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Here's why a majority of
leftists would not survive an economic collapse
Biden finally admitted this week the economy isn't so good...Gee, do ya think his idiot policies may have caused our problems?!
There is one factor that constantly stands out as absolutely
essential to a person's chances of surviving a crisis event, and that factor is
mindset. Experience and training are highly valuable. Having proper tools and
preps on hand is a huge advantage, but in the end, without mental toughness and
the ability to adapt the most prepared person in the world will still likely
bite the dust.
Mental toughness is something that can be taught... to a point.
This is the entire purpose of basic training methods used in the military: To
take mundane details and elevate them in the minds of trainees while wearing
them down with physical punishment. The goal is to condition the mind to ignore
distraction and to ignore fear and pain while focusing on the task at hand.
Failure is not an option in war, just as it is not an option in survival. Those
who embrace distraction and embrace failure because they think it will make
things easier for them are filtered out of the recruitment pool, or the gene
pool.
It is no coincidence that the U.S. military is dealing with some
of the worst recruitment conditions they have ever seen in terms of people
being physically and mentally capable of finishing basic training. The Pentagon
currently estimates that 77 percent of young Americans are unfit for
recruitment without a waiver for obesity, drug use and mental health problems.
Meaning, Gen Z is so unfit physically and mentally that if there was a major
war, almost 80 percent of them would be erased from existence.
The problem has gotten so bad that militaries in the U.S. and
throughout the west are being forced to lower standards just to meet minimum
personnel goals. One can argue that many young people don't want to join the
military anyway, but this is beside the point. Even if they wanted to, they
would be incapable.
There are a number of reasons for this development, but I would
suggest that the spread of leftist ideology among 63 percent of Americans aged
18-29 has created a survival vacuum. A generation of mental weaklings. It's
important to remember that younger people have adopted more liberal views for
decades, but the political left is not liberal today. The leftists of today are
full-bore Marxists, both economically and culturally. They support
establishment centralization, they support economic centralization, they
support corporate centralization, they support authoritarianism and censorship,
they support moral relativism, and they applaud the concept of an all-pervasive
welfare state.
In 1980 you might have been able to find a large number of
mentally tough people that considered themselves on the left. Today, you will
not find anyone.
With America hovering in a precarious netherworld between
stagflationary crisis and deflationary crisis depending on which poison the
Federal Reserve chooses to give the country, the stage has been set for an
economic disaster similar to the Great Depression or worse. In two years, our
system, which is already dealing with a number of threats including high prices
and supply chain instability, will not remain functional in the manner most
people are accustomed.
If we accept this inevitability, we must then ask a logical
question: Who is going to rebuild? Whoever inherits the mantle will either
bring America back to freedom and prosperity or plunge our society into
perpetual tyranny. It all depends on who survives the crisis.
One thing that gives me some hope is the fact that leftists as a
sub-group of our population are completely incapable of surviving a major
economic crisis event. This is not to say that I wish them all to die; I'm only
pointing out the reality that most of them won't make it because they are
ill-equipped to handle a calamity. Here are the reasons why a post-collapse
world would probably be devoid of leftists...
Leftists Thrive On Crisis... But Die Out During Collapse
Leftists tend to exploit crisis and tragedy to shore up power and
expand their numbers through fear, but there's a problem with this tactic. If
the crisis is fabricated, a tempest in a teapot, then they do very well; if the
crisis turns into an actual disaster with real-world consequences including
financial decline, supply chain disruptions, shortages, and civil unrest, they
have no tools to deal with the effects other than mob action and looting.
What happens if they use mob action and looting when the rule of
law is no longer a factor in a country with millions of guns? They will die, by
the tens of thousands, as people defend their businesses and homes. The violent
hordes we witnessed during the BLM riots would not last long during a collapse
scenario where people are more inclined to fight back. [These thugs killed 25 and caused $1.6 billion in damage YET our DOJ has been AWOL; focuses instead on parents at school board meetings].
Leftists Are Anti-Preparedness
The political left has spent the better part of the past 15 years
demonizing the concept of preparedness as a tinfoil hat philosophy for
“right-wing extremists.” They have set themselves up for complete failure by
refusing to acknowledge the practicality of prepping, just so they can attack
their political opponents. The stupidity of it is truly mind-boggling.
There are some indications that the COVID lockdowns may have
shocked a small number of them out of their foolishness. It's hard to deny the
threat of economic collapse when the beginnings of collapse are right in front
of your face. That said, prepping is not the only requirement for survival, and
progressives buying a few months of food and some guns is not going to save
them.
Leftists Have An Aversion To Hardship
The vast majority of people that argue in favor of an expanding
welfare state are on the left. While conservatives support individual charity
for those that deserve it, leftists believe that people need to be forced by
the government to provide and pay for others who may not deserve it. This ideal
is driven by their desire to avoid hardship.
I often find that leftists have delusions of grandeur. They assume
that they are destined for great things, that they are smarter than the rest of
us and that work or sacrifice are problems relegated to the rural “peasants” in
“flyover country.” Their vision of work is a daycare, a place to socialize,
find comfort and self-identity, do the minimal amount of labor required and
then collect a paycheck. Just look how leftist-dominated Twitter was being
operated a few months ago. It was not a workplace, it was a day spa for
lunatics.
These kinds of people are not equipped to endure backbreaking
struggle to build a survivable environment. They wouldn't know where to begin.
Leftists Have No Practical Skill Sets
The avoidance of technical skill sets is a real problem for progressives.
There are a handful of people on the left that engage in micro-farming and
other basic skills as a form of activism, but they are few and their methods
are limited by their ideology. As noted above, leftists believe themselves to
be too valuable to be wasted on production. Rather, they see themselves as
“management,” the people in charge of the people that do the actual work.
A person could get by on that kind of thinking in a first-world
environment where office jobs, tech jobs and social work is the norm, but in a
collapse environment there are no management positions, there are no office
workers, there are no elementary school teachers, there are no trust and safety
advisers, there are no platform moderators and there are no bureaucrats. You
either have a valued knowledge set that can be traded, or you have nothing. You
can either produce necessities for yourself, or you can't.
The development of the information age and the data-driven economy
of first-world nations has made matters even worse by convincing people that
data is a currency. This is a concept that leftists in particular adore because
they think labor will become a thing of the past; they will only need their
brains and laptop to provide everything they need. This is a delusion. The “Metaverse”
is a facade, a con, and there will always be a need for humans to dig in the
dirt, to forage and hunt, to farm and to build with their own hands. As the
economy derails further, progressives are going to realize this too late.
Leftists Rely on Government To Fix Their Problems
If the idea of taking matters into your own hands is abhorrent to
you, then you might be a leftist. Leftists view individual action during a
crisis as almost criminal; it is important to them that the correct authorities
with the correct permissions handle any dangerous situation. Leftists love to
defer to the “experts” because this takes the responsibility out of their
hands, along with the blame should something go wrong.
But what happens when government is not functional enough to save
the day? What happens when inflation or supply chains or personnel shortages
make it impossible for government officials to help? What happens when
government officials don't want to help? What happens when they are corrupt and
want to see you suffer?
Leftists rarely consider such possibilities. For them, the idea
that government could break down, that the grid could break down and that the
rule of law could break down is a conspiracy theory. It's only happened
hundreds of times around the world in modern history, but because they have
never experienced the threat personally, they think it is impossible. These are
the kinds of people that die very quickly during collapse.
Leftists Value Feelings Over Reason
The root foundation of leftist ideology is that everything is
relative according to one's personal feelings. That is to say, they believe
that their feelings shape their reality, and that “their truth” is the only
truth that matters. There are some subjective truths that are near-universal which
is why moral conscience is a thing that exists in every culture in the world.
That said, personal ideals are still subject to the forces of nature.
You cannot pretend that you are not starving when you are
starving. You cannot pretend that you are not dehydrated when you are
desperately thirsty. You cannot feel your way out of a crisis, the crisis is
not subject to your fantasies, the crisis will step on your throat and teach
you otherwise.
At bottom, their feelings do not matter. They are irrelevant. And
this is a lesson leftists will learn as the system continues to degrade. They
can cry and scream and wail and make all the demands they want for fairness and
equity and welfare but in the end, they will face the clarity of self-reliance
or they will face the Ferryman.
It's not my purpose here to revel in the erasure of the political
left. I am only pointing out that leftist ideology is a product of extremely
safe and controlled environments where people have the privilege to engage in
frivolity. They think they want deconstruction. They think they want chaos as
a means to break the system and rebuild it in their image. What they don't
realize is that if they get what they want most of them will die in the process
and they will not be around to rebuild.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
SIDEBAR
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9 Weapons (Besides Guns)
That Could Save Your Life
If the grid goes down, the ability to defend oneself will be
invaluable. In fact, the importance of self-defense will be right up there with
food and water.
Of course, a firearm is the most effective way to defend
yourself from an attacker, but that might not always be possible. For example,
if you find yourself in a place where firearms aren't allowed.
The purpose of this article is to teach you about the many other
types of weapons you can use to defend yourself. You can carry most of these
anywhere without drawing any unwanted attention, yet they're effective enough
to take down almost anyone...
9 Weapons (Besides Guns) That Could Save Your Life
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30 Survival Items Every
New Prepper Should Get
So you've decided to become a prepper. Maybe you've been putting
it off for a long time and now you're finally ready to get started. Maybe a
friend or family member went through a personal disaster like a burglary or
bankruptcy and it got you thinking. Maybe you looked at what's going on in the
world and it made you worried about the future.
Whatever your reason, you've made a good decision. Not only will
prepping vastly improve your chances of surviving a major disaster, it will
grant you peace of mind while everything is still okay. But where should you
begin? There are literally hundreds of survival items you'll want to get.
However, you don't want to do a panic shopping run and buy a bunch of things
you don't actually need.
Prepping is about building up a supply of goods a little at a
time. You can't do it all at once because it's not a one-time thing—it's a
lifestyle. You'll need to make several long-term goals, and you should keep in
mind that you'll never actually be done. However, there are many people who
would like to get a running start. That way if a disaster does happen in the
near future, they won't be too late...
30 Survival Items Every New Prepper Should Get
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