#oppose trump's dictatorship agenda

[tomorrowusa]

« Trump can’t beat Biden, but apathy just might. And the stakes are far too high to let that happen. »

— Columnist Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post. (archived)

Engagement is the opposite of apathy. Both engagement and apathy are contagious. We set the tone for people around us. Even boosting our signals can have an effect over time.

Be constant about messaging, this is a ten month project. Voters need to be continuously and creatively reminded of the stakes this year. If you don't remind them, who will?

Liberals tend to be squeamish about repetition; but repetition is the best friend of campaigners and advertisers. It doesn't matter if people you know get tired of your message as long as your message sinks in and becomes regarded as common knowledge.

Chances are that you still remember advertising jingles and slogans that you heard on TV when you were 7 or 8. That's how effective repetition is.

Ronald Reagan, no fan of the Evil Empire, was apparently fond of the Russian proverb "Доверяй, но проверяй" (Trust but verify). We should keep a different Russian proverb in mind this year: "Повторение - мать учения" (Repetition is the mother of learning).

We have it easy compared to Ukraine. They need to shoot down deadly missiles and drones Russia buys from North Korea and Iran. We only need to publicly and repeatedly shoot down MAGA bullshit and conspiracy theories while robustly firing back with our defense of democracy.

Of course things like voter registration and GOTV are still absolutely essential. But those are facilitated when there's a constant background vibe that freedom and democracy are on the line in November.

[liskantope]

Do you think that a more successful version of 1/6/2021 (either via more violence or successfully pressuring the Vice President not to certify votes) would not be a threat to democracy? To me that seems like the most likely way for Trump's general antagonism to liberal democracy to manifest itself.

A fair question.

So first of all, I would say January 6th was the biggest embarrassment to MAGA people, and to Republicans in general, of the last seven years or so. You can see this just by listening to the political discourse surrounding Trump. Democrats love to bring it up as much as possible, while Republicans find every possible way to be on the defensive ("Yeah, it was bad, but its badness is exaggerated -- it doesn't technically fit the definition of coup or even insurrection -- nobody brought guns or was actually killing people -- you just want to make everything about January 6th -- what about the BLM riots around the country the previous summer?"). I once was confronting a previously staunchly liberal friend who started voting Republican and seeming to abandon most of her left-wing stances on a variety of issues following being pissed off at how Democrats in California dealt with school closures during the pandemic, and asking her whether her new convictions really outweighed the horrors of another Trump term; when I brought up January 6th, the best response she had was, "That was terrible and the truth is I think most Republicans feel terrible about January 6th."

My point being that January 6th, 2021 was a disaster for MAGAism and the Republican party in general (if Harris winds up winning narrowly in November, I'm going to say that if January 6th hadn't happened, she would have lost, and that is truly a silver lining), and most Republicans know it. Unfortunately, Trump himself and his most impassioned cult followers are among the only ones not wise enough to know it. So yes, I expect a worse version of January 6th could occur, which would be an even bigger disaster for the Republican party and likely spell the death of MAGAism altogether (as opposed to, say, turning us into a one-party state under Trump and the MAGAists) but be a very, very horrible event in and of itself. I guess my point is, what effects would this have beyond the immediate? I guess the worst-case scenario -- which is admittedly historically bad for our country -- would be that that the VP is willing not to certify votes this time, that a constitutional crisis is triggered which has to be decided by various courts now stacked explicitly in Trump's favor, and a Trumpist president (which could only be Trump himself if he managed to ram through an end to term limits and if his health is holding up at 82) and/or members of Congress wrongly get elected.

This would be a highly, highly undemocratic event in the history of our country, but not much more undemocratic than, say, Bush's election in 2000 was; meanwhile, I predict that Trump himself will be not much longer for this world, that a very solid majority of Americans will be awake to the dangers of MAGA and fight against it like nothing we've seen before, that an actual focused policy agenda would fail to come to fruition, and that the political backlash would be decisive (the basic form of our government and mechanisms for elections would still be in place, and could those in power really fix the results if they were losing by a true landslide rather than marginally? I tend to think not.)

Would this worst-case scenario be an absolutely appalling sequence of events? Yes, and plenty of reason to fear Trump's return to power (even though it still relies on a lot of "if"s). Would it unravel the structure of our government to turn it into something more like a dictatorship, or in other words, "destroy democracy"? It's hard for me to concretely imagine a way that it would.

I suppose I'd prefer that phrases like "insult to democracy", "degrade/undermine democracy", and "antidemocratic" be used over phrases like "destroy democracy" and "make himself a dictator". But, I don't know, if the latter are doing a better job of turning swing voters against Trump than they are at giving Trump supporters more ammunition for diagnosing half the country has having Trump Derangement Syndrome, then I guess I'm in favor of that rhetoric for the short term of the next three months.

[appro880]

Our Democracy is Disappearing, Right Before Our Eyes...

The U.S. Supreme Court Ruled Last Week That, Donald Trump, Has Immunity From Prosecution for Official Acts, While in Office, Illegal or Otherwise…

The Vote Came Down with 6 Conservative Justices, 3 of Them, Trump Appointed, (Affirming). And 3 Dissenting (Opposing) Justices, (Liberal).

What This Effectively Means is That a President is Now Immune From Criminal Prosecution for Official Acts Committed While President. A President Can Order the Murder or Detention of Political Opponents, Can Arbitrarily, Eliminate Dozens of Government Agencies, Fire Thousands of Government Employees Who Are Not Loyal to His Administrative Policies and Agendas… Use the Military to Stop Opposing Protesters, Deport Thousands of Immigrants… Arrest Opposing Journalists and the Like… And This is What They Are Admitting to…Why Is This Beginning so Sound More and More Like a Dictatorship?

Moreover, The Former President Will Have No Other Civil or Criminal Trials Will Take Place, Prior to the November Election. The Court Has, Effectively Thrown a Huge Boulder in the Road to Bringing, Donald Trump, to Justice, with Regard to His Numerous Offenses.

The Ruling is Akin to, Forcing a Home Buyer or Car Purchaser to Sign a Contract, Without First Walking Through the Property or Test Driving the Vehicle. Furthermore, the Seller Takes No Legal Responsibility for Any Malfunction or Flaws in the Said Properties.

Who in Their Right Mind Would Willingly Participate in Such a Transaction? Yet, This is What We as the Citizenry Has Been Asked, No Told to Do.

Now the Lower Court Has to Hold a Series of Hearings to Determine Whether, Trump’s, Alleged Crimes Were Manifested Through Official Acts or Personal Acts. If Deemed, the Former; They Must Be Stripped From the Indictments.

Trump Has Already Told Us What He Plans to Do Once He is in Office... He Can Run for President, Be Elected President and Then Pardon Himself and All the January 6th, Rioters...

If Barack Obama, Had Committed 1/10th of Crimes of This One Man Crime Spree; What Do You Think Would Have Happened to Him? If You or Me Were a Convicted Felon, Do You Think a Corporation Would Hire Us or Allow Us On Their Board of Directors?

This Election is Truly About the Preservation of Our Democracy…

Start Paying Attention Folks! This is Only the Beginning...

The Long Held Tenet That: “No One is Above the Law”, is a Joke!!! Donald Trump and The SCOTUS Has Just Proved It

The Revolutionary War Was Fought, in Fact this Nation Was Supposedly, Created with the Intention of  Avoiding  the Possibility of Allowing a Tyrannical Leader (i.e., dictator, king, emperor) to Assume Power. We As a Nation, Have Long Held Our Democracy as a Shining Example For the Rest of the World to Follow, Yet We Are Now on the Brink of Having Our Own Now Crumble Before Our Very Eyes…

Ironically, The Alt Right and the Right Wing Evangelicals Are Using, Trump, to Further Their Agendas, While Trump is Using Them to Stay Out of Jail. The Rest of the Trumptards are Just Along for the Ride… And Ultimately, America, Itself Will Be Caught in the Crossfire…

It Is Up to You, and You, and You to Right These Wrongs, Before We Reach the Point of No Return…

You Must Vote on November 5th; Our Very Democracy and Way of Life Depends On It…

The Justice System, May Be a Joke, But "Project 2025" is No Joke! Look It Up!

[eowyntheavenger]

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Too many leftists act like evangelical Christians imo. All of this posturing about Biden boils down to people not being able to tolerate the idea of having to actually dirty their hands and accept moral compromises to actually achieve anything. Not even if it's literally the only thing standing between a chance to actually make some real change, vs outright destruction of democracy and sanity in the name of a dictatorship that will come after EVERYONE.

The Republicans, as vile as they are, understood this implicitly. They caterwauled and threw fits over their candidates when they weren't vile enough, but they still voted year after year, decade after decade to put their fascists into positions of power for over 5 decades. And now because of that work, they're on the cusp of possibly overthrowing democracy and destroying our world for their own hateful agenda.

Meanwhile, tell a supposed online leftist that they need to work for years to even see any chance of progress, especially given just how far behind we are and fighting against far Right oppressors all the way, and they'll throw in the towel and demand immediate fixes without any idea of HOW to even achieve that goal given how dysfunctional society is.

Or worse, basically advocate for a left wing version of a dictatorship, because their worldview is just as maddeningly black and white as the people they claim to oppose. All or Nothing, let the people they see as their enemies suffer, and demand absolutes from the people they see as lesser than themselves.

Very well said! I had a debate recently with one of these anti-voting people and they hit me with the usual arguments:

1) Voting "doesn't work" (idiotic).

2) Trump and Biden are the same (idiotic).

3) Not voting, or voting third party, constitutes a "protest" somehow (oh my god so idiotic).

We kept debating, and when I brought up the fact that Trump is a threat to democracy, they genuinely asked me why if Trump is such a threat Biden can't just "get rid of him." Just…WOW. As much as I want Trump gone, NO, we cannot just have the current president "get rid of" his main political opponent. Like do you support democracy or not? Well... in the case of these anti-voting freaks, the answer IS in fact no.

So this person, who’d been swearing up and down that voting for Biden = supporting genocide, actually turned around and said they’d support Biden if he could “get rid of Trump.” Which actually shows they KNOW Trump is worse. It’s exactly like you said, they don’t want to dirty their hands. If someone else would just get rid of Trump they’d support it, but they won’t lift a finger to do the one thing (voting blue) that has the best chance of keeping him out of office.

[maaruin]

Possible Outcomes of a Second Trump Presidency

Here are different scenarios I could see happening, from most likely to least likely.

Cuius Regio, Eius Religio (likely)

Conservatives will implement their agenda in Red States, but will leave Blue States largely alone. We already see this currently with abortion, expect to see the same with LGBT rights, education, etc. The consolation in this case is that adults will at least have the option to move to different states. (It will be curious if conservatives will manage to get universities in Red States under control without downgrading them to propaganda institutions.) If that happens, I suspect that future Democratic presidents will accept this state of affairs. Trying to regain influence in Red States through the federal government risks Republicans trying to do the same. If progressives want to make gains, they will have to do it on the state level.

This Compromise wouldn't last forever, but probably several decades.

("cuius regio, eius religio" was a compromise formular during the Reformation at the Peace of Augsburg 1555 in th Holy Roman Empire. The rulers of the different principalities were free to decide between Catholicism and Lutheran Protestantism and their subjects had to follow their decisions. This peace lasted for ~60 years and was then challenged in the Thirty Year War. After a lot of bloodshed the Peace of Westphalia followed similar principles and the principalities became de facto sovereign.)

Unrest (plausible)

If conservatives don't restrict their agenda to Red States, there will be a lot more resistance. For example, imagine a national abortion ban or mass deportations of immigrants. Then some Blue State officials decide to not enforce these/stand in the way of enforcement. Trump uses the power of the federal government to try to enforce his orders in Blue States. Massive demonstrations with regular violent clashes ensue. Trump stays within law and norms in these attempts, so he doesn't succeed in enforcing his will in Blue States. This situation just goes on for his entire presidency.

In this case at the end of his second term Trump will end similar to George W Bush. A failure. And people will look with hope on the next president (almost certainly a Democrat) who will promise a return to peace and normalcy. But some of the conservative victories will probably stick.

Dictatorship (very unlikely)

Imagine the Unrest scenario, but Trump pushes harder in the end. That means replacing Democratic officials (including governors) who oppose his agenda and suppressing demonstrations. Would require the loyalty of the military.

Anti-Trump Mutiny (very unlikely, on the same level as dictatorship)

Trump attempts to do the dictatorship stuff, but the military refuses to comply. Trump is pressured into resigning or Congress removes him from office.

Civil War (extremely unlikely)

I could imagine three ways a civil war could start:

Dictatorship scenaro, but progressives arm themselves and start and urban insurgency

Anti-Trump Mutiny scenario, but conservatives start a rural insurgency

Either of the above, but the military is split on if it stays loyal to trump.

So I would say the nightmare scenarios are quite unlikely. If Trump is elected, I think progressives have a good shot at defending what they have achieved in Blue States and that is what they should probably focus on. Those who live in firmly Red States might need to move to Blue States though.

(Well, so far for my speculations for now. I might write more posts like this, one about how a second Trump term could play out on the international stage, and one about how a second Biden term could play out.)

[hoursofreading]

When Trump came to power in 2016, the apparatus and culture of US democracy was still intact. It required an attempted coup for Republicans to impose their will. This time around, authoritarian power fell into their lap like a ripe apple. Most voters, their political consciousness captured by an ideological environment overwhelmingly controlled by oligarchs, seem either to want a dictatorship or to not care about it one way or the other. Some legacy media organizations seem almost anxious to abdicate their Fourth Estate responsibilities. Must the onus of opposition again be borne by our concerned citizenry, now exhausted and dispirited after nearly a decade of extraordinary civic effort? Who can they look to for leadership and inspiration? Barack Obama? Mark Cuban? Who have issued statements congratulating Donald Trump on his victory?

The truth of the matter is that, until the next midterm elections—which will take place—we find ourselves somewhat at the mercy of Trump’s will. A successful opposition, in such circumstances, will require unusual measures of courage, imagination, adaptability, disruptiveness. New tactics will have to be employed. New people will have to be given leadership positions. Blue state authorities will have to coordinate with one another to protect vulnerable Americans. To make this happen, the DNC should finally do what it should have done years ago: set up a political operations unit to devise and coordinate anti-GOP actions nationwide. (Fox News performs this function, and others, for the GOP.)

Most importantly, the Democratic Party will have to reinvent itself in a way that restores its credibility and its relevance. The most critical job of Democrats is to fill their supporters with hope: a hopeless population is more vulnerable to autocracy. This requires them to consult with their base about how to fight Trump; and then to fight.

Their basic strategy must be twofold: first, do everything in their power and influence to oppose, slow down, and attach political costs to the Trump agenda. They must show exemplary fortitude and courage. (Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, has already indicated that he will not step down if requested to do so by Trump.) Second, start planning and campaigning for the midterms now. The House and Senate will be winnable. Tactically, all bets should be off. If Democrats have to activate thousands of bots and hire thousands of trolls to penetrate Trumpist propaganda platforms they should do that. If they have to induce Senator Susan Collins to caucus or side with them, they should offer her every inducement. (Collins is up for reelection in 2026. If she stands down, a Democrat will likely succeed her.)

[cattarattat]

A MUST, MUST, MUST WATCH--'BEFORE' YOU VOTE!!!

Questions you should be asking yourself...

1.  If RFK is truly Democrat then why is Trump hiring him for a Republican Party administration?

Answer:  RFK is a Republican in Democrat clothing, veering away from his Democrat roots (e.g. JFK).

2.  If you are absolutely opposed to the War in Gaza via Biden then which presidential runner in 2024 is the lesser of two evils regarding war?

Answer:  The Republican Party BY FAR are harbingers of endless, needless wars.

Furthermore, if you think you are using your individual vote to make a stand against the war on Gaza...then what happens when your lack-of-a-vote helps elect Trump and the Republican Party into office who are already working diligently to eliminate your right to vote as well as weaken to elimination your civil rights???

Answer:  You will soon wish you had voted for Harris.

3.  Do you care about America continuing as a Democracy or would you rather America turning into this country's first dictatorship?

Answer:  Whether you are an 'educated voter' or not, YOUR VOTE for either Harris or Trump tomorrow (or failure to vote tomorrow = inadvertently, voting for Trump) will decide this answer for you.  The Republican Party 'Project 25' and Trump's 'Agenda 47' seek to legislatively make America a dictatorship likened to Nazi Germany.

🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 VOTE Democrat ACROSS THE BALLOT tomorrow!!! !!! !!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Make certain YOUR VOTE helps ensure America DOES NOT BECOME 'The Handmaid's Tale' or '1984' version of America.

[garudabluffs]

March 17, 2023The International Criminal Court today issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Putin’s commissioner for children’s rights, for war crimes: kidnapping Ukrainian children and transporting them to Russia.

March 17, 2023 Heather Cox Richardson

23 hr ago The international assessment that Putin and one of his top officials have personally engaged in war crimes drives another wedge between Putin and the rest of the Russian people as over time his inability to interact successfully with the rest of the world will have growing consequences for the people at home..."

"Right-wing figures frustrated by the secular values of democracy—religious freedom, companies that respond to markets without interference by the state, academic freedom, public schools, free speech, equality before the law—want to restore what they consider human virtue by using the state to enforce their values." =fascism

"When Trump said, as he did yesterday, that “the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia,” he was echoing this ideology to mobilize his followers (even though his concerns are probably less to do with civilization than with his legal issues). His call for firing “deep staters” and reconstituting “the State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all of the rest” is an explicit call to radicalize our government."

"Meanwhile, CNN’s John Miller, as well as journalists from many other outlets, reports that sources in law enforcement are telling them that “senior staff members from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, the New York State Court Officers—who provide security at the state Supreme Court building in lower Manhattan—and the New York Police Department” have been meeting all week to prepare for a possible indictment of the former president, as early as next week."

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"The Iraqi author Sinan Antoon told me this in 2021: “No matter what — and I say this as someone who was opposed to Saddam’s regime since childhood and wrote his first novel about life under dictatorship — had the regime remained in power, tens of thousands of Iraqis would still be alive today, and children in Fallujah would not be born with congenital defects every day.”

'What does this have to do with Ukraine? For months, U.S. and European officials have cast the conflict in Ukraine in stark moral terms. If Putin can succeed with a war of aggression across his borders, the argument has gone, then a dark agenda of territorial conquest and might making right wins out. President Biden has framed the contest as a clash between “all democracies” and Putin’s authoritarian project. Last November, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin described the collective efforts of Ukraine’s Western allies as a reflection of “how much countries around the world value and respect the rules-based international order.”

'The legacy of Iraq undermines this rhetoric. For many people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the global South, the U.S. invasion is the most glaring recent episode in a long history of Western meddling and U.S. hypocrisy on the world stage. For officials in China and Russia, de facto adversaries of the United States, the Iraq War is an easy precedent to put forward to shoot down Washington’s talking points, no matter how self-serving and cynical that may be.'

“U.S. officials frequently invoke [the rules-based order] when criticizing or making demands of China,” noted Paul Pillar, a veteran former U.S. intelligence officer. “In no way can the offensive war against Iraq be seen as consistent with respect for a rules-based international order, or else the rules involved are strange rules.” (Sorry that gifted link is not available)."

[radicalurbanista]

there is one possible good outcome of this year that I’ve been thinking about a lot

It requires a lot of action before and after the election and a focused political strategy for the next few election cycles. It will have to meet certain conditions at critical times, but if it does, it could mean the end of the republican party the passage of Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, and a labor party. Basically, it depends on splitting the Democratic party after ensuring Democrat control of Congress and the White House, DSA expansion, and eliminating the electoral college.

1) Circa the 2020 election

Biden wins the electoral college

This is almost completely dependent on white moderates in swing states voting for Biden and on massive protests during what will likely be a highly contested legal battle for the presidency. The protests are to show leaders that we reject any legitimacy of another trump term. Protests against trump will face even more violence at the hands of police and their conspiring with white nationalists. There is still the possibility of a coup. But voting alone will not ensure trump’s removal from office, everyone needs to be out in the streets and organizing strikes and protests. It will be a lot easier than stopping trump after he’s secured a second term. If this fails, protesting conditions will become even more hostile, and Americans will see no relief from the economic depression or pandemic. The U.S. may end as a dictatorship, but I have no idea when.

Democrats take majority control of the senate

This is essential as well. There are many senate seats this year where Republicans could be replaced by Dems. Here is a more thorough guide on who could be unseated. This will help with passing bills that Dems agree on. The more the better. Without this, splitting the party won’t be possible yet.

Democrats expand control of the House

This will make splitting the Dem party easier.

DSA (Democratic Socialists) expand control at the local and state level

The emergence of DSA to a national party requires many more wins at the local level. This will give them the chance to become the left-wing national party. 50% of Democrat voters support socialism, and that’s pre-pandemic and pre-depression. It is these voters who will be attracted to the DSA as they grow.

Democrats expand control in state legislatures

Once the census results are in and states have to redistrict, Democrat-controlled state legislatures will likely produce less gerrymandered conservative districts. This will secure more representational elections for the next decade.

2) Before the 2022 election

Eliminate the electoral college

This is another very difficult part. Conservative Dems (like Biden) oppose eliminating the electoral college. His current views may not matter once the DNC tells him to do otherwise. It will likely be moderate and left Dems who push this agenda forward, as it is within the best interest of the Dem party to make the popular vote chose the presidency. National support for it may also be higher than ever after the election, meaning more pressure on Dems to act while they can. If the electoral college is eliminated, Republicans will lose their chance at winning the presidency again, meaning trump 2024 won’t be possible

Begin major canvassing for M4A, GND, police defunding, and abolishing ICE

Once Dems control Congress and the White House, the left can be more on the political offense rather than defense. The DNC opposes Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, but support for them will only likely increase as more people die from COVID-19, suffer under medical debt, face record breaking unemployment and evictions, and climate crises continue to destroy areas. These bills are popular, and the DSA supports them, which will give them leverage in winning more elections and even in poaching Democrat representatives like Bernie and AOC. Support for abolishing ICE and the police are only likely to grow thanks to continued BLM organizing.

Counter Republican campaigns at the state and local levels

Republicans are unified, backed by money, and think long-term, but this election is different because their only platform is supporting trump. Should they lose the White House and Congress, and lose the electoral college, they will have to create a whole new base and platform goals to win a national election ever again. Local organizers will have to counter republican strategies at the local and state levels in hopes of killing the party. Republicans might be able to find a way to attract half of the voter base again, but they might also be clinging too tightly to racism, which, although strong, is no longer enough to win the presidency through popular vote. They could also lose southern state control as cities like Atlanta and Houston grow and their voters flip the state blue.

3) Circa the 2024 election

Enter the DSA into national elections

If the electoral college is gone and the DSA was won more local and state seats in 2020 and 2022, the DSA has a chance to enter national elections. As a popular left-wing party and with the decline of the republican party, the DSA can now attract left-wing previously “captured” by Dems. They may likely not win the presidency, but the DSA will force Dems to be the nation’s right-wing party and become the left-wing party in doing so. Formerly republican voters will likely switch to Dems as the Democratic party becomes more conservative and if republicans no longer have a chance at winning national elections.

Center campaigns around major bills not yet passed (M4A, GND, police defunding, and/or abolishing ICE)

This keeps important issues relevant and keeps Dems on the defense as to why they won’t pass the bills.

4) After

Continue building revolutionary potential now that the two national parties are welfare capitalism/socialism-lite and neoliberalism.

The DSA will likely capture much of the working-class vote, Millennials and Gen Z, and POC. If republicans are still around, their goal will be to find a new way to split the working class vote, likely requiring collaborating with Dems. However, their old strategy of splitting by rural/urban may no longer work. Businesses will do everything they can to stop a party from representing workers: it’s why the parties realigned after the New Deal.

This is all possible and will offer actual harm reduction to the working class for the first time since the 70s. None of it will be possible without massive organizing and protest efforts on the ground. None of it will be possible without strong interracial ties and community building. Voting is essential, but it’s the bare minimum and inadequate alone. During this period, BLM and new leftist movements could grow, we could see a militant left party to further curb U.S. domestic authoritarianism. We could see national policy that interferes less in the Global South. We would likely see increased protections for workers, a redistribution of wealth, and new public infrastructure. We could even see the end of the U.S. by the close of the decade, or at least how it would finally happen.

I’m happy to explain any point further, but I thought I’d put my degree to use and share a possible political strategy for the next decade that could use protest and direct action with electoral politics to end U.S. dominance and global capitalism while making the conditions for final stages of revolution less hostile. The next decade will be turbulent regardless, but would this ^^^ is the best way for that turbulence to lead to liberation.

[mariemoret]

Archbishop Viganò warns Trump about ‘Great Reset’ plot by globalist elite to ‘subdue humanity,’ destroy freedom

October 30, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written yet another open letter to President Donald J. Trump. Read it in its entirety below. It is available in PDF by clicking here. Read it in Italian here.

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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DONALD J. TRUMP

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Solemnity of Christ the King

Mr. President,

Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in the desert” (John 1:23).

As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders.

Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business. We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny

A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations. In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.

The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures, hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt. The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups. Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset, the imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a health passport and a digital ID, with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world. Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest, and all their assets will be confiscated.

Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and the first trimester of 2021. For this purpose, further lockdowns are planned, which will be officially justified by a supposed second and third wave of the pandemic. You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties, artfully provoking a world-wide economic crisis. In the intentions of its architects, this crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset irreversible, thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very memory they want to completely cancel. Read rest here:

[whiterosebrian]

Letter to President Joe Biden

First and foremost, I simply wrote this letter to add my own bit of pressure, however small it might be, on a mainstream politician to go beyond business as usual within a liberal-democratic state. I did consider posting this to my webpages, but I was also aware that doing so could come off as performative—or legitimize right-wing sneers at “virtue-signaling”. Ultimately, I decided to go ahead and do so for two reasons. First, I wanted to publicly stand with indigenous peoples. Second, I wanted to offer a template for other people to write similar letters to President Biden. The letter that I will mail as a hard-copy is as follows.

Mister President,

I congratulate you on your election as President of the United States of America. In light of an attempted coup, I also congratulate you on a successful inauguration. I for one voted for you in hopes of preventing a potential neo-Confederate fascist dictatorship from taking hold and endangering even more lives. I for one also have openly talked on social media about the need to address deeper issues than a wannabe strongman. Donald Trump’s administration was simply a symptom of a very bad system. That system is a system of putting profits over people and environment.

I understand that you passed an order stopping the construction of a particularly controversial pipeline. That is a step in the right direction—but nothing more. I understand that other pipelines have still been approved. I understand that they will cut through the lands of indigenous communities and potentially wreck their environments.

Particularly since I’m not indigenous, I know that writing about indigenous spirituality risks falling into the stereotype of the Magical Indian. I will still write about what is evidently common across the spiritualities of indigenous peoples. That should provide further context for the need to protect their lands. Furthermore, I follow a number of indigenous activists, artists, and spiritualists on social media from different nations, so I am confident that I have at least a decent grasp on generalized indigenous spirituality.

Many indigenous peoples have animistic beliefs—to simplify, they view their world as teeming with spirits, often embodied in the land itself. Indeed, the land itself is seen as a precious gift from the Earth, with some sites being especially sacred. The most prominent example is Six Grandfathers; Lakota have objected to carving big fat heads on it and want it back. I bring up animism to point out wisdom which indigenous activists are more than eager to share (even if they keep their specific religious practices to themselves to protect their cultures in the face of attempted extermination and ignorant appropriation). They want all of us to regain respect and even honor for the lands on which we live so that all of Earth’s denizens can live.

More than once I have seen a figure cited on the internet regarding indigenous peoples and biodiversity. Indigenous peoples make up a very small percentage of the total population of the world. However, the vast majority of the world’s biodiversity is in their hands. That in itself should be a compelling reason to cooperate closely with indigenous people. They know their lands more deeply than the settlers. They know the cycles of life and processes of life and intricacies of life very deeply as well. Their cultures, which have been imperiled by imperialism past and present, are tied to their lands. Upholding indigenous rights goes hand-in-hand with protecting the environment.

Furthermore, you should recall that indigenous voters were crucial to your electoral victory. They knew that an extended Trump administration could possibly be an existential threat. They put themselves through trials almost as harsh as Black voters who navigated the various means of voter suppression. They expect you to help them.

Allow me to offer an aside. Since you clearly take right-wing extremism far more seriously than the previous president (which may be an understatement in regards to him), you may have heard fleeting references to racist neo-pagans who call themselves Odinists or something similar. They claim a spirituality of upholding their twisted vision of the natural order. I myself am a neo-pagan who opposes the likes of Odinists. I don’t want to make this letter about me—I mention that to further contextualize where this letter is coming from. Traditional spiritualities around the world place a stress on reverence for nature and see divinity and mysticism within it—such is evident even in dead religions that have only recently begun to come back to life. Addressing the white-nationalist appropriation of pre-Christian spiritualities is far beyond the scope of this letter. For now, I’ll simply mention the many neo-pagans who venerate nature and want to care for it even as they reject fascism.

You have stated intentions of working with progressives on the Green New Deal, or massively transitioning from fossil fuels to solar and wind energy. That in itself may be a worthy cause, as climate change is the most pressing environmental problem. However, that transition needs to be handled carefully. The process of mining for materials to build a new energy infrastructure could severely damage the lands where such mining takes place and displace their peoples.

I can accept that railing against “big government” is too often a smokescreen for a callously pro-corporate agenda. I do know that there is a place for “big government” in protecting people. That’s the thing—government should serve people on the ground, not corporations. Corporations are willing to do whatever they think will enhance their bottom lines. Corporations can very easily capitalize on a Green New Deal to fatten their profits as much as possible when that becomes feasible. Yes, I know that rightists will cynically (and lazily) ape anti-corporate rhetoric when companies promote anything and everything remotely liberal, but the danger of relying on corporations remains.

Many activists desire to rebuild their communities to be more livable, more inclusive, and in greater harmony with nature. The government should enable them to do so. Infrastructures should serve human living, not the other way around. Humans are not meant to be ripped apart from plants, animals, and landscapes, but rather relations should be repaired. Doing so will require massive reviews of economics, industry, urban planning, and government. That task is far beyond any one well-intentioned governing body.

Progressives voted for you reluctantly because they consider you a garden-variety politician serving capitalistic and colonial interests. I challenge you to prove them wrong. I urge you to do more than just return to a liberal-democratic normalcy (which is understandable after Trump and his fellow-travelers destabilized a liberal democratic state). I urge you to pay closer attention to the original inhabitants of Turtle Island. They cry out for restorative justice. They warn of the dangers of business as usual under the dominant system, which is unsustainable. They invite all of us to reconcile with them and the Earth itself.

No, I dare not pretend to have solid proposals. That is something for you to figure out in direct collaboration with indigenous activists. I am simply a common man on the street trying to make myself helpful to vulnerable people and the environment. I hope that I am doing my part by pointing you to indigenous activists, their lands, their pains, their spiritualities, their voices, and their desire to see the whole Earth thrive.

[leviathangourmet]

Back in 2008, American Enterprise Institute fellow Jonah Goldberg wrote the bestselling Liberal Fascism. With America’s entire political and media establishment claiming “right-wing extremism” as the most urgent national security issue, Goldberg’s book has more relevance today than when it was written.

Only slightly outside the mainstream, the far-Left press is explicit in its references to right-wing “fascism.” From the Daily Beast in January, “Donald Trump Is Leaving, but American Fascism Is Just Getting Its Boots On.” From Open Democracy, also in January, “Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years of street violence.” And just in from the high-minded journal Foreign Policy, “Trump’s movement is a uniquely American fascism, built on a century of American imperialism.”

How is it that “Trump’s movement” can be the target of so much fearmongering and growing repression, when tens of thousands of black-clad Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters have invaded the streets of countless American cities for over a year with rioting, looting, and beat-downs? Early on, Goldberg’s book made the claim, backed up now by ample evidence, that the Right has no monopoly on fascist violence.

Here is Goldberg’s definition of fascism:

“Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including the economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the ‘problem’ and therefore defined as the enemy. I will argue that contemporary American liberalism embodies all of these aspects of fascism.”

The book, which is scrupulously researched, describes the economic and political history of fascism, making the case that European fascism was originally a left-wing, socialist, populist movement, and thus the American counterparts of the European fascists were the Progressives.

Fascism is typically equated with anti-Semitism, militarism, dictatorship, demagoguery, genocide; all those phenomena historically associated with the extreme right-wing. But as Goldberg patiently explains, over and over, while one variant of fascism may have embodied all of this evil, it doesn’t change the fact that the modern political Left has the same intellectual roots as Europe’s fascists who emerged in parallel with American progressives about 100 years ago.

Around the time Goldberg’s book came out, a pioneering philanthropist in Sacramento, California, named Charles Goethe, who had founded the local university and donated large tracts of land for parks and schools, had his name systematically expunged from local history. He was an early victim of what we now call “cancel culture.” His crime? Notwithstanding his social consciousness and generosity, Goethe believed in eugenics. But the well-meaning people busily demonizing Goethe today ignore the fact that Goethe, who was born in 1875, was a progressive, and virtually all progressives believed in eugenics. And they were the intellectual counterparts of the European fascists.

A few years ago I watched a German-language version of the movie “Titanic,” released in late 1943. Watching the movie, I was struck by how obviously the plot was slanted to demonize wealthy profiteers; the villains were well-heeled capitalists whose desire to make a few extra dollars of profit spelled doom for the passengers on the Titanic. This was dissonant to me. Weren’t the fascists right-wing? Weren’t they the ultimate capitalists? This is a common misconception.

The Nazis were socialists—national socialists, but socialists nonetheless. They believed in a partnership of government and industry for the purported benefit of the working man. And their economic model was ominously similar to what is manifesting today in America—egged on as much by unwitting liberals as by errant conservatives. Neither wing has a monopoly on enabling behaviors to create this “third way” economic model—known variously as corporatism, socialism, or economic fascism.

Just as fascism is a widely debated, widely misunderstood term, liberal is also a word that has two meanings. Goldberg describes how the terms “liberal” and “conservative” acquired their modern definitions:

“In the past, liberalism had referred to political and economic liberty as understood by enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith. For them, the ultimate desideratum was maximum individual freedom under the benign protection of a minimalist state. The progressives, led by Dewey, subtly changed the meaning of this term, importing the Prussian version of liberalism as the alleviation of material and educational poverty . . . for progressives liberty no longer meant freedom from tyranny, but freedom from want . . . classical liberals were now routinely called conservatives, while devotees of social control were called liberals.”

If the rise of leftist street violence over the past year, in the service of an ostensibly liberal political agenda, validates Goldberg’s arguments, the “climate emergency” integral to today’s “great reset” is further evidence of his relevance. As Goldberg writes: 

“The most tangible fascistic ingredient [of environmentalism] is that it is an invaluable ‘crisis mechanism.’ Al Gore constantly insists that global warming is the defining crisis of our time. Skeptics are called traitors, Holocaust deniers, tools of the ‘carbon interests’ . . . the beauty of global warming is that it touches everything we do—what we eat, what we wear, where we go. Our ‘carbon footprint’ is the measure of man.”

True to the economic model of fascism, the measures being advocated supposedly to combat global warming are the biggest gift to the “corporatists” in the history of the world. The powerful vested interests that constitute the “alarm industry” are the ones who, ironically, anyone who truly believes in individual rights and property rights should be worried about.

What is “the religion of the state?” It would be, at any cost, to fight racism, climate change, and wear your mask. That religion, increasingly enforced in the streets by thugs, endlessly blasted into our minds by corporate media, is the fascism of our time. A thoughtfully written article in the leftist journal Counterpunch makes the case that fascism and liberalism are false oppositions because they’re just two sides of a common capitalist coin. The author claims that “capitalist crimes” are only properly opposed by Communism.

Nice try. It is true that fascism preserves a role for mega-corporations to serve as junior partners to the state, but fascism’s shared affinity with Communism to brutally repress dissent is the more salient commonality.

It really doesn’t matter if they fall under the ideals of true conservatism, classical liberalism, libertarianism, or even enlightened conventional liberalism—the values of individual freedom, free markets, private property, and limited government are under attack in America. The “green” fascism of environmental extremists, along with the “antiracist” fascism of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, are being given cover and credibility by corporate interests.

It is the Left, not the Right, that informs America’s 21st-century version of fascism.

[fapangel]

What is your counterargument to "Americans have no culture"? Serious long-form answer, no imageposts.

As a Greek-American, I have a unique perspective on this; because I can compare American culture to my ancestral culture; the culture; the culture that gave the world mathematics, natural science, medicine and works of literature that are still mandatory courses of study for high school students world-wide. A culture so vibrant that the Romans themselves just Romanized the names of our Gods and eagerly adopted them as their own; not so much adopting our culture as merging our enlightened ideas of intellectual pursuit with their pragmatic, down-to-earth engineer’s mindset to build works of architecture still revered today for their beauty, functionality and longevity. 

And all that glorious, beautiful culture has done Greece diddly squat. 

Look at it. Look at Greece; a nation impoverished, mocked and maligned; a nation that’s become the Mexico of Europe. That’s not a joke; back in the 70s the rail line between Greece and Germany was called the “Athens express” for how many Greek migrant workers rode it. The EU’s One Currency To Rule Them All guaranteed that someone in the bloc, unable to devalue their currency to manage changes in the global market, would emerge the loser, and once again it was Greece. The Greeks only participated in the 1930s Olympics because wealthy Greeks in America took up a collection and sent it over to them, and Greeks in America are still better off than they are in the homeland. Greece, the nation that invented democracy, soon forgot how to use it; they were ruled by a military dictatorship from 67 to 74 in a tragicomic reversion to the spasms of tyranny that sometimes gripped Athens in Classical Antiquity. Their civil government denies them many important rights; such as firearms ownership, and is only held in check by a combination of Greek’s inborn anarchist spirit and a woefully incompetent civil government that makes Italy’s civil service look like the fucking Swiss. Building a house in Greece is sometimes tantamount to filing a lawsuit due to this. And that’s to say nothing of the “anarchists,” i.e. the fucking communists who still firebomb the occasional building and contribute to a constant, low-level civil unrest significantly worse than anything antifa has managed stateside. 

So tell me, if you can - what has Greece’s vaunted “culture” done for it? What has it done for Greece, with its worm-riddled civil government, its impoverished people, with hoards of Middle Eastern refugees that Europe refuses to deal with? What has it done for Greece, having married into the globalists wet dream of a Unified European State, only to find that it was the designated loser? What has it done for Greece, which, having forfeited its economic independence to the globalist agenda, then finds itself left to defend itself with what little GDP it has left for military expenditures, now that Germany has gutted its own army, France still doesn’t give a single begotten fuck about alliances that don’t immediately impact their own interests, and the UK is worried about scraping the cash together just to defend themselves? Pray tell, what, exactly, does Greece have that America does not? 

America has media empires that resound across the world; the reach of Hollywood is vast. Donald Duck, Porky Pigs, Bugs Bunny are recognized from the Mongolian steppes to the savanna of sub-Saharan Africa. Our cultural influence on the globe is so mighty that Buick is still a big fucking deal in China, despite the globalists having willingly given away our role as world manufacturer to China itself, for the Chinese remember the impoverished days when the Party big-wigs all rolled around in American-built Buicks. American culture is a unique cultural attitude towards violence where a finger-poke counts as assault in many jurisdictions, but lays the necessary groundwork for the only country of its size on Earth where most people have the right to carry a loaded weapon on their person for the purpose of self defense. American culture is a strain of individualism matched only by its innate suspicion of government; a frontiersman attitude, not an inability to work together, as alt-right collectivists allege, but a pragmatic mindset that says nobody is coming to help you, or even nobody is going to help you in time, and thus frees people to help themselves. 

Even the comforts of our modern age cannot dull this; as it is written too deeply in the structure of our laws and the stories of our national mythos; the default reruns on daytime broadcast TV around here are old Westerns like Bat Masterson or Rawhide. One of the most incisive observations of Japanese culture I’ve ever seen I found in The Atlantic of all places; the commentary on how Japanese TV is always played in the background, a passive venue for programming responses that people then execute, word for word, at social events, as the author grouses towards the end. The American version is nowhere near as deliberate, of course; just our culture’s older mythos being churned up like a cow chewing her cud, but it’s there - and it’s all cowboy western ass-kicking or, at night, 80s action-movie asskicking. We mine it because that’s all there is to mine, from the bottom up. 

And what are the effects on Americans? If you strip away innate advantages of provenance and wealth? If you deny him his technology and money and pit him against enemies of homogeneous ethnicity and Strong Ancient Cultures, rifle to rifle, bayonet to bayonet, hand to hand? What emerges then? 

You find the men who took the Omaha and Utah beacheads with only rifles and grenades, after half their armored support floundered in the channel, preparatory bombardments missed their mark, and American faith in technology and firepower overall failed, and miserably. 

You find the Marines who held Edson’s Ridge against the Japanese, emerging victorious from brutal hand-to-hand combat in the dark. 

You find dead men walking who refuse to stop fighting until their last round and their last breath. 

In short, you find victors. Of the governments who’ve opposed us, many no longer exist - and yet we are still here. 

So where, exactly, am I supposed to detect America’s alleged lack of “culture?” The performance of our society in total war has been superlative; even our most astounding fuck-ups demonstrate just how bad an idea it is to piss us off. We have a national mythos of our own, complete with great heroes and their noble quests. We have icons and monuments built by our own hand, often to venerate those heroes. We have our own land; one we had to fight for, bleed for, and tame, one that is ancient and filled with natural wonders of staggering scope and beauty. And we have the same collectivists and fifth-columnists and globalists that Europe has, except they hold less sway here, despite the much-vaunted Culture of Europe’s ancient nations and peoples. 

So where is the tell-tale? Where is the casual link between America’s fortunes and her alleged “lack of culture?” For that matter, where is the casual link between Europe’s cultures and their fortunes? Where is the evidence? What even is the point of that phrase, “America has no culture?” 

The truth is that there is none; it is empty sloganeering of the “just asking questions” kind; trading entirely on trolling witless neoliberals incapable of defending the inconsistencies in their own platforms due to their inability to acknowledge reality. The alt-right never has to defend their platform as a coherent theory, because their only detractors are either fellow collectivists who share their basic premises and care nothing for critique, as they are of the out-group to them - a different collective - and thus not even human. With the lolbertarians trivially easy to keep on the defensive, that leaves nobody, nobody at all, as the actual constituency of the GOP, that have rallied behind Trump would’ve been called centrists thirty years ago and want nothing to do with collectivism, no matter what collective it claims to defend. 

The vast majority of them are full of shit, and it is not hard to prove it. 

[pamphletstoinspire]

Archbishop Vigano’s  Warns Trump About ‘Great Reset’ Plot

Open Letter To The President Of The United States

DONALD J. TRUMP

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Solemnity of Christ the King

Mr. President,

Allow me to address you at this hour in which the fate of the whole world is being threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity. I write to you as an Archbishop, as a Successor of the Apostles, as the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America. I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Jn 1:23).

As I said when I wrote my letter to you in June, this historical moment sees the forces of Evil aligned in a battle without quarter against the forces of Good; forces of Evil that appear powerful and organized as they oppose the children of Light, who are disoriented and disorganized, abandoned by their temporal and spiritual leaders.

Daily we sense the attacks multiplying of those who want to destroy the very basis of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business. We see heads of nations and religious leaders pandering to this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul, while the fundamental rights of citizens and believers are denied in the name of a health emergency that is revealing itself more and more fully as instrumental to the establishment of an inhuman faceless tyranny.

A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations. In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.

The purpose of the Great Reset is the imposition of a health dictatorship aiming at the imposition of liberticidal measures, hidden behind tempting promises of ensuring a universal income and cancelling individual debt. The price of these concessions from the International Monetary Fund will be the renunciation of private property and adherence to a program of vaccination against Covid-19 and Covid-21 promoted by Bill Gates with the collaboration of the main pharmaceutical groups. Beyond the enormous economic interests that motivate the promoters of the Great Reset, the imposition of the vaccination will be accompanied by the requirement of a health passport and a digital ID, with the consequent contact tracing of the population of the entire world. Those who do not accept these measures will be confined in detention camps or placed under house arrest, and all their assets will be confiscated.

Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and the first trimester of 2021. For this purpose, further lockdowns are planned, which will be officially justified by a supposed second and third wave of the pandemic. You are well aware of the means that have been deployed to sow panic and legitimize draconian limitations on individual liberties, artfully provoking a world-wide economic crisis. In the intentions of its architects, this crisis will serve to make the recourse of nations to the Great Reset irreversible, thereby giving the final blow to a world whose existence and very memory they want to completely cancel. But this world, Mr. President, includes people, affections, institutions, faith, culture, traditions, and ideals: people and values that do not act like automatons, who do not obey like machines, because they are endowed with a soul and a heart, because they are tied together by a spiritual bond that draws its strength from above, from that God that our adversaries want to challenge, just as Lucifer did at the beginning of time with his “non serviam.”

Many people – as we well know – are annoyed by this reference to the clash between Good and Evil and the use of “apocalyptic” overtones, which according to them exasperates spirits and sharpens divisions. It is not surprising that the enemy is angered at being discovered just when he believes he has reached the citadel he seeks to conquer undisturbed. What is surprising, however, is that there is no one to sound the alarm. The reaction of the deep state to those who denounce its plan is broken and incoherent, but understandable. Just when the complicity of the mainstream media had succeeded in making the transition to the New World Order almost painless and unnoticed, all sorts of deceptions, scandals and crimes are coming to light.

Until a few months ago, it was easy to smear as “conspiracy theorists” those who denounced these terrible plans, which we now see being carried out down to the smallest detail. No one, up until last February, would ever have thought that, in all of our cities, citizens would be arrested simply for wanting to walk down the street, to breathe, to want to keep their business open, to want to go to church on Sunday. Yet now it is happening all over the world, even in picture-postcard Italy that many Americans consider to be a small enchanted country, with its ancient monuments, its churches, its charming cities, its characteristic villages. And while the politicians are barricaded inside their palaces promulgating decrees like Persian satraps, businesses are failing, shops are closing, and people are prevented from living, traveling, working, and praying. The disastrous psychological consequences of this operation are already being seen, beginning with the suicides of desperate entrepreneurs and of our children, segregated from friends and classmates, told to follow their classes while sitting at home alone in front of a computer.

In Sacred Scripture, Saint Paul speaks to us of “the one who opposes” the manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, the kathèkon (2 Thess 2:6-7). In the religious sphere, this obstacle to evil is the Church, and in particular the papacy; in the political sphere, it is those who impede the establishment of the New World Order.

As is now clear, the one who occupies the Chair of Peter has betrayed his role from the very beginning in order to defend and promote the globalist ideology, supporting the agenda of the deep church, who chose him from its ranks.

Mr. President, you have clearly stated that you want to defend the nation – One Nation under God, fundamental liberties, and non-negotiable values that are denied and fought against today. It is you, dear President, who are “the one who opposes” the deep state, the final assault of the children of darkness.

For this reason, it is necessary that all people of good will be persuaded of the epochal importance of the imminent election: not so much for the sake of this or that political program, but because of the general inspiration of your action that best embodies – in this particular historical context – that world, our world, which they want to cancel by means of the lockdown. Your adversary is also our adversary: it is the Enemy of the human race, He who is “a murderer from the beginning” (Jn 8:44).

Around you are gathered with faith and courage those who consider you the final garrison against the world dictatorship. The alternative is to vote for a person who is manipulated by the deep state, gravely compromised by scandals and corruption, who will do to the United States what Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing to the Church, Prime Minister Conte to Italy, President Macron to France, Prime Minster Sanchez to Spain, and so on. The blackmailable nature of Joe Biden – just like that of the prelates of the Vatican’s “magic circle” – will expose him to be used unscrupulously, allowing illegitimate powers to interfere in both domestic politics as well as international balances. It is obvious that those who manipulate him already have someone worse than him ready, with whom they will replace him as soon as the opportunity arises.

And yet, in the midst of this bleak picture, this apparently unstoppable advance of the “Invisible Enemy,” an element of hope emerges. The adversary does not know how to love, and it does not understand that it is not enough to assure a universal income or to cancel mortgages in order to subjugate the masses and convince them to be branded like cattle. This people, which for too long has endured the abuses of a hateful and tyrannical power, is rediscovering that it has a soul; it is understanding that it is not willing to exchange its freedom for the homogenization and cancellation of its identity; it is beginning to understand the value of familial and social ties, of the bonds of faith and culture that unite honest people. This Great Reset is destined to fail because those who planned it do not understand that there are still people ready to take to the streets to defend their rights, to protect their loved ones, to give a future to their children and grandchildren. The leveling inhumanity of the globalist project will shatter miserably in the face of the firm and courageous opposition of the children of Light. The enemy has Satan on its side, He who only knows how to hate. But on our side, we have the Lord Almighty, the God of armies arrayed for battle, and the Most Holy Virgin, who will crush the head of the ancient Serpent. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31).

Mr. President, you are well aware that, in this crucial hour, the United States of America is considered the defending wall against which the war declared by the advocates of globalism has been unleashed. Place your trust in the Lord, strengthened by the words of the Apostle Paul: “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13). To be an instrument of Divine Providence is a great responsibility, for which you will certainly receive all the graces of state that you need, since they are being fervently implored for you by the many people who support you with their prayers.

With this heavenly hope and the assurance of my prayer for you, for the First Lady, and for your collaborators, with all my heart I send you my blessing.

God bless the United States of America!

+ Carlo Maria Viganò

Tit. Archbishop of Ulpiana

Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

[tinyshe]

Justin Trudeau confirmed he’s signing Canadians up for the communist agenda known as ‘The Great Reset’.

In a September video conference for the United Nations, Trudeau declared Canada’s participation in the ‘Reset’ and the U.N. 2030 initiative. While the video is more than a month old, Trudeau’s comments went mainstream this weekend after a twitter user highlighted the controversial statement.[article dated 2020 Nov 16]

“This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset,” said Trudeau. “This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts, to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

“Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda of sustainable development and the SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Goals).”

Trudeau’s comments are a confirmation of what many Canadians have feared since an alleged leaked letter from the Prime Minister’s Office went viral last month.

The letter, which you can read here, claims to outline a difficult next 12 months for Canada highlighted by stricter lockdowns, internment camps and a forced debt-reset program in which all debts are erased in exchange for forfeiture of all property and assets.

The ‘Reset’ was once considered a conspiracy theory but evidence of it being a very real rollout of a communist agenda for Western countries has surfaced in recent months.

The movement has been widely promoted by the World Economic Forum throughout 2020 under the name ‘The Great Reset’. It is also widely known as the United Nations 2030 agenda.

The agenda, under the façade of sustainable development and equality, calls for the end of private property/assets, the urbanization of society, end of single-family homes, rationing of food and water, depopulation of the planet, creation of a one-world government to replace nations and much more.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano recently called the reset a “health dictatorship” in an open letter to USA President Donald Trump which you can read more about here.

Trump, who has opposed the ‘Reset’ since taking office in 2017, has been attacked non-stop by politicians and media. Many believe he is the target of these attacks because of his opposition to the plan.

https://freenorth.news/2020/11/16/trudeau-confirms-hes-all-in-on-great-reset-communist-agenda-for-canada/   is the hotlink to this article where there is also video

[robert-c]

Strategies, Tactics and Some (Unfortunate) Common Ground Between Right and Left

The Right wants to keep the status quo and therefor uses legal strategies and tactics to thwart change by law or court rulings. They energize their “base” by creating laws to “combat” perceived changes by the Left; for example, putting forward “bathroom laws”, which would be virtually impossible to enforce, and are essentially unnecessary in any event.

The Left, too often, takes the bait on these provocations and devotes too much of its energy to these set matches which the Right has carefully chosen to put fear and upset into their base. While these ridiculous wastes of legislative resources should be called out for what they are; letting the Right control the items up for discussion plays right into their hands.

Let’s get down to basics. The true and best objective of Progressives, aka “the Left”, is that people deal with others without regard to their race, gender, religion, national origin, etc. or any other factor not relevant to the nature of their interaction. It would be wonderful if there didn’t need to be laws to enforce that idea, but until people’s minds are in agreement, they will probably be needed for all public interactions.

However, instead of working exclusively to pass laws protecting these rights, we should be spending our time “educating” and making the public more comfortable. There is a right time for such legislation, and it is after a significant number, if not a majority, of people are already on board. Finding that timing is critical, and I have no magic crystal ball to tell me when is right. I do think that what fractures and weakens the Left is the idea that we must always be pushing for a specific legislative agenda.

Gay marriage became a fact AFTER enough gay people came out of the closet so that a large number of people could know that they already knew people who were gay, and who didn’t fit some reviled stereotype created by the Right. The landmark civil rights laws passed when people got a chance to see how mindlessly violent the southern racists were in Selma and Birmingham and other places. And no, it will never be fast enough to suit me or others who want to see these changes, but they can’t be force fed with a legislative agenda. As long as the ideas and ideals of the Left are being heard, progress is being made.

That is why it is important to vote for Biden, even if you don’t feel your particular agenda is being met with him.

Trump has made it clear in several Tweets that he thinks disagreeing with him (or calling him a liar) is “illegal”. Let’s not give him the chance to make that a fact.

The unfortunate common ground between the Left and the Right are those “purists” who brook no compromise and adopt an “all or nothing” attitude. All of their philosophical arguments in favor of this extreme consistency of thought might work well in a debate contest – but in the real world it only helps the forces opposed to change.

The Right essentially opposes all fundamental change, so it is easier to attract a base that is fearful of change. Even if some of the individuals might be open to some change, chances are that there are more changes they would not like to see, and so they cast their lot with those in favor of NO change; it seems the safer bet to them.

But the rigid Left elements not only alienate those who have other agendas for change that aren’t encompassed in a particular belief, but also those who merely disagree on tactics. Again, the Left is NOT a single, cohesive and comprehensive ideology.

This sort of absolutism in belief provides both extremes with a sense of certainty that is very comforting. Sorting out the nuances of right and wrong in everyday situations is hard work, requiring lots of thought and even empathy. It’s so much easier if you have a simple, rigid, absolute to cling to, eliminating all need for thought or compassion.

“Compromise” for the Left does NOT betray its goals and objectives, but rather is a step along the way. The Right understands that, and THAT is why they are unwilling to compromise. They understand that it is to their disadvantage, and to the advantage of Progressives.

So my Progressive/Left, friends, let’s not let the extremists and their legislative strategies hijack the progress we can make. We need to keep our ideas out there, even if they won’t be enacted fast enough to suit us. We are truly on the brink of a dictatorship, in which the very mention of our ideas would be criminalized. We have a president who is cozy with absolute tyrants (Putin and Kim Jong Un), who has said perhaps one day the US will adopt a “president for life” model (said to Kim Jong Un), who has talked about a third term for his presidency, who has undermined checks and balances on the president’s power (firing inspectors general, encouraging staff to ignore subpoenas from Congress, etc.), used the presidency to enrich himself personally (increased fees at his golf clubs once he was elected, foreign dignitaries staying at his hotels, etc.), and more too numerous to list here.

I understand if you think there is little point to your vote. I can even appreciate wanting to cast a vote for the Libertarian or Green Party if those are closer to your personal philosophy. However, the political reality is those candidates will not be elected and can only serve to narrow the margin between Trump and Biden.

Trump must be defeated by a landslide to give him no cover for claiming the election is invalid.

I used to wonder how those Latin American countries ended up with such awful dictators. At last I’ve seen how, and it is truly frightening.