Ice on the Moon

An American civil war between the right and the left looks likely at this point. I state this because of my experience with my coworkers who represent a snapshot of millions of white undereducated blue collar Americans. These millions who have been dumbed down in their Trumpist bubble to the extent that a future coup attempt is now being accepted as almost certain.

“The storm” is a Q camouflage term for what the white power movement know as “the day of the rope.” In Nazi Germany it was called “Kristallnacht” and the movie franchise “the purge” presents a fantasy version of it. It is essentially the day they murder everyone who ever publicly declared against them.

The most bizarre feature is the Black and Hispanic churches that identify as Evangelical and have adopted Trumpism. The absolute amoral greed and racial hatred that is integral to Trumpism would see them exterminated. It is truly strange.

The Trumpist’s are asking each other the question:

“How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”

The answer they are not saying out loud is: “these people are allowing us to steal the next election and then we are going to kill them.”

5:51 “I think language is very important. White power refers to a revolutionary movement that seeks to threaten the American people and to threaten the nation. White nationalism is a little bit different and includes many of the policies sought by the Trump administration. White Supremacy is bigger than both of those things; it includes all of them and it also includes all of these inequal systems that have been built into our country from the beginning- and that we have to treat if we’d like to deal with either of these other problems.”

Concerning the falling white birth rate: 9:12 “-for white power activists this was a problem because they saw their race as their nation. And this is one of the reasons that white nationalism is sort of a confusing term because the nation in white nationalism after 1983 is not the United States, it is the Aryan nation and that’s thought of by people in this movement as of higher importance than the United States and certainly as outweighing any democratic system.”

The seven conspiracy theories most Trumpist’s believe in: 1. Stop the steal 2. Anti-vax (and anti-mask) 3. Climate change denial 4. Trickle-down economics 5. The great replacement 6. The lost cause 7. Holocaust revisionism (and Qanon)

In George Orwell’s 1984 the masses were brainwashed with the concept of the opposite of the truth being the truth if the state said it was. Since the Trump administration the Russian disinformation tactic called “the firehose of falsehood” has been in full play in America and bears a striking resemblance to Orwell’s dystopian idea of “doublethink.”

Why 1983? Professor Kathleen Belew marks that year as when all the disparate elements came together at the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake Idaho and effectively declared war on the U.S. government.

17:45 Kathleen lists the three key developments in the white power movement after 1983:

1. Leaderless Resistance
2. Social Network Activism
3. The Militia Movement

6:00 “Heil Trump!”

The violence in all of this is the salient feature. The more violence the closer to a state of anarchy that will bring the government down. I am afraid the failed coup was just practice for the next one that is, at this point, almost certain to come.

It is not the brown people from elsewhere that are “invading.” It is the Neo-Nazi’s and the “The New Lost Cause” is the wagon they are climbing onto.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/donald-trumps-new-lost-cause-centers-january-6/620407/

I keep trying to come up with ways to explain to my brainwashed acquaintances the reality of Neoliberalism. When I tell them the reason billionaires are not millionaires is because all that money that should be going into the pockets of the people who created it is going into their pockets. They look at me with a blank stare because they are immediately confused about who has the money and who does not. It confuses them because they have been programmed from childhood to believe they only deserve what the rich give them and not what they actually have earned. The first question about the economy that everyone needs to understand concerns what is “work” worth? It is actually a question of what a human being is worth. Can a human being be “worth” tens of thousands of times more than another human being? That is the true nature of Neoliberalism, which seeks to make money the god of this world. Human beings are second and wealth is first and above human life. This is the inconvenient truth.

If you have a hundred thousand times more money than another person then you are, according to the Neoliberal belief system, a demi-god and should have absolute power over lesser beings. Those powers to include how much the billionaires pay their employees for their work. The individual that follows the path of absolute greed will support the ideal of paying their employees just enough to put the food on the table that will enable them to work the next day. And in their view the employee should be grateful and even worship them for providing that food. This is wage slavery and just above chattel slavery. Those that threaten your profit margin or do not generate revenue are “useless eaters” and will eventually require a “final solution.” See how that works?

Fascism is a cleverly disguised version of Neoliberalism and worships the same god.

We are so close to reversing aging, yet nobody will say a word about it. So close to saving our species from extinction. As each of us ends so ends humankind. If the conspiracy theorists and Neoliberals do not send us careening into oblivion.

We had a political system with the few rich people wanting more and paying for that and the many poor people wanting more and not being able to pay and a tug of war between the two. It is easy to see who has now won and the chaos the rich have used to win may burn it all to the ground.

Everything….EVERTHING political, traces back to the one percent trying to not pay taxes. They will do anything to distract, disrupt, and influence, and in fact invest vast sums to preserve astronomical wealth. They do this despite all the harm attached because they worship money as the god of this world. Human lives are not a concern…only the profit they generate. This is the 1st cause all progressives (and democrats) need to understand.

Millions of people are not going to let fascism replace democracy and that means a bloody civil war could be coming. Unbelievable and insane yet there it is. These right-wing creatures are the tools of the one percent that worship money as the god of this world: everything traces back to the rich trying to not pay taxes. Why is this not the revealed truth that is discussed every hour of every day by the media?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/media/trump-interviews-reliable-sources/index.html

Trumpists are dreaming about “The Day Of The Rope” from the Turner Diaries. It is one of the anchors of their base. They will never admit it, but it is what it is.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/op-ed-are-supreme-court-justices-partisan-hacks-all-the-evidence-says-yes/ar-AAOBqwf?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

When the highest court in the land practices hypocrisy…the end is not far away. While I did say in my last post that “judges and generals” were my new heroes, I was speaking of the judges that refused to aid and abet an overthrow of the government. There are of course grave problems with a conservative-packed judiciary. I will not walk back my hero statement concerning Trumpism, but problems with judges and generals remain. What are my problems with generals? They should be trying to convert this military industrial complex into a space industrial complex. Space Solar Power as the solution to climate change.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/node/1124836/preview

Age 62, IQ 101, education GED, yet I can see what all these hundreds of millions of geniuses at the top of the food chain are completely blind to: there is only one way for humankind to escape extinction and that is to end our finite lifespan and make it indefinite. What is true for the least of us is true for our entire species- either we all make it or none of us do. And the first and most obvious challenge to overcome is to delay death by freezing people without damage (The Great Rescue) so they can be revived when aging can be reversed (The Great Awakening).

Yes…when it was going on I figured the military was making sure Trump could not launch nukes. So I am happy about this and it goes along with judges and generals being my new heroes during early January. We all knew, at least the Americans not indoctrinated into his cult, that he was crazy. I knew it from the moment he came down the escalator.

My previous post identified the mystery and this kind of feedback discussion is a partial answer, if not a solution.

5:55

I was talking with a church member the other day, someone with multiple degrees, who had been a military pilot, dean of a college, someone who had done amazing things with his life, and I was surprised how the conversation turned out. He told me I was a pretty intelligent person and inferred I was somehow in the same league with him. He said this because we have a similar worldview and this was a lesson to me. I don’t think he was trying to flatter me as he seemed quite genuine. There is no way I am anywhere close to that person in brainpower. We share a similar worldview because random environmental conditions led me away from all those things the average IQ is attracted to. Instead of sports and cars and endless popular culture distractions I liked to read books. After over half a century of reading those thousands of books, I am an expert at acting like I am smart, but I simply do not qualify as being highly intelligent. Make no mistake, I have a completely average IQ. If given a pass I might be able to learn to fly a military aircraft, and survive doing it a number of times, but it would eventually end badly. As smart as this person is, I, the less intelligent partner in the conversation, knew he was mistaken about me.

My fellow traveler made the mistake that most Americans are making. Most of us are just not that smart. Most of us are about average or below. Complex problem solving and the other aspects of a high IQ do not make a person some kind of higher life form, they just make them even more different when we are already each a unique being. Arguments like “Orchids and Dandelions” can be made explaining that the highly intelligent are in some ways quite fragile and this is why natural selection keeps so many trapped in stupid-world. Perhaps it is true and we need the tough-and-not-so-smart. And perhaps not. My own experience after over half a century of people-watching is that many who I would have certified as above average in intelligence, above me in that regard, were also true believers in some conspiracy theory I could see right through. So it is complicated. I am old now, with most of my life behind me, and what I have learned is there IS a profound mystery concerning our collective self-destructive behavior, and we must solve it if our species is to survive.

Harry Houdini related that it is the smart people who are the easiest to fool with stage illusions. Unfortunately for America the not-so-smart people seem to have their own illusions.