The Government We Deserve Part III: Tribalism and Societal Collapse
As Americans focus all their attention on supporting their tribe in the political circus, they’re ignoring the real stories leading to our collapse
“The level of anger that we are witnessing all over the United States right now is extremely alarming. Millions of voters on both the left and the right are filled with rage, and I have never seen this country more bitterly divided than it is at this moment. Interestingly, survey after survey has found that the economy is the number one issue that voters are concerned about. Our once great economic machine is coming apart at the seams, and the cost of living has become extremely oppressive. But to be honest, for now the economy is still relatively stable. So how angry will Americans be once the wheels start coming off and economic conditions really start deteriorating very rapidly?”
We are told every election cycle that “this is the most important election of our lifetime.” And every time, the ones saying it admit they always say it, but “this time it’s true.” It’s kind of humorous, even though it’s also kind of perverse that we put up with it.
If elections matter so much, why would that be? Well, it’s because we have a massive authoritarian government. Both crime family political parties want it that way. They both want control the rest of us.
Yet, if it’s your team that wins, then you feel comfortable that the authoritarian government will come down hard on the other team. That’s why you fear the other team winning, and that’s why you vote. You vote out fear, not out of principles.
Before moving on, I want to focus on the presidency for a bit. Although this was a Midterm election year, the presidency is always presented to us as the big kahuna. That’s the position of real power, we’re told. Of course, every president (at least in my lifetime) has been a puppet, but we’re told they have real power.
Americans, of all sides, affectionately describe the office of the president as “the most powerful man in the world.” Ironically, we also call presidents “public servants.” I don’t know about you, but servants aren’t supposed to be so powerful. In fact, the presidency along with every other elected and government official (most of whose jobs are unconstitutional and shouldn’t exist) are supposed to be viewed as very weak. Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of us for allowing this thinking of power in government to grab hold of Americans.
Regardless, the ruling class has everyone at each other’s throats and hypocrisy is on full display.
Have you ever noticed how both sides of the political divide act the same?
Hillary said that Trump stole the 2016 election. Trump said Biden stole 2020. The so-called “left” had psychiatrists diagnose Trump as mentally unfit for office. The so-called “right” has doctors declaring Biden cognitively unfit to serve in office. The “left” will attack the “right’s” incoherent candidates, and the “right” will attack the “left’s” incoherent candidates.
Meanwhile, both sides will point the finger at the other side outraged. The “left” will try and cancel anyone for the slightest viewed “microaggression.” The “right” will post the next meme under the theory that if they just make fun of the “left,” somehow, they’re winning.
And most of this comes in virtual reality as most of this takes place on social media. Of course, while you’re at each other’s’ throat, the social media rulers collect your data. Did you ever think that if social media outlets are free, you are not a consumer but rather a product or commodity that the ruling class is profiting off of?
This is what tribalism looks like, and the ruling class loves it. And it’s not just Democrats and Republicans. They divide us in every way possible. They divide us by race, by gender (now the made up gender identity), by sexual proclivities, by age, by ethnicity, by religion, by denomination, etc., etc., etc.
And it all stems from the illusion of “power” we’ve allowed the government and politics to take. Daniel Greenfield wrote:
“‘Politics is downstream of culture,’ was once true, but culture is now downstream of politics. Culture is politics and politics is culture. Politics has killed culture and what’s left is politics telling stories, singing songs and writing books about its imperatives, worldviews and agendas.”
“We don’t have movies, songs or novels anymore. We have propaganda, scolding, preaching, sneering, hectoring, and smirking by the elites who control the cultural machine. Politics is their life and they want it to be ours. They can’t conceive of anything important that’s apolitical. A common culture springs from the things we agree on. What do we agree on anymore?”
Tribalism Diversion from What Really Matters
“Westerners are trained to criticize the actions of the other party or the beliefs of the other ideological faction, never the foreign or domestic policies which are fully supported by both parties. The power structure which maintains 99.9% of the same policies regardless of which party is officially in charge is the real government, but westerners are trained never to look there. They’re instead trained to fixate on a false two-handed puppet show diversion.”
“Westerners say ‘Well I’d rather live here than China or Russia, because here I can criticize my government whenever I want!’ Okay. But you don’t. You don’t criticize your government. You just criticize the puppets, and usually only the puppets of the party you don’t like. You never criticize your actual government. Criticizing your actual government looks like attacking the murderous foreign policy that’s supported by both parties. Attacking the authoritarian domestic policies supported by both parties.”
The ruling class effectively pushes the command and conquer strategy. They have us tearing each other apart, ignoring the real stories the mainstream media puppets won’t cover.
And the mainstream media will have you believe that things will be different every election cycle. Nothing would have changed had the “red wave” occurred. Brian Shilhavy wrote about voting for Vaccine Impact:
“This ritual is very sacred, because it is drilled into Americans from early in life that it is our civic duty to vote, and that if we don’t vote and the country then falls apart and goes to hell, it will be our fault for not voting.”
Shilhavy goes on to make predictions of what’s in store for us in the coming year, “regardless of which political party wins.” The financial system will collapse as the U.S. will default, and the “Great Reset” will commence. The Military Industrial Complex will continue to get more money to fight unconstitutional and immoral wars. Big Pharma will produce more dangerous drugs we’re told are “safe and effective.” Food shortages and social unrest will get worse as supply chains continue to fail. Energy costs will continue to rise. COVID jabs will continue to kill more people and our population will significantly decline. Parents will continue to be allowed in every state to submit their children to the jab experiment. Taxpayers will continue to fund kidnapping and trafficking of children through Child Protective Services. China will overtake America as the strongest economy.
I can’t disagree with those predictions. And I absolutely agree this was all coming regardless of what party won the election.
Snyder provided some of the shortages already being seen such as 183 drugs officially on the FDA’s drug shortage list, there’s a turkey shortage just in time for Thanksgiving, consumers are being advised by the USDA not to “panic buy” butter and the diesel fuel industry is signaling major shortages in the near future. Snyder writes:
“Do you remember in early 2020 when they told us that the shortages that we were experiencing would just be temporary? Of course some of them were, but then more shortages just kept on erupting. That wasn’t supposed to happen, and now it appears that our supply chain problems could potentially get a whole lot worse. In just a few short months, we will be three years away from the beginning of the pandemic in the United States. But instead of a ‘return to normal,’ more shortages are on the way. And in some cases, they could even be life threatening….”
“I know that many of you have been patiently waiting for a long time for life to ‘return to normal.’”
“Sadly, that isn’t going to happen. The incredibly bad decisions that our leaders have been making are now catching up with us in a major way, and a great deal of pain is ahead.”
Consumer spending is expected to significantly drop this Christmas season, and the cryptocurrency market just witnessed a new “Lehman Brothers Moment,” Snyder writes.
And the biggest story of all that is completely ignored is that the New York Federal Reserve has taken us one huge step towards a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Shilhavy writes:
“Here we go. In just one week since the fall of FTX and the upheaval of the private cryptocurrency world, the New York Federal Reserve announced today that it was starting a trial run of a ‘digital dollar’ with several major banks.”
“I expect that the plans to move towards a Central Bank Digital Currency will pick up speed now, using the FTX scandal as an excuse to start regulating all digital currencies.”
“This is another step towards The Great Reset.”
I can’t state this emphatically enough, but CBDCs much be stopped at all cost. But conservatives, have you heard anyone from your precious Republican Party talking about CBDCs? No, because they want the power and control that comes with CBDCs as much as the Democrats.
‘Don’t Vote, It Just Encourages the Bastards’
I did steal that from the late satirist P.J. O’Rourke. I just like that title a lot.
Does sheepishly voting make an ounce of difference?
At the national level, absolutely not. At the state and local level, maybe. Although, not because the politicians can do anything for you. In fact, the idea that politicians can do things for you is why we’ve become slave workers on the American plantation.
“Does voting move us closer to a permanent jailbreak? No, because it never gets rid of the jail. Freedom from today’s government is never on the ballot.”
“Let’s challenge it. Let’s embrace the free market without the meddling of a monopoly State. Let’s shrug off our oppressor.”
“Supporting the state in any of its efforts to claim power is an act of cowardice in the face of tyranny, and voting for your political masters is the epitome of that state support. Shun the state at every opportunity, never comply with its mandates, never show or sing praise to it or its corrupt institutions, and never allow it to own and control you. If no one voted, no one would be elected, and that is a better way forward.”
I’ve written a lot about elections not mattering and politicians being puppets. I’ve also admitted I voted in the midterms, and I did so because a candidate earned my vote for standing up to tyranny when it counted. I didn’t do it thinking that even if he won that things would change. I also have a good friend who won a state-level office, and I’m glad she won. So, I recognize that there are some people with good intentions who run for office.
However, it doesn’t matter how good their intentions are, the party bosses control their members. In fact, I’ve heard it many times from the most conservative people that you’ve got to be a team player. You’ve got to just get on board with the Republicans, no matter what. You can’t even consider voting for a third party candidate.
It’s that tribalist thinking that allowed Trump to say garbage like “take the guns first, do the due process later,” or brag about being the most gay-friendly president ever, or the biggest stab in the back of all, shutting down America over a cold virus, and still get away with it. The conservatives made excuses, said it was part of some grand plan.
Conservatives need to hear this more than anybody. If you put your party loyalty over principles, you are no patriot. We need more Davy Crockett’s, less tribalism.
“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party handcuff on them.”—Davy Crockett
Wisdom from America’s First President
George Washington gave several warnings to the American people in his farewell address. Among those warnings was avoiding the “spirit of party.”
Washington understood the nature of man and parties would be effectively inevitable. In fact, it didn’t take long for factions to begin as it was his own cabinet that began the party system in America. Still, Washington warned to at least quell the dark side of the “spirit of party.”
And Washington’s farewell didn’t come with the pomp and circumstance that today’s politicians demand. In came in the letter to the American people near the end of his second term in office. Washington wrote:
“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.”
“This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.”
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”
“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”
“It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.”
“It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.”
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
People Have Power but Don’t Know It
We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War. At least, it feels like that. Eric Peters writes:
“Whatever the vote turns out to be, the result is probably foreordained. As it was in 1860. A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“Nor should it.”
Things are collapsing, and people fear that. But if they would just start thinking for themselves, they may just realize that this could be a positive. Shilhavy writes:
“Welcome to the Big Technology Crash of 2022. The game’s over, the show has finished, and it is time now to prepare for the post-technological era.”
“That doesn’t mean that the technology will all go away and we will return to the ‘dark ages.’ I am pro-technology myself, and have an EV car that I charge off of my own solar system, not the grid, as a backup should it be cost prohibitive or impossible to purchase fuel. It allows me to be more independent from ‘the system.’ I have also earned my living, and supplied many jobs to others, by utilizing the technology.”
“What the ‘post-technological age’ means is that the economic realities are now crashing down on the false techno-prophecies, and a more sustainable economic system is going to be necessary that encourages, rather than punishes, innovation and more local, decentralized systems that are not technology dependent.”
“For that to happen, of course, means that the Globalists will lose much of their power and control, and that will be 100% dependent upon the American people going forward as we face the ‘Great Reset.’”
It’s that last line that really matters. How the future looks is up to us, but do we know it?
The truth is that the ruling class is guided by a godless worldview. It’s doomed to fail. But will we be prepared for that failure.
I’ve titled Part I, Part II and this part The Government We Deserve in hopes to get people to start looking at themselves and what they’ve done, or not done, to allow this authoritarian takeover of the world to take place, and so they will look within on what they need to do going forward. There is no one right answer that each individual needs to do, but individuals need to break away from the collective and their tribes and start thinking for themselves if they have any hopes of coming up with solutions that work for them.
We need to realize that we have the government we deserve. We always will. In my final piece in the series, I will give some advice in hopes that we the people wake up, repent for our roles in all of this and get not only the government we deserve, but also the one we want.