I’ve been reflecting lately on 2008, and the global credit collapse that happened then. I was a copy writer at Best Buy world headquarters, with lymes disease, I was in the process of losing my mind, I quit my job and went on a spiritual journey and was mostly oblivious to what was happening.
In the years after though, learning more about economics, I kept telling anyone who would and wouldn’t listen, if we don’t hold the bankers and banks accountable, if we don’t restructure the system, the next bubble is going to be infinitely worse.
The phrase back then was “kicking the can down the road,” as if our elite were just being lazy, not wanting to do the hard work necessary to fix things. But of course, there never was any idea about changing anything in Washington DC and Wall Street, except making America a more hostile, unequal, authoritarian place.
Where did all that anger go, in this election? The opposite happened. Americans have basically said, we are more or less ok with record inflation, rising crime, mutilating, maiming and sterilizing kids, covid authoritarianism, nuclear war in Ukraine and geriatric totalitarians handing America to globalist totalitarians.
Or did we? Something stinks in Pennsylvania, and it ain’t a steel smelter. Arizona too apparently chose a birthing person with a little girl voice who doesn’t believe in borders or accountability, who can run elections she is running in where the voting machines don’t work and win? There were no shortage of such anomalies in this election, blunting the anger. I suspect more than ever, elections in America are not on the level, but I suspect too the manipulation is so refined and so exquisite there is no ajudicating it. Anyone who questions this election will be treated about the same as I was warning people about the consequences of the 2008 credit bubble.
It is also true the Republican party as structured is hopeless. If you can’t win big against Democrat woke, trans and covid authoritarianism, then you are pathetic. Pathetic republicans. You are not up to the task to counter the madness of the left and the globalists, Trump or no Trump.
The saddest thing for me is that there is no hope now of any accountabilty about covid policy. When Emily Oster floated the idea of Amnesty, it wasn’t a weather balloon like I said, it wasn’t an offer, it was a demand: you are going to get amnesty and you are going to like it, and we are free now to become MORE authoritarian.
In a sense now we are in a bubble that is infinitely worse than the lead up to 2008, and Americans basically voted for the status quo, to kick the proverbial can down the road. Washington and Wall Street have no fear of us. All that social restructuring that was covid worked, it seems. The next two years are just going to be more of the same, more expansion of woke and trans, more censorship, more jabs, worse inequailty, your assets and income will be worth about 30% less in two years, if trends hold. Assuming the monstrously insane DoD doesn’t kill us all with nukes or forced jabs.
So, based on the fact that Washington and Wall Street will be of no help to you, or rather working against you and your interests, what is your two year plan?
I feel you man. I was just writing that those who truly want real freedom are clearly fighting with two hands tied behind our backs. I wrote in a September post that politics is dead, and we continue to see this in action.
The Republicans are worthless. They're controlled opposition. The systems are too entrenched, too captured. We're in a new reality of governance, yet far too many still think the old rules apply. When you've gamed the system, call anyone who doesn't play your game a conspiracy theorist or villain, and we play along with those rules, there's no winning.
To answer your question, I'm going to continue to do what I've been doing for the last 3 or more years. I'm going to concentrate on my family. Prepare for turmoil in every way I can. Educate myself. Write my Substack. Go to church. Spread hope, even as hope dims.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/politics-is-dead
The election results? It wouldn't have mattered if the republicans had swept the House and Senate races. They are all bought and sold, just like the democrats. I did happily vote for Rand Paul and am satisfied to see he won. If there is any light in politics, some is due to him (taking it to Fauci, questioning the spending on Ukraine), but I do not put any hopes in partisan politics to address any of the mess we are in. I vote in the same way a back-sliding Catholic goes to Mass and receives the Eucharist only on Easter and Christmas....just going through the motions.
My 2 year plan is an extension of my 30+ year plan, and it continued yesterday with the installation of a wood stove in the house. Add that to the gardens, fruits trees, mushrooms, and flock of poultry. I also have what I need to go hunting. Let's not forget social bonds and community. Resilience is the plan, brother.