There is a lot of discussion now about how and why corporate cultures have gone so Woke and are no longer opportunities for jobs and product development, but are drivers of communism in our culture in America. As I’ve pointed out before, college is not how you achieve success in life; those sentiments were given to us from Europe and the early American sensibilities that they were the gateway to aristocracy. To this day, parents who want good things for their children are convinced that a college degree will give their offspring an entry point into aristocratic society, which is how the game is designed. The genuinely successful usually find that to develop an idea independently, college gets in their way. But to serve someone who is doing all the risk-taking, college can help them get a job working with those people. It all depends on what you want out of life. However, communists have infiltrated that education process, and they did so early on. With everyone learning the same kind of communist garbage in college, it’s no wonder many students find they spend the rest of their lives deprogramming themselves from what they learned. And it is through that method, the communist dog whistles work when China plans some passive-aggressive attack on our culture, and we find ourselves defenseless to take a stand, as explained in the video below.
Thinking deeply about these new cicadas that have been coming out of the ground for this latest 17-year cycle in May has given me reflection on the nature of life in general and the ways that governments seek to control us. I like these cicadas, they are beautiful little creatures, and it almost seems tragic that their life is so short for all the hoopla they embark on to arrive over such a long gestation period. But here they are, they climb out of their shells after so long burrowed in the ground only to almost immediately begin their mating rituals followed by death days or weeks later. It reminds me in a cosmic way of the human lifespan and why we have the kinds of anxieties that we do about things. I would also offer that by developing our intellects, we can step away from the lifecycles that the cicadas are stuck on. But one major impediment that we must overcome is how governments use our natural struggle with lifecycles to keep us under control, as explained in the video below.
It is pretty smoky out there; it’s a war between ideologies and, you know, the rule. In wars or fights of any kind, the winner is determined by capitulation. And right now, it’s impossible to tell who is thinking of capitulating, but remember. We are not in a peaceful transition of power, and President Trump is not gripping power for power’s sake. We are in a full-out war for the influence of American ideas in the world. I think all this is healthy. Because of Trump, the world has its ideas challenged. That challenge is forcing honesty where it has otherwise been hidden. All that is good, as I said in the video above. The cracks are showing through the many methods of election fraud that were performed for Democrats to get the power they have gained in 2021. And no matter what happens as a result of this war, Joe Biden will never be considered the official president. Only five months into 2021, just over 50% of all Republicans do not believe Joe Biden is the legitimate president. And that number is growing as election audits are showing a lot of irregularities that factually did occur. There will come a time very soon where all those in the media who said that there was no election fraud will have to retract their statements and admit there was, just as they have been doing with Covid coming out of the Wuhan lab in China. And despite the smoke we see now, this is as good as it will ever get for Joe Biden and his Democrat insurgents. And that’s not very good. The best punishment is to force them all to live with what they have done. Every day, they look in that mirror, knowing that they have been caught and will go down in history as losers of the highest degree and criminal scum who used government offices to hide their many crimes for which reflection will never forget.
I had an excellent opportunity to meet Vivek Ramaswamy, talking about his upcoming book, Woke, Inc., at a Butler County event sponsored by several great Republicans. Butler County Treasurer Nancy Nix and her husband are a few of the best people anybody could imagine. They were responsible for setting up the event, which features a discussion on the problem of “wokeness” in American business and is a topic I am very concerned with. I always appreciate when I have an opportunity to learn something new, and I did as Vivek spoke for an hour and a half at the Republican Victory Center in Middletown, Ohio. He said that the definition of “woke” was waking up from the dream of being an American, which startled me as a metaphor. I suppose it’s an obvious definition, but the way Vivek presented it was pretty alarming. Ramaswamy, you might know from Fox Business and Fox News in general, he’s on several shows regularly, specifically Tucker Carlson. So it was quite a treat to get him for an evening all to ourselves to discuss this critical issue as I talk about below.
The Kotter Change State to Convert America to Communism
It’s called the Kotter Change Model, which is based on a paper first published by the Harvard Review years ago. It’s been around for a long time, and most organizations have had some exposure to it. It is precisely what Beijing Biden is doing by talking up China, as mentioned in the video above. China is still a backwater, copycat country of scum bag communists, yet the Biden administration is attempting to paint them as the future wave. It’s a sleight of hand trick to convert America into a communist country by setting an artificial emergency to inspire us to copy our enemy to beat them. There is nothing new about this method, only that it is being used to destroy our country, not just to change a business or organization.
As I said above, I am not against electric cars. Tesla is the kind of car I’m thinking about getting, especially the new truck they are about to come out with. But the speech Joe Biden gave about electric cars being the wave of the future and that we are never going back was ridiculously stupid as he toured a Ford factory that is making electric F150s. Someone needs to explain to these idiots that market decisions in an economy are driven by market need. The government doesn’t mandate “need.” For Biden to proclaim as he did, electric cars were being pushed forward regardless of how anybody feels about it. America would either lead or fall behind shows that he and his handlers don’t even understand the basics of economics 101. Tesla has managed to do well in creating a market niche for itself. But there is no indication whatsoever that electric cars from Ford, General Motors, or any other car company will be successful. There are a lot of factors about American cars that the intrusive Joe Biden government is not considering that will spell doom for those who have fallen into the trap of building cars that people don’t want for needs that don’t exist except in the realm of the environmental wackos and far-left greenie weenies.
The typical F150 buyer likes to rev up their engines at stoplights; they want to put modified exhaust systems on them when the trucks get later in age so that people can hear how powerful their machines are. Electric engines are quiet. You might be able to get some speed out of them, but who cares if nobody can hear it? The evolution of the American auto in America is not just about getting from one place to another; it’s about the statement you make in getting there. Many auto buyers like the sound of an engine to announce who they are and make proclamations of individuality. And their cars and trucks help them express that need. For Biden and team government, they ignore all those basic needs and trade them for concern for the environment that does not exist, nor can they even express that it is accurate. Typical F150 drivers care far more about nature than these government losers. They hunt, camp, spend a lot of time outdoors roaming the earth, and the perception of environmentalism created by prominent government liberals is simply out of touch with reality. You can’t trust the statistics they use to justify their positions any better than the CDC was able to tell us that wearing masks helped even a little in stopping the spread of Covid-19, which Dr. Fauci helped develop at a lab in Wuhan, China.
There aren’t enough power stations to support electric cars to match the government’s push for all these car companies to flood the market with electric vehicles, which is a typical mismanagement plan by the government who never thinks things through properly. For instance, there is a decent infrastructure for Tesla cars; they have a system in their navigation that helps you find a charging station. You can swap out at some of these your battery for a charged one so you can continue driving. But if there are too many electric cars on the streets, there will be long lines at these charging stations, and people won’t like that. I can think of the proper use of charging stations at Disney Springs in Orlando. On the top floor of the parking garage, you can charge your electric car while you shop. That’s a pretty good idea, but it can’t handle many vehicles at the same time. If there are ten or twenty electric cars there at the same time, they will have problems, and if those drivers are counting on a charge to get home, and all the stations are occupied, those drivers will have a problem. To create the infrastructure that will support lots of charges at fuel stops, the electric car market is a long way from where it needs to support the type of electric car market that Joe Biden is talking about.
20% of all-electric car owners go back to gas-powered vehicles mainly because of this charging issue. The electric cars are great for about 300 miles, but then what? It’s not like 50 cars an hour will be able to pull off the highway at some distant fuel station and get a refill, a box of donuts, and a fresh cup of coffee in under 15 minutes and get back on the road. Recharging an electric car takes some time and resources. For a niche market, we have the infrastructure to support small numbers of electric vehicles, but nowhere near the amount needed to have every significant car company putting out their versions of an electric vehicle that will be dependent on that same under-supported infrastructure system. Of course, the government thinks that building infrastructure is as easy as kids playing with Legos. They have no concept of cost, they print the money, and since they are government-paid stooges, they don’t and won’t understand why fuel station operators will be reluctant to change all their gas pumps to electric to support the need.
Of course, the government thinks that solar and wind power, free, will support all these power needs, but they have not done the math. Just as a metaphorical comparison, I have been looking for an electric generator for my RV. I found one I like; it’s a 1000 watt-hour super battery thing that can recharge with solar panels. I think it’s pretty cool to be in the middle of nowhere and be able to get enough power to run a microwave and recharge cell phones, maybe. But I need the kind of power that will run an air conditioner and lots of other things, so a gas generator is still the best option until lithium technology advances to that level, which will be a while. To generate the kind of power that will support the electric car market at all these fuel stations will require a lot of solar panels, more than most people have green grass on their property and far better batteries to store that energy in. We are nowhere close to taking care of those needs, yet the government has pushed these car companies into making these substantial financial advancements into cars that people don’t even want. The typical F150 owner wants to hear their truck roar; they don’t want to drive a fancy golf cart. Ford will have all these poor trucks sitting around only to have people desire the gas option. And for the government to say, “ready or not, here we come” regarding electric car sales and infrastructure, their attitude is that if people have to wait to get a recharge, then so be it. They can stay at home, save the earth and collect a government check as people did during the covid shutdowns.
I would love to have a Tesla as a kind of secondary play vehicle. But as a primary mode of transportation, no way. I don’t want lines when I have somewhere to go. Suppose a fuel stop takes longer than 10 minutes for me; it’s too long. I have places to go and people to see, and I don’t have time to manage my life around electric recharging stations or even plug and unplug my car at my house every time I want to go somewhere. There are so many problems with electric vehicles that the government hasn’t come close to working out that they have no idea how stupid everything Joe Biden said at that Ford plant sounded. They think they are the most intelligent people in the world by using free solar energy to power the American car culture. But what they don’t understand is that free doesn’t make it good. It’s free for a reason.
I have just learned, through leaks in the mainstream media, that after being under investigation from the time I came down the escalator 5 ½ years ago, including the fake Russia Russia Russia Hoax, the 2 year, $48M, No Collusion Mueller Witch Hunt, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and others, that the Democrat New York Attorney General has “informed” my organization that their “investigation” is no longer just a civil matter but also potentially a “criminal” investigation working with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. But, make no mistake, that is exactly what is happening here. The Attorney General of New York literally campaigned on prosecuting Donald Trump even before she knew anything about me. She said that if elected, she would use her office to look into “every aspect” of my real estate dealings. She swore that she would “definitely sue” me. She boasted on video that she would be, and I quote, “a real pain in the ass.” She declared, “just wait until I’m in the Attorney General’s office,” and, ”I’ve got my eyes on Trump Tower.” She also promised that, if elected, she would “join with law enforcement and other Attorney Generals across this nation in removing this President from office,” and, “It’s important that everyone understand that the days of Donald Trump are coming to an end.” The Attorney General made each of these statements, not after having had an opportunity to actually look at the facts, but BEFORE she was even elected, BEFORE she had seen even a shred of evidence. This is something that happens in failed third world countries, not the United States. If you can run for a prosecutor’s office pledging to take out your enemies, and be elected to that job by partisan voters who wish to enact political retribution, then we are no longer a free constitutional democracy. Likewise, the District Attorney’s office has been going after me for years based on a lying, discredited low life, who was not listened to or given credibility by other prosecutorial offices, and sentenced to 3 years in prison for lying and other events unrelated to me. These investigations have also been going on for years with members and associates of the Trump Organization being viciously attacked, harassed, and threatened, in order to say anything bad about the 45th President of the United States. This would include having to make up false stories. Numerous documents, all prepared by large and prestigious law and accounting firms, have been examined, and many hours of testimony have been taken from many people, some of whom I have not seen in years. These Democrat offices are consumed with this political and partisan Witch Hunt at a time when crime is up big in New York City, shootings are up 97%, murders are up 45%, a rate not seen in 40 years, drugs and criminals are pouring into our Country in record numbers from our now unprotected Southern Border, and people are fleeing New York for other much safer locations to live. But the District Attorney and Attorney General are possessed, at an unprecedented level, with destroying the political fortunes of President Donald J. Trump and the almost 75 million people who voted for him, by far the highest number ever received by a sitting President. That is what these investigations are all about—a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of the United States. Working in conjunction with Washington, these Democrats want to silence and cancel millions of voters because they don’t want “Trump” to run again. As people are being killed on the sidewalks of New York at an unprecedented rate, as drugs and crime of all kinds are flowing through New York City at record levels, with absolutely nothing being done about it, all they care about is taking down Trump. Our movement, which started with the Great Election Win of 2016, is perhaps the biggest and most powerful in the history of our Country. But the Democrats want to cancel the Make America Great Again movement, not by Making America First, but by Making America Last. No President has been treated the way I have. With all of the crime and corruption you read about with others, nothing happens, they only go after Donald Trump. After prosecutorial efforts the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, they failed to stop me in Washington, so they turned it over to New York to do their dirty work. This is what I have been going through for years. It’s a very sad and dangerous tale for our Country, but it is what it is, and we will overcome together. I have built a great company, employed thousands of people, and all I do is get unfairly attacked and abused by a corrupt political system. It would be so wonderful if the effort used against President Donald J. Trump, who lowered taxes and regulations, rebuilt our military, took care of our Veterans, created Space Force, fixed our border, produced our vaccine in record-setting time (years ahead of what was anticipated), and made our Country great and respected again, and so much more, would be focused on the ever more dangerous sidewalks and streets of New York. If these prosecutors focused on real issues, crime would be obliterated, and New York would be great and free again!
Just a little message to Liz Cheney, who picked a horrible hill to die on, election fraud happened in the 2020 election. Those who played along with the liberal narrative will find themselves on the out of politics from now on. People aren’t stupid. I’ve said it many times before; media companies do not shape society; they reflect it. The audacity of the billionaire media heads to assume that they could create a narrative and force the world to stick to it regarding an election coup of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was a terrible calculation. Then for politicians like Liz Cheney to not see the writing on the wall and pick all the wrong strategies anyway is outright embarrassing. Liz Cheney chose to use the protests at the Capitol on January 6th to attempt to remove Trump from political existence. She couldn’t have known then or at any point in the election of 2020 whether or not there wasn’t election fraud. She couldn’t have made such a declarative statement, honestly. She might have hoped that there wasn’t, but she couldn’t have known. Like many in the media, Liz chose to support our election process regardless of whether there was fraud for the sanctity of the institution itself.
Think about how ridiculous the proposal from Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney and many Republicans took on election fraud. Secretly, many of them want to be president themselves, so to get rid of Trump would be the best thing in the world for them. They want their party back with a much lower bar so they can have a chance at power. That’s bad enough. But to support a crime without even seeking evidence that there wasn’t a crime is reprehensible. And now that we are deep into the election fraud investigation, we see some fire under all the smoke. The media hasn’t wanted to look at it because they got the memo from the billionaires who want to run our country from the shadows. If the media wish to have jobs, they better follow it. It is more important that people believe in our elections than to discover that there is a reason not to trust them. Because everything that has been done regarding elections has centered on trust, including going from paper ballots to digital read-outs, imagine the hassle of moving away from electronic machines connected to the internet to a punch card system.
Any intelligent person would see by now what the Democrats have been up to; they want election chaos, extended voting periods, no IDs, mail-ins for those who can’t get to the polls because they do not have a majority in the country. If they have to play by a rigid set of rules, they may never get any candidates elected, even in California. Republicans have sat on their hands playing nice only to allow Democrats to have competitive races. But the reality is that it’s not that close nationally. Only with lax election laws can Democrats appear to come close. And because there were enough Republicans to play along in this last election, because they wanted a shot at power themselves, Democrats used loose rules, digital voting machines, and other methods to steal the election up and down the ticket starting with the White House. It was the evilest thing many of us will ever see, yet it happened. We know it happened; then we listen to people like Liz Cheney talk about law and order in our society, that the January 6th events were the worst thing to ever happen in our country, and we see a phony.
The level of corruption we are seeing these days, specifically the announcement of the New York Attorney General notifying the Trump Organization that it is the subject of a criminal investigation, it is impossible to declare that there wasn’t intent by these same radical political groups to commit election fraud. They have weaponized our intelligence agencies; they have indeed weaponized several AGs around the country. That same New York branch is on a personal crusade against the NRA to occupy them with legal burdens. The corrupt AGs intend to destroy their targets, the NRA, the Trump Organization, even the McCloskey’s in St Louis. We have seen firsthand the law enforcement branches abusing their power for political gain. It’s happening right in front of our faces, yet Liz Cheney decided to play along with the game regarding election fraud. The question is not whether there was election fraud. How can you say there wasn’t? Given this political environment, how could anybody take such a stand without being part of the problem?
I’m sure it was a terror to see so many Trump supporters come to Washington to rally behind him for one last chance to keep him in office. After all, for them, what was the alternative? What were they protesting? What we see now, which we all knew was coming as a result of a Biden election? Whether the election was fair or not was irrelevant. There are people in America who will draw blood to prevent a communist takeover. The people who attacked the Capitol on the 6th felt justifiably that it was no different from the Bolsheviks taking over Petrograd under Lenin or Cuba under Castro. I would say that there are still options besides the spilling of blood, but that Trump Americans are not going to accept socialism and communism, and that resisting that was what the events of January 6th, 2021 were all about. It’s not so simple as law and order in elections. All that is out the window, and because Liz Cheney chose not to know it or see it, she has established herself as part of the problem.
For Liz Cheney and other Republicans to pick the hill of law and order to die on when the enemies have hidden behind that same law and order, they admit to the world that they are part of the crime of the century. When something as big as all this legal corruption occurs on your watch, as an elected representative, there is no choice but to take a stand as hard as it may be. If Liz wanted to stand for law and order, she would seek to punish those genuinely breaking it. Trump had a right to question the legality of the election. If crimes were committed, then those crimes need to be punished. You don’t punish the guy for asking the question of challenging the results. The people who voted for Trump can’t be expected to be harassed by legal authorities seeking to suppress evidence of a crime. If they get mad, who could blame them if they genuinely stand for law and order? The rule of law does not mean accepting crimes just because it’s the government committing them. Not asking questions about crime to maintain civility among hostile agents is just as bad as accepting criminal intent. And Liz and her type of Republicans are undoubtedly guilty of that. And people have a right to be angry with her. Accepting evil is not a good thing, as the Democrats are proposing. They are abusing their grip of the law presently, and the longer it goes on, the more violent and brutal it will be to regain regulation and order in the future. Appeasement makes it worse for everyone.
There is a pattern to all the evils we are witnessing for those who haven’t noticed yet. But it isn’t new; I’ve published hundreds and hundreds of articles on the topic, which can be found with an easy search of my site here. About a decade ago, we called it The Delphi Technique, a method of building consensus among groups of people in school districts toward justifying progressive budget justifications. They have since changed the name of it to many other things. Still, consensus building is now the primary objective in just about every social behavior. It means that the government has chosen to manage mass groups of people with a very top-down communist approach, which is very unsatisfying, even to people who lean to the political left. The reason is that consensus building is designed to apply peer pressure on the participants to act against their intelligence and individual ability to think. The intent is to make it clear to all that whatever decisions are made are for the good of all, not the satisfaction of the few. Its collectivism 101 and is now used in every social interaction that we have. Media heads are using consensus building to establish that there was no voter fraud in the last election. Or that we should trust everything the CDC told us about Covid-19. Or that we should elect politicians who are friendly, not practical. Critical race theory is just another consensus-building exercise meant to establish in our minds that Democrats are here today in the 21st century standing to fight slavery. They will never teach in public schools that Democrats held slaves and fought a war to keep them as the American Constitution sought to free them under Republicans.
Most people have from their birth a certain level of trust in others that their intellects have never matured into thinking on their own. This leaves them particularly vulnerable when it comes to manipulative people who try to sell them cars, condos, or big government plans created by rich billionaires meeting in Davos so they can do what all A-Type personalities since the beginning of time wanted to do, rule the world. In public schools, consensus building was always used to justify the out-of-control spending school boards and the labor unions present to the public that has to pay for all the nonsense, in business its to mitigate the needs of management to conduct a business when labor unions demand the façade of being joint owners of the management activities from the perspective of the worker. That is usually when a company must hire a consultant to defend production from the social expectations of communism which has seeped into the foundation of every labor union and is as anti-American has to put a communist flag on a front porch instead of an American one.
The premise of consensus building is to convince people, such as in a jury of our peers, to agree on what is presented despite their personal beliefs. We accept that what’s good for the many is best for the whole, and if you are an offshoot of thinking, you need to get with the program. That is essentially what lawyers do in court; they build consensus toward the guilt or innocence of their clients. If jurors ever want to go home from deliberation, they will have to reach an agreement with their peers. That is very democratic, but our nation was never intended to be anything but a republic. We elect representatives to cover us in the legislative process so we can do other things. But rule over the affairs of our country is not majority rule as they say in democracy. It’s meant to let logic reign supreme and let individual input debate the premise of a collective mass and to convince thinking people to change their minds, perhaps. Consensus building is hidden behind the same intent; only the goal is to prove a preconceived notion and then inject it into a group setting and drive approval among that group through consensus building, surrendering their private thoughts to the thoughts of the mass group.
The psychological goal of wearing masks by government mandate during the recent Covid experiments where governments worldwide were testing what they could get away within the public was that the masks were meant to build consensus. No matter what you thought of the virus, the act of wearing the masks was forced compliance to admit that there was a threat to our society. If you didn’t believe that the virus was deadly, you would be forced to think the government could put you in jail for not wearing one or that they could destroy your business, your life, and everything you would ever hope to be. So you had to accept some level of danger, allowing the government to build a consensus in society. Once that was established, when the subsequent crises came along, people were already trained to accept the consensus-building efforts on a mass scale, which in America was accepting election fraud. It’s no accident that all the media outlets and government participants, even in the GOP, were trained to accept without question that any mention of election tampering was taboo and off the table. Many people have been trained to think that individuals must sacrifice for the greater good; they bought into their self-preservation technique. That is the point where Liz Cheney got into trouble along with Mitch McConnell. They may have thought something different about the election results or saw that the attack against Trump helped them with their political futures, so they came to a consensus on the matter for all those reasons and more. That’s how consensus-building is used to cover up crimes when in fact, we should be using thought and intellect to expose crimes.
That is why it is evil to utilize consensus building in any endeavor. Getting along in society is not more important than uncovering any truth, whether the topic is UFOs flying around or election fraud. As thinking human beings in a representative republic, we should always seek intellect over the agreement. Self-interest will allow the best idea to surface through debate. But to bend society to the will of the masses and use consensus-building tricks to expose the weaknesses of our childhood training into a cover-up of mass crimes and budget overreach is pure evil. The scheme is being used to perpetuate massive criminal intent by the world’s governments by making innocent people complicit in the process. And that is where we find ourselves today. These consensus-building tools are not new, but their variants have moved from something you could name like The Delphi Technique to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Those are not methods of communication as much as they are consensus-building tools on a mass scale to take local opinions and connect them to the world at large, not for the enhancement of communication, but to attach the individual mind to the masses of group consensus. If people disagree with you, they can criticize you just as they might in high school, where many people learned consensus-building social behavior through a simple rewards system. Do what the masses say; they will like you. Buy the popular jeans, be at the big party or be chastised, or even take the latest drugs, drink too much alcohol, or be labeled a freak. Now that is done on Facebook to hide crimes of government and their meddling in our elections. And that is why consensus building is a vast evil that needs to be eradicated, but before we can do that, you have to know, dear reader, that it is happening every day, and to you directly, just about everywhere you go.
Well, I didn’t know it until the story broke that Kevin McCarthy was sharing an apartment with Frank Luntz, the pollster and what I call in my upcoming book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, a “bounty hunter.” Frank Luntz in the Washington D.C. beltway swamp is undoubtedly one of those. The rest of the world has known him as a consultant, which I think is a weak word for what he does. Consultants in business and politics are there to mitigate risk from the real stakeholders of an enterprise, whether it’s a CEO of a large company or the House Leader for the Republicans in congress. Those with the most risk to shoulder are often hiring bounty hunters to do their dirty work for them. It’s a common practice and is really at the heart of much of what is wrong in the world of commerce, which is why I have a special designation for those types of people. I dedicate a whole chapter to this enterprise, and when people want to know why our government is so swampy, it’s because of people like Frank Luntz. And when we look specifically at our current situation, such as the consensus-building against election fraud in the 2020 election, which allowed our tax payer funded intelligence agencies to conduct a coup against a sitting president who was massively re-elected. (For proof the results in the Arizona audit are headed in that direction) That’s terrible news for bounty hunters like Frank Luntz, so there is a lot of doubling down that is going on because the villains are exposed, and they don’t want to be.
I never cared much for Frank Luntz. He gathers information and uses it to shape strategy and opinions on politicians and the media’s topics. He doesn’t just work as a bounty hunter for political characters but corporations as well. So when it is wondered how policy gets shaped that often looks completely un-American, it is because of bounty hunters like Frank Luntz. When we put people like Kevin McCarthy into power as voters to run the Republican Party in Congress, we expect to get him as our representative. Not Frank Luntz. But as Frank often does as a bounty hunter is sample opinions of some losers here and there then give the sum result to people like McCarthy, who ends up listening to them more than voters. And that’s how a few bounty hunters end up running the entire town and is precisely why the Swamp, as we call it, has ended up being so corrupt. Trump was so effective because he didn’t use consultants, had an excellent instinct for getting to the right decisions with his methods and didn’t hire it out or solicit it. During his administration, the bounty hunter types were far less valuable. And they didn’t like that.
Bounty hunters make their money by shouldering risk away from those with a lot to lose. I have often said the primary effect of the modern CEO is not to have opinions and stand for anything at all as the head of a company. The marketing people take care of the branding. Usually, a tradition for a big company has already established market reliability. What the CEO does is keep risk from destroying what was built in the company. That’s why they hire bounty hunters to do their dirty work of opinion-shaping for them. And that’s how Frank Luntz has gained a lot of power even though technically he’s pretty much a Duntz; he’s not very wise about things. Bounty hunters like Frank Luntz only do one thing: to create advice that keeps their clients away from risk that might harm them politically or economically. Yet here’s the catch, Frank Luntz is a Democrat, or he thinks like one. So as a bounty hunter to the rich and powerful, he can then shape their actions to politics that he supports, which means that he controls our government. Our votes are not.
I have despised Frank Luntz for two occasions, first the way he set up Trump in 2015 toward the presidential election over John McCain. It helped Trump more than hurt him when Luntz asked him if John McCain was a war hero. Trump said his famous “I like people who don’t get caught.” Luntz, the bounty hunter, thought he had a way to knock off Trump at that moment, so he made a big deal about it. But what do you know, Trump thrived off the negative coverage because voters enjoyed that the then presidential hopeful wasn’t just another phony hiring people like Frank Luntz to advise him on public policy, as so many Republicans had at that time. The other time I wouldn’t say I liked Frank Luntz was on the night of the 2016 election, where the bounty hunter was very arrogant about what little chance Trump had about winning. But guess what, Trump won easily, leaving egg on the face of Frank Luntz in a big way. Yet like a bunch of idiots, the politicians kept hiring bounty hunters like Luntz, and the Swamp itself buckled down to establish a coup against our pick for president. By the time we got to 2020, Luntz and many like him who make vast amounts of money steering our elected representatives toward leftist cultures and positions beneficial to them worked hard to talk about polls favoring gun control among the American people. He also spoke about polls saying people want to move on from accusations of election fraud, when in fact, the true polls Frank is talking about are him talking to two bald men and a goldfish to get the “feel” of the American public.
McCarthy doesn’t know any better; he’s sharing a toothbrush with Luntz, so he has trust in Luntz, not so much in what the voters are thinking. That’s the bounty hunter game, to do what they were hired to do, let the chaos of the aftermath drive the sheriffs to fund another posse for the next villains. Yet as bounty hunters have always done, whether in the Old West or the modern-day Beltway culture, they make friends with the bandits to encourage them into trouble so that the politicians will hire them again. The bounty hunters never seek to solve the problem. Otherwise, they’d be unemployed. They only want to take the risk away from someone like Kevin McCarthy when questioned about the GOP position on voter fraud or guns. Or even illegal immigration. Frank will give advice that takes away the risk while steering Kevin in a liberal direction for the actual future strategy. The bounty hunters need villains to make money, so they always nurture them along behind the scenes. They don’t want to solve the problem. That’s why they all hated Trump because he wanted to solve the issues, and that meant he wasn’t calling bounty hunters to do the dirty work for him, which is where the real fix is in all politics.
It’s just as big of a problem in companies as it is in politics, bounty hunters are everywhere, and they charge a lot of money to take the risk away from those most burdened by it. But when you are a brash, battle-hardened CEO who didn’t pawn off the responsibility of risk to a bounty hunter, well, then things can get done, which is why Trump was so successful. It’s also why Frank Luntz hated Trump so intensely and is working every day to restore his grip on politics in Washington and within the media. But people are getting wise to it, and that’s why I dedicated a whole chapter in my book to the matter. It’s one of the most corrosive things in a mass communication culture, where bounty hunters are running things because everyone who should be in charge is too frightened by risk to do the job themselves. If we want to fix our politics, we will have to get rid of the bounty hunters that are in it. Then and only then can we expect things to improve.
