"Trusting politicians to teach children honest history is like relying on plantation owners to teach slaves how to read. The best lesson young Americans could receive from studying history is a radical skepticism of officialdom and all its hokum. Virtue signaling is no substitute for learning how to defend one’s rights and liberties."
James Bovard
"This is the great lesson of our times. An innovative spirit, backed by persistent and moral courage, can bury the dreary dreams of the technocratic elite, reducing their plans for our lives to rubble. The urge to live free and participate in progress are not only an integral part of the American project; the idea is baked into the human DNA. It will not be erased."
Jeffrey Tucker
"If there is any place on this or any other planet that poses less danger to America than Cuba, except Venezuela or maybe some undiscovered tribe in the Brazilian rainforest, I can’t imagine who. There are eleven million Cubans, and all but about five want to work, drink, play with their children, and make phenomenal music that would send the solemn horses’ asses of the thinktanks into therapy. For sixty years the goddam United States has tried to starve them, sanction them, make them as miserable as possible out of a weird sort of Nordic sadism. It is sickening.
Kamala might not stand for it. Of course, standing is not her primary talent."
Fred Reed
"Some analysts focus primarily on criticizing the really obvious monsters who spout racist and bigoted rhetoric to advance their toxic agendas. Others focus more on criticizing the monsters that are harder to see through the fog of feigned politeness and propaganda distortion, the ones you see in government buildings and on Fortune Magazine covers and on TV news shows telling you what to think about the world. Those who spend their time criticizing the latter more than the former are often attacked and ridiculed as fascist sympathizers and Kremlin assets, but only by those who don’t actually see the monsters that they are pointing to.
Hollywood trained us to fear psychopathic killers prowling around in the dark so we won’t notice the psychopathic killers who rule our world in broad daylight. We’ve been trained to fear the serial killer covered in blood and wielding a chainsaw so we won’t notice the serial killer wearing a suit and wielding a pen.
Our collective maturity cannot begin until we learn to see the violent extremist monsters where they actually exist, and not just where we’ve been trained to look for them."
Caitlin Johnstone
"America has changed beyond recognition over the past few years, and performed a rather rapid about-face on the issue of free speech, a notion it once championed. The source of this is no longer merely the apparatus of Silicon Valley and its desire to control information flows (which it is meant to merely shepherd without bias). The same pressure has come from the superstate structure of America itself, particularly (and ironically) the politically 'liberal' faction, as well as from an overarching pressure from the consumer interests of Western-backed global finance.
There appears to be a mass consensus among American money-powers (and thereby state powers) to tightly control information, and to abandon utterly their so recently lauded values of free speech. The FBI in particular has seemingly transitioned into an institution of speech-referees and political oppressors, on guard primarily against America’s own citizens.
Ironically, this has not halted America’s saber-rattling about political and informational oppressions from its geopolitical rivals in the east, which find themselves in the reverse role of shocked concern at the willingness of the American superstate to silence its political and moral enemies. Even to the extent of performing show trials."
Brett Sinclair
"The Western World is everywhere in decline. It leads only in perversion, not in science, technology, economic growth, or moral leadership. Many countries–Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia–experience the West as an economic, political, and moral blight. The oncoming collapse of the West will be blamed on the wrong reasons, but it will nevertheless be regarded with relief from the rest of the world.
National unity has been destroyed. Instead of divided North and South, the US is divided Red and Blue. Demonized white Americans are yet to comprehend their danger as objects of hate. If they attempt to organize, the organization will be declared 'white supremacist.' The FBI will infiltrate and work with extreme members or its own agents to create an incident that will be used to outlaw the organization as 'domestic terrorist,' which will foreclose any further organization. Unable to come together, white Americans will be left isolated or in small groups. If voting still matters, white Americans will encounter obstacles or the election outcomes will simply be programmed into the digital voting machines. Demonized and powerless white Americans will be victims of the hatred that has been orchestrated against them."
Paul Craig Roberts
"We are now facing another constitutional crisis, as we did in the 1850’s, when Congress was unable to compromise on slavery or avert the impending civil war. Today again, changes that must be made seemingly can’t be made because of our divisions and failure to compromise. The Constitution was designed for another country, one in which people agreed on fundamental principles, and that’s not today’s America. We are divided on things that used to unite us, and we don’t like politicians who compromise on issues we care about. We’re also not sure that we have the right kind of constitution. Perhaps we’ve come to recognize that our Constitution requires a unity we no longer have, and this makes secession more attractive."
F.H. Buckley
"Remember that the principle of government is that political power is maximized by forcibly leveling every individual to the same status of conformity, collectivism, ecumenicalism, and serfdom. Slavery by any other name.
Our greatest challenge to liberty and survival is to escape the propaganda of government and its agencies including the media. The amount of personal freedom that you have in the next few years in America will be in direct relationship to how sophisticated you become in techniques of decoding what you see and hear. It will have a direct impact on your survival."
Bob Livingston
"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times."
G. Michael Hopf
"Today's communists don't really fight for anything, at least not directly. I might respect them a little if they did. Rather, they loudly whine that they are 'victims' even though they are not, and then demand they be given free stuff for life without any effort. And, since free stuff has to be taken from somewhere, the people that have things are attacked through the color of law even when they did nothing wrong and earned every cent they own.
Communists steal from others through government proxy and by claiming victim group status. They work hand in hand with the very politicians and corporate oligarchs they say they despise. The governments and corporations do it because they can use the Marxist mob as a social weapon to strike fear in their ideological adversaries, and the SJWs do it because they can feed on the scraps from the big boy's table and use government to forcefully redistribute wealth into their own pockets. It's kind of a win-win, at least for a while. Eventually, the low-level commies get nailed to a wall or sent to a gulag when they are no longer useful, but that's a tale for another time..."
Brandon Smith
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Thomas Jefferson
"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly."
Robert Anton Wilson
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