“The individual has always had to struggle from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not a “Justice Department.” It’s a bunch of mobsters, tyrants and politicized police forces (think Gestapo, KGB) run amok; and the whole outcome involving Trump is rigged. The broader issue here: America is an occupied country. We are IN a civil war. The DemComs know it. Their victims — you and I — do not WANT to know it. The truth seems too awful to face, and the psyches of good people must absorb the horrifying truth incrementally. When they arrest Trump — and it’s GOING to happen — perhaps more patriots will wake up.
America, in all its history, was never occupied by its enemies, such as the Nazis, the imperial Japanese, or the Soviets. We always defeated them first. For the first time, our military and government apparatus is under the control of people openly hostile to our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our system of capitalism, and they stand ready to crush ALL of our freedom. Prayer and sentimental wishes will not save us. We are in a war and have been attacked as decisively as a 9/11 or a Pearl Harbor. The leftists who operate as “Democrats” are at least as bad and may ultimately prove worse than any of America’s prior enemies. Watch and judge this for yourself.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Gorbachev was not a freedom-lover; he was a Communist. Yet even he would be too right wing for today’s “Democrats.”
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
If you support “Democrats” you support hate, intolerance, envy, injustice, censorship, barbarism, stagnation and even starvation.
If you support these people, something is wrong with you. Not just in your thinking — but in your character. If you are part of the 35 percent or so (based on polls) of those who supposedly still support Biden, then either you’re on the government dole and feel like you’re set for life; or you have tons of money — perhaps earned, perhaps not — and you feel like you’re buffered against inflation, IRS agents, FBI raids and all the rest.
Either way, I consider you something akin to scum if you support not just Biden, but any of these people.
You don’t have to love Trump, and you don’t have to love Republicans.
But if you hate freedom then something is wrong with you. Capitalism refers to economic freedom. If you don’t support economic freedom, something is wrong with you. If you made money off of economic freedom, but now you don’t want others to have the same right, something is deeply wrong with you. If you are OK with censorship of people whose views you dislike, while you still expect freedom of thought and speech for yourself, something is deeply wrong with you. Morally.
You cannot support the out-in-the-open destruction of the greatest economy, the greatest republic and the greatest implementation of individual rights in the history of man … and still get to think of yourself as even a minimally decent person. I don’t buy it. You have access to alternate ideas. You have WAY more access to alternate forms of thinking than the people who supported Nazi Germany in its early days did. Yet you choose the obvious bad guys. That’s on you.
You cannot pretend it isn’t happening because it doesn’t affect you directly (yet), but hold yourself out as morally superior because you’re a “Democrat” which, in both theory and practice, now means a Communist-fascist hybrid.
You cannot stand by and not only watch this destruction — much less applaud it — without having reasonable people think of you as exactly what you are: moral scum.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Medicalizing mental health was a tragic error.
It falsely taught people that emotions are solely the result of physical factors — i.e., brain chemistry.
With regard to your psyche, your character and your soul, the psychiatric industry turns you into a ward of the pharmaceutical industry — or a ward of the State. In the post-COVID world, most of us can now see that’s pretty much the same thing.
In reality, emotions are the result of a long accumulation of choices, ideas, assumptions, hidden premises, values and so many other things.
Yes, we are brain chemistry. But we are so much more. And to date, science has refused to investigate how our choices and ideas determine our brain chemistry. Instead, “science” assumes that brain chemistry determines all thoughts, choices and behavior. This premise is never questioned, never explored, never investigated. In psychiatry, “follow the science” means “follow the drug companies.” And also follow the government, who funds most of the research, is beholden to drug comanies, who now controls most of medical care (through Medicare and Medicaid), and therefore now controls most of the doctors who administer it.
If you’re looking for a reason not to have to work for your mental health, then the psychiatric industry is there, waiting for you. Nobody challenges or questions them, even though most of the time their solutions are (at best) insufficient and (at worst) harmful. But when nobody questions you, nothing will ever change. And to many, the alternative is unspeakable: “I shape myself? I have the power, but also the responsibility, for reshaping my emotions, my values, my character?”
Not a chance, is how many people feel. So the band plays on.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
When I predict Trump will end up in an orange jump suit, or that America will break up as a Union, most conservatives do NOT agree with me.
I WANT to be wrong. So I’m eager to hear the REASONS why I’m wrong. I really am. But so far, I have been disappointed. All I get are things like leftist-ish hostility: “If you’re going to be a defeatist, then shut up.” But I don’t claim that defeat is inevitable. Good guys can beat the bad guys without a problem — but not when the good guys are afraid of making somebody mad, as most of the good guys are.
Or I hear, “This is America. It can’t happen here.” This is magical thinking of the worst order. The whole reason for a Bill of Rights is to PREVENT it from happening here. In large measure, it worked for a couple of centuries. Where’s the evidence it’s still working? We’re clearly now a banana republic run by gangsters. I don’t know of any conservatives or other nonleftist dissidents who disagree with me. So if we are now a banana republic run by gangsters, then how are we supposed to hope that the gangsters are suddenly going to see reason, truth and justice and stop making up things to ensure that Trump goes to jail? And that anyone like him will be next in line?
I want to see the EVIDENCE that enough people are so fed up with what has gone wrong in our country that they’re not going to take it any longer. When I look at the EVIDENCE I see criminals and sociopaths — with unlimited power, unchallenged everywhere — doing what criminals and sociopaths do. None of it surprises me. What shocks me is how little opposition there is, and how weak the opposition is. Something is deeply wrong with us — or with our thinking, our basic premises and assumptions — if we can’t beat these people, or even give them a fight. Or, it’s even worse than that: Leftists are exploiting the best within us. Most of us are productive, hard working people, running small businesses, doing jobs the best we can, raising families, people who simply want to be left alone. We hope the miscreants ruining the world for us will eventually get tired of it and leave us alone. We put our bodies and minds into productive, meaningful work, while power-hungry sociopaths take over the world. THIS is what’s happening. Leftists know we love our lives. They hate life, they hate themselves (often with good reason), and they HATE us, because we’re happy, decent and mean no harm. That’s what they’re exploiting, through our inattention and benevolent sense that somehow good will triumph in the end if we just … wish it away.
Conservatives seem to fall into one of two types. One is the type who thinks (magically) that Trump is going to somehow save us. Why, even if they imprison him (as they’re clearly on a track for doing), he’ll somehow command the military and rescue us all from a jail cell. The other type of conservative thinks, “Trump has had his day, it’s time to move on to someone like DeSantis.” OK, then. How is DeSantis going to win the presidency? Do you think Zuckerberg and the governors of Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania will not engage in the same fraud they did last time? Do you think the Supreme Court is suddenly going to care? And even if DeSantis does win, how will he control the executive branch when Republicans, even before Trump, weren’t all that capable of doing so, since the executive branch IS now a “deep state” with bureaucrats and officials who are never, ever going to listen to directives that go against the power and interests of The State?
We now have the government Reagan was trying to warn us about. We now have the government Ayn Rand, George Orwell and others were trying to warn us about decades before Reagan. We now have the government that America’s founders wisely worried we would eventually get, if they didn’t get the Constitution and Bill of Rights correct. Nothing against those founders. They gave us a republic we were able to keep, for the most part, for the better part of two centuries. Nobody in human history ever pulled that off before them, not even close.
But it’s over now. We have to figure out where we go from here. The criminals are in charge. The Chinese Communist Party is in charge. Russia’s fascist dictatorship looms, not in Trump’s campaign but like cockroaches coming in after the war to snack. Sadistic freaks like Black Lives Matter — monstrous, evil hypocrites — are in charge. Billionaires are using the mayors and police to literally destroy all of our once great cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Pelosi, Schumer, Biden — they look like Satanic creatures out of a biblical tale. They’re almost caricatures; it’s like they’re not real. They get old, but they don’t go away and they don’t seem to die.
None of it is magical or mystical. It’s simply what happens when the good guys go to sleep. Too many of us are watching from the sidelines, hoping that the system that is now overrun with the sociopolitical equivalent of termites is going to save us. I hate to break it to you: That system is done. I think you good guys know this. The hostility and anxiety you express through wishful thinking simply reveals what your subconscious already knew.
This is not defeatism. This is just reality. It’s only through accepting reality that we can figure out what to do next. Secession? That’s my starting point. What’s yours? Or are you just going to pray and hope for the best, and keep saying some version of, “It can’t happen here”? Secession isn’t so radical. The media, culture and the entire federal government — along with a plurality of state governments — have already seceded from the Bill of Rights. They simply do not recognize individual rights any longer. They do what they want. In red states it’s harder, because non-RINO Republican governors do put the brakes on tyranny, but red states still have to deal with a federal government that no longer honors nor even acknowledges the U.S. Bill of Rights. That’s why I call Biden’s “administration” a lawless regime.
It’s not defeatism to state the truth. The bad guys have won — at least for now. Evil cannot triumph in the end. But it can win all the battles, especially when it has little or no fierce opposition. Trump, while so great and admirable in so many ways, clearly was not enough.
The only question remaining is: What are the good guys going to do about it? Placing your hopes in a Congress run by Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, career politician RINOs, probably isn’t your best hope. Trusting that SOMEHOW the FBI and DOJ will suddenly see reason and leave Trump alone, and suddenly fire those 85,000 armed IRS agents probably isn’t realistic.
You’ve got to start reimagining freedom in the United States. Because like it or not, that freedom is disappearing, right before your eyes. It’s falling faster than dominos. Stop being surprised at the next horror that comes, and start figuring out how you want to fight back.
The Bill of Rights is dead. Long live the Bill of Rights.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
People demanded to know the reasoning behind the FBI’s clearly illegal and unprecedented raid of the political opposition’s home, no different from in a banana republic.
The FBI and DOJ responded with a cynical joke: An almost entirely redacted document.
The mobsters some of us still call a “department of justice” know what they’re doing. They are mocking us. They are making it clear that THEY know THEY are the criminals, and there’s nothing WE can do about it. Because THEY hold the power.
Of course, Hitler and tyrants like him once held the power too. These latest enemies of freedom are playing with fire.
The ONLY thing that makes a government legitimate is its willingness to support individual rights.
Once that support goes, the legitimacy of that government goes with it.
Ask yourself how legitimate today’s gang of mobsters, Communists and fascists who have taken over the White House, Congress and the once great American military really are. Be honest now.
Thomas Paine said it best:
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
That’s putting it mildly.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
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