My daughter knows a couple of nice young ladies from out in Lebanon, Ohio, who are the organizers of the Charm at the Farm shopping experience. It’s where southern Ohio craftspeople who want to offer their creations to the public get together in a field north of Lebanon on the way to Springboro and shop under some tents in the open air. My wife and daughter wanted to go and asked me to come along. One of my grandsons was going, so I decided to go along to spend time with him. To me, the whole event was a very girly affair where there wasn’t anything manly to do. It’s all shopping for crafts and clothes, the kind of stuff you would find in a Cracker Barrel gift shop, but it was an entire field full of those types of items. I had spent the morning checking stock drops for Target, Disney, and even Bud Light as woke politics was killing their value. ESG was ruining those companies, so the financial frontier did not look promising. Politics was also bleak; there wasn’t much good news anywhere. Things were starting to look like the plot of a Mad Max movie out there; so after a bit of thought, I was actually looking forward to spending time with my family at the Charm at the Farm, for whatever came of it. And I’m happy to say I was very pleasantly surprised. Where I thought it would be boring, I was actually quite impressed. It was quite an enterprise and was a good lesson to all those at the World Economic Forum who think they have the plotting of world domination figured out. The lesson of events at Charm at the Farm was that no matter what happened in the world, people were going to do what people wanted to do. 

I expected the event to be something of a fancy yard sale. It was on someone’s Farm with a big empty field serving as the parking lot. It reminded me of the Niederman Farm experience near my home, where they do a similar kind of thing every year, and I pick up a healthy stash of apple cider that is much better than what you can buy at the store. Only Charm at the Farm was much larger, and they were selling all kinds of unique items. For instance, my wife and I have been all over the United States in some of the best hat stores that there are. Well, I have a fast draw competition coming up and my wife is going with me, and she wanted a new hat. She has literally turned down many hundreds of hats as she was holding out for just the perfect one. She almost found one she liked in Jackson, Wyoming, but ended up putting it back because she didn’t “click” with it. But she found one she loved at Charm at the Farm. The attire was classy, upper tier. The kind of outfits and home decorations suitable for the wealth of outside the I-275 loop communities, for which Lebanon was so well known. But that wasn’t all we found that day. I was very pleasantly surprised by how much money we actually spent. I found some gourmet pickles from a vendor who was there from Miamisburg, and they were fantastic. There were so many handcrafted, quality items that we could have easily spent a lot more money. I didn’t expect it to be such a well-put-together event.

It was evident to me that I was seeing what a world where if all the corporations failed what it would look like. The maniacal planners at the World Economic Forum, who have gained control of most of the world’s corporations through BlackRock, thought they could control everything if only they controlled all the corporations. But rather, people would always choose alternatives, even if that meant setting up a shop in someone’s field and selling directly to the customers. Who needed corporations when private enterprises would do a much better job? And that is the truth in America, where small businesses make up most of the jobs anyway. If corporate America failed, then our economy would go on without them. We didn’t need corporations, not when we had the innovative spirit shown so brilliantly at Charm at the Farm. All the people I saw there were well put together. There were no beat-up cars in the parking lot. Many people from different races were represented appropriately to the actual world demographics. It was a non-political event in that no representation of woke politics was present. No hint to it. What was happening with the outside world was not a thought during that shopping experience. So even though much of the material was geared toward women, I enjoyed it for the window into a possible future that it provided. Corporations needed Americans. Americans didn’t need corporations. If people decided that the World Economic Forum’s control of our businesses was too much for them, then they’d find another way. But one way or the other, another way would always be the case.

This wasn’t the liberal apocalypse of Mad Max, where crazy Antifa transvestites were riding around trying to steal gas and rape women casually like a bunch of Democrat barbarians. Those people lived in the cities, and if they showed up out in areas outside the I-275 loop, they found themselves unwelcome. Out in Lebanon, people still fly their Trump flags, they still go to church, and they aren’t going to drink Bud Light cans with the gay little Pee Wee character on them. Everything at Charm at the Farm was nice, even the food, and showed what a post-corporate world would actually look like when the government got out of the way and left people alone. People like nice things, and they want to sell nice things to other people. That was the actual state of the world without political activism by radical Democrats who are always trying to ruin everything for everyone. In a vacuum of safety, being so far away from cities like Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus, Charm at the Farm was a nice little secret that I was happy to be let in on. If not for my daughter, I probably wouldn’t have known about it. But she thought I’d like it, and she was right. It gave me great ideas for what the future would look like if Democrat policies were removed and people could be left to their own devices to make a living. They wouldn’t have to sacrifice their lifestyle of nice things if all the corporations moved out of America or went out of business. America would go on, and so would the people. But we wouldn’t descend into chaos and become a bunch of barely living heathens. People could still live high-quality lives without any corporations because they were inclined to do so because of the desire for nice things. What Charm at the Farm showed me was that the best of what America has to offer is very much still alive. It’s much easier to see when corporations are removed from the shopping experience because it is then that the tenacity of the human race is truly on display. And we learn that centralized authority from a one-world government is even less possible than we previously thought.

Rich Hoffman