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I was live on The Power Hour this morning with host Dave Krieger to discuss my freely available e-book The New York Times vs. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How the Mainstream Media Spread Vaccine Misinformation, which led into a discussion of politics, the presidential election, and the system of government in the US. Views I shared included:
- How the media brazenly lie that RFK Jr said that unvaccinated Americans suffered worse oppression during the lockdowns than Jews during the Holocaust, and how this lie deflects from the legitimate point he had actually made about the very real threat of totalitarian governance.
- How the “public health” establishment and mainstream media “fact checkers” claimed that the mRNA COVID‑19 vaccines could not possibly alter human DNA on the basis of non sequitur fallacies overlooking the process of reverse transcription, which process may not even be required for genomic integration due to the vaccines being contaminated with plasmid DNA.
- How the act of voting, apart from the rare exceptional candidate who is fiercely critical of the existing political establishment, serves to legitimate the criminal organization in Washington, DC, and how we need to stop consenting to being ruled by this criminal regime.
- How many people hold the mistaken belief that without the government dictating how we should behave and even what products to consume, society would descend into chaos, which is contrary to the observation that the free market, to the extent that it exists, results in self-organization and self-regulation; and how there is no more perfect manifestation of democratic principles than consumers engaging in this voluntary exchange for mutual benefit.
- How the US Constitution was superbly innovative and had a lot of good things going for it in terms of advancement of political philosophy, but how it has utterly failed in its chief purpose of limiting the power of the federal government.
- How one of the major problems with our society today is the widespread belief, what I frequently call “the state religion”, that we need the government to take care of us and tell us what to do.
- How there has been a great awakening as a result of the “public health” establishment continually lying about practically everything COVID‑19-related, including selling the vaccines to the public on the basis of the lie that they would stop infection and transmission, and yet how most Democrats place even more faith in the CDC now than they did before the pandemic.
As a point of clarification, the show’s host, David Krieger, twice reiterated the point that the form of government established under the Constitution is not “democracy” but a constitutional republic, which is correct. We didn’t elaborate on the distinction, but whereas democracy equals majority rule, a constitutional republic is by contrast designed to project the rights of the minority against the majority.
At a few points, I used the terms “democracy” or “democratic” myself, by which I did not mean the type of pure democracy that the Founding Fathers objected to but what is sometimes called “representative democracy”, which is another description for the republican form of government established under the Constitution. (Just to clarify as we didn’t have time to get into these nuances during the half-hour segment.)
What do you think? How can we free ourselves from the current system and advance toward a more civilized society? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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The United States began circling the drain when “progressives” spurred on by the Rockefeller-Carnegie-Gates-Kellogg-Astor-Rothschild cabal (later the Club of Rome, CFR, WEF, etc.) managed to get the 16th amendment passed, violating the original intent of the founders, enshrined in the Constitution, that all citizens would be subjected to the exact same taxes. This opened the floodgates. The Fed, another extremely unconstitutional body, then provided the water, a means for the government to spend money it didn’t have.
Following that, it evolved into FDR’s entitlement programs, requiring higher and higher taxes, to the point where, today, the average American loses more than half of their hard-earned income to local, state, and federal income tax, sales tax, gas tax, road tolls, property tax (even if you’re a renter) and more nickel and dime you to death programs. All those dollars printed by the Fed, and backed by nothing, caused inflation to the point where gold, $20/oz in Washington’s day and still under $30 when Wilson took office, is now around $2000. Gold didn’t get more valuable; our currency became less so.
Today, the average American takes more than they pay in. You can only bleed the rich for just so much, and in fact, the rich can afford expensive accountants and can set up things like the B&M Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, etc., in order to avoid paying the same level of taxes with which they’ve burdened the rest of us. So it’s the honest, hard-working upper-middle class that are carrying an unaffordable burden. While I don’t believe the rich should pay a greater percentage, they should at least pay the same as I do, but many of them pay little or nothing, as a percentage figure.
Looking at Congress, every single member retires with millions, despite some of them coming in with very little. Members of Congress are the ultimate insider traders, because they know what legislation is coming down the pike, and which companies are going to hit it big… as well as having been initially bribed by said companies. On top of that, they have a medical and retirement program which, for a three-term rep or two term senator, absolutely blows away what the rest of us have to live on once we’re too old to work. And most us would have fared far better investing part of our income (~14%) that the government confiscates to “help us out” in our later years. I paid in over half a million, which should have compounded to over $4M in 55 years, although investing in CA real estate (my choice) would be worth well over $100M. Instead, I get $2500 a month. So if I live to be 100, SS will net me $900K, and they’ll tax me if I take a job. Meanwhile, Mme Pelosi will retire on something like $16K a month, as well as a stack of perqs I couldn’t dream of.
The founders NEVER intended “public service” be an E ticket. The idea was that successful businessmen (sorry ladies, it was the 18th century) would serve in government for a minimal stipend as a way to give back to the country, an idea that seems to have faded into obscurity, even before JFK’s speech.
Dennis, you’ve identified a number of important turning points, to which I would add the destruction of the Constitution by Lincoln and the political institutionalization of the idea that states do not have a right to leave the Union that they voluntarily entered into.