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President Trump’s Tax Reform Plan Depends On This

W R Collier Jr October 20, 2017

The passage of a budget resolution for 2018 is the key to getting the Trump tax reforms passed, because it allows for a reconciliation process which cannot be filibustered by the minority party, which opposes tax reform.
After today’s passage in the Senate of the 2018 budget, President Trump had this to say:

President Donald J. Trump applauds the Senate for passing its FY 2018 Budget Resolution today and taking an important step in advancing the Administration’s pro-growth and pro-jobs legislative agenda. This resolution creates a pathway to unleash the potential of the American economy through tax reform and tax cuts, simplifying the overcomplicated tax code, providing financial relief for families across the country, and making American businesses globally competitive. President Trump looks forward to final enactment of the Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution so we can bring jobs back to our country.

Unfortunately, the Republicans are prone to follow their own agendas, resulting in a lot of talk but not a lot of action. Every major effort by the Trump administration to fulfill his promises has been resisted or fumbled by the Republicans, with the exception of the Supreme Court nomination and some judges, but even here progress has been slow owing to an unwillingness to overcome procedural obstacles, Indeed, some of the opposition to the Trump agenda has been based on an appeal to “procedure” which some observers doubt is the real cause of the opposition.

In a Friday Twitter exchange with Senator Rand Paul, President Trump called the Senator out saying he supported tax reform, to which the Senator replied that he supported tax CUTS, possibly signalling he might not end up supporting the President’s plan. Such a move is likely to further infuriate the Trump base, which dominates the grassroots of the Party, and could even cause investors to claw back some of their recent investments in the stock market, which has risen to over 23,000.

While step one is to get a budget resolution passed, so they can layer in the tax reform through reconciliation, it also appears the Party is unable to come together and effectively govern, let alone let the President take the lead in delivering a reform that is highly favored by the Party rank and file.

It is now up to the House and Senate to work out a reconciliation, during which time the tax reform plan will be added. All eyes are on the usual suspects, including Olympia Snow, McCain, and Rand Paul, who, for their own reasons, are prone to resist the President’s agenda. Given an option between the Trump reform plan and having nothing pass, most conservatives will favor the Trump plan overwhelmingly. But will they be able to carry their own elected Senators and Representatives over the threshold?

The Freedonist Is Back!

W R Collier Jr October 19, 2017

By Bill Collier- My speciality is breaking political and international intelligence and covering major, breaking news live. My vision for Freedomist remains twofold: to promote the creation of a people-powered free press all over thw world and to restore freedom through virtue, liberty and indepdnence based on the UPDR Ideals and the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights.

I am the Publisher and the Editor. My goal here is to obtain enough sponsors, see our Business Directory, to cover overhead and begin paying part-time stringers. Our focus is going to be hard breaking and headline news, global news, what I call freedom news (from politics to tech), and movement news for and about freedom activists all over the world.

I really want to cover news that is not reported or that is under-reported in the US media.

I will be working to feed raw news from other conservative and pro-freedom websites and organizations, so you have a one-stop shop for a variety of news sources.

I will also have news feeds from a variety of sources you and I may disagree with, to both promote dialogue and give unusual perspectives.

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Progressives Attacking Their Own Foundations

W R Collier Jr July 14, 2017

Undermining The Fabric Of Civilization

William R Collier Jr- In the 1990’s I was vehemently opposed to President Clinton. In the early 1990’s I ran a local newspaper and was guilty of alarmist rhetoric myself which I aimed at the President every week. Eventually, by 1995, I grew up. I moved past that phase, and my headlines, while critical, were more measured. I was among the few who saw the entire impeachment process as undermining the very fabric of our civilization, one stitch and one thread at a time.

We have entered an era of scorched earth politics in which all parties are deluded into thinking the other parties pose an existential threat, even if they don’t. What this has given rise to is the reality that all the major players in American politics and culture, it’s hard to separate the two now, do pose an existential threat to the average citizen’s rights, security, and prosperity. Moreover, they all seem hellbent for leather to undermine our collective sanity.

I am not speaking as one unaffected by this alarmist zeitgeist, and in fact, for me, the trend among Progressives really does pose an existential threat for anyone trying to live out a Christian life and openly share their faith, morals, values, and convictions. If Progressives have their way, based on how they run college campuses and the corporate media, nobody who refuses to embrace their amoral relativism and globalist envirosocialism will be much tolerated to speak, to own a business, or even be employed in a high level job. That is not alarmist, you can go to academia and the corporate media and see this is exactly how Progressives conduct themselves when in positions of power.

But the progressives are making a huge mistake now, one for which we will all suffer. Their scorched-earth campaign against Republicans, which started under Nixon and has only increased, is meant to legitimize every Republican who opposes them. They do this against the Republican Party, against the the Republican caucuses in the House and Senate, against Republican judges, and, of course, against Republican Presidents. They put a microscope to these people’s lives and actions, always concealing the good and exponentially dramatizing the bad.

It isn’t that nobody on the other side does this against Democrats, it’s just that no mass media carries their water and none of the leading figures of the Republican Party establishment use such tone. Certainly you don’t see Fox News, Mitch McConnell, or Paul Ryan sensationalizing the misdeeds of the Democrats. Not even President Trump resorts to the guttural accusations of treason or criminality used by prominent Democrats and their cheerleaders in Academia, Hollywood, and the Corporate Media.

But the Progressives are tearing down their own walls in their own house.

You see, for people like me, we can visualize life without government services or benefits. I am no anarchist, but I tend to think that, given a government collapse, private persons and even local governments could find a way to survive, unless a large portion of the populace was totally dependent on government for their necessities and not equipped to take initiative on their own.

For Progressives, however, the state as an institution is equal to or more important than the family. Indeed, Progressives pursue social policies that seem to indicate they hold little value for the old notion of a father and mother raising their own children together as the ideal and preferred way to propagate the species. Their view of the state is much more defined and precious. For them, the state is the primary agent of social cohesion and the prime mover in human progress. With the right kind of state managing society, human nature itself can be molded to fit an ideal of absolute equality and the absence of all greed or self-interest.

Little do they understand that the average person does not differentiate easily between Republicans and Democrats. When Democrats use lies and exaggerations to delegitimize Republicans in Congress we see overall faith in Congress as an institution slides. The same goes for the Presidency, not to mention the Federal Government itself. They may love the fact they are keeping Trump’s approval rate down and his strongly disapprove rate high by a constant barrage of sensational and alarmist headlines, but the overall net effect doesn’t end with Trump: people are losing faith in the entire system.

What is more, this alarmism is breeding extremism on both sides. I myself really have no defense for modern republicanism. The idea of one-man, one-vote really makes no sense when people are ignorant of both history and our Constitution and when they are making decisions for petty self-gain at public expense based on outright falsehoods and alarmist nonsense. Truly, if republicanism was good it would have been able to defend itself against all of this.

But others on the right are going to feel compelled to go further, they are going to conclude that they have to fight fire with fire. They will conclude that the only choices are an America run by Progressives like they run academia and the corporate media or one run by conservatives with as little tolerance toward Progressives as is shown by Progressives toward conservatives in Universities. Given a choice between “my side” ruling with an iron fist or “your side”, knowing that you have made those the only options, what would the normal person choose? It would be suicide to let the other side rule with an iron fist, especially given we see how unfair and unjust they are where they do actually hold power!

The final possibility may be a collapse in general.

You see, in any civilization trust is the single greatest factor that determines cohesiveness. Whether it is trust in persons who rule, institutions, or just ideas and values, when trust is undermined too far collapse becomes inevitable. What people call gridlock is the inability of a society’s decision-making bodies to create and carry out problem solving plans of action. Disagreement and competition are always going to be present, but when a broad consensus that most people back cannot be created we see this gridlock in a society. And, throughout history, it is this gridlock that predicts the ultimate collapse.

Progressives are undermining civilization itself because they have a narrow view of reality and history. As to reality, they have fantasized about an ideal world that doesn’t match human nature or even the laws of creation, and anything that doesn’t affirm that fantasy is ignored or ridiculed. As to history, they have no sense of the lessons learned from the past or the consequences of undermining people’s faith and trust in the very institutions (the state, academia, entertainment, the corporate media) they wish to use to shape society and humanity itself into their ideal image.

In the event this is unchallenged by Republicans and any opposition capable to offering real resistance, this process of delegitimizing the institutions upon which Progressives depend for their agenda will run its course. The rebellion against human nature and the laws of creation will also carry its own very real consequences, translated into conflict, poverty, loss of freedom, and the such.

In the end, the progressive will tear down his or her or their own house, and, in the process, undermine the fabric of civilization to a point where a major disaster or crises will see the collapse of the whole edifice.

The UPDR Ideals: Ideals For Independence

W R Collier Jr July 4, 2017

William R. Collier Jr- What is freedom, and what does it mean to be a freedomist, someone who advocates and works for freedom for themselves and their fellow man?

One dictionary definition that seems to depict the spirit of the West reads- the power to think, act, and think as one wishes without constraint.

But another definition would say- the state or quality of being exempt from something onerous.

But what about the power to shape the kind of culture and society in which you live in accordance with your values? What about freedom from privation or injustice?

What we see when the subject of freedom rises is a one-dimensional view of freedom. For instance, the first definition is totally focused on the individual acting by and for themselves alone, it defies the biological and spiritual reality of humanity as social beings who must live and act socially just to survive. Who is born alone and who could even survive the first year in life without other people feeling the need to care for a little one who can offer them nothing in exchange for their sacrifice?

Almost all these one-dimensional definitions contain a kernel of truth but offer a very limited application or an impossible, almost utopian, standard which has never been accomplished and cannot ever be accomplished given human nature and the laws of nature and of God. For instance, how can I do whatever I like if it would tend to harm myself or others, or if it would undermine some societal institution necessary for our very survival as a species? How can I shape my culture in a community in which not everyone has the same beliefs and values?

A more mature and advanced view of freedom is multi-dimensional and develops a matrix of ideas and ideals which one can use to measure whether a general condition of freedom exists generally or whether a less free or unfree condition exists. For instance, we may say that white men in the 18th century may have been more free than they are now, but not everyone in general was so free. And yet today we can say most people are little more free than chattel slaves in that same era, although we have the fiction of voting and a limited free speech, and, also, we tend to choose our slavery as we follow the pop culture ethos that is spoon-fed to us. (In other words, most of us CAN be much more free.)

Today’s African Americans may argue that the legal end of slavery has not given them equal freedom, but it can also be argued that, as with socialism and wealth, the trend is toward an equality in which few of us will be allowed to be free.

As Freedomists we speak of “freedom as defined by the original spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights “, and of course we mean that for everyone, for every member of the human race. But even this has a deeper root, which we find in Acts 17: that men would be able to find God if haply they seek Him, though He is not far from any of us. This also means that men are free not to seek God, and to them and their associations go the consequences!

Freedom also has an expression through four core ideals, we call them the UPDR Ideals, from the first letter for each of the ideals. These are the spiritual constitution of America in its original intent, they embody the original spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights, and they provide an objective standard of measure by which we can declare something more free or less free in its operation.

These ideals include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. When we understand them from a JudeoChristian perspective and that they must each balance the others, we gain an insight as to their meaning which is deeper than the cliche’d where they are often presented. You have heard these ideals, perhaps you recoil at one or two because of how they have been used.

But notice each is a sort of ying and yang unto itself. Notice also, we are saying that none of these ideals can contradict the other, but only bring balance. The unity of a shared set of beliefs and values is balanced by the diversity of convictions among individuals and communities within the whole. The popular rights of self-determination and collective self-preservation are balanced by the sovereignty of the individual and their own free associations. The democracy of a common consensus is balanced by the inherit equality of value and standing we all have as individuals before God and our standing together according to our merit. The rule or means of enforcement owned by all and usually practiced through some sort of leadership is bound by the laws of nature and of nature’s God as understood by the people under that rule and for the good of all (although there are objective laws enforced by causality).

(Note: A society or community, even a nation and civilization, of people that orders itself in way that violates the laws of nature and of God will endure causal consequences, but that doesn’t mean any human agency can claim to be the final arbiter or judge of these matters, on the other hand nobody should be compelled to remain under the influence or control of such a society.)

All of this opens the door for each person to find and fulfill God’s best for their life, if they wish. Through this, ideally, every one has an equal and fair chance to make their calling their career and, mostly through free association, shape their own culture and society according to their values but within a broader society in which those ideas can be challenged.

It is not hard to define freedom with one single definition, it is one-dimensional to think of something so grand and vast as freedom in such simplistic terms. If we say freedom is defined as the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, as applied to every human being and through the practice of the UPDR Ideals, we have something more closely approximating what freedom is. The domain of the free- this is the heart of freedom. Free people are not slaves to debauchery, addiction, their own flesh, the tyranny or control of others, or even the vicissitudes of nature! But we cannkt impose that freedom on them. The domain of the free is a state of mind and a state of being, and if we use the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, along with a disciplined application of the UPDR Ideals, we make freedom real, accessible, and measureable.

On this Indepdnence Day, let us be free, truly free, not in some shallow or cliche’d manner, but with maturity, intelligence, and discipline. Let us actualize the original spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights in our lives through the daily use of the UPDR Ideals!

Book Review- Churchill, Roosevelt & Company by Lewis E Lehrman

W R Collier Jr June 30, 2017

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft

By William R. Collier

How, and why, did the US enter the war against the Nazis and come to the rescue of Great Britain? Lewis E. Lehrman richly unpacks the whole story, centering around the “special relationship” between America and Great Britain. That relationship was born from a personal relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, as well as between the men surrounding these titanic figures.

Lewis E. Lehrman applies scholarly yet lucid treatment to complicated relationships. Lehrman is a holder of the National Humanities Medal, one of America’s most distinguished awards. The medal “honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities and broadened our citizens’ engagement with history, literature, languages, philosophy, and other humanities subjects.” This work certainly lives up to these criteria.

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company is written to be enjoyed by lay readers and scholars alike. It is immediately accessible. Even if you are not a history buff, the drama behind the story Lehrman provides is as compelling as a work of great fiction. As a bonus, if you will, it contains reveal after reveal that helps make sense of contemporary politics, both national and worldwide.

On one side, Lehrman demonstrates the polished political legerdemain of a consummate political operator, FDR, and, on the other, the blunt but persuasive stratagems of a staunch realist, Winston Churchill. On one hand, the new, rising, power — America – was chary to enter someone else’s war, with all the blood and treasure that surely would spill.

On the other hand, Great Britain, and its Empire, was being brutally assaulted by the Axis powers. England seemed on the ropes. The rebel child of the British Empire, America, still had sympathy for its mother country. Also, consider the enemy: Hitler.

America was on the cusp of becoming a greater global power than its progenitor.

This book recounts an exciting time. It easily could have devolved to a much uglier — Nazi and fascist — world order. Churchill laid the groundwork by statecraft, which, when triggered by Pearl Harbor and Germany’s declaration of war on the US, led America to heroically seal the defeat of the Axis powers. Thus, America ended one of the greatest menaces to humanity ever, defeating an evil empire bent on exterminating and enslaving whole peoples.

The story Lehrman reports appears to be the fruit of a lifetime of research. There is hardly a point he makes that is without substantial documentation. His fascinating endnotes encompass over 100 pages. This provides an immediately accessible story that is easy to read and follow. But the endnotes and documentation add further depth of understanding of a formative period of our age.

Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft reveals that Roosevelt also was callous, if not ruthless, toward the British Empire, while naïve about the Soviet Union. FDR’s handling of lend-lease was brutal to the British both in terms of territory and coin. His administration was more generous to the Soviets.

Churchill understood the price of defeating Hitler could entail the end of the Empire. And yet, he did what was necessary. This is the main point I took from reading this revelatory work of history: Churchill’s recognition that unless he could draw a reluctant USA into WWII Nazi Germany would win. Coaxing the US into committing troops was Churchill’s entire purpose, statecraft-wise, even recognizing the high cost — Britain’s loss to America of world supremacy. It was a sobering, although necessary, trade.

I have always believed that great figures in history understand both the real crisis and the price to be paid in confronting it. Nazism was the great threat to human civilization. Churchill understood this and engaged his whole being into overcoming that at great risk and at great cost. He did so with his eyes wide open. This story of this existential trade makes for a compelling one. America had no dream of empire. History records we were, and are, a rare great power who went to war not motivated to create its own empire. But we were determined to dismantle one.

Yes, the story Lehrman tells, with great human interest, documents the events leading America into the war against, and victory over, Hitler. At the same time, it also recounts the cost imposed by America — the destruction of the British Empire — also at the hands of Americans who actively sought to dismantle their rival power, Great Britain.

STRAIGHT STORY: US Navy Destroyer Rammed

W R Collier Jr June 17, 2017

News incorrectly says “US Destroyer rammed Philippine Cargo ship”. The cargo ship has damage to its port bow, the destroyer has damage to the starboard amidship. Clearly, the cargo ship did the ramming. It came from behind on the starboard side and hit the Destroyer at an angle, glancing off its port bow and evidently continued forward and separated from the Navy ship.
The incident is off Japan. The merchant was en route to Tokyo. At around 2:30 AM the ACX Crystal reported a collision with the US Destroyer. 2 sailors were injured, including the captain. The captain was flown off the ship. 7 sailors are missing. The Crystal, home ported in Manila and under a Filipino flag, was making 11.4 knots and headed for port, it did not stay around. Damage to it is small compared to the Destroyer.

The question is, how did the merchant ship get in so close to a destroyer? Avoiding the collision would have been a matter of the destroyer turning to port themselves, based on the angle of the collision. Questions will be answered in the coming days as authorities sort through the matter. The Japanese company that employs the Filipino container ship is cooperating, and the Japanese Coast Guard us taking the lead in the investigation.

The Japanese Coast Guard were on scene quickly because this incident appears to have occurred within a 56 miles of the coast, near the entrance to Tokyo harbor. The container ship was en route to Tokyo from another Japanese port.

Because the destroyer was operating in a high traffic area, with dozens of vessels close by, the captain would have been on the bridge at the time of the ramming by the cargo vessel. While the destroyer does have an Aegis system, it would have been operating a navigation radar at this location. The destroyer would have had extra hands on watch looking out for traffic. According to the law of the sea, the container ship would have the right of way, and based on the location of the impact, one of the two vessels was passing on the wrong side. The container ship is slower and far less maneuverable than the destroyer, and it appears it was traveling a set route, however the investigation will sort out if the container vessel was where it was supposed to be. But even if the container ship was not where it was supposed to be, the open question remains: why didn’t the destroyer see this lumbering ship in time to get out of the way?

The seven missing sailors are worrisome, because if they were thrown overboard and have not yet been recovered that could be bad news. When sailors are missing, you can bet that means they went overboard, unless they are trapped in a compartment and cannot get out. That is the best scenario, assuming the compartment was above the water line. Damage to the vessel was above and below the waterline and the ship is fighting flooding. As the ship is entering port at the Yokosuka Naval Base it will be possible to access area cut off due to the damage.

The ship was under its own limited power, but owing to the damage was unable to turn more than 5 knots, it took over 10 hours to get back to port. Going faster would have increased flooding and the pumps would not be able to keep up. She is operating under command of her XO.

Her C.O., CDR Bryce Benson, just took the con in May of this year. He has been airlifted off the ship. The ship specializes in anti-missile defense and was likely deployed to counter the North Koream missile threat.

Are Conservatives Losers?

W R Collier Jr May 23, 2017

Are we conservatives losers who snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by our constant navel gazing and self-critique even in the face of an all-out assault on our legitimacy by the Progressives? We see with the wanton and egregious attacks on Donald J. Trump that conservatives are ill-equipped intellectually and morally to stand strong.

The conspiracy theorists would argue, “The witch hunt against the duly elected President is nothing short of an effort to literally conduct a coup against the voters. The aim to is to place a globalist puppet in the White House to continue the globalist plan to dismantle freedom and use America’s resources to erect a ‘global superstructure’ with total control over your life.”

While that sounds sensational, the machinations of the Progressives and their media allies do in fact appear to evince of a design which could be described technically as a coup, although perhaps that is a stretch. The aim is to deligitimize the President and the Republicans and indeed the very ideas and values which underpin the original spirit and intent of our Bill of Rights and Constitution.

Progressivism is an ideology that, upon exploration, is a utopian scheme to change human nature itself through direct control over the many by an elite few. Regardless of its slogans and constant virtue signalling, progressivism really does come down to that. Whatever the problem, the solution is always an elite few controlling the many for the sake of “progress”, which essentially requires the rewriting of human nature itself.

It is not an attractive ideology and Progressives seem to spend more time and energy denying and concealing their ideology than explaining it. Thus, in order to advance their agenda they must eliminate all competition. To create a scenario where the only choices are versions of Progressivism you have to deligitimize the other side, ideally by using the conservative penchant for moral and ethical purity to make them doubt the moral and ethical virtue of their leaders.

This is not about winning in the marketplace of ideas, this is about creating a marketplace in which progressivism alone has a monopoly, and all other ideas are illegitimate. By attacking leaders, whether the attacks have ANY basis in fact doesn’t matter, and then, once the conservatives turn on their own leaders, tarnishing all conservatives with the false accusations of corruption, you eliminate competition in the marketplace of ideas.

If indeed conservatives had a backbone, and most don’t seem to, this would not work. We would resist all progressive attacks, demand truth, and do the same right back to them. We would counter accuse, and Lord knows we would have no lack of material to work with. We would defend our leaders and our cause. We would vilify the Progressives, who deserve it, and we would seek to deligitimize them and their ideology at every turn.

In truth, conservatives have become a bunch of naval gazers with the weak conscious of the childish and immature. Too ready to abandon their leaders, too ready to buy into the opposition media’s lies, and too unwilling to turn the tables and launch their own attacks, conservatives look like weaklings and fools. The silly argument that we cannot blindly follow a leader, when nothing of the sort is required, is virtue signalling of the worse type.

If we are not careful, the attempt to delegitimize the President and us will have the effect of becoming a de facto coup, he would be forced to resign or something based on lies, and even as he is abandoned, the entire cause we say we believe in would be shamed and shunned. All resistance to the Progressives would be broken.

That is what is at stake.

There is a time for everything. There is a time to hold even our conservative leaders, even the President, accountable. But that time is not in the middle of a faux controversy being drummed up to change election outcomes at worse, or deligitimize the President and our cause at best. In the middle of a battle you don’t start an inquiry into whether you should support the generals. Do that later.

Conservatives had better wise up and stand strong, because if Donald Trump is delegitimized our whole movement will end up in the wildnerness. Defeat the Progressives, then let’s start talking about whether we can trust our own leaders.

The Blueprint To Save America?

W R Collier Jr May 19, 2017

Bill Collier- Democracy, Churchill claimed, was a terrible form of government, but all the other forms were worse. But if you consider such factors as longevity, stability, peace, and relative stability, democracy is in fact at least no better than other forms of government and probably worse in some ways. As HL Mencken said, every election is an advance auction on stolen property. The flaw of democracy is that it basically becomes the majority “eating” the minority and power is won by giving things away through excessive taxes and sent spending, which the politician himself of herself is not accountable for.

America is in crisis, but few realize that this is an existential crisis which will eventually result in a failed state, if history is our guide. There is not much good to say about our trajectory- we are being overrun by foreign IDEAS that fundamentally oppose our national identity and values, we are digging a debt hole from which escape may soon be impossible, we are morally and spiritually corrupting our children, we are destroying the fabric of society, which is the family led by a natural mother and father, and of course our political decision-making process is corrupted and torn, incapable of making hard choices with any kind of speed. History says that when a society reaches this point it must either rebuild a new foundation based on what it knows worked from its past OR it will be destroyed.

People like to claim that America is a republic. In 1913 America adopted structural changes to her republican form of government that rendered us a representative democracy, not a republic. We replaced State government appointed Senators with elected Senators, thus gutting the best check against Federal excess, as state governments would compel their Senators to resist centralization of powers. We instituted the direct income tax, allowing for massive wealth redistribution from people and states to the Federal power. We created a centralized banking system (Federal Reserve) that empowers global bankers and gives them control over our very currency. All these things ended our republic, though few understood that then and even now.

Representative democracy is not the path forward. Either it must end and some form of a republic be restored or the United States of America will end. I am not saying this will happen today, or very soon, though one can never be sure. The poison is still working its black magic on the whole body, it could take 30 to 60 years to kill the whole experiment.

There is a path forward. But it is not simple or easy, and it could take a generation to reach its highest goals. It runs the risk of being too little, too late.

The truth is that winning Federal and State elections can, at best, slow down the slide into the pit, but even winning an election doesn’t mean anything at all will happen- consider how the Republicans with everything they asked us to give them have basically spent their time attacking the President and offering lame excuses. They have not stopped catering to the radical leftist news media to win the approval of news room editors. And so, having taken over 1000 state and federal seats from the far left Democratic Party and having won the House, the Senate, and the White House, the Republicans have done nothing but continue to push America further down the drain.

While I propose that the path to save America should be clear and self-evident once explained, I am not certain a society in such an advanced state of decline will muster the resources and support needed to make this happen.

Saving America requires a three-pronged movement, or three movements that have the same end goal, which is to return power and wealth from the elite few to the people in their families and communities until most every aspect of your life is controlled by you and the people you choose to associate with or live beside.

The first movement needs to be a self-reliance and autonomous living movement that empowers people to be materially and economically independent of the current system to meet their basic needs- this is a socioeconomic and cultural movement, or movements, with a major focus on local cooperation and collaboration between families. It must be rooted in families based on natural mothers and fathers with their children, because such families are the fabric of advanced civilization.

The second movement needs to restore citizen control at the very local level and win local elections for officials who adhere to the original spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights and who agree to obey Town Meeting style gatherings of their electors. Restoring solid leadership on as many locales as possible, and being prepared to assume whatever greater roles will be needed if and when Federal and State powers devolve is vital. The aim is to see that local people directly control their local government and that such governments maintain first loyalty to the original spirit and intent of the Bill of Rights as the basis of their legitimacy.

The third movement must be a citizen powered free press movement that can compete with and replace all the partisan leftist media as the most trusted news source and opinion shaper in each locale. This must be local, because at this level a free press can in fact win more loyalty and trust than all other news media at every level, but competing with the leftist news media on any kind of scale beyond the very local would be difficult.

So we see autonomous living based on the family unit of father and mother in marital union and in connection with other families, a local government that adheres to the Bill of Rights and obeys local Town Meetings, and a true citizen powered local free press that cooperates regionally and nationally as a more trusted alternative to the leftwing press are the three prongs of an attack that will destroy the global bankers and their minions. They will lose lower one heart, one home, and one community at a time, they will bleed from a thousand cuts.

Once these three things take root and most US communities are heavily influenced by autonomous family living, local freedom communities, and a real free press, then it will be impossible for the central powers controlled by the elites to impose their will and manipulate public opinion.

This is essentially the Freedomist’s long-term vision, to foster, promote, and nurture such a movement and imform, educate, empower, and equip people to launch such movements and activities where they live. While I propose to create Freedomist entities to promote these things, I also intend to work with and promote any existing efforts along these lines and seek alliances with them.

This does not mean we can forget about State and Federal elections. As a tactical matter, they matter. So I am proposing the Freedomist Party USA to both address those elections and promote the concept and practice of freedom communities. I am proposing the Freedomist Guard to create a local voice and ultimate a local free press for freedom. I am proposing The Freedomist Society, with member Societies, to promote autonomous living among families in communities.

To get this going we need to be able to produce content, advertise to an audience, pay for skilled staff, and hold events where we can impart these ideas and practices and people can either join a Freedomist group or form their own. This requires resources we do not have.

Therein is the rub. Unless and until we find supporters, the Freedomist can do little more than document the decline and fall of the USA. It seems that our present society, and the people who could easily support such an effort as I propose, is incapable of responding to such a call.

To return to the theme. We need an autonomous living movement rooted in families and communities; we need a freedom community movement that elects local officials who obey the Bill of Rights and the Town Meetings of their electors; and we need a local free press that has more influence than the leftist media. All the while we need news and information, training and resources, and a way to influence State and Federal elections as a tactical necessity.

There is no silver bullet. And we have to work in obscurity and in the wilderness, early victories will be hard to come by. Even as we start winning, the road is decades long. Many of us won’t be alive to taste the final victory, if it comes. Our battle is spiritual and then cultural and economic, and then it is political and broadly social. Merely getting an election win still leaves the apparatus of the leftist power structure controlled by the globalist freedom-takers in place. We have to destroy that structure and replace it at the local level, or we are fighting a losing war.

Self-reliant people who control their local governments directly and who control their own news media are far more powerful than some elite pencil pusher at a state capital or in Washington D.C. who works for the interest of the elite few at the expense of the many.

I have a blueprint to make this happen. In fact, given around $30 million per year and 5 years, I am convinced we would see at least 30% of all local communities firmly controlled by free men and women, and that will be the foundation for a national renewal that may takes decades to complete, but that will definitely see every day get better for us and darker for our political enemies.

As it stands, neither myself or anyone who may have similar ideas, with a track record to prove their veracity and skill, is getting anything like this in support. That is unfortunate and reflects the reality that already it may be too late, because anything less than such a plan with such a level of support will not do.

Until then, if you want to track the demise of the USA and see ways you can position yourself and your family to escape what could come next, stay tuned right here.

Senator Cruz, Make America Prosper Again

W R Collier Jr April 28, 2016

Bill Collier- Senator Ted Cruz is a true blue conservative who has done a lot to push the conservative agenda. His platform and policy pursuits are, in my estimation, stellar. I want a Cruz win for the nomination and the White House.

I have been repeatedly saying that Senator Cruz needs to sell his main asset, his prosperity plans, and stay focused on selling himself as the champion of popular prosperity.

I believe that if Senator Cruz would get to a prosperity message, and truly inspire people, he can still win the nomination, though it is a tough mountain to climb. This transition is not difficult for him to make because his platform already closely aligns with a prosperity agenda.

If Senator Cruz can increase his overall poll numbers to 50% or more, pull off some big wins in the final days of the race, and forge alliances with the other candidates that have delegates they can swing his way, he has a chance.

There is a slim, but narrowing, chance for victory. Based on that slim chance, I hope he gets this message and takes it as constructive criticism from “family,” as opposed to an attack by opponents. The time to push forth a prosperity agenda is now…or never.

In short, Cruz wants to be President and I want the same thing and for the same reasons: to make America prosper again!

A candidate rising in popularity with broadening support and fresh victories could win a contested convention and overcome the initial angst. This is especially true if his opponent is losing ground and people who voted for him have real buyer’s remorse. The key thing is narrative and messaging. And that has been Senator Cruz’s chief, and potentially fatal, weakness in this primary race.

Senator Cruz’s decision to announce his intention to run with Carly Fiorina as his VP choice (should he win the nomination) has caused no small amount of head scratching among friend and foe alike.

Here then are the main reasons why, in my estimation, this move does not necessarily advance Ted Cruz and does not inspire some of his supporters, such as myself:

1. It can be argued that it undermines Cruz’s chief argument that Trump is not a proven true blue conservative. In the eyes of many conservatives, including myself, Fiorina is not a proven true-blue conservative.

My own support of Cruz has been based mostly on his bona fides as a rock-solid conservative. His actual platform and prosperity policies are still, in my estimation, the best. By choosing Fiorina, Cruz is saying that she is qualified to be President. This implied assessment of Cruz can be seen by some to disprove his argument that we should choose only a rock-solid, proven conservative. After all, Fiorina would be only one heartbeat away from the Presidency if Cruz won in the general.

I have already seen this emerge among opponents who use it to neutralize arguments that Mr. Trump is not a proven conservative. This choice, once again, obscures the clear message that Cruz CAN win on, that he is the champion of popular prosperity. It shifts the discussion to raise doubts on his strength going into the race, that he was a tried and true, lead by example, true blue conservative.

2. The move looks bad and feels like pandering. These words didn’t come from Trump supporters. They are a common criticism I am now hearing from his own supporters.

To put this move into perspective, take into account that Cruz just lost five states, AND that his way beyond securing the nomination. What does a move like this look like to you, a move made from a position of strength, or a move made from a position of weakness?

Beyond that, it shows that Cruz is not focused on the key issues of this campaign. For instance, Cruz says he vetted her carefully. This takes personal time and energy, and that time and energy would be better spent on the campaign honing a prosperity message.

But the idea that he is only choosing her to get the woman’s vote is a further digression from the real theme of his campaign: which is freedom and prosperity, or, simply prosperity (which implies freedom in and of itself).

Bringing up old grievances and playing the “sexist” card doesn’t in one way prove you are the champion of freedom and prosperity. As a matter of fact, pulling the sexist card is seen by many as a tactic best deployed by the left, not a true blue conservative, his initial central theme of his campaign.

What is more, should Mr Trump become the nominee, a now likely outcome, you have provided grist for the liberal mill to be used to hurt our nominee and our party!

3. It is a pure distraction!

I have argued, on Freedomist.com, that Cruz has, so far, failed to sell his best asset, that he is the best prosperity champion. I voted for Cruz and I did so still hoping that Cruz can win. It is an uphill climb, to be sure. Preventing Trump from getting to the magic 1237 delegates is itself an uphill battle, nevermind the challenges of winning a brokered convention. But be that as it may, so long as there is fight to be had, we fight.

If Cruz wants to have any chance to win this fight, he is going to have to get back to basics and push his main selling point, that he is the true blue conservative, the champion of prosperity. Cruz has, I believe, sacrificed potential support and ceded the prosperity debate to Trump, who is selling it to get votes.

Cruz could have made a press announcement that he was pushing to have the gold standard added to the GOP platform or to audit the fed or some major prosperity initiative. He could have done a speech on that subject, and compared his plan to Hillary and/or Trump’s plans and made his case for the party to rally to his prosperity banner.

We have been talking about delegate legerdemain and now Cruz’s VP choice, none of which move his narrative and messaging about prosperity into public consciousness where it is certain to turn into popular support.

This is not necessarily to say I am criticizing the delegate legerdemain itself, nor that the VP pick is somehow going to doom the campaign. If I thought this was really all over, the point of this article would be moot and thus this article would not have been written.

The focus of my criticism is that we are not talking about the right thing- make America prosper again. If we were, we would be winning on all counts right now. If we focus on making America Prosper again, we might be able to win, even now.

I am imagining a Cruz speech in which he lays out why he is the prosperity champion, why Hillary isn’t, and why he is the party’s best choice to defeat her prosperity killing agenda. He can then explain why he needs the people, the voters, to support him, and why if people have already voted against him they should support him now. I am imagining a petition saying “make America prosper again, select Ted Cruz as our nominee” signed by hundreds of thousands of voters.

In the end, the only way Cruz will be able to legitimately win a contested convention is to be at over 50% of the popularity of GOP polls, showing he has won back people who already voted for other candidates. The only way to get there AND to start having some upsets is to inspire people with your narrative and promise, not by selecting someone as a potential VP running mate, someone whose own conservative bona fides are at least as uncertain as Trump’s, which Cruz has rightly pointed out again and again.

Regardless, if Cruz and his newly chosen running mate want to pull some upsets and grow his popularity, they need to hammer away at a simple prosperity appeal and Cruz needs to claim the mantle of the champion of OUR prosperity. He has the plans to make us prosper again, which is better than being great, if only he would sell those plans.

Being “great” is nebulous, but prospering is REAL, and will MAKE us great.

Of course changing the campaign focus and messaging this late is tough. Some might argue it is too late. But if Senator Cruz is still campaigning, regardless of what has already happened, I suggest he do it in a way that might at least truly give him a shot: win popular support for a popular prosperity PROMISE that his plans and policies can certainly deliver.

Senator Cruz, let’s stop the distractions and let’s work to MAKE AMERICA PROSPER AGAIN!

The Arc Bends In Trump’s Favor

W R Collier Jr April 27, 2016

Bill Collier- The media and others are convinced: Trump is unstoppable. But is this really the case given how we’ve seen unreliable polling and how things have twisted and changed so rapidly?

The key state is, or may be, California.

California ballots are mailed in two weeks. 80% of CA voters choose by mail. Therefore in a very real sense the CA primary, which is an open primary, begins in two weeks.

Kasich is relying on getting Democrats in LA and San Fransisco to vote for him, Trump is trying to get dems and independents to cross over and support hm, Cruz is focused on districts that are very conservative.

Who has the ground game in CA and how do you get people to vote, considering 80% vote from home via the mail? Rallies, media, and internet ads are going to matter more than normal on the ground GOTV efforts. This favors Trump and Kasich but Cruz has shown himself to adroit online, just not great for rallies.

Polling may not be extremely reliable. But neither Cruz nor Kasich can win the state overall, Trump is going to get the most votes of the three, and may reach 50%…but that is iffy. This is a race on a district-by-district basis and one wonders if any of the campaigns are doing solid internal polling on such a basis. Trump has to focus on all the districts to both get his overall win and to get district delegates, while kasich and cruz, forfeiting the overall win, only have to focus on the districts they can expect to win. They are performing a blocking action whereas Trump needs a breakthrough.

Crossover votes from Democrats will be greater if Bernie Sanders drops out of the race before California because the Clinton campaign won’t need to sweat the election: but that voting begins in two weeks. The machinery that is needed to get those votes will be in high gear and cannot be easily reversed: all those ads, mailers, and phone calls are in process right now. Therefore, Kasich and Trump will have less crossover votes, but this cuts more into Kasich’s vote-getting than it does Trump’s.

Indiana may not be enough to stop Trump or to secure a win for Trump, unless he sweeps it. If Trump loses big in Indiana, he can still do so well in CA that he still gets to the right number. If Cruz loses big, he and Kasich could conceivably block Trump in so many districts in CA that he gets less than 100 of the 171 delegates. This is something they need to be spending money and resources on NOW before ballots start showing up in people’s mail in two weeks. In this latter scenario, Trump may limp into Cleveland with 1200 pledged delegates for the first round of voting.

The question then becomes a matter of the convention’s stomach for a contested process that puts someone with far fewer delegates and votes than the front-runner. The NEVERTRUMP crowd is convinced that stopping Trump from getting on the ballot is a higher priority than beating Hillary Clinton OR that anyone but Trump would be a better candidate to beat Hillary.

In the end, the nevertrump forces have an easier goal to reach, just ensure Trump doesn’t get to 1237. Trump has a harder goal- he has to get to 1237 or more. But the arc has bent in Trump’s favor and, while he has a higher mountain to climb, he is still slightly closer to his desired summit than his opponents are to theirs.

(NOTE- Credit is due Karl Rove who used the phrase “the arc has turned toward Trump” in his analysis last night, on the 26th of April, 2016.)