This is a bit controversial, but it’s a fact of life that needs to be understood. If you offer yourself up as a leader of a position of any kind, you cannot allow yourself to be mentally impaired at all. People do not want to see their leaders in an intoxicated state, ever. I say this because of questions I have had to answer during this holiday season ahead of the Trump inauguration, and people are doing a lot of soul-searching and talking about things that they previously wouldn’t. And at some of these Christmas parties, people were urging me to drink, and I didn’t. I don’t like alcohol; I don’t like how it makes my mind feel. I never have. It slows me down, and I don’t want to go slow. So when the drinks are being poured, I don’t participate. There isn’t anything good that comes from social drinking other than making other people feel better that you don’t present yourself as “high and mighty.” And honestly, we live in a world now where people need to be more mighty. One thing that I can promise is that nobody will ever see me in a drunken state. You can’t do so and offer to be a leader of any kind. Human weakness is not a merit, it’s a liability. And when people get drunk, they show the world that they cannot command themselves, let alone other people. It doesn’t matter if it’s legal. There are a lot of legal things that shouldn’t be. A choice to impair your mind with intoxicants displays a weakness of character that is unforgivable among leaders, and you can never do it. So, to answer everyone all at once, that’s why I am not keen on drinking much at these holiday get-togethers and other social gatherings. I might sip on a wine or a mixed drink to taste it. But that’s all. I will never let them impact my mind in any way because I require too much of myself to be encumbered, mainly by choice.

I think President Trump is a good example of a good leader. He doesn’t drink, and he has said that if he did have that bad habit, he would probably be a disaster. People who are very much A-type personalities have to manage their ambitions, and if they invest in degrading behavior, they tend to succeed more at those diabolical tasks than regular people do. Trump has worked through his life to manage vices, and he has arrived at this stage of his life with great moral authority because he has not done much that people could use against him. He had a reputation as a playboy for a good part of his adult life, which has held him back a bit, and we can all see how that has been used against him. But the key to the story is that you must maintain moral authority by not degrading yourself to the shared ambition of slugs who are extremely unproductive and not very good people. Trading their opinions for valor does not do the human race any good. People want to know, even if they are critical of the effort because it makes them feel guilty not to do it themselves; they want to know that the leaders in their lives have a firm hand on the wheel and will not waiver under pressure. It’s reassuring to them to see that somebody has the strength to stand up to diabolical weakness and overcome temptation. That is one of the many reasons Trump can do what he does in negotiations. A strong person with their mind uncompromised always has leverage over compromised people. And there are far more of those in the world than good leaders, making it relatively easy for Trump to overcome just about anybody with firm moral authority. Nobody has ever seen President Trump drunk, and they never will and can never use a mutually embarrassing moment against him.
2025 is shaping up to be a period of self-reflection, which is why this is an important topic. Moral authority is it’s own kind of capital. We have allowed the socialists and communists of the world to sucker us into this depleted state where we would numb our brains and present it as merit. It let the world know we weren’t more significant and better than everyone else because everyone was equally compromised. Then, for most people who didn’t want to work very hard to be good people, it was a tempting fruit to eat. Social drinking shows vulnerability among friends and puts everyone on equal footing, which is what the socialists always wanted. It kept the lofty-minded grounded in the realities of the average. And, of course, those people who don’t want to feel bad about their condition want company. They are willing to be your friend if you compromise and get them off the hook of having to maintain a lofty self-impression. We have allowed ourselves to believe that drunkenness is a merit and that it’s a gateway to social acceptance. Because it took the pressure off other people to conduct their lives as more lofty participants of intellectual value, and that kind of talk comes across as prudish and unrealistic.
But we see failures everywhere in the world from a lack of leadership and connected directly to this trend toward drunkenness and a weakened mental state due to intoxicants, legal or illegal. It has become fashionable to be incompetent, so many more people are surrendering to that temptation. And it has become more stylish than ever to drink too much in front of other people to show them that your stuff doesn’t stink and that you don’t think of yourself as better than anybody else. But you see the problem, that was the game all along, to bring down the good and spread them among the weak. As Marxists have always wanted, weakness should be presented as merit. So, in that way, getting drunk or high and not being very smart became a merit in a culture of misfits looking for sameness rather than exceptionalism. And we have the kind of loser world we see now. That’s something I have never embraced and never will. I would not say it’s an accident that President Trump doesn’t drink, even under social conditions, for many reasons that aren’t the same as the reasons I give. But the merit of the effort is the same. Not being a drunk or intoxicating whore gives him emotional leverage over his enemies, and you better believe it in life, that enemies are a fact of life. And you want leverage over them. And that is the future trend now that we see where the Marxists have tried to take us all along. And why, when the drinks get passed around at Christmas parties, I pass and drink water or something without alcohol in it. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and we have too often traded it in favor of consensus building with malcontents who don’t care about us; they only care that we don’t grow out of their reach. And for the good of the world, we should never give them the satisfaction and relief from a mind intact while they have inebriated theirs and live as compromised people of a diabolical sameness that is a sin against humanity’s efforts.
Rich Hoffman

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