Bob Hoye ——Bio and Archives--July 3, 2024
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What’s it going to be like when ordinary folk become even more emphatic in saying “No!” to unrelenting intrusion by the ambitious Left? Will globalists force another bloody revolution? Or will patriots be allowed to peacefully reform their bullying governments?
Constructively, reform is well underway, and the discovery of informed opposition has shocked the establishment, provoking considerable fury and even hatred.
The irony has been that the “social contract” has been corrupted to one-way abuse with the state taking your money and telling you what to do. Clearly, the burden of in-your-wallet and in-your-face government is becoming “too much”. But reform is daunting. The Left’s intrusion is their fulltime job; for ordinary folk work, family and friends is the fulltime job.
Further incentive for reform is that those frantic to impose rules and regulations don’t bother to follow them. Face masks for you, but not for Pelosi.
But for relief, ordinary folk need to move from complacency to resistance and working on elections.
Realistically, reforming the politics of unrelenting and costly intrusion will require a lot of overtime. Well beyond the essential workday, or afterwards delivering wheels on meals or coaching Little League. It will require facing down malevolent operatives in the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and IRS, paid to use state power against individuals. Not to overlook so many activists disguised as journalists.
Some call using judicial processes against individuals “weaponized legalism”.
But reform needs to advance, otherwise government by the consent “of the people” will be completely trashed.
Of growing concern is the ignorance of the Left, which really believes that this time socialism will work. Another is that it is intolerant of impartial criticism. Criticizing the Left means you are “Right Wing”, as in Nazi. My response to being smeared as “Hitler” has been “You’re wrong, I’m for limited government, you are for unlimited government”.
Fortunately, physics provides a clear definition of a totalitarian system: “That which is not compulsory, is prohibited”. Wonderfully elegant, it relates to everything from the UN to schoolboards.
Also, there is a simple definition of fascism: “The combination of big government and big business”. Which has been the goal of the powerful clique unleashed by Obama.
The transfer of money from private to state pockets fits, and it’s unprecedented. Skilfully accomplished through two “visions”, each very grand.
Established in 1913, the longest running scam has been the Federal Reserve System. Which while ostensibly formed to prevent recessions, the Fed has enabled state theft through chronic currency depreciation. Recently compelled to provide unlimited funding for the unrelenting experiment in unlimited government. Since 1913, the senior currency has given up 97 percent of its purchasing power.
Despite generations of boasts about preventing recessions, there have been 18 cyclical recessions since 1913. They are consequent to booms and on the next contraction the Fed will be vulnerable to scholarly criticism as well as public condemnation.
Of course, the other “vision” for grabbing power and the other guy’s wages has been the promotion that bureaucrats can control the temperature of the nearest planet. Will the implacable physics of climate really acknowledge regulations and taxes?
But as far as the “vision” goes, climate remains near the bottom of opinion polls. But those at the public trough dine well on never-ending threats. For thirty years the world has been going to “Fry” within the next five years. But “tipping points” remain elusive.
And being fake, the climate promotion is vulnerable to a natural cooling trend, which this old geophysicist considers is underway. ( Canada Free Press, As Weather Becomes Climate, April 15, 2021 article ).
But before getting into legit criticism of power-mad politicians and bureaucrats it is appropriate to review some “Firsts”:
So, how will the struggle resolve? Another murderous Marxist revolution or another benign reform?
To almost everyone’s regret when in power authoritarians, never know when to quit. In 2,000 years of European history, every such experiment has gone totalitarian. With the governing classes assuming the ultimate privilege of state murder, so essential to enforcing unpopular dictates. While this is possible, opposition as the governing classes become, well, ungovernable is growing. Hungary and Poland having suffered horribly with National Socialists and then International Socialists are reforming as fast as they can.
And reforming countries can’t believe how much power global Marxists have usurped in America. And still bent upon radical policies – despite tight opinion polls, when both parties should be platforming in the middle. In surrendering to Marxism, Democrats are abandoning their base. Ironically, its native nihilism has turned upon itself, as part of the base will shift to the reforming Republican Party.
With the populist movement finding Trump as a leader.
Democrats have been the war party and seem determined to disarm as well as silence any opposition. However, state legislatures still provide constitutional checks and balance. Dems may not be able to alter another key election nor force another civil war.
Over thousands of years, there have been popular uprisings with much in common. Each was consequent to the iniquity of the governing classes living and promising well, as ordinary folk suffered hardship.
In reviewing Holland in the 1570s, Will Durant recorded that a typical peasant bread riot turned into an “iconoclastic rebellion” against the authoritarian Spanish Netherlands. It was an early step towards that great reformation.
Today’s statist icons include face masks.
In the 1970s, Harvard astronomer Barbara Bell published her research on climate change causing the fall of Egyptian dynasties. The mechanism was straightforward and recurring. A lengthy cooling trend forced poor harvests. Ordinary folk in facing famine as the governing classes lived well became desperate.
Defined as “popular uprisings” they were provoked by popular dissatisfaction. The key was that the Palace Guards were not of the governing classes but of the people. Then when push came to shove, the Palace Guards laid down their spears and authoritarians were overwhelmed.
In 1989, East German Border Guards who were not of the governing classes laid down their machine guns. So that ordinary folk could go cross-border shopping.
And that event was a catalyst that brought down communist governments around the world.
Regrettably showing that feral socialists are the worst of critters, back in power authoritarians are ramping up climate hysteria on a vigorous totalitarian drive. Making it timely to look for today’s equivalence of Palace or Border Guards to stop defending state iniquity.
These are the monolithic media, best called Swamp Guards. Some Leftist journalists such as Pulitzer winner Glenn Greenwald have “crossed the floor” so to speak. There will be others.
In revolutions such as the French or Russian, popular dissatisfaction was corrupted by neurotic intellectuals into reigns of terror. Similarly ambitious operators such as Soros are at it again, employing Biden and Pelosi as puppets.
The most successful reform was England’s “Glorious Revolution” of 1688. When a popular uprising instead of civil war deposed the last absolutist king. Sensing the political tide turning against him, James sought solace in authoritarian France. At home, Brits found individual protection in their Bill of Rights.
Also driven by a regard for freedom the American Revolution need not have included war, but accomplished reform with the Constitution that has been effective until recently.
Equivalently fateful was the benign popular uprising in 1989 when ordinary folk took on the armed and murderous statists in East Germany.
History suggests that ordinary folk can again restore government “by the people” in a growing number of countries.
In America, the determination of freedom lovers can inspire state legislatures to use their constitutional powers to protect their citizens from the federales who are on a destructive rampage. Also inspired by the popular resolve for freedom, the Supreme Court could rise to its responsibilities.
And in coming together in a “Glorious Reformation” thwart the oaf of office.
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Bob Hoye (BobHoye.com) has been researching investments for decades, which eventually included the history of financial and political markets. He considers now to be the most fascinating time for both since the Great Reformation of the 1600s. Bob casts a caustic eye on all promotions and, having a degree in geophysics, is severely critical of the audacity that a committee can “manage” not just the economy, but also the temperature of the nearest planet. He has had articles published in major financial journals and, as a speaker, has amused assemblies in a number of cities, from London to Zurich to Tokyo.