Coronavirus, China and Human Heartedness

Posted on February 7, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, wise folks around the world are praying for the people of China today. China is in the grips of another epidemic that is taking the lives of it’s people wholesale. They are subject to a collapsing economic system, disease and their own despotic government. History has been spastic with the Chinese. Alternating between sage emperors, despots and living as a conquered people. Today they contend with all three. Due to globalism however, their troubles are not isolated to China, they are exported to the planet at large. The Chinese one party communist state exports censorship, fentanyl and surveillance technology, while the country exports diseases like Bird Flu, SARS and Coronavirus, and whatever has liquidated all the pigs in China. Yes, wise folks are praying for the Chinese people.

The usurpations, despotism and tyranny of the Chinese communist party are legendary. From the artificial famines that exterminated tens of millions, whole swaths of the Chinese people, to the organ harvesting of political dissidents, the Chinese communist party has distinguished itself as a true communist party. China by the traditional definition is an empire… and an expansionist one at that. They threaten every single one of their neighbors, except Russia, with invasion, if land they “justifiably” claim is not turned over to them. No different that Hitler in Austria, Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia or Crimea at name the time. The people of China labor under one of the most efficient, ruthless and arrogant tyrannies to ever exist.

China has undergone several extermination events of it’s livestock of late. Due to overcrowding, poor agricultural practices and poor cleanliness of their herds, bird flu has wiped out millions of chickens in the last decade. Pig whatever has just in the last year almost exterminated all the swine in China, their principle protein source. This has obviously led to hyperinflation in pork prices… which has driven people to eat anything that crawls, walks or flies by. Mainstream scientists claim the Coronavirus came from bats at a wet market in Wuhan. If true, this could mean that the pork epidemic indirectly caused the Coronavirus epidemic. That Chinese shrimp are fed pig feces, in my humble opinion, is another place where an outbreak of disease is likely.

Globalism, of the virtuous market kind, or the malevolent government kind, removes barriers to the movement of disease… and despotism. Which means that no one is safe from whatever happens elsewhere today. Coronavirus has made it to almost every continent, the Chinese government effectively censors people in the US at will, and governments around the world are embracing Chinese surveillance technology and practices. The adoption of mass surveillance is slowly exceeding Orwell’s worst nightmare. Even the NFL with their “brave” attack on the US Constitution and freedoms by taking a knee during the national anthem, caved like a wet napkin when China was displeased with criticism from one if it’s players… who immediately apologized for saying Hong Kong should be free.

Often, what is seen as selfless, is the most selfish thing. Praying for the Chinese people is one. If our prayers cause the atheist communist Chinese government to collapse, replacing it with a limited government that guarantees the natural Rights of it’s people, not only will the Chinese people’s fortunes be elevated, but so will the fortunes of every man woman and child on the planet. If our prayers help stop such deadly diseases as SARS and the 1917 Spanish flu, we will have saved uncountable millions of lives. If our prayers can reverse the surveillance of the Chinese people… to the people surveilling the Chinese government, the world may follow such a virtuous lead. So, in this case, to be human hearted, virtuous and selfless, in praying for another, we are acting in our own self interest.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Class, Who Has It and Who Doesn’t

Posted on February 5, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the one thing you can say about the democrats, after last nights State of the Union address by Donald Trump… is that they don’t have a speck of class. The quality of Class, the ability to make others feel at ease, to be calm in the face of emotion and to act like a gentleman or lady at all times… especially while in public. Outdated though it may be, class is a characteristic of civilized people and cultures. Old films are full of examples of classy people, the Baroness in The Sound of Music, Johnny Drake in Danger Man, and in most Jimmy Stewart movies you see class acted out in narrative. People follow their leaders, so said Confucius, and since democrats and modern culture are the antithesis of class, it is no wonder class is in such short supply today.

A lack of class also usually comes with a generous dollop of lack of self awareness. People who are self aware, to some degree, always have a modicum of class. They may not be classy people, but try to act classy when in public. The inability to see oneself from another point of view is handy for psychopaths, manipulators and politicians. They can harm people all day and never see themselves through the eyes of their victims. I often wonder if it is not a form of extreme solipsism, thinking one is the only person that is really alive, that leads people to lose all self awareness and thus become the opposite of classy… rude and crude. Like ripping up a speech to show disdain. Of course, if someone thinks they are the only person who really exists… why have class or self awareness before mere shadows?

It is true that Trump showed a lack of class by refusing to shake Nancy Pelosi’s hand… but no one has maintained Trump is the epitome of class, while democrats like to claim that mantle for themselves. As such, it is not hypocritical for Trump to act the ass, while it is very much hypocritical for Pelosi, who is full of approbations for herself, about her religious fervor, care for the downtrodden, concern for the US Constitution and speaking truth to power. Nevertheless, Trump was far more statesmanlike than any of the democrats. When Trump noted the historically low unemployment of Black Americans, they should have cheered to the heavens, instead they sneered to the depths. I would have thought that rising wages for blue collar people, would also have been a reason for gladness, but that would take class.

As Trump named accomplishment after accomplishment for the United States, Nancy Pelosi rolled her eyes, played with her false teeth, motioned to people, made faces, and tore up the speech given to her by Trump as soon as he finished. I stopped watching once the President’s speech had ended, so I have only read about what happened after… if true, it proves my point. Dressed in white like the KKK, (one of democrat skeletons in their closet), democrats showed solidarity, but also a lack of self awareness. When Trump announced the new trade agreements, that put US firms on a better footing against the global competition, democrats again held their seats down. Even though they voted for it? Is that an example of sour grapes, cognitive dissonance, lack of self awareness… or just having no class?

Throughout the whole State of the Union speech, Trump came across as classy and dignified, while the democrats with their drama came across as misbehaved children, given far too much leniency. We have come to expect a lack of decorum from progressives. I suppose if I thought I was the only person on Earth who truly exists, everyone else only here to fill out my reality, then it might be logical to be as rude, crude and have a total lack of self awareness as democrats, leading to zero class… but isn’t such a level of solipsism a form of mental illness? Denying reality in so fundamental a way, I might argue it is as mortal to the psyche as thinking one is Napoleon, but then I am being redundant. Of course, there is the Iowa Caucus… I wonder if democrats will ever have the class to give us the right numbers?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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A Rational Morality Outside Religion

Posted on February 2, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if someone wanted to come up with a rationally derived morality, outside any religious context, the best foundation they could come up with is the Golden Rule, Do Unto Others as you would have others do unto you. This is an objective standard that can be understood subjectively. Don’t do to someone else something you wouldn’t want them to do to you. From this position all other questions of right and wrong can be understood and answered. While the idea is easy to understand, implementation is tricky, because if we treat others as we would have them treat us, then we must hold ourselves to a higher standard than we hold others to. Now that is hard. Yes, the Golden Rule is the ideal measure for any rational morality devoid of religion… except it is the basis of Christianity.

To do unto others, doesn’t require thought, compassion or empathy. One need not be able to put oneself into the shoes of another, just know what you don’t want done to yourself. If you don’t like being punched in the back of the head as you walk down the street, don’t play the knockout game, if you don’t like being backstabbed, don’t backstab others, if you don’t like being stolen from, refrain from stealing, if you don’t like your significant other running around, don’t run around on them, if you don’t like being lied to, stop lying, if you don’t like your stuff being broken, don’t vandalize, if you don’t like being disrespected, don’t disrespect others, etc… but the Golden Rule is not only negative, it shows us how to treat others as well. If you like being helped, help others, etc… to do unto others is obvious to anyone.

This way the person who seeks morality, outside religion, can build a rational morality that is actually moral and rational, unlike most “rational moralities.” Previous rational moralities, like Marxism and Nazism, are based on envy, hate, disgust and arrogance. They envy and hate those richer than them, and find those with less, or the other, disgusting and loathsome. The subjective morality of the psychopath. It serves a purpose, and that purpose is not to serve mankind, but the man. For the progressive, socialist, Nazi, Marxist, etc… morality is self serving, the Golden Rule is not. Take natural Rights, progressives deny them to others, but demand them for themselves. Even as progressives shout down, slander and violently silence others… they would be deeply offended should they be silenced.

To follow the Golden Rule requires us to hold ourselves to a higher standard than they hold others. This follows because, if we only do to other people that which we would want done to us, and others do not, then by definition, we are holding ourselves to a higher standard. Taking the road less traveled so to speak. One problem with this, is that narcissists will hold “themselves” to such a high standard, they will expect it from everyone else. When in reality, if they had any self awareness, they would realize they are holding others to a standard they themselves would chafe at. To actually follow the Golden Rule one must actually see others as flawed human beings. Some will never succeed, others might with help and some are just outstanding.

The Golden Rule is never comparative though. If we compare ourselves with others we are not following the Golden Rule. Comparing ourselves to others must by definition, be outside of context, because we cannot know what another person has gone through. Moreover, it leads us to be arrogant, angry and envious. Those who follow the golden Rule lead by example. Since no one wants to be put upon, to do unto others is not to put upon others. The tyrant may get compliance, but has shattered the window to open it… then wonders why in winter it can no longer be closed. As a standard of morality, there is none greater than the Golden Rule, but it has one drawback to the atheist, it is Christian and Confucian doctrine. Which, in an illogical nihilistic way, negates it. Too bad God thought of it first…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Peak Impeachment Absurdity

Posted on January 31, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… the impeachment of Trump has reached peak absurdity. It was ludicrous that Trump was not allowed to have council during his impeachment in the House, ask questions, was not allowed to face his accuser and was even denied witnesses, in total defiance of all US jurisprudence and the history of common law. Which proved the House trial was indeed a kangaroo court. Now that the “trial” is in the Senate, Trump’s allies are not even allowed to ask questions! The “judge” John Roberts is clearly biased in denying Rand Paul question, and by suppressing the name of the person who supposedly made the original complaint, Trump’s accuser. All of which adds up to the most biased, unlawful, unconstitutional, malicious and vile impeachment ever.

Impeachment is a remedy for a President who has become odious to the Constitution, not the administrative state or a political faction. Such a drastic action is only when a President has committed an actual crime. Like perjury, treason, murder, fraud, etc… serious crimes that impair his or her ability to function as President. It has usually been used as a political weapon, showing the maliciousness and duplicity of politicians. Progressive Republicans passed unconstitutional laws, then impeached Andrew Johnson for not following them. At least Johnson was accused of breaking a law, even though it was an unconstitutional usurpation of the Executive Branch’s authority, by the Legislature. Impeachment was supposed to be used to protect the republic… but instead it has become a political bludgeon.

Nixon was supposedly impeached for covering up someone else’s crime, but he was really impeached as payback, for prosecuting Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss was a deep stater who had passed to Truman from Roosevelt. He was accused by Whittaker Chambers of working for the Soviet Union… of being a Marxist. Whittaker Chambers was Alger Hiss’ Soviet handler and had been caught. Hiss had far too much political favor to be tried. It would be like someone prosecuting Hillary Clinton today for being a spy for China. It wouldn’t happen… no matter the evidence. A young up coming prosecutor just elected was willing to take on the establishment though, Richard Nixon. He prosecuted Hiss and earned the undying enmity of the progressive/Marxist faction. His impeachment was political payback.

Clinton lied under oath, which was the reason he was impeached. The facts are undisputed. The question upon which Clinton’s impeachment rested was, is perjury an impeachable offense? The US Senate at the time found, no, lying under oath is not an impeachable offense, and so Clinton was acquitted. Many have argued that since the lie was about Clinton sexually harassing an aid, and lies about such things are perfectly acceptable, as such, it wasn’t really perjury. Others argued that his lie put the nation at risk since it put Clinton at risk of blackmail. That argument was shown to be false, when Clinton was proven to have harassed an aid and then lied under oath, and nothing was done about it, showing that Clinton was and is above the law… undermining any blackmail argument.

The same senators today, who found that a felony offense was insufficient to impeach Clinton then, have turned on a dime, and now say that anything they dislike is an impeachable offense. Usually, someone has an epiphany that leads to such a profound change in their mental framework, there is a pivot point. Yet, in this case, the pivot point appears to be the election of Donald Trump. Which suggests… his impeachment is politically motivated, and not from some deep seated love of nation, but hatred, of Trump and our Constitution. Bringing us back to the original position, that this impeachment, by any standard, even our pathetic precedent, is absurdity writ large. Clearly political, and showing the administrative state and the faction that backs it, are psychopathically pathological.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Your Getting Screwed By The System… Here’s Why.

Posted on January 29, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, people are getting screwed by the system, and the system’s solution… is to give the system more power to screw you. Politicians like Occasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, etc… like to cite this as a reason to give those who are defrauding us unlimited power. Supposedly, then they will turn virtuous, once they have total power. Obviously this message resonates most effectively with children. People without the life experience to know better. These, shockingly, are also the people most likely to be caught by an idea. Because young people haven’t experienced enough to put ideas into context. I thought Marxism was fine and dandy, until I read about it and the history of it. Ignorant, Pollianish and unwise youth, have not learned about life, let alone history… and so are the progressive’s zealots.

The statistics on the decline of the middle class in the industrialized nations is undeniable. The question then becomes, why? Why have our once great industrial cities been hollowed out, to become cesspools of drug addiction, gang violence, crime, unemployment and hopelessness? The progressive’s who run those places would say it is the fault of evil, patriarchal, hegemonic, racist capitalists, who seek profit over the betterment of their fellow man! There is no end to Marxist rhetoric to “prove” their case. Studiously avoiding history in context, economics, psychology and wield Cartesian skepticism like a scalpel. Carefully avoiding cutting themselves with it. This is required for progressives, socialists and Marxists… because their philosophy has been disproved so many times and in so many ways.

Lets instead use these powerful tools of logic to discern if capitalism is actually the reason for the hollowing out of the middle class, or perhaps there may be some deeper, hidden reason. A reason we are directed away from… by red herrings. History is explanatory. In the 1960’s LBJ declared a war on poverty. Since then, the US has spent trillions of dollars to eliminate poverty, yet the results are quite the opposite. Poverty has not only increased, but the class mobility that was inherent in the capitalist US, has now become mired in the welfare state. One of the primary factors was the destruction of the nuclear family in certain demographic groups. The State replaced the father, which has led to diminished life outcomes, outside any other individual quality… like IQ or conscientiousness.

The rise of multinational corporations coincided with the growth in government in the US and Europe. As governments grew larger and less transparent, corporations grew more powerful and less locked to the profit loss equation. Because their profits no longer depended on the consumer… but government favor. I don’t know the date it changed, but at some point, probably in the 1990s, it became more lucrative for a corporation to “invest” in lobbying… than in new plant, workers or innovation. They say that concurrence does not denote cause, but when two things corroborate so closely, they do bare investigation. At the same time, regulations passed by the Administrative State, hindered the startup of small businesses, creating a lopsided economy, top heavy and bottom light.

When Trump was running for office, Obama famously said, how is he going to get the US to 3% growth, there is no magic button… but apparently there was. It was in repealing progressive regulations, taxes and policies. Changing the paradigm to one where wages are rising, unemployment is at record lows, especially in previously underemployed communities, and people again have hope for the future. (Except in progressive utopias). Progressives have run the US with nearly unlimited power for decades, and under their watch we have seen the family destroyed, wages lowered, savings stolen by inflation, as our children die of opioid overdoses. In three years Trump has reversed that by reversing progressive policies. A sane man can only conclude… it is progressivism that has screwed us.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Do We Crave Suffering?

Posted on January 26, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, one strange thing about the world we live in, is that to question a person who has been caught in lie after lie, is very rude, but it is acceptable, nay, duty, to call a person who has been caught in the truth over and over, a liar. Examples abound, but what I am interested in is, why? Why is it that when a person, we all know in our hearts is lying, we are so loathe to call him or her a liar, but the default position for someone who has been proven to have told the truth, is that they are lying, unless proven otherwise? The consequences for humanity are deep and resounding. Economies have been gutted, entire races have been slaughtered, persecution of every sort has flowed from the lips of liars, connivers and outright psychopaths… that have ruled humanity since time immemorial.

Machiavelli tapped into this in his letter to the Medici clan. In that renowned work he states that if someone, even a persistent liar, constantly claims to be telling the truth, most people will go along, even when they know he is lying. Machiavelli used the example of Pope Alexander the VI, since he was a renowned and accomplished liar. In that piece Machiavelli wrote that a prince need not keep his word if doing so would put him at any disadvantage. Combining lies with bad faith, so psychopathic, but quite progressive. Nevertheless, why is it that such a system works so well, when it comes to ruling humanity… Or does it? Perhaps being a liar and conniver is not best for society but only for the liar.

In modern times both Clintons are renowned and adroit liars, yet to question their word is considered the epitome of rudeness. His lie under oath, and again to the public, that he didn’t have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski, is both proven and notorious. Her lie that she had no idea she had wiped her server, like with a cloth, is also notorious and even laughable. Yet the media bends over backwards to listen intently, to what is most likely a lie, every time they open their mouths. We are supposed to believe everything they say without question. This has the effect of making everyone complicit in the lies, and become an accomplice with the liars, connivers and fraudsters. Which is also amazing to me, why would we take on a sin that we need not, for the benefit of a deceiver, who is deceiving us?

Trump, on the other hand, is proven to be telling the truth over and over, yet is called a liar. When Trump mentioned the rape problem in Sweden, the media went apoplectic over it, calling him a liar. Yet when they went to Sweden to prove him a liar, they had to quietly slink back without releasing a word of what they found. Even when their reporters were harassed, they refused to report it, because it proved Trump right. The Russian collusion hoax, that we spent 40 million dollars and 3 years of his Presidency trying to prove, is just another example of this. To this day, no matter how many times Trump is proven to be right, the default position is that he is lying, until proven truthful. Why is it that so many people think it rude to call a liar, a liar, but not give an honest man the same courtesy?

Now, there are glittering lies and ugly truths, that explains some of it, but not all. Kipling also spoke to the subject in verse in his Gods of the Copybook Heading. Explaining the phenomenon but not the reason behind it. Obviously, the reason the liar connives and commits fraud is for personal gain, but why do we go along? Some probably are so mired with their own lives they don’t have the energy to think it through and just go with convention, others might vote the way their parents and grandparents voted and that is good enough for them, while there may be some who nihilistically want humanity to suffer, and so don’t as much believe but abet. Maybe all these responses are sufficient to answer the question, but I worry it is some deep unconscious misery quotient we all have, living in our id… making us crave suffering by whatever means?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Language as a Political Weapon

Posted on January 24, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… the English language is a mysterious thing. Words pop into and out of existence like particles in quantum space. Others change meaning overnight. “Debunked” is just such a word. It used to mean a theory that was thoroughly investigated and proven not to be true, now it means… a democrat scandal they don’t want looked into. Very strange language, English. Other words have morphed overnight into their very opposite and no one seems to notice. I suppose that another quality of English is, that a small cabal of cultural elite can change it, to suit their political needs at a moment’s notice. I have to wonder though, that allowing a small cabal to change the meaning of words, create words and eliminate words at will, doesn’t in some way limit the utility of language itself?

Gravitas was a word that popped into existence and popped out exactly like particles are theorized to in the quantum vacuum. It materialized for a short time, served it’s purpose, then dematerialized just as quickly, seemingly never to be heard again… except in some arcane blog about the meaning and utility of language. Racist is a word that has morphed into it’s opposite. It used to be that a racist was someone who saw a person’s race as their primary attribute. Now it has evolved to mean a person who doesn’t see the race as the primary attribute of any human being. Strange thing that. People today who are clearly “not racists,” openly say that all white people are racists, which can only lead one to believe the word has reversed meaning.

This is a very powerful ability, the ability to change the language to suit one’s political needs. It gives the faction that wields such immense power a truly unfair advantage over any other faction. In the wrong hands such a super power could lower the lot of Mankind by a great degree. The people who wield it though, tell us they are benevolent, they would never use such a weapon to undermine the US Constitution. Like changing the meaning of extremist, who in times of old was a person who sought the destruction of our Constitution, or any of the Rights guaranteed under it… to mean someone who supports the US Constitution. Because the language has changed, now an extremist is someone who opposes the progressive platform, of fundamental change.

What if they are not benevolent but in fact psychopaths who change our language at will to suit their political exigencies? Now that would be diabolical. The implications should send a cold shiver down the spine of every rational human being. Let’s examine if this could be true. The power to change language lay primarily in the cultural transmission sources. Which, at first glance, would make it appear that the power is not used for political advantage, but as a fundamental force that churns in the subconscious of the culture. Except that every change in the meaning of a word, every new word and every word that is suppressed, serves the ends of the progressive faction… and indeed we find that the vast majority of the cultural elite identify as progressive.

That our language is manipulated for political purposes is not necessarily a bad thing, unless that manipulation serves the interests of a faction, and not the whole of society. What ends do the progressive faction put their super power, the ability to change our language at will, to? The examples I have already given might provide some insight. What end does changing the definition of “racist” serve? How does reversing the term “extremist” affect the nature and role of government? Why did “gravitas” pop into and out of existence so fast? Most importantly, does changing the meaning of “debunked,” further the cause of justice, or hinder it? Answering these questions will answer the bigger question. Does such a mighty morphing language serve communication… or a diabolical end?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Big Government and Big Corporations

Posted on January 22, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a progressive might argue, we need regulations and big government to control corporations. Without big government riding roughshod over big corporations, the corporations would buy everything and make everyone their slaves. This argument sounds true enough, until you think about the nature of big corporations and big government. The one needs that other like we need air. Big government thrives on corporate graft, lobbying and regulatory capture while big corporations need government regulations to keep entrepreneurial wolves from snapping at their heels, as well as cronyism to make money without having to provide anything for it. The progressive might say that big corporations have no need of big government, but that claim ignores history.

The progressive might say that they came to become so powerful because of the lack of regulations. That lack allowed the Pareto distribution free reign to create robber barons and bone crushing poverty. I would respond that it was not a lack of regulations, that allowed them to become so powerful, it was the result of many factors coming together. The tacit backing of political forces that enabled them to crush their business foes, laws selectively applied, and yes, there needs to be laws prohibiting monopolies. The fact is, no matter how an economy is set up, there will be super rich and super poor… because of the Pareto distribution. Socialist nations are even more stratified. Instead of an economic elite or royalty, they have a political elite.

The Pareto distribution is a theory based on ideas by Vilfredo Pareto. He surmised that the distribution of anything in a complex system will be a long tailed curve. This applies to income distribution, the distribution of productivity in a company, to the work load of a sewer system. It is an elegant mathematical demonstration of why the world is as it is. It also shows that no matter what, there will always be a vast difference between the rich and the poor. Look at supposedly utilitarian societies such as North Korea, the former Soviet Union, present day China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, etc… and in every case there is the Pareto distribution, but it is magnified, with a much smaller percent of the population controlling much more of the national product.

If a nation seeks to have a free economy and establish a meritocracy then monopoly cannot exist. I think both progressives and conservatives agree on this point. That monopoly is the antithesis of free markets. Monopolies stagnate and with them the economy stagnates. What is so enlightening about this idea, is that while conservatives and progressives agree that monopolies are bad, the government ignores the will of both progressives and conservatives on this point. Which calls into question the foundational premise of the progressive mantra, that big government is the only entity capable of controlling big corporations. It would appear that big government, far from discouraging monopolies and big corporations, instead nurtures and protects them and their monopolies.

Perhaps rather than tens of thousands of bureaucrats writing regulations to “control” big corporations, we had a small government that had laws against monopolies with clear definitions and solutions? What if instead of flattening the income curve with job killing regulations we allowed everyone to get ahead? What if we grew up and faced the facts some people will be rich and some will be poor, and to try to solve that insolvable problem we simply change the rich from those who merit it, on some level, to those who take it by political force. The Pareto distribution doesn’t change just the names of haves and have nots. We should look at it like adults, big corporations need big government as big government needs big corporations, and monopolies… but do we need either?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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We Have Achieved Arbitrary Rule

Posted on January 19, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, we have entered a time of arbitrary rule in the United States. It was a long time coming, but finally, to the joy of progressives across the fruited plain, we live under arbitrary rule. Laws are enforced depending on a person’s political favor, passed to protect the powerful and adjudicated to convert our republic into an Administrative state. Law has become a means to oppress rather than a means to justice. The problem with arbitrary rule though, is that no matter how much you agree with what the elite are doing with their unlimited power today, be wary, because you may not agree with what they do with it tomorrow, but you will have given them that power. Sadly, many people, (Progressives, Socialists and Marxists) don’t have the intellect to think it all the way through.

Favoring arbitrary rule was a reason someone was ostracized in ancient Greece. They understood that arbitrary rule was a means to arbitrary power, and many Athenians favored justice over tyranny. No matter how virtuous a person claims to be, unlimited power will corrupt them. Lord Acton said, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Arbitrary rule is the definition of absolute power. In ancient Athens, democracy was a cherished facet of life. The people of Athens loved their freedom and personal political power, thus they were loathe to give it up to a would be despot, who favored arbitrary rule. Pericles, on the other hand, exploited the ostracism to create arbitrary rule for himself. Showing that even a people dedicated to protecting their freedom can be manipulated into loosing it.

Arbitrary rule can be very attractive. The would be tyrant claims he or she will use that power for such and such a good, and many ignorant people will joyously follow, because they are captured by the glittering lie, while at the same time, turning away from the ugly truth that is arbitrary rule. They are mesmerized by the glistening lie… arbitrary rule will solve all of humanity’s problems. The idea of arbitrary rule has got many people. As Jung said, “People do not have ideas, ideas have people,” arbitrary rule and the “good” that can be done by it, is just such an idea. It is lazy, yes, it is weak minded, yes, but you cannot argue that the idea that someone else can solve all your problems for you, is very attractive to many. Especially those who believe themselves incapable or oppressed.

History is unambiguous on the outcome of arbitrary rule. It always leads to tyranny and oppression, it never solves those problems. Oh, every tin potted dictator starts by claiming he will address the ancient evils done to a people, by giving him unlimited power he will right the wrongs, cure the sick, heal the environment and lower the sea level. When Obama came into office he said as much… now he was elected, the sea level would drop, the sick would get healthcare and the oppressed would find succor. Of course the opposite happened. Instead, Obama used the mechanism of government to oppress his political opponents, arbitrarily abusing his power, silencing people with the IRS, spying on them with the FBI, DOJ, and CIA, obliterated healthcare, as well as killed US citizens without trial.

The impeachment of Trump is the epitome of the use of arbitrary rule by progressives. Trump was denied any Right to post a defense in the House… against all precedent, but then again, it wouldn’t be arbitrary if it followed precedent would it? Trump is not even accused of breaking the law! Instead he is accused of “abuse of power” and “Obstruction of Congress,” both charges made up on the spot… arbitrarily, to undermine an national election and the will of the people, by a cabal of progressives, who are allowed arbitrary rule. Even as Trump as been arbitrarily hindered from performing his basic duties by a Judicial system controlled by the progressive faction. It cannot be denied the progressive faction wields arbitrary power in the US today, to our great detriment… perhaps we should address it?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Will History Repeat?

Posted on January 17, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when someone who has a history of violence, tells you they are going to do violence to your person, only a fool doesn’t take them seriously. History contains many ugly truths and repudiates all of the glistening lies we are supposed to believe. That is why we are so loathe to remember it… and is the reason it repeats so often. As in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, the person who understands the past, is a prophet to the future. In most cases, when a great evil was done to a people, the evil doer announced it beforehand, but was laughed at, the truth was far too ugly to behold. Especially when a glittering lie caught the eye. Today history is repeating itself, or at least rhyming, we have politicians and their minions echoing the statements of the past, that resulted in so much suffering.

Bernie Sanders is arguably the front runner for the Democrat ticket today. Who knows what tomorrow brings, but we are given a hint by the Project Veritas video of a Sanders campaign operative. He says if Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, Milwaukee will burn. He openly claims the police will get the brunt of the anger and violence. When asked what they would do if Sanders won the Presidency, the Campaign aid said gulags would be set up to re-educate Trump supporters. Yes, breaking rocks for 10 hours a day will give Trump supporters an attitude adjustment. Teach them not to be Nazis. Said the 20 something child in a man’s body. Thus displaying his ignorance, arrogance, egoism and violent temperament. A carbon copy of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Tamerlane and Pol Pot.

Elizabeth Warren, the used to be native American when it was expedient to get her a gig at Harvard, has come out as another full blown Marxist, er, socialist. The poor woman cannot tell the truth even when it benefits her. It must be hard to live life when your first intuition is to lie. Like when she was confronted by a voter who wondered why Warren sent her children to private school, but advocates for the hoi polloi to send our children to the failing government monopoly school system… Warren’s first impulse was to lie and claim she sent hers to public school. An easily verifiable lie. Yet she mostly got away with it because the unbiased media, an arm of the progressive faction, covers up for progressive faux pas. For all her faults, Warren, if elected, will accept her role as a face for the Administrative State.

Virginia today is an example of what the democrats under the stern tutelage of the progressive faction will inflict upon the United States, if they regain the Presidency, House and Senate. The open attack on the US Constitutional Right to keep and bare arms, along with the draconian punishments for law enforcement that refuse to follow their unconstitutional orders, removes the mask altogether. Showing the hideous visage that lay underneath. The black face governor of Virginia has openly threatened the citizens, that seek to stage a peaceful open carry protest, to protest the unconstitutional usurpations of the progressive faction in Virginia, with violence. Very progressive. We will have to wait to see how this plays out but rest assured, the same playbook will be used across the nation should they get power.

If we look at history through the lens of the rhetoric, actions and aims of the democrats this election cycle, the landscape is littered with ugly truths. Lenin said largely what Sanders says, and the 70 year slaughter that followed is the stuff of horror films. Hitler had the same arrogance, ego and violent temperament as that Sanders follower, and we all know how his election to Chancellor turned out. We even have an example of how the progressive faction will rule if in power. They will come for your guns, as they are doing in Virginia, they will not brooch any “Sanctuary” policy to protect Constitutional Rights, only to create chaos, as the path to utopia. This election, a vote democrat is a vote for the Administrative State, to take your guns, Rights and re-educate you if needed.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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