I’m going to keep this relatively short. I’ve written thousands of articles over the years, and anyone who’s read me for any period of time knows where I stand when it comes to hatred, bigotry and violence. I find all these things repulsive, and think people who gravitate to such behavior to be operating on such a low level of awareness, it’s genuinely hard for me to believe these people exist in real life.
I published my seminal piece discussing the repulsion I feel with today’s political environment back in February in the post, Lost in the Political Wilderness. Now’s a perfect time to reread that piece, but here’s an excerpt if you’re short on time:
I think the U.S. citizenry is being afflicted by a sort of mass insanity at the moment. There are no good outcomes if this continues. As a result, I feel compelled to provide a voice for those of us lost in the political wilderness. We must persevere and not be manipulated into the obvious and nefarious divide and conquer tactics being aggressively unleashed across the societal spectrum. If we lose our grounding and our fortitude, who will be left to speak for those of us who simply don’t fit into any of the currently ascendant political ideologies?
For those of you who consider yourselves to largely reside in the yellow state (2nd tier consciousness), I have one key message for you. There’s a very deliberate attempt to manipulate you into devolving back into one of the lower tiers. Likewise, there is a very deliberate attempt to prevent those on the cusp of higher consciousness from ever evolving. The reason is simple. The lower tiers are very tribal and easily divided and conquered. The higher tiers are not.
Unlike most people writing articles on Charlottesville, I’m not going to spend my time getting on a pedestal to prove to everyone how much I hate neo-Nazis. My contempt for bigotry and violence has been a constant theme throughout all my writings over the years. In contrast, the purpose of this piece is to try to knock some sense into people so that we don’t lose sight of the bigger picture. Let’s start by discussing a tweet I wrote earlier today.
What’s more likely, Nazis taking over U.S. government, or oligarchs using violent radicals on both sides to maintain their grip on power?
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) August 14, 2017
I set myself up for hysterical criticism with that tweet by saying “both sides,” which dishonest people will surely twist into support for Trump’s commentary on this weekend’s violence. I don’t care. While I certainly don’t want to minimize the disturbing scenes from Charlottesville, and the terrible loss of life and multiple injuries that occurred, it’s always important to keep our eyes on the bigger picture.
Specifically, we need to review some obvious facts. Neo-nazis and antifa didn’t destroy the middle class. They didn’t start an unnecessary and barbaric war in Iraq either. Neither of these groups jack up prescription drugs, nor do they poison your water or food supply. Oligarchs and their political minions do that. Violent Americans dressing up in Halloween costumes aren’t the real threat, oligarchs are, but the corporate media doesn’t want to talk about that. This is precisely why they focus so heavily on clueless protestors and counter-protestors punching each other. It benefits the true power structure in America.
I’ve got no affinity for neo-Nazis or antifa, but I also recognize them to be a relative sideshow compared to the far more pressing threats we face today. You can discern where the true power lies based on what the corporate media chooses to focus on, and what it chooses to ignore. An obsession with useful idiot American protestors punching each other is very similar to the 9-month incessant focus on Russia election conspiracy theories. It perfectly aids the agenda of the real power structure in this country. Creating outrage about neo-Nazis and Russia doesn’t hurt oligarchs; in fact, it helps their cause. It diverts attention and energy away from the true cancer destroying society, and provides the added benefit of allowing terrible people to get up on soapboxes. Condemning neo-Nazis is easy and takes no real courage, which is why oligarchs and their spokespeople salivate at the opportunity to use it to advance their own unrelated interests. Here are two examples of what I mean.
First, there’s Neera Tanden of the centrist-Democratic aligned Center for American Progress. The political ideology of such people can be best summarized as: “oligarchs are great as long as they support abortion.” Theirs is a dying ideology — soon to be extinct — but they’re desperately attempting to hang on to their dwindling relevance. While I’m sure neo-Nazi marches genuinely outrages such people, it’s telling that they immediately use such an opportunity to shift the conversation away from economic populism (which they despise), back to politics of emotion and identity.
Adam Johnson perfectly took her to task for exploiting the violence to attack leftist economic populists who remain stubbornly focused on the problems of oligarchy.
Neera’s cynicism is truly boundless. Here she evokes nazi terror to shield democrats from criticism. Beyond gross. Utterly shameless. pic.twitter.com/f6EepePd8y
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 12, 2017
That’s nothing though compared to the CEO of Goldman Sachs, who unsurprisingly, jumped on the opportunity to make himself look like a good guy compared to neo-Nazis. Naturally, the corporate media was right there to amplify the vacuous preening of this Wall Street oligarch.
Apex financial predators and pharmaceutical company CEOs are suddenly heroic figures. See how easy that was?
So here’s my point. Yes, neo-Nazis are terrible people, and violent neo-Nazis are even worse; but so are violent leftist protestors and anti-protestors. Anyone dressing up in a costume looking for a fight is unhelpful to those of us who want to actually deal with the multitude of things that have gone awry in this country.
Personally, I’m not going to be manipulated into thinking these fringe groups of lunatics represent the real problem in America. I know who really ran this country into the ground, and it’s not them. It’s the oligarchs and their apologists who are now out there acting like the voice of reason.
Play into the divide and conquer game all you want, just recognize that if you don’t know who the sucker at the political table is, it’s probably you.
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We have had neo-Nazis since Hitler’s youth movement but in this case, I will wager that it was NWO groups “fanning the flames” in this event, using paid “trolls” to “rant and rave”. Their “mental masturbation” (MM) is a highly contagious mental problem and many good people feel they must respond in kind, which ultimately takes our focus off of the real issues at hand. Almost every post turns into a game of profanity, nicknames and gutter talk. I know many good people who have caught that “MM” disease. The name of this games is “do not pass on hearsay without proof. The odds are most gutter talk is hearsay, repeated and exaggerated. Probably a goodly portion of those who use “MM” would be tongue-tied if they had to eliminate the profanity, obnoxious nicknames and gutter talk. The other day, I saw a post wherein the poster was bragging about his three college degrees, but I would not repeat his posts to my spouse, children or a judge.
Nothing last forever.
The United States no longer can be governed as a Federation and current events in America are a clear sign that the disintegration process now is in full motion.
Coastal states most likely to secede in the coming years (Soviet Union collapse 2.0)
As an American-born man who now is elderly and has lived in Canada for more of my life than in my native U.S., which I left at the age of 32, I have become so disgusted with the state of the U.S. that I try only to follow the news about the Ignited States of ‘Oink!’ that affects the rest of the world, especially peace, too directly. The tawdry squabbles of ignorant hordes of Americans no longer interests me. You guys down there are turning into a nation of utter idiots. The U.S. simply has to be cordoned off from the rest of the world to prevent its venom from destroying the whole planet.
Fantastic! Now why don’t we talk about the fact that not all right-wing era who attended UTR were neo-Nazis. Some white supremicists groups were present, but not every person who is not a Democrat is a Nazi. The Democrats simply label anyone who disagrees with them as such, and encourage leftists like ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter to violently attack them.
The oligarchs, power elite, shadow masters, however we identify the wicked and socio- if not psychopathic of their class, spend most of their time looking down on the proles, seeking ways to further exploit them. With unlimited time, wealth, and subservient servants, and control of education, information, and popular culture, power is being amassed and will bring absolute corruption. Part of the tactics is to set liberals against conservatives, even paying them for violence, with the knowledge that at least a few will eventually resist with their own violence. Their project, divide America, break it up, call in the UN and NATO for order out of the chaos they create. May we hold on to our basic American values and break the UnAmerican PNAC, Project for No America Century.
Re: all the virtue-signaling going on in the aftermath of Charlottesville–Tom Woods nailed it:
“But in general, I’m not the sort of person to say obvious things like: I’m against slavery! Everyone in 2017 is against slavery.
The attention-starved virtue-signalers who are so at pains to let everyone know about their opposition to slavery — at a time when everyone obviously agrees — are precisely the people who would have been least likely to oppose slavery when it really counted.”
Yes! C.S. Lewis said pretty much the same thing somewhere–I’m trying to find the quote now.
Good article. It is amazing how heated the response to rational discussions like this are right now. “NO if you are not foaming at the mouth you are a racist!” Are racist assholes a problem in the US? Yep. Are they THE problem, or even in the top-10 if “the problem” is socioeconomic ruin of tens of millions of people? Of course not.
Within the context of this weekend’s events, Antifa is certainly not the group that started the violence or (I would guess) that which engaged in most of it. They did, however, act as fuel on the fire. My big beef with Antifa idiots, and their sympathizers, is the almost laughable cognitive dissonance on their part. They say that Nazis should be punched. OK sure, while that is most likely going to be illegal, most people would probably be OK with looking the other way. The issue is that Antifa claims that they want to eliminate Nazis, but in reality I think that they ONLY want to punch them. Those two things are not the same. Seeking-out Nazis to punch is not going to eliminate them. It will embolden them. The fact that they (Nazis & similar groups) showed up to the rally in riot gear, seeming fully prepared for violence says to me that they WANT to be punched. It’s like the counter protesters are thinking “Yeah, YEAH, they want to be punched. Yeah, I am gonna really punch them, like way harder than they expected!” It is a dismal failure in the exact same way as fighting Islamic extremism with military force. Violence begets violence.
Love is not the answer either (why do people seem convinced that violence and love are the only tools in the toolbox?). Imagine a different reality from this past weekend.
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A bunch of Nazis, KKK clansmen and hard-guy types descend onto the park. They rally around the statue. Many are in full riot gear, carrying weapons, and generally looking menacing. These tough guys are ready for conflict, craving it, prepared to defend themselves with the only tool they know how to use: violence. Nobody shows up to agitate them. They are standing around in the hot sun, twiddling thumbs. Here and there groups get around a guy on a tailgate with a megaphone who tries to drum up excitement for white empowerment. Some people get excited, jump around a little, and then return to milling around. After a while people get a little bored; being surrounded by people saying the exact same thing as you gets old. Maybe someone tries to light up an effigy of Hillary or a black man. The fire marshal walks over and tells them that fires are prohibited in public spaces, the demonstrators sheepishly walk away and the fire department douses the effigy. By the evening, a bunch of hot and bored idiots are still milling around. Some have taken off the riot gear because it is hot and heavy. News crews mingle in the crowd for interviews. Most people there can’t really give coherent answers about why they are there, what they believe in or why they brought riot gear. Many of them duck away or try to cover their faces because they are starting to think that their employers might not be pleased to see them on national TV standing around at this thing. The news has been covering this all day. Ratings are sort of low because the public is utterly bored. The racists are so remarkably pathetic that nobody has any interest in watching the coverage. Near the end, a CNN correspondent cuts back to the studio. “Thanks Sherri, it looks like these demonstrators couldn’t manage to get anyone off the couch to protest them. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the KKK currently has between 5000 and 8000 members, down from nearly 4 million in 1925. It looks like their group is on its way to irrelevance. Next up, are McDonalds french fries the new diet fad?!” And most of the nation gets a hearty chuckle at how much of a joke these groups are, there is absolutely no room for anyone to blame anything on anyone except pathetic stupidity of the demonstrators, and the demonstrators go home fairly demoralized.
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Instead, we now have room for debate about who was worse (seems a lot like our elections), the racist groups are more convinced than ever that they are “at war” and worst of all, dozens are injured and one is dead. Forget love and violence as tools with which to deal with these groups; let them expose themselves for who and what they are. They are, in my opinion, so lame that the general public will do a fine job of laughing them into the dustbin of history well before punching them will (if it even can).
I agree whole heartedly! Let them do the work of making themselves look like fools, we don’t have to lift a finger. The thing they fear the most is to be ignored or shamed, that’s why they are on social media constantly, and use silly nicknames (grand wizard).
Calls to mind the old adage “Ignore them and they’ll go away”
And we can go back to healthcare, campaign finance reform, oposing the military industrial complex etc.
Charlottesville was nothing more than an example of the Dialectic in action by facillitating the interaction of extreme opposites.
I would not be the least bit surprised if it was staged. Or at least encouraged and partially facillitated.
Yes, Charlottesville was a side show to serve ulterior motives, and one of those motives was to discredit anyone who believes in individual liberty and Constitutional restraint of government. It’s easy in a demonstration like this for a couple of nut cases to slip in with a NAZI flag to discredit the whole movement.
Here are some of the things I was struck by. First, the ACLU confirmed the police stood down. Why is that? It’s interesting that they armor up at Occupy or DAPL. They don’t seem to get intimidated or scared. They just break out the military equipment, hire some contractors with dogs, bring out the LRAD’s, drones, rifles, water canons and MRAPs and jump right in.
Two groups of protesters arrived wearing riot gear and carrying tear gas and weapons. Suddenly, the police are wilting violets? No, I don’t buy this. This looks planned to me. Notice also that the objects of protest that get the military treatment are people protesting the oligarchy. It hardly gets more oligarchic than the TPP and Wall Street! You want to see the full faith and credit of USGinc. come down on you– protest the oligarchy.
The other thing I noticed is that when the white supremest organizer was giving a speech he was surrounded in a very intimidating manner and shut up. What a contrast with leftists to war criminals like Hillary and Obama. When I went to hear Harold Koh outline Obama’s right to kill anyone, anywhere, at the time of his choosing at the U. of Michigan law school there were only 5 of us who weren’t giving Koh a standing ovation. What is wrong with this picture?
I don’t see anything but adulation for war criminals (right and left) and various business leaders such as those mentioned in this article, people who have literally destroyed people’s lives and devastated entire cities. Why such a difference in reaction? It might lead one to think that beliefs are not really held sincerely!
This is a good article, making important points. Everything just makes me so sad. No one should have died or got hurt. No one.
Dont look left when “they ” want you to look right, or vice versa. (No political references intended.) Look straight ahead and like Micheal is saying, see the reality, and tell the wannabe manipulators to go eff themselves. Anyone with half an inkling to do the right thing and can see through the nonsense, knows this already, but it is worth repeating. Also worth stating that it is worrying how powerful the force for bad has become.
Ok so some random serial killer type rams his car into a bunch of protesters. i just tune that news out as random noise. Serial killers are out there and you cant control what they do. They are sick. There sickness has no bearing on current events or what happens in the world. It is just random evil. You never know what there agenda is. it is different with each killer. No reason to try and make sense of it. Serial killers are not organized evil. Organized evil is what is dangerous and needs to be stopped.
This all goes back to a saying that alcoholics preach.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
So you cannot change the random acts of violence caused by a serial killer. so accept what you cant change. You can influence and change the impact organized evil has. So fight against it.
Hopefully we will all gain the wisdom to know which battles are worth fighting.
Serial killers are best left up to detectives.
When there are two sides as far apart as they appear to be, there can only be ONE rational response to the madness and that is a “divorce”. The liberal democrats who are sick of the republicans get the eastern part of the country. The republicans get the western part minus the states of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho who will be given to the Libertarians. Frankly, we Libertarians are sick to death of the whining, “have to have their way” Democrats AND Republicans!
You can’t give the Republicans California, Oregon, And Washington because they’re already Communist.
Rocketman,
Eight families own a majority of the FED.
The top four oil companies.
Top six media companies.
Top major banks.
So stop thinking in terms of Democrats, Republicans or Libertarians because the top eight families own then too.
Know your enemy.
Most of those companies, including Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil, Time-Warner and Google are also corporate sponsors of the Rockefeller/CFR. Several of their execs, including Lloyd Blankfein, are CFR members.
Nearly every Fed chairman since WW2 and most secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense and CIA have been CFR members. See lists in the CFR annual report.
Oh and top insurance companies
Here is how i look at serial killers. I know they are evil and must be stopped. But i know I dont have the skill set to stop them. So my wisdom tells me I dont have the skill set to stop a serial killer. The wisdom to know I cant change things in that area. A trained detective studies the pattern of serial killers. He can make a difference in stopping serial killers. So I just hope the detectives will do there job and stop serial killers.
I study the oligarchs and am working to stop them. I can make a difference. So I concentrate my efforts in that direction. Everyone has different abilities. It is important to try and make a difference in a area that you can have the proper effect.
Very good article Michael. You hit the nail on the head. I hope your young family is doing wel.
The biggest reason for the Oligarchs success is that they function with the public unaware of the damage they cause. Awareness is a powerful weapon against them. Expose for who they are and the damage they cause is a powerful weapon against them.
The more people that become enlightened to the damage caused by the Oligarchs the stronger our fight against them becomes.
My contempt for Charlottesville knows no bounds along with those who lump people who honor the memory of the sacrifices of Southern soldiers with racists. Such no nothings will sooner or later attack the memory of all soldiers.
The bussed in anarchists and communists displayed their respect for the law, the law and the nation when they unleashed their Brown Shirts on those defending those monuments who were lawfully exercising their rights.
My contempt for those who try to equate these Brown Shirts with those who will not accept being victims and targets is beyond my words to express.
The AUTHOR CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THE LAW AND UNLAWFUL.
This is nothing but empty virtual signalling.
Here is what is going on in New Mexico. I am busy fighting it.
1. New Mexico has three different groups Hispanics, Anglos and Native American. The black population is rather low.
2. The Hispanic population is one of the largest in the country. The problem the Democrats have is the Hispanic population families’ roots go back to 1550 when the Spanish conquered New Mexico.
3. I was taught in school that before New Mexico was part of the Untied States it was New Spain. There are three flags flying over the Santa Fe Plaza the American, New Mexican and the old Spanish Colonial flag.
4. Most of the Hispanics are conservative Democrats who have generations that have served in the military. These people vote for the person not the party. As a result they will vote for a Republican if the Democratic stinks.
5. The voting outcome is controlled by Hispanic family voting blocks. You make alliances with certain families and they make sure their families vote for your candidate.
6. There are three parties in New Mexico the Republicans, Democrats and Lujan family.
7. The Lujan family have members in both parties they not only have Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Ray Lujan in Congress their cousin Javier Gonzales is Santa Fe’s mayor. Along with putting puppets in the Albuquerque city election.
8. The Democratic Party in New Mexico pushed out all of the Hispanic Democrats and Anglos I used to work with building the party. Now the only thing left are the Lujans, Udall family, crooked people and Anglos that were shipped in from out of state.
9. All of these Faux civil rights nonprofits have hit the entire state to get out the vote.
10. Last May Mayor Gonzales held an election to introduce a soda tax for pre kindergarten that Bloomberg is pushing around the country. An honest City Council member was against it because there were several incidents of embezzlement that occurred in City Hall. For example 13 million park bond money was missing. These crooks never kept receipts nor books of how the money was spent. Nobody went to jail.
11. Anyway the community railed around the no vote and there was anger at city hall. On Election Day the soda bill failed. A group called Santa Fe Power was organized to promote honest candidates.
12. Now this honest city council member is running for mayor.
13. The Democratic Party and the newspapers are smearing Santa Power as white supremacist Hispanics. We don’t have enough blacks for a black lives matter group. The message they are giving is either you vote for the Lujans or we will black list you as a racist.
14. Little do the Lujan family know we are forming a shadow party of Republicans, Democrats and Independents. I am compiling all the dirt and corruption to educate the shadow party on the Lujan family and their cronies. It an interesting alliance.
Anglo means white in New Mexico and I am an Anglo.
The good old ‘Holier than thou’ defence.
Firstly, there are billions being spent in stirring up the hatred, and when any somewhat intelligent response is offered then the billions are spent to attack the response. Trump was vilified for not condemning the Unite group. Just as he was vilified for failing to attribute the ‘anti-semitic’ crimes to the extreme right ‘Nazis’, turns out it was a jewish false flag, but that is ignored. Just as the facts that the ‘White Supremacist Killer’ was a schizophrenic under treatment and on psychotic drugs will be ignored. Objective reality and facts are a joke.
“The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.” – Michael Parenti. Not taking ‘sides’ is exactly the point. Every one who was not wearing a liberal mask becomes labelled ‘White Supremacist Neo Nazi racist murdering extremist’ staying silent and allowing these lies are a choice.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jnr.
Parroting their words, so that you do not get attacked, is rank cowardice.
Secondly, standing aside and watching the stupidity is what the handlers want. You are irrelevant.
“The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
They are ‘History’s actors’ and you are just a spectator.
The future will be determined on the streets!
You tried to take back the government through the horribly corrupt ballot box, Trump won, and immediately the fight was taken to the streets and to Congress and the courts. ‘
A couple of weeks, at most months, and it will all blow over. They will ‘get over it’ and then we can restore good old American values.’ The ‘Right’ want the ‘Snowflakes’ to just calm down, be quiet, and grow up. The ‘Snowflakes’ want the ‘Right’ to be dead. The ‘Right’ sees the ‘Snowflakes’ as silly children’. The ‘Snowflakes’ see the ‘Right’ as murderous Dinosaurs. Neither side is going to change and neither side can compromise.
Congress is completely owned : ‘I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.’ ~ Mark Twain
The courts are completely owned, for 20 years they have been packed with liberal activists who ignore the laws except to interpret any in a way that suits their agenda. 9 out of 13 supreme courts are totally Democrat controlled.
Winning the ‘Ballot Box’ merely shifts the war.
It means nothing when the 10 million state employees, the 30 million illegals and the 100 million welfare recipients are in active defiance.
1776 America had Est. 3 million people. At the height of the war 80,000 Americans actually fought, 100,000 fled the country. 6.5% is the population participation rate during the war.
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say ‘what should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” — Samuel Adams
The US may want to focus on finding, protecting and putting into place a leader who understands true values and has the tenacity to follow through. I still believe the US is about to fall in ways we cannot imagine, but that is good only if everyone understands what the problems were and always have been. Not sure if this is going to happen for you. All I know is that focusing on the past will never bring a future to envy.
How is blaming both sides a twisting into a support of what Trump said? I found nothing wrong with his initial response. This reaction to him just shows the irrational hatred for him. If he had said the same as you, there would have been the same reaction. Where was the response of the left when the right are under attack.?
The only thing I expect from our leaders is a condemnation of the violence and support for our Constitutional protected rights of expression and assembly. I do not need them telling me what is acceptable expression, even if it comes from Nazis.
Even though I do not want to take away any of the accountability of those that commit violence, I do believe it is helpful to understand where this hatred comes from. Whites and conservatives are under attack both verbally, in government, media and academia, and physically. It does not surprise me that that there would be some on the fringe that would react with violence.
Most people do not understand what fascism is. To most, its any political group of hate. They need to go to the founder of it, Mussolini (not Hitler). His rise was not based on hate.
There has to be an aspect of corporatism and ruling oligarchs. I consider our current state as fascist.
Fascism itself is not necessarily an ideology of hate. You need to go to its founder, Mussolini (not Hitler) to understand what it is. He did not rise to power with hate. Fascism needs an aspect of corporatism and ruling oligarchs. I consider what we have now as fascist.
I agree Kevin we are no longer a democracy. We are a fascist state controlled by a bunch Oligarchs who own corporate monopolies that block competition from everyone else. They are like parasites. Instead of drawing blood from its victims they draw money and wealth from there host. We are the host.
I had a hydronic heating business for over 25 years. I started it, grew it and became the best designer on the continent at one time. I was proud of that business. I bought a house in a real nice upper middle class neighborhood, got married had three kids and at one time had extra money to go away on vacation and weekends. I had achieved the American dream. I then fell deep in debt from 2009 to 2011 and never recovered. In the end I am going to lose almost everything except a Roth IRA. I am losing my wife, business and home to bankruptcy. I am in bankruptcy mode. I havn’t lost yet but I am so far deep in debt that I see no way out of this.
I have calculated how much I earned from my business over a 25 year span and how much I paid in insurance over that same time period. I paid more in insurance than I profited from my business. And now the situation is way worse. The insurance companies are demanding even more money from my business. I stopped working at it. They aren’t getting one more dime from my business. According to Ann Rand, I shrugged. Its over. The oligarchs are no longer getting any profits from me.
To think that eight families own the FED, oil companies, media, politicians, other banks and INSURANCE companies. I made a huge profit for all those oligarchs and they drove me into bankruptcy. I am left with nothing and they are left with HUGE insurance profits off my hard work.
I switched careers and now became a trader to grow the only thing I have left, my Roth IRA. I will never ever work a day for the oligarchs again. I feel that if I go and work productively they are just going to rob me of my wealth. I wont let them have what little is left of my wealth.
Pretty easy to see through the Globalist BS if you have a functioning brain.
none of this … matters … $$$ going to zero …2020 you have some time to get ready do not waste it …
“Winter is coming” sun going to sleep/hibernate /comma- may be for 1,000 years … 30%-60% reduction in solar out put … best get ready…no global warming…
that is what you should be acting on … not political theater
The 1st Amendment of the Constitution of these United States guarantees the unalienable Creator-given right for every person to express themselves as they see fit, regardless of the unpopularity of their opinion. It is the literal foundation of this American Experiment.
Government owns a monopoly on the legal use of force. It enjoys that empowerment for a single purpose: to protect the rights of the citizens to whom it is beholden.
Bigotry, while ignorant, childish and counter-productive, is simply the flip side of the same coin that empowers others to gather in strength for their particular belief.
You don’t bitch about the coin. You just accept reality and choose the logical side.
The government’s role is to protect the coin for the sake of the coin against those that would use violence and mayhem to strangle the speech of others.
But if a government is incapable or unwilling to do so, it cannot logically be tolerated by a freedom-loving people.
I thought we were better than this. We once were. But now?
Must we prove Franklin right and descend into despotism, it being the governance we can manage?
I mean, fuck! Really?
Divide and conquer has been working like a charm since slavery era
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/14/dog_whistle_politics_how_politicians_use
Dog Whistle Politics: How Politicians Use Coded Racism to Push Through Policies Hurting All
“One can love the South without flying the battle flag. But it won’t help to get rid of an old symbol if we can’t also rid ourselves of the self-destructive beliefs that go with it. Only by shedding those too, will Southern whites finally catch up to the rest of the country in wages, health and education.”
http://www.thestate.com/article135987178.html
The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is.
Serious question. In response to your line “I find all these things repulsive, and think people who gravitate to such behavior to be operating on such a low level of awareness, it’s genuinely hard for me to believe these people exist in real life”. I am wondering why you find it difficult to believe there are many people out there with a very low level of awareness? I have found that this is actually much more prevalent in almost everyone I interact with as opposed to those who are aware of the truth. I spend my time reading and watching information that helps me become aware of the con job that is pulled on the majority of the people in the world everyday and I consider myself awake and aware of the truth behind what life is presented as by our leaders. However, I have never met anyone who is aware of even a small percentage of what I know. I am sure they are out there but in my travels and in the different places I have lived since my awakening I always come across those who are ignorant to the truth. It may not be their fault since the media and educational narrative leads people to believe this false reality. Some people I know believe it so fervently that they will fight to defend an idea even if it can be disproved with the slightest amount of evidence.
When I first became aware of the truth behind what we see I wanted to share it with everyone I knew. I never changed even one mind. I may have planted a few seeds that developed into someone thinking for themselves later on but from my time with them, no matter how much evidence you present they would not budge from their belief in what the “official” organizations told them was the truth.
Personally I am not at all surprised by the events happening today. I even expected some of these things to happen. We live in a time when the youth are so distracted and brainwashed by consumerism all while receiving an education that offers the least amount of truth and no real life skills. Can we really be surprised that the sheep that have basically been groomed to be good workers are suddenly following the herd mentality that the institutions they learned from are dictating?
I understand your frustration completely yet I see this as the inevitable result of years of hiding the truth and trying to dumb down the population for decades. I have a theory that the internet will be the one thing that changes the world more than anything that will ever exist. I know it will take a while to prove but I think it is the greatest engine for getting the truth out to people that has ever existed. People are waking up. It is taking a long time but when I consider where I was in 2003 when I had my awakening to where we are today with web sites like this one, I know we are heading in the right direction. We are just at the phase of the process where the powers that be are now trying to fight to keep their corruption going in secret. They have passed the ridicule phase and are now starting the fighting phase which I worry will only escalate from here. However, the next step is acceptance and with all the seeds that are being planted by web sites like this and so many other people getting the word out, I think the truth will come out and will eventually be accepted by all. I truly hope I am around to see this happen.
Please keep up the good work!
‘When I first became aware of the truth behind what we see I wanted to share it with everyone I knew. I never changed even one mind. ‘
“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”
― Joseph Conrad
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” — Benjamin Franklin
You can’t fix stupid.
But maybe we can encourage virtue.
Benjamin Franklin claimed “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.” John Adams concurred: “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Political action, to be truly beneficial, must be directed toward changing the hearts and minds of the people, recognising that it’s the virtue and morality of the people that allow liberty to flourish.