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The Leftist Gods and Globalization

There is a common misconception among newer activists in the liberty movement that the idea of the "false left/right paradigm" means that there is no political spectrum; that the entire notion of left vs right is a fabrication. This is not exactly the case. When we talk about false paradigms in regard to politics (or geopolitics), what we are actually referring to is the elitist class, otherwise known as globalists, and the fact that they have no left or right political orientation. They do not care about Democrats or Republicans; they have no loyalty to either party. Their loyalty is to their own agenda, and they will exploit both sides to get what they want whenever possible.

Beyond the globalists, average people do indeed fall on a political spectrum that could be broken down and simplified to a couple basic ideals or ideologies. On the left side of the spectrum we find the collectivists and socialists, who believe that society (the group) is vastly more important than the individual and that the actions of individuals must be strictly monitored and governed to prevent negative effects on the group.

The core argument of the leftists is: "We are all a part of society and must act in harmony with society so that the system continues to function. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few..."

On the right side of the spectrum we find the individualists, sovereignty activists and true conservatives. People who, in varying degrees, believe that society should be restricted from dictating the life of the individual and that group participation should be voluntary. Where leftists seek to centralize, people on the right seek to decentralize.

The argument of the conservative is: "Without the individual the group does not exist. The group is an abstraction created in the mind. When groups do form, they should only exist to serve and protect the inherent rights of individuals, not be used as a mechanism of control by weak people who are afraid to function on their own..."

This separation of philosophies is simple and easy to follow. Where things start to become confused and convoluted, however, is when political "gatekeepers" or globalist-controlled pundits and media outlets get involved and muddy the waters. For example, there are some egregious misinterpretation of conservative principles in the mainstream, especially in places like Europe where the word "conservative" is considered dirty and is barely spoken. Gatekeepers who have no loyalties to actual conservative values have attempted to soil the image of conservatives as a whole by misleading them down the wrong path or acting as false representatives.

Inevitably, these pied pipers try to lure conservatives to support leftist ideologies, like big government interference in people's lives, or in the politics of other nations, or even in free markets. In other words, they want to sabotage real conservatives by making them look like hypocrites. But, the ideals of conservativism and centralization are mutually exclusive — if a conservative supports big government controls, they are no longer a conservative. Period.

It is certainly the case that similar gatekeepers on the left side of the spectrum are misleading leftists to destructive ends, but not in the same way that they try to mislead conservatives. While globalists will attempt to trick conservatives to act more like socialists, they do not try to trick leftists into acting more like conservatives. Rather, they trick leftists into becoming even more extreme in their collectivist tendencies.

The end goal of the globalist cabal is to eventually reach a point where everyone in the world is a supporter of totalitarian centralization — a world where everyone is a leftist, whether they realize it or not.

How they plan to achieve this goal is rather indirect but potentially very effective. By pushing one side (the political left) to extremes, they hope to drive the other side (conservatives) to respond with extreme measures to defend themselves that they would otherwise consider contrary to their principles. To avoid this outcome, conservatives must understand the root motivations and contradictions of what has become the leftist cult. To avoid falling into madness, we must examine the behaviors of the insane.

It is hard to say exactly where the left began to migrate away from more centrist politics and go full bore communist. Some would say it started when the Frankfurt School of academics transplanted to the U.S. during and after WWII, bringing with them the ideology of cultural Marxism. Some might argue that they have been this way since the 1960s and 1970s during the rise of the anti-war movement and second wave feminism. But if leftists were raging socialists back then, for decades after that chaotic generation there was at least some self-discipline among them in terms of revealing their true intentions outright.

I would place their transformation, or violent mutation, closer to 20 years ago as college campuses shifted completely away from a focus on practical skill sets and STEM fields over to hackneyed social sciences. This was the moment that the conspiracy to completely radicalize the left was truly implemented.

Colleges became centers of worship, but of a new religion called "social justice." This religion relies on rehashing and reigniting old social conflicts as if they had never been discussed and embraced before. They act as if America had never come to terms with slavery, racism, women's rights, sexual orientation, etc., as if all of these problems were boiling in the background waiting for the social justice warriors to finally grace us with their presence and solve them. The reality is that while there will always be some conflict related to these issues, there is no need for the existence of "social justice" today. They are rebels without a legitimate cause, and so they create causes out of thin air.

Many pundits on the political left are careful not to publicly associate with SJWs, and attempt to portray Democrats and progressives as somehow separate. And for some of these people this might be true. But social justice mantras and disinformation have absolutely permeated Democrat language and discussions. Gatekeeping media outlets like The New York Times, Vox, and The Atlantic have seen to this, as they flood Democrat-oriented web spaces with article after article written like editorials but presented as if they are factual journalism rather than opinion.

Every new article starts with paragraphs written in descriptive prose by leftist authors chasing delusional dreams of becoming the next Steinbeck. Or they launch into contrived and flowery anecdotal accounts of their personal experiences which have very little to do with the subject matter and lack any relation to investigative fact-based writing. True journalism is now dead — hot garbage factories like The New York Times and Vox killed it and replaced it with a Roman bathhouse of narcissism and iniquity.

The job of these outlets is to continue fueling leftist faith. The colleges made them zealots; insane devotees of the cult. The media keeps them on the path and ensures they do not stray. But what beliefs define this religion beyond vague notions of "social justice." Let's examine a few...

Burn it all down?

While the Molotov cocktail was actually invented (or at least popularized) by the Finnish during the Winter War to help stop a massive communist invasion from the Soviet Union, it has now become a kind of symbol of communist rebellion in the West today. The Frankfurt School and Marxism in general teach that existing systems are not changed diplomatically but demolished violently through the exploitation of social conflicts. In traditional Marxism the idea was to use economic class conflict and to rally the lower classes to overthrow the upper classes. Cultural Marxism relies not just on economic disparities but also social tensions to bring down a civilization.

After the dust settles the socialists/communists introduce their own "Utopian" system and take control as the nation lays weak and helpless in the midst of complete breakdown.

When the existing system works in their favor and feeds their sense of public influence, leftists sing its praises. When it stops working in their favor, they seek to tear it apart and remake it. These are the people you cannot play chess or checkers with — when they start to lose, they cry foul and dash the board to the ground in a rage.

Everyone is born the same

This notion is biologically absurd, but it is gaining momentum in leftists movements. Essentially collectivists believe that all human being are born as blank slates and that their entire personality is a product of their environment. While psychologists, anthropologists and scientists from across the spectrum from Carl Jung to Joseph Campbell to Stephen Pinker have all shown extensive evidence of inborn psychological traits and inherent constructs within the human psyche, this evidence is utterly ignored by leftists as it runs counter to most of their fundamental assumptions.

If everyone is born different, then fairness in society becomes subjective and inapplicable. If people's characters are not necessarily ruled by their environment, then this means there is no need for a social Utopia to micro-manage every aspect of our lives to "keep us safe." If psychopaths are not made but born, then the question of inherent evil becomes a possibility, and according to leftists there is no such thing as evil people, only evil systems that make good people evil. If gender is inborn and the vast majority of people fall on one side or the other psychologically, not just biologically, then leftists can no longer claim that gender is a social construct that must be dismantled.

The blank slate, or Tabula Rasa, is a key factor in the leftist religion that must be defended at all costs. Otherwise, half their ideology falls apart.

Everything can and should be fair?

Anyone who has actually lived in the world for a while on their own knows full well that life is not fair. Some people are born with advantages while others are born with handicaps. Some advantages and disadvantages have to do with family and wealth, while others are simply genetic. What leftists don't seem to grasp is that perceived disadvantage is not always a bad thing.

People who struggle and overcome life's obstacles tend to be much wiser and more skilled than people who never had to put in the effort. Leftists want to take away all adversity, not in the name of equal opportunity, but in the name of equal outcome. In the process, they make all of society weaker, wimpier, less innovative and less productive. In a leftist world, humanity would have to create artificial "adversity camps" just to retain its survival instincts. But then, of course, those camps would have to be siphoned through the fairness filter as well...

Intellect is more important than experience?

Leftists worship intellect as a divine power. So much so that the notion of real-world experience rarely crosses their minds as important in making decisions or forming opinions. When social justice warriors talk of thing like "racism," most of them have never and probably will never experience or witness legitimate racism. They read about it in books and hear about it in lectures but have no personal relationship to it. They believe it is rampant everywhere; around every corner and under every bed because they must. Their reality depends on blind faith that this is true.

The idea of social inequality between men and women also relies on blind faith in misrepresented statistics and fraudulent accounts of crimes never committed. To this day these people still argue that the "gender wage gap" is a real thing despite the fact that it has been debunked endlessly. This behavior requires a cult-like devotion to fantasy. It is not normal or logical, it is extreme mental illness. If these people were to go into the working world and study real business models and talk to man and women who are not members of their own echo chamber, they would see through experience that their assumptions are wrong, but when intellectual notions outweigh experience or observation there is no hope of this..

Conservatives are evil incarnate?

Part of the reason I started writing this essay was because I've noticed a steady stream of articles in mainstream media outlets posing as studies of "conservative extremists." In reading some of these pieces I find that leftists have created their own language completely separate from the rest of the world and reality. That which they interpret as "racism," or "misogyny," or "fascism" does not fit the textbook definition of said labels. They have developed their own bewildering vocabulary filled with made-up words and illogical concepts to describe the world in a way that fits their desires and supports their accusations.

Conservatives don't live in this world and frankly, we don't ever want to. We are heretics, or barbarians. In their eyes we are the dirty untouchables, the "deplorables." We cannot be saved and should be destroyed. Zealots always seek to treat ideological outsiders as mortal enemies even when those individuals have done nothing to them. The fact is, most modern political crimes and genocides have been enacted in the name of socialist ideals; in the name of concepts the left holds dear. We continue to suffer under these ideals in the name of globalism.

How many people have suffered in the name of decentralization and individual rights? How many people have been exterminated in the name of the non-aggression principle? Conservatives are certainly not evil, or extreme. But in the twilight zone of leftist thought, we are now the monsters.

The leftist gods

The social justice embrace of Atheism seems to have left them unfulfilled, as their explanations of existence do not satisfy the innate human relationship to the metaphysical. The leftist cult is always seeking out gods these days, with all-encompassing government filling in as a proxy for now. The next deity of the left is clearly nature, or "mother earth," and this god satisfies their need for a vengeful and omnipotent force.

Many leftists desperately desire a kind of apocalypse, but an apocalypse on their terms. The globalists are giving them one, or at least a farcical version of one called "climate change," in which mankind angers nature with his production and progress, but is smote down with catastrophe while the devout leftists watch on in their purity saying "We tried to warn you, but you would not repent..." This is of course science fiction, not fact, based on junk science funded by organizations with agendas to manipulate the masses.

The solution to this apocalypse, coincidentally, always ends up being more government, more control over human trade and progress, population reduction, and perhaps even global governance of every aspect of life. Otherwise, we might incur the wrath of the great leftist war god of destruction — carbon fed global warming. In the minds of leftists, that will be the moment when we all understand that they were the sane ones, that their cult was right all along, and we will come to them willingly, prostrating ourselves before their mighty intellectual superiority.

It is this type of thinking that makes the left an easily exploited tool for the powers that be. It is the source of calamity through the ages.

Brandon Smith

Bruce, the “Poor Man”

Additional News of Note…

From Beds to Beads to Bracelets, It’s Bad Out There in Retail (Sparky1)

“The industry is little bit softer and more promotional than we’ve ever seen,” At Home’s Chief Executive Officer Lewis Bird said on Thursday’s earnings call. Signet’s CEO Gina Drosos called it a “very competitive U.S. retail landscape with soft traffic trends.”

One-third of Americans say they need a side gig to pay expenses (lambertad)

“A lot of people are working side hustles because even though the economy is strong, wages are stagnant,” Amanda Dixon, an analyst at Bankrate, told MarketWatch. “For a lot of Americans, expenses are rising [especially cost of local/state government], but there are no raises at work.”

Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose (thc0655)

Having resources is only one component: consumption is the other half of the picture. Having 4 million barrels a day of oil (MBPD) is nice if you’re only using 3 MBPD, but if you’re consuming 8 MBPD, you still need to import 4 MBPD.

Paul Craig Roberts: “That America” Is Gone (Don R.)

Consumers, devoid of real income growth, maintained their living standards by going deeper into debt. This process was aided, for example, by stretching out car payments from three years to six and seven years, with the result that loan balances exceed the value of the vehicles. Many households live on credit cards by paying the minimum amount, with the result that their indebtedness grows by the month. The Federal Reserve’s low interest rates are not reciprocated by the high credit card interest rate on outstanding balances.

As fewer people prepare for cash emergencies or fail to purchase adequate insurance [GoFundMe is popular tool to replace funeral insurance costs]

The Groups Where Thousands of Facebook Users Ask for Money (tmn)

While larger sites such as GoFundMe have become popular for raising funds for large expenses such as medical bills, there is no one-stop platform to crowdfund just a few dollars. In the past, some have resorted to begging, or asking friends and family to help cover costs. But now thousands of people are turning to Facebook groups to plead for the help they need, from people who are essentially strangers online.

How the Left Embraced Globalization (thc0655)

Instead of allowing developing countries the opportunity to grow diverse, self-sufficient economies, in the hallowed name of “free trade,” they were force-fed loans that required them to spend on mega-projects, cash crops, mines, dams, low-wage manufacturing plants—all built by multinationals that destroy the economic independence of the countries they enter.

A Final Note…

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