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December 9, 2023

Let’s imagine that a complete societal collapse occurs in the near future.  With New York high school students hunting down their teachers for supporting Israel, the FBI continuing its own hunt of J6 political protesters, and rising violent crime throughout the United States, this scenario does not seem so remote.  

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Unfettered illegal immigration and the replacement of Western civilization with a suicidal devotion to some amorphous, multicultural pustule have shattered the unifying bonds of a shared culture.  Institutionalized racism in the form of government, academic, and corporate DEI initiatives that have replaced merit with skin color and oppression index scores has divided the population even further.  The demonization of mainstream political opinion as “extremist,” “far right,” or even as prima facie evidence for “domestic terrorism” has ensured that roughly one-half of the body politic can no longer express its views without threats of criminal sanction and career retaliation. 

Any American who opposes Marxist globalism, Deep State imperialism, bureaucratic tyranny, or central bank money manipulation is labeled a threat.  Any American who strenuously defends free speech, religious liberty, private property, the right to self-defense, and any other personal freedom that guards the individual against intrusions from the State is labeled a threat.  Any American who objects to the global elites’ obsession with “global warming” or who believes real science is never capable of reaching a dogmatic “consensus” is labeled a threat.  In other words, the U.S. government and its globalist allies view at least a couple hundred million Americans as “enemies of the State.”

In functioning democratic republics, vicious ideological disagreement does not normally set a nation on fire.  Political factions with great hostilities toward each other can coexist when political outcomes are determined by a set of agreed-upon rules.  Democratic elections, republican virtues such as civil respect for political minorities, and constitutional safeguards that ensure the preservation of individual rights all foster a kind of governmental fairness that allows even polarized societies to flourish.  However, when certain speech is censored as “hateful” or as “misinformation,” when the criminal justice system selectively prosecutes individuals based on their political affiliations, when nobody has any faith in the legitimacy of an election’s outcome, and when constitutional rights are regularly disregarded or overridden by the State, then peace breaks down quickly.

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When the normal release valves for civil disagreement disappear and the State chooses to perpetually torment certain citizens for their beliefs, those victims of the government’s authoritarianism are left in a social wilderness.  The deprivation of their civil rights within the governing system leaves them with a choice: to abandon their principles and avoid persecution or to operate beyond the constraints of the system.  Whenever and wherever such a choice has been foisted upon a population, civil conflict becomes the unavoidable result. 

What makes our circumstances particularly incendiary is the extent to which the American “ruling class” has taken sides.  Corporate oligarchs, the entrenched bureaucratic government, and the State-controlled press have joined together to push extremely divisive moral, economic, and political worldviews upon the American people.  By doing so, they have not only burned the bridges responsible for maintaining cultural peace but also destroyed any potential off-ramps that might allow these institutions to alter course as future events transpire.  

In the past, multinational corporations could expect liberty-minded Americans to more or less respect the movements of “free markets,” even when they disagreed with the outcomes, such as the offshoring of American jobs to more business-friendly environments.  Now, however, after not only witnessing China and other foreign adversaries buying up companies and properties in their own backyards but also enduring transnational behemoths haranguing Americans for not sufficiently embracing “transgenderism,” electric vehicles, “white privilege,” limitless immigration, and other tenets of the “woke” faith, a substantial percentage of formerly “free market” Americans subsequently view the financial class with irate suspicion.  

Instead of facilitating the free trade of goods and services, large companies have revealed themselves to be exclusively interested in long-term monopolies, government partnerships, and social control.  Corporate oligarchs have chosen to proselytize Americans into accepting the World Economic Forum’s trans-human, technocratic, feudalistic project of global management, and, by doing so, they have made themselves enemies to all freedom-supporting human beings.  While defaming anyone to the right of Marx as a “fascist,” corporate boardrooms’ incestuous relationship with government-wielded power has brought fascism back to life.  Freedom-minded Americans now know that neither corporations nor the governments that they furtively control are their friends. 

If and when civil order breaks down, there will likely be no circumspect public division between those “elites” who betrayed liberty and those “elites” who did not.  Because of the overwhelming unanimity of “elite” support for the Marxist globalists’ program of radical change (or the noticeable silence of those companies, politicians, and institutional parties in the face of this civilizational onslaught), when the fire finally rages, it will consume all.

The central bank money printers, corporate kings, “global warming” zealots, government technocrats, clandestine security services, and bureaucratic authoritarians have created a quintessentially zero-sum game.  Therefore, when regular people are finally forced to defend their way of life against tyrannical aggression, they will conclude that no person in a position of authority today is without some guilt.  The graveyard of burned bridges and detonated off-ramps all around us has ensured that there will be no future “safe space.”