Posted on 12/22/2021 4:07:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
Populism, in its economic, political, and technological forms, may be the only hope for reversing course on our society’s path toward the edge of the cliff.
The Chinese Communist Party no longer acts in ways its 20th century kingpins had outlined in the party’s founding principles. Domestically, it employs technologically repressive tools to force its population to abide by ideological dictates of obedience and collectivism. However, its strategy abroad has dramatically shifted to one which relies on the goodwill, narcissism, and stupidity of global elites. In its five-year plans, China has laid out in plain sight its desire to eliminate the economic and political sovereignty of nations both developed and poor. Its ambitions are reliant on a steady stream of capital inflows from financial institutions in order to fuel its globalist and expansionist agenda. By following the tenets of realist-leaning international relations theory, the CCP is playing a zero-sum geopolitical game to remake the world order to accommodate its rise. The U.S. government and intelligence community has given countless briefings and warnings to elected officials, financial hegemons, and corporate officers regarding their continued complicity and passivity vis-à-vis China. Yet, we have seen the admonitions fall not on deaf ears, but those of willful disdain for any sovereign-based approach to doing business. Populism, in its economic, political, and technological forms, may be the only hope for reversing course on our society’s path toward the edge of the cliff.
Global elites have strategically championed the use of populism as a dirty word in the modern American lexicon to counteract its potent force for change. Mainstream media entities and their television lackies have pushed a narrative of nativism and isolationism to make the term less palatable to the public.
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Our education system has given us a politically illiterate majority in our population. Marxism is now the objective and that feeds right into China’s hands.
Indeed, America needs a separation of education and state.
What is communism? What is fascism? What is globalism?
You can crack a textbook and read out some textbook definition of each. Personally, I “know” what they are. But no one in the real world lives by textbook definitions. It’s all fuzzy all the time.
I think it really comes down to a binary world: Control vs Freedom.
The CCP isn’t about “communism”. It’s about Control. Their “ideology”? It’s “whatever works”. Could possibly be some sort of centrally planned economic effort at home. Possibly. Could be bribes to foreign politicians. Could be military threats here and there. It’s “whatever works” so that they can have more Control.
And it’s the same thing in America. Build Back Better? Vaccines and masks? Loose immigration enforcement? Election fraud? That’s the current “ideology” of the American government. Because “it works”. They want Control and they know how to get it.
I support anything which helps the cause of Freedom. And that doesn’t mean US troops invading Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever to support “freedom” around the globe. Ive seen that movie. It doesn’t work.
I don’t know what “populism” is. Yes, yes, yes. I can crack a textbook and read a definition of “populism”. In the real world does that mean anything? I’ll support a “populist” is he wants to limit the Control that others have over me and if he wants to increase my personal Freedom. That’s literally the only thing I care about now.
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Elusive ex-special forces Brit officer wrote infamous email to Hunter Biden
Founded consultancy involved in secret arrangement
Facilitated Joe Biden’s ‘10% stake in dirty China deal’
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 01 2021 | JOSH BOSWELL
Posted on 12/1/2021, 3:12:14 PM by knighthawk
A former British special forces officer with ties to UK intelligence services is at the center of Joe Biden’s alleged 10 per cent stake in a dirty deal with China.
James Gilliar wrote a now-infamous email to Hunter Biden in 2017 suggesting ‘the big guy’ would own a tenth of the interest in a multi-million-dollar deal with Chinese oil behemoth CEFC through his son.
Though the email, allegedly referring to Joe Biden, was perhaps the most shocking among the tens of thousands on Hunter’s abandoned laptop and has the greatest implications for American democracy – still little is known about Hunter’s shadowy business partner.
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I think the “populism” label is misapplied at this time.
Earlier populist movementsl were leftist in origin. Not Communist, but leftist.
Global Totalitarianism is the worst possible form of government. And an entire world under that boot would be hell on earth.
Satan himself would rule it.
Williams Jennings Bryan. That is who I think of. Was indeed a leftism to populism. Normally I’m not big on populism, but we are in an age where it is now needed.
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