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The Way Things Used To Be..But It’s Not So Simple

Bill Collier June 27, 2021

There are things about our present culture that we don’t like. For socially conservative Christians especially, the present culture seems to want to basically trample on everything we see as holy while demanding we keep our mouths shut or even prove our wokeness by joining in the debauchery.

The bucolic village scene where everyone knows everyone and seems to have each others back, where when men and women still act like men and women and raise their own kids, and where wholesome values are even taught in school is far from the perfect picture of reality back in, say, the 1930s to the 1950s. But the myth of this bucolic life of innocence, love, hard work, and virtue is a powerful draw and is certainly more desirable than some of the slop being called “the evolution of the family” today.

If we feel right at home in the mythos of this golden age of American virtue, true Americana, this doesn’t mean we don’t know the difference between the myth and the reality. But that’s not the point. The mythos of this 21st century dystopian derangement that passes itself off as culture is definitely garbage compared to the idyllic picture taught by media and the schools, an idyllic picture that wasn’t reality but which was something people generally thought SHOULD be!

No, most people in the 50s didn’t life “Leave It To Beaver” realities, but this was the reality the culture presented as ideal. What’s our ideal compared to this? A bunch of drug addled, sexed-up woke genderless freaks running amok and rioting? Sorry to sound so rude and crass, but the mythos of the 21st century Western Person is really rather barbaric and savage and is disconnected from the necessity of marriage and the family, the pillars of any advanced civilization.

Like the Beav, most people aren’t living like the fictional and academic presentation of the mythos. But unlike the Beav, the truth is that if most people actually fulfilled the present mythos we would have chaos and collapse. People would all be accusing each other of anti-woke transgressions and canceling each other and would have little time to get much productive work done.

The objections to the 30s to 50s are sometimes legitimate but almost always ignorant. There were racial issues, sure, but the culture within the minority communities was still better than the culture of today. It was wholesome and lifez-affirming. Women have come a long way, but, sadly, they aren’t any happier and now it takes two people 40 hours a week to raise a family, if indeed raising a family is a thing any more.

It seems all the cultural changes have done, again aside from actual reforms that protect the rights of all people equally, is makes things worse. People are unhappy and sad, tired, and frustrated, and now, increasingly afraid to say or do anything that might get them canceled. Again, the Beav’s world was never perfect, but the wholesomeness of his life is much more preferable to the debauchery of this culture.

We cannot re-create the 30s to the 50s. But we can choose the wholesome values of faith, family, traditions, and virtues as our way of life. We can adopt our own modern version of that idyllic vision and extend that fairly and equally to all people.

What we propose is that the idyllic vision of wholesome values, deep love, and close connections through faith and tradition which so inspired America’s cultural golden age, is, in a modern form, the very path to true progress for our country.

Of course we can sift out the bad, remove any and all coercion, and not leave anyone, not any man or woman of any ethnicity or ancestry or race behind, and modernize our approach. But we should see in this golden age an ideal worth resurrecting in a new and better form than it was ever conceived of back then.

It’s not so simple to make things “the way they used to be” because this was always the ideal, never the universal reality, and not everyone equally enjoyed this idyllic vision. But that doesn’t make the vision, when it is adjusted to be inclusive of all who desire it, on a freewill participatory basis alone, a bad vision. It doesn’t mean our barbaric anti-culture is superior.

If we tend to lionize the great era of the 30s to the 50s as the golden age of Americana, it is, again, mostly because this ideal, if applied equally to all and expressed in a modernized form, is far superior to the woke cancel culture authoritarianism we endure today.

The Battle Against The Woke Technocracy

Bill Collier June 27, 2021

The battle against the woke technocracy is at an early stage and will require a long-term, multi-faceted digital guerilla marketing approach.

Even though we stipulate to the fact they have every right to be arrogant SOB’s within their platforms, while making outlandish claims of not being woke authoritarians, and even though we don’t necessarily think they outright want to ban all content that doesn’t agree with woke authoritarianism, we can’t warm up to these people. They are unlikeable in their weird arrogant self-importance.

But kvetching doesn’t usually solve anything. Our deep-rooted desire to overthrow the technocracy is far more parochial than merely being wound up about alleged bias and lack of transparency as to their idiotic “community standards”, which are both a joke in their content and their enforcement. We, and by this we mean more freedom-minded people who seek a decentralized web just as we seek a decentralized politics and a decentralized economy, simply don’t want a digital space owned by cretins who are not friendly or favorable to us.

Put another way, even if you wish to opine that big tech isn’t proactively anti-freedom, you cannot argue they are friends of liberty. This is especially true if your content tends toward a more staunchly, traditional, and socially conservative Judeo-Christian bent. As an example, even suggesting gender is purely biological can get you banned from Twitter. This is the tendency of the woke technocracy.

The desire to upend the marketplace and overthrow the technocracy, however, should not necessarily be about political sabre rattling. The truth many overlook is, done right, even platforms that compete for 5% of the market share could literally make their owners hundreds of millions of dollars. There is a lot of money to be made.

Our approach and focus on overthrowing the technocracy is all about the revenue. There are billions of dollars being funneled to people who got lucky, got in first, and who now want to shield themselves against any new competitors. If you really want to to find the bias of big tech, that’s it: they climbed the ladder of success and now they want to chop it down so we cannot follow.

Unless you have the means and technology to create your own platform, and if you do not like the woke technocracy, regardless of your reasons, then, to put is bluntly, you will need to become a patron of alt tech platforms, as a backer/investor, sponsor, or paid subscriber. We would add, not being willing to pay for content as a user is precisely how you keep big tech on top.

We may choose to zing the big tech overlords from time to time for their ridiculous woke authoritarian preaching and the way they talk down to everyone, but our focus is on the fact there is a massive market for digital content, digital services for self-expression and promotion, and digital tools for connecting with others.

Becoming even a tiny bit player in that space can be quite lucrative and if you do this in a way that serves freedom-minded people and builds freedom in general, advancing the freedom narrative and vision among more and more people, then so much the better.

We are motivated by a desire to broadcast a freedom vision, gather and serve freedom-builders, and advance a pro-freedom agenda in every arena, including the market, the digital space, and even politics. But we understand that the free market, not charity and certainly not kvetching, is the path to advancement for our cause. Of course you can back our efforts by becoming a subscribing here and accessing original, unique content you won’t find anywhere else.

Our voice is unique and will provide you real news and inspirational content that can actually benefit your life in the here and now.

The battle against the woke technocracy is a free market fight, waged through gaining viewers, subscribers, sponsors, and backers who want more freedom-building content and policies within the digital commons. But it’s not a head-to-head fight. We are essentially the digital guerillas huddling in the jungle, trying to avoid a far superior force in open battle.

The battle against the woke technocracy is in a guerilla stage. We therefore propose that, money being the driving force in the market, and money being far more alluring than woke ideology, the paid subscriptions model is our best bet. The paid subscription model both allows for smaller platforms to grow steady as their support base grows, while starting small, and creates enough real revenue that even biased payment processors don’t look askance at the revenue generated for them.

We would suggest that the alt tech, pro-freedom platform community, the community of actual alt tech and alt content providers, connect for mutual benefit and support in the form of freedom tech guild. This guild could leverage its collective weight and spending power so that one platform or digital content provider cannot be easily targeted by a woke payment processor. Or perhaps this group could form a consortium for payment processing, for legal defense and offense, for hosting, and even for a truly good alt tech search engine.

Getting to that place or convincing enough alt tech providers to join such a guild is way beyond our capability unless we ourselves command a large enough audience and paid subscription support base. But something like this, which allows a plethora of platforms to grow and prosper serving niche communities of people, is what will eventually become a thousand and thousands and tens of thousands of cuts that weaken the woke technocracy.

The “free speech platform” model is too complex and requires massive technical, financial, legal, and political firepower with which to rout the predicted monopolist response, which will include effort to cut off technology and all means of processing payments as well as massive demonization by the DNC Press. What makes this model so problematic isn’t just the technology, but the moderation and governance, not to mention the public relations blows that would be landed every day against the platform and its owners and builders.

In addition to all these problems, both real and artificially imposed by the woke technocracy and their allies, there is the fact the marketplace, the potential users, subscribers, and sponsors, don’t really want a free speech space they have to share with actual racists, neonazis, jihadists, chauvinists, nasty trolls, bullies, extremists, or even communists. The market may want more liberalized platforms for the general public than the woke authoritarians wish to provide, but they definitely don’t want the free speech limited only by whatever it’s “legal” to say and they may balk at the notion the government should dictate the moderation policies of platforms.

It is tempting to say the platforms are no different than the phone company, but when a phone call is over the content only exists if one or more parties record it and nobody is being asked to sponsor that content. Moreover, the users themselves are paying for access and use, which doesn’t occur with platforms today. Platforms are stuck with your content and if they want a brand-friendly product for sponsors, and if those sponsors, like most corporations, tend toward the woke authoritarianism spectrum, then content moderation must reflect sponsor wishes.

It’s a pity more and more corporations, perhaps also owing to their market dominance, only seem to care about the sensitivities and interests of a segment of the population while assuming everyone must buy from them because you can’t possibly boycott all the woke authoritarian corporations, but this is a fact of life we have to navigate and invent our way around.

As we see it, the only shortcut is for users to replace the corporate sponsors in such numbers that the total population of users on woke platforms decreases substantively enough to truly awaken the corporate backers to a new reality wherein they have lost access to a substantial plurality of potential customers.

This is not going to be accomplished by creating “one big system” (OBS) to defeat another OBS. What will have to happen is two things: users who are sick of the woke garbage will have to actually pony up and start paying for content and access and providers will need to find innovative ways to serve unique content and meet the needs of more niche communities in awesome ways.

The real problem may be that, even if providers truly do a good job, the user base will pin their hopes on government regulation to force free platforms to be nicer to them instead of the obvious path, which is to financially back friendly platforms and content providers who cannot afford to be free.

The path to overthrow the woke technocracy isn’t easy and there is no simple “fire and forget” solution. It will involve, we imagine, the following:

1. First and foremost, a willingness for users to become paid subscribers to niche platforms and content providers who are trying to compete with the woke technocracy

2. The innovation of providers who focus on niche platforms and/or truly unique content worthy of paid subscriber backing

3. The development of a guild or coalition of providers who share resources and form consortia (plural of consortium) to provide alternatives to the woke corporate payment processors, search, hosting, cdn’s, email list management, and the like

4. While not covered in this article, we also envision a common backbone based on api hooks that allows cross-posting on alt tech platforms, ways for users to create a homepage that collates content from those platforms, and ways to push content on or advertise on various alt tech platforms

For our part we offer unique content HERE for the freedom builder via paid subscriptions, we are building a niche platform for more Christian or socially conservative audience, and we promote other platforms and providers.

It only takes a spark, as they say, and we hope to join those who, together, in this guerilla stage of the battle against the woke technocracy, to be a part of that spark for a truly free and pluralistic digital commons.

Trump Rumbles! The battle between alt tech and big tech truly begins!

Bill Collier June 27, 2021

Donald Trump joined the alt tech platform, Rumble, a YouTube competitor launched in 2013, soaring past 175k channel subscribers in 24 hours. With this we may say the battle between alt tech and big tech truly begins, albeit with alt tech starting very far behind big tech in every metric.

The move comes after much speculation the deplatformed former President would join multiple other platforms, including Twitter-like alt tech platform Parler. But some consider Rumble both a more stable and long-lived platform that isn’t as prone to crashes as the other platforms.

Expectations that many more users will flock to Rumble and that Trump’s account there will eventually eclipse his Twitter following may be premature as Trump had 88.9 million followers on Twitter. However, if in fact one saw anything approaching that on Rumble, it could disrupt the digital landscape as entities seeking to reach that audience would be forced to take Rumble into account for their advertising.

It remains to be seen whether this will significantly boost Rumble’s user base and make this platform a bit competitive with YouTube or even whether Trump’s presence there would be long-lived as this platform may have massive pressures from the corporate and media establishment to remove him. It is probable, however, that this will in fact double or triple Rumble’s user base over the next few months.

One flaw with the platform is that it is a digital platform and is less interactive than, say, Parler or Gab, unless you are producing video content. For non-producers it is more an entertainment platform they access than a platform they use to express themselves. People can watch video content on Trump’s account without subscribing to the platform.

As for President Trump, just how this enables him to connect to his user base and the world remains to be seen. Early promises of a Trump social media platform resulted in a solo micro blog that was abandoned and nothing more. It is not known if this move constitutes his final decision as to how he will approach having a social media presence, but the fact he has an account on Rumble may not necessarily mean his plans to create a new social media platform have been abandoned.

Our own effort to create a new social media platform, called “Upadaria”, as an e-learning, e-commerce, and social networking platform using gamification and a fictional future history, has shown the complexity in creating even a basic platform targeting tens of thousands of niche users. In our case, we are targeting more cosmopolitan but socially conservative Christians who enjoy gamification and immersive learning experiences and who desire to excell at life.

This audience is perhaps a few million people in the US and a few million abroad, especially considering this is a paid subscription based, not a free, platform. Creating a platform to reach the kinds of numbers Trump needs to make it viable is of a much higher magnitude in complexity. Our platform has absolutely no delusions we can become some form of alternative to big tech platforms or a minor competitor, but Trump will aim precisely at that goal and higher.

The work to build a platform that might be competitive with a major platform would be immense and simply having a lot funding would not necessarily shorten the development time. Trump’s platform, if it comes to pass, must be far more robust than our “Upadaria” platform because his target audience is at least 50 million people. The building of the features and user interface, security, hosting, and data infrastructure for such a task, not to mention the moderation and governance tools and manpower, may prove the biggest hurdles for Trump’s team.

We would not discount the notion a Trump social media platform is coming but its development may take more time than perhaps Trump’s digital team have estimated. It may also be far more expensive than projected with little in the way of a funding model to make it financially self-sustaining within even a few years. However, it is possible this new platform will have free and paid membership levels and, with Trump at the helm and all the personalities that would follow, it may be financially viable.

So far, the move to Rumble is perhaps a small opening salvo in the battle between alt tech and big tech for dominance of the digital space. Alt tech is not merely a David to a Goliath, however, it is a fly versus an elephant at this stage. Trump’s move to Rumble may actually, but it remains to be seen, make alt tech more like a David versus a Goliath within a few years.

America’s True Manifest Destiny: An Empire of Freedom

Bill Collier June 26, 2021

One great opportunity missed by America was when our country traded its true manifest destiny as an empire of freedom for a shallow interpretation that basically amounted to colonialism and land expansion. It may, or may not, be true that it was inevitable and perhaps a subordinate part of our destiny to span the breadth of this continent, but land acquisition was not the core of our manifest destiny.

Thomas Jefferson referred to this as an empire of liberty, we use the phrase empire of freedom because freedom, while it includes liberty, also includes virtue as its guide and independence through mutual and individual self-reliance as its primary means. Liberty is its aim.

When America began as a country, in 1776, it was poised to fulfill a destiny in history, ordained by God, to replace the even then declining Western Civilization with a new civilization founded upon four core ideals. These ideals, our spiritual constitution, were a Judeo-Christian interpretation and balanced application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law.

It is sadly true that the way some have twisted and redefined these ideals to justify various versions of socialism or other authoritarian ideas may confuse their meaning today. But if, for instance, one reads Democratic equality as an appeal to wealth redistribution or a majority-rule dictatorship, then the true meaning of this ideal has been lost on them.

When these ideals are interpreted in a more sublime manner, based on a Judeo-Christian worldview and Scriptural foundation, and when they are held in balance with each other to define how we relate, associate, and practice governance with other people, they are powerful proof against all forms of authoritarianism. They are the spiritual constitution of an empire of freedom, an empire of decentralized power and wealth, an empire of diverse constituent entities like small republics and multiple nationalities.

In 1776 America had a long way to go to fulfill its manifest destiny. It still had embedded assumptions that contradicted these ideals, including slavery and other intolerant hierarchical status structures based on class, gender, or nationality. The treatment of some groups of people people by our government, like the infamous “Trail of Tears” and other atrocities, was inexcusable and totally at war with what God intended for our country.

It was however the arc of our history, bending ever toward our manifest destiny and founded on these core ideals, that made America good and that drew people from all over the world to come here and become Americans. The heart and soul of our country was always better than the behavior of our state governments and federal government.

Those who lack spiritual discernment may conflate the spiritual heart and soul of the America as an empire of freedom which God has ordained with the baneful acts of governments in this land who have all too often betrayed that manifest destiny.

America was, and we aim to revive this dream, a country destined as an empire of freedom to become the cradle of a new civilization founded upon the very same ideals of its spiritual constitution, the four core ideals as understood from a Judeo-Christian perspective.

It is from the initials for these core ideals, UPDR, that we derive the core ideology and philosophy that is the true heart of this country and the new civilization: UPaDaRianism, pronounced You-pah-daria-nism.

We can say that America was meant to become a UPDR, or Upadarian, Commonwealth of diverse republics and national peoples all within a Union founded upon these core ideals. When the concept of an empire of freedom is truly applied to every human being in this land and when everyone who carries the weight and responsibility of citizenship embraces this manifest destiny as the true litmus test for every policy and every leader, this land will be blessed like never before.

This concept of a Upadarian Commonwealth in which every citizen has the same level and quality of liberty within a freedom predicated on virtue, liberty, and independence, is the true ideology of a new civilization which this land was meant to give birth to.

Something happened on the way to a Upadarian Commonwealth. America’s heart and soul were turned away from the path of fulfillment and seduced by alien spirits into a more dangerous and increasingly authoritarian path. America became and today remains a federal state without a living soul, an animatronic absurdity recolonized by Western Civilization and turned into its plunder.

Today, America’s military and economic might are largely exploited for globalist power holders and powerful exploiters without a moral foundation. Americans die on foreign shores to advance interests that are hostile to their own and that are at war against our manifest destiny. The gods of mammon, molech, and bacchus rule the land with ruthless ambition.

The petty battle between right and left over pittances and scraps occurs even as the globalist ruling class, whose only country is their portfolio or the corporations they control, steal the treasure and turn our population into serfs. The “great reset” is simply a new feudalism!

Of the two major parties today, only the Republicans still include a substantial base of people who are more or less sympathetic to the spirit of America’s true manifest destiny and its underlying philosophy, even if they don’t use or know its name, Upadarianism.

But the modern, and globalist, robber baron class have their hooks in both parties. They almost, but not perfectly, control the entire political show. They know whoever “wins”, most of the time, we lose and the robbers win.

Regardless of his flaws, which we have never shied from exposing and confronting, Donald Trump was not then and is not now part of the robber baron class. He is most definitely not accepted in their ranks! If there is any explanation why most of his supporters still back him, despite what we see as serious characterological flaws, it is an instinctive realization that a Trump win is a robber baron loss. Merely giving these louts a loss is enough for some people.

What is better, a rude and crass, arrogant egomaniac who makes poor personnel choices but who seems to care, or a polite puppet of the robber baron class?

Thus we have the only “general” who is willing to fight hard and take risks in the person of a loudmouth bore with no manners and a massive ego versus every other choice, mere politicians who have lost their fighting spirit and who grovel before the robber barons.

The terrible state of America and a measure of how far we are from our true manifest destiny, which we are moving away from more every day, is this stunning reality. That we can only field one general of such distemper who is even willing to try to fight is an indictment against us.

Back him we must, so it goes, and credit to him for trying, but we need more than this!

The solution cannot be conveyed in a single article. It begins, however, as and when more and more Americans of every national people group, race, class, and within every community, rich and poor alike, begin to understand and adopt both our manifest destiny and the philosophy of our empire of freedom as their litmus test for every policy and leader.

In 1982 I began to experience a series or experiences which spanned decades, but which in 1982 compelled me to write about a “secret history” of the rise of a new civilization by 2147 AD. In this history I envisioned a reality that more closely resembles today than the reality of this hour resembles the reality in 1982.

The sad and tragic aspect of these experiences, call them what you like, was that it showed an America that had for the most part lost its birthright and surrendered its manifest destiny once and for all. The new civilization and an empire of freedom did happen, but only part of our country partook in this or played a role. In other words, God’s intention for a new civilization to arise based in these core ideals, was not prevented, it’s just that our country mostly missed being the prime mover in that fulfillment.

Basically, the gist of this overall vision, derived from both these experiences and decades of study and personal experiences, is that the new civilization and an empire of freedom of some sort do not depend on whether America fulfills its manifest destiny. God’s plans are not limited by man’s choices.

The window of time in which America can return to her path of destiny and embrace her spiritual constitution for an empire of freedom, wherein freedom is a balance of virtue, liberty, and independence, is closing. It may close within a few decades or even a few years, depending on the choices our people make and the kinds of leaders and policies they vote for.

But the new civilization and some version of an empire of freedom will indeed occur, even if outside these shores, and a new spiritual nation will emerge whose heart and soul are explicitly inspired by this vision and whose very makeup is diverse people drawn from every land and nationality around the world.

Our intention and desire is to save America from losing its birthright as the harbinger of a new civilization and as the core of a globally-distributed distributed empire of freedom. Whether or not this exact term is used, America will become, we hope, a decentralized Upadarian Commonwealth of hundreds of diverse sovereign republics within member states and diverse national peoples within domestic nations organized like tribes.

From our spiritual foundations and present-day capabilities to emerging trends in decentralized and empowering technologies, the America of the future can become far more righteousness, just, fair, free, and glorious than anything we have ever achieved. America can become a Upadarian Commonwealth as a decentralized empire of freedom and as the cradle of a new civilization.

The first step begins within you. When you understand and embrace our spiritual constitution and when you embrace and adopt our true manifest destiny, something will begin to change. When more people do this and as they connect and collaborate in alternative arrangements outside the control of this top-down, centralized empire of authoritarianism and its robber baron ruling class, then the momentum will turn around over time.

It is not a sprint. It is a series of marathons, some consecutive and some simultaneous, that will get us out of the danger zone and move us toward our destiny. It begins within you and us and creates new connections and associations which result in alternative structures and institutions outside the purview of the robber baron class.

The choice for us is to embrace and pursue America’s true manifest destiny within our hearts, lives, relationships, and associations or to watch the dream die and watch our country become an authoritarian hellscape ruled by and for a ruthless robber baron ruling class. If we choose wrong, you can be sure God’s plans for a new civilization and an empire of freedom will not change and we, as a country, will simply be left behind.

Is Biden Really 56% Popular And How Should We Respond To Popular Authoritarianism?

Bill Collier June 25, 2021

According to a Fox News poll released on June 23, President Biden is 56% popular, owing mostly to high marks for his handling of the pandemic. Is President Biden really that popular and, if he is, how should we respond to such popular authoritarianism?

This from Fox News: “Conducted June 19-22, 2021 under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with 1,001 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide who spoke with live interviewers on both landlines and cellphones. The total sample has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.”

The response from the Republicans may be to poke at the polling data or to call it a push poll, or something like that. Perhaps, given the untrustworthiness of all major press outlets, there is a bit of chicanery afoot in the polling sample and/or methodology. But, on the other hand, perhaps only a plurality of voters, that 43% who could not approve of Biden, genuinely opposed everything this man stands for.

We will do without belaboring all that we as Freedomists find at variance with basic common decency in most every politician, including this morally compromised President. Let’s just stipulate that this wanmabe tinhorn petty authoritarian really has, thanks to the massive dishonest propaganda of every major US institution and corporation, gained such popularity among our gullible fellow citizens.

Popular authoritarianism is still authoritarianism and it will cut and harm both its supporters and its opponents over time. Joe Biden represents the regress of freedom and the advancement of authoritarianism. It doesn’t mean he will become a dictator or that we are doomed. It does mean he and his circle of supporters and minions are on the authoritarianism spectrum and represent a dangerous shift away from freedom.

If we consider our rather principled opposition to his tenture of radical division and his instinctive authoritarian response to any crisis or any dissent, we wonder how any morally upright or clear thinking person could be anything but revolted by this administration. But the truth is that the grounding of principle we embrace, rooted in the core ideals of our country’s founding, is an uncommon thing.

Most people don’t care about ideology or philosophy. They don’t know the ideological and philosophical roots of America or Joe Biden and, frankly, they aren’t much interested. This isn’t because they are bad or dumb. There are two things holding them back from seeing how malignant the Biden Prwsidency is: their lack of educational foundations thanks to public schools and colleges/universities that push propaganda over truth and the reality of their busy lives.

The traditional approach in politics is to appeal to raw emotion and self-interest, not to reason and much less to morality. This is almost a necessity to get elected, even if your agenda and ideological foundations are more in keeping with an objectively more pro-freedom and prosperity worldview. Extolling the merits of your ideology just puts voters to sleep, they don’t care!

For those who are principled, it is actually hard to see, or accept, that most of their fellow voters rarely use principles to guide their judgment or approval of leadership. Most will tend to combine a mixture of their experience and the interpretation thereof by major culture-bearing institutions as their only guide. It is subjective and shifting, to be sure, and is hard to keep up with in attempting to appeal to them.

One can understand this and use this understanding to win votes through clever marketing even as one laments the stunning lack of principle among most voters. The fact maybe it’s true the likes of a lying, thieving weasel like Biden could win such popularity, or the fact the outlandish and often uncouth Donald Trump is the only viable alternative seen by so many, proves that principles don’t really matter to voters.

Of the 43% who do not approved of Biden as President, how many do so for genuine principle? How many understand the roots of the ideological bent of the people Biden relies on for support or the great and noble principles of freedom which demand we oppose this administration?

Moreover, is a campaign to revive an understanding of the great principles of our country in the understanding and affection of most voters anything but a fool’s errand? Must we limit ourselves to emotional and parochial appeals, even if we deeply oppose Biden et al on principled grounds? While our answer is, “no, we must not abandon principle”, we must be honest and admit that principle today doesn’t carry much weight with voters.

President Biden is a man who defies and is ignorant of the great ideals of America, namely a balanced and Judeo-Christian interpretation of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law and respect for the original spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights. His brash dismissal of others and his willingness to lie about and demoize fellow Americans is reprehensible to principled people, but irrelevant to most voters.

The truth may be that 56% of voters actually approve of this man! If ever one wished to cast aspersions upon the concept of representative republicanism or “democracy” for that matter, the fact such a man of almost zero moral or principled foundation can gain such popularity justified such skepticism.

Our founders often said things like that a republican form of government is not good for a population without morals and principles. We can see that they were right. But we can’t change the reality we have inherited from the last few generations, who gave us a “democracy”, in defiance of our Founders’ intent, that is rather shallow because its voters have been raised to be emotional and parochial in their thinking.

Our response to this crisis of principle is threefold:

1. We will use appeals to emotion and parochial interest to win elections and promote laws and policies in defiance of anti-freedom policies and unscrupulous leaders like this President.

2. We will seek to enliven a deeper understanding of and affection for the spiritual constitution and true manifest destiny of America as an empire of liberty for a free and pluralistic society of equals.

3. We will work to build relationships and structures at the individual and local to national scale that provide gaps for freedom regardless of the whims of voters or the authoritarianism of politicians and corporations.

We cannot trust these polls, but neither can we dismiss their veracity or that perhaps it is true that 56% of our fellow voters really don’t have a problem with such a lunatic freedom taker being in the White House. Our work to push back the boundaries of this authoritarianism and its intrusion into our lives must gain new urgency.

Joe Biden Versus The Bogeyman, The Nuclear War That Wasn’t

Bill Collier June 24, 2021

Is there a monster under Joe Biden’s bed threatening to water the tree of liberty with a human sacrifice or something? Will Biden’s threat to nuke said bogeyman materialize or is this a nuclear war that wasn’t and never would have been?

More concerning, does Joe Biden, our loudmouth President, really want a police state run by a one-party dictatorship or something like that? Is his recent over-the-top speech on “gun violence” and a bogeyman threatening to overthrow the government anything more than a reprehensible but meaningless sop, mere words, aimed at appeasing a woke communist base?

Let’s be clear, the bogeyman crouching under Joe Biden’s bed really has him scared or angry and he is determined to save us all from this beast! The solution is to upend the Bill of Rights while claiming to enforce the Constitution. And Joe is ready to literally “go nuclear.”

What has really happened?

Crying “F the Police” and demanding that the police be defunded or disbanded, Democrats in their cities of dystopian wokeness have created a climate that foments massive crime and violence. Democrats, not anyone else, created the surge in crime by refusing to persecute violent criminals.

As the results of this woke retreat from law and order are now playing out on the streets, not in the rest of the country but only in their teeming citdadels which they rule as one-party tin-horn dictatorships, real people are being robbed, beaten, and murdered.

Now comes one President Joe Biden threatening to use nuclear weapons and F-15’s against Americans who look askance at his (alleged) massive power grab. He threatens to eliminate the right to self-preservation even while claiming he isn’t violating the Constitution but “enforcing it.” Such outlandish, extreme language is best left to angry Marxist bloggers whose grasp on reality is tenuous, not the President of the United States. The fact he isn’t serious doesn’t matter, the fact he is unhinged does matter!

Biden says that the solution to the surge in crime in Democrat-run hell-holes like New York City, Portland, Seattle, and Baltimore, is to rein in the right to self-preservation for the rest of America even as it has been undermined in these urban satrapies! Disarming someone in a city or county not run as a leftwing authoritarian cesspool won’t stop the surge in crime, it will just make America less free.

The solution to the surge in crime is to prosecute the crimianls and purge these cities of their idiotic woke totalitarians whose incompetence is legendary. Criminals and the politicians who enable them should face real accountability.

But President Biden is speaking as if he is ONLY President to the woke totalitarians, not to the rest of America. His only concern and loyalty, based on this weird speech, is to his political party, not the US Constitution or any citizen who isn’t a member of his totalitarian party’s coalition of special interests.

President Biden isn’t a President who adheres to the oath of office or one who evenly serves all Americans. He threatens Americans with nuclear weapons and F-15’s for invoking the language of our founders in reference to would-be dictatorships. If he has no designs “evincing” tyranny, why should he worry about this?

Biden said that those who speak against the government and say the tree of liberty must be watered with blood, over the issue of the second amendment, would not stand a chance against nuclear weapons or F-15’s. Again, does he wish to create a dictatorship? If someone says “all bank robbers deserve jail time” and you aren’t a bank robber, why would this offend you? Why is Joe so offended at people rhetorically popping off about dictatorships?

Never mind that his feigned outrage is directed at a fake threat that doesn’t exist. Whoever these monsters are that he thinks are ready to overthrow the government but for its nuclear weapons and F-15’s, they really only exist in his feverish, warped imagination. Very often, as in virtually 100% of the time, when anyone quotes that famous line about the blood of tyrants and the tree of liberty, it is literally nothing more than a rhetorical flourish.

To pretend otherwise and use that to insult and threaten people is simply inexcusable.

This kind of irresponsible and violent rhetoric is far, far worse than anything Trump actually said or than anything the DNC Press accused him of saying. This is next level extremism of the sort that provokes violence and hatred.

The greatest threat to domestic peace, it seems, is Biden who has no problem invoking massive death and destruction as a threat against dissent from his woke totalitarian power grab. He is encouraging an unhinged lunatic fringe who think they have a duty and a right to use force to implement their woke communist revolution. Thankfully, these people are as feckless, toothless, and incompetent as Biden.

Fortunately, and to bring some balance, this isn’t much more than smoke and mirrors, a sop to his woke totalitarian base, the woke communist vanguard. His chest-besating is morally reprehensible and extremely divisive, but his actions are pathetic and meaningless. The outrage here is the words invoked by a President sounding like a depraved, delusional, lunatic who imagines some conspiracy by a certain group of Americans to launch a white supremacist revolution or something equally unreal.

Scapegoating millions of Americans whose only offense is dissenting from his woke communist base and their constant angry verbal assaults on the Bill of Rights is something no President should ever do. It is immoral and delusional and renders him unfit for office.

Joe Biden is a fraud. He is a fraud to his woke communist base, whose insane demands and shrill calls for more power he likely has no intention to heed and to average Americans who bristle at his rhetoric and take his meaningless ranting as serious intention.

Joe Biden isn’t coming for your guns, because he can’t and nobody knows if he really wants to or is just playing to his woke communist base to keep them in the coalition that got him into power. But just because he is most likely just spouting off to deflect from the real crisis caused by his own Party and its woke totalitarian policies in major cities, doesn’t give him a pass for having invoked such radical and anti-American rhetoric.

Stronk Beats Hedgefund!

Bill Collier June 23, 2021

The hedge fund that bet against Gamestop, shorting the stock, only to see the #stronk campaign push the price upwards, has gone bellyup. White Square Capital out of London is selling all assets, in managed over $400 million, and returning what remains to investors.

Timcast covered the amazing story on their YouTube channel. The meme stock campaign evidently contributed to a double-digit loss for the fund as average investors waged guerilla economic warfare on the hedge funds. The naked shorting of stocks, using leveraging, essentially rigs the game and amounts to pure speculation. But the “ape army” of millions of average Americans isn’t having any of it and are directly targeting these practices to counteract them.

Even more highly leveraged funds are also at risk as average investors connect and collaborate, share notes, and compare tactics. This is making the average investor smarter than the insiders, who tend more toward speculative games than straightforward investing on the basis of actual profitability.

The potential for rapid and wild swings is great as “the apes” and “meme stocks” battle the insider speculative games of the mega investor. But accountability for these unethical games that destory companies and ruin lives is coming and has at least come for this fund.

Philly Democrats Keep Disarming The Black Community

Bill Collier June 23, 2021

While Pennsylvanians went en masse to obtain gun permits, Democrats in Philadelphia, PA continued their Party’s historical record of disarming the black community.

According to the report: “While 62,737 more gun-carry licenses were issued in the state during 2020 than during 2019, an increase of 25 percent, Philadelphia saw a 19 percent decrease.”

Roadblocks and using the excuse of the pandemic to prevent applications from being processed were the means by which the average African-American in Philadelphia went mostly without their sacred right to self-preservation.

The constant virtue-signalling about the plight of “people of color” by the increasingly authoritarian Democrats is belied by this constant effort to disarm black people within cities ruled as one-party authoritarian regimes.

Without any real alternatives, cities like Philadelphia have become more and more totalitarian in their approach to the average citizen and the only way to keep the population from rebelling has been through election legerdemain (manipulation and deception to game the system), through suppression of basic human rights like self-preservation, and through scapegoats such as the “white supremacy” bogeyman.

Philadelphia, long seen as the most corrupt city in Pennsylvania and home to election trickery, “legal” or not, aimed at keeping Democrats in power, continues the centuries-old Democratic tradition of treating the black man as a commodity to be controlled and suppressed.

China Vaccine Fails

Bill Collier June 23, 2021

Recent reports show that China’s vaccines, rushed to foreign countries in an attempt to offset blowback from concerns over the Chinese origins of Covid-19, are a stark failure.

Seychelles, Chile, Bahrain and Mongolia, which all received Chinese vaccines, are now experiencing outbreaks of the virus almost as if the vaccinations hadn’t occurred at all.

While most reporting is focused on the ineffectiveness of the Chinese vaccines, not covered are any concerns of other problems with these vaccines. If the vaccine is useless in regards to Covid-19 is it also harmful to the people who took it? Over 50% of the people in these four countries, for instance, have received Chinese vaccines. Is this a potential health crisis beyond the issue of ineffectiveness?

Aside from this there remains the issue of trust in these governments and of most governments. When a state decrees or promotes something like a vaccine and it turns out to be ineffective, the consequences to people are not just a loss of protection from a virus, but a loss of faith on government.

As vaccines are promoted with mass peer pressure or even forced on people by the state, concerns emerge as to the veracity of the state’s wisdom. While most people tend to trust the vaccines, as they did in these four countries, hesitancy remains a powerful drag on full compliance with state promotions of the jab.

Getting something like this wrong, especially when the potential negative impact cannot be known for months or even years, is simply out of the question. Aside from the immediate health impacts caused by getting it wrong, trust in the state and other authorities can be a casualty.

So far, massive failure of vaccines has not been shown in other countries. Only the Chinese vaccines to a China-origin virus have shown massive failure. The “vaccine diplomacy” of the Chinese regime has, to put it bluntly, failed BIGLY.

We Are BLASTING Race Identitarianism As A Threat To Freedom

Bill Collier June 21, 2021

It’s time to bring in the big guns and blast away remorselessly at the edifice of a race identitarianism which could become, if continually provoked by the blatant race hate coming from the woke savage camp, THE major threat to freedom for all Americans, especially those who are either not white or who reject white identitarianism, like us.

We are Freedomists, we do not embrace racial identitarianism, we embrace ideas and ideals as our core identity and we reject the notion race is anything but a negative social construct that is a threat to human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing. Race is a myth and those who use it as a wedge in society or to shame or otherwise demean or limit others are of the same spirit as Adolf Hitler.

The assualt on “white identity”, something most all white people are not at all conscious of but are now being accused of gaining unfair advantage through, can only promote a white identitarianism reaction. In short, vilification of all white people as inherently racist and morally inferior to the alleged victim groups (POC, LGBTQ, etc) on the basis of this fictional “white identity” and “white supremacy conspiracy” pushes white people into a defensive circle.

Real talk here: identitarianism among “non white” groups in America today cannot pose a serious threat to white people who are 70% of the population and who control probably 90% of the wealth. This doesn’t make it morally good, we oppose all racial identitarianism, but it’s not the same level of threat.

The identitarianism of “non-white” “races” fomented by separatists and racialists, mostly the left, is morally problematic. But given the actual disadvantage these group have faced, it is understandable. Additionally, the fact the white “race” is some 70% of the population and that most members of other “races” are not very identitarian, means this has had little potential to harm anyone. But if “white identitarianism” becomes popular among most “white” people, it can seriously threaten the freedom of non-white people. As Freedomists we demand equity in freedom for all human beings, so clearly this is something we are alarmed by.

Is this nonsense about white identity being a mark of shame meant to bully white people, who are less likely to vote leftwing, into submitting to their policies? Is it actually meant to foment a white identity backlash to use the unrest as justification for more draconian violations of people’s basic civil rights?

It does not follow automatically that if white identitarianism becomes “awakened” in some way that the potential unrest it leads to could be contained. (The motto of the Nazi storm troopers was “Germany Awake!” and this is the kind of malevolent “awakening” the woke savages are seeming to want to provoke.)

It is possible that playing with such dangerous fire, awakening actual racial jingoism (white identitarianism as opposed to POC identitarianism and white supremacy as a counter to white guilt and white shaming) through unreasonable demonization of a majority of the population on the basis of an identity that they are not conscious of, would create something that cannot be contained.

So if we say “yes, white identity is dangerous”, we mean that if the majority of Americans, who are “white”, by the definition of the left, are vilified for being white, if their “identity” is treated as a badge of shame, whether they are conscious of that identity or not, then the result will be a sudden “awakening” to that “identity” that is itself dangerous.

The left are creating a nasty, self-fulfilling prophecy that white people are evil oppressors and all the world’s evils come from a white supremacy conspiracy to dominate the world for the glory and benefit of the white race. This is their narrative and, like the Nazis of Jewish lineage who hated the Jewish “race”, the white leftists find no irony in their anti-white racist bigotry.

Indeed, if you read the preachments of the left on the white race and substitute the word “Jew” for “white”, then you begin to see how truly vile and hateful this doctrine is.

Pushing “white people” into a corner where they have to hate themselves, give up every aspect of their culture and way of life, and submit to your fringe social experiments isn’t going to end well. The ACTUAL racists and white supremacists, infiltrated by the FBI who are positively fomenting this, must be loving this, and that is a very bad thing.

As Freedomists, we identify with Freedomist ideas and ideals, we are not racial or race conscious. We reject racial separatism, even the concept or there being any but the human race, and certainly any sense of racial supremacy. The idea of most white people becoming race conscious and feeling like it’s “us or them”, because they are so viciously attacked and shamed merely for being white, is q dangerous idea.

If most white people begin to embrace their race and the “advancement” of their race in an “us/them” paradigm, like the “oppressed” races are being encouraged to do, well, look for the rise of real white supremacy to a scale not even the FBI infiltrators and provocateurs can contain.

In such an event we Freedomists, who reject this kind of thinking, would find find ourselves both beset by the left if we are white or not POC loyal enough and attacked by the white pride loons, inspired and enflamed by the left and the FBI, for either not being “loyal” to the “race” or not being white.

White identitarianism as a jingoistic counter to the woke assault on “whiteness” is dangerous and if the left and the FBI, who seem to want to provoke this garbage, manufacture a “persecution complex” among white people, it could becomes THE major threat to freedom.