The commonest furphy in liberal democracies is that power comes from voting franchise and individual liberties. That is, people are strong because they can vote and because they possess rights that are protected by courts and constitutions. This is backwards.
Seek out a good community and dig in. The kind of community I have in mind is typically a mining community, or maybe a farming community with a high percentage of Amish. It can be a former mining community if the mining stopped or declined only recently.
Miners never stopped being fit and they never stopped being men. They've had to fight Pinkertons and scabs and ruthless mine owners since day 1 and they still know how to fight. They know how to work the community for support and they know how to fight physically and shut mines down and terrify scabs.
Mining is a boom and bust industry and mines are usually located in the middle of nowhere, so miners are exceptionally self-reliant. They can build anything. They can fix anything -- they're better than rural Mexican mechanics with cars. Their wives still knit and sew and take good care of their children. They are accustomed to endless layoffs, so they are extremely frugal and grow almost all their own food and hunt or fish for what they can't grow. They heat their homes with free wood or, in coal country, with free coal from abandoned mines.
I've lived in a mining community for 21 years and before that I lived in another mining community. I can't tell you how great it feels to know you can count on your neighbors. During the Covid lockdown in our state, our community ignored it. Our little store was still open. We kept our library open. Our little church was still open. Our little cafe was still open. Our local pickers still played bluegrass every weekend in our park or on the store porch. I never saw anybody in a mask. The state police came one day and put yellow tape around our skateboard park, which we had installed for our kids. We went that night and took it down. They came back and put it up again and we took it down again.
My current community was established in 1941, and the miners built a community corral where everyone kept livestock to provide meat and milk for their families. The community kept that going until the early '80s, when the county shut it down. But we're talking about starting it up again. We're just about ready. Once the vaxxers in the nearest city keel over, there will be no funding for county busybodies to come out here and stop us.
We have no 5G out here and in fact you have to drive out of the community to get any kind of cell reception. We maintained our own water supply for our first 40 years and I can't wait till we return to that too. We never let go of our three-room schoolhouse -- our kids still go there through 6th grade and our teachers live in our community.
Most communities like mine are built around maybe a half dozen extended families. We talk when we see each other in the park to build consensus for major community decisions. The community elders who've gotten us through battles in the past have a lot of respect from the younger people, and their opinions carry a lot of weight in these decisions.
In my view, the U.S. is toast and the sooner the better. I'm sick of paying for endless wars and the iatrogenic slaughter of my fellow citizens. 80% of U.S. adults marched like lemmings to get the shots, and the 20% of us who didn't are a completely different kind of human. I'm not worried about being overrun by an enemy because the populations of most other countries made the same mistake. Basically everyone who is a royal pain in the ass marched in to get the shots, and they will all soon be gone. The ruling elites, what few survive, won't have their armies of snitches and toadies anymore to enforce their nasty rule on us.
Seek out a good community and dig in. The kind of community I have in mind is typically a mining community, or maybe a farming community with a high percentage of Amish. It can be a former mining community if the mining stopped or declined only recently.
Miners never stopped being fit and they never stopped being men. They've had to fight Pinkertons and scabs and ruthless mine owners since day 1 and they still know how to fight. They know how to work the community for support and they know how to fight physically and shut mines down and terrify scabs.
Mining is a boom and bust industry and mines are usually located in the middle of nowhere, so miners are exceptionally self-reliant. They can build anything. They can fix anything -- they're better than rural Mexican mechanics with cars. Their wives still knit and sew and take good care of their children. They are accustomed to endless layoffs, so they are extremely frugal and grow almost all their own food and hunt or fish for what they can't grow. They heat their homes with free wood or, in coal country, with free coal from abandoned mines.
I've lived in a mining community for 21 years and before that I lived in another mining community. I can't tell you how great it feels to know you can count on your neighbors. During the Covid lockdown in our state, our community ignored it. Our little store was still open. We kept our library open. Our little church was still open. Our little cafe was still open. Our local pickers still played bluegrass every weekend in our park or on the store porch. I never saw anybody in a mask. The state police came one day and put yellow tape around our skateboard park, which we had installed for our kids. We went that night and took it down. They came back and put it up again and we took it down again.
My current community was established in 1941, and the miners built a community corral where everyone kept livestock to provide meat and milk for their families. The community kept that going until the early '80s, when the county shut it down. But we're talking about starting it up again. We're just about ready. Once the vaxxers in the nearest city keel over, there will be no funding for county busybodies to come out here and stop us.
We have no 5G out here and in fact you have to drive out of the community to get any kind of cell reception. We maintained our own water supply for our first 40 years and I can't wait till we return to that too. We never let go of our three-room schoolhouse -- our kids still go there through 6th grade and our teachers live in our community.
Most communities like mine are built around maybe a half dozen extended families. We talk when we see each other in the park to build consensus for major community decisions. The community elders who've gotten us through battles in the past have a lot of respect from the younger people, and their opinions carry a lot of weight in these decisions.
In my view, the U.S. is toast and the sooner the better. I'm sick of paying for endless wars and the iatrogenic slaughter of my fellow citizens. 80% of U.S. adults marched like lemmings to get the shots, and the 20% of us who didn't are a completely different kind of human. I'm not worried about being overrun by an enemy because the populations of most other countries made the same mistake. Basically everyone who is a royal pain in the ass marched in to get the shots, and they will all soon be gone. The ruling elites, what few survive, won't have their armies of snitches and toadies anymore to enforce their nasty rule on us.