What Do We Do Now (Part 5)
Become independent at the individual, familial, and community levels to be a bulwark within your state.
In Part 1, I pointed out that the federal government will always be controlled by powers much more powerful than your vote. Your vote will always be stolen and even if it is not, the Republican Party will reward your support by electing more of the same. The Republican strategy now seems to be to cheat harder than the other side. It will not work. Even if it did, your vote is worthless on the federal level. It is worthless on nearly every level in a blue state at this point. The federal government is beyond saving.
In Part 2, I pointed out how long the list is and how pointless the participation in it is. No meaningful resistance can be applied to a system that oppresses you from both sides. This will not change because the election cycle has people running around in a Groundhog Day-like existence. Even if the Right managed to take the federal government back, it still needs to curtail the power of the Executive Branch and its bureaucratic managerial state.
Then in Part 3, I laid out the better option by focusing on protecting the Red States and slowly expanding outward to take over states. Without this step, the swing-states will always be stolen. There is no hope to taking the federal level back and the focus needs to be at the state level.
In Part 4, I pointed out the necessity of both the Conservatives and the Libertarians working together and switching their focus from the Presidency to the state level and restoring Federalism. It is a matter of survival at this point for both of them. They need to work together and find common ground in a decentralized approach.
In Part 5, I will take a different approach here as I believe the only way forward is to embrace the inevitable.
Part 5: The Individual, the Family, and the Community.
As the country and the West as a whole continue to self-destruct, the most important thing that anyone can do is to figure out how to untangle themselves from the dying world. I do not mean this in the Thoreau-sense by completely withdrawing from society, but in the sense of becoming reliant on yourself, your family, and your community. The biggest defense against the inevitable demise of the West as we know it, is to become independent again.
Looking back at history in this country, it is no mystery that a century ago our ancestors were much more independent than we are now. We need to work towards gaining that back. That means accepting responsibility for you and your family. That means building communities of like-minded individuals to help support each other when the collapse comes or even better before it happens.
The first step is to divorce the lie we tell ourselves that our votes matter and it is a civic duty. There is no saving the federal government. They have completely destroyed this land by denying you of your life, liberty, and property over the past 109 years. They know they have run this as far as they can and they needed to do something. That is why they have switched their focus to their own population. They see you as an enemy. Anyone who reads this Substack is an enemy of the State. Any libertarian is an enemy of the State. Any populist MAGA supporter is an enemy of the State. Anyone who dares to question the official narrative is an enemy of the State. The State and the elites have waged a war on anyone they cannot control. They want to disarm you so they can completely usher in their version of modern-feudalism. Even if there is some part of you that thinks you can vote this evil out, the people in charge of the destruction of the West are not running for office, they are far above them. Politics has become a distraction, like sports or movies. You may have good characters left in the game, but they are not numerous enough to do anything about what is going on and what is going to happen. They do not have any control over the corporations that are helping to usher in the end of free speech, transition the country to the digital currency controlled by the State, and will inevitably lead to the end of private property. They want you to own nothing and they are going to make sure that you have no means to stand against the others being happy about that fact. I will discuss all of these issues further in the future.
The Level of the Individual:
Personal responsibilty means accepting that you and you alone are responsible for the decisions that you make in this game called “Life”. This means that you and only you will accept the consequences of your actions. Seeing as we have a web of things that have kept us glued to the current system like Social Security, we have to embrace the fact that like the country that runs this system is bankrupt and so is their scheme. It was a scheme of wealth transfer to buy compliance as they robbed you blind and got more pieces into play over the near century of its existence. There is no money there for the youth who have no option to opt out of it. Politicians will not save this system and they have to act fast as these are going to run out of money fast. My generation will have, by force, contributed to a system that will not have any money left by the time that we retire. It will run out maybe even sooner. Those that will receive it will receive money that has lost value since the time they contributed it. It is a dirty scheme. One that is coming to an end and is forcing the country’s “elected” officials’ hand because they know that the people will riot. They want to make sure when the dust settles, they can trick you out of it, and remain in power rather than on a guillotine.
You have also had to compete with a centrally planned economy that gives money to its connected friends. This system has destroyed your savings, your parents’ savings, your friends’ savings, and has created a century of crony capitalism and profiteering for the war machine. This has also expanded into many other industries including helping to prop up the COVID lockdowns by buying compliance from doctors and hospitals. You are up against pure evil. What this means is they not only gave money to their friends to torture you with policies such as lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates, but they did it by taxing your savings. Inflation is a hidden tax. This system is about to come to an end and they are trying to usher in the change so they will be left in charge of the new era. They want you living in a society where they buy your compliance with things like UBI. If you play by their rules and take their cheese, you get a guaranteed income. Look for candidates to really start promoting this in the next election cycle. The language to control you will be similar to what they did during the Covid con. They want more and more dependents. This is how they silence the groups. You need to never take the government’s cheese. It is a mouse trap that will be sprung the moment you take it. At that point you will become trapped in a slow death. These numbers will increase as time goes on. Once that is done, the centralized digital currency will be shortly behind it. That, as we all know, will be the end of dissent. It will be the end of free speech. It will be the end of the system and in its place will be feudalism.
You need to commit to the following:
1.) Avoid any “free” programs that they will trick you into choosing to participate. That trap will be the way to keep you ashamed and dependent. They will use it to marginalize your dissent at first while they transition into a social credit system. Then it is over. Prepare for this by getting into better position financially now. This is similar to what they have done with PPP loans in the recent past.
2.) Diversify and protect your revenue streams. The more independent you are, the more power you have to negotiate and live the life you want. This is liberty in its purest form. If they cannot touch you, they cannot control you. If you fight to stop the digital currency with everything that you have and convince others to do the same, this will be much easier to accomplish. Create blocks to keep your revenue coming. If you create different revenue streams, you are harder to go after. If they send their Leftist henchmen to come cancel your business, you have other things to tide you over as you shout them down.
3.) Live within your means. This keeps you from being tempted by the government’s cheese. This also means getting yourself in a better position financially. It is much easier to keep the high ground if you avoid living beyond your means. Negotiate from a position of strength. Read books or ask your successful friends how they do it. They will help you. I have written much more on this very topic here.
At the Family and Community Level:
These two things are the extension of yourself. After you start by working on protecting yourself by working to gain more independence, you next try to get your family to do the same. They in turn will get more independent and then like a rock dropped into a pond, the ripples move outward. You expand to your friends and your community. All of these units working together will be better prepared to stand up against what will come our way in the future.
You need to commit to the following:
1.) Become George Bailey. Say goodbye to the evil corporations that want to help usher in this system. Buy locally. Grow your own fruits and vegetables. This is not some “America First” Populism, but because once you continue to choose convenience and pricing over the personal feel of building a relationship with a farmer or a vendor, you will lose the things that matter most forever. You will never have to leave your house. All you will do is sit back and watch the propaganda from their corporate buddies on their streaming app. Soon after that the programing will switch to actually reward the social credit system. For instance, if you watch this speech by your “leaders”, you will gain a certain amount of points to buy this amount of privileged food rations. Pretty soon this will follow the same patterns as the mouse trap. The more independent businesses that you support, will in turn support other small businesses and this will lead to independence at the community level. Even if you think this is crazy, buy local because that is what supports the free-market system, upward movement of the middle class, community investment, jobs, and what makes for real human interaction in the community. This will keep Bedford Falls alive and Pottersville at bay. I understand the economic reasons to buy cheaper products from the corporate overlords, but I am asking to start to take back some of your independence from these corporations as well as the government. Start with a 51% small business rule. Then try to work on doing more and more. Buy from mom and pop vendors. Buy from hole-in-the-wall restaurants instead of salty chains. Start working on this. Save your community and in turn your community will save you.
2.) After you work to get in a better position yourself, you may find you finally have more time and knowledge to work on your family. Work together to strengthen them as well. You will be much stronger with more people fighting alongside of you. After this, you and your family can spread the word. You will know a thousand people in your life, and they will know a thousand people. That means you are one person away from a million. Two persons away from a billion. Jordan Peterson talks about how you are all connected.
You are a node in a network. Strengthen yourself and it will strengthen those around you. Pretty soon, you will realize how absolutely little you need the government for. Covid ended because people started to ignore the leaders. This in turn forced the Red State leaders to realize they had to change course. It didn't end because your leaders are merciful. It ended because we said it was over. They are now operating in the darkness ready to make another move.
Conclusion:
“Government requires make-believe. Make believe that the king is divine, make believe that he can do no wrong or make believe that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Make believe that the people have a voice or make believe that the representatives of the people are the people. Make believe that governors are the servants of the people. Make believe that all men are created equal or make believe that they are not.”
— Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013)
For this entire five-part series, I have tried to lay out why we need to change the way we approach this world. The system is not only broken, but it is dangerous. The system is now like a man on the green mile waiting for its demise. I think the above quote summarizes what we have to accept. It is time to start thinking about what comes after all of this. In the meantime, start working to prepare yourself, your loved ones, and your community to protect against it. While you are working on all of this, you work on protecting your states, fleeing to a Red State, or welcoming the refugees from the Blue States. It does not matter if you follow the steps that I plan to take myself or continue to work on, but just do something that fits you and your family. As this plays out, I fear the end will come with violence. I hope I am wrong in this notion, but it is prudent to prepare for this. The more you work to gain independence and convince others to do it as well, the better our transition into whatever comes from the ashes of the West will be. After the past couple of weeks of writing in this series, I will write more individual pieces about the lessons of history applied to today, current affairs, and other topics. I tried to stay on this topic when all of these current issues like Balenciaga and other things were unfolding. I will write plenty of things in the future about independence at every single level that I have briefly gone over here. I think that is the most important thing to take away from this series.
As always, thank you for reading and sharing. I am truly grateful for everyone who reads my work.