The political weaponization of every institution they can get their hands on is the playbook of the woke communist core who run the Democratic Party and it appears, according to this report in REASON, that the woke communists have captured the United States Post Office for their political ends.
The report details an ongoing use clones, fake people posing as real people, hacking, and facial recognition software to focus on “the right”, especially on platforms they might frequent to both monitor and disrupt their activities. Literally, if this report is true, the Post Office is acting as a paramilitary cadre to the Democratic Party to disrupt their political foes.
It seems a sensational claim and we would caution more evidence and investigation is required, certainly by Republicans who are the alleged target of this rogue effort, if indeed all this is accurate reporting.
If indeed it turns out the Post Office, a private entity chartered by the government, is acting as an agent of the Democratic Party to not only spy on Americans but to target and disrupt opponents of the Democratic Party, then this would be sedition and rebellion against these United States by virtue of the gross assault upon the Bill of Rights liberties that are being violated.
Reputationally, the Post Office, having allegedly aligned itself with only Democrats as their special institution, would lose massively and if or when Republicans gained power again serious efforts to dismantle such a rogue entity would likely be considered.
The Post Office has some explaining to do and if anyone was using its resources to violate the rights of any American, those people should be tried and, of found guilty, sent to jail for treason.
In a rambling speech, President Ramaphosa sought to calm the situation as looters raged throughout numerous locales in an apparent protest against the jailing of fomer President Zuma. While the looting is a serious problem, causing the call-out of the Army and a meeting of all political party heads to develop a unified repsonse, the sensational headlines that claim South Africa is collapsing are inaccurate.
South Africa is in crisis, and all such crises CAN lead to an unraveling, but the forces of civil unity appear to have the upper hand overall, at least for now. Troops have been called out in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, with the latter being Zuma’s homeland. But the looters can hardly be said to be legitimately “protesting” and many doubt this is more than an opportunistic event than an actual public outpouring of support for the former President.
Perhaps real blame lies with Economic Freedom Fighters Party head Julius Malema, a fireband radical neocommunist agitator who has threatened genocide against whites and the rich. Malema’s party has promised to “join” the looters if the Army was called out of barracks. The EFF have been working hard to destabilize South Africa and conduct their own revolution which would plunge the country into race war, not just whites against blacks, but all the racial identifies with one another, and the rich against the poor.
While it is too soon to see if the looters themselves were organized, as it is alleged, by payments from EFF backers to key agitators, it is certainly something that authorities will have to investigate.
Former President Jacob Zuma on 29 June 2021 became the first South African president since the end of white-minority rule in 1994 to receive a prison sentence. South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a 15-month sentence for contempt of court after Zuma defied an earlier court order to return and testify before the Zondo Commission.
On 7 July 2021, Zuma handed himself over to the police and was admitted to the Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Zuma still has his backers, and some say this current dustup is really an internal power srruggle, but the former President was widely believed to be corrupt during his almost 9 years as President, from 2009 to 2018.
President Ramaphosa’s speech, in which he urged calm, was widely panned but all parties save the EFF agreed to back his present measures and to do their part to calm their supporters. But with the army deployed, the looting continued.
KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala told the press on Tuesday morning, “Yesterday’s events brought a lot of sadness. The number of people who have died in KwaZulu-Natal alone stands at 26. Many of them died from being trampled on during a stampede while people were looting items.”
The total death toll stands at 32.
The looting and violence are mostly limited to Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
“What we are witnessing now are opportunistic acts of criminality, with groups of people instigating chaos merely as a cover for looting and theft,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a late-evening address on Monday.
Looting is bad, and it could get worse, it may be insitgated by the EFF and/or the Zuma wing of the ANC, as he challenges his sentencing, but South Africa isn’t “collapsing” and most of its people are standing against the madness.
Safety and security within your home when riots or violence are nearby, or against criminals, should be of utmost concern to responsible adults. Simply leaving these matters to the police or hoping for the best, or just having firearms yourself when if you use them some prosecutor may punish you, isn’t enough. This is especially true in urban areas or areas bordering them.
One idea to consider is the home security cooperative. This is a cooperative owned in some combination by its workers and by its customers. This would be a fully vetted and licensed armed security service working with customers not only to patrol and monitor, and respond, but to help them with basic home safety and security preparations and with firearms safety and training, something everyone should applaud.
Within our fictional story about Upadaria, set as a history looking back from 2147, the world enters a major crisis of massive and violent upheavals and the response is a Civic Guard, basically a security and safety, and civil defense and emergency preparedness, cooperative. The Civic Guard in the story has a global structure to pool resources and provide training and support but operates local franchises owned by workers and customers, the customers being members of an international association called a “Commonwealth.”
While this idea is partially inspired by the fictional idea, and in the platform we are building their “Civic Guard” is mostly just a color guard and paintball league, it can be adapted to your own neighborhood needs in the real world.
What this isn’t is a private “militia” of any kind. Let’s be clear, this is a legitimate security company set up by homeowners to meet their home security needs and provide professional backing, training, and support. There is absolutely zero politics involved and this is directed at gamgs, criminals, riots, unrest, and actual disasters and emergencies, including medical, not “the government.”
Indeed, for those concerned with the mercenary nature of some police or those who desire reform, the local security cooperative could become a workable and efficient alternative to burying cops who aren’t connected deeply to those they serve.
The privately owned neighborhood or local home security cooperative, perhaps maybe even call them the Civic Guard, could become a strong means for local people to take their power back from the bureaucrats and corporations and become more materially independent of the influence and control.
This concept is consistent with a Freedomist principle that states:
Whatever you can do privately on your own, through free market exchange, or by collaboration and cooperation, should be done in order to increase material independency and decrease being under the influence and control of others who interests aren’t aligned with your own.
Your own locally owned and operated home security and safety cooperative that fully supports and engages the homeowner ensure your safety, without compromising your independence, even against hazards beyond the scale you as an average person can handle.
OPINION BY BILL COLLIER- Fox News reports a widely known fact: when it comes to the protests in Cuba, Democrats aren’t silent just because they don’t know what to say. Their brand of woke communism may differ from Cuba’s state communism, but the desire Fidel Castro and his mafia-like Party had for total monopoly power seems to have captured the very soul of the Democratic Party, a party base of totalitarian loons whose respect for this country, and the Bill of Rights especially, is extremely low.
Sanders whitewashed the “authoritarianism” he pretended to oppose, according to this quote:
“We’re very very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” Sanders explained. “You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
The old “Mussolini made the trains run on time” bit.
But it wasn’t just Sanders who Fox got no statement from on Cuba, see this:
Fox News also reached out to the White House for comment. Press Secretary Jen Psaki referred Fox News to the National Security Council, which then referred to Psaki’s comments on Cuba during an interview with MSNBC. Psaki addressed the lack of fundamental resources in Cuba during that interview.
Fox News has also reached out to State Department spokesman Ned Price but has not heard back.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, took to Twitter to say the “U.S. supports freedom of expression and assembly across Cuba, and would strongly condemn any violence or targeting of peaceful protesters who are exercising their universal rights.”
All in all, Democrats likely hope the Cuban regime shuts this down quick before people in this country get the “wrong” idea that any form of communism, even the woke communist parternship between corporate monopolies and the state all under the aegis of the Democratic Party, are bad.
But while Democrats in US cities riot, loot, burn, and murder their way into power, Democrats also condemn any “violence” by protestors against a brutal, violent regime.
That’s it. “We are OK with some protesting, but let’s not get too rowdy as the police beat and brutalize you!”
Totalitarianism is the first insctinct and true love of the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, Senator Rubio ripped Biden in a Washington Times report for not being a strong advocate for freedom, perhaps because he doesn’t realize that for Biden et al, the fall of the Cuban regime might put the spotlight on their own woke communism.
“The people of #Cuba bravely take to the streets against 62 years of socialist tyranny. 12 hours later President @joebiden @POTUS has yet to say a word about it,” Rubio wrote.
The President isn’t concerned about social justice or equity or any of the buzzwords his handlers tell him to use. He represents a narrow interest, a party base, who see in Castro, Mao, and Stalin role models to follow, not dictatorships that should be overthrown.
Back in March, the woke communist Party (Democrats) urged President Biden to back a return to the rapprochement with Cuba under Castro fanboy, President Obama. The Democrats want for Cuba what they wanted for China, favorable trade deals that may hurt the US but enrich the communist regime. Democrats are by and large woke communists and internationalists who want a “global regimen” for “climate change” and other bogeymen.
Their interests, and the reason why they seek to deconstruct US History through extreme and disproportionate exaggeration of our flaws and mistakes, is precisely because they envision a world under a global structure managed by woke communist types in corporations and governments working together.
The bottom line is, the Democratic Party does not want the Cuban regime to fall.
Democrat Representative Mary Miller of Illinois actually claimed that Hitler was right about one thing: the need to indoctrinate children and turn them away from their own parents. This on the heels of a San Francisco gay men’s choir singing they are coming for your children and promising to use schools to convert them.
We’ve gone from “honor thy father and mother”, to brainwashing children to defy and despise their parents. This is literally being taught by public teachers in public schools, thanks to the woke communists at the NEA, and the end goal is exactly what Hitler created, a totalitarian dictatorship.
What else do the Democrats want to emulate in the Nazis to turn this country into a totalitarian hellscape, which is their goal? Public schools in America have become the enemy to children, to parents, and to freedom in general and most all public teachers are either afraid and complicit or actively engaged in this criminal behavior.
It is criminal, as in a crime against humanity, what the public schools wre doing. It’s not just critical race theory, it is woke communism being crammed down your children’s throats and gender-bending over-sexualized perversion all being inculcated into your children’s hearts and mind and turning them into damaged human beings. Public schools are INSPIRED by the brutal indoctrination of the Nazis in German schools, that’s a fact we must wake up to.
As Cubans take to the streets, waving American flags and chanting “Freedom!”, the chances of this becoming a real revolution against the Communist revolution are growing.
Confidential sources revealed to the Freedomist, “Cuban generals are leaving the island. Something’s going on, the protests are just the tip of the iceberg. Cubans are about to rise.” This source is in Cuba.
Then there’s this from Congressman Kevin McCarthy:
A Cuban uprising to oust the communist regime may be long overdue, but are the US and Latin America ready for the fallout?
Cuba’s government had locked down the internet and are controlling movement within Havana in what may be a desperate attempt to nip this in the bud. The protests began as a response to slow distribution of Covid-19 vaccines but have begun to demand freedom from the dictatorship.
Cubans are out en mass and now we get a possible scenario where the generals are leaving in haste. This may or may not be the end of the regime, but it will be the beginning of the end, we predict.
The protests occured in least 25 locations, people shouting “down with the dictatorship” and “freedom”, as police randomly arrested some protestors and grappled with others, failing to make an arrest. The wide-spread nature of the protests and the fact so many people are coming out is described by our source as “unsettling.”
Multiple posts on Twitter from many cities show large crowds in the thousands. But while there are protestors, the Cuban regime does also have its strong supporters, true believers, however mostly older people and party members who enjoy more benefits. Younger people, who have begun to see the greater world through the internet, are hungry for a better life and more opportunities, which a top-down, planned economy run by bureaucrats isn’t able to sustain.
While it is true, and cannot be dismissed, that the embargo of Cuba by the US has certainly curtailed economic growth, islanders may see the radical destabilizing policies of the regime, which seeks to export its authoritarianism abroad, as contributing to its pariah status. The Cuban economic morass cannot be mostly attributed to the effects of the embargo.
Not surprisingly, the UN, including 184 nations, called on the US to lift the embargo on the island nation and sided with the regime in blaming the embargo on the lack of response to Covid-19. But the citizenry aren’t having it and know where to lay the blame, something the rather totalitarian favoring UN cannot possibly grasp. If one ever needed proof most of the countries in this world side with dictatorships, this should be it.
The official UN news account did add this:
Meanwhile, Political Coordinator for the US Mission, Rodney Hunter, said during the vote that sanctions are “one set of tools in Washington’s broader effort toward Cuba to advance democracy, promote respect for human rights, and help the Cuban people exercise fundamental freedoms”.
He underscored that despite the blockade, the US recognizes “the challenges of the Cuban people” and therefore, the US was “a significant supplier of humanitarian goods to the Cuban people and one of Cuba’s principal trading partners”.
“Every year we authorize billions of dollars’ worth of exports to Cuba, including food and other agricultural commodities, medicines, medical devices, telecommunications equipment, other goods, and other items to support the Cuban people. Advancing democracy and human rights remain at the core of our policy efforts”, he said.
The US has not stifled the importation of medical supplies but the blockade is meant to stifle the economic flexing of a regime who, it is clear, would use that power to destabilize its neighbors. That being said, the blockade hasn’t worked and has mostly just made it hard on the people and easier for a corrupt regime to blame it on the regime’s own failed economic policies.
The only difference now is, many Cubans have had enough and are no longer willing to listen to the excuses which 184 countries at the behest of the corrupt UN are willing to swallow.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel blamed the U.S. for stoking the anger, according to the Washington Post.
“The order to fight has been given – into the street, revolutionaries!” he said in an address, according to the BBC.
So as Democrats demand “peaceful” behavior on the part of protestors, they have nothing to say about this invective by the regime.
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From old King George to Hitler and the Soviets, from the plantation slave holders to neonazis, and from overwrought religious fanatics and the new “woke” communists, Americans have always had to contend with authoritarianism abroad and even at home. This bent toward authoritarianism can be seen in little to major outbursts throughout our history: slavery, putting down the whiskey rebellion, the trail of tears, jim crow, and the list goes on to include the anti self-preservation acts in major cities and Democrat-run states in their war against the Second Amendment.
Authoritarianism is an instinct toward the forced submission of other people to your will against their own wishes and interests, even if you, the authoritarian, imagine you know what’s best for them. Whether the authoritarian is just lording it over others like some third world tinhorn junta or some idealistic do-gooder like the prohibitionists, the effect is the same: human agency and human dignity suffer and so does human rights and human flourishing.
Throughout our country’s history the threads of the authoritarian bent versus “freedomism” have played back and forth, here and there, each sometimes gaining the upper hand. The question of whether this “land of the free and home of the brave” will be truly free or lean backwards in societal evolution toward authoritarianism remains unresolved.
Freedomism is basically the belief that all humans are spiritually sovereign beings created in the image of God with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and wealth. Some of our core self-evident rights, if we believe in the inherent spiritual sovereignty of every individual, include self-preservation, self-determination, self-reliance, self-expression, and free participatory association. They require equitable and equal respect by ALL institutions (including government, business, and all others) for our human dignity, human agency, and the inviolate sanctity of our rights, persons, and property.
A world in which freedomism reigns supreme is a world of prosperity and happiness. A world where authoritarianism has even a little sway is a world where poverty grows, unhappiness spreads, and hate and discontent infect the populace.
Name an ill, such as racism and worker exploitation, child abuse or wealth inequities, social injustice or corruption, and a strict adherance to the spirit and heart of freedomism would substantially mitigate or solve that problem. But authoritarianism can never, ever, solve such problems. It isn’t organic or human in its foundation. It is akin to the introduction of one invasive species to solve the problem of another invasive species that becomes a far worse problem.
If you complain about “gun violence” and your instinct is to outlaw guns, then you are, to some degree, embracing authoritarianism. This knee-jerk response won’t solve the core problem of violence and criminality which results from a lack of respect for the rights, persons, and property of others. This disrespect for basic human dignity by the criminals and malefactors stems from the blatant disrespect meted out by our major institutions, including academia, the press, major corporations, and the government.
It has become fashionable to paint your authoritarianism in the colors of social justice and equity. The modern American “woke communist” isn’t like the Leninists or Maoists, per se, but more like the modern Chinese. They create a wicked partnership between woke communists in the corporate world and woke communists in the government. The supreme “woke communist” shot-callers don’t sound or look like the communists of old.
The evolution of communism from a strict state-ownership model to a partnership between Party loyalists in all institutions, including private and public, acting in ruthless disregard for basic human dignity, is alarming. It may have fooled too many people for too long who were looking for the classic neosoviet or maoist communist.
The basic essence of the communist model isn’t necessarily “state ownership of the means of production.” That’s so 19th and 20th century. The basic common thread is the use of authoritarianism to produce a society of managed outcomes. It requires the atomization of each individual so that they can be molded and shaped into a new type of human being. The modern equivalent of the “Soviet Man” is the “woke individual.” But, like the Soviet Man, the woke individual becomes a mere cog in a machine that uses bogeyman fears and utopian promises to keep everyone in line.
It’s all authoritarianism. While it is good to know the main new authoritarian threat that exists today, it is useful both to see the overall authoritarianism thread throughout human history and to be careful lest we also fall prey to the siren call.
Authoritarianism is essentially a lazy, quick-fix, silver bullet approach to problem solving at the level of society itself. Just cut the gordian knot by mandating that people become whatever you imagine in your theories they should become and, while some dissenters may be “necessarily” punished and harmed for the “common good”, the end justifies the means. The managed progressive evolution of society, in our manifestation of authoritarianism that seems to be a genderless and undifferentiated mass of atomized individuals without faith or family, demands that we punish those who hinder the advancement we have planned!
If your ideas aren’t such that people can adopt and use them for individual and mutual profit solely on the basis of freewill participation, then your ideas are total garbage. If your idea cannot flourish unless it shows intolerance towards all who don’t accept it or want to practice it, then, also, your idea is garbage.
Authoritarianism is tempting for three reasons: the submitter no longer bears personal responsibility for their actions or welfare, the imposer gains the wicked satisfaction of lording it over others, and the theorist satisfies themselves that they have magically solved the perceived societal problems with a simple solution.
Overbearing parents, machismo husbands, the karens and kens, and henpecking wives all have the spirit of authoritarianism bubbling up within their souls. Among the authoritarians and their followers there is no doubt this bent toward dominating others and disrespecting their basic human dignity is strong, and yet always “justified.”
The war between authoritarianism and freedomism is ancient and will never end. Even if we Freedomists gained the upper hand in America, the next generation would always be faced with some new manifestation of the authoritarian spirit. Some humans bend toward a wicked desire to control other humans and use all kinds of sophistry, including bogeyman fears and utopian promises, to justify their own inhumanity.
Today it is the woke communist that is our chief threat, a domestic foe to our freedom. The woke communist doesn’t just want state ownership of the means of production but a hybrid partnership of corporate and government power under the single control of the Party. Like all communists, they want a communalized society where the few lord over the many, but for their own good.
There are those within every institution, including the church world and the Republican Party, who collaborate with our modern woke communists. But the Party of Woke Communism today is the Democratic Party, even if most registered Democrats are, at worse, merely collaborators, but mostly just duped followers who know no better.
These woke communists go by many names, they seem to want to confuse everyone from seeing them as a whole. Their names include progressives, social justice warriors, social democrats, liberals (a misnomer to be sure), leftists, the new left, and on and on it goes. But all are cut from the same cloth: they want a communized society of undifferentiated and atomized individuals without faith or family led by a coterie of top-down authorities who know what is best for everybody.
We shouldn’t be fooled by their masks, their bogeyman fears, their utopian promises, or their dialectal approach whereby they hijack and use the very institutions (churches, the press, and corporations, as examples) their ideological forbears (Lenin and Mao) sought to destroy. Arrogance, hubris, and intolerance are the heart of the modern “cancel culture”, a new phrase for an old trick: demonize, marginalize, and criminalize your opponents but never debate them openly and honestly because your dark ideas are pure hell to anyone with half a brain who can see them for what they are.
Imagine a society of people who have no faith or family, who have no gender, and who are an undifferentiated mass whose only purpose is to live out their most basic animal desires and who feel no personal responsibility for their well-being or their actions. This is quite literally a species-ending hellscape being purposefully pushed by woke communists whose shot-callers (unbeknownst to most rank and file followers) simply want a monopoly on everything over everyone.
The good news is, it’s never going to get to that place. The bad news is, the journey of discovery, whereby a strong plurality of people truly resist and overcome this insanity, may get ugly for multiple generations.
But while we focus today on the threat of authoritarianism from “the left”, understand that authoritarianism takes many forms and, to some degree, as human beings with a sinful nature, it can arise within each of us. The religious zealot who thinks God needs help enforcing His laws, through the power of the state, is just as bad as the woke communist, but, let’s be real, those types truly have no institutional power to speak of in the broader society. At worse they may have outsized influence in backwater towns time has forgotten.
Regardless, the overarching war isn’t left and right per se, and it isn’t even just us against woke communist, that is just the primary battle of the moment as the new modern champion of authoritarianism is primarily the woke communist.
You may ask, “how can a billionaire robber baron be a woke communist?” The answer is simple: they believe their wealth and power allow them to have a hand in managing society for the common good. In short, they are full of themselves. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the quintessential woke communist front and, before their divorce, these two fancied themselves among the world’s most “woke” who, using their wealth and power, would usher in the next evolution of humanity and save the world from climate change.
The billionaire snob whose wealth and power is used to advance the woke communist way is no different than the well-fed, privileged party bigwigs who ran the Soviet Union. The methods change but the end is the same: society will be atomized and then communized and only the woke institutions controlled as a monopoly by the ruling class will have power.
We are in the atomization phase, using gender and new definitions of marriage and family to disconnect people from natural, organic bonds and make them individuals, all alone and powerless, a nameless cog within an undifferentiated mass.
The communization phase only follows the atomization phase. And it is precisely in this atomization phase that the fight is won or lost for the next few generations. If the atomization phase, and the destruction of faith and family, (which is a state of being wherein most children are raised by their own biological or adopted mother and father within the warm embrace of a strictly voluntary faith-based community) is left unchecked, the communization phase will be easy.
Real totalitarianism, which is the extreme and most violent form of authoritarianism, necessarily follows. But this can take years and will always be sincerely denied: indeed, the progenitors themselves may not even desire totalitarianism but they cannot see that this is the only possible outcome if their ideas prevail. For example, in 2021, President Biden may have been no authoritarian, or totalitarian, but he has been forced to bend the knee and at least give symbolic gifts to actually woke communists whose core ideas can only end in totalitarianism.
Unlike the woke communists, our vision of a society of spiritually sovereign equal human beings rooted in faith and family is strictly based on freewill participation. We do not need or want laws or coercion to compel people to live as we do. We believe that a free and pluralistic society of equals will tend to be a marketplace of ideas where the most fruitful ideas tend to attract the most people and resources.
If your definition of marriage and family or your faith (or absence of faith) differs but you agree that we have the inherent spiritual sovereignty and agency to form any bonds or freewill participatory associations we choose, then we can easily get along as friends and allies. A free and pluralistic society of equals can sustain many versions and definitions of faith and family and the marketplace of ideas will organically sort the best and worst ideas.
This begins to touch on our concept of “nationhood” as a spiritual union, purely based on freewill participatory association, of equals who have a shared spiritually-centered social, cultural, and economic value system and goals both for the individual’s profit and the common good of the whole. Even if your definition of nationhood differs, our desire isn’t to make you follow our concept of nationhood (as a spiritual construct) but to prevent others from stopping us from doing so.
Our vision isn’t political. Our chief political aim is the devolution of political, fiscal, cultural, monetary, economic and even magisterial authority back from the concentrated center and top of society to the individuals in their marriages, families, extended families, freewill participatory associations, faith or philosophy based communities, and their locales.
The process of devolution of centralized and top-down power and the deepest manifestation of freedom for individuals within the loving embrace of faith and family, is evolutionary as well. It is not all-political. In fact, its strongest foundation is the individual adopting this “ideology” (becoming a Freedomist) and embracing faith and family as their primary reality and the institutions to which they give their primary loyalty.
We begin with not merely confronting the atomization process as a means towards the communization of society but by intentionally rebuilding the very institutions under assault, faith and family in particular. It is not that we don’t want others to manifest faith and family as they believe it should be, this is never an authoritarian approach because that approach always undermines our entire vision for a free and pluralistic society of equals!
Our approach is to push back on all authoritarian responses by any entity that seems to use its wealth and power as a leverage to force or strongly manipulate people into doing what they think everyone should be doing. The question is not the legal rights of these “private” entities, it is a moral and ethical question of whether those with outsized economic or cultural power should abuse it in a way that violates the dignity and agency of other human beings.
Even though we do not sign on to political controls to weaken mega corporate powers who are trying to impose the woke communist way, this doesn’t mean we don’t seek to reduce their influence and control through other means, such as opting out and/or competition. We generally oppose political controls because they are not a good means and therefore cannot produce a good end.
As an example, Facebook was within its right to ban President Trump, but its ability to control a major portion of public discourse through its near monopoly power, in collusion with other platforms, is both unethical (but not illegal) and, more importantly, unwanted by us.
We don’t care why the platforms do what they do. We suspect their owners are either outright woke communists or collaborators who think they can appease the woke communists, whose radical, loud, and violent demands they fear. The net effect is that the power of the platforms, like every other major US institution, has been harnessed mostly to the benefit of the woke communists, even if that is not their intention.
An authoritarian response to the alleged wokeness of the platforms may boomerang upon us like the “Patriot Act” which was crafted to fight America’s enemies but which is now used against Americans whose only “crime” is not being a woke communist, one of their followers and/or beneficiaries, or at least a collaborator.
Authoritarianism is the true and ancient foe to freedomism, but today it takes the primary form within America of woke communism. This, not climate change or alleged white supremacy, which may indeed be threats, is the number one existential threat to America and especially to freedom within America.
When or if we defeat the woke communists in our era, there will be other forms of authoritarianism we must guard against, and, no doubt, some new manifestation of communism, the communization of society, will rear its disgusting mug and call itself glorious and beautiful!
Bill Collier- I have achieved some level of “success” in life, namely, I work for myself at home making better than upper middle class income doing things that are my passion most of the time. There is great harmony between what pays me and what I genuinely enjoy doing.
I say this to make the point that what I am about to share isn’t theory. It isn’t pop psychology. These five secrets to what success I have experienced were learned, used, and refined over decades and have served me well.
Briefly, the five secrets are: make relationships the brass ring of your life, be willing to say yes to things you aren’t sure you can do, always hustle smartly not just through activity, make others profit off of you not just you from them, and learn to use charisma and charm effectively but never manipulate!
If you only do these things to gain profit or if you start doing them and expect immediate results, you will likely fail and be disappointed. These secrets to success are colored by an overarching understanding that success is about time, stamina, and chance.
Nothing guarantees success. You can do all the right things and success can elude you. Over time, if you persist, you will get more and more opportunities, each new opportunity being a new roll of the dice, a new opportunity, to get that good contract or promotion or what have you. But in doing this, you must also have stamina: the longer you can keep at it day after day, the greater the odds are you will remain standing when that opportunity arrives.
This approach basically acknowledges that time, stamina, and chance make it probable that the odds will even out and favor you eventually. You are the house in this case and the house almost always wins.
Of course there are other things too, not covered in this brief essay, related to finding the inner push of your life and aligning that in a realistic way with market demands while doing the necessary qualifying things so you can function in the arena of your choice. If your inner push is to be an electrician, you will need an education and licensing, for instance, but you will also want to live in an area where demand for you is good.
Finally, and this is also important, whatever you do, you should focus on a portable skill, something you can do that others will pay for and that you can do on your own for anyone, anywhere, who needs it. If your skill is operating a factory machine, that’s not portable, you can only do that there. Perhaps you should learn how to be a handyman and offer services to your neighbors on the side, as an example.
Now, back to the four secrets.
The first is to make relationships the brass ring in life. Cultivating and maintaining good and close relationships with multiple people is a powerful way to ensure many new opportunities and ideas always come your way. But it’s not about that: when things aren’t great materially, you will find satisfaction and happiness in your relationships.
To be a friend, the Bible teaches us, you must show yourself friendly. Learn whay friendship means and how to cultivate relationships, set healthy boundaries, give both reciprocally and unconditionally, and to show and accept philial and agape love.
I can say, in the course of any week, I hear and/or say “I love you” from multiple people who are like kin to me. This is, to me, the greatest measure of success in life, the true brass ring.
I don’t pursue relationships for any reason but that they are in and of themselves rewarding. But, at the same time, my network of close friends, which is over a dozen people, is also the primary reason why I consistently have new opportunities to sell my portable skills.
Again, be very careful! I did not start pursuing relationships as a means to an end, I genuinely value relationships. I try to keep them alive and enjoy them as something of intrinsic value. I have friends who constantly share opportunities with me but also many who work in totally different arenas who cannot provide me any opportunities, but that hasn’t meant those relationships aren’t valuable to me.
I am picky about who remains in my circle, I avoid anyone who tends to be negative, who tends to be transactional, and who doesn’t always have high ethics or show good intentions.
Be willing to say yes to things you aren’t sure you can do, but that align more of less with your core skills.
I was once asked if I could lobby for a specific cause. I knew the basic idea and it would require skills like charisma and speaking well along with political strategy. But I had never lobbier formally. So I said yes because I knew there were experts I did know and books I could read quickly.
I speed read books on the legal ins and outs, got a piece of software on public relations templates, talked to some experts I was referred to by a friend, and within a few days launched a successful lobbying effort.
Being willing to say yes to what you cannot do is predicated on being able to learn quickly, being able to connect to experts, and knowing that for most things anyone wants to pay you there are people who already provide such services. I don’t say yes to things I cannot immediately do if I don’t have these things, but some of my most lucrative moments have come from things I had to access learning materials, experts, and outside providers to do.
Always hustle smartly and not just through activity!
I have been involved in sales where activity became the benchmark of meeting goals. Smart people didn’t focus on the number of calls or door knocks, they looked for ways to automate the process, maybe through fliers or ads or holding events.
Ask yourself how you are making money and where. If your profession and the things you love doing aren’t needed in your town, consider moving. If you you are doing laborious tasks to make sales, what can you do to increase your exposure smartly so leads come to you?
It is somewhat of a myth that “hard work pays off.” Smart work done with gusto, diligence, and intensity pays off over time. Be excellent, be smart, and be efficient. Always ask others who know better what this means and how to do it and submit your work to criticism to make adjustments. Use accountability to others to motivate and inspire you.
Make others profit from you, and not just you them, and you will never absolutely lack for opportunities.
There are people every week calling me to help them with projects. Some simply use my services as a white label of their own, some get commissions for the referral, and most use my services to leverage their own knowing they can’t get the full deal without having what I provide.
I am generous with my time, I help people without getting paid and am transparent with how they can do things I do on their own. This is part of being relational. I did this because I care for my friends and want to help, and yet in the process I found that doing this demonstrated my skills and made that person more likely to engage my services or ask me to help them with a project.
People have profited from my work and my services immensely. And without this, I would not constantly have a chance that the phone rings and what seemed like a every unprofitable month becomes very profitable overnight. Be generous with others, make sure they profit from using your services or products, make sure you benefit them materially as much as possible.
This last one is harder to define. It is to learn and use your charisma and charm without being manipulative. If you are using charisma and charm to get someone to do things that benefit you and not themselves, then you are a creep and a user. Invest in others, always, even without a return, and never let them benefit you solely without rewarding them and considering their needs.
Charisma and charm are necessary ingredients to success. Research them, learn them, practice them. Not everyone has as much charisma and charm as others, but everyone has some and there is a range of improvement you can gain through skills training and practice.
Think of these things, charisma and charm, as skills. Learn what they are. Find people, books, or courses about how to exercise charisma and how to be charming, which is in part learning good manners and protocol for your area of expertise or profession and the community of people in your life.
These are five secrets to success.
Now some will say they just can’t do all of any of these. Some people are happy and content without a huge level of income and influence, they may never need to be doing these things. Others who want more influence and income should know that unless you can do all of these things, you cannot realistically expect to succeed.
Bill Collier- A so-called “global minimum tax” represents a 20th century paradigm; the wasteful shot-callers who cannot evolve past the industrial age are attempting to corral the world backwards into their own old top-down, centralized hierarchy of control. Basically, and to be blunt, it is an assault on freedom not warranted by any of the hobgoblin manufactured crises or any pretended benefit to anyone except for the extremely wealthy who don’t actually ever pay such taxes.
The Republicans, who love to soundbite for freedom and prosperity like Democrats love to soundbite for equity and justice, have no real principled response. They are quibbling over details rather than blasting this idea as insanity that is only meant to turn the clock back to the 20th century industrial age when a big boss with all the money and power lorded it over the cogs in their machine whose only real value was profit to the owners.
The “global minimum tax” (GMT) is an archaic proposal from another age that is best left behind. The massive super-state, centralized industrial economy, must be set aside once and for all to favor new forms and expressions of sovereignty and freedom between individuals in freewill participation. Decentralization, localization, jurisdictional competition, citizens as customers rather than subjects, private cities, and the general supremacy of faith, family, and community over politics are the ways of the future. This archaic response is meant to hinder the advancement of human flourishing because such advancements do not tend toward the benefit of the ruling class.
It is for this reason the Republicans, many who have also become corporate puppets, offer a lame response not worthy of any Party claiming the mantle of freedom and prosperity for all.
This is how their “objections” begin- “There has been consistent bipartisan, bicameral support in Congress for the OECD as the appropriate venue to address the digitalization of the economy, potentially including changes to longstanding global tax rules. However, the OECD project would be counterproductive if the Administration’s negotiating position concedes ground to foreign counterparties and harms the U.S. economy. “
How about, “The Global Minimum Tax is a power grab by the ruling class over working people that we will defy and defeat with every ounce of our being?”
This isn’t a response, this is collaboration.
They add, incredibly, and in betrayal of all their claims to be the party of freedom and prosperity:
The global minimum tax must be fair to American workers and companies – any special rates or exemptions offered to foreign competition must be available to Americans.
The global profit allocation formula, including any carve-outs and special inclusions, must not disproportionately affect Americans.
The targeting of American workers and companies by foreign governments must end immediately.
No, The right response is, “there must NEVER, ever, be ANY form of global tax or global minimum tax. This isn’t the 20th century, this isn’t the industrial age. This is the 21st century, the information and decentralization age.”
But, as we are of a wont to say, over and over, the Republicans are collaborationists, not opponents, to the global war on freedom Their soundbites are meaningless, their action belie their stated intentions.
The GMT won’t do anything more than potentially slow progress. The civilizational paradigm shift that is coming thanks to technology and global communications won’t be held back by such draconian chicanery. But in the mean time, this “throwback authoritarianism” to the 20th century will do real harm to millions of people before it finally collapses under its own weight.
The GOP isn’t an opposition party. They are collaborationists with the ruling class, hell-bent on lining their pockets and keeping the mere crumbs the Democrats throw to them. This response by Senator Crapo of Idaho and Republican Leader, Representative Kevin Brady of the 8th District in Texas, is a collaborationist love fest compared to what is necessary.
They didn’t oppose anything and everything connected to this global power grab and for that reason they are abject and miserable failures.
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