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It was nice to see this after some frankly delusional posts from other substackers I like on the right (Librarian of Celaeno was the absolute worst offender with his article praising trump’s ascendency as a “return of the king” moment). I agree that all three of these are serious issues, but potentially have a little more hope on the immigration and debt front. I’m cautiously optimistic that we may see more reimmigration to latin America as tough on crime presidents like Bukele take power and destroy the cartels, and America slips further into failed state territory. Now this is very much not in the interest of the globalists, but Bukele in particular seems to be pretty good at playing the different factions of that space off of each other. In terms of debt: it’s going to be bad pretty much no matter what, that’s the limits to growth for you. However, in the short term, excess mortality caused by COVID as a result of the mRNA vaccine design +the upcoming flu pandemic should remove a lot of pressure on social security.
At the end of the day, the gushing over trump represents a failure of conservatism in this country just as absolute as election of Biden represented for real leftists in this country in 2020. The man is personally a liberal: has had many marriages and divorces, is promiscuous, doesn’t engage with western culture on more than a superficial level, and has ordered many abortions. He’s allied with arch-liberal tech bros Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg and Elon Musk for God's sake. In some ways he’s anti-woke, but he supports gay and transgender rights that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. The based trad Christian substack warriors who voted for trump are just as cucked if not more than the libs they think they’re owning.
Thanks Joshua. I think it's good to retain hope and a measure of optimism. I'm not advocating "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here", but rather my hope here is to hold Trump and his administration accountable for delivering on the core issues; no more Q-level blind hopium. Either delivery happens, happens publicly and with judicious timing or it doesn't.
Re: your last point, I didn't link to the following article in the post because it has certain major problems with it, but it does hit on what you are saying here, that Trump will not reverse the social liberalization that have occurred and been accepted by conservatives under his watch: https://deepleft.substack.com/p/the-deep-left-won . To me, this is why I referenced in this post that Trump represents the "consolidation phase of the egalitarian ratchet effect."
I cannot deny your analysis. Furthermore, I agree that the most probable outcome of Trump’s second term is that he’ll be made a Fall Guy, but a fall guy for what exactly? I think for Great Depression 2.0.
Anyway, and I think I’ll be brief this time. Many no-name commenters & public alternative media figures alike are making many valid & thoughtful & profound analyses & predictions (beyond this superficial & short term election victory celebration). I want to offer here something I see discussed only on the fringes.
Here in Japan, where the national debt is about twice as much as the US’s, we still have 1) functioning municipal physical infrastructure ABD functional institutional infrastructure, and 2) a cost of living (COL) that is still calibrated to a single-breadwinner household, including a livable minimum wage.
The point I want to make is the “lies, damned lies, & statistics” point. Mainstream media sources (that I used to read 20 years ago like the Economist & the NYT) will present the reader with valid numbers, but then fail to discuss the US’s crumbling (1) both physical & institutional infrastructures, and (2) a COL that was already in the 1980’s recalibrated to a suburban double-median income household, furthermore to a less-than-replacement reproductive rate. 40 years on, nowadays what passes for “middle class” in the USA is absurd. Even in the hyper inflated single-family-home-price zip codes, all I really see is Poor People who have Big Houses + 2-4 Shiny new Cars.
But they’re poor. Metaphorically speaking, the very misleading US GDP is a Wild West storefront. Behind the rows of storefronts are rows of shacks. The emperor has no clothes. Everything’s breaking down as the direct result of a COL calibrated to the suburban double-income household, a 1950’s dream life (on a single income) has turned into a nightmare. GenZ knows it.
I said I’d be brief, so I’ll conclude here: when Great Depression 2.0 hits, Japan will still have grandmothers & mothers, plus an abundance of tiny little apartments where even low-wage Mom & Dad can still afford to feed & house children in *genuine* middle-class comfort (1950’s USA style):
- safe, walkable neighborhoods,
- a mother who isn’t chained to the corporate loom,
- affordable healthcare,
- including vax freedom of choice,
- functioning municipal physical infrastructure: gas, electric, water, roadways, middle-class public transportation (not our ghettoized public transportation), including bicycle-safe lifestyles,
- a genuine patriotism, a belief in themselves,
- a functioning education system,
- a functioning Made in Japan industrial base,
- 🤔 let’s see here. I’m bet there’s a couple more not coming to mind right now …
Nice response, Gerald. Re: Japan, it's fertility rate is 1.37, among the lowest in the world (population equilibrium is 2.1), which is caused by its incredible debt levels. Life is simply too unaffordable to have children. Even though Japan has historically been xenophobic and rejected immigrants (correctly, as it lacks natural resources to support them, instead relying on the hard-work of its population), Japan is increasingly giving up on this point and allowing in millions of immigrants over time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Foreign_residents_in_Japan.svg/2560px-Foreign_residents_in_Japan.svg.png
This will continue to get worse as the Japan population ages...indeed, I see the assassination of nationalist pro-Trump Shinzo Abe as directed by a global elite conspiracy...
In general, I cannot disagree. I think 800,000 is the projected number of immigrants for 2025(?)
And although 1960’s style 2nd-wave “feminism” really has not caught on here (yet), Japan does present a **very interesting** case study in “Non-Western Cultural Decline caused by Feminine Materialistic & Communistic Proclivities.”
Case in point(s):
1) the Japanese have been seduced by the processed foods lifestyle, e.g. housewives are serving junk food, and nuclear families are dining out-as-entertainment - yet in the absence of the 1960’s Battle of the Sexes.
2) abortion-as-family planning, plus
3) delaying female marriage & procreation (i.e. university education plus “exploring the world as an unmarried (but not virginal) young woman (but not strong & independent; she’s living at home 😂).
(2) & (3) have resulted in a loooooot of undesired, unintentional childlessness - compound by two generations & counting … Who knew??? Our Western culture feminazis apparently weren’t aware, either, that if a woman fails to carry her first child by age 30, then there’s a 50/ 50 chance that she’ll end up involuntarily childless.
Now we know.
We didn’t know back then (when GenZ’s grandmothers were experimenting with serial monogamy/ orgiastic hedonism) 😡😡😡
… Just let me know if you would like me to continue this conversation here.
I think Republicans were on to them, they ascertained if they stole it, it would be civil war, destruction of America and the basis of their power.
Surely now they plan some variation of color revolution.
Probably the deep state will need to be dismantled, to do anything meaningful about those structural problems.
Trump has stated clearly, concisely, the path to that, and smashing the censorship complex. That is leadership, that is acting like the archetype of the King.
America has a choice now. Trump can't save us. We have to save America.
No one is an archetype, one acts out of the archetype, which Trump is doing, you are not required to believe. It is all for naught, if Americans are not inspired to be better, but I can assure you one thing, bleak is depressing/not inspiring.
Sadly, I have to concur with your analysis, in spite of voting for Trump myself. Too many problems are baked into the cake at this point to be fixable before whatever big crisis hits (though another Harris administration would have made it far worse structurally). He is no Leto II and his fans are no fremen.
The big questions for me are:
1. Will he draw the US out of Ukraine?
2. What attempts will he make regarding the illegal immigrants issue? Attempted deportation? Thwarted efforts in that area? Or will he end pushing for the "sensible" option of Amnesty.
3. Are the counter elite powerful enough, or forward minded enough, to provide the political capital for systemic reform? Unlikely, all things considered.
4. On top of the your concerns, we have to also be aware of the upcoming sharp decline in energy and resource production as result of fossil fuel and rare mineral depletion (let alone declining top soil, biodiversity, and aquifers). I don't how well we'd handle that issue even if we had all your concerns wrapped up with a nice bow.
I agree with you, Steve. Re: Ukraine, it will be interesting to see what happens there. I don't think the establishment will allow him to withdraw unless they have another war lined up - like the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years and was involved in Ukraine six months later (as if they knew it were coming...hrmmm...). In other words, if Ukraine winds down I suspect it would be only to transition to either war with Iran or something larger. Re: your point on energy, you are quite correct about it -- we're hitting up against neo-Malthusian limits with rapidly declining EROEI (energy return on energy invested), alternative energy is abysmally inefficient and the only strong alternative is nuclear energy -- there would have to be an extreme pivot to mass nuclear adoption to have a hope of sustaining today's energy use, which would require a totally different acceptance of risk from the public.
I agree. The federal government has to use the shiny new military conflict in the right hand to distract from our past failing one in the left. As far as I can tell, that conflict in order of likelihood would be:
Iran and Israel
China's takeover of Taiwan
Venezuela via Guyana
Or even
Mexico (armed conflict with the cartels). As JMG has pointed, the warbands of the future will likely be cut from the Narco Cartel gangs.
Excellent article, I completely agree with everything and appreciate that you present factual economic data and give the chance for everyone to understand the current situation, regardless of financial literacy.
I will only disagree with one thing; the international elites you mention. I agree everyone in the dissident right tries to look for a scapegoat behind wrongdoings; globalists, Jews, immigrants, Muslims etc. For me the biggest problem in the States is by far lobbying; either in election contributions or annual lobbying. What makes it worse is the complete lack of transparency in many PACs, something deteriorating after the 2010 Citizens United case. This is why the country is becoming more polarised, people have no trust in the government and other states take advantage by meddling with your elections. When the government serves the few with their payrolls, it is no surprise that the situation of the average American worsens and people get fed up with the system. I posted a comprehensive overview of pro-Israel lobbying in my channel, you can ask me to create more similar posts: https://t.me/PoliticsGR/3210
Regarding Trump, I personally believe a new administration will not be what many alt media parrot, but I also have some hope that a war with foreign powers will be avoided. Economically speaking, it is not his cabinet that will have any effect on the course of the country, the Fed prevents any reasonable change from taking place.
Thanks Petros, and I agree with you that lobbying is a big problem - lobbyists draft all the bills that Congress votes on, which didn't used to be this way. The revolving door between industry and politics is a major part of every administration...
Physician cure thyself: "Who can remain level-headed? I may not be doing any call-outs (what’s the point of drama?) but I’m always watching, always observing - mostly in disappointment."
At the root, this viewpoint, I think, suffers from the very same ailment that is plaguing AI. Closed systems yield outputs that are consistent only with their restricted inputs. Instead, "Let's see what happens."
“Any politician that attempts to substantially cut entitlements to the public will not be re-elected and is in danger of public unrest or worse; raising entitlement ages even a year or couple years, a drop in the bucket, would be extremely unpopular.”
Thankfully, I deliberately unsubscribed from most DR Trump propagandists (keep some just to keep an eye) over the last several months thus haven’t had to endure their ridiculous jubilation.
Don’t the bankers need the endless immigration to endlessly inflate the dollar bubble? Just as a pyramid scheme works by only adding in more suckers, I think it’s the same principle.
The capitalist ponzi scheme requires endless immigration, but the dollar system is a bit different - it's tied into the petrodollar system. Basically how it works is as follows: Saudi and other oil producing countries only sell their oil on the international markets for dollars, which in turn required oil-buying countries to acquire dollars in order to buy oil. Saudi and the other oil countries would then invest their dollars into the U.S., buying stock in corporations and the like, thereby fueling stock market gains. By creating worldwide demand for the dollar, which was pure fiat and unbacked by gold, the U.S. was thus able to maintain it's reserve currency status and run on huge deficits with low interest rates that other countries were not able to do. Tree of Woe had a good series on this: https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-part-i?s=w
The United States appears to be experiencing a phase of imperial decline, a process inevitable and resistant to reversal. The current position bears similarities to that of the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, when the rise of Tony Blair and New Labour sought to reinvigorate the country already adjusting to its post-imperial role on the global stage. Trump is a clown. He escaped prison and that all it matters to him. And btw, the alleged assassination on him, please ...
What is a Trumpmo? I don't want to go into details but there 's the little problem about allowing him to stand up and do his little dance, gesturing to the crowd and so on. They had to get the picture for the papers. But if this had been real they would have kept him down. He would never have been allowed to stand back up almost immediately, making himself a target again. That was against all protocol and logic. Ant btw, if you are simply amateur photographer you would tell instantly why the bullet photo was not real.
But again and again the elephant in the room is not addressed.
All of this only happens bc the parasite class robs more and more from the Plebs. This is what must be understood by us Plebs. Of course it's Taboo to talk about that issue. We engage in useless discussions about whether Capitalism is better or Communism, as if there was a choice. Instead we should discuss how to destroy the masters who enslave us.
The problem with dealing with the debt problem is that the reaction to Romney's infamous 47% comment convinced the Right that openly attempting to address the debt is a losing proposition.
Even most of the alt-right, especially most of the alt-right, would balk at the measures actually necessary to address it.
Can someone please explain to me how 'in person voting' is going to help American politics work better?
The only thing it does is empower money to have more say in elections than it already does.
Long lines for voting are common and discouraged voters walking away is as well.
Mail-in voting allows candidates and parties a much longer time-line with which to interact with the voters.
The only outcome from destroying (instead of securitizing) mail-in voting is to give the unemployed an advantage over the employed, the young and advantage over the old.
I like mail in voting. As an independent voter, I don't get to be involved in primaries, so the first chance I get to see who's up for election is the ballot.
This gives me time to research the candidates and referenda at my leisure with the ballot in front of me. I don't have to try to memorize what I want to do at the polls and poll workers get testy about bringing in 'outside materials' even if it's a hand-written note.
Being anti-mail-in-ballot strikes me as a knee-jerk reaction, not a well-thought out strategic position.
There's a couple reasons, good question. Day-of in-person voting adds value to the votes of those who prioritize election participation, as you're right that it is inconvenient to vote in person, so those unwilling to overcome that inconvenience would not vote. That is a good thing. It's the same rationale why one should have to show voter ID, and it's the same rationale why in olden times one had to be a property owner to vote. What you want are smarter people with more buy-in within society participating and those who are lower impulse, less intelligent not to vote. Furthermore, allowing vote-by-mail creates more avenues for vote fraud abuse, as who is going to be able to check the actions of a Democrat voting tsar in charge of the vote-by-mail system? What is going on during the days and weeks where those votes are sent and tallied? One wants to have as few steps between vote, vote counting, and vote checking as one can get.
Yhis kind of 'moralizing' about politics is why the Right hasn't had a durable political or cultural victory in 200 years. Snobbery and elitism is no substitute for strategy. The inability to take advantage of changed circumstances eliminates the Right as a viable political position.
You're cutting your own throat and thinking you're hurting the enemy.
Of 'egalitarianism' always wins (for 200 years) why is the sense in not creating a version of 'egalitarianism' that furthers your purposes.
Unless the purpose of to never hold power while posturing as superior.
Trump has succeeded by avoiding the 'island of misfit policies' effect that envelopes the Right.
His victory was a victory of incoherence, of ala carte-ism.
Something the rigidity and dogmatism of the Right can neither embrace nor deploy.
'The Right' has turned into catch-all dumping bin for every rejected political-economic and social idea for at least 200 years. And in that time no 'man of the Right' has crafted a publicly-supported platform or set of policy proposals.
And all the while the adverse effects of liberalism and 'egalitarianism' have been building up.
It's a really shocking example of irresponsibly on the part of 'thr Right'.
But - somehow - the Right imagines itself the salvation of the West.
It depends how you define right versus left. There are many different definitions. My definition is that the right is inegalitarian at it's core and the left is egalitarian. Therefore there is no way for the right to embrace egalitarianism and remain "right".
How? Because people mail them in? You think you cannot defraud in-person voting? All that in-person voting does is favor the leisure classes (the rich, homeless, unemployed on social support).
The fraudsters just switch from harvesting ballots to doing what they were doing before: rounding up 'their' voters and busing them to the polls.
It's just another anti-worker fetish the Right loves to concentrate on coupled with magical thinking.
The Left has an activist base all around the country just waiting for a big project to 'stick it to the Man' by getting their voters to the polls.
It was nice to see this after some frankly delusional posts from other substackers I like on the right (Librarian of Celaeno was the absolute worst offender with his article praising trump’s ascendency as a “return of the king” moment). I agree that all three of these are serious issues, but potentially have a little more hope on the immigration and debt front. I’m cautiously optimistic that we may see more reimmigration to latin America as tough on crime presidents like Bukele take power and destroy the cartels, and America slips further into failed state territory. Now this is very much not in the interest of the globalists, but Bukele in particular seems to be pretty good at playing the different factions of that space off of each other. In terms of debt: it’s going to be bad pretty much no matter what, that’s the limits to growth for you. However, in the short term, excess mortality caused by COVID as a result of the mRNA vaccine design +the upcoming flu pandemic should remove a lot of pressure on social security.
At the end of the day, the gushing over trump represents a failure of conservatism in this country just as absolute as election of Biden represented for real leftists in this country in 2020. The man is personally a liberal: has had many marriages and divorces, is promiscuous, doesn’t engage with western culture on more than a superficial level, and has ordered many abortions. He’s allied with arch-liberal tech bros Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg and Elon Musk for God's sake. In some ways he’s anti-woke, but he supports gay and transgender rights that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. The based trad Christian substack warriors who voted for trump are just as cucked if not more than the libs they think they’re owning.
Thanks Joshua. I think it's good to retain hope and a measure of optimism. I'm not advocating "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here", but rather my hope here is to hold Trump and his administration accountable for delivering on the core issues; no more Q-level blind hopium. Either delivery happens, happens publicly and with judicious timing or it doesn't.
Re: your last point, I didn't link to the following article in the post because it has certain major problems with it, but it does hit on what you are saying here, that Trump will not reverse the social liberalization that have occurred and been accepted by conservatives under his watch: https://deepleft.substack.com/p/the-deep-left-won . To me, this is why I referenced in this post that Trump represents the "consolidation phase of the egalitarian ratchet effect."
That librarian guy is an unhinged shill for all manner of semitism. Quite popular among Trumpists for that reason.
I cannot deny your analysis. Furthermore, I agree that the most probable outcome of Trump’s second term is that he’ll be made a Fall Guy, but a fall guy for what exactly? I think for Great Depression 2.0.
Anyway, and I think I’ll be brief this time. Many no-name commenters & public alternative media figures alike are making many valid & thoughtful & profound analyses & predictions (beyond this superficial & short term election victory celebration). I want to offer here something I see discussed only on the fringes.
Here in Japan, where the national debt is about twice as much as the US’s, we still have 1) functioning municipal physical infrastructure ABD functional institutional infrastructure, and 2) a cost of living (COL) that is still calibrated to a single-breadwinner household, including a livable minimum wage.
The point I want to make is the “lies, damned lies, & statistics” point. Mainstream media sources (that I used to read 20 years ago like the Economist & the NYT) will present the reader with valid numbers, but then fail to discuss the US’s crumbling (1) both physical & institutional infrastructures, and (2) a COL that was already in the 1980’s recalibrated to a suburban double-median income household, furthermore to a less-than-replacement reproductive rate. 40 years on, nowadays what passes for “middle class” in the USA is absurd. Even in the hyper inflated single-family-home-price zip codes, all I really see is Poor People who have Big Houses + 2-4 Shiny new Cars.
But they’re poor. Metaphorically speaking, the very misleading US GDP is a Wild West storefront. Behind the rows of storefronts are rows of shacks. The emperor has no clothes. Everything’s breaking down as the direct result of a COL calibrated to the suburban double-income household, a 1950’s dream life (on a single income) has turned into a nightmare. GenZ knows it.
I said I’d be brief, so I’ll conclude here: when Great Depression 2.0 hits, Japan will still have grandmothers & mothers, plus an abundance of tiny little apartments where even low-wage Mom & Dad can still afford to feed & house children in *genuine* middle-class comfort (1950’s USA style):
- safe, walkable neighborhoods,
- a mother who isn’t chained to the corporate loom,
- affordable healthcare,
- including vax freedom of choice,
- functioning municipal physical infrastructure: gas, electric, water, roadways, middle-class public transportation (not our ghettoized public transportation), including bicycle-safe lifestyles,
- a genuine patriotism, a belief in themselves,
- a functioning education system,
- a functioning Made in Japan industrial base,
- 🤔 let’s see here. I’m bet there’s a couple more not coming to mind right now …
Nice response, Gerald. Re: Japan, it's fertility rate is 1.37, among the lowest in the world (population equilibrium is 2.1), which is caused by its incredible debt levels. Life is simply too unaffordable to have children. Even though Japan has historically been xenophobic and rejected immigrants (correctly, as it lacks natural resources to support them, instead relying on the hard-work of its population), Japan is increasingly giving up on this point and allowing in millions of immigrants over time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Foreign_residents_in_Japan.svg/2560px-Foreign_residents_in_Japan.svg.png
This will continue to get worse as the Japan population ages...indeed, I see the assassination of nationalist pro-Trump Shinzo Abe as directed by a global elite conspiracy...
In general, I cannot disagree. I think 800,000 is the projected number of immigrants for 2025(?)
And although 1960’s style 2nd-wave “feminism” really has not caught on here (yet), Japan does present a **very interesting** case study in “Non-Western Cultural Decline caused by Feminine Materialistic & Communistic Proclivities.”
Case in point(s):
1) the Japanese have been seduced by the processed foods lifestyle, e.g. housewives are serving junk food, and nuclear families are dining out-as-entertainment - yet in the absence of the 1960’s Battle of the Sexes.
2) abortion-as-family planning, plus
3) delaying female marriage & procreation (i.e. university education plus “exploring the world as an unmarried (but not virginal) young woman (but not strong & independent; she’s living at home 😂).
(2) & (3) have resulted in a loooooot of undesired, unintentional childlessness - compound by two generations & counting … Who knew??? Our Western culture feminazis apparently weren’t aware, either, that if a woman fails to carry her first child by age 30, then there’s a 50/ 50 chance that she’ll end up involuntarily childless.
Now we know.
We didn’t know back then (when GenZ’s grandmothers were experimenting with serial monogamy/ orgiastic hedonism) 😡😡😡
… Just let me know if you would like me to continue this conversation here.
Thanks,
Gerald
I think Republicans were on to them, they ascertained if they stole it, it would be civil war, destruction of America and the basis of their power.
Surely now they plan some variation of color revolution.
Probably the deep state will need to be dismantled, to do anything meaningful about those structural problems.
Trump has stated clearly, concisely, the path to that, and smashing the censorship complex. That is leadership, that is acting like the archetype of the King.
America has a choice now. Trump can't save us. We have to save America.
I hope you are right, William.
I appreciate the black pill perspective I just wish sometimes I could get you all to have a little faith ;)
It is a sad, sad commentary on the American psyche that you think Trump is a kingly archetype.
Americans love the insurance salesman huckster archetype and it is your right to do so.
But don’t call this “kingly”.
No one is an archetype, one acts out of the archetype, which Trump is doing, you are not required to believe. It is all for naught, if Americans are not inspired to be better, but I can assure you one thing, bleak is depressing/not inspiring.
Americans really resonate with the archetype of a used car salesman.
Black pillers are treating good transcendant news like a plague. I’ll take the positive until actual circumstances prove me wrong.
Delusional people and their fantasies are like addicts and their skooma
You now, the king archetype can be embodied by any man. You could try magnanimous, or beneficient. Sheer severity is more like king in shadow.
Sadly, I have to concur with your analysis, in spite of voting for Trump myself. Too many problems are baked into the cake at this point to be fixable before whatever big crisis hits (though another Harris administration would have made it far worse structurally). He is no Leto II and his fans are no fremen.
The big questions for me are:
1. Will he draw the US out of Ukraine?
2. What attempts will he make regarding the illegal immigrants issue? Attempted deportation? Thwarted efforts in that area? Or will he end pushing for the "sensible" option of Amnesty.
3. Are the counter elite powerful enough, or forward minded enough, to provide the political capital for systemic reform? Unlikely, all things considered.
4. On top of the your concerns, we have to also be aware of the upcoming sharp decline in energy and resource production as result of fossil fuel and rare mineral depletion (let alone declining top soil, biodiversity, and aquifers). I don't how well we'd handle that issue even if we had all your concerns wrapped up with a nice bow.
I agree with you, Steve. Re: Ukraine, it will be interesting to see what happens there. I don't think the establishment will allow him to withdraw unless they have another war lined up - like the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years and was involved in Ukraine six months later (as if they knew it were coming...hrmmm...). In other words, if Ukraine winds down I suspect it would be only to transition to either war with Iran or something larger. Re: your point on energy, you are quite correct about it -- we're hitting up against neo-Malthusian limits with rapidly declining EROEI (energy return on energy invested), alternative energy is abysmally inefficient and the only strong alternative is nuclear energy -- there would have to be an extreme pivot to mass nuclear adoption to have a hope of sustaining today's energy use, which would require a totally different acceptance of risk from the public.
I agree. The federal government has to use the shiny new military conflict in the right hand to distract from our past failing one in the left. As far as I can tell, that conflict in order of likelihood would be:
Iran and Israel
China's takeover of Taiwan
Venezuela via Guyana
Or even
Mexico (armed conflict with the cartels). As JMG has pointed, the warbands of the future will likely be cut from the Narco Cartel gangs.
Great analysis, Neolib. I didn’t even try to dig into the financial aspect. Thank you for your fine work. Good bless.
Excellent article, I completely agree with everything and appreciate that you present factual economic data and give the chance for everyone to understand the current situation, regardless of financial literacy.
I will only disagree with one thing; the international elites you mention. I agree everyone in the dissident right tries to look for a scapegoat behind wrongdoings; globalists, Jews, immigrants, Muslims etc. For me the biggest problem in the States is by far lobbying; either in election contributions or annual lobbying. What makes it worse is the complete lack of transparency in many PACs, something deteriorating after the 2010 Citizens United case. This is why the country is becoming more polarised, people have no trust in the government and other states take advantage by meddling with your elections. When the government serves the few with their payrolls, it is no surprise that the situation of the average American worsens and people get fed up with the system. I posted a comprehensive overview of pro-Israel lobbying in my channel, you can ask me to create more similar posts: https://t.me/PoliticsGR/3210
Regarding Trump, I personally believe a new administration will not be what many alt media parrot, but I also have some hope that a war with foreign powers will be avoided. Economically speaking, it is not his cabinet that will have any effect on the course of the country, the Fed prevents any reasonable change from taking place.
Thanks Petros, and I agree with you that lobbying is a big problem - lobbyists draft all the bills that Congress votes on, which didn't used to be this way. The revolving door between industry and politics is a major part of every administration...
Physician cure thyself: "Who can remain level-headed? I may not be doing any call-outs (what’s the point of drama?) but I’m always watching, always observing - mostly in disappointment."
At the root, this viewpoint, I think, suffers from the very same ailment that is plaguing AI. Closed systems yield outputs that are consistent only with their restricted inputs. Instead, "Let's see what happens."
"Man plans, God laughs."
Maybe better put in this case: "Man plans, analyzes, and decides -- and God laughs."
“Any politician that attempts to substantially cut entitlements to the public will not be re-elected and is in danger of public unrest or worse; raising entitlement ages even a year or couple years, a drop in the bucket, would be extremely unpopular.”
This is his final term!
Spot on.
Thankfully, I deliberately unsubscribed from most DR Trump propagandists (keep some just to keep an eye) over the last several months thus haven’t had to endure their ridiculous jubilation.
I don’t mind your black pilled doomerism. And the structural issues one way or another will lead to a collapse one way or another.
Don’t the bankers need the endless immigration to endlessly inflate the dollar bubble? Just as a pyramid scheme works by only adding in more suckers, I think it’s the same principle.
The capitalist ponzi scheme requires endless immigration, but the dollar system is a bit different - it's tied into the petrodollar system. Basically how it works is as follows: Saudi and other oil producing countries only sell their oil on the international markets for dollars, which in turn required oil-buying countries to acquire dollars in order to buy oil. Saudi and the other oil countries would then invest their dollars into the U.S., buying stock in corporations and the like, thereby fueling stock market gains. By creating worldwide demand for the dollar, which was pure fiat and unbacked by gold, the U.S. was thus able to maintain it's reserve currency status and run on huge deficits with low interest rates that other countries were not able to do. Tree of Woe had a good series on this: https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-part-i?s=w
The United States appears to be experiencing a phase of imperial decline, a process inevitable and resistant to reversal. The current position bears similarities to that of the United Kingdom in the late 1990s, when the rise of Tony Blair and New Labour sought to reinvigorate the country already adjusting to its post-imperial role on the global stage. Trump is a clown. He escaped prison and that all it matters to him. And btw, the alleged assassination on him, please ...
Hi Plamen, re: the assassination attempts, see here: https://substack.com/@neofeudalism/note/c-76690037
What is a Trumpmo? I don't want to go into details but there 's the little problem about allowing him to stand up and do his little dance, gesturing to the crowd and so on. They had to get the picture for the papers. But if this had been real they would have kept him down. He would never have been allowed to stand back up almost immediately, making himself a target again. That was against all protocol and logic. Ant btw, if you are simply amateur photographer you would tell instantly why the bullet photo was not real.
I agree with most of the article.
But again and again the elephant in the room is not addressed.
All of this only happens bc the parasite class robs more and more from the Plebs. This is what must be understood by us Plebs. Of course it's Taboo to talk about that issue. We engage in useless discussions about whether Capitalism is better or Communism, as if there was a choice. Instead we should discuss how to destroy the masters who enslave us.
The problem with dealing with the debt problem is that the reaction to Romney's infamous 47% comment convinced the Right that openly attempting to address the debt is a losing proposition.
Even most of the alt-right, especially most of the alt-right, would balk at the measures actually necessary to address it.
Can someone please explain to me how 'in person voting' is going to help American politics work better?
The only thing it does is empower money to have more say in elections than it already does.
Long lines for voting are common and discouraged voters walking away is as well.
Mail-in voting allows candidates and parties a much longer time-line with which to interact with the voters.
The only outcome from destroying (instead of securitizing) mail-in voting is to give the unemployed an advantage over the employed, the young and advantage over the old.
I like mail in voting. As an independent voter, I don't get to be involved in primaries, so the first chance I get to see who's up for election is the ballot.
This gives me time to research the candidates and referenda at my leisure with the ballot in front of me. I don't have to try to memorize what I want to do at the polls and poll workers get testy about bringing in 'outside materials' even if it's a hand-written note.
Being anti-mail-in-ballot strikes me as a knee-jerk reaction, not a well-thought out strategic position.
There's a couple reasons, good question. Day-of in-person voting adds value to the votes of those who prioritize election participation, as you're right that it is inconvenient to vote in person, so those unwilling to overcome that inconvenience would not vote. That is a good thing. It's the same rationale why one should have to show voter ID, and it's the same rationale why in olden times one had to be a property owner to vote. What you want are smarter people with more buy-in within society participating and those who are lower impulse, less intelligent not to vote. Furthermore, allowing vote-by-mail creates more avenues for vote fraud abuse, as who is going to be able to check the actions of a Democrat voting tsar in charge of the vote-by-mail system? What is going on during the days and weeks where those votes are sent and tallied? One wants to have as few steps between vote, vote counting, and vote checking as one can get.
Yhis kind of 'moralizing' about politics is why the Right hasn't had a durable political or cultural victory in 200 years. Snobbery and elitism is no substitute for strategy. The inability to take advantage of changed circumstances eliminates the Right as a viable political position.
You're cutting your own throat and thinking you're hurting the enemy.
The reason for the lack of victories is due to the egalitarian ratchet effect, imo: https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-egalitarian-ratchet-effect-why
Of 'egalitarianism' always wins (for 200 years) why is the sense in not creating a version of 'egalitarianism' that furthers your purposes.
Unless the purpose of to never hold power while posturing as superior.
Trump has succeeded by avoiding the 'island of misfit policies' effect that envelopes the Right.
His victory was a victory of incoherence, of ala carte-ism.
Something the rigidity and dogmatism of the Right can neither embrace nor deploy.
'The Right' has turned into catch-all dumping bin for every rejected political-economic and social idea for at least 200 years. And in that time no 'man of the Right' has crafted a publicly-supported platform or set of policy proposals.
And all the while the adverse effects of liberalism and 'egalitarianism' have been building up.
It's a really shocking example of irresponsibly on the part of 'thr Right'.
But - somehow - the Right imagines itself the salvation of the West.
It depends how you define right versus left. There are many different definitions. My definition is that the right is inegalitarian at it's core and the left is egalitarian. Therefore there is no way for the right to embrace egalitarianism and remain "right".
Which is why the 'inegalitarian' Right has achieved zero traction in 200 years while things have gotten worse and worse. Irresponsible.
Mail-in-voting makes fraud much easier.
How? Because people mail them in? You think you cannot defraud in-person voting? All that in-person voting does is favor the leisure classes (the rich, homeless, unemployed on social support).
The fraudsters just switch from harvesting ballots to doing what they were doing before: rounding up 'their' voters and busing them to the polls.
It's just another anti-worker fetish the Right loves to concentrate on coupled with magical thinking.
The Left has an activist base all around the country just waiting for a big project to 'stick it to the Man' by getting their voters to the polls.
Does the Right?
I didn't think so.
> The fraudsters just switch from harvesting ballots to doing what they were doing before: rounding up 'their' voters and busing them to the polls.
That's harder. Especially if we also implement actual voter ID.
You know, like every other first world country and even most third world countries these days.
Why does it matter if it's 'harder' for your opponents *when you're not prepared at all*?
The Right should put its big-brain STEM people on methods to 'secure and make verifiable' mail-in voting.
One that would be both 'fair' as well as one that would be viable for 'your' voters.
The GOP is a more working class parry. You have to stop thinking you're the party of the bosses.
As for 'voter ID', I think it's hilarious that after *decades* of hard-core resistance to a 'national ID' that *the Right* is *demanding* one.
I see the subtle hand of the jews in getting the Right to slit its own throat.
It's Pavlovian in its thoughtlessness.
> The Right should put its big-brain STEM people on methods to 'secure and make verifiable' mail-in voting.
Well, you're clearly not one of the big-brained people.
Hint: real big-brained people understand what can and can't be done.
> As for 'voter ID', I think it's hilarious that after *decades* of hard-core resistance to a 'national ID' that *the Right* is *demanding* one.
Well we already have an ID system.
Heck voting is one of the few things you can do without an ID these day.
When you resort to personal attack you vindicate the weakness of your position.
No system you propose cannot be defrauded. Every effort to do so implicates more bureaucracy and more central government control.
Everything we do will be a trade-off, so make sure the trade-off doesn't work against you and is supported by your actually existing constituencies.
Voter ID will be nullified in the same way immigration law and federal drug laws *and National ID* have all been nullified.
Which is a good thing.
This is the most balanced and sober article on this topic that I’ve read. Very well done, señor NF!!