Has the time come for a real Galt's Gulch? If the worst should happen in November.
If the worst should happen, and the Democrats get power again (which let's be honest, will happen eventually even if we successfully delay the inevitable in 2020), I think we have to give serious consideration to some semblance of Galt's Gulch. Even Rand knew such a place in real life would be completely fantastical, yet we have advantages that Galt and Mulligan didn't have, such as the ability to organize online and recruit thousands if not millions of people where Galt had to do so one at a time.
I started thinking about this when Bill Whittle made a Stratosphere Lounge video talking about a "Plan B" should the worst happen this November. He used the analogy that if you were on a ship and a child went overboard, you'd jump in to save him/her. If you found yourself attached to an anvil, you know it's going down no matter what so you cut yourself off from it. The talk was a little rambling but he then mentioned geographic segregation, even the possibility of moving to one state like Texas or New Hampshire (has to be a state with an international border and/or coastline), and seceding.
I say this only PARTLY tongue in cheek - it's not a literal suggestion or an attempt to start such a movement... yet. But it's something to think about. We prepare for every other potential emergency in life. A socialist takeover of our government is bigger than any other emergency I can think of so shouldn't we have a plan in place? You can rebuild after a hurricane or earthquake. What the Democrats are proposing is incurable. It will eventually fail and there will be a call for more market and other freedom, but the situation would get far worse before it gets better. I keep saying the only way mask laws will EVER end, vaccine or no, is mass resistance. May be the same for our nation as a whole. Because like Bill Whittle's analogy, a Democrat victory in November is a sign that the ship is no longer salvageable, that the American populous, maybe America itself, is too far gone to save. So salvage what you can and cut ourselves from the anvil.
I started thinking about this when Bill Whittle made a Stratosphere Lounge video talking about a "Plan B" should the worst happen this November. He used the analogy that if you were on a ship and a child went overboard, you'd jump in to save him/her. If you found yourself attached to an anvil, you know it's going down no matter what so you cut yourself off from it. The talk was a little rambling but he then mentioned geographic segregation, even the possibility of moving to one state like Texas or New Hampshire (has to be a state with an international border and/or coastline), and seceding.
I say this only PARTLY tongue in cheek - it's not a literal suggestion or an attempt to start such a movement... yet. But it's something to think about. We prepare for every other potential emergency in life. A socialist takeover of our government is bigger than any other emergency I can think of so shouldn't we have a plan in place? You can rebuild after a hurricane or earthquake. What the Democrats are proposing is incurable. It will eventually fail and there will be a call for more market and other freedom, but the situation would get far worse before it gets better. I keep saying the only way mask laws will EVER end, vaccine or no, is mass resistance. May be the same for our nation as a whole. Because like Bill Whittle's analogy, a Democrat victory in November is a sign that the ship is no longer salvageable, that the American populous, maybe America itself, is too far gone to save. So salvage what you can and cut ourselves from the anvil.
That mask is long gone but the centament remains.
This may seem weird; I don't think I can ever be more in awe of clear skies and the squeak/crunch of snow during -15 deg days.
I have a series of fresh water oceans to play upon and spend time reflecting upon my universal insignificance and vulnerability. I enjoin in a community that dons "shorts" as soon as the temps rise above freezing. The "dying" time of winters are the beautiful counterpoint of re-growth of life.
I lived in Lubbock for 4 years.....North is my choice. I thrive when the temps dive!
Rand had it right. The "peaceful" solution is a strike because sociopaths will kill millions to keep their power. To them might makes right.
Power corrupts. One in a trillion can wield power without being corrupted. Trusting anyone with power is as rational as expecting to win the Powerball lottery every time.
As for the Muzzle mandates -- I test the waters and resist (no muzzle) whenever I think I can cross the line of defiance. In other places, such as the big box and local stores, I just wear my absurd gas mask and tin foil hat... Just thought of something... I could put my MAGA hat on top of my tin-foil-covered mountain-climbing helmet. Also, it might be good to mock those who still wear the muzzle -- in particular those loonies in the woods on trails or up at the snow level in the mountains... theirs is the sum of fear + ignorance + compliance + virtue-signaling.
Regarding a real Galt's Gulch, I think that I will hide In Plain Sight... be the gray man. I will work in a manner to produce only enough for myself and will engage in trade in the black market. Trading in both skills and materials has merit. True Story: I own some acreage. One of my neighbors, who also owns land, made a trade to a local high-end home builder. He said to the builder "If you build me a castle on my property, then I will sell you five acres of my property for a song." The deal went through, my neighbor got his swanky new home, and the builder got five nice acres of view property which he used to build his castle. Win Win. And the actual money traded was trivial. So there are opportunities. A skill for skill trade -- one individual has medical experience (family practice doctor), the other has wealth growth and investing experience... I see the potential for a trade. Nothing is actually put into writing, so there are no records. One of my plans is to short plat one of my properties and "sell" a 10 acre parcel to a local (within Washington State) family farmer for growing produce (blueberries, cherries, apples) and then I am a business partner... all of this is in the planning / analysis stage. Develop a network of like-minded and like-actioned individuals. There is very little way to 'fake a farm' -- generational family farmers, owner/operators of auto repair facilities, carpenters, people that work their professions with talents and skills -- they are solid fixtures in a healthy network.
I also see the value of PMs having a greater "currency" in the darker times ahead.
Anyone here familiar with Devon Stack's "Day of the Rope?" It is a short novel. You can likely gather the implication from the book's title as to some of the "solutions" in terms of how to fight a statist regime.
Monkey-wrenching had been the pastime of the greenies in years gone by. Our civilization is presently but a thin veneer ... so much of this vast complexity could be brought to a crescendo of catastrophe with very few hands. And if those hands belonged to competent engineers, it might only take 12 years to turn out the lights.
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"The State of Texas, unlike the other 49 states in the union, never officially ceded its lands via an enabling act to the U.S. government during its annexation. The federal government, therefore, may not enjoy supremacy over land patents and deed issued by the Texas state government."
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Exerpt: "A land patent is the only form of proof of absolute title to land in the United States. It protects the landowner from claimants of co-ownership as well as the United States government.
A land patent is granted to the named party and his, her, or their heirs and assigns forever. Without a land patent, there is the potential to lose ownership of your property in a land contest. With a land patent, the property is no longer subject to any third party challenge."
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