It’s amazing how every time I post something telling people things are not quite as bad as they think, and defeat is not guaranteed, someone or other presumes to lecture me on how oh, no, it’s much much worse.
The prize this week goes to the gentleman who tried to tell me that a Romanian type of outcome was impossible because we can’t organize and march shoulder to shoulder without being arrested or something. Because, you know, the outcome in Romania was organized (it wasn’t. I have read extensively on it) and also they were much freer than we are now (I recommend said gentleman have a talk with say Monalisa Foster. Yes, yes, the iron curtain countries were falling, etc. None of this compares to as vast and untraceable as the US is, how relatively regime-uncorrupted our military is [I do say relatively] or how much dissent is still allowed. Seriously people: We’re more free than…. well, Canada, Australia, not to mention Europe, and those are beacons of freedom compared to Soviet Satellites, even as the wheels were coming off.)
Because my courage rises with every attempt to depress it — name that quote! — I decided this is the ideal time to point out that the doomers are full of sh*t. It’s not our wheels coming off.
Realizing this is such an unheard of perspective — and I can explain why, yes — I will point out that you shouldn’t from this assume that I mean everything is hunky dory, or that we’re not going to hurt at all, or even that we don’t still need to fight.
I’ve said before and I will repeat, because of how fast the institutions are collapsing, because of the terrible people the Left has in place (not just evil, but incompetent and bizarrely mentally inflexible) and how much power they have managed to amass, (before most of us were born) they are creating an amazing level of destruction which will bring a terrible amount of pain and suffering. We’re going to lose people, places and things we had no need to lose, because the left is like a bear with its paw in a steel trap, and it’s going to maul everyone it can before it goes down.
And it’s not all going to be cookies and cream on the other side, when we get there. There has been some real damage done to people and culture that will need to be repaired, and that’s never a load of fun.
BUT in the end, we really do win, and they really do lose. And the Gipper will be proved right, as will Trump, because communism and socialism, and all the top-down “Daddy government will kiss it and make it better” philosophies will at long last be confined to the dust bin of history to be things of horror unearthed by long-future archeologists digging through the fossilized midden of ideas. At which point they’ll scratch their heads and go “Uh…. how did they believe this?”
So, why do you think you’re losing?
Well, because the right always thinks its losing.
Part of it is set-in perception. If you’re the sort of kid who got beat all through elementary and middle school, even if you get a late growth spurt and become the sort of guy no one messes with, at the back of your mind, you’ll always expect to be beaten up and cringe when a guy with a sadistic smirk heads for you.
Throughout most of the twentieth century the lovers of freedom (right is a really bad word for this as in Europe it just means “blood, soil, and national religion”) lost ground incrementally until maybe the last decade.
This is because the communications technology of the 20th century was so concentrated and susceptible to gatekeeping that it was custom made for the left to get hold of and police, never letting anyone else get a look-in. So once the left captured it the right could not get a look in
And lies were told with panache and style. And “Leftism” became a positional good. Which meant people ascending the social ladder either were or pretended to be left. For one, it was the only way to get a job in the arts, communication, news, etc. etc. etc.
This in turn created a prospiracy that spewed a unified narrative, including outright lies, like FDR ending the great depression, which was taught as truth in public schools, and assumed in all news and entertainment.
This also created the feeling that communism was the future and would always win. Every time I say that some of you say “Not in the place/time I grew up.” It’s as may be. Sure, people were “anti-communist” from the lips out, but if you go and look at the books you read, including school books, they all assumed that top-down, planned economy and welfare and all the rest was the way to go. They claimed to be anti-communist, while mostly being anti-USSR, but still assuming that the socialist/communist/statist ways were the best. In fact, a lot of you who are older and haven’t really thought about it still assume a lot of this. It comes out when you say things about the good old days, which were the narrowly controlled times of FDR. When abuses were tolerated that would now have us up in arms, including intrusions at all levels of life and production, and good ol’ weapon licensing and control.
Because the left controlled the news media, too, they managed two things the right couldn’t do: When a program failed, they papered it over and invented a way that it had been meant all along, and served their purpose. This created, in the right’s minds, the idea of a never ending series of victories for the left.
Or as a friend said recently “They don’t mind waiting 100 years. It’s all a plan.” That’s arrant bullshit. The left is actually running on borrowed time, and the current generation doesn’t want to make any sacrifices, much less 100 years of sacrifice. They want their rewards, noooooowwwww. BUT in my friend’s defense, that’s the left’s propaganda and has been all our lives — we’re about of an age — and it’s impossible not to believe propaganda that has gone on that long and that pervasively your entire life. Particularly when you’re depressed, it’s very hard to see through the nonsense and see the counter evidence.
The other trick they have managed is to make the right disown their victories. Until recently — and it’s important to realize this has broken — they could attack someone on the right and get them disowned and turned into pariahs. They’re still managing this with the more timid commentariat and more hidebound right-pundits about Trump, but they have reason to suspect this is not reaching the masses, and it’s part of what’s driving them nuts.
The truth is that without the shell of unified propaganda, the Marxists are a paper tiger.
With all the help from the west, and making big scary noises to keep the help come, all the USSR ever managed was to lose population/wealth/ability to do things SLOWLY. As opposed to the “very fast” that would have happened otherwise.
Even in a country as controllable as Russia (for various reasons, including because of climate, highly concentrated population) the resistance was getting larger and larger, till 70 years later they were governing in name only. But they could still project — abroad — the idea they were totally in control. Which is why you don’t realize any of this.
As for China — China is China and therefore complex — but there’s reason to believe that most of the control has always been ‘for foreigner to see’ and to be honest the same with most prosperity. Aside a few potemkin cities, the average Chinese lives like a medieval peasant in Europe, but without the charm.
The other little communist “paradises” are mostly just kleptocracies in the style of the region, with added oppression and horror that come from benefiting from the still existing Marxist media in the west.
Things have not been going well for the Marxocrats since the Soviet Union collapsed. Which it did because Reagan refused to kowtow to it or treat it as a world power. It was always a paper tiger and couldn’t stand it when someone blew on it.
The Soviet Union was not only their hope, and what they hoped was the promise of a communist future, but it was also their source of financing, since a lot of what they got by pillaging and raping Africa and South America went to fund Marxists in the west.
They reorganized, sort of, after the fall, by throwing themselves into the watermelon green movements, racial movements, feminism, etc etc etc.
Under this guise they managed to do a lot of harm to the culture, including the introduction of “political correctness” which they hoped would create not only the inability to say forbidden things but even to think forbidden thoughts.
It didn’t work. Sure, it corrupted the language and it has destroyed the arts, but unfortunately — for them — the geeks undermined it all. Mind you, it would have happened without the internet, but it might have taken another two or three generations. You see, political correctness and all the noveau-Marxist thinking is even more disconnected from reality than the old Marxism. So sooner or later the counterculture (real one. Us) would have won by telling the truth. Because the truth works. However, the internet made it possible for people to communicate without the left gatekeepers. This made a lot of us both aware we were not alone, and started the true resistance to the leftist constructed reality.
“Racist” stopped working as an insult, since we’re aware the left are the true racists; cancelling is an ineffective tool when everyone knows it’s happening. It worked great for fifty years when it was in secret; imposing controls on speech doesn’t work when people can speak around the controls; carefully constructed narrative breaks apart when you try to tell it where counterexamples are in the public eye.
The last twenty years have been a roll of failed attempts to gaslight us. Occupy Wall Street was supposed to take the economic misery people were experiencing under Obama and blame the free market for it. It was supposed to turn into a vast movement of the dispossessed which gave Obama the power to act as a socialist dictator and take everything. Instead, it collected the mentally ill and some college students.
Summer of recovery one, two, etc. was supposed to convince us things were better under Obama.
H*ll and damnation, people, Obama was supposed to be the new FDR, taking us all the way into socialism.
In reality they can’t even pretend that he’s beloved or saved the country from anything. Heck, even racial minorities ain’t too fond of him. And what’s more they know it, because they know how much they had to fraud in 12.
BLM was supposed to spark a revolt of everyone against white people. Instead, it was the paid for psychos and a few crazy people and white college women. And not enough to terrorize the suburbs. In fact, the only place they really could terrorize was the cities they already controlled.
Oh, yeah, they also got to scare corporations and churches, which are already administered by their own. But that isn’t going so well when the lumpen proletariat realized it could boycott back. And also when the little leftist psychos wouldn’t say bought. (Quite possibly the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen/heard was our last visit to our church in CO, which had just re-opened, and which got a fiery Marxist deacon to preach on the virtues of BLM and “anti-racism” while the church and its property was being vandalized nightly. It wasn’t just me sitting in the pew looking at the man like he was nuts. Because he was.)
2016. Trump winning gutted them. You see, the fraud was in place, but those d*mn people went and voted in numbers that made it irrelevant.
And then after four years of demonization and an unprecedented “Let’s put everyone under house arrest” initiative to control those dang peasants, they voted for Trump in such numbers that the fraud had to be ramped up at the last minute and now everyone knows.
And the epic shenanigans of 2022 have pissed people off at the local level various places.
What’s worse, the mood in the country keeps getting uglier, and despite some older people and more timid commentators still buying the “He’s evil bad, disown him” the majority of us are going “yeah, no.”
Kyle Rittenhouse was supposed to be condemned and abandoned by the right, then made a public spectacle, to show you couldn’t resist. That didn’t go well.
Yes, the January 6 prisoners are a horrible thing, and for them what happened is a disaster. But it too failed to work. It was supposed to be a Reichstag fire, which would cause the entire country to turn on anyone to the right of Lenin. Yes, the old and brainwashed have bought the leftist narrative. But most people haven’t. In fact, the “hearings” were a massive flop, and convinced more and more people that it was nothing and the left was just making it up. (Because it was.) And more signally it failed to “get Trump” which was its principal purpose.
So even though we lost people — well, not us, but the lovers of freedom in general. Our people were too wary to walk into that trap of a demonstration with no set purpose that made any sense — this also wasn’t a win for the left. Not saying that it’s not horrible what happened to them, but instead of turning the nation against the left, it mostly injured the FBI’s and the government’s credibility. The same with all the various “get Trump” schemes.
In fact, the fact that despite everything they’ve done, Trump remains the republican front runner, is terrifying the left. Their sphincters are so tight they couldn’t pass a bean.
Viral explosions of “Let’s go Brandon” didn’t help either. It’s not just the opposition to Biden, it’s the implied knowledge that the media lies.
Oh, they’ll continue trying. They have nothing better. Right now they’re sucking their thumbs and telling themselves it’s just Trump. He’s a sort of Svengali that has galvanized the right, and if they get rid of orange man bad their plan will go forward. It’s not true, of course. Trump is not our leader, so much as our ramrod. He’s not the movement, just a visible part of it. But they can’t admit that yet, because if they do it’s abandon ships. There is nothing else they can do to save themselves. Which is of course the reality.
They’ll also try to get rid of or replace Biden, which is going to be hilarious — stock on popcorn — as it will set their various factions into a fight, various groups of kleptocrats in a naked-claw fight for survival. Because if you think they can expose the Bidens misdeeds and not have everyone else — under the cover of the media domination all of them have gotten that dirty, the last 100 years or so — suspect they’re next, you’re way more naive than you should be. Yes, they’re going to try to get rid of Biden, but it will get everyone fighting everyone else, including such paragons as the Obamas and the Clintons. The resulting effluvium of misdeeds revealed will make Hercules’ cleaning the Augean stables seem like a light dusting of a clean room.
In the end the left only has a plan, the same one they’ve always had: Take control of communications and the army. Disarm the populace. Engineer a famine. Take complete control. It has the added Gramscian flip in our case (And the late 20th century case, in general) of “Open the borders to 3rd world peasants and replace the population with one that’s easier to terrorize.”
It’s not going well for them here. Despite all the propaganda, people refuse to give up their guns or embrace their new unwashed overlords. In fact, despite all the entertainment trying to make it sound like the incoming illegals are some kind of holy people, normal Americans aren’t buying it. And remain strongly against it. (I don’t have any proof — how would I get it? — but I suspect many of the illegals coming in — a lot of whom are rounded up and chased onto the caravans by various means, or recruited with promises of welfare — are turning around and going back home. The only reason I suspect this is the fact that unlike in 2007-8 Spanish publications aren’t becoming any more prevalent at checkout and 90% of the people I run into who are immigrants were born and raised here. The exceptions are people from Cuba and Venezuela, and I wouldn’t bet on those obeying the regime once they’re here.)
In fact it’s not going well for them IN EUROPE. Despite fraud, crooked voting systems (first past the post is very manipulatable) etc, scary “Right wing” parties keep winning, and emerging, and winning. And largely unreported or giving a “glorious communist revolution” when reported, a lot of Europe is in open revolt and fighting against the socialist overlords. Europe! Where by and large their media is still controlled and they still believe the “coming climate catastrophe” not to mention falling for the covidiocy hook line and sinker.
Here? Don’t make me laugh. Sure, they have the newly indoctrinated,i.e. young “educated” people. And they have the old, who watch TV a lot.
The rest? Ah. The rest are just getting more and more angry about all this nonsense.
Meanwhile the left continues trying to drive their plan of disarmament and famine.
It’s not going well for them. It’s not going to go well for them.
If they weren’t the people who bought the message that the future is inevitably communist; if they weren’t true believers, they could save themselves and save us a lot of strife by giving up now.
Instead, they’re going to use everything they control to punish us and make us bow to them and fall in with their plan.
It’s not going to go well.
In fact, if it were happening elsewhere, to people far away, it would be a great comedy.
As is, their fall and the replacement of the “FDR model” which swallowed our republic is going to hurt very badly and is going to cost us wealth and more importantly people.
But in the end, we win.
The harder they fight, the faster they fall.
Take no counsel of your fears. Make things tight and fast for you and those who depend on you. Multiple sources of income. Ways to survive days or weeks without the modern conveniences. Some rudimentary medical supplies. Ways to defend yourself. Take care of your health now, and get yourself in the best shape you can.
And then …. keep your head up. Don’t be afraid. It is our fate to live in interesting times. It is our very great privilege to fight for freedom on behalf of future generations as well as our own.
They can’t win, and we must. It is the cause of humanity.
Hearts on high.
According To Hoyt 