By Sushi for the Saker Blog
Above is the sole extant image which conveys the attendance at the Save America rally held in President’s Park on January 6th, 2021. It appears to have been taken from a position high in the Mayflower Hotel. No American news media were troubled to attend. No official estimates of crowd size have been published. If it were not for one curious journalist affiliated with an Asian publication, no one would ever know the Save America rally had ever taken place.
A people ignored by their government have legitimate grounds for complaint. That is true of the Revolution of Dignity which arose in the Maidan Nezalezhnosti; It is equally true of Republic Square, Tahrir Square, Tiananmen Square, ثورة الكرامة (Thawrat al-Karāmah), Wenceslas Square, Place de la Bastille, and the Old South Meeting House. If there is any thread of truth to be found running through the fabric of human history, it is this: A government committing Intolerable Acts against its own people may expect to reap the ripe fruits of its ignorance.
Ignoring the plaint of your citizens is one such intolerable act.
It was precisely this plaint that caused between 150,000 and 300,000 (other ground imagery shows the crowd to extend out the bottom of the frame and to left and right out of frame with large numbers to the left in the area between the Washington Monument and 15th St. NW) American citizens to assemble in President’s Park in support of their elected president and his attempt, to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. This multitude acted as representatives of the 78 million other Americans who will have no elected representatives after January 20th, 2021.
Let there exist no doubt in the minds of the freedom loving peoples of the world. America stands on the cusp of an historic moment, one equal in magnitude and effect to December 7th, 1941, to the events of 3 p.m. Friday July 3rd, 1863, or the early minutes of April 19th, 1775 as the sun rose slowly into the dawn sky. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!” Kein Amerikaner.
To know what is to be done, we must examine the present. What do we find? A succinct impeachment of the state may be found in the essay “I am Done” an essay far more eloquent than anything I might hope to write.
The one man who heard this plaint, understood it, and sought to act on it, will be removed from office on January 20th, 2021 and then, as a private citizen, he will be impeached for the sole purpose of ensuring he is prevented from holding future office. Such state action against a private citizen does itself constitute high crime and misdemeanor. This is particularly true given the President was, on January 6th, 2021, the sole office holder of the US government acting to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. (see On Democracy for the detailed argument).
When Trump departs office, one half the American electorate will cease to have legitimate representation. The other half will have equally illegitimate representation. The elites of America take delight in this fact. A sleepy and indifferent elite, as dully incompetent as the powdered and bewigged members of the Ancien Régime, numb to the distress of their fellow citizens, unbelieving of the clamp of the lunette, of the sound of the déclic, until they catch one final momentary glimpse of a rotating heaven and earth as their heads roll away from their bodies.
The competence of the American elite may be judged by their inability to comprehend the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. It may also be judged by their equal inability to understand the requirements imposed upon them by the Constitution.
There is much contemporary talk of a “deep state.” The elite deny its existence and laugh at the witless déplorables for their authentic peasant belief in such a mythic fairy tale. Like the fish unable to see the water in which it swims, the elites look around for the deep state and are unable to anywhere find its workings. For the elite, life is a well-crafted, smoothly operating mechanism which delivers to them their just rewards; they know this is true for they have accumulated an abundance of wealth and they cherish the belief that such accumulation is a marker of superior intellect, a reward for their station in life, their great achievement. Their just desert for doing God’s work. The author of “I am Done” voiced an alternate opinion but no one cared to listen. Except for the one man publicly scorned as the orange ass-clown.
Any person with a smidgeon of history knows the “deep state” exists. The nation’s founders were keenly aware of its shackles. They confronted it daily in its most malevolent form: great Imperial tentacles which not only sought to bind them in subservience, but also demanded the witless, uneducated, colonial peasants pay the cost of their own chains. It was precisely this experience of the deep state, and the pernicious effects it wrought upon the welfare of the polity, that caused the Framers to exert great care and deliberation in writing the key documents intended to govern the independent colonies. The Framers were aware of the pernicious elixir to be found in raw power, to have command over other men, to place them in service. They knew the great temptations of status and rank and its capacity to overcome even those of the best character. Knowing the foibles of all men, the Framers sought to craft and impose a new set of chains, bonds that served only the interests of a free people, united and equal before God.
The strictures they enacted were such that any person who inspects the mechanism of American power will discover it is hopelessly weak, a mode of governance that has puzzled the world ever since. For the American system of governance was designed to hamper and occlude, to ensure that every party was equally weak and balanced by the weight of the other. They succeeded in their attempt to the degree that no outside observer can understand how, or why, it works. The outsider can only marvel at its effects over the past 245 years. Let the strongest man come into office and he will be chained down and held like Gulliver in Lilliput. Allow a free people to engage in free enterprise and they will generate an endless cornucopia.
American governance is like a game of chess or, better yet, go. The rules are simple, the pieces are few, but the level of complexity is extremely high. Success in American politics requires years of learning and a subtle and cunning intellect. And then the unsubtle Mr. Trump came to Washington and overthrew the entire donkey cart, left the place in a shambles, and threatened to break a great many rice bowls. How did he do it, this orange buffoon? How did a bombastic péquenaud from Queens upstage the power elite of the nation? Simple. He spoke to the author of I am Done and every similarly afflicted citizen of America, all 78 million of them. He was able to speak to them because he listened to them. Because he understood them. Because he committed to represent them. Committed to create a voice for them in the steamy swamplands of the capital. To make their case heard. To defend their plaint.
Spend 49 years cooking in the steamy bottomlands of the Potomac and your ears fill with mud, your skin toughens from the endless leach and mosquito bites, and your eyes sting if not shielded from the bright disinfectant of sunlight. You become a creature of the Animal Farm that is the swamp, and the revolution is betrayed.
Sometimes the simplest of things are the hardest to observe and understand. It may take years to unravel the motive and intent of the orange man. His purpose arose from these three words: “We the People.” The author of “I am Done” has been excluded from America, so alienated that she has elected to divorce America entirely. Seventy-Eight million others may do the same thing. They no longer believe themselves encompassed by the phrase “We the people.” They find themselves cast adrift. Abandoned. Outcast. Left in desperate straits they may decide the revolution has been betrayed and seek succor in the words of the Declaration of Independence and the protections of the Second Amendment. It has been forever thus throughout human history. Even among peoples who lack the security of words on parchment.
A great communicator once said “Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the People” tell the Government what it is allowed to do.”
That is promise of the Constitution. The betrayal of this promise caused the 45th President of the United States to convene the Save America rally. The identical betrayal caused free citizens of America, the rejected deplorables, the outcasts written off as “Insurrectionists,” and “Domestic Traitors,” to travel to President’s Park to support not Trump, but to support a great idea, an idea that will never die because it lives on the breath of every living human being, it rings out with each heartbeat, an idea that was scratched on parchment 245 years ago, an idea that inspired the march on the Capitol of January 6th, 2021.
The great communicator knew that ideas, great ideas, never die. Because he understood this, the great communicator never died. Each day at dawn he looks from of his bedroom out toward President’s Park, past the Jefferson Memorial, to the misted waters of the Potomac on which floats a small wooden boat sculled by a freedom man. And then he raises his eyes and looks beyond that small wooden boat, past the mists of the Potomac, toward a shining city on the hill.
Were he to have been in his house on January 6th, 2021, the great communicator would have gone downstairs and walked over to President’s Park to help save America. Thomas Jefferson would have left his memorial and strolled across the mall to join him, accompanied by the Committee of Five. Lincoln, with his lanky legs, would have quickly joined them and Washington would have descended his monument to lead the group onto The Ellipse.
There they would have been joined by John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-five Framers and a multitude of others including a sorry group of wet and bedraggled young men who looked as if they had just pulled themselves from the sands of Bloody Omaha, some older men arisen from the cornfields of Antietam, still others from the bright sands of Tarawa and the misery of the Bois de la Brigade de Marine.
All these freedom men will attend a Save America rally to be held on January 20th, 2021. At some point on that day the entire congregation will march from President’s Park along the route of the deplorables toward the Capitol and the sounds of inauguration. And once arrived in the vicinity of a Capitol still scented with spicy bromoacetone, the group will be halted before great walls and barricades guarded by armed troops, weapons at the ready.
Observing this defensive complex, the group will be unsure if it has been built to keep the elites in, or to keep the citizens out. As they puzzle over the prison camp architecture surrounding the peoples house, the great communicator will walk up until he is face to face with the massive barrier. There he will halt for a moment, head bowed, as if he is uncertain as to what his eyes are telling him. After a long moment of silence, he will lift his head and solemnly command: “Mr. Biden. Tear down these walls.”
This essay is titled What is to be Done? To those persons who voted for Donald Trump, I have three suggestions.
The first thing to be done is to recognize that while injustice may darken the nation, it will never prevail. That is another key lesson to be drawn from the warp and woof of human history.
Persons who are alienated and cast out, those who feel they have nothing more to lose, frequently act out of despair. Should they do so, they may cause great harm to themselves, and to others.
The truth of January 6th, 2021 is that what the media claim was a putsch was not led by Trump supporters but by the violent affiliates of other organizations. The affidavits, and charge sheets, against them make this fact clear. They expressed motive and intent to debase President Trump and his supporters. Details of this are to be included in the third essay of this series.
Despite the revelations found in any indictment, the alleged perpetrators remain innocent until proven guilty. Such an outcome will take time. We must have patience and allow the truth to emerge. Time is on our side.
The Trump supporters who marched on the Capitol had no malign intent. They had legitimate grievance. That too will be demonstrated in this series of essays. Citizens engaged in the lawful exercise of their First Amendment rights are being painted by the Bidenists as guilty of serious crimes. The Bidenists have also abused their powers and falsely accused the President. The media celebrate this injustice.
The best response you can make at this point is to distribute this essay as far and wide as possible. The Bidenists and the deep state are real. They are powerful. They will stop at nothing. They seek to crush you to dust, rewrite the Constitution, and remake America as a permanent one-party blue state. They will not achieve their goals. This you must know. You should communicate this fact to any person contemplating an act of violence today, or on any other day. The Bidenists seek to destroy America. The best means to avoid that outcome is to refuse them the ammunition with which to destroy us.
The second thing to be done is to talk to your neighbors. It is entirely possible your neighbor is the author of “I am Done.” It is possible your neighbor experiences an even greater sense of injustice and alienation. Speak with them. Powerful corporate entities have acted to terminate the freedom of speech of the President. If they can do that to the President, then what about you, me, or your neighbor? Ask your neighbor about this. How do they feel? What are their views? Where do they sit on the political spectrum? You may be surprised to find they also voted for Trump. You may even learn they are registered Democrats who can no longer stomach the party of which they once were a part. This topic is further addressed in a future essay.
The third thing to be done is to contact your elected representative. If she or he is a Republican advise him or her that you support President Trump and you will continue to support President Trump even if your representative does not. As Trump stated in one of his pre-election rallies, “I will always speak for you.” This is the precise reason the Bidenists seek to destroy him. The Bidenists also want to co-opt and undermine any resistance.
If you wish, give your representative a copy of this essay, or send the link by email. A few thousand such emails will cause any turncoat to contemplate their political future. Let your representative know President Trump may have had the wind taken out of his sails, but he has not yet begun to fight. He is not defeated. He grew up Queens. They build them tough over there.
While President Trump is not defeated, I suspect he may be disheartened by his recent experience. It will help him bounce back if he knows you stand with him. If we stand together, we remain a powerful force for good. One that can never be defeated.
Part 1 – http://thesaker.is/on-democracy/
Part 3 of this series is in draft and will appear first on The Saker blog site.
“The outsider can only marvel at its effects over the past 245 years.” (any foreign person reading this phrase will say: BS)
“Let the strongest man come into office and he will be chained down and held like Gulliver in Lilliput. Allow a free people to engage in free enterprise and they will generate an endless cornucopia.”
This is the blessed belief of those 18th century guys. They failed to see that the seed of destruction was right there in the core of their beloved system. First human nature, then human nature PLUS protestant individualism would infiltrate & water the institutions.
The RULES, self serving rules – both in legal structure and social beliefs – by the upper classes would do the rest.
The US is not a democracy and all the election,consensus theater, the media fairy tales are fading away together.
AS to the ”endless wealth cornucopia”, right not the non-individualistic chinese or vietnamese
systems are teaching the indispensables where, what direction is the future heading.
augusto
Yes, the US is not a democracy, nor was it meant to be. In 1776 the North American colonies changes masters, from being ruled by the English Crown to that of being ruled by the bankers. The author quotes a “great communicator”:
“Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which “We the People” tell the Government what it is allowed to do.”
Alas no. “We the People” do not tell the Government what to do, but rather the bankers tell both the politicians in Congress and the Government what to do, as proven be the November rigged elections, which can be placed in the category of another coup d’etat in the US. People forget that George Washington was a Freemason in Rothschild’s pay. The HQ of the Freemasons is in Washington DC. The Commander in Chief of all Freemasons is Prince Philip, husband to the Queen of England, who is financed by the Rothschild’s (yes, she has her own private bank, which means nothing). On top of that you have the so-called Federal Reserve, a private central bank controlled by the Rothschild’s. The US was a colony and has remained a colony. It’s finances, politicians and Government are banker controlled. Whom has Joe Biden placed in his Administration ? Neocons, like Victoria Nuland, the famous Vicky Cookie, who spent 5 billion dollars to stage a coup d’etat in Kiev, contrary to international law.
The US was created to further banker interests, even if it is destroyed, as it probably will be. And the neocons ? Will they care ? The answer is ‘no’, as to them the US is just a place where they live and to which they owe no allegiance. For years the neocons have been buying real estate outside the US, preparing getaways. The two most popular are New Zealand and Tasmania.
If you haven’t noticed the religious fervor of the Trumpsters, you haven’t been paying attention. Many, if not most of them, are adherents of so-called Christian Zionism, which is based on the Scofield Reference Bible. When Pastor John Hagee said, “50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians unite with five million American Jews standing together on behalf of Israel” he was referring to Cyrus Scofield’s bible which was funded by Wall Street lawyer and Zionist, Samuel Untermeyer in 1909.
That’s why Trumpsters are alway Israel-firsters, no matter how much they claim to be otherwise. Their end-times theology looks toward a cataclysmic apocalyptic conflict that will be the end of the USA as we know it and the beginning of their Christian Zionist theocracy. These folks already believe that the Earth was created exactly 6025 years ago because they’ve counted up the “begats” in the Scofield Reference Bible, so it isn’t much of a stretch for them to believe that Trump actually “won” the election. He’s turned much of the Republican party into a personality cult that hangs on his every word. Those who stormed the Capitol are willing follow him right over the cliff, although no way is he going down with them.
When the indictments come raining down, he will have fled to somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the USA. I’m sure his buddy Bibi Netanyahu will let him settle up in Trump Heights in the Golan. Megiddo, or Armageddon as it is also known, is right down the road from there. That will be the site of the Final Battle where their warrior messiah will come back to Earth to vanquish all unbelievers and evildoers, or as they are known in the USA, Democrats.
I consider the unreferenced statements in this comment to be demagoguery.
For one, the statement that “many, if not most of them, are adherents of so-called Christian Zionism” is unfounded. Then you use this unfounded “fact” to declare that you have a better insight into the minds of “Trumpsters” than they do themselves: “That’s why Trumpsters are alway (sic) Israel-firsters, no matter how much they claim to be otherwise”
I support Trump, like many commentators here who also support Trump, and are not “Israeli-firsters”.
I support Trump for one reason. He believes in Nationalism not Globalism. (See his inauguration speech, 2017).
The single-biggest contributor to both of Trump’s election campaigns was the late casino magnate and mobster, Sheldon Adelson. In return for those “thirty pieces of silver” he surrounded himself with Likudniks and Christian Zionists, like Pence and Pompeo. He promised Adelson that he would kill the Iran nuclear deal and move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, which he did in short order. He was also supposed to attack Iran and bring on the Apocalypse for the crazy Christian Zionists, but thankfully he never got around to that one.
Yes. And your point is? You hate Christian Zionists and support Biden and the globalist totalitarian commie/fascist “left” run by a bunch of war-mongering non-Christian Zionists? Ok – got it!
I’m not a Yank but I supported Trumpet when he was running for Election first time. It did not take long for the disappointment to manifest itself. He Lied! He had NO real intention of “draining the swamp ” -he even gathered around himself some of the most hideous swamp creatures like Pompos – a rat that needs poisoning. Trump could have changed a lot of things – and he didn’t,so an article like this is sugar coating a very bitter pill.
US war heroes:
US of A sat on a wall
US of A had a great fall
All Wall Street’s money and all the blob’s men
Couldn’t put the USA together again
https://youtu.be/5xJYlyHauiw
What you’re saying about “Many, if not most of them, are adherents of so-called Christian Zionism” and “Trumpsters are alway Israel-firsters” is quite an assumption isn’t it? In my experience Trump supporters run the gamut. Also many of my close friends who do support Trump don’t have a clue what Christian Zionism or Zionism is. Nor do they understand much about the middle east specifically Israel.
If they are religious it usually means going to Catholic church now and then or they just believe in God in their own personal way not some bible-banging maniac selling God on TV. I’m sure it’s like you say in certain places.
“50 million evangelical bible-believing Christians” would beg to disagree with you. They are the rock-solid core of Trump’s base. He’s their ticket to the Rapture so of course he “won” the election.
What in the world does winning the election (or not) have to do with a ticket to the Rapture?
Nothing.
Scofield’s reference bible is quite shocking, with a political agenda that is so brazenly Zionist that I find it hard to believe that Christian evangelicals have not come to suspect that they are being fake-fed.
How long can this biblical “imposition” last?
There are pastors who do not preach the John Hagee delusions, although they retain the firebrand style. The most prominent would have to be Pastor Chuck Baldwin. He is the nemesis of the Zionist Christian, which is an oxymoron if ever there was one. Check him out.
Personally, I am a practising Christian (high Anglican), a fervent anti-Zionist who would be labelled anti-Semitic, and a supporter of Trump, mainly because he is proudly human, and his preference for “humanity” is in contrast to the aspirations of the technocratic elite.
The Christian Zionists, along with the “trained Marxists”, BLM folks are being used by greater is ray ell. Search back into the history of Freemasonry and they too were used. Judism for non Jews. Trump was a tool. But he didn’t deliver Iran among other things.
Your comments are more right than wrong for sure. The proper context is comparing the first 1850 years of Christianity with the last 170 which abandoned Covenant theology (historical theology) for Dispensationalism which has a basket of frauds like Israel being Gods people to this day, literal interpretation of scripture, the anytime rapture, and a millennial reign sometime in the future. All of these can be proven false , but the churches are controlled and thus failed to resist the lockdowns last year and continue to be the salt that seasons the culture which is what Christ wanted from his disciples.
If people allow themselves to be spiritually deceived with false doctrines then the logical question is why would God infuse them with a full dose of his spirit, II Thessalonians chapter 2. Going forward it is my hope that people reflect and accept the fact that the new administration is loaded with evil. They are destroyers and the ultimate prize for them is destroying your soul. If ordinary Americans start there, everything else will fall into place.
Here is an article that looks at which groups, corporations and individuals were Biden’s largest financial supporters:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2021/01/funding-joe-biden-part-2-campaign.html
Washington is for sale and the wealthiest Americans are well aware of the fact that their multi-million dollar donations buy favor.
To paraphrase Shakespeare: Something is rotten in the States!
Sorry but to me this article smacks of a one-sided view of politics in America, as if it was some great miracle blessed by God on the world scene, America has been at war for most of its existence since becoming a nation attacking countries all across the globe, causing millions of deaths for its own benefits which are the benefits to the banking and corporations interest (which didn’t change under Trump) and as an American the sooner it goes down the better off the people will be.!!
Trump only cares about the instructions from his rich donors, who care only about Israel, not the US. The fine words in the Declaration of Independence are just fine meaningless words, written by Southern slaveholders. Manifest destiny is just an elegant way of saying imperialism. The unscientific, imperialistic country of Fahrenheit, miles, gallons and fathoms stands isolated in the world today, not understanding why the science-loving, metric countries of the world mock it and its stupidity.
What makes it funnier/sadder (take your pick) is that the USA was even the first English-speaking country to adopt decimal currency – 100 cents in a dollar, 10 mills in a cent, 10 cents in a dime. Thomas Jefferson is also known to have requested a meter and kilogram. This was a time when the USA and Britain were enemies.
It amuses me that the post-WWII national identity of this republic involves the pig-headed use of measurements based on the body parts of long-deceased English monarchs from whom they declared independence in 1776.
England is also known to continue using Imperial measures as well. They even have a British Weights and Measures Association. Some Britons are also known to lament the replacement of the pound-shilling-penny system with the decimal pound-penny system in 1971.
There was something about a written agreement Britain signed in 1965 wherein Britain would go metric. 55 years later…
I don’t have time for this but when you start to say they were slave owners remember this practice was world wide. Africa was in fact one of the main players due that slavery was big business & it was black ring leaders selling their own into slavery. Also many millions of white people got a taste of slavery. Ask any Pharoah.
“Let your representative know President Trump may have had the wind taken out of his sails, but he has not yet begun to fight.”
LOL, he only had 4 years, warming up for the battle, like in any Hollywood movie where
the super-hero gears up for the final battle, so cliche
anyways, the author forgot to add the “contribute to trump” paypal button at the end (yes, LOL again)
Only 35% of Trump voters said they were very confident that their own vote was counted accurately in the election of 2020.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/11/20/americans-sharply-divided-on-election-integrity-trumps-conduct-pew-survey/amp/
21% of Trump voters said that the election was “run and administered well.” Compared to 94% of Biden voters.
In a poll from 3/26/19, 74% of Democrats believed that Trump or someone from his campaign “worked with the Russians” to influence the election.
https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-TRUMP-RUSSIA-POLL/010091811R0/usa-trump-russia-poll.pdf
So the majority of voters, either Red Team or Blue Team think that if their candidate loses, then the election is “illegitimate” and the winning candidate was not elected fairly. Trust in the media and government pronouncements is at an all time low. But why should things be otherwise? After all, this is a government/media complex that has lied about the most important thing a government shouldn’t lie about: the reasons for going to war.
And no one, not Bush, Cheney, Obama, or Clinton has been held to account.
The fatal flaw with Trump supporters (aka Hillary’s deplorables) is their support of the US military and Empire. They are correct about the need to sweep the swamp out of US institutions but with their other hand they supported the swamps’ MIC. And Trump was too busy being co-president of Israel and feeding the MIC to get down and dirty with the FBI, CIA, and Big Tech except with words.
The swamp, the deep state does not intend for the deplorables to ever again get control. Terrorizing and repressing tens of millions of voters will likely create a tidal wave of resistance blow back that will only be able to defeat the swamp if the resistance has two hands working in the same direction instead of one hand supporting the swamps’ MIC and Empire.
Thank you for articulating clearly in this essay what so many see happening. Despite the mocking tone of the commenters so far, which can be summarized as follows:
America isn’t this idealized and romantic seat of Liberty, and those now I represented citizens you describe are ignorant bible reading zionists anyway..
Carl von Clausewitz defined power as “those with decision-making power”
One must coldly observe the consolidation of the section making power of monopolistic technology companies, government, education, media and entertainment complexes into one unifying structure. This new monolith has all of the qualities and traits of a totalitarian regime. And a regime which can masquerade as a democracy. Such an improvement on the old model.
As of 1/19/21 the only significantly large and influential institution which is as of yet undetermined to it’s role for or against this regime is the US Military.
The same military which currently appears for all intents and purposes to be in a state of Occupying the nations capital as well os those of its 50 states.
The next two days may perhaps shed light on where this final piece of the puzzle fits. Well within the broader structure, or as a disintegrating counter-measure. The last hope of a threatened populace.
More nonsense about Trump and the sacred parchment. The founding slavemasters bequeathed to us nothing but flowery rhetoric to conceal their great crimes (read the books Stolen Continents and American Holocaust). The sacred parchment may have been (MAY have been) a progressive document when much of the world was ruled by monarchs and Africans were legally considered livestock but it, like the system of capitalism, has long outlived it’s usefulness. The idea that there is a billionaire on this planet who cares about the sacred parchment or nation-states or much of anything besides maintaining and expanding their own wealth and power is patently absurd. The idea that Trump cares about anything besides himself comes as news to most people who know anything about Trump. The Trumpists did indeed March on Washington to “save america”. But the america they are out to save is the america of their parents and grandparents and on and on, the america where “the blacks” knew their place, the america where men beat their wives with impunity and “the gays” kept quiet. To hell with the sacred parchment! To hell with Trump!
Their march motto may as well be ‘The closer the kin, the deeper in” and the notion of people who don’t, can’t or won’t read having a sacred document that isn’t wrapped in plastic and labeled Charmin, or whatever, is laughable at best. Good points.
“The third thing to be done is to contact your elected representative.” That was the slogan of the anti-war movement during the last 50 years before its total demise. That slogan was an exercise in powerlessness, fit only for the brain-dead.
Lenin’s 1902 essay, “What Is To Be Done?” talks about the need for creating a political party. Given the essay’s title, I was shocked to not see any suggest for a new political party. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/download/what-itd.pdf
For over 4 years, the American people have been fixated on one man, hoping that one man could make a big difference. That’s not how things work, and it was always an exercise in powerlessness and learned helplessness. To change things. we need absolutely huge numbers of patriotic people working hard and intelligently over a period of 10 to 30 years.
First we need to defend and make use of the 1st Amendment, both for ourselves and for those who self-identify as our enemies.
Second, we need to make it clear that the people, broadly defined, are facing a power vacuum. The GOP itself is toast, and for the Bernie supporters the Democrat Party is also a burnt-out shell. They can be swept aside, and the first thing is to no longer give them any legitimacy.
Third, we need to defend a news media that works for the people, and to punish the criminals in the MSM whose lies promote wars, civil strife and oppression. We need to create new media and to support it. There are many gaps we need to fill in, particularly for regional and local news.
Fourth, we need to defend against agent-provocateurs, other scum paid by Soros, and dishonest lawfare conducted by a partisan FBI, and by Soros-funded DA’s.
Fifth, we need an honest ideology which not only cuts through the illusions of “right vs. left” and “capitalism vs socialism”, but which creates a healthy and relatively free system which actually creates prosperity for the 98%. In truth, the fake-right von Hayek “Austrian School” was removed from its grave and resuscitated by the state-supported Swedish Central Bank. In truth, the fake-left Soviet system was based on a nomenklatura and on far too much control of people who naturally want to be creative and prosperous. Free markets are an ideal to work towards, but history shows that free markets only survive if there is a government that is powerful enough to keep it free. In the 1980’s, Washington made a strategic decision to support monopolies as a way to dominate the world. With monopolies like Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, and many others, along with the Federal Reserve arbitrarily printing dollars, we are light years away from anything that resembles capitalism. I find it ironic that some features of pure socialism are needed to bring back free markets.
We will not get anywhere if we do not have an ideology that is widely seen as rational, with values that people mostly support, and that can be seen as offering everyone what they actually need. One historian of the Civil War in Russia (1918-1923), wrote there was one basic reason the Reds won, and that’s because the Reds had a program, however rudimentary, and the other side, the Whites, had no program. The Whites expected the Russian people to just wait for a program until the war was won. When desperate people are dying, they will take anything concrete over stale promises. It’s a point that only seems obvious in hindsight. We can’t afford to duck the ideological and political-economic arguments and decisions until some later date. Without a rudimentary program and/or the hope of one, we can’t motivate people, including ourselves.
Thank you for your patience, and I have one last point, which is about how to create a party. All the participants must “take ownership.” It is self-defeating for one group to start a party where that small group are and will remain, the so-called vanguard, with the “elite” inside effectively barred to outsiders.
We will have to find the optimum between inclusion on one hand, and on the other hand, protect against provocateurs, snakes, and unworthy principles.
The time to begin is now.
At long last, someone who can tell the difference between cause and effect, and first and second order problems.
I have only one problem with the above, the reliance on “party” structures dooms it to failure, because “parties” are where the crowbar that is influence gets inserted. Once that happens it is an exponential race to the sort of cluster f…. we are currently discussing.
Lets avoid repeating that and just insist that our representatives in representative democracy are entirely non-aligned, independent and seeking to engage in a intellectually rigerous decision making process, not one based on ideological zero sum games.
entirely non-aligned, independent means the representative is free to do whatever he or she feels like on any given day. This sickness has a name: The Tyranny of Structurelessness. An ideology is a set of coherent promises made by the elected representatives to the electorate, and if those promises are not kept, then the electorate is entitled to seek revenge and new representatives.
You seem to imply that all ideologies lead to zero sum games, and that’s total nonsense.
We can be sure that hostile elements will try to use crowbars to destroy whatever we try to build, so we need to build in strong layers of self-defense from the start.
The first thing to be done is to recognize that while injustice may darken the nation, it will never prevail.
Hate to tell you, but injustice prevails all the time. It will this time too. This nation is by no means exceptional in that (or any other) regard.
The second thing to be done is to talk to your neighbors.
Umm… lockdown, remember? Neighbors ain’t listening anyway.
The third thing to be done is to contact your elected representative.
You’re kidding, right? That’s just about the last thing I’d do. Probably get a visit from the FBI the next day.
Trump is defeated, and my guess is he’s about to be prosecuted, bankrupted, and jailed. And oh yeah, whitewashed out of official presidential histories as illegitimate like Lance Armstrong from the TdF. Write it down, you heard it here first. Any prospective resistance will have to be formed without him. Who knows, maybe it will actually even be legitimate next time? One can dream.
I wonder if I read this correctly:
”A people ignored by their government have legitimate grounds for complaint. That is true of the Revolution of Dignity which arose in the Maidan Nezalezhnosti;”
Revolution of Dignity (sic!). Did you mean the putsch enabled and paid for by the US and EU and carried out by the neo-nazi shock troops of Svoboda and Right Sector against the legitimate government of the Ukraine.
DD,
Yes, you got it right.
We ought not forget that it was Hillary Clinton who started this “not accepting election results” mess back in 2016 when it was Donald Trump who won. She declared the election “fraudulant” because of “Russian interference”, and then went on to give Trump total grief for the next four years thereafter. Well, what goes around comes around. It was Trump who got the short end of the stick this time. For whatever reason, fraudulant or not, he lost. Joe Biden will be occupying the White house come high noon tomorrow, January 20th 2021. All Trump did was to play the same game Clinton did four years earlier. He only took it one step further by inspiring people to sack the U.S. Capitol. I now wonder if there is a precedent being set here? I mean like should we be looking forward to having the Capitol sacked every four years because of election losers unwilling to accept the election results as a matter of party political tactics?
And what does whoever is occupying the White House really matter to the average American who is only trying to make a living? Maybe it is time we all take a chill pill.
Trump’s day has passed. In some ways good riddance as he was not the leader many hoped for.
He was, however, a key to unlocking people’s sleeping minds and awakening many to just how corrupt and dysfunctional our government is.
Truly interesting times now. Both sides have no strong public leader. Trump leaving in defeat, Biden entering as known illegitimate President.
I think that is good right now. People need to wake up and think for themselves more instead of putting faith into a single person which rarely works out.
no one here has mentioned the fact that every american is being inoculated with vaccines that are reported to be recombinant DNA that instructs the human body to produce very serious and terminal diseases that infects itself. millions have already been vaccinates
How many americans are already vaccinated? the intent is to vaccinate every last american and to ensure that they are, the vaccine passports are ready to go. the official intent is vaccinate ever last american. indeed to vaccinate every last human on earth!
what sort of world will we even have in 4 years time…..far less presidential elections of the USA?
Everyone I have talked to say they will not have any vaccines.
Only the fools and the uninformed have been done so far.
And they will regret it.
There is a feeling that the plan is to elevate Kamala to the Presidency as most folk understand Joe Biden may well be in a position well above his energy and intellectual capacity.
https://youtu.be/noIWQFMskG0
Suggestion: Conservatives should find someone who is like Trump but smarter, nicer, more tactful, more honest, poorer, and not a Zionist-Imperialist. Set up a second government without overthrowing the first one. When you need a policeman, a doctor, a banker, go to this second government instead of the official one. Barter and exchange gold coins instead of using your enemy’s fiat (which may soon be useless anyways). Go offline, off the grid, or build a new tech infrastructure the NSA can’t access; as long as they can spy on everything resistance is too difficult and technocracy inevitable. It could be like the mafia but with thought crimes in place of real crimes.
Those three suggestions are all very well, but they are only the first thing. The thing to do because you cannot think of anything else. All that will tell you is that you are not alone and that you do not have legitimate representation.
The next question is the key one: what are you going to do about that?
You have three choices:
1. Believe the Republican (and even the Democrat) party can change and represent you again in the future.
2. Abandon traditional two party politics and form a new force, from which organised money is forever banished, which in its constitution limits the maximum contribution from any member to be $1000 and which forever bans non-members from making contributions.
3. Start a Civil Insurrection, not against George III, but against Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Hillary Clinton and any other number of totalitarian non-elites.
My advice to all Americans is to forget about Number One. You have had quite long enough to see that both parties are totally degenerate, both totally in hock to billionaires and the biggest corporations, not to mention Wall Street and the MIC. They are a State within a State, a Government within a Government, ruling not for you the people, but for an unaccountable shady clique who think that global genocide makes them morally superior. You have no values in common with those people and because your ‘representatives’ serve them and not you, you no longer have any values in common with either the Republican nor Democrat parties.
So you have to decide whether you have the wherewithal to fight the establishment through peaceful means, spending two years building a membership of 40 million and more (accepting $10 as a membership fee for those of limited means up to $1000 for those earning over $500,000 a year) which would prevent any MSM or Federal Court preventing you from having equal access to airtime on all MSM news channels, demanding you have equal voice in any Presidential debates and making it quite clear that you will not be bought off by either Democrats of Republicans because the time for making deals died on January 6th 2021 (and for Democrats should have died the second time Bernie Sanders was cancelled during primary campaigns).
There are, however, times which dictate that Revolution is required. I don’t live in the USA so cannot judge the deeper reality over there, but Revolution should be the last choice, not the first.
If the price of remaining peaceful right now is permanent dictatorship, then the time for Revolution is now.
And if that is necessary, you define your enemy and you fight to win, no questions asked.
Rhys Jagger…I consider all of that at best prevarication and wasting time. the people must go all the way, out in the streets. period!
the people must smash the government at all levels… all the departments, agencies, enforcements: break up the military: end it as it is forthwith! eliminate the rich/deep state, close/confiscate the banks making all the wealth available to the people through whatever they create at all organizational levels as they go, in response to immediate, on/going and permanent popular needs
if you are going…and you have t move now…you have to go all the way, no half measures giving reaction opportunity. and if reaction returns popular heads would be rolling all over the place, like loose soccer balls.
and there is in fact no compromise to be made! compromise with what, with whom?
there is the interest of ordinary people and the interest of the exploiters-Deep State. that’s it currently! no coexistence and or mutuality at which point the 2 flows may meet and cooperate for the gain of both is possible. at this point one of the two interests eliminates the other… that is all. and that is what has already begun. the elites must depopulate! the deplorables need to depopulate the elites, the top brass, but crucially kill the system/capitalism in all its varieties, never to rise again, creating as they go in its place, what is essential meet their collective interests, needs permanently. they would be winning permanent, total, comprehensive responsibility for the world, for our own collective life and survival
the deplorables have to go all the way period…no alternative. the world is theirs/ours! but we must take it! that! ‘or we inherit the earth!’
First, the Democrat Party is completely discredited, even for the brain dead. Every four years since 1948, it trotted out some pseudo-left candidate to corral the left wingers and bring them back into the “big tent”, and having done that, the fake candidates were supposed to lose gracefully. Bernie Sanders was only the latest of the fake lefties. But now the organization which owns the Democrat Party, the DNC, exposed its zero commitment to democracy when Bernie supporters sued over the stolen 2016 primary election in California. The DNC told the judge that it had no obligation to respect the will of the voters, and that the primaries could be ignored. The judge looked at the laws and agreed that the DNC was not obliged to respect any of the primary elections.
The GOP is completely discredited because the overwhelming majority of its Senators and Representatives never supported Trump and never supported the American people.
I have to disagree with the premise that two years is a meaningful amount of time to organize an effective resistance. We can’t win in the short term, so we have to plan for a long term struggle. This was one of the more important “how-to” lessons from WW2. American leaders realized they could not defeat the Nazis in the short term (2 or 3 years), so … a long war is what they planned for. After the 1964 Goldwater debacle, it took the neo-cons over 10 years to recover and later dominate politics. The American revolution started to take form about 10 years before 1776. Hezbollah needed 20 years before it could expel Israel from Southern Lebanon, and almost 20 years to become a regional force.
The short-term focus on “the next election” is a feverish sickness that keeps people stuck and never able to build a real movement. We should take a clue from Hezbollah, which faced challenges on nearly all levels (e.g. economic, military, political, social, etc.) They built what they call a “resistance organization” which defends its people on all these levels, providing jobs, health services, and so on. I hope we will never need any militias in the US, but it’s too soon to rule out anything.
My main point is that we need to remove our dependence on the deep state, because that’s how they control us, and when we become too uppity, that’s how they will try to re-assert control. It’s all about empowering all of us, including the snowflakes who are not our enemy.
Biden being inaugurated will spell the end of the Republican Party.
McConnell and other rats in the woodpile fail to understand that, nor do I think they themselves care as they will walk with corrupt payoffs and leave someone else with the mess they created.
Trump has already signaled he will walk and starting a new party which will split the right wing vote and prevent the GOP from winning races unless their candidates are firm Trumpers.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/report-trump-considering-starting-his-own-patriot-party/
That new party will pull far more votes than the GOP and may also pull disillusioned Dem voters.
McConnell and others will face the wrath of party members day after day, week after week, month after month and will hounded to the grave.
The problem is with most federal GOP Senators.
But at State level most GOP politicians are Trumpers.
As a result there is also the risk GOP States will secede formally or informally or not co-operate with Biden and the Feds so their policies will not be able to be implemented. Some States may even ban federal Democrats leaders from coming into them.
I suspect all those GOP Senators are living under the illusion people will forget about the treachery done by Pence and them on 6 January. But they won’t. They are finished. As are those who pull the strings with them.
Civil War is pending.
Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison would be sickened by the the events of the past few weeks and months.
A similar fate to the GOP awaits Boris Johnson and the UK Conservative Party over the lockdowns and vaccine push.
So Trump, who created his own cult, attracted lots of dupes. In the Land of the thieves and home of the naive, what else is new?
Biden.
Brought to you by the equally scurrilous DNC.
The first thing to be done is to stop expecting any good to come from either party.
It’s noteworthy that MLK’s birthday holiday just preceded the latest fake spectacle. MLK was America’s Lenin and they killed him.
What is to be done, is to not rely on conartists and celebrities. That’s the essential first step.
In response to the astonishing number of delusional assertions in the beginning of this thread, here are two things which are absolutely true:
Trump is a massively ignorant, malignant narcissist who does not give a damn about any other individual person on earth, and
Trump’s followers are, for the most part, motivated by race hatred.
p.s. Biden and Harris are crypto-Republicans, and will govern like Republicans, representing wealth and opposing the needs of workers. Even so, they are vastly preferable to the untold miseries foisted upon the people of the Republic over the past four years.