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The Politics of Heaven: Disclosure, Power, and the Erasure of Our True History

I have been talking about this for decades, going back to a fourth-grade speech where I stood on a big stage in my elementary school and laid out what I had read about UFOs and alien interactions with Earth. Most people thought I was crazy then. They still look at me sideways sometimes when I bring it up, even as the evidence mounts and corporate media like Jesse Watters on Fox News discusses it in primetime. But the pattern has always been clear to me: this is not just about little green men or flying saucers. It is about power, control, and the deliberate erasure of previous knowledge so that new regimes—whether governments, stepfathers in broken homes, or corporate takeovers—can position themselves as the sole legitimate authority. 

My new book, The Politics of Heaven, explores exactly this dynamic. It argues that interactions between humanity and advanced non-human intelligences have shaped our civilizations for millions of years. These beings, with their own political orders and technologies capable of bridging vast distances, have traded knowledge, labor, and resources with us. Yet authority figures across history have worked to suppress this reality. They do not want the public thinking about “Larry”—the previous husband, the prior administration, the older gods or visitors—because it undermines their claim to exclusive power. Just as a new stepfather might remove all traces of the biological dad from the house, change the furniture, sell the tools at a flea market, and forbid the kids from mentioning the old life, modern institutions and ancient priesthoods have tried to wipe the slate clean. 

The recent disclosures under the Trump administration in 2026 have accelerated this conversation. In February, President Trump directed federal agencies to declassify evidence related to non-human intelligence. There has been pushback, as expected, but the information is coming out. Pentagon releases, whistleblowers, and primetime segments on Fox News are normalizing what I and many researchers have discussed for years. Over a billion people have engaged with this material online because there is a deep hunger for truth. The stigma that made talking about aliens at the grocery store feel taboo is cracking. Tabloids turned it into spectacle, but the serious evidence was always there for those willing to dig. 

The Four Known Species

Scientists and insiders involved in crash retrieval programs have identified at least four distinct species of non-human beings recovered from downed craft. These reports come from credible figures like Dr. Hal Puthoff, a quantum physicist with deep government ties, and his collaborator Dr. Eric Davis. They describe beings with two arms and two legs, humanoid in basic form, but distinctly different. 

The Greys (sometimes called Zeta Reticulans) are the most iconic. Small, typically 3 to 4 feet tall, with grey skin, oversized hairless heads, large black almond-shaped eyes, minimal noses and mouths, and three or four fingers. They are often linked to abduction accounts and the classic Roswell imagery. Insiders associate them with the 1947 Corona/Roswell crash site in New Mexico, where debris and bodies were reportedly recovered. They appear biologically adapted for advanced technological interfaces, possibly serving as pilots or intermediaries. 

The Nordics look strikingly human-like, often described as tall (around 6-7 feet), fair-skinned, with features resembling Northern Europeans—blond or light hair, blue eyes. They are reported as more benevolent or diplomatic in encounters. Some accounts place their origins in distant star systems, and they have been tied to contactee stories since the mid-20th century. Their appearance may facilitate easier interaction with humans. 

Reptilians (or reptiloids) are taller, around 6-8 feet, with scaly skin, sometimes tails, and lizard-like features while maintaining upright humanoid posture. Experts speculate they come from warmer or different evolutionary environments. They appear in ancient myths worldwide—serpent gods, dragon kings—and modern encounters. Some researchers link them to underground bases or long-term influence on Earth power structures. 

Insectoids (or Mantids) resemble praying mantises in a humanoid form: tall, thin, with large compound eyes, exoskeleton-like skin, and insectoid limbs. They are often reported in abduction or high-strangeness cases as overseers or scientists. Their appearance can be startling, yet they share the bipedal structure. 

These four are not exhaustive—insiders hint at more—but they represent the recovered biologics from dozens of craft. The technology recovered alongside them, reverse-engineered since the 1940s, has fueled innovations in materials, electronics, and propulsion that appeared suddenly in our society post-Roswell. 

Historical Interactions and Crash Sites

This has not been a recent phenomenon. Archaeological and historical records suggest interactions stretching back millions of years, though mainstream institutions resist this interpretation. The Smithsonian and diffusionist debates highlight how out-of-place artifacts and sudden technological leaps challenge Darwinian timelines and isolated human development. Pyramids, megalithic structures, and earthworks worldwide show precision that strains conventional explanations. 

Roswell/Corona in 1947 remains the most famous crash. Rancher Mac Brazel found strange debris. Military initially announced a “flying disc,” then retracted to a weather balloon. Whistleblowers like David Grusch have testified to non-human biologics from multiple sites. Other reported crashes include locations in Mexico, Russia, and earlier incidents. Ancient texts describe “gods” descending in fiery chariots—Vimanas in Indian epics, Ezekiel’s wheels, or Sumerian Anunnaki. These align with modern descriptions when stripped of cultural filters. 

In The Politics of Heaven, I connect this to biblical and mythological narratives. The Witch of Endor summoning spirits for Saul, rituals for divine knowledge, and rival “gods” like Baal versus Yahweh reflect competing political orders among these visitors. Paradise Lost and Milton’s devils may describe advanced beings with non-Christian origins making deals for influence. Occult practices, star alignments, and telepathic communication have reportedly facilitated contact for millennia. 

The Politics of Erasure

The core issue is control. Governments secure black budgets by promising protection from threats they cannot fully manage, instead making deals. New regimes erase predecessors: corporate buyouts fire old management and rewrite history; stepfathers remove photos and tools. Ancient priesthoods burned libraries or rewrote myths to centralize power. The Smithsonian’s role in diffusion debates and reluctance to excavate certain American mounds fits this pattern—maintain the narrative that our administration (or civilization) is the first and only legitimate one. 

Whistleblowers face chastisement, just as Medicaid fraud exposers in Ohio do. The scam is not the initial event but the punishment for speaking. Over a billion downloads and views show public hunger. Fox News discussing four species, non-human craft, and congressional believers marks a shift from Coast to Coast AM to primetime. Steven Spielberg’s upcoming project will further mainstream it. 

I am not surprised. Since fourth grade, I have seen the power dynamics. These species have their own agendas—trade, experimentation, influence. We traded labor, genetics, or resources for technology: cloth-making, metallurgy, or modern breakthroughs post-1947. Some view them as demons; others as neutral actors in a galactic political landscape. The truth is likely nuanced.

Disclosure is unstoppable now. Trump’s directive, the PURSUE releases, and persistent researchers ensure it. People must understand the politics of heaven—the heavenly (or cosmic) orders influencing Earth. My book ties these threads: power, history, and the fight against erasure. I have shared it with top people who initially dismissed it but now see the seriousness. This is not conspiracy; it is the unveiling of our true context. 

We are not alone. We never were. The question is how we navigate these relationships without losing our sovereignty to those who would rule by hiding the past. The stepfather cannot erase Larry forever. The kids remember. Humanity is starting to remember too.

Footnotes

1.  Jesse Watters Primetime segment, Fox News, May 2026.

2.  Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis statements on recovered species.

3.  Trump PURSUE directive, February 2026.

4.  Roswell Report analyses and whistleblower testimonies.

5.  Ancient astronaut theories and archaeological critiques (contextualized).

Bibliography

•  Puthoff, Hal. Interviews and AAWSAP-related works.

•  Davis, Eric. Briefings on UAP and biologics.

•  Grusch, David. Congressional testimony.

•  The Politics of Heaven by Rich Hoffman (self-published, 2026).

•  Pentagon PURSUE releases, May 2026 tranches.

•  Wikipedia and primary sources on Grey, Nordic, Reptilian, Insectoid encounters.

•  Roswell incident archival reports.

•  Books on ancient astronauts (von Däniken, Sitchin, and critiques).

•  Fox News, NY Post, and related 2026 coverage.

•  Additional: Milton’s Paradise Lost, biblical texts, Sumerian tablets, Indian epics for historical parallels.

Rich Hoffman

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

The Power of Unity: How Trump’s Leadership is Reshaping the Republican Party and Defeating Its Enemies

In the rough-and-tumble world of American politics, unity isn’t just a nice idea—it’s a necessity for victory. For years, I’ve watched as divisions within the Republican Party have weakened our ability to fight the real threats facing our nation. The Democrat Party, with its radical agenda to fundamentally transform and often undermine the very foundations of the United States, represents an existential challenge. They don’t want America to succeed on its own terms; they seek control, dependency, and the erosion of our constitutional republic. That’s why, when President Trump endorses candidates who demonstrate loyalty and a willingness to fight, people listen. They follow. And they win. 

I have been saying this for years through my podcasts and writings: the base picks Trump because he represents them—the forgotten men and women who built this country, not the coastal elites or the K Street lobbyists. When Trump came out strongly against Thomas Massie in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, many liberals were perplexed, but those of us paying attention weren’t surprised at all. Massie, with his libertarian streak and history of bucking the party on key votes, showed a reckless lack of unity at a time when we desperately need it to confront a hostile opposition. It isn’t ethical or strategic to work against your own party when the goal is to build something strong enough to defeat the Democrats. 

Thomas Massie lost decisively to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein. It wasn’t even close. This outcome validated what I’ve observed in politics, business, and even warfare: when leadership demands cohesion against a common enemy, the people respond if they trust that leader. Trump has earned that trust through fire. They tried to kill him, bankrupt him, jail him, and railroad him through lawfare, yet he stood tall. The American people who stuck with him through it all saw a fighter willing to take on the system. That’s why his endorsements carry such weight. 

The Case Against Division and for Party Discipline

Let me be clear: I am not a libertarian. I’ve never been one, and the “pot-smoking loser libertarian” types like some portray Massie and Rand Paul as don’t represent my worldview. I’m to the right of most Republicans—conservative to the core, guided by a personal love of righteousness, practical business sense, and a refusal to compromise with the enemy. Democrats are the enemy. Not in some hyperbolic sense, but in a real, tangible way: their policies seek to destroy every aspect of traditional American success—energy independence, border security, free speech, economic opportunity, and constitutional order. If they regain full power, the filibuster, rule of law, and much else will be gone or twisted beyond recognition.

I’ve long argued that the Senate filibuster is a mechanism created by and for the lobbyist class. I hate K Street. I hate the corporate parasites who don’t create value but suck value from the system through deals made in smoke-filled rooms. They preserve their power by slowing everything down, allowing insider trading on information and stripping the people’s will from legislation. The filibuster empowers this. Getting rid of it would be a blow to their influence. Of course, senators love it—secure in their six-year terms, they can make deals that last beyond any president’s time in office. 

I’ve had the chance to see this up close. Conversations with people like Bernie Moreno, now a great senator from Ohio, confirm what many suspect. These institutionalists thought Trump would come and go, but the movement he built is permanent. Mitch McConnell-style operators believed they could control the levers of power and cut deals with lobbyists long after Trump left the stage. They were wrong. The people who picked Trump want results, not perpetual compromise. 

Massie’s loss sends a clear message: working against the party when unity is required carries consequences. His district in northern Kentucky—home to horse breeders and conservative strongholds—knew Trump, trusted Trump, and followed Trump’s lead. I know that area well through friends and connections. They want wins, not ideological purity tests that hand victories to Democrats. 

The Railroad Job and the Deep State

On the same day Trump moved against Massie, he endorsed Ken Paxton in Texas against incumbent John Cornyn. I really want to see Paxton win. I’ve seen railroading in corporate culture, in military contexts, and in politics. It’s a tactic of control: manipulate the narrative, isolate the target, and eliminate opposition. The deep state—those power players in Tysons Corner, near the Pentagon and CIA—thrives on this. They live insulated lives, far removed from the Walmart shoppers and working families. They want insiders who attend their Fairfax County parties, who compromise for access. 

Trump’s endorsement of Paxton was bold, coming right in the middle of voting. It shows his willingness to fight the swamp directly. Paxton has been a warrior for Texas, taking on battles others avoid. Eliminating RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) like Cornyn strengthens the Senate. With more fighters like Bernie Moreno, we gain ammunition to pass real America First policies. 

Most elections have seen rigging or interference over time—2020 being a prime example with mountains of evidence that the corporate media and tech suppressed. The deep state puts its fingers on the scale to favor those who protect their interests. Venezuela and other actors have meddled; why wouldn’t domestic players? Trump represents the antidote: a man too big to buy, with an ego and fight that refuses to lose. 

Why People Follow Trump: Authenticity Over Ideology

People can’t always be bought with money or thoughts. The active base in Ohio and across the country proved this by sticking with Trump through hell. They want someone who fights the system, not joins it. That’s why Vivek Ramaswamy will likely win in Ohio—he aligns with that energy. Libertarian holdouts who campaigned against party unity shame themselves; they’re keeping swamp creatures alive. 

I want practical sense in government—business leverage, negotiation skills, ethical voting of conscience without aiding the enemy. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Ron Paul had appeal in the Tea Party days, but ideology without winning is useless. Trump brings both fight and results.

In 2016-2017, I predicted the Democrat Party would face bankruptcy by around 2021 due to their own excesses and Trump’s disruption. COVID shenanigans delayed some of that, but the trajectory holds. With honest elections and Trump’s influence, we see victories: Massie gone, potential Paxton win, stronger majorities. 

Building Representative Government

Representative government means listening to the people, not K Street. Compromise with lobbyists has run our country into the ground. Eliminating figures like Massie and Cornyn is part of draining that swamp. Trump is doing what we asked: delivering power back to the voters who elected him legitimately.

The age of disclosure is upon us. We must understand not just earthly politics but the deeper “politics of heaven”—moral clarity, truth over expediency, and a republic that reflects higher principles. Politics isn’t separate from righteousness; it’s an arena where it must be defended.

This isn’t blind loyalty. It’s strategic unity against those who want to destroy our way of life. Democrats may never sit at the table again if we succeed. That’s the goal: a strong, healthy debate within a victorious conservative movement that rebuilds America.

Footnotes

1.  On party unity and primary dynamics: Primary challenges test loyalty. Historical parallels include Reagan’s influence over the GOP in the 1980s.

2.  Filibuster history: Originated as a procedural tool but weaponized for special interests. See Senate Rule XXII.

3.  Deep state concepts: Refer to works on administrative state expansion, e.g., bureaucracy growth post-New Deal.

4.  2020 election integrity: Multiple affidavits, statistical anomalies, and suppressed stories (Hunter Biden laptop) provide context, though courts dismissed many on procedural grounds.

5.  Trump’s resilience: Assassination attempts, legal battles documented extensively in public records.

Bibliography (vast selection for further reading):

•  “The Art of the Deal” by Donald J. Trump – Practical negotiation in politics.

•  Federalist Papers (esp. No. 10 on factions) – Foundations of representative government.

•  “Deep State” by Mike Lofgren – Insider view of bureaucratic power.

•  “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” by Russell Kirk – Conservative principles.

•  Biographies of Reagan, Coolidge for party realignment.

•  “The Road to Serfdom” by F.A. Hayek – Warnings on centralized power.

•  Congressional Research Service reports on filibuster and lobbying.

•  Election integrity studies from Heritage Foundation and others.

•  “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert Cialdini – On why endorsements matter.

•  Works by Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson on cultural and political divides.

•  Ohio and Kentucky political histories, voter guides from 2026 cycles.

•  “The Politics of Heaven” theological/political intersections (various Christian conservative authors).

Rich Hoffman

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Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

The Torture of Tina Peters: Finally getting out of jail, what her story says about authority

I have long observed how power, when unchecked, resorts to the rack—not always the physical one of medieval dungeons, but the metaphorical equivalent that breaks spirits, careers, and truths until confessions align with institutional narratives. The recent case of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk in Colorado, stands as a stark modern exemplar of this ancient pattern. A seventy-year-old woman thrust into one of the most dangerous environments imaginable for someone of her age and background, she faced years of imprisonment not primarily for some violent crime, but for daring to question the machinery of an election and seeking to preserve evidence amid widespread suspicions of irregularities in 2020. Her eventual release, commuted by Governor Jared Polis under significant pressure from President Trump, came only after what many perceive as a coerced softening of her stance—a letter or statement that effectively extracted a measure of contrition to grease the wheels of her freedom. 

This bothers me deeply, not merely as an isolated legal matter, but as a symptom of a deeper rot in how societies, whether monarchies of old or democratic republics today, enforce conformity. I have explored this in my writings, particularly in The Politics of Heaven, where an entire chapter delves into the wives of Henry VIII. Why devote so much space to Tudor England? Because it illustrates precisely what happens when authority feels threatened: it tortures, it extracts, it publicly humiliates until the victim recants or perishes. Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, and others navigated a court where one misstep, one perceived challenge to the king’s narrative of divine right and control, led to scaffolds and swords. Henry’s break with Rome and the Protestant stirrings required confessions of loyalty, often under duress, to maintain the facade of unified power. Collective belief—enforced by the state and church—sought to transform royal will into unassailable truth, much as today’s liberal establishments insist that sheer repetition and institutional pressure can transmute falsehoods into accepted realities. 

Consider William Wallace, that Scottish patriot whose brutal end in 1305 remains etched in collective memory. Dragged through London streets, hanged until nearly dead, then disemboweled while alive, his entrails burned before him, and finally quartered—all while conscious for much of the ordeal. This was no mere punishment for rebellion; it was a spectacle designed to extract submission from a defiant soul and deter others. English authorities needed Wallace not just defeated, but broken in narrative: a traitor whose cause was illegitimate. His screams, if he uttered any, were meant to affirm the crown’s supremacy. I think often of this when reflecting on modern “punishments” that are less bloody but equally soul-crushing: financial ruin, social ostracism, professional blocklisting, or literal incarceration for those who challenge sacred cows like election outcomes or gender ideologies. 

Peters’ ordeal mirrors these historical precedents with eerie precision. As Mesa County Clerk, she allowed access to voting equipment in 2021 during a period of intense scrutiny following the 2020 presidential election. Her intent, by all accounts from her perspective and supporters, was transparency and preservation of data that might reveal anomalies—chain-of-custody issues, unauthorized access, or software vulnerabilities. Critics, including the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, framed it as a breach that cost the county nearly a million dollars in new equipment and undermined trust. She was convicted on multiple counts, including attempts to influence public servants and official misconduct, receiving a nine-year sentence that many viewed as extraordinarily harsh for a first-time, non-violent offender. 

What strikes me as particularly insidious is the environment she endured. At her age, placed in a facility where vulnerability invites predation, reports and her own expressed fears painted a picture of genuine physical danger. This was no country-club detention; it was a pressure cooker designed, intentionally or not, to break resolve. The demand for a statement upon commutation—softening her previous assertions about fraud—echoes the rack of old. Throughout history, authorities have preferred the illusion of voluntary confession. “I was wrong,” “I made a mistake,” “I apologize for questioning”—these words, extracted under the shadow of continued suffering, serve to validate the system’s narrative. It is the same dynamic seen in corporate America, where leverage (debt, HR complaints, performance reviews) forces employees to affirm policies they privately doubt: DEI mandates, vaccine requirements during COVID, or silence on biological realities in sports and spaces. 

During the pandemic, we witnessed this on a mass scale. “Take the jab or lose your job.” “Believe the science as defined by us, or face exclusion.” Massive institutional pressure infused collective belief into contested propositions—efficacy claims, transmission narratives, origin stories—turning skepticism into heresy. Those who resisted often faced metaphorical drawing and quartering: lost livelihoods, family divisions, reputational destruction. Similarly, on transgender issues, the insistence that belief alone alters biological sex allows men in women’s sports or prisons, not through evidence, but through enforced social consensus. Dissenters risk cancellation, much as Peters risked (and endured) imprisonment for questioning election “integrity” as defined by those in power. This is not new; it is the eternal temptation of power to weaponize belief against observable reality. 

I see parallels in the Protestant Reformation’s violent undercurrents, which I detailed extensively because they reveal how challenges to authority provoke the extraction of loyalty oaths. Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries and execution of dissenters required public affirmations of the new order. Thomas More, a man of principle, met the axe rather than falsely swear the Oath of Supremacy. Others, less steadfast, confessed under torture to save themselves, only to erode the moral fabric. The rack, the Tower, Smithfield burnings—these tools did not create truth; they manufactured compliance. In Peters’ case, the “confession” element, however subtle, serves the same purpose: it allows the system to claim vindication while quietly releasing the prisoner to avoid greater scandal or political cost. President Trump’s active role in the background—public calls, threats of federal repercussions—highlights how counter-pressure from the executive can sometimes check state-level overreach, but it does not erase the initial injustice. 

Corporate culture today replicates this with chilling efficiency. Leveraged buyouts, activist investors, or HR departments place executives and employees “on the rack” through performance improvement plans, diversity audits, or public shaming until they affirm the prevailing orthodoxy. Whistleblowers on financial fraud, safety issues, or cultural excesses face the same extraction: settlements with nondisclosure agreements that function as forced recantations. Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and others entangled in post-2020 legal battles endured variants of this—legal warfare, contempt charges, financial depletion—aimed at softening narratives around election challenges. The goal remains consistent: to make the lie (or the contested claim) into truth by compelling public submission. 

This dynamic produces a less ethical society. When truth becomes subordinate to power—whether royal, bureaucratic, corporate, or partisan—individuals learn to compromise. They choose livelihood over conviction, freedom over integrity. Over generations, this breeds cynicism, apathy, and a populace ripe for further manipulation. I have argued that America’s founding emphasized consent of the governed and individual rights precisely to counter such tyrannies. Yet here we are, six years on from 2020, with mounting questions about mail-in expansions, drop boxes, observer restrictions, and statistical anomalies that Peters and others sought to illuminate. Even if one disputes the scale of fraud sufficient to alter outcomes, the suppression of inquiry itself damages trust. Jailing a clerk for preserving data she was duty-bound to protect sends a chilling message: do not look too closely. 

History offers abundant further examples. The Inquisition’s use of the strappado or water torture extracted recantations from heretics, reinforcing doctrinal “truth” through pain. Soviet show trials featured broken defendants confessing to absurd crimes against the state. Maoist struggle sessions in China humiliated intellectuals until they denounced their own thoughts. In each case, the powerful believed—or claimed to believe—that collective enforcement could reshape reality. Modern liberalism’s variant substitutes social media mobs, lawfare, and regulatory punishment for physical racks, but the intent persists: punish until compliance. Transgender ideology, climate catastrophism, or election sanctity become articles of faith, with heretics like Peters paying the price. 

Her visibility exacerbated Peters’ situation. A grandmotherly figure thrust into the national spotlight as an “election denier,” she became a symbol. Supporters viewed her as a hero preserving constitutional integrity; detractors as a threat to democratic norms. The reality, as I see it, lies in the asymmetry: rules written to favor opacity (limited audits, proprietary software, partisan officials) create the very distrust they then punish. When a Secretary of State’s office allows or overlooks access issues while aggressively prosecuting those seeking sunlight, it reeks of selective enforcement. Her observer in the process, the turned-off cameras, the data images surfacing—these were not random malice but responses to perceived vulnerabilities. 

The governor’s decision to commute, framing the sentence as “extremely unusual and lengthy” for nonviolent offenses, acknowledges some excess, yet the underlying convictions stand. Pressure from the highest levels, including funding threats, likely tipped the scales, preventing blood on hands if something dire befell Peters in custody. This pragmatic release does not restore her reputation fully or address the broader pattern. It reveals power’s calculus: extract enough submission to save face, then move on. 

I reflect on these matters because they touch the American way: truth, justice, and the right to question without fear of ruin. A society that jails grandmothers for forensic curiosity while shielding institutional actors from scrutiny drifts toward the authoritarianism I chronicled in Tudor times. Free will erodes when choices reduce to “confess or suffer.” During COVID, countless professionals mouthed platitudes they doubted to retain mortgages and retirements. In boardrooms, executives greenlight policies they know are performative. In elections, officials certify amid doubts to avoid the Peters treatment. This produces hollow compliance, not genuine consent.

Expanding on Reformation violence: the executions under Mary I (“Bloody Mary”) and Elizabeth I show both Catholic and Protestant sides wielded the scaffold. Yet the principle endures—authority demands narrative control. Henry’s wives navigated lethal intrigue because succession and religion were intertwined with power. Challenge the king’s version, and you faced the block. Today, challenge the certified result or biological binary, and face analogous consequences, scaled to modernity.

Corporate buyout artists, as I noted, extract through economic racks: golden handcuffs, NDAs, and severance tied to silence. Employees sign away their right to speak the truth post-departure. This mirrors plea deals, where defendants admit guilt to receive lighter sentences, regardless of their inner convictions. Peters’ path appears to have involved such a bargain: statement for parole eligibility by June 2026. 

Ultimately, this erodes the Republic. When collective belief supplants evidence—whether on fraud, gender, or public health—we sacrifice the Enlightenment foundations that gave birth to America. Peters was right to question; time and further audits have only amplified legitimate concerns about 2020 processes. Her punishment served to deter others, not illuminate the truth. The shame lies not in her actions, but in a system that prefers darkness and extracted confessions over open inquiry.

This pattern repeats because human nature craves control. Power fears exposure. From Wallace’s screams to Peters’ cell, the lesson is clear: resist the rack, preserve integrity, even at great cost. Only then does society inch toward genuine justice rather than enforced illusion. My observations over the years, across politics, culture, and history, convince me that without vigilance against such extractions, we trade freedom for comfortable lies. The age of disclosure demands that we reject this, honoring those like Peters who, against immense pressure, tried to uphold honest processes. 

Footnotes

1.  Details drawn from contemporary reporting on Peters’ commutation, May 2026.

2.  Historical accounts of Wallace’s execution, 1305.

3.  Tudor court records and biographies of Henry VIII’s consorts.

4.  Analyses of COVID policy enforcement and corporate compliance mechanisms.

5.  Reformation historiography on oaths and martyrdoms.

Bibliography

•  The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir.

•  William Wallace: Braveheart historical biographies.

•  Colorado court documents, People v. Peters, 2024-2026.

•  Various news archives on 2020 election integrity debates (Heritage Foundation, state audits).

•  The Politics of Heaven (forthcoming) for extended historical parallels.

•  Primary sources on the Inquisition and the Reformation tortures.

Rich Hoffman

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

Where Evil Lives in Butler County: Grooming of children happening at 8870 Cincinnati Dayton Road in Olde West Chester, Ohio April 16th

I’ve been warning people for years about what’s creeping into our communities, especially here in Butler County, Ohio, and the Lakota school district that serves so many families in Liberty Township and West Chester. I didn’t want to believe it at first when I started hearing the stories—drag queen story hours, pride displays in hallways, and all the rest of it being pushed on kids right after school lets out. But here we are, and it’s happening in my own backyard, down the road from where I live. On Thursday, April 16, 2026, right at 3:30 to 5 p.m., there’s going to be a Drag Queen Story Hour featuring Roxie D. Mocracy at the Coterie Lounge & Café—better known to a lot of locals as Mommy Needs Coffee or Mama Needs Coffee—at 8870 Cincinnati Dayton Road in Olde West Chester.   It’s timed perfectly for right after school, turning what’s normally a progressive little café into a “storybook stage” for this event. The promotional language is all sparkle and sass: “Roxie brings the sparkle, the sass, and a stack of colorful books for a joyful reading time that celebrates imagination, kindness, and being exactly who you are. Gather for stories, laughs, and a little bit of glittery magic while parents sip their coffee and soak in the fun.” Sounds harmless enough if you’re not paying attention, but I see it for what it is—a calculated effort to normalize something that has no business being sold to children as family-friendly entertainment. 

I care about this because it’s my community. Butler County isn’t some obscure corner of the country where these trends might slip under the radar; it’s a place full of hardworking families who expect their schools and local businesses to reflect traditional values, not some progressive experiment in social engineering. This café has a reputation for being on the cutting edge of that progressive crowd, and now they’re openly advertising this during their regular mommy-and-kids coffee time. Tickets sold out fast—adults snapped them up, marketing it heavily, and from what I’ve heard through my network, they’re using it to draw crowds and make a statement in what they see as conservative territory. I found out about it because my friend Darbi Boddy has been out there fighting these battles for years, and she got pulled into interviews by gay rights advocate magazines that tried to paint her as the villain while using her name as clickbait to boost attendance. That’s how these things work: they target the fighters, twist the narrative, and keep pushing until resistance fades. 

Where evil lives in Butler County

Let me back up a bit and give this the full context it deserves, because this isn’t an isolated event. It’s part of a pattern I’ve watched unfold in Lakota schools and across Butler County. Darbi Boddy was elected to the Lakota Board of Education back in 2021 with strong community support—over 8,000 votes in her favor—because parents were fed up with the direction things were heading. She came in swinging against what she saw as sexual grooming in the curriculum, pride flags and stickers everywhere, and policies that seemed more interested in ideology than education. Within months, the radicals were after her, just like they went after others who dared speak up. She exposed things that most people didn’t want to acknowledge: materials in libraries and classrooms that blurred lines between adult lifestyles and childhood innocence. The school board, the administration, and even some so-called Republicans turned on her. By March 2024, they removed her with a 3-0 vote after legal battles, absences tied to protection orders, and endless lawfare.   She was censured, stalked with court orders from fellow board members like Isaac Adi, and basically run off for doing what the voters elected her to do: fight the cultural rot. I supported Darbi then, and I support her now. She’s still out there helping parents across southern Ohio, speaking at events, even making trips to Mar-a-Lago to connect with like-minded fighters. She represents the kind of no-nonsense resistance we need more of, not the diplomatic hand-wringing that lets this stuff fester. 

This drag event isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s the same crowd that wanted rainbows on every wall in Lakota hallways, “safe spaces” that doubled as indoctrination zones, and policies that prioritized feelings over facts when it came to gender and sexuality. Darbi pointed it out repeatedly in board meetings—viciously, unapologetically—and they hated her for it. Meanwhile, the board played teacup games with lawyers and administrators running the show instead of the elected officials. Lynda O’Connor, who served as board president for a long time, was more the administrative type—diplomatic, listening to counsel, trying to keep things smooth. I’ve always liked Lynda personally; we’ve had long conversations, hours upon hours, about getting the board back on track. We had a solid conservative majority at one point with Republican-endorsed candidates, but cracks formed when some folks started blending lines to look “accommodating.” I told her straight up during one of our talks that we needed fighters like Darbi, not just managers. She aired her frustrations with me recently at an event, and I listened—didn’t push back much because we’ve known each other for years and will cross paths again. But here’s the deal: when the school board started muzzling public comment and letting bureaucracy override parental rights, that’s when I pulled my support for some of those directions. Lynda got caught in the legalism, and it cost us. Mark Welch didn’t win his race partly because of that infighting, and now we’ve got moderates and Democrats sliding things under the door while everyone gives group hugs. 

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: this is how evil migrates into a community. It doesn’t announce itself with horns and pitchforks; it shows up wrapped in glitter and “kindness,” sold as imagination and acceptance. Roxie D. Mocracy is a local figure—Hamilton’s “premiere celebrity housewife and public nuisance,” vice chair of Hamilton, Ohio Pride, activist with a big social media presence. He’s got videos out there of him singing in cafés just like this one, turning adult performance art into something marketed to kids. I watched one from about a year ago where the vibe was all sass and sparkle in a setting not unlike this event. Don’t get me wrong—adults can do what they want in their own spaces. I probably won’t like it, but be whatever, live your life. But when you solicit children, time it for after-school pickup, and frame it as “family-friendly” story time, that crosses the line. It’s not about judging lifestyles; it’s about protecting innocence. Psychological issues, boundary problems, the whole cultural push to make kids question their bodies and identities at younger and younger ages—this is grooming dressed up as fun. And the evidence is out there: past drag queen story hours have featured performers later convicted of child sex offenses in places like Houston. Here in Lakota, Darbi was the one shining a light on it, and they ran her off for it, using lawfare to do it, Butler County judges and school board members that opened the door wide for this kind of thing to happen.

The bigger issue is what this does to the community. Butler County is supposed to be solid—conservative, family-oriented, the kind of place where people value hard work and traditional raising of kids. Yet here we have a progressive café sticking it in our face, right in West Chester, targeting Lakota families. They’re bold because the fighters have been sidelined. Darbi’s removal was a victory for the progressives and the RINOs who played nice to avoid being called names. Republicans got behind the lawfare in some cases because they didn’t have the guts to go Old Testament on the threats. I’ve always been more diplomatic in my own way, but I respect Darbi’s willingness to call evil what it is. We need more like her on school boards, not people who tie everything up in bureaucracy and popularity contests. The election process is supposed to bring in warriors to fight this exact stuff, not administrators who become part of the problem. When Darbi brought up the grooming and the explicit influences, the board looked for legal mechanisms to shut her down instead of backing her. That’s why this event feels so brazen—it’s sold out, they’re over capacity probably, and nobody with authority is stepping in to enforce rules or push back.  If there was any justice, the fire code violation would send a good message to these anti-family schemers of doom and treachery, and shut it down. 

Think about the timing: 3:30 to 5 p.m., kids fresh out of school, parents sipping coffee while Roxie reads stories that celebrate “being exactly who you are.” It’s the same playbook used nationwide. Drag Queen Story Hour started years ago as a niche library program and has since exploded into schools and cafés, always framed as diversity and inclusion. But critics—and there are plenty with data—point to the sexualized nature of drag performance bleeding into kid spaces. Performers in full adult regalia, songs, and dances that belong in bars are now aimed at little ones. It normalizes confusion, plants seeds of doubt about biology and family, and parents who object get labeled bigots. I don’t buy the “it’s just reading” defense. If it were a cowboy story hour or a Bible story hour with similar flair, the same crowd would cry foul. This is targeted cultural change, and it’s working because too many good Christians and conservatives don’t know how to fight back without being called terrible people.

I’ve written about this extensively over the years, connecting the dots from local school fights to national trends. In my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, I lay out the philosophy: you don’t appease evil when it shows up at your door. You meet it head-on with truth, strategy, and unapologetic action. The same principles that save a company or build wealth apply to saving your community and your kids. Reject the lawyers’ games, the group hugs, the moderate blending. Fly the flag of resistance. Darbi embodied that—still does, even off the board. She’s helping parents get fighters elected elsewhere in southern Ohio. Meanwhile, the school board that ousted her has let the rainbow stuff slide under the door, and events like this thrive in the vacuum. If your kids aren’t going, they want to make it uncool to object. That’s the real goal: not just one event, but shifting the Overton window so that questioning it makes you the outlier.

That’s a very small place for a lot of people. If you sell two tickets, it’s sold out. better check with the fire Marshall for any more.

Some will say this is overblown, that it’s harmless fun, and parents can choose. But when it’s marketed directly to after-school crowds in a café known for progressive moms, and the district has a history of similar pushes, it’s not neutral. Capacity violations are likely since it sold out quickly—maybe someone with guts shows up to document it. The business has a right to host it, sure. But we have a right to call it what it is and resist the normalization. I’ve talked to enough parents in Lakota who are stunned that this is happening here. They thought Butler County was immune. It’s not. Evil doesn’t stay in blue cities; it migrates to places like ours because resistance weakens when fighters get ostracized.

Looking back at the school board saga, it’s a microcosm. Darbi tried to ban transgender participation in girls’ sports, called out inappropriate materials, and photographed pride stickers in classrooms to expose the agenda. The board struck down her motions fast. Lynda and others voted to censure her early on. Public comment got shut down amid superintendent controversies. It was all about control, not education. I left one of my conversations with Lynda feeling like she needed space to vent, but the facts remain: without people willing to dig deep and fight, the slide continues. Republicans who backed the ousting of Darbi to “keep the peace” handed the progressives a win. Now we see the result—a drag queen event targeting our kids, bold as brass.

This isn’t about hate; it’s about protection. Children deserve to be kids, not props in adult identity explorations. The psychological toll on young minds from early sexualization is real—higher rates of confusion, regret, and mental health crises down the line. Studies like the Cass Review in the UK have dismantled the weak evidence behind gender-affirming care for minors, showing it’s experimental at best. Yet here we push the sparkle version to preschoolers. Roxie and the café call it joy; I call it a disgrace. And the fact that gay advocate outlets used Darbi as a foil to promote it shows their strategy: make opposition look extreme so the event looks mainstream.

I’ve been busy fighting these battles myself through writing, speaking, and supporting candidates who won’t cave. My book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business isn’t just for CEOs—it’s for anyone facing down threats, whether corporate or cultural. It teaches you to see the manipulators, reject victimhood, and build strength. If you haven’t read it, grab a copy; it’ll arm you for exactly this kind of fight. Subscribe to my updates too, because tomorrow’s a better day only if we make it so. This event on April 16 is a symptom. The disease is deeper: a culture that perverts childhood to advance an agenda, enabled by weak institutions and timid leaders.

We need school board members who are fighters, not diplomats. We need parents showing up, documenting overcapacity, speaking truth, even when it’s uncomfortable. The Republicans who played politics with Darbi’s seat handed us this. The victory of pushing her out let the door crack open wider. Evil doesn’t knock politely; it glitters and sasses its way in. Call it out. Resist it. Support the Darbi Boddy types who won’t back down. Our kids’ futures depend on it. This is happening in broad daylight in West Chester, and if we don’t push back here, it spreads everywhere.

Footnotes

¹ Eventbrite listing for Drag Queen Story Hour at Coterie Lounge & Café, April 16, 2026.

² WVXU report on Lakota School Board striking down Darbi Boddy’s anti-trans motion, January 29, 2024.

³ Overmanwarrior.wordpress.com post: “Darbi Boddy is Exposing Sexual Grooming at Lakota Schools,” May 10, 2022.

⁴ Cincinnati.com coverage of Darbi Boddy’s removal from the Lakota board, March 2024.

⁵ Cass Review final report on gender identity services for children and young people, 2024 (independent review commissioned by NHS England).

⁶ FOX19 and local reports on Lakota board controversies involving public comment shutdown and superintendent issues, 2022.

⁷ The Buckeye Flame article on “anti-woke” Ohio school board member removed, March 26, 2024.

⁸ Roxie D. Mocracy Facebook promotion of the event at Coterie Lounge & Café.

⁹ Overmanwarrior.wordpress.com author bio and references to The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business.

¹⁰ Additional context from Cincinnati Enquirer and Journal-News archives on Lakota CRT and pride policy battles, 2022–2024.

Bibliography

•  Eventbrite. “Drag Queen Story Hour.” Accessed April 2026. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drag-queen-story-hour-tickets-1984561449719

•  Hoffman, Rich. The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business. Self-published, available via gunfighterguide. shop.

•  “Lakota School Board Strikes Down Darbi Boddy’s Anti-Transgender Motion.” WVXU, January 29, 2024.

•  “Anti-Woke Ohio School Board Member Removed.” The Buckeye Flame, March 26, 2024.

•  Overmanwarrior.wordpress.com. Various posts on Lakota schools and Darbi Boddy, 2022–2025.

•  Cass, Hilary. Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People: Final Report. NHS England, 2024.

•  Local news archives: Cincinnati.com, FOX19, Journal-News (Butler County) on school board actions, 2022–2024.

•  Roxie D. Mocracy social media (Facebook/Instagram), event promotions, 2026.

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Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

Beat the Hell Out of Them: Crushing the socialist protestors at the Roebling Bridge in Cincinnati

As I said, the ICE agents who had rocks thrown at them in California, detaining illegal aliens from that pot farm, should have shot them.  They had every right to do so.  So I was thrilled to see that the Covington, Kentucky police physically bloodied a bunch of stringy-haired protestors as they tried to close the Roebling Suspension Bridge over a protest of Ayman Soliman, the former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain, detained by ICE on July 9th, 2025.  For some ridiculous reason, someone has told these loser socialists that shutting down highways and bridges was a thing they could do to express free speech.  It is not.  And certainly not in my town. I use that bridge all the time, and it should not be closed down by a bunch of protestors cheering on illegal activity.  I have no tolerance for it.  We hire law enforcement to enforce laws.  And when the protestors dug in and started getting pushy, the Covington Police beat the hell out of those protestors and arrested them like the scrappy losers that they are.  It’s one thing to see these things happening in some far away place like California, where their politics has fallen off the edge of the earth with liberalism.  It’s quite another to see something like that happen in the heartland city of Cincinnati, not in my town.  I want to see our highways, bridges, and sidewalks open at all costs, despite the impediments of protestors.  They do not have the right to shut down anything in protest, and it’s about time they are taught a lesson about impeding traffic.  When it comes to using violence to maintain law and order, I’m 100% for it.  As the videos of this violence at the bridge went viral, I was very proud of the Covington, Kentucky, police department. 

The protestors crossed the line when they tried to stop a black SUV driven by an out-of-town tourist, as the insurgents were banging on the hood and vandalizing the vehicle as it attempted to push through the crowd.  Police issued warnings and tried to be as kind as possible, but they ended up arresting 15 of the 100 or so protesters at the site, including two CityBeat journalists, Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith.  The charges include felony rioting, unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, obstructing a highway, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.  The Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America claimed that the police “violently broke up” the protest, alleging some of the arrestees were beaten and required medical treatment.  An attorney for the miscreants, Benjamin Pugh, argued that the police escalated the situation and did not give sufficient time to disperse.  So that is the cast of characters involved, and I have no sympathy for the CityBeat journalists.  As I have said about them for many decades, they exist to breed these kinds of losers in our youth culture, so they are as guilty of why those protestors thought they could get away with this kind of thing in the first place, as anybody.  There’s plenty of bad to go around, and it’s good that the Covington Police did not allow these individuals to embarrass our city of Greater Cincinnati in front of the nation.  The message we want to send to all these socialist and communist sympathizers is zero tolerance for their view of the world.  That’s where we are these days, as I have been saying for a long time.  These aren’t just Democrats with differing political views.  These are people who want to overthrow our society, which is why they are upset at the ICE deportations, because all those illegal immigrants are part of their strategy to destroy our law and order society.

However, here is a statement for attorneys like Mr. Pugh, who involved himself in this case: the public’s right to free egress exceeds the right of one individual to express their free speech.  People can say and hold whatever opinion they want about anything.  But they don’t have the right to force someone else to have that opinion.  And stopping traffic is an expression of a free speech opinion by force.  The protesters are saying, ‘Join me in my opinion; otherwise, I’m not going to let you use this bridge or travel down this highway.’  Time is an essential thing, and people in a free society cannot have others impose restrictions on their movement to coerce their opinions politically.  The protesters could have written an article, or spoken on YouTube or TikTok about the deportation of the Egyptian Ayman Soliman.  However, they did not have the right to block traffic to get attention or put their hands on the car of someone trying to cross the bridge.  This Marxist notion of damaging private property to communicate political opinions just isn’t going to fly.  We are a private property country.  A mob of losers does not get to override every principle of personal freedom that we have in our society, and one of the fundamental rights that we have is the right to egress.  The right to move around unimpeded and the freedom to enjoy our lives.  That’s why the bridge exists, so that people can travel from one place to another.  That’s why the roads exist.  A protester does not have the right to take that freedom away from people to force their opinions on an issue, due to having no other option but violence to get their point across. 

Once the protestors made a move to close the road, the Convington Police had a right and obligation to remove them and restore that freedom of egress.  There is no group sentiment, such as the Ignite Peace Cincy group, that has the right to close down any roads or even make someone walk around them on a sidewalk.  Any imposition on the personal freedoms of anybody warrants a violent removal of that impediment.  There is no right to Free Speech, which means people who don’t share those opinions have to be inconvenienced by any method.  People ultimately have a choice, and if that choice is removed from them, including the option to listen to socialist protestors or not, or to read that socialist social magazine, CityBeat, or not, the frustrated advocates of a political position don’t get to threaten free people and their private property in any way at all.  Especially trying to stop them from crossing a bridge and vandalizing their property, as if the group mob decided what was valuable socially, or what was acceptable.  And in this case, Ayman Soliman might have been a nice guy who fled persecution in his homeland in 2014 for his work as a freelance journalist covering the Arab Spring.  He was granted asylum in 2018, but that was revoked in June of 2025, leading to his arrest by ICE on July 9th.  He was a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s and a board member at the Clifton Mosque, so a lot is happening with him that aligns with the profile of the Democrat Party and the way they want to shape our country politically.  But when people don’t want to hear what they have to say, they don’t get to take away choice from people, so that they do.  Any attempt to do that warrants violence against the protestors attempting it.   And no compassion for individual circumstances justifies anything done at the Roebling bridge, other than the police shutting it down and arresting with violence the perpetrators.  And I would have fully supported much more violence.  Because when I want to use that bridge, which happens often, I don’t want stringy-haired hippie socialists blocking the way.   Get them off the road, by any means necessary.

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The Heart of the Pedophilia Problem: It’s in what we consider to be “adult content”

I’ve been writing these articles daily for over 15 years, and they are changing slightly.  It will probably tick off some people, but that’s OK.  We are trying to make America great again, and that means that we have to shift our focus from fixing things out there somewhere to looking at ourselves and fixing what’s broken within us, which allowed a broken world to occur in the first place.  So my work here is transforming perhaps from a Drudge Report from the classic days to more of a Tony Robbins motivational seminar at an Alcoholics Anonymous session.  That’s OK. When I started doing this, it wasn’t a very popular thing to do, and it made many people very angry.  But they are only angry because they know it’s true.  And that was never more abundantly true than over the issue of pedophilia, the diabolical trend of having sex with children that is such a horrendous problem—much more than most people want to admit to.  Here in my local community of Butler County, Ohio, we have seen sex with children and a very soft reaction to it from the public in general to be a significant trend among well-paid members of polite society.  So this isn’t just a scum bag in the corner with a porn addiction kind of problem.  It’s happening everywhere.  This past year, I was able to serve as a foreman on a grand jury, and I saw lots of evidence of child pornography that showed me the face of true evil manifesting in the world. That is such a problem. I would put it at number one out of all our current issues.  There are people trying to have sex with kids that you know and they are trying to do it right now.  And no child is safe if they interact with five or more people, even within family structures.  But why is it such a problem?  And why is it so hard for us to admit to it?  Well, that’s the heart of the problem.  We were all raised to advance it.

When we were all kids and coming of age, we were told by society that smoking, drinking, and having sex were “adult” content in movies and books and that we were kept from seeing or witnessing the practice.  Before puberty, we teach kids fun things, and we talk about those things as kids’ things.  But when we get to a certain age and want to show that we are adults, we start doing one of those three things: sex, drugs, and drinking to prove that we have come of age.  How many fourteen-year-old girls take up smoking as a means to show the world that they are now ready to be pollinated and have gained the power to use sex as a weapon?  Well, why do they think that?  Because we told them that was how adults become adults.  And they want to be adults and transition from being a kid.  We taught them that the values of being a kid were to be locked in a closet never to return, or to sell all those cute things from our childhood in a yard sale, to trade all the adorable stuffed animals with body piercings, pop music posters, and sexual conquests.  And because we focus on those three things as our gateways to adulthood, we don’t give ourselves any room to grow any further, and most people never mature beyond the age of 15 years old.  By that time, the mistakes of that chosen lifestyle scare people for life, and they never get over all the bad things they did during this age group.

By the time most people turn 50 or 60, they have made so many mistakes in their own lives and then destroyed the lives of their children with the same diabolical practices that they start to go a little psycho and lose touch with reality.  They come across as so out of touch that young people never consider listening to them for wisdom, which makes the situation worse for the older people, and they drop off the map and die quietly while their grandkids and great-grandkids can’t take their eyes off their smartphones during the funeral, caring almost nothing for the somber occasion.  That is a big reason why adults seek sex with kids, either to get back to that innocence or to undo in their minds the mistakes they made their entire adult lives.  Adults are old and broken, and kids are new and fresh, so in a parade of broken people, kids don’t have much of a chance to enter their teenage years without some corrupt influence trying to groom them into horrendous behavior on a path to self-destruction because that’s all the adults know to do and they pass the mess on to the next generation for all kinds of foolish reasons.  And before you know it, the men are taking their adult wealth and secretly flying to Cambodia to have sex with a harem fantasy of 14-year-old girls while the wife discharges her frustrations with growing insanity because women express themselves differently on this problem than men do.  Women feel rejected.  The men seek youth to do it all over again knowing what they do now that they wished they knew then.  Some men stay in the legal lane by getting a new wife in their 20s when they are in their 50s.  But in many ways, that isn’t good.   Nobody escapes intact, and everyone’s lives are ruined in the process. 

This ruin is on such a scale that we can’t deal with it.  So when we find out that our school superintendent is essentially selling his wife for sex-ploits with the world because of a severe porn addiction, and that addiction is taking them into sex with kids in their school, we act surprised.  But when that incident actually happened, most everyone sat on their hands and said nothing about it because deep inside, they were just as guilty.  They didn’t yet do the deed.  But they were thinking about it.  This trend to decriminalize sex with minors is more than just a desire; it’s the direction a society like ours goes when sex, drugs, and reckless behavior are the only things that we identify as proper to be an adult.  So, our values never progress beyond those traits, and we wonder why we have the problems we do.  Well, it all starts by telling kids that “adult content” is a forbidden fruit, and that’s their path to proving they are no longer children.  And we wish we could say to them that when they are 50, 60, and 70, they will want to have held on to their childhoods a lot longer and not be in such a rush to pick one or all of those three things to show the adults they were ready to grow up.  But that is why we have a pedophilia problem. We have baked it into our social order, and until we change that, it will continue to be a massive problem.  Kids don’t have much chance because the adults of their lives never figured it out.  Because they, too, were taught all the wrong things and, as adults, don’t know any better how to behave.  And it’s not just a few people; it’s most people of all ages and classes.  They all have the same fundamental problem: how they entered adulthood, thinking one of those horrible things was the means to get there.  Only to discover they should have held on to their childhoods much longer.  And if they had, they would have been much happier and intellectually sound as older adults than the empty lives they were given to live and never otherwise questioned. 

Rich Hoffman

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Merrick Garland Needs To Go To Jail: The organized crime of a government run by thugs, criminals, and murderers

Yes, Merrick Garland needs to go to jail.  This procedure to hold him in contempt is important, which Congress is going through now.  Or, however, things turn out, to hold him accountable for his actions in weaponizing the DOJ in favor of Biden, a criminal president in his own right.  The only defense that any of these characters have as a defense against jail is that their political position of anti-Constitutional sentiment seeks to move the goalposts out of the arena, so they are no longer applicable.  Marrick Garlan, Obama, Eric Holder, Hilary Clinton, Mayorkas, Wray, Fauci, Pelosi, Biden, under any premise of a law and orderly society, people like these should be punished in the harshest way possible for their lack of respect for the American voter.  And their purposeful participation in crimes against America and the way they have knowingly used the law as a weapon against their political enemies while daring people to apply those same standards to them.  There has been so much wrong and under normal conditions, especially in the pre-progressive era politics imported from Europe on banana boats and immigrants with Harvard degrees.  It doesn’t get much worse than what Merrick Garland has done against President Trump and against the rest of us who voted for Trump.  There must be punishment for those who commit crimes.  We can’t let criminals use the law to hide crimes, much like mobsters have done throughout history.  What the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, and many other three-letter agencies have done as controlled by modern Democrats in a manner we might point to and call the Deep State has been horrendously corrupt and manically vicious.  In the context of some history, it was purposefully exploited.  When a thug like Merrick Garland becomes the top cop in America, directs the law in a corrupt way, and gets caught.  Then, the law in every manner of justice must be thrown in his direction.

To understand a bit of history here, when mobsters got away with killing JFK and their primary target, Bobby Kennedy, with cold-blooded murders, a new standard was set for government partnerships where the mob essentially moved into government to control the prosecution of their many criminal enterprises.  Suppose you know how Bobby Kennedy went after mob bosses to prove his worth as an Attorney General, the exact role Merrick Garland has now. In that case, you will understand how personal crusades and power abused in that office can quickly get out of control.  Even though I agreed with what Bobby Kennedy was trying to do for his brother’s administration in cracking down on mob activity in America, the abuses of power were ostentatious and quite overt.  J. Edger Hoover, the cross-dressing FBI director who started it all, hated the Kennedys and denied that there was even organized crime occurring anywhere.  He wanted to fight communists, which the mob was happy to see because it got the government off their back.  But as history washed out the results, they were all the same kind of menace. China proved that organized crime hidden behind a communist government could take mob control to national levels, and that is what has been happening in America for most of the progressive political movement, starting with the turn of the last century.  When Hoover had to report to Bobby Kennedy as attorney general and had to go after criminal thugs in the mob, like labor union bosses and shadowy figures in Newport, Kentucky, he was targeted for assassination.  And yes, the FBI knew about it and helped facilitate the killers as a means to perform the task.

Now that we know that Biden’s White House, through Merrick Garland, had plans to invade Mar-a-Lago with deadly force, meaning they hoped that Trump and his people would fight back and be drawn into a shootout, we see years of this behavior culminating in a very modern way.  But when the mob burnt down the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Newport, as a result of all this mob behavior, the media carried the story as some faulty wiring, a playbook of criminal activity using the government and the mob control of the media to divert attention from an unsuspecting public was well underway.  The passive-aggressive position against voters and mob behavior started there, with the killing of the Kennedys, where the powers of government in the White House, where people picked their representative every four years, were manipulated by mob activity that evolved into government power acquired by organized crime.  What Joe Biden has done with his office in selling it, as we see in evidence through his children, is no different than the mob crime bosses known from the rough and tumble days of Newport, Kentucky, where so much mob behavior started.  People associate Chicago with mob mentality, but it was Newport, Kentucky, where much of the practice for the rest of the nation began.  And why it was wrapped up in the killing of President Kennedy and his brother, the Attorney General.  I used to work at the Mike Fink floating restaurant in Covington and the Islands in Newport, and I got to know some of the characters left over from that time.  Just because many people don’t know these stories and don’t want to admit that such corrupt monsters run their legal system doesn’t mean it isn’t happening and that it’s all a conspiracy.  It’s far worse than the conspiracies. The top floor of the FBI has always had a soft spot for organized crime, which the government has become against the wishes of tax-paying voters. 

Merrick Garland has abused his power to cover the crimes of this Biden White House in grotesque ways.  And it’s all been far worse than the killing of the Kennedys and the destruction of the Beverly Hills Supper Club in 1977, which killed many people and was done right out in the open.  Government and organized crime have been locked arm and arm all along.  And we are seeing the results of that relationship explode in front of us to this day, with just some of these characters mentioned.  And it will continue until we stop it.  Merrick Garland has done what he has because he knows this history and thinks he can get away with it because now, in 2024, the most prominent organized crime family are these national communist movements.  China is the largest.  And one trying to form in America which performed a coup against President Trump and is now being led, with the help of the FBI and CIA, by Merrick Garland and his Biden-controlled DOJ.  We know Bobby Kennedy abused the office of the Attorney General to prove to his brother that he was worthy of that lofty job. In that case, you can imagine what low-life characters like Garland, Obama, Biden, and the Clintons would do with all that power to their political enemies.  And knowing all that, we can’t permit it to persist. Otherwise, we have no country or premises from which they have already accepted and are operating.  While many of us still cling to classic notions about law and order and constitutional principles, most people seeking government power do it for the same reasons people joined the mob.  They wanted power and the lifestyle of easy money because they were generally lazy and didn’t want to work too hard at life, so they wanted power to steal money from other people.  And because of that conscious decision, people like Merrick Garland, once caught, and he has, must be punished severely and without remorse so that any concept of justice can live into the future.

Rich Hoffman

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Puff Daddy and the Rap Music Industry of Marxism and Mayhem: They always intended to destroy American culture

Whatever they call him, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, or whatever it is that the famous rap star is in trouble with, it’s not that the music industry is saturated with sex trafficking and child molesters that is the problem.  Everyone knows what Puff Daddy has been up to, and loose sex with lots of crazy women and underage kids is part of their lifestyle. The record industry has made a lot of money over the years, pandering to the worst of the human race, the typical losers who used to worship Baal in the Bible and sacrifice their firstborn children in trade for sex and glory.  If Puff Daddy is in trouble now, it’s likely because he has fallen out of favor and he’s being offered as a sacrifice to the gods of chaos by a corrupt FBI trying to appear like they are doing their job in an election year where they are trying to divert attention from President Biden, the inserted president, not the elected one.  No, the worst thing about this recent story is the origin of rap music to begin with, as a deliberate attack on American culture by Marxists looking to undermine our culture through the inner cities and to make ground troops out of the discontent with a communist revolution.  Don’t ever forget that Black Lives Matter was a Marxist organization that many corporations openly embraced.   But not before the rap music scene came along to pave the way for that nonsense and guilt people into believing they had to embrace that hate music to prove that they weren’t racists left over from the Civil War.  Also, never forget the Republican Party was created to end racism, and it was the Democrats who fought that effort, a mistake that would hurt them until they tried to use the Civil Rights Movement during the communist 60s to rebrand their image. 

People who are not very well educated in history have let pop music define their political parameters, so they have no context.  But the truth is, rap music was introduced to American music to destroy our culture and usher communism into communities of color to rot us from the inside out.  And Puff Daddy and all his other child-molesting rap buddies, like the dope smoker Snoop Dogg and even the whitewash sucker Eminem and the Beastie Boys, were creations of the music industry meant to be weapons of destruction to rot the minds of the youth and turn them against the culture of their parents for the destruction of America as a nation.  It was just one aspect of the globalist plans to attack America without tanks and troops and instead attack the minds of the youth so they wouldn’t be able to defend their culture from those vile enemies beyond our shores, let in by finance who promoted the effort.  What?  Do you think all those great Motown hits disappeared overnight?  Think of all those great songs that came from Detroit record labels.  Are we to believe they all disappeared during the 1990s only to be replaced by these losers, Puff Daddy and the gangster rappers of hate and destruction daring us to call them out for their blatant racism baited through politics to paralyze judgment and promote a drug-induced society of criminals and cop-hating thugs.  Is anybody surprised that Puff Daddy is in trouble or that the law is being selectively enforced?  Or was he allowed to break the law to get the goods on compromised people attending his parties for extortion rackets later? 

The damage is already obvious, I was at Liberty Center, Ohio a very nice shopping complex recently enjoying a nice day with my family.  And while in the food court was a bunch of thugs obviously raised on rap music using horrendous language and treating each other like gangs from the video game Grand Theft Auto.  And they didn’t care who heard them or what anybody thought of their social conduct.  They were obvious Lakota school students and they looked like they belonged in a music video for Puff Daddy.  I’ve warned everyone if you don’t run these losers out of these shopping complexes, then the same fate that happened to Forest Fair Mall, and Tri-County Mall will happen to Liberty Center.  Nice moms and family people don’t want to share space with these gangster rappers and their bad conduct.  They will just stop going to such places.  They don’t want to hear the bad language and witness the sorry attitudes and they will find alternatives.  Everyone has to understand that those kids were taught to be that way by Marxist elements of our culture.  It has nothing to do with racism.  If it did, then the Republican Party would be the refuge for all such discussions.  Instead, the American way of life has been under attack by the music industry to make such kids weapons of their war against America.  And instead of drafting our children into service to defend our country from the communists, the communists have drafted our kids through music to kill the concept of family.  And in so doing, to destroy the foundation of American life, the youth of tomorrow.  Those young Lakota kids have been radicalized to be weaponized terrorists against good people.  And that was the purpose of Puff Daddy and his FBI, CIA friends who empowered him.  They knew what they were doing all along.  They knew about the young girls, and the sex trafficking.  Heck, they helped facilitate the crimes, until it was to their advantage to cash in their investment and throw Puff Daddy under the bus.

If it was just about making money, the music industry would still be making music like they did with Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, and Prince.  Marxists infiltrated the music industry purposely to weaponize it, and Puff Daddy was one of those weapons.  And they used him until they wanted to close up a loop in their story.  Puff Daddy was a creation of those who hated America, as the entire rap culture was.  It was intended to destroy a whole generation with victimized sentiments and attempt to assign to mainstream America all the sins of the Democrat Party leading up to the Civil War.  And like the mechanisms of evil everywhere, the devil lies to all and twists the words of fate to their advantage to souls entirely too trusting.  And while we accepted this rap culture to erase away sins the Democrats caused, they used that guilt to destroy our nation’s youth with gangster rap that only now people see the proper strategy, entirely too late.  And think of all the poor kids who have had their lives destroyed by Puff Daddy and his friends of malcontents.  Rap music wasn’t created as a free market necessity but as political activism by Marxists looking to steer more losers toward the Democrat Party to keep themselves in power while trying to erase their guilt in the process.  And while kids were distracted by easy sex, drugs, and anti-American culture, the true motives were shaping our political world for the worse.  And Puff Daddy was just one of the losers; the record industry itself was ripe for the corruption it unleashed.  And the weapon of war was guilt; if they could make us feel shame, just like those dumb Lakota kids at Liberty Center, nobody would do anything about it.  And allow them to destroy our culture to prove they weren’t racists.  Meanwhile, massive numbers of underaged kids have had their lives ruined forever by these destructive rap stars and their record producers.  And only now is the whole destruction apparent to see, making it necessary for us to judge once and for all. 

Rich Hoffman

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Christian Nationalism is the Most Powerful Political Force in the World: And they are voting for Trump

Here’s the little con game they don’t want to talk about at Fox News and throughout the media that makes a lot of money off the election process through ads and consultant contributions: Christian Nationalism is far more powerful than they want to admit. After the New Hampshire primaries, where it was evident that Nikki Haley wasn’t going to win, which was her best place to succeed, the game plan for the opposition became quite clear. Keep the Republican Party from uniting around President Trump in a last-ditch effort to slow him down. It’s the same kind of strategy you see in college basketball games when a team is down 10 points at the end with under a minute to play, and the losing team switches to a full-court press, hoping to draw a penalty and go to the line to shoot points with no time on the clock. Of course, the fear is that the Deep State is about to lose all touch with someone in the White House, which will be a first for them. When Trump was president the last time, it was Mike Pence who was their representative, someone they thought they could deal with and who could control President Trump somehow. But before that arrangement, Reagan had his Bush. And George W. Bush had Chaney. Nikki Haley, for traditional Republicans, is their safety rail, and they were talking her up as if she could have some hold over President Trump, which is absurd. I have traveled to almost every corner of America and know it very well. I can tell you that the world’s most potent force in politics is Christian Nationalism. There are a lot of them, as the evidence shows, all across the landscape from sea to shining sea, there are a lot of nice white steeples from churches that reach into each community with the values of Biblical text, and they are more engaged in politics now than in any of the years past. And they are voting for Trump.

The media narrative that Republicans have to work harder to win anything against some vile Democrats and independents is a game of chicken I’m perfectly willing to play.  I would argue that Trump is already a Democrat enough to pull over votes from the other side, especially the union vote.  Trump will draw Democrats from concerned suburban women worried about putting food in the refrigerator; he will get immigrants chasing the American dream to vote for him, and he has a lot of minority support in general.  Then there are the classic Republicans.  Trump in a general election against an entrenched Biden is a blowout.  What the political forces fear is their lack of relevance.  And then there is election fraud, which has kept Democrats in power and is the real story behind the scenes with the donor class.  They believe they own elections because they control the money that feeds the media culture and, therefore, can control election messages and the world with it.  President Trump does not need Nikki Haley as a running mate.  He can afford to pick anybody he wants and would be wise to choose a successor, someone most like him.  I have stated my favorite pick would be Kristi Noem.  But Vivek Ramaswami would be great because of his youth and energy as an attack dog.  But this next Trump term, a revenge tour in a lot of ways, is about stopping the Deep State, as it is anything else, and Nikki Haley is their pick.  Not Trump’s.

If you have been paying attention, all the things that make America great have been under attack by these same people propping up Nikki Haley, even as a loser.  With strong families and strong faith in religion, when Ben Carson compared Trump to King David recently as an imperfect man picked by the hand of God to lead the American nation, the reaction was desperate.  The panic was evident on many fronts with that kind of talk.  And that’s how you know they know that people are seeing through their long-established scam, a divide-and-conquer strategy that they thought would always protect them from just this type of election with political people like Trump changing the game away from their control.  I believe the comparison between King David and Trump is a good one.  Trump does look to be the hand-picked agent of God, and that hand is at work with the power of the universe behind it to defeat the forces of evil that have embedded themselves into the American government as globalists.  And a lot of people who would have never otherwise voted are as good Christian soldiers marching as to war, and they are voting as if it was a war.  Engagement is much higher than usual, and Trump is poised in every state to blow Biden off the map in ways we have never seen before.  When Newt Gingrich recently said that the 2024 election was shaping up to be a return to the kind of blowout numbers that Reagan had over Carter, I think he was being nice, and that will essentially be because of Christian Nationalism.  America is a Christian nation, and so is much of the world, and they see in Trump the work of God that is a destiny.  And they are willing to play their part in it, one way or the other.  As I said about traveling around the country, America is not controlled by Democrats.  Most people are Christian Republicans, and the only reason they haven’t voted in past elections was because they didn’t have anybody to vote for. 

And that is the little secret that the Deep State would like everyone not to know, that Christian Nationalism beats them in every form they present themselves.  To win, not only do they have to cheat, as they have been doing for many years.  But they have to erode people’s foundations of value, so they have been attacking the church as one of their primary objectives.  It was not an accident that the ridiculously unscientific social distancing standards were trying to keep people from attending Church together during Covid.  The goal is obvious: the political left and the Deep State, in general, have been trying hard to subdue Christian Nationalism as a strategy for their takeover of global politics, and they have been working hard at it in America.  This only pushed Christianity’s influence to the back burner because there was nobody to vote for in the past.  But now there is.  And it’s a much more powerful political force than anything else.  It is the biggest rival of the United Nations attempting to take over global politics as godless heathens of polytheism and a return to the pantheon of Mesopotamian gods that have been around since the dawn of human intelligence.  The ideas of individualism are what they find objectionable, and there is nothing more individual than a God who runs the universe all by himself.  That is the enemy of mass collectivists everywhere, and they have been working hard to separate the world from such a relationship with God and nature in themselves, individualism, and the impulse of their spirit.  To serve the globalist and their United Nations political autocracy is to serve the polytheism of their ancient gods and return to the kings over their subjects, which is the fantasy of the World Economic Forum and communist governments around the world, especially socialists like Justin Trudeau and the lunatics at the European Union.  People get it; through Christian Nationalism, they can take America back and spread that influence to the far corners of the world, as we should.  And Trump is the means to do that, and people are going to crawl through broken glass naked to do it.  Nikki Haley has no role in that effort as the RINOs need to be crushed and removed from the Republican Party, and the media culture that has supported all these tyrannies be eradicated for the role they have played in America’s destruction.  Trump is just the start of it; there is a lot more to come on behalf of Christian Nationalism. 

Rich Hoffman

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‘The Capitalist Manifesto’ by Johan Norberg: Admitting to the only economic system that helps people the most

The change of view of economic fundamentals from the political left

After reading Johan Norberg’s book The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, I’ll admit to a substantial flood of satisfaction. I mean this wasn’t Ayn Rand, it was a kind of Ikea view of capitalism, but the message was quite clear. I’ve read other books by Johan Norberg and he’s pretty good for what I’d consider a lefty. He’s conservative by European standards, but in America, we have very different ideas of what a liberal is. But to Johan, a liberal means less restriction in market economies in a region that has always been about tyranny, the tyranny of the church, the tyranny of some maniacal king, or secret societies trying to undo everything in the background. The lunatic Karl Marx conceived in Europe the birthplace of socialism and communism. I would never have read the book if I hadn’t seen Elon Musk recommend it. I’m not a fan of Elon Musk. I want him to do well with SpaceX. He makes a good car, but he’s not my idea of a good leader. But he is the richest person in the world, and I have thought it interesting to watch him grow his political perspective to accommodate his needs to move humanity into space and set up a colony on Mars. He has learned quite ostentatiously that a socialist Biden government with Barack Obama still whispering in his ear is never going to get Musk where he wants SpaceX to go. It takes too long to obtain permits, and the Department of Labor constantly harasses him because Musk doesn’t allow unionized labor to manage his manufacturing facilities. So Musk has evolved over time and seems to have fully embraced capitalism now in ways that are pace setting. There are a lot of very interesting observations in The Capitalist Manifesto that are quite delicious and well worth talking about. I think it may be one of the most important books of 2023, and it is undoubtedly impactful to the world’s current circumstances.

A very important book

I’ve been talking about this kind of stuff for many years so the change in tone is not lost on me.  What The Capitalist Manifesto is by Norberg is a confession intended for liberals to read that undoes over a century of lunacy in following Karl Marx.  This is not a book intended for the MAGA crowd in America but the many socialists and communists around the world who still are trying to work The Communist Manifesto into political sustainability.  I remember how vicious that media, in general, was when I worked with the producers of the movie Atlas Shrugged to get the message out about their film version of the Ayn Rand books that were famous around the world but were labeled conspiracy theories of the radical right.  So this Johan Norberg confession is no small matter.  It wasn’t written for me or the fans of Ayn Rand, it was written to the college liberal, the Keynesian economist and the diabolical politician getting rich off the Swamp and all its globalist mechanisms.  Norberg has figured out something that the political left has been very slow to admit to: socialism of any kind doesn’t work.  And it was never going to work, and that capitalism, by free people, the freer, the better, is the key to unlocking the powers of any economy.  This is a CATO Institute view of the world that offers a flood of statistics to show just how much better the world is because of capitalism than it is under any other kind of authoritarian approach.  Norberg presents a dizzying display of real-world examples that everyone needs to come to grips with because we now have enough data to make some sobering judgments.

The Capitalist Manifesto was Norberg trying to explain to global liberals that if they want globalism and if they’re going to fight populism, they had better embrace capitalism and do it quickly.  He’s certainly no fan of President Trump, who he sees as a threat to the global order because he’s a nationalist who wants to close the borders of America to outside influence, to turn in instead of migrating out.  But the impact of financial systems driven by political sentiments couldn’t be more obvious.  This book was a white flag from the radical leftist points of view that capitalism was the only solution to global problems such as poverty.  There is no other economic approach that has improved the lives of so many, and as if to solidify critical opinion about capitalism, Johan Norberg cites many instances where Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx himself admitted that capitalism is the best and only way to approach economic theory.  And to argue against any notion that centralized planning does anything but harm people economically and is a background contributor to many of life’s many miseries.  This was a book attempting to capture the MAGA message of free markets in America and stamp liberalism to it as if it was their idea all along.  Again, Norberg has kind of an Ikea view of the world; I wouldn’t call Sweden a bastion of capitalism.  They only look that way because the rest of Europe has the heavy fog of communism and socialism hanging over it in such a devastating way.  America has an expectation of freedom that Europe does not have.  But to even say the word “capitalism” in Europe is taboo, similar to saying that your father has a mistress or that mom is wearing red panties under her white dress to church.  Nobody has been willing to admit these secrets in public until now. 

As I closed the book, I realized I had just read something that would set the tone for the next several decades.  It was a victory in many ways that the enemies of the world understood that they would never win against capitalism.  And that even liberal-minded people like Musk and Norberg, who are poster children for the World Economic Forum, or at least had been until the realities of populism rising around the world forced them to look in the mirror and give up on Marxism wholesale.  The Capitalist Manifesto is not an American book.  I tried to buy a copy at my local Barnes and Noble, but they didn’t have it.  The book ships out of the United Kingdom, so we’re not discussing an American product trying to explain capitalism’s values to the world.  This is coming from a European perspective, where socialism was born and raised to the detriment of most of the world.  Johan Norberg understands that only capitalism has worked to solve many of the problems that Democrats and their many versions regionally are concerned with.  The only way to help people is to find a way to put more money in their pockets that doesn’t involve the government stealing it from people who have made money and giving it to people who were too lazy to work for it.  I can’t recommend this book enough; it’s an avalanche of admissions that culture must embrace.  And within its pages, we can see the future, where liberals are finally going to get on the side of conservatives because they must.  They may even try to steal capitalism as their own, which would be expected of them.  But whatever the case, the world will change for the better as a result, and things will look a whole lot different economically, in a good way, in the decades to come because of the admissions in this book. 

Rich Hoffman