My pessimism is based on several things:
1) This IS a democracy, and mob rule is more the way things work. It isnt a republic with an ironclad consitition that protects citizens rights.
2) There are at best an equal number of pro freedom and statist voters. In many areas, there are far more statist voters looking for the government to give them goodies.
3) Among the freedom loving voters, a LOT of them are intellectually compromised who do not think rationally on all subjects. thereby rendering them powerless against the left in arguments.
5) The backlash against the leftist failed policies will turn the tide against statist policies for a time, at least until the pro freedom policies are reinstituted and start to make things better.

I thought that Trump would represent a slowing down of the leftist agenda. He tried, but the left tried everything to stop him, and they substantially succeeded. If he wins in 2024, they will continue their assault, if in fact he is allowed to run again and is not in jail.

Your negativity is glaring. Some people really don’t see any hope, as they carry the full burden of the incredible societal decay and crash these last 2 years (job loss, destroyed careers, being socially ostracized, perhaps deaths in the family because of Covid and the pushing/forcing of vaccines and toxic drugs, etc.), or they genuinely can’t see the type of hope the person they called out for peddling ‘hopium’ to was referring to or the reasons that was based on. But there also is an overarching use of that term to silence and divide those who work against the elites, and try to expose the steal and the machinations to maintain their power. It is a simple attempt to discredit those who work to expose the elites.
But the good news? Hope is the answer. Mobs form in despair, absent hope…

Tell people that there IS hope. That we CAN and WILL get through this. That election reform is happening, and can be improved by all our participation and efforts. That we can and should VOTE. Be involved in our local communities. That the larger scale efforts by Durham and True the Vote are ongoing, and leading to results. That the channels of free speech are being re-opened, allowing all this news to be distributed without interference, finally!
Can we still bungle those opportunities? Of course! Hope is not an infallible prediction, nor ‘fate set in stone’. But we can realize we HAVE those opportunities, and that it is up to us to make the best use possible of them to set things right again. Directly or indirectly.

Remember when you said you were done with me.
You don’t seem to have a very strong discipline.
Russia’s long-term intentions and its relationship, both now and in the future, with Trump’s United States—if it is difficult to parse the actions of each empire through the fog of actualized and economized war, perhaps a refresher on the similarities between its Emperors helps better crystalize the world that’s being built before our very eyes.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump share a remarkable amount, from their national and foreign policies to their national and foreign controversies.

By those who follow them, the two are seen, quite simply, as problem solvers.

While the Globalist controllers see a solution and engineer a problem to bring it about, Trump and Putin rose on the backs of their promises to solve existing problems. If you want an obvious example, look no further than the fact that both nearly wiped out the bulk of Islamic insurgencies threatening their interests within two years of taking office. In practice, the two have displayed deft, steady hands when it comes to navigating international crisis, especially those threatening or dipping into war, and they have done it all while facing down a hostile, subversive and ubiquitous enemy with near limitless financial resources.

Both have served as willing and frequent targets of the Globalist-aligned corporate media, from the Ukrainian color revolution Putin dealt with against the Obama regime in 2014 to the J6 narrative Trump was saddled with (or invited as part of a larger play,) before the Pretender’s inauguration, and both have done an admirable and even memetic job of acting as narrative puppeteers for the better part of the last decade.

When I referred to them as the ‘great deceivers’ of our time in Part 0, I did not mean it as a bad thing. Deception, after all, is a core tenet of war. We know Donald Trump is a student of Sun Tzu. We know Putin is a student of Russian Sambo, a martial art known for its physical incarnation of the twin philosophies of redirection and balance.

Ultimately and most importantly, however, we know that both men are hated by all the right people, which is another way of saying they are feared by the very same.

this country has been doomed for a long time now. I dont see much potential for it to change on an intellectual basis. It could change somewhat in november as more people see the actual results of collectivist programs. The more the collectivists take over, the worst outcomes will become apparent. Collapse of our economy isnt a lasting way to change the prevalent ideology from collectivism to individual freedom, however. As the economy might recover, statism will be back in full force.

unfortunately, the "unconnected" people in russia and even here dont understand how they are being controlled. too bad

For now, let’s consider the possibility that Putin—and by extension, Russia—is truly an independent and utterly selfish actor in current events The prey of Putin and Russia has been revealed, and that prey is the same one that played would-be predator to Trump during and even before his first term as President of the United States.

The very same Globalist interests that aligned to paint Trump and his Deplorables as one ever-shrinking shade away from literal Nazis harbored the real thing in the very cities that are currently seeing the shadows of Russian paratroopers descend on them with ruthless efficiency.

Brilliant! That’s very insightful.

I love my wife and family as well as many dear friends. I love my freedom and see our beloved Country has been infiltrated by the same scum bags the people up Russia had been subjugated to for 70 years. Wake up.

I was referring to the idea of communism as a legitimate ideology. It is used in practice to fool the populace into thinking its something good, when in reality its just a smokescreen for giving the "connected" people power and goodies.

so were you, as a russian lover

Yes you were taught and are a good student.

It is alive in China , N Korea and Cuba and was in the Soviet Union For 70 years.
Communism dressed as Globalism. It’s not revolutionary to describe them as such, and those of us who have gone down the darkest paths know there is much more to their ideology than corrupt collectivism, but if that is to be our surface designation, it serves as a focal point to align against, and, I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but things don’t seem to be going very well for this ideology—or for its wielders and defenders—these days.

For many, China represents this Communist ideology most plainly. While I understand the reaction, I’ve never found China to be a compelling actor in international affairs. Sure, they have controlling financial interests in every market in the world, but as a sovereign actor with a largely phantom global military force, one that has never been mobilized in a serious modern conflict against another power, I remain skeptical.

Now, if we must make an attempt at designating a ‘Who’ in the current circumstances …

Aside from would-be elite individuals occupying positions of power in nearly every nation on the planet, what collective fits this modern, barely disguised Communist Manifest Destiny best, and is therefore the biggest loser in Russia’s current push into the heart of Communist corruption?

None other than the European Union and its Globalist philosophy farm, the World Economic Forum.

The EU is the collectivist head of the serpent, and the EU—largely represented by the actions and inactions of Berlin—is currently stunned and humiliated by Putin’s bold, unflinching aggression against its interests.

Communism was always a phony ideology designed to fool the people into supporting the party members. It was never alive as a legitimate system.

I have always had a very negative impression of the russian culture. Now, with Putin and his overt actions, its become obvious what russia is all about, and indeed the russian people for continuing to put vicious statists in power over a LOT of years.

Article XXXIV.

Whereas it was stipulated by Article I. of the Treaty concluded at Washington on the 15th of June, 1846, between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, that the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty, from the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude up to which it had already been ascertained, should be continued westward along the said parallel of north latitude "to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly, through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits, to the Pacific Ocean;" and whereas the Commissioners appointed by the two High Contracting Parties to determine that portion of the boundary wliich runs southerly through the middle of the channel aforesaid were unable to agree upon the same; and whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty claims that such boundary-line should, under the terms of the Treaty above recited, be run through the Rosario Straits, and the Government of the United States claims that it should be run through the Canal de Haro, it is agreed that the respective claims of the Government of the United States and of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty shall be submitted to the arbitration and award

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of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, who, having regard to the above-mentioned article of the said Treaty, shall decide thereupon, finally and without appeal, which of those claims is most in accordance with the true interpretation of the Treaty of June 15, 1846.

Article XXXV.

The award of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany shall be considered as absolutely final and conclusive; and full effect shall be given to such award without any objection, evasion, or delay whatsoever. Such decision shall be given in writing and dated; it shall be in whatsoever form His Majesty may choose to adopt; it shall be delivered to the Representatives or other public Agents of the United States and of Great Britain, respectively, who may be actually at Berlin, and shall be considered as operative from the day of the date of the delivery thereof

Of course you did not read the article.

You must be joking . The Soviet Union was dissolved. Communism died in Russia. Get up to speed.

Good catch!

I was surprised and delighted to find you quoting JFK's denunciation of the Soviet Union. Have you undergone an overdue conversion?

Yep Hegelian's DialElectric is up to it again!
Thanks for the His-story

Oh. Thanks.

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