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

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

“I don’t want to fight for the people, I don’t want to fight against the people, I don’t want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.”

Ayn Rand, We the Living

I am a member of a fading generation of Americans who grew up in the 1940s and 1950s when the United States was a nation. I was a member of a homogeneous population with a common language, Christian religion, common morality, and shared values and outlook. In Atlanta Georgia of those years people in middle class neighborhoods didn’t bother to lock their doors, and 5-year olds could safely walk a mile to school. There was conformity, but it was because we were in agreement. Life was good. Families were large and close. Neighborhood schools were run by teachers and parents (PTA). Discipline prevailed because of upbringing, not from abusive enforcement. There were no police in the schools.

In 1964 a civil rights act was passed that had the good intention of providing enforcement to the 14th Amendment, and in 1965 an immigration “reform” bill was passed. The civil rights act had as its aim equal opportunity but was turned on its head by the EEOC and a quota regime was installed. As it has developed the preference system increasingly discriminates against the original white ethnicities that still, although declining, form the backbone of the American population. For one recent example of legal discrimination against white Americans, see: https://www.foxnews.com/media/minneapolis-teachers-union-agreement-stipulates-white-teachers-laid-off-first-regardless-seniority

The immigration bill opened the US to massive inflows of no longer enculturated persons. Assimilation was replaced with multiculturalism, and the nation was replaced with a Tower of Babel.

The consequence has been that today the US is no longer a nation. It is a geographical location that is a tower of babel in which rights depend on whether you are an “oppressed minority” or a “white oppressor.” There are no common values, no common morality or social mores, no common religion or language. The immigrant-invaders look at the weak and unsure white population, made guilty by years of brainwashing, and see that their time is coming.

In a half century the situation of the present-day original white ethnicity has gone from security to insecurity. In the prevailing Identity Politics, institutionalized in the Democrat Party, media, universities and school systems, white Americans are officially oppressors. Their oppressed victims are “people of color,” homosexuals, transgendered, and feminists who insist that women are suppressed and abused by white male heterosexuals, this despite crime statistics that show that white women in relationships with black males constitute a remarkable percentage of murder and physical abuse victims.

In my lifetime I have witnessed and experienced the destruction of a great nation based in principles hard to live up to, and its replacement with a criminal organization devoid of all principle except power in which law is weaponized and serves to beat down challenges to illegitimate power.

No American born in the 21st century, or even in the 1990s, has ever experienced a free country. The young have no idea of what has been stolen from them. The American youth are being trained to be happy in a virtual world where they will enjoy artificial and meaningless freedoms that do not threaten the power that rules over them.

In my lifetime I have watched a free country disintegrate into a police state that no aware person could possibly defend. Yet Washington has an army of FBI, CIA, NSA, and federal prosecutors whose job it is to persecute patriots and to cover up elections stolen by Democrats.

For decades Democrats have successfully stolen local and state elections. In 2020 the Democrats stole the Presidential Election, and they are at work blatantly in front of our eyes stealing the next national election by using the corrupt US Department of Justice (sic) and FBI to frame Trump in order to prevent his reelection. There is no other explanation for the aggressive FBI raid on Trump’s home to seize boxes of documents to which the FBI already had access except to create the public impression that Trump is a criminal. The presstitutes, of course, are doing all they can to harden this impression. Meanwhile, Democrats are prosecuting those who uncovered evidence of the stolen 2020 presidential election for spreading misinformation and for attempting to violate civil rights by casting doubt on the election outcome. These are not offences that can be found in law. It is Democrats using monopoly power to create offences out of thin air.

American patriotism rests to a large extent on the insouciance of patriots. They just know that America, although not perfect, is the best country. Period. Something like 9/11 being an inside job or a presidential election being stolen in plain view strikes them as off the wall. They simply cannot believe such things about their country. As the largest percentage of patriots are Republicans, the Democrats know that the insouciance of their opponents renders their opponents impotent. You cannot do something about something that you cannot recognize or acknowledge.

One can hope that information can bring people into reality, but first they have to be able to absorb the information, and they cannot do that when their gullible patriotism causes them to turn their back on “unfounded attacks on America’s purity.” As for the Democrats, decades of anti-white propaganda have left many of them skeptical of “white America” and those who defend it.

With each passing day it becomes more risky to expose the lies used to construct the false narratives that are used to control what Americans think and to erode our Constitutional protections against unaccountable and tyrannical government. If a President’s own Justice Department can come down on him like a ton of bricks while he is in office with such an obvious frame-up as “Russiagate,” what can they do to the rest of us? My generation, or some of it, was instilled with a sense of duty to truth, to the Constitution, and to our country. Today that sense of duty is essentially gone. Instead of duty, the value is money, success, and avoidance of being “cancelled” on social media.

Our nation is being murdered. We daily watch, if we are attentive, the disassembling of its institutions and moral values. But hope is eternal. Not all coups and attempts at brutal seizures of power succeed. Perhaps the Democrats’ attempt will fail. It will certainly succeed if fear forces us to abandon the defense of truth.

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration. The individual is always ready to ascribe his good luck to his own efficiency and to take it as a well-deserved reward for his talent, application, and probity. But reverses of fortune he always charges to other people, and most of all to the absurdity of social and political institutions. He does not blame the authorities for having fostered the boom. He reviles them for the inevitable collapse. In the opinion of the public, more inflation and more credit expansion are the only remedy against the evils which inflation and credit expansion have brought about.

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, 1949