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The 2020 US Presidential Election: A Seminal Moment in Western
History
President Donald Trump’s declaration in his Mount Rushmore
speech of his intention to defend the traditional values of the United States,
and Joe Biden’s declaration (backed by Bernie Sanders) of his intention to
bring about a transformation of the United States, indicate that the 2020
elections will not be, as in the past, a democratic contest between two
personalities and parties but a fateful contest between cultures: the
Hebrew-biblical cultural of freedom from which the Anglo-Saxon democracies
derived their values versus the Hellenistic culture of freedom from which the
European democracies derived theirs.
There is a fundamental difference between the values of
the two ancient cultures that formed the crucible of the modern West. The
values of the Hebrew-biblical culture were derived from universal logic,
the laws of which constitute an absolute and eternal truth, and among which
harmony and coherence exists that is designed to foster a similar harmony
(social justice) among human beings.
The values of the Hellenistic culture, by contrast, were
derived from human logic, which asserts that humanity is the standard that
determines good and evil, there is no external standard for the moral judgment
of human acts, and certain ideas exist that constitute an absolute truth that
only elite individuals can discover and impose, by means of “keepers,” on a
society that is “chained in a cave.”
European liberalism’s reliance on human logic led to the
growth of the Jacobin, socialist, communist, and Nazi doctrines, which were
foisted on the masses by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Conversely,
the forefathers of American democracy (Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, and
Franklin)—some of whom, like John Locke and other British thinkers, read and
spoke Hebrew—adopted the values of Hebrew-biblical morality as the basis of the
values of the United States.
The fact that in American democracy not only science but
also humanism is based on natural law gave rise to longstanding stability and
prosperity, as well as a capability and a principled commitment to volunteer to
salvage and rehabilitate the world from the severe calamities wreaked upon it
by Europe’s utopian thinkers.
Apparently complacent from its victory over Nazism and
communism, at the end of the 20th century American democracy failed to
identify the danger of another erroneous theory that developed in Europe:
post-structuralism (or progressive liberalism).
That theory has penetrated deeply into American culture.
Among other things, it claims that the calamities of the 20th century were
caused by a proliferation of “truths” that emerged in Europe, and that
preventing similar calamities in the future entails denying the existence of a
single foundational truth and dismantling rational subjects that constitute a
source of stability and authority (such as the family, nationalism and the
nation-state, gender, the military, the police, and more) while “critically”
examining their historical development.
This is because the formation and activity of some of
these social frameworks were tied to processes, in some instances very far back
in history, that involved force and oppression.
The murder of George Floyd and the zealous protests that
followed revealed three painful facts about American democracy as it stands
today:
It is suffering severe social disharmony that stems from a
longstanding interpretation of the values of freedom and justice that
contravenes their original spirit.
The domains of humanism and society have been completely taken over by the ideas of progressive liberalism.
There is no intellectual elite that can mobilize to defend the values of American democracy against the progressive delusion in the manner of the “conservative” intellectual elite of the previous century that mobilized to defend the country against the communist delusion.
Only the reestablishment of American democracy in the
spirit of the original values of freedom and justice on which it was based will
rehabilitate the American project and afford it further long-term vitality.
Conversely, an ideological transformation—i.e., a “Europeanization” of American
democracy along the lines that Biden envisages—will put an end to both the
successful American project and the democratic framework that saved humanity
from the chain of calamities wrought by European liberal thought.
This dangerous transformation could also open the door to
the next “social project”—whose path to the West is already being paved by
China with its “One Belt, One Road” initiative.
What is needed is a massive mobilization that ignores
contemporary figures and problematic personality traits. Preventing the 2020
elections from becoming a negative seminal moment in the history of Western
civilization is a supreme civilizational imperative.
NOTE: If you value your rights, your independence,
and frankly, your wallet…I personally urge you to reelect Trump. Socialism is not the path to nirvana my
friends.
President Trump’s leadership is being tested like never
before in 2020. The forces aligned against him seem willing to do anything to
remove him from office before the election. We cannot let them succeed!
Other Thoughts…
>got a call out of the blue
from a relative of mine.
This is a relative I don’t speak
to that often.
She’s a Democrat and is very liberal.
(She voted for Hillary Clinton in the last election.)
This relative used to criticize
me for all the guns I own. (“Why do you need all those guns, guns are evil,
etc. etc.”)
Anyways, when she called me, the
first words out of her mouth were, “Jason, I’ve got a gun question for you.”
And I said to her back, “why
are YOU buying a gun?”
She told me that she believes
Trump is going to win the election and it will cause a civil war. She wants a
gun to defend her life and home.
I should mention, this relative
is wealthy and lives in a million-dollar home.
She’s worried about riots and
looting coming to her upscale neighborhood.
Before I tell you what gun she is
getting…
You know the world is really
crazy when your liberal relatives are going out and buying guns.
These are the same relatives who
thought the government would always take care of them and who used to think
“guns are evil.”
But not anymore.
Now, regarding the gun this
relative is getting…
She has health problems and will
not have an easy time racking a slide and handling a gun.
She did not want a revolver and
said it had to be a semi-auto.
She had done a bunch of research
and asked me about the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield EZ.
I told her it was a solid gun. (I
tried to explain other options, but all she wanted to know is if that gun would
work.)
I also told her to get some
training because the gun is worthless if she doesn’t know how to properly use
it.
Unfortunately, I doubt she’ll get
training, but you can’t force people to make good choices.
Before we got off the phone, she
had one more question for me.
She wanted to know what I thought
would happen after the election.
I told her that no matter who
wins (I do think Trump will win) that people are going to go crazy and I would
be prepared to hunker down at home for 30 to 60 days.
And, when I say hunker down…
-No going to the grocery store
-No running to the local
restaurant to get take-out food
-No going to CVS to pick up
medicine
Even though it hopefully won’t
happen…
Be prepared for such rioting that
you’ll just want to stay safe inside your home and not have to venture out to
potential danger.
Of course, you’ll want to have
plenty of guns yourself and this one here is the perfect “riot” gun to defend
your home.
You’ve still got 2 months to
prepare, plenty of time to stock up on the important things in life (food,
water, medicine, ammo, guns).
Stay safe,
Jason Hanson
Former CIA Officer
Editor, Spy & Survival
Briefing
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Every
generation is skilled at using the technology of its era. For example, people
today are very good at driving cars, using smartphones, setting up home
entertainment systems, and so forth. The problem is, if the end of the world as
we know it ever happens, all those skills will be useless. The skills of our
forefathers, on the other hand, will never be useless.
Below, we’ll take a look at 30 survival skills from our past that
have mostly been forgotten today. If you want to be able to survive in a world
where relying on technology isn’t an option, these skills are certainly worth
learning.
1. Hand Washing Clothes -
These days, almost everyone owns a washer and dryer, and those who don’t are
able to rely on a visit to the laundromat. Washing clothes without these
conveniences, though, is a forgotten skill...
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Now is also a great time to work on the firearm
necessities we never seem to find the time for with some firearm training
drills. From cleaning our guns to practicing with dryfiring, now
would be a great time to work on building some consistent practice
habits.
Telltale Signs of
Inflation
The biggest sign of this is the $USD, which is breaking down.
The $USD has lost 4% of its value thus far this year. However,
that number is somewhat misleading since the $USD spiked during the March
COVID-19 crisis. In reality, peak to trough, the $USD is down a whopping 12%.
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2 comments:
The few neighbors we see posting Biden yard signs nauseates me-I want to place "Socialist' signs next to them in their yard!
The goal of socialist-dems is to takeover the US and RUIN our nation...for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone supports those bastards.
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