Globalism and The Dying Citizen

12/01/22 • 71 min

Citizenship is synonymous with representative government. Citizens are not residents, serfs, peasants, or subjects. To be a citizen is to have inalienable rights---rights that cannot be taken away by some ruler or king. Today only about half of the world’s population are citizens of fully consensual governments enjoying constitutionally protected freedoms. They are almost exclusively in the West. Democracy is a rarity and only about 22 current democracies have been in existence for over half a century. That’s why you see people, come hell or high water, go through the southern border into the United States or go through the Mediterranean to reach Western Europe. People would rather be a citizen in a new, unfamiliar country than be a serf, peasant, noncitizen, or subject in their homelands.
But today, we in the West take citizenship for granted. We falsely believe that citizenship has always and will continue to exist. Some even say that, in a borderless world, the idea of a nation-state is outdated---preferring to call themselves "citizens of the world." They forget that citizenship is an exception rather than the rule. There were no citizens for most of human history. In a monarchy, theocracy, or autocracy, people did not have inalienable rights. Elected representatives did not exist. Citizenship was a revolutionary idea that came quite late to civilization. Citizenship is precious and must be cherished. It requires work. Democracy is fleeting. It’s not easy to govern oneself---much less to protect and exercise your freedoms.
We discuss a multitude of toxic forces that degrade national sovereignty and undermine citizenship, including the decline of the middle class, open borders and illegal immigration, identity politics and tribalism, unelected administrative state ("deep state"), technocratic "evolutionaries," and globalism. As always, we connect the dots.
The Dying Citizen by Victor Davis Hanson: https://amzn.to/3ioKsHX

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Working-Class and Blue Collar Conservatism

To win in 2024, Republicans need to---heeding the lessons from Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, and even Richard Nixon---appeal to Blue Collar Conservatives and build a multiracial working-class coalition.
BCCs are lower- to middle-class voters in industrial and rural communities with generally conservative values, typically without a college degree, and who have been devastated by outsourcing and offshoring of jobs, bad corporate and union leadership, neglectful elected officials, and the ruling class that would rather virtue-signal than help them. They are swing voters in critical swing states in the Rust Belt---Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The media has called them the "white working-class"---although they aren't defined strictly by their race and are made up of individuals of all races. They don't look to government for help, but believe in the social safety net.
Globalization and automation in the manufacturing economy, the opioid crisis, and the breakdown of marriage and family are the leading causes of suffering in BCC communities. Republicans need to develop ideas and policies to help these Americans. Another tax cut and repeating the pieties of "growth" won't cut it. We need to restore the American Dream for workers. Republicans must be the party that fights so that each and every American can achieve their God-given potential.
In the wake of the Great Depression, BCCs supported FDR's New Deal, and successful Republican Presidents who appealed to them, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump. They were "Democrats for Eisenhower" and the "Reagan Democrats." Many voted for Obama in 2008/2012, then voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Republicans have a long history of championing working Americans going back to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, the trust buster who improved working conditions.
In this episode, we connect these dots, drawing on a historical perspective, and discuss what Republicans must do to appeal to BCCs, restore American greatness, and form a winning coalition in 2024 and beyond.
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The Working-Class Republican by Henry Olsen: https://amzn.to/3gtndvL

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The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Mass Formation, Corruption of Science

The Enlightenment tradition ushered in the era of science, progress, diversity of ideas, and the use of reason and logic to seek objective truth. Over time, however, as it made great discoveries and proved the falsities of religious dogmas, science became corrupted by ideology---it went from disproving the majority to being the tool of the majority; from fighting coercion and oppression to being used for coercion and oppression; from questioning religion to being religion; from truth-telling to truth-hiding. A real scientist understands that the world is too complex, nuanced, and dynamic to be neatly represented by numbers, charts, and graphs. Uncertainty, risk, and probability---not determinism---is the way of life.
But there's a price of progress. The industrialization, mechanization, and technologization of the world---while achieving many benefits---has produced loneliness, social isolation, and lack of social bonds among the population; loss of connection to nature; pointless administrative and technocratic jobs---bullshit jobs; loss of meaning and purpose in life; and widespread presence of free-floating anxiety within the population. A population with these characteristics is primed for mass formation and the emergence of totalitarianism. Notable examples of a mass formation event include Donald Trump, Russia, coronavirus, climate change, and terrorism.
In this episode, we discuss the societal forces that lead to totalitarianism, mass formation psychosis, corruption of science, mechanistic science and ideology, COVID hysteria, World Economic Forum and the Great Reset, and more. As always, we connect the dots.
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