play out their melodramatic out-of-tune song, and laugh while they drunk post their own l’s on twitter. Or not.

Maybe not even laugh at them. Just. Ignore them. They’re boring. They have like five lines and 15 words they use, and that’s about it. They’re not even entertaining lolcows at this point. They’re not even cringe. They’re just…….boring.

All this to say, if you can, just turn them off, tune them out, and make your own content if you have to.

We who have not gone insane will find each other and be there for our former friends and family when they stumble out of the mist and ask themseles “What the heck was I thinking?”

Unlike the left, we have mercy, we have grace, so no one who wants back will be rejected. No one gets permabanned for their crappy beliefs alone.

So yeah, just tune out and create. That’s my take.

Far Left Muscle Rejects Biden’s Union

Ivo Fysic March 2, 2022

The muscle wing of the DNC, the faction that brings the kids whose milkshakes bring all the fires to business owners in urban centers run by local politicians even more beholden to this muscle than the DNC is, has announced through its token ‘appease the muscle’ spokesmodel, Rashida Tlaib (AOC was doing a cooking with goldleaf sesh on the insta at the time), that the muscle is not happy with Biden’s limp-lefted plans.

Dude LITERALLY led a chant to “FUND THE POLICE” after all the muscle did to scare the universe into thinking white devils were LITERALLY about to kill everyone in their sleep that didn’t have a Confederate Flag tattooed to the insides of each eyelids.

“Thankfully”, a few black business owners lost their business to the fires, and one lost his life, to assure that the white devil would not burn their businesses down and kill…..wait a second!

The real read on this is simple. Rashida and AOC and the other muscle faction foils are there to feign horror that the establishment is engaging in gambling RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES! But, to the muscle faction, if you ever read us (and we know you do, and we love it), let me just say, kids, you being played.

You should really read up on the Brown Shirts and how that ended for them. That’s you, that’s how the DNC views you, muscle to be disposed with after they want to go ‘legit.’ No more fires, no more you.

The RNC has its own muscle faction spokesmodels feigning shock that the establishment is gambling RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES! I won’t name names but Marjorie Taylor Greene randomly and whatnots. Not the RNC nor the DNC will ever truly appease the muscle in their groups, and, perhaps, we are all better off for that. But, at least in the case of the DNC, what they DO WISH to accomplish still continues to be the ongoing existential threat to an American Constitutionally-Limited Republic with our Bill of Rights standards of Individual Liberty as the cornerstone of the legitimization of government power in these lands as they haven been since their inception.

Rashida Tlaib Challenges Biden on Progressive Agenda in SOTU Response

From www.newsweek.com
2022-03-02 05:13:32

Excerpt:

Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has challenged President Joe Biden in a progressive response to his State of the Union address.

While much of Tlaib’s Tuesday night speech on behalf of the Working Families Party took aim at Republicans, the “Squad” member also challenged Biden to take action on progressive campaign promises while highlighting divisions between progressives and centrists in the Democratic Party.

Black Families Turning to Homeschooling Because Racism?

Freedomist Curator March 2, 2022

Are black families choosing homeschooling because schools are racist? That’s what a NY Times article suggests. The article pulls an anecdotal story of one family whose son learned at a white-dominated school that slaves were just receiving “on-the-job-training.”

I must say, if your school has any literature that words slavery in that manner, ALL parents should be at the next school board meeting demanding that racist agit prop be removed from school. If this story is indeed true (and I am operating under the assumption that it is), it doesn’t match what I learned about slavery in school, and I went to school back in the 1970s and 80s.

I grew up when the tv mini-series was on everyone’s mind. I watched the whole series with my family. I learned early on of the racist, genocidal history of America. I didn’t learn that I was responsible for it or that I should be treated like a sinner because of the actions others who had the same melatonin levels as me did evil things.

I may have learned about George Washington’s apple tree in elementary school. By high school, I learned he had slaves. I learned there was no apple tree. I didn’t learn that I was the creator of evil and that everyone that looked like me, looks like me, are the creators of evil too. I didn’t need to learn that lie to see the mixed results of the American experiment.

Hopefully, the article is merely anecdotal. I’d love to believe it was outright false. If it is not, let us hope people suffered consequences for allowing such evil to get into the minds of our children using taxpayer dollars to do so. It would be like telling children that their parents literally invented slavery and racism and now the new society is going to fix what these evil parents did to make everything so hateful and racist and bigoted. What kind of emotional trauma would that create in a forming mind?

I suspect there are many black families that are taking their kids out of school for far more reasons than the school is racist. I suspect a lot of kids in nearly-all-black schools are getting taken out of the system as well, as more and more Americans, of many races, come to see how damaged our current education truly is.

More than teaching children to hate each other, as our schools are currently doing, they are also teaching kids to pass standardized tests. They are cramming them with memory lists to pass tests that will create little lasting habits of action which these kids will find anywhere remotely useful in life.

They prepare them for a world by telling them everything that came before it is evil, so we will start with a clean slate, judging people based on their race, sexual preference, and gender alone (where race and gender become synonymous with ideology, so that ‘black’ is a politics plus black biology, while ‘white’ is a politics that overrides biology).

Perhaps many black families find such un-American actions as stigmatizing people based on their beliefs, gender, sexual preference, and race something they wish to protect their children from. Perhaps many families, of many races, are beginning to understand how important it is for all of us to be one American race, defined not by our DNA but by our commitment to live out the standards set out in the Bill of Rights with our neighbors.

We seek to live in a land where we don’t want, don’t need your approval, but demand your respect when we exchange value with one another. This is the land of the free, where tolerance still means never forcing anyone to approve of anyone or anything but treating everyone like their favorite cousin when they exchange value with them in shared American space, space not defined by free association fellowships but by public ones. I suspect that hope is shared by many, across many other divides.

It is a world that the authors of such stories wish to prevent us from having, a world where America keeps progressing towards her Bill of Rights potential, a potential that has already undone slavery and brought the women the vote, enabled gay and lesbian couples to have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples and is still challenging our assumptions of what it means to live in a land whose ultimate authority is rested in the state’s record on respecting each individual’s bills of rights, to treat everyone with respect as if they matter as much as you, even if you ‘know’ they clearly don’t.

Let us hope the families that do encounter such actual racism in our schools finds a truth out there that leads them to a shared hope in an America with Bill of Rights protections for all, in all our public spaces. Continuing down this path of factional division will only help America’s enemies, who hate the black American as much as they hate the Asian American as much as they hate the White American, etc, etc, etc.

The Chinese State loves the subterfuge, the self-hate, the doubt, the devastation on American morale that the DNC Left is pressing on us through its schools, its media, its control of the means of social and cultural production. Don’t become a useful political football in the DNC charade, black America. Stay with the Bill of Rights people. Divided we fall. Together we stand.

For Black Parents Resisting White-Washed History, Homeschooling Is an Increasingly Popular Option

From news.yahoo.com
2022-02-28 17:30:03

Excerpt:

Brian and Andrea Thomas help their two youngest children with their homeschooling lesson at their home in Richardson, Tx. on Feb. 23, 2022. Credit – Ilana Panich-Linsman for TIME

For Shari Rohan, it was a social-studies lesson that described enslaved people receiving “on-the-job training.” For Zanetta Lamar, it was the fact that her son was the only Black student in his grade. For Andrea Thomas, it was realizing just how little she had learned about Black history while attending both public and private schools.

“I did not want my children to have that same experience,” says Thomas, who, along with Rohan and Lamar, is now homeschooling her children, becoming part of a movement that once was seen as the domain of white, conservative families. “I wanted them to have a deeper understanding of history and the flaws within our history.”

Homeschooling increased nationwide after the pandemic…

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Homeschooling Has Become More Popular Among Black Families

From time.com
2022-02-28 17:30:00

Excerpt:

For Shari Rohan, it was a social-studies lesson that described enslaved people receiving “on-the-job training.” For Zanetta Lamar, it was the fact that her son was the only Black student in his grade. For Andrea Thomas, it was realizing just how little she had learned about Black history while attending both public and private schools.

“I did not want my children to have that same experience,” says Thomas, who, along with Rohan and Lamar, is now homeschooling her children, becoming part of a movement that once was seen as the domain of white, conservative families. “I wanted them to have a deeper understanding of history and the flaws within our history.”

Homeschooling increased nationwide after the pandemic disrupted in-person learning; among households with school-age children, the percentage who reported homeschooling them rose from…

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UN Greeted with No-Fly Zone Ukraine Rallies

Freedomist Curator March 2, 2022

On March 1^st, 2022, Pro-Ukraine activists rallied outside of the UN in NY to call for NATO to create a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine. The rally was called “The No-Fly Zone over Ukraine” rally. As CBS News reports “Dozens of people crowded the area…..”

The nature of such a sparsely populated rally is generally dubious from the start, though not necessarily. However, when a corporate media outlet is painting a rosy picture on dozens of people attending your rally to call on NATO to risk nuclear war to save Ukraine from Russian jets, one would be remiss not to reserve a measure of skepticism regarding the nature of the activists themselves. Not that I’m judging them if they are (insert mysterious government alphabet here). States gonna do what states gonna do, as the saying goes.

I just want to set the real context of the nature of the plea that was made by 20 some-ish people in New York that might bring about armed conflict between countries with nuclear weapons. I just want to bring that context to bear before we celebrate twenty some-ish people showing up on a reasonably decent day in New York City outside the UN headquarters building to attempt to influence NATO to send jets to confront Russian jets so we can protect Ukraine.

Whatever your feeling about Ukraine, be it for Russia, for Ukraine, or whoever, I can assure you that no-fly zones over Ukraine would most likely be a horrible outcome for all parties involved.

A story like this is a little feeder, a tester, to see what kind of response they get from the idea of a no-fly zone from the peoples, wrapped behind the safety of it not being ‘experts’ or journalists starting off with this idea of a no-fly zone, it is actually a grassroots movement, a peoples’ movement in support of sovereign nationhood and whatnots.

There are many ways to support Ukraine, but risking armed conflict with a nuclear power is not one of them. Perhaps Poland can assist by declaring war on Belarus, and see if Russia is then willing to risk conflict with a nuclear power by going after a member of NATO without nuclear weapons.

That is a whole lot of risks in and of itself, but it would STILL be less riskier than declaring a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine. If you support Ukraine, their next move, sadly, is to make it as brutal as they can while they stave off the inevitable, though the new exiles should already be forming up, being trained, many to go back and constitute the initial ongoing resistance to Russian presence.

It’s a grim future, though, and offers, perhaps, a decade or more of grinding down lives in a substandard, unstable world where no Ukrainian would long want to stay anyway. I suspect Russia will attempt to move Russians in where Ukrainians move out. We might then be witnessing the elimination of a whole people should their diaspora not hold together under common values and customs that can be lived out wherever they are.

The best we can hope for is Russia realizes, after eventually taking Kiev (and they soon most likely will), that the going is too costly, so they’ll accept a reduced Ukraine that still holds its autonomy even as it loses more territory. Outside of that, there is little chance any nuclear power will directly confront Russian troops. Poland is the strongest contender to being able to intervene militarily, but only against Belarus. Russia would then have to decide whether to escalate by attacking a NATO nation or not. Even if Poland is the best option, it’s not a very good one. All we can do is supply, arm, take care of the family members of the fighters, if we want to help Ukraine.

If we want to help Russia, well, we would simply stay out Russia’s well, but, geopolitically, America can ill afford to do so. Now that China is coming forward to offer to mitigate talks between Russia and Ukraine, America might do well to increase her supplying of Ukrainians to assure, if there is a deal, Ukraine remains on the table for the West.

Ukraine is the gateway between the Empires of the East and the Empires of the West. No hegemonic power can long hold sway in this part of the world if Ukraine is in the hands of their enemies. It is the launching pad in either direction due to where it lies, in the East European Plain.

Unfortunately, this makes the Ukrainians political footballs for eastern and western powers, from America to Russia, China to Germany, Ukraine is the spoils of other nations more than she is her own.

Let’s keep a watch on this whole no-fly zone rally and hope, for everyone’s sake, it doesn’t grow legs.

Rally outside United Nations calls on NATO to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine

From www.cbsnews.com
2022-03-01 17:44:00

Excerpt:

NEW YORK — As the conflict in Ukraine reaches its sixth day, many across the world are condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin, including a group of protesters who took to the streets Tuesday on Manhattan’s East Side.

The rally, called “The No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine,” kicked off at around 10 a.m. across the street from the United Nations. Dozens of people crowded the area, calling on NATO to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine so Russia cannot perform airstrikes.

The group joined a growing number of rallies across the world condemning Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Cars and trucks could be heard honking for blocks, showing support for the cause.

“It’s extremely difficult to support Ukraine, because of Russia’s threats. So I guess just trying to show as an international community that we support them and we’re hoping for their safety,” one demonstrator told CBS2’s Elijah Westbrook.

Many of the protesters Westbrook spoke with said they want the…

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Patent Trolling by Foreign Powers Threatens American Industry

Paul Collier February 15, 2022

I have been telling our readers for quite some time that the fundamental battle between those who control and those who wish to be free is over intellectual property and how control of information and use of technology could determine if the human future is a new serfdom or a new level of liberty for the vast majority of people in these lands. One path is covered with lawsuits and expensive lawyers trained to turn a parsed sentence in a white paper into a loss of an idea that someone truly did create. That path chokes off technological development and contains it behind paywalls, offering you nothing but subscription services to meet all our needs and desires.

That path leads to total control, a social credit score that could determine if you can even rent a car (for no one, if they have their way, will own cars in the future).

The oppressive nature of excessive intellectual property laws can be seen in how patent trolling is still rising in America, costing industry millions and leaving patent ownership to the most powerful among us almost exclusively.

The other path, open source technology, leads to the empowering of individuals and free associations to equip themselves to meet their own sustainably flourishing needs.

New Data Shows Tech Patent Troll Cases Are Rising At USITC

From www.forbes.com
2022-02-09 13:42:26

Excerpt:

Section 337 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, meant to protect the US against unfair trade and … [+] illegal imports, is weaponized today by foreign non practicing entities or patent trolls. From Left,Rep. Willis C. Hawley, Senator Reed Smoot.

With supply chain shortages, the global race to 5G, and the need to ensure the US leads in information technology, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has an important role to play. Indeed, the agency has experienced a record number of requests for fact-finding reports from Congress, and lawmakers of both parties and houses have praised the agency for valuable reports on topics like the effect of Covid-19 on supply chains. However, not all activity at the USITC is desirable. Sadly, the agency has become a hotbed for patent trolling, and USITC commissioners are driving the trend by allowing a robust stream of abusive section 337…

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DNC Climate Change Fixes Devastate the Poor with Spiked Energy Bills

Paul Collier February 15, 2022

Many Americans across this country are experiencing dramatic spikes in their electric heating bills this winter, and you can thank Joe Biden and the DNC for that. Their efforts to shut down major American natural gas projects like the Keystone Pipeline are the most significant factor for your spike in your heating bills this winter.

As usual, DNC policy is created by isolated, sheltered experts in sterile rooms, who never have to live the consequence of the high moral choices they suppose they are making for the rest of us.

The spike in natural gas prices because of Biden’s almost seemingly intentional crippling of American energy independence capacity comes at a time when all of the trillions of dollars this administration has printed is now producing 40-year-high levels of inflation. 80 million people can’t be wrong, can they?

Dems’ tragic climate policy caused skyrocketing energy bills

From nypost.com
2022-02-14 21:47:12
Joe Borelli
Excerpt:

My January electric bill is up about 40% from last year, which itself was about 20% higher than it was in 2020. Before you ask: No, I didn’t invest in any new Christmas lights; nor did I suddenly start mining bitcoin. In fact, my Con Edison bill conveniently points out I used slightly less power this year.

It turns out I am just one of millions of middle-class schlubs in New York whose wallets are lighter this winter thanks to the Democratic Party’s catastrophic climate policy — and my humble 40% increase is nowhere near some of the triple-digit horror stories out there.

If you listen to Con Ed, the spike in your bill is a direct consequence of the rising cost of acquiring natural gas, due to its global supply and demand. The past few months, the commodity price has hovered between $4.00 and $6.00/MMBtu, which are averages we haven’t seen since the 2008 financial crisis.

It would be criminal not to mention that President Joe Biden scrapping…

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China Threatens US Over Taiwan Arms Deal

Paul Collier February 9, 2022

The Chinese are very upset at the recent decision by the Biden administration to sell arms to Taiwan, the nation that, according to China, doesn’t really exist. One China means no Taiwan, in case you’re all paying attention. They’ve issued some missives to the effect that how dare America and how weak America, blah blah blah, this is an existential threat to our very existence, blah blah blah.

As usual, the story is getting crickets on top folds across the MSMiverse, but it certainly bears noting. As an aside, if you read the Freedomist enough you know we couple the CCP and the DNC together often, but we also point out that this alliance is not really a perfect union, as both Machiavellian partners in the dance are seeking to help one another as much as they need to while pivoting to assure when the need for the union is no longer there, the other will have the advantage.

This move by the Biden administration is about assuring the billionaire class of California and New York have enough leverage to assure China follows through on the promise of allowing them continued and even extended access to that fatty gold billion people market.

Sale of US weapons to Taiwan threatens China’s security interests, Defense Ministry says – World

From tass.com
2022-02-09 07:12:06

Excerpt:

Beijing lodged a protest with Washington over arms sales to Taiwan since these actions undermine China’s sovereignty, the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

“The sale of armaments by the United States to Taiwan seriously violates the ‘One China’ principle and the provisions of three joint communiques between China and the US,” the statement published on the agency’s website said.

According to the Defense Ministry, the US “grossly intrudes into China’s domestic affairs, harming the country’s sovereignty and security interests, destroying military relations between China and the US, as well as threatening peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.” “Due to this, China expressed strong displeasure and a resolute protest as well as made a strong diplomatic remonstrance to Washington.”

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The Season of Covid Confounds the Secular World

Daria Novak February 7, 2022

Time for a Renewal of Faith and Reason

As Covid deaths pass 800,000 by government accounts I ask this question… Who is stronger, smarter, and more adaptable to the operational environment – President Biden or nature?

The higher power of nature, AKA God, is the clear winner. Perhaps it is time to rethink the path we are on? This one appears a road filled with many known craters and still more unknown sink holes. So, where do we turn to gather the political wisdom of the ages to make the needed changes and the strength to accomplish the task?

This fall I was privileged to take a political theory class from a wonderful, Irish-born Catholic professor at Catholic University while finishing my PhD. His insight and humor opened doors! We covered the early Western philosophers from Plato and Socrates through St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Christ was actually mentioned in our political science class!

Learning about these early Western thinkers gives me great hope for our nation and new insights into the thoughts of our Founding Fathers. What they read, I read. Given the enormity of their undertaking one can see why they turned to God and the philosophers for guidance. Reading political thought “through the ages” in a short period of time was an incredible experience.

In Philadelphia our Founding Fathers, from all walks of life, discussed the best of ideas transcending time and space. They wrapped them up for us as a gift to future generations of Americans in the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights.

No other people in the history of the world have received such a precious and prescient present. What fascinates me about the early Western philosophers is the evolution in their thought. They understood the failings of individual men, offered ways to protect us from ourselves, and believed fully in our journey toward the transcendental. Our nation adopted these lessons at our founding.

We dismiss them too easily. We overlook teaching their thoughts in our government-run schools. And, we fail to absorb the timeless lessons they offer future generations. Our children must become reacquainted with the potential our Founding Fathers saw in each of us.

Despite fear of the passage these men envisioned a time yet to be fully realized. Let’s recapture it and begin the journey anew….

NYC Elections Open to Non-Citizens

Daria Novak February 7, 2022

“Approximately 808,000 “noncitizens” may vote in future New York City elections, if the City Council welcomes them to do so, as early as December. These potential new members of the electorate would include green card holders and those with certain work permits,” according to a November 29, 2021, Daily Caller story by Deroy Murdock.

If we lose our sovereignty, ALL is lost! There are 3 basic tests that are accepted and used since the start of the modern nation-state system in 1648 (Peace of Westphalia) to determine if a location is a nation-state. We’ve lost one principle and are losing the remaining two. A 3-legged stool can’t stand without all its legs intact and neither can the United States of America.

First, there is recognition of a country by an international legal body such as the UN. Check. We are recognized as a legal nation-state.

Second, the country must have a generally understood common culture… religion, language, etc. that unite the citizens as “one people.” WE ARE LOSING THIS ONE.

Third, there is a recognized physical border that differentiates the “us” from the “them.” WE ARE LOSING THIS ONE, TOO!

Many of our fellow citizens arrived from failed or failing states. None of our legal immigrants want us to become what they escaped from in the past. Yet here we are making big mistakes with the aid of countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and others supporting ideas antithetical to everything this country has stood for since 1776.

I am not proposing taking up arms. I am proposing that each of us, as Ronald Reagan said long ago, has a responsibility to ensure that freedom is preserved for the next generation. It may be uncomfortable to talk about with those who are indoctrinated with a false truth, but we must be active or there will be no country left for the next generation to inherit from us. It is no longer enough to simply raise our families and go to work. We need to move from a passive support of our beliefs to one of active participation.

That means getting out the vote and teaching those among us who lack an understanding of how and why our country was formed and the dangers we face today. Make people aware of what is happening inside the classroom, corporate America, the media, and our government.

We the people have the power to reclaim the nation-state our Founding Fathers designed to serve us – a country governed by the people with certain tasks assigned to government that individuals can’t easily handle. We have lost our way and become slaves to the state instead of citizens of the country!

If those of us who remember don’t speak up, those who never knew will be doomed to a dark future.