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Why Trump’s Economy Will Be Explosive: Too many government rules hold back financial opportunity

There has been a lot of consternation over the notion that Trump can wave a magic wand and fix so much in the economy so quickly.  It was as if everyone was delusional about wanting to return to 2017 when everything was going well and that Trump wouldn’t be able to do anything now, in 2024.  Well, here’s the thing: the inflation, the recession, and the depression that we have been experiencing are all a direct result of too much government tampering in the economy by people with too much micromanagement.  In general, the more freedom people have, the more that money flows, so when a government is too top-heavy, the flow of money is significantly reduced.  This is how economies have been since the beginning of time, and much of what we have been experiencing has been artificial, created by a government that micromanaged people too much.  The government under Biden was much more interested in micromanaging people and their behavior rather than letting the economy measure behavior and fuel the interests of various people.  So, when we talk about stagnant economic activity during the Biden years, it is because too much policy was intended to control behavior rather than supply happiness.  When a government takes the role of a parental figure, the entire society retreats into the state of a child dependent on top-down rule rather than self-initiated creation.  And in that way, an economy falters.  When we look at poor people around the world and study why they have a lack of money supply, the root cause will always point back to too much authority government getting in the way of happiness, which then is measured by economic activity.  The flow of money is directly proportional to a society’s level of freedom. 

The Biden administration was obsessed with micromanaging every aspect of people’s lives, and ultimately, when they study why they fell out of favor with the American public at every level of society, it will be because they were too involved in people’s lives, such as telling them they had to buy an EV car and that gas-powered cars would be a thing of the past, not because the market decided, but because of some pin-headed politicians worshiping some climate god of liberalism.  There were brownouts in very liberal states that got rid of fossil fuels in exchange for renewables.  While Biden staff members openly had sex in government rooms and recorded it, and many were promoted as transexuals, the illusion was that sexual behavior was the kind of behavior that would be tolerated and that decadence in the social rules would replace the yearning for economic viability.  People would forget about the cost of food and energy if they could have reckless sex without being judged by society.  And when those priorities became the standard, massive social unhappiness resulted.  And money did not flow properly.  It was the nanny state that Democrats put forth, going back to Obama.  Micromanaging social policy through regulations and then trying to distract mass society into sexual deviancy as a replacement for happiness turned out to be devastating, as reflected in economic output.  Of course, the communists in charge globally tried to hide the bad economic numbers with phony jobs reports and interest rate management by the Fed, but in truth, the damage was well done before Biden went too far and came up with a vaccine mandate where everyone would have to participate in buying medicine with a horrible alliance between government and big pharma. 

Trump’s economy will quickly supercharge the world because it will be fueled by pent-up energy.  Immediately, the amount of power held back in Biden’s war against fossil fuels will stimulate economic activity within weeks of taking office.  And it is that easy.  The desire of the Biden government to connect to the World Economic Forum socialists was artificial.   People want the lights to come on when they turn them on.  They don’t care if the energy comes from fossil fuels, solar, or wind.  They want things to work when they want them.  So, the conditions we have today are artificially bad due to government tampering with our power needs, not for practical reasons but policy rooted in crazy beliefs.  Trump is going to cancel the Paris Climate Accord and many other Democrat politics that directly carry over into economic behavior, and quickly, the money flow will return to the rate of necessity.  Only during year one of the Biden presidency were we told that the last gas-powered Mustang from Ford had been produced.  Who wants to rev up the engine of an EV car?  That doesn’t sound very cool.  For many, revving up a powerful car’s engine and attracting females sparks a lot of economic activity.  A lot of money is spent on clothes for a date and colognes. Going out to dinner.  And ultimately mating practices.  Something that the EV car robbed everyone of.  It just wasn’t the same kind of exciting experience.  When you artificially constrain supply with too many rules, the cost structure of everything will be disrupted, making money flow much less on a social scale.  Trump’s economy will flourish by eliminating the artificial rules created to control human behavior and allow market values to determine social happiness. 

These are rules for economic activity that are always true.  Financial stagnation is a choice, and in America, we had that choice robbed from us with election fraud in 2020.  The hope was that after just a few years, Americans would accept these new economic standards of replacing happiness with parental micromanagement.  And that’s not what happened. Instead, people held their breath and waited for their next opportunity to make a change, which came from the 2024 election.  People can’t wait to have the nanny state gone so they can buy cars, spend money on going out to eat, and enjoy Christmas again.  Putting up with a micromanaging government was not by choice but by capture, and people never accepted the new rules.  They planned to replace that government with one that reported to them rather than vice versa.  And under Trump, the fossil fuel economy will flourish, leaving the rest of the world committed to goofy climate change, unprepared, and at a severe market disability.  And it will happen quickly because the pent-up desire has always existed.  The EV mandates were never going to work, and most of the economic downturns we have been experiencing were by choice and not driven by market necessity, but the role that government played in the lives of free people toward social concerns shaped by sentiment, not logic.  When you hear someone giving a big engine Mustang some gas, the roar of the engine says a lot of things: that the owner has a powerful car, that he’s potent as a sex partner, that he will work hard to make a family, cut the grass on Saturdays, and build a new door when his woman wants one.  Because the powerful car says he wants to be influential, he’ll spend a fortune projecting that sentiment.  What the Biden administration did was cheapen all that with micromanagement.  And they replaced all that with sexual heresy, which took away the value of all the mating customs.  Which were drags on economic activity brought on by too much government regulation.  So when all that is taken away, the economy will flourish and do so explosively. 

Rich Hoffman

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Spiking the Football After the 2024 Trump Election: I never doubted what would happen, even if a lot of stupid people couldn’t see the forest for the trees

I don’t usually do it.  I don’t normally let myself feel the emotion to go out and spike the football on something.  I prefer to be calm, cool, and optimistic, even if the world is on fire.  I have learned over time how to build teams of people at all levels using my unique optimism and tendency toward tenacity to help people who are either too stupid, stubborn, or inexperienced to help themselves.  In the kind of government that we have, I have learned a lot from people like social manipulators and writers Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, and Thomas Paine.  Most people feel the same about similar topics but don’t always know how to achieve their objectives.  So I often take it upon myself to help them even if they can’t help themselves because if they take the help, they might just be able to do something to help the world around them instead of being a perpetual parasite.  So if you tell people what you think of them, and how frustrated they make you, you will destroy their communication with you and resist the opportunity to listen to good advice and to use it to make the world around them better, which is one of the key ingredients to a triumphant republic, as opposed to some flee-bitten, rotten democracy run by a bunch of slack-jawed losers.  I guess I help people subtly because I generally like them and want them to have good lives.  But they frustrate me most of the time, as a person, and working with them takes so much energy that I’d rather spend doing other kinds of things that are much more rewarding.  And that was never the case more than what we have experienced over the last four years since President Trump was removed from office.  I have worked hard to pour patriotic effort into the roots of a growing liberty tree, along with many others.  And after Trump won the 2024 election, and many of the things I have been saying all along came to be just as I said they would, I feel I have earned the right to spike the football and blow off some long pent-up steam. 

I never doubted the election that we would see in 2024.  I have produced thousands of videos talking about Trump, these election cycles, the legalisms discussed in the news cycles and written many millions of millions of words that have been read and watched by many millions of people.  And I get very little out of it, only that I want our republic to stand, and for that to happen, people need to be educated.  They don’t teach proper civics in schools these days and certainly don’t teach proper philosophy.  So, I put a lot of effort into giving people the tools they lack in life without letting them know that the effort isn’t of their own making because that’s how people tend to learn best.  But it’s always a painful experience because there is nothing people do that I can’t read and understand.  People and their lives are messy, and interacting with them is not a pleasant experience for me.  I don’t enjoy it.  People like Trump do enjoy it.  He loves people, which made him the perfect person to run for the presidency three times.  And he has a lot of similar qualities of tenaciousness that I understand, as do people like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, who commit their lives to these republic-building concepts to help the human race advance. 

But it was never lost on me what happened in 2020, and it was one of the worst things that ever happened to me.  Not that it didn’t happen to other people, too, but we all have life skills, and my particular skill is understanding things with great clarity.  And believe me, it’s a painful skill because it gives you no illusions.  To see things precisely as they are, friendships, business relationships, love lives, and even relationships with pets, is very painful.  But it can be used to a significant effect if you take it.  So I explained Trump’s return to the White House on day one of leaving it the first time, and I poured a significant part of my life into helping to make it happen by carefully watering the Liberty Tree of many influencers over a long period.  And along the way, I had to endure a lot of really dumb people who told me that Trump was never going to be back in the White House.  And that the Secret Service is saying that “they” will never let Trump back into the White House as if the bad guys in the world controlled us.  These were the positions of stupid people, but I had to work with them to build a team that would stick together to do what needed to be done.  And I had to do it so they wouldn’t realize it was happening because that is one of the keys to getting human engagement on any project.  People have to believe that they are making the decisions; otherwise, they won’t endeavor to do it in the future on their own.  A teacher teaches a hungry man to fish so you don’t create a perpetual welfare recipient dependent on you for everything.  They need to be taught to do things on their own.  And if you want a republic form of government to function, people need to want it and to maintain it from their own self-interest.

Yet Trump won this election just as I said he would.  I listened to many people who get paid a lot of money to know these kinds of things, yet just about everyone got it completely wrong and couldn’t see the forest for the trees, which was very frustrating.  So, I am happy to have lived through that dark period and what I did every day to help make it better.  It was at a significant cost to me personally, and nobody would appreciate it because most don’t have the mind to understand what happened.  However, for the strength of the republic and the future of America, we have punched through a firewall that has always held back the human race.   And it took a lot more than Trump to do it.  But what matters is that the thing was done, and it feels good to see it come about.  Even if I had seen it way before anybody else, I would have had to listen to their nonsense about what would happen and what anybody should be doing about it.  I heard every kind of negative comment about Trump that you can imagine.  And what I got back from all those people were diatribes about how I’m overly optimistic and that my flowery view of the world couldn’t see reality.  Nobody, not even the well-paid pundits, saw things clearly and could even consider that President Trump would be President Trump again.  They thought conventionally that he would be suppressed by some invisible system that ruled the universe instead of understanding that the nature of a republic is to initiate self-starters and empower them into the world.  And often, just like teaching children, the process was thankless and usually not rewarding.  But when you are trying to grow a republic, that incentive to create something new makes us do it.  When we get a big score like we did with this Trump election, spiking the football and celebrating a bit is perfectly justified.  And taking a break from all the stupid people of the world for a bit is certainly well-earned. 

Rich Hoffman

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What to Believe About 2024 Polling: The machine is protecting itself from a revolution against their control

Don’t forget that we are dealing with a massive criminal syndicate that has taken over the levers of government power and is using that power to stay in control.  And those looking for the easy money that comes with corruption are facilitating the enterprise, which is undoubtedly the case with the warnings The New York Times has been saying about election results.  Of course, they plan to cheat again when they say that we should not go to bed expecting a winner on election night.  It might look like Trump won, but as they did in 2020, the plan is to keep counting mail-in ballots, especially from overseas, until they reach the number to push Kamala over the top.   That’s what they did with Biden.  But this time, it will be much harder for them because so many eyes are on this election, and they won’t have COVID-19 as a cover for deviating from traditional election counting procedures.  But just as a baseline, we are a highly technical country; modern tools allow us to know and do things better than ever before.  However, suppose we can’t get a result on election night. We are witnessing incompetence driven by a need for theft and a whole bunch of problems that an established order has in controlling mass society with election fraud.  The New York Times is well aware of this.  Never forget that the company that owns The New York Times went about in the 1990s buying up a lot of media companies, particularly KFOR Channel 4 in Oklahoma City, which was investigating the evidence of a third terrorist after the Oklahoma City Bombing, the investigation was essentially shut down after the new owners showed no interest in pursuing the story and a massive desire to contain the evidence from the public.  The same thing happened in Cincinnati with The Cincinnati Enquirer when Gannett bought them, the same newspaper corporation that runs USA Today.  Independent media has been gobbled up by giant corporate conglomerates that are highly invested in global socialism, and they use the media to control populations on a mass scale.  Not to report the news to them but to control what they think.

So don’t expect that same machine to tell you the truth about what’s going on in the 2024 election.  I told everyone you’d see every evil effort during this election season.  And I’ve also said emphatically that Democrats can’t win if they don’t cheat.  And we are at that point in the election cycle where cheating occurs at the suppression polling level.  Suddenly, Kamala Harris, hiding from the world without doing much public engagement, is surging in the polls, creating the illusion that she is poised to win, frustrating Trump supporters with a cold reality that we might end up with a communist takeover of America.  Even Rasmussen has shown a much closer race between Trump and Harris than anybody thought was possible. Just remember, the machine does not want to give up power, and it is doing everything it can to suppress the Trump vote, so don’t take anything for granted.  Do not stay home on this one; get out and vote for Trump.  This is the chance of a lifetime to undo the machine that is visible when we see what BlackRock has done to the world.  There is a lot of money for this criminal class of people to rob us by the means they have been utilizing.  And that criminal class of global Marxists wants Kamala in the White House to continue that criminal enterprise. 

In all likelihood, Trump is doing even better than this. But polling doesn’t capture engagement very well. The date on this map is four days before this article.

It’s not that we can’t trust the polling.  The method is suitable for capturing trends; not everything is a conspiracy.  However, many of the polling companies want a particular outcome because they are part of the media machine, so they sample in the direction of the outcome they desire.  But saying that, Rasmussen is supporting Trump, so if they wanted to show him winning, they would sample more Republicans than Democrats, like many of the others are doing, of likely voters and report the results with the tip of the scales toward their desired outcome, to essentially make reality motivate action at the voting booth.  But as things are, even Rasmussen shows things moving in Kamala’s direction away from Trump, so what’s going on?    That’s why I say engagement is a far better definition for success than just a statistical sampling of likely voters who happen to pick up the phone from a pollster.   Polling how it has been done has significant limitations regarding the new trends from social media.  Traditional media that has been bought up by the globalist companies looking for international Marxism have not yet adopted the modes of new media and independent media that are driving modern culture, so their visibility into the support behind Trump is very alarming to them.  And traditional polling does not do a good job of seeing these trends because we are far from conventional politics here.  But they even say that Trump has the lead in the battleground states and can win the election with Pennsylvania alone.  I think Trump will do well in Wisconsin, Virginia, Michigan, and other Democrat strongholds.   But he doesn’t need to win them all.  It comes down to Pennsylvania this time, and Trump is poised well there because that was the location of the first assassination attempt against him, and looming in the background is a lot of anger toward the established order, thereby the first-time voters and freshly converted Republicans who are very energized to vote for Trump. 

Remember, it’s lot scarier for the Harris people.

If state polling or even national polling is showing a tie or Kamala Harris is pulling ahead by a few points, it comes down to the errors in sampling.  The number that will matter most will be the engagement factor, which is why Democrats are so concerned about mail-in ballots, especially from overseas.   If the election is close, it will be hard for them to steal the results, as they did in 2020.  But in truth, if the polling shows Harris close or winning, it is because polling only picks up a likely voter, not one who is voting for the first time because of Trump.  Their phone number likely won’t show up on a polling list to call.  Nor will they pick up if they don’t know who is calling them.  Traditional polling can give you an insight into trends, but it can’t pick up engagement, which is why polling wasn’t able to see how well Trump would do in 2016 or 2020, where Trump consistently did better than polling showed.  That’s because polling, even at Rasmussen, can’t pick up engagement, the people who are motivated to vote because the candidate is one they feel great excitement for.  But what polling can do is take the wind off of that excitement and hope through suppression results to keep people home believing that voting is pointless.  That is the kind of game we are dealing with here, and we see it every year when The New York Times publishes their probability of victory at the beginning of election night, which points in Trump’s direction by the end of the night.  But it doesn’t start that way.  These international organizations control elections in countries through suppression polling, giving the illusion that something is more popular than it is so that social mechanisms will provide them with the results they seek.  However, Trump functions outside that control, which is undoubtedly the case in 2024.  So keep that in mind when you see polling results, and don’t let them steer you away from voter engagement because that’s the point.  And don’t believe what you hear.  This won’t be easy at any level.  Get ready for a fight, because the enemy is dug in, and corrupt beyond belief.

Rich Hoffman

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Civilian Oversight is the Key to Everything: Without it, corruption rules the world

So, what’s at the heart of the world’s trouble presently, and how do we fix it?  What is the meaning of a book like Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia?  What can we possibly do about it all? How can we hope to fight it?  Well, that’s an easy question to answer.  And it is the key to all the political turmoil we are experiencing presently.  It all comes down to a respect of civilian oversight over governments and authorities.  Those who do not want to be under the scrutiny of civilian oversight run to groups to protect themselves from the results of their ambitions, like the Vatican, the mob, and even in government jobs who use the power of collectivism to hide their menace from the public, like the CIA.  It’s far more complicated than all that, but in Operation Gladio by Paul Williams, we at least get a good view of the problem and its history.  Operation Gladio goes back to formation just after World War II, when many bad things happened, especially with the formation of the United Nations.  Because those European countries and other places in the world do not have a notion of civilian oversight in their cultures, as promised by the American Constitution.  What makes the American Constitution so powerful is its admission that authority figures, if given power over others, will abuse that power 100% of the time.  So, civilian oversight is always needed to preserve integrity.  Without that scrutiny, corruption always happens.  It is the conflict to eradicate civilian oversight that the world is most hungry for presently because of what was revealed by President Trump’s presidency.  Respect for the people who put you in power is the core debate.  Many in the world, especially in the United States Washington D.C. culture, want to believe they can rule over the masses like some classed aristocracy rather than a jury of their peers. 

China has tried to pressure America into following communism because they say it’s more efficient.  Look what a government can do when it doesn’t have to deal with civilian oversight, and instead, the power of government can take a house and destroy a family through communism.  And do whatever it wants for society’s general good, as determined by those running it.  If any civilian or other familiar person thinks it has power over the government, the government will have the power to show them otherwise.  At the core of that debate is the attempt to grab guns in America and eradicate concepts of free speech and gun rights to protect that speech from government oversight.  Governments that want to function as top-down communist centralized authority wish to define, for instance, what speech is acceptable and what truth is, and they expect not to be questioned about it by ordinary, everyday civilians.  However, in American culture, our legal system goes way out of its way, as demanded by our Constitutional rights, to put limits on what the government can do because history reports that if left alone to their own devices, power corrupts everyone at some point and civilian oversight is the key to managing that corruption and keeping it from harm’s way.  The massive expense of American law is needed because people with power can’t be trusted.  They must be managed through civilian oversight.  The entire foundation of America’s approach to government, society in general, and preserving personal liberty is implementing civilian oversight to keep the government big enough to function but not powerful enough to function as a tyrannical force.

At its core, this is why Trump is so hated.  He was elected and ran his entire presidential platform on the promise of civilian oversight.  People picked him over the machine of Beltway politics.  He does what people want of him.  He openly consults the Constitution to settle disputes, empowering civilian oversight rather than trying to crush it out of existence, which is the campaign platform of Democrats.  They, in essence, promise free stuff given to people who vote for them, and that free stuff comes from the confiscated wealth that Democrats steal through the power of government.  Lately, there have been a lot of cases where civilian oversight has been horrendously disrespected so that a government narrative could be established, such as these mass shootings, whether the killer who tried to assassinate President Trump or the school shootings that occur by transexual kids who fell off the rocker, we find at the heart of all these cases provocations and failures of the three lettered agencies, such as the FBI and the CIA.  When the CIA was created to help fight communism around the world, supposedly, they desired to function without congressional oversight at all so that they could operate without civilian oversight.  Because ultimately, members of Congress represent the people who vote for them, and the CIA should be reporting to Congress to get its funding.  Instead, the CIA was set up to fund a large part of its activities, according to books like Operation Gladio, with sales from the illegal drug trade, which makes sense.  It also explains a lot of problems in the world when these various groups, whether it be the Vatican, the mob, or the CIA, fight against any civilian oversight into their diabolical mechanisms of doom and mayhem. 

And without that civilian oversight, corruption grows like weeds quickly because that’s a human condition.  The world needs its version of the American Constitution to manage the level of corruption it experiences as a society.  When the CIA is pressed for civilian oversight, they have played the “alien card” through the years, reports about alien spacecraft and the characters who fly them, to keep the public content behind a veil of secrecy, all for national security.  They say their need for black budgets is more critical than the need for civilian oversight.  That is why there is so much terror about Trump becoming president again because he has said he will release the actual report on the Kennedy assassination and that deregulation will take away the power of many government agencies to function without civilian oversight.  Yet, there has never been a society in the history of the world, anywhere, that was able to function without civilian oversight.  And the United States has been the best example, even at the tremendous cost of having it.  Checks on power are critical to the insanity, specific to those who get power and are tempted to use it in destructive ways.  And that is the problem with the CIA.  Without civilian oversight, which it has virtually none, not even in how it is funded, being funded by an illegal drug trade that feeds off the demise of the world’s population, the CIA has become a corrupt organization that can do whatever it wants to anybody it wants to, and if they make a mistake, there is nobody to correct them. And it has worked so well for them; every other three-letter agency has wanted to copy their example.  That is certainly the case with the FBI.  We are supposed to believe whatever they say, even though in all the mass shootings, there were red flags given to them that they did not act on, purposely or not.  Even Homeland Security, over the issue of President Trump’s security.  They didn’t understand why civilian oversight was so meaningful when they were drug before Congress to explain their failures, which ended in at least a significant resignation over office deficiencies.  The world fights against civilian oversight and the desire to rule over people, not to have people free of such constraints and to impose their judgment on their social betters.  The conspiracy against civilian oversight is the desire to rule over mass society and not to have ordinary people regulating government power for its own sake and creation.  And anything that does not have civilian oversight should be said to be abolished for good as useless and ineffective.  This then explains why people want power in the first place: to avoid oversight by those who might judge them and find their lives lacking in the opinions of civilian oversight.  The goal of those conspirators is to get rid of the judgments of the public and hide behind the power of government to conceal their worthless condition from the world.  And it really isn’t any more than that.

Rich Hoffman

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Australia’s Dumb New Law: Right to Disconnect

In the spirit of Labor Day, which is the holiday I hate the most, we need to have a talk about the ridiculously dumb Australian law, Right to Disconnect which they just passed there at the end of August 2024.  The world needs to be working more, not less.  And this socialist trend of encouraging people to sit around looking at the walls all day is a terribly destructive one.  The world doesn’t need more dumb laws like this one that enables the world to be lazier.  Labor Day, to me, is essentially a celebration of laziness, a union concept of work stoppages holding productivity hostage unless management recognizes the workers’ limits to performing tasks.  It is poison to the human race to think such things, and at the core of all these ridiculous laws are horrible people fighting for the right to be unproductive. Instead, I think we need to be going in the opposite direction.  We need to work harder and more often.  We need to extend our work day hours and work more days of the week than we do now because productive enterprise is very much needed.  Additionally, I think our five-day workweek is ridiculously short.  And I think people should work more than 8 hours per day.  I have always worked more than 8 hours per day.  I often work seven days a week, so let me say I am a happy person.  Leaving work undone is what makes me unhappy.  So, I can’t imagine a happy world restricting itself in productivity.  It’s the wrong message, and anybody suggesting such a lazy life should be ridiculed.  The Australians proposing this Marxist trend of disconnecting from work to produce a sane society shows just how out of touch they are with the needs of the world. 

What to tell lazy people using Marxism to get out of hard work.

As usual, free market enterprise should be at play here.  Those who work more often and spread out among the population should be rewarded appropriately.  If people want to work more, they should be rewarded with more stuff.  And again, this idea that “stuff” can’t make you happy is more communism and Marxist ideas from people who are at their heart lazy and not the kind of people anybody should be listening to.  It’s essentially the government restricting their productivity through mass collective effort.  Whenever workers propose less work or else, we see a terrorist incursion to our means of production, and the intention is to manage all such rights under the power of collective government to restrict output.  And if people want output, then demands under collective bargaining must be met.  However, not all people are the same.  Some people get tired of sitting around looking at the walls doing nothing, and they want to do more work.  They want to go out and earn money.  Because they want more stuff, they want to pay off their house.  They want a nice car.  They may want a more attractive spouse.  Who wants to be married to a slug?  Someone who would rather play video games all day rather than work and make money?  People need to work more so that a country can have a better GDP.  However, this Australian strategy encourages the world to work less so everyone can be less productive.  That’s the spirit of their new legislation.  No wonder they are an armpit down there and only have any population on the east coast.  What a waste of good land and space. 

Oh, I’ve heard it before: ” If not for the labor unions, those big mean companies would work people to death.”  Wrong. What kills people and society is less work, not more of it. People need to be productive to truly feel good about themselves. This notion that people need all this downtime is ridiculous.  I often love traveling in Japan; people there work hard.  Even when you have a taxi pick you up at the airport, the drivers universally run to open the door for you and make sure you get where you are going without much delay.  Because they appreciate hard work there, which is common in Asian cultures, don’t mind working hard, and usually, they have strong families as well because they work at it.  And that is never going to go away.  When people in the West profess to work less, they are cutting their throats, and the Marxists, I would say, are well aware of it.  Most still hope the globalist union movement will put them on top of world management and central government.  But what will end up happening is that they will end up behind as a result, and Asian cultures, through wealth redistribution, will fill the market void with actual hard work.  The human need for work can be filled with robots and AI, but the demand for things to happen will always be present.  The most successful cultures will be those who do the most work and can maintain their sanity best. Presently, especially in the West, there are too many lazy people playing video games and smoking pot, which is the point where we should consider it a national security risk under every definition.  Who needs a military invasion of a country when you can destroy it from within with more laws against work?  The primary reason America conquered other nations in World War II was that we could out produce against the rest of the world.  And that is still the reason America has the top GDP of any country, even though there are fewer people to do that work. 

I mentioned video games a few times here. I have been playing a lot of Call of Duty lately because I have grandchildren who like to interact with my wife and me through video games.  And I take time to play them to spend time with them.  But it’s evident to me how dangerous this modern video game culture is; we’re not talking about Pac-Man or Space Invaders here, where you play the game for 15 or 20 minutes.  Then you go back to your life.  No, these are all-day excursions, and people work hard to level up on these modern games.  People are taking the effort very seriously.  And I can’t help but think how misapplied it all is.  The natural state of the human being is to be thoughtful and productive.  Whenever you repress those notions about life, you find unhappy people who develop all kinds of emotional problems.  This video game culture represents the need for hard work in every human being’s life, which has replaced effort with waste.  Some people get good at these video games, but to what end?  Will they be able to buy a new house or a new car?  Put savings in the bank?  Of course not.  And for a government to tell its people to work less.  We will penalize employers for providing opportunities beyond eight hours of need per day or more than five days of working per week.  And when people go home, you can’t call them to harass them over work matters.  I’ve been on vacation in exotic places and always took the time to have a business call.  If my family was with me, they could do some shopping while I worked through issues.  After 20 minutes, we’d be back to our vacation and happy.  And work was done.  This idea that people should disconnect from work to be satisfied is insane.  But it’s what the Australians are proposing for their life.  And I would say in response that it’s no wonder they are such losers.  They don’t want to work, and no wonder they are an armpit of a country that is last in just about every category of human endeavor.  They need to be working more, not less, as is the case with most of the human race, except the Asian cultures, who aren’t going to pass “right to disconnect” legislation any time soon.  Likely for them, never. 

Rich Hoffman

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Why Thomas Hall is so Great: If only everyone was so lucky

Fight, fight, fight was the theme of the evening at the GOP tent at the VOA Country Music Festival, where several officeholders and some running for the first time gathered together ahead of the upcoming elections.  It was an excellent time to catch up with everyone. I could speak to many people in a way that I hadn’t done for a long time, which was good.  But what do we mean by fighting and winning in politics?  When I think of such a thing, I think of the young man Thomas Hall, who is the Ohio Representative in my district and is running to hold the seat he currently has.  But he wasn’t always in my district; he used to have the Middletown area, but now, in District 46, he represents Liberty Township and the surrounding areas, which I’m thrilled with.  I’ve seen Thomas Hall in the pressure cooker for a while now, and I supposed he’s not as much of a young man as when he first started in politics.  But I think a lot of him, and for good reason.  I have been meaning, and we didn’t quite get there during this event, to talk to him about his recent trip to Israel, which I am very interested in.  But behind the politics, Thomas Hall is just a good person, one of those cases where he’s better than the package you see.  He’s just a promising young man who has survived the fires of Hell and come out on top, and he looks poised to stay there.  This is a good thing for anybody he represents in the Ohio Statehouse.  He takes his job very seriously, and it shows.  I’ve seen him in Columbus work a room, and if he didn’t have a great foundation to work with, it would be easy to be swept away by lobbyists and other scandalous characters.  But with Thomas, you get the feeling with him that he’s always savvy and under control.  And that any malicious intent that comes his way can easily be handled. 

I’ve met his parents several times at some of these events, but we had more time to talk in August of 2024 than we have in the past.  In some of those previous times, things looked so dire that nobody was sure what would happen next.  Politics, as I have said, is a blood sport; things can and do get pretty wild.  Many people who came to the Country Music Festival at the VOA needed to talk to each other.  It’s been a tough four years since Trump left office, and people have lost focus in some respects.  It’s tough when you are trying to grow the tent of the party to accommodate more people, but those people don’t have the same foundations and strength; when the pressure of politics emerges and moral necessities come into play, it’s easy to drift into decay.  And as a political party, Southern Ohio Republicans needed to break some bread together.  A lot of people get into politics for different reasons, and it’s up to each person to find some reason to have common ground with others for the sake of party politics.  Authenticity can often get abused in such cases, but that was never the case with Thomas Hall, and in some of those times, I referred to his parents as good people who made a good kid.  Thomas’ dad was a former police officer, now a firefighter chief.  His mom is a wonderful enthusiast of the men in her life, her husband and son, and when I see them all together, it’s usually a big family affair.  Thomas has, of course, a love interest who I see around town a lot, and she is always supportive and doing the extra work it takes to run successful campaigns.  When you speak with them, you can tell that they all have good foundations that give them firm ground to stand on no matter what is happening in the world. 

So Thomas always tells me he’s grateful to me for getting through some of these tough times of turmoil where rough campaigns got very heated.  My help pushed him over the top and put him in office so he could do the excellent work he is doing presently and, I hope, well into the future.  And I tell him that he’s the one who did all the hard work, and indeed, there are very few people who work as hard at politics as Thomas Hall.  He gets out and knocks on doors and is very tenacious.  And I’ve seen him working directly with Governor DeWine on legislation that was difficult to make happen, so the elbow-twisting part of politics takes a hard worker, and he has deserved all the success he has had and more.  He doesn’t have to throw appreciation my way.  What I have done for him, I do for many people. He’s referring to a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I’m happy to do it because I like seeing good people get a chance to do good things in the world.  Like a gardener who pulls up the weeds of a garden to protect the good plants, you are trying to grow while preventing the parasites from destroying everything.  I do what I do because I like seeing the good stuff grow.  And Thomas Hall has grown into a lot of good things. 

So when his parents thanked me for all I have done for their son, I had to tell them what I thought of them, which shows up in Thomas, and I think about it a lot.  They were good parents to him.  Thomas Hall has a great foundation that other people in the world don’t have because they, as parents, gave him a great place to start.  If things get too hot, at least Thomas has a nice family that cares for him.  And it shows.  So, while they intended to thank me, which they did, I would give the credit to all of them.  Thomas is a sincerely good person who is not wasting his talent.  But to his parents for raising a good kid who has grown into a good man, a lot of people would love to be so lucky.  The sense of service that Thomas has picked up from his dad is being applied to Ohio positively.  I’m happy to defend and support anybody like that, and there are others.  Perhaps not as good as Thomas, but in my experience with these kinds of things, a lot of similar personality traits emerge in these kinds of people who get involved in politics and want to represent people in government.  Not everyone has the advantage of a good family on which they can rely.  But Thomas Hall does, and as I told his parents, if anybody should be thanking anybody, the world should be thanking them for producing such a nice young and honest man in the world.  I am personally very proud of Thomas Hall.  But I’m also very proud of his parents.  I wish there were more people in the world like them.  And maybe in the future, there will be.  There is hope in the world that people will follow their example and do better for themselves and others.  Usually, when you meet people who are as well put together as Thomas Hall, good parents at the foundation make it all possible.

Rich Hoffman

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The Armor of God: Facing danger with coolness and tenacity

In many ways, it was a gift to President Trump to have that assassin attempt to kill him.  Watching him in that rally in Montana, it’s good to see Trump having fun with the issue instead of doing what globalists have been trying to advocate in our culture for a long time now.  This ridiculous Beta male approach to problems, crying about their feelings and destroying the concept of masculinity, to surrender to some child-like dependence on the government to be a perpetual parent has not been good.  As a man, it feels good to face a bullet and an attempt on your life from those who are jealous of you and want to destroy you.  Trump has spent his life building a tough guy image, and he has been challenged in business, of course, and has survived many things that have made him very successful.  But until death has come knocking on your door the way it did in Butler, Pennsylvania, you never really know how you will deal with it.  It’s a similar anxiety that young boys face when they worry about how they will do in their first fight.  And yes, that is a genuine problem for boys.  Girls don’t have those same challenges.  They have other challenges, but winning fights is something that young men worry about a lot.  And men worry even more about facing death with boldness.  And Trump, after a lifetime of building his tough-guy brand, was given the ultimate test with an assassin’s bullet.  And he passed, surviving and throwing his fists in the air triumphantly.  He will go down in history with some of the greatest presidents who have survived such a thing, which positions him well for the kind of leadership most needed now.

One of the things that made General Grant such a great battlefield commander was his coolness under fire.  All through the Civil War, he rode his horse through gunfire with projectiles flashing all around him, cannon fire nearly missing his head by inches, and surviving detriments that would have killed most people.  The Union Army won the Civil War because of General Grant’s tenacity and coolness under fire.  The same could be said of General George Washington, who had displayed similar traits of boldness on the battlefield, especially early in his life during the French and Indian War at Fort Duquesne, also in Pennsylvania.  Then, President Jackson engaged in many duels that could have killed him many times.  He was shot at and hit many times, sometimes to the point of nearly being killed.  And I think of Teddy Roosevelt, who wanted to go to Cuba with the Rough Riders to have an opportunity to shoot another man and to be shot at. It was very important to him to test his valor or to be killed doing it.  Later in life, after his first eight years as president, he was running for president again and was shot by an assassin.  He finished his whole speech before seeking treatment.  This is the kind of behavior that men endeavor to be in.  And I understand it very well.  I have lived my life in such a way. I have had many guns pointed at me and I know what bullets feel like as they pass near you.  And yes, it’s a great feeling to survive those occasions, better than life itself.  It’s even better to know that you can be calm under the pressure of fire and face death boldly.  You don’t feel like you’re living like a man until you do that a few times. 

It is essentially the problem that the Israelites had when God told them to leave the wilderness and attack the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, which is still a point of contention.  At first, the spies seeking a path into battle saw that Canaan was filled with giants, and they refused to attack because they feared what might happen to them against such a superior force.  So they turned away from the task as cowards.  And God punished them with 40 years in exile until a new generation would head into battle with the trust that God had their back.  That is expected in America, with masculinity displayed among the best of our leaders.  They did so when given the opportunity to put on the Armor of God and fight in the face of death boldly.  Washington did, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, and now Trump.  By not cowering in fear, which is the point of the exile story in the Bible of the Hebrew people, it points to an alignment toward God’s purposes, and a trust that you are there to do his work.  And you are not afraid for your own preservation.  Because God has your back.  For Trump, surviving that bullet gave him the assurance he needed to know that he was on the right path and that he dared to stand up to it.  And I’m sure he slept very well that night and ever since.  Because those are the fundamental rules of the universe.  Not this woke garbage of manhood that the progressive, communist, left has been trying to sell to the world.  For all the same reasons, Israel turned away from the challenge of attacking the land of Canaan the first time when God told them to. 

Behind a coward is to say that a person, especially a man, did not trust to put on the Armor of God and proceed with destiny boldly and without fear.  We should not be afraid because to fear is to say that you do not trust that God is with you and will let you perish before you accomplish your task of divine intervention.  The gunslingers of history, leaders such as Grant, Washington, and Jackson, threw caution to the wind often and faced down gunfire without blinking an eye for self-preservation.  We love the stories of Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral because he faced gunfire without fear and brought justice to the bad guys.  That’s why we like stories of Wild Bill Hickok, who often was the last to shoot in a gun duel but was the one who hit his target cooly and under tremendous pressure.  We don’t like men who cry like babies when danger is near.  Or who looks at their mother’s skirt for shelter from danger?  Or to a skirt of mother government.  We like bold, unshakable men, who will look down a bullet without fear and know that their destiny is in boldness.  And that they can face down fear without reservation and show great tenacity when challenges come knocking at their door.  They don’t sip on lattes and eat pastries when trouble shows itself.  They meet those challenges with courage and persistence.  The way that Trump did at Butler, Pennsylvania.  And in many ways, he shook off a dark cloud hanging over America for many years.  God’s plan was working; he trusted in it, and many people witnessed it in a way that would bring us all out of exile and meet the danger before us in ways that the world has never seen.  And when it’s over, we’ll all feel better about our place in history.

Rich Hoffman

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The Gift of Debbie Lang: Americana to fill the hearts of free people crawling across the finish line of a tough political period

The flag at the GOP tent during the VOA Country Music Festival of 2024
Big stuff at a wonderfully patriotic night in Butler County, Ohio
This is the map of the election as it stands in August of 2024. The media wants everyone to think Harris has a better chance. She doesn’t have a path to victory.

I know there are a lot of scared people out there, and they are apprehensive about Kamala Harris and the Democrats of Doom.  And I keep telling people the truth behind the scenes so they don’t have to worry.  Yet, there is danger in that because while you’re trying to make everyone feel assured, you might take the energy out of the need we all have for them to show up and vote, to make this upcoming election too big to rig.  Most people live their lives daily and hope some decent people end up in the office to tend to their affairs.  But I am more than just a little involved in how things go on behind the scenes, and even I get a little tired of the constant pressure always to overcome some tyrant trying to take over the world, or as we have in the case of the Kamala Harris campaign, many tyrants who want communist all over the world to destroy our country and everything it stands for.  So I get a lot out of events like in West Chester, Ohio, in August of 2024 because it was undoubtedly a recharge as we head into these final days of the 2024 season.  Politics is complex, and it is a blood sport.  It’s tough to go out and raise money for all it takes to run for office and still be authentic to yourself and your promises to voters.  And it’s even more challenging when you have Central Committee appeasements to make, and you are in a primary with other Republicans running for the same office.  Things can get a little hot.  But let me just say this: it has been a challenging period from the time that Trump left the White House and the terror of a communist invasion into all our lives from the impending Biden administration, which Kamala Harris was a created sleeper cell terrorist nurtured along in that environment.  But I was very proud to see so many Butler County Republicans, several from Warren County, and many other places from all over the state, come together under a giant American flag to lead the way during the VOA Country Music Festival, where the entire weekend was packed with top musical artists putting on their best show to a massive crowd hungry for patriotism under the flag of the red, white and blue.

Thomas Hall, Matt Huffman, and Adam Mathews
The front of the GOP tent for Butler County. A foundation for the entire country.

I am unusually patriotic regarding the VOA park, where the Voice of America radio towers once stood.  As a kid, I could see them from my front yard about five or six miles west, and I loved that they broadcast American ideas to the world meant to topple communism and tyranny wherever they put their initiative forth.  Still, if truth be told, I go to the VOA Park almost every day for lunch and have read countless books on its park benches.  It has been my base of operations for this blog site for many years now, including right after Trump was removed from office, and I read from the Cleon Skousen book The Naked Communist the plots of what was happening in the world from a bench there in the park.  Running this blog from the VOA Park essentially was my way of keeping the spirit of that place alive for continued vigilance.  So I did not need much convincing to be invited to attend a GOP event under a nice airconditioned tent in the VIP area of such a magnificent occurrence.  At one end of a massive concert venue was the old broadcast building, which is now a wonderful museum where people can learn all there is to know about the magnificent Voice of America.  However, at the other end, where over 20,000 people had filled the space, was a large stage for several top country music acts that turned out to be an extraordinary reverence of Americana at its absolute best.  And I had a glimpse of what Making America Great Again could look like after these last several decades of political hell. 

The GOP tent attached to VIP access to the main stage
A great way to see everything behind the scenes and good people hard at work
Sheriff Jones working the crowd
Bernie Moreno, taking a much needed break

To get a feel for the quality of the event, I have included lots of videos and pictures for those who didn’t get that opportunity to give people an idea of just how good the Butler County Republican Party is and the people in it who make everything happen.  Any disputes that we may have had during the primary season are now behind everyone.  The GOP tent was under a giant American flag hanging high with a spotlight on it all night.  I was there well past midnight, and that flag never stopped flying, and in the end, that’s what everyone at that event, and specifically under that flag in the Butler County GOP tent, were fighting for and fighting in every way that people have fought for that flag since its creation.  And I can say to everyone who is wondering.  Are the members of the GOP as committed to the cause of preserving American freedom as the people outside that VIP area who were there to watch great country music performances under a setting sun umbrellaed by a magnificent starry sky?  The answer is yes.  I spent the entire evening talking to almost everyone, and I can report that their heart is in it to win it, and the goal of their existence is to Make America Great Again with a second Trump presidency that is right there for us to win and benefit from. 

A very large crowd under a setting sun
MAGA America is growing. These are not Kamala voters

I’m not going to lie; I certainly do love George and Debbie Lang, who were the hosts of the Butler County GOP experience at the VOA Country Music Festival.  If Debbie asked me to be a part of anything, I would do it because it’s her and I think a lot of her family.  They are just good people, and the public doesn’t get to see them the way I do.  So, the public might not understand.  Our friendship started when George was going through a phony perjury trial due to his relationship with John Boehner during his Speaker of the House period.  George was targeted as a way to get to Boehner, and I thought George was tough through the whole experience.  He stood tough when most Republicans hadn’t learned how to yet.  So, I have had a great relationship with the Langs out of that respect for many years now.  And George gave an excellent speech at the tent that I think people will benefit from and I wanted to share it.  I included many others from people many voters may not get a chance to see without the fancy politics masking who they are, as everyday people are just as concerned about tomorrow as everyone else.  George wasn’t lost on the significance of the Voice of America, and his wife Debbie understood it, too.  And they put on a fantastic event that restored the spirit of many people as they were struggling to gasp for a bit more air ahead of a finish line in Ohio that would set a course for the rest of the country in the years to come.  I took a minute in the ambitions of the evening to stand under that big flag in the comfort of the VIP area because you could get away from the crowd a bit to think, and I could see clearly what we had all been fighting for.  Sheriff Jones was there and feeling it, too, and I had a chance to catch up to him before he went onto the big stage to address the crowd with some patriotic flair that everyone was hungry for.  And I could see victory for everyone coming in a way that we could only dream of a few years ago.  Yet there it was, right in front of our face, for us to grab and take to preserve the future.  And it took a lot of vision and tenacity to capture it in a bottle for all to see, which is a unique gift that Debbie Lang has.  She has been through a lot with her husband, and that they can host such an event with all that stood in the way was truly magnificent and worth the most challenging endeavors that could only be unleashed under a free people fighting to keep that American flag held high, for all to see as it was epically at the VOA Country Music Festival in Butler County, Ohio in August of 2024—a benchmark in American history.

We went on until after midnight. Talked to a lot of good people about many positive things coming in the months to come

Rich Hoffman

Debbie Lang, Speaker Johnson, and Senator Lang

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Yes, I Have Been Having an Affair: Biden is an illegal president, and everything he has done is invalid

I do have to admit it’s been a rough time.  And sometimes even the best marriages are lured by temptations.  Yes, my wife and I just celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary, so that makes this extra hard to talk about because I have hurt her.  And I didn’t want to.  But this has been a time where I have sought the comfort of something outside our marriage, which I think many people are resorting to.  And maybe they should.  Yet even under the worst conditions, no spouse should have to have their marriage compromised with the attention of other elements in their relationship with their husband.  So, for that, I have to come clean.  The whole world will find out about it anyway, so I might as well address the issue before it spirals out of control.  A lot of people pray that I stumble on my own feet at some point and that they can bust me for something, and that constant pressure is part of it.  It’s not easy to run a marriage under these dire circumstances.  But that’s no excuse.  Right is right, and wrong is wrong; there is no way to blend the two.  So yes, I have been having an affair, a love affair.  It has made me feel a lot better about other things, and after I explained it to my wife, she understood.  She was very supportive.  But I had to tell her that I have been having a love affair and spending much time with our American Constitution, and reading precisely over and over again, the Amendments, 4-6, which deals with prosecutions and unreasonable searches and seizures.  Our Constitution is so fantastic and beautiful that it has brought illustrious temptations into our marriage. 

Our law of the land, the Constitution, is quite clear, and everything thrown at President Trump has directly violated his rights under those laws.  One thing that no government in the world has a right to do is interpret what those words in our Constitution mean for us.  We have a Supreme Court that is designed to do that on an exception basis ultimately, but what we have been seeing from our own government for many years, especially these last few where Bide was inserted illegally by a corrupt group of insurgents and has made a real mess of things, so they have continued to break the law by trying to get rid of the Constitution altogether and make up new laws so they can never be prosecuted for the crimes they have already committed.  But the 4th Amendment, the 5th Amendment, and especially in this last case in New York with Trump, the 6th Amendment are specifically important and are designed to limit the powers of government in preserving individual property rights, starting with personal integrity.  A government, for its safety and the powers it has acquired, does not have the right to destroy personal rights under any circumstance.  Ultimately, that is why all the cases against Trump will be thrown out on appeal, and all the attorneys know it.  They did not have the power to do what they did, but this is a classic Soros playbook, and why he should be arrested as a domestic terrorist for attempting to overthrow our country with his financial influence on our legal culture with all these District Attorneys, he has sponsored to destroy our legal profession.  

Some are saying that this quote is not in Ashley Biden’s diary. But this is the same diary that the FBI says doesn’t exist. So what can you believe? But we can judge based on behavior, and there is a lot of bad behavior.

The case in New York with Fat Alvin Bragg and the gang is an illegal imposition on President Trump’s rights for all kinds of reasons, which the Constitution shows explicitly is not permitted by any sitting government, and at that point of recognition, we have a right and obligation to throw off that government and start a new one, which is explicitly stated in our founding documents.  What we have here is a government that stole power by violating the Constitution and inserting a hostile activist into the White House, replacing the one that was correctly and legally elected, and they expect to get away with it by throwing that victim of a government coup in jail to cover the crime.  So this is severe stuff that has not settled on people yet.  And for that reason, I recommend having a love affair of your own with the Constitution.  Read it.  Understand it.  And use it to defeat these terrible people.  These criminals think we are all suckers and don’t understand our laws because they have been such a corrosive element, they expect to get away with everything by stripping our laws away so that their government can continue to grow in power until there is no country left, and the United States can fall toward globalism.  In truth, that is the only exit plan from their current strategy.  They hope to escape their many crimes by destroying the laws that would prosecute them.  And they don’t care what happens in the wake of that activity.  This level of power-hungry behavior is precisely why the Constitution was written the way it was: to prevent the government from gaining this kind of authority over its citizens.  Amendments 4-6 are meant to protect people from their government with unreasonable prosecution and the harassment of private property. 

And perhaps you can see why I have been having this love affair with the Constitution.  I keep the copy I displayed in the video by my reading chair, and I go through it a few times a week, which I have done for many years.  But lately, because of these court cases against Trump and seeing how they plan to attack us all in the same manner, I have been spending too much time with the Constitution, and it has impacted my marriage by not giving me as much time for my wife.  She has been neglected as a result.  But we have talked about it, and we think everyone should have similar affairs, perhaps even to rejuvenate their marriages and the values of their institutional union.  And fear not, this government under Biden, and with the support of the old Weather Underground terrorists who are a radical part of the Marxist left, put him into power hoping that they would be able to destroy the concept of a Constitution before people became aware of it, are not going to get away with it.  They have been caught, and they keep digging their own grave deeper.  After all this, there is no way that they could ever be accepted into polite society with the rest of us.  And that is what my affair with the Constitution has made clear to me.  And it has given me clarity on what to do next.  None of those things involves a life without Trump back in the White House and submission to these criminal scum bags who have taken over our government and tried to destroy our Constitution to get away with the massive crimes they have committed against us all.  For such an indiscretion, my wife understands.  This is why we have been married for a long time and will continue to be.  Sometimes, love affairs like this one are necessary.  And not just a love for our spouses rekindled, but also a love for our nation and the future it deserves.

Rich Hoffman

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Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’: The kind of political philosophy that will take mankind into a space economy

I spend a lot of time thinking about the challenges of becoming an interplanetary civilization.  When people ask me why I do what I do, I tell them it’s not for money, it’s not for popularity, and it’s certainly not for a platform for politics.  I am interested in philosophy as Socrates exhibited it, specifically, the thinking it will take to move humanity off the Earth and become a multi-planetary species.  This past week, two things happened that reminded me of this task. The first was the Starship launch, which was very successful with SpaceX.  The second Dune movie did very well at the box office, showing continued interest, which I think is terrific because it gives people access to the old Frank Herbert books, which I think are masterpieces on a biblical scale, as opposed to just science fiction.  I have been thinking a lot about Frank and his books lately, the six he wrote, then the final two in the original series that his son continued to conclusion. 

If we want to be an interplanetary civilization, we must first solve some fundamental problems. One of those is the problem of power and why people crave it. One great example of exploring that problem is the novels by Frank Herbert in, Dune, the eight-book analysis introduced to the world through the latest movies, which are very good. But just the start of quite a journey.  More people would better understand our current circumstances if they read Frank Herbert’s books because he deals with a lot of serious stuff in that fantastic series.  Yes, as in the movies, they are dealing with the human race as they have colonized space, all over the universe space, not just a regional galaxy, 10,000 years in the future.  The politics are very similar to the concerns of the Old Testament, with bloodlines and kingdoms at the heart of the story.  Frank is very concerned with the nature of politics, so these Dune books are more about sociology and politics than they are about science or fiction. In the movies, the one from 1984 and now these recent ones, the lead character rises to greatness to become the new emperor, and that’s the end of the story.  That fits a typical narrative for a Hollywood movie.  But Dune is much more than these things, so these stories have been hard to make into movies.  The point in building up the lead story and characters is that the rest of the book rips them apart in a kind of libertarian study of the human race and how power corrupts, or does it?  One thing that Frank does that I am very interested in, that very few anybodies has ever touched, is how the spirit world influences the politics of humanity.  It’s an offering of the kind of Divine Council discussed in Psalms 82 and certainly reflects what Paul talked about in Ephesians.  Who rules us from beyond the grave, and how far down the rabbit hole does it go?  In those Dune books, Herbert even calls his work a prediction, not fiction, as he sets out to study ecology.  I think of our political life as just the surface reflections of much deeper forces at work, not all of them human as we think of the word.  And not just spiritual as we think of Casper the ghost or the Holy Spirit.  We must look at the spirit world as it strives to exist outside our known universe and expect that they are using self-interest to manipulate our lives to their advantage.  Frank Herbert deals with that level of political management, and it’s fantastic and can’t really be captured in the movies. 

As crazy as our political system is, I consider it a healthy necessity.  What America is going through is needed for global management of political systems that can then carry over into off-world colonies, which are coming at us much faster than people realize.  And we must solve some of these problems before we come to that impasse.  We must have a political system based on a healthy understanding of capitalism before we start moon colonies and cities on Mars.  Too much micromanagement of adventures into space will stop progress, and as Herbert assumes in his books, humanity reverts to the biblical necessity of royal bloodlines through the Vico Cycle.  I disagree with a lot about Herbert, especially regarding drug use.  But like the work of Graham Hancock that I have talked about in using ayahuasca to communicate with the spirit world, the spice in Dune is essentially the same kind of thing, and I think Herbert is on to something essential as far back as 1965.  Many of the Baal worshipers of Canaan also used psychedelics in their rituals, and in that context, it is likely the cause of the frequent turning away from God that is a majority of the narrative in the Bible.  Frank Herbert in Dune explores why this is the case and when drugs are used to speak to other spirit beings, who they are, and what they are motivated by.  And by coming to terms with that, you can then understand the kind of evil that is loose in the world now, and understand it with some perspective. 

Herbert goes so far as to place political motivations for spiritual influence in his many Dune books and migrates beyond universal influence, which is pretty impressive as a work of fiction.  I would put it on the level of Atlas Shrugged and other Ayn Rand works.  I don’t agree with everything she does either, but the thought process is beneficial.  Somewhere in these intellectual works are the answers we need to become an interplanetary species, so I don’t get too excited about transitory elections.  What we are all fighting against each other to achieve is the war of ideas that survive into the future, and I tend to think of these efforts in the most extensive picture possible. The trajectory of change will far exceed standard election cycles.  It’s why people win that matters, why certain people are attracted to power, and how power corrupts or is helpful to society.  And how a tyrant today might be a benefactor tomorrow.  Morality is often not so much determined by what we see but by what we are growing to understand and how that understanding is influential across over 22 dimensions.  And as we continue to build nations and colonies in space, what kind of political system should they have to accommodate with all considerations available, as we can know them, through science or fiction.  The Dune books have some magnificent things to say along those lines, and I think it is wonderful that the movies are doing well and that people are learning about the books for the first time.   One thing that space travel needs is a healthy appreciation of government systems that embrace capitalism.  Future religions must be joined at the hip; otherwise, their value will fall apart.  So, it’s not enough to build a Starship and start moving people into a new space economy.  We must work on the deep philosophical problems that have permeated the human race since the beginning.  And we have to solve them with something fresh, and America is the leader of that movement.  In the long run, it will make much more sense for people.

 

Rich Hoffman

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