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Kevin McCarthy Had To Go: We have representatives in America, not leaders who can be captured by globalism

The biggest problem with modern politics is that we’ve tried to take an American republican form of government and mix it with this Marxist globalism concept, where consensus-building values are the value system.  The American government is supposed to be boisterous and combative.  I do not mean it in an over-the-top way, but in the values that should be pursued in government, where honor and valor drive decisions.  Not administrative state passive-aggressive manipulations.  Of course, when you have a government built on passive aggression, you will have a failure, and that is the case of every Marxist government that there is, whether they are outright communist governments like China, Cuba, and North Korea or socialist governments like what they have in England, all the EU, Mexico, Canada and most of South America.  The globalist standard has been Marxism consensus building, where individuals are twisted into accepting the whole of the mob despite what the people electing these people wanted. It has been a disastrous failure, especially in America, with everyone in the world trying to steal our money. Politicians are all too tempted to give it away to make all their global friends and lobbyists happy.  At least with dueling, individuals had a measure of respect that backed their actions, which showed in successful government.  And in that spirit, it was about time that Kevin McCarthy was thrown overboard as Speaker of the House.  Matt Gaetz did an excellent job of sticking to his promises and showing that he’s not afraid of conflict by not falling in line with the mob, and that’s how a good government is supposed to work.  We have been functioning from all the wrong measures for too long, leading to significant problems for the American government that must be fixed. And removing Kevin McCarthy from his speaker role was an essential first step in what will happen over the next few years. 

This was obvious after what the World Economic Forum tried to pull on America during the Covid crisis, which they were at the heart of.  They didn’t understand American forms of government, where we have representatives instead of leaders.  And they thought, just as they have done with corporate structure, that if they capture assets like in chess, they capture the whole thing through consensus building.  However, the American form of government was meant to slow down these communist ambitions and put the decision-making process on a representative republic where representatives of the population were elected and sent to do the people’s business.  In that understanding, Matt Gaetz is the perfect representative acting on behalf of his constituents.  Kevin McCarthy was not because he had strayed away from representing his voters, and instead was getting pulled into all these other directions that globalism desires.  More irresponsible spending to establish a continuing resolution on a budget that is way out of control.  Nobody wants to see Kevin McCarthy work with many loser Democrats who wish to destroy our country.  And because he did, he should be removed.  And if such a fight becomes personal, let them fight it in the street.  That is much better and more honest than what we have been getting from the government.  All the dishonesty of such a passive-aggressive government shows itself in inflated spending because, to hide all the malice, the government steps into a giveaway mode to buy off the public the same way that consensus-building monstrosities have bought off our politicians.  And the whole deal gets blown up into the kind of disaster we have witnessed for decades.  It is not good that it has taken this long to remove the Speaker of the House for not performing correctly; it should have happened long ago.  All this politeness costs money. 

Klaus Schwab has been increasingly frustrated with the American West in that he sees so much pushback with the direction of his Great Reset that he’s been asking leaders to turn over management to the World Economic Forum to implement all their dumb ideas.  I told you guys over a decade ago about Socialist International and other Marxist organizations that are at the center of everything the European Union is up to.  Klaus and the gang do not understand the American government, nor do people like Larry Fink and Bill Gates, prominent investors in globalism, as direct advisors to the World Economic Forum.  The key to their Marxist push with their economic plans for globalism entailed asset capture.  If they can capture an institution, such as a political party like Republicans and Democrats, they could control the institution’s direction.  But they missed that American politicians are supposed to represent Americans; they don’t lead Americans.  Americans don’t want or need leaders.  They only want someone to do the work of government that they don’t have time for.  So when the Administrative State captured all the leaders of the world for the efforts of Covid management, which was essentially a capture of capitalist systems of economic activity and directing them to Marxist measures to remove the push of capitalism to the pull of communism, the assumption was that America would be steered where required by the World Economic Forum.  But that’s not what happened in America; politicians who went in that direction had their power removed, which is why checks on political power are so necessary in the American government.  It is supposed to be messy because people are messy.  And honestly, we must deal with the chaotic nature of governance before any excellent work can be done.

Kevin McCarthy was Speaker of the House over one of the most historical periods in American history, where we have a criminal family in the White House, which massive election fraud put him there, we have out-of-control border crossings and drug cartels essentially running the governments of America and Mexico, we have sex trafficking occurring everywhere untended, and we still have to punish the people involved in Covid.  And McCarthy was making deals with Democrats over a government spending itself into oblivion with more than 30 trillion dollars in debt.  Talk about a clown show.  Every member of Congress should have been just as outraged as Matt Gaetz was.  And that there weren’t indicates how many of them have become out of touch.  They see themselves as leaders more than representatives, which wasn’t what they were elected to do.  Most everyone, from Sean Hannity to Mark Levine, has missed the importance of the Kevin McCarthy removal.  Even Trump misses the point when he points out that Republicans fight each other while Democrats get along.  That is because the means they use to value government is wrong and built around Marxist ideas of consensus building instead of the conduct of a representative republic.  Most everyone, even people many consider the most intelligent people in the world, have missed the obvious.  America was never designed to be led by leaders.  The government intended to cool the jets of the power grabbers and prevent them from the kind of globalist deals that have caused us so much trouble.  We have a government in desperate need of accountability to the voters, not submission to authority, which has been the assumption.  And why so many people miss the importance of why Kevin McCarthy had to go, and many like him, is they are measuring the wrong values.  Our republic will survive; we don’t need leaders.  We need people to keep the government small and out of our way so that good things can happen in the country with the largest economy.  This is no accident, and why the Marxists in the world are licking their lips to get a hold of all that wealth by capturing what they thought were leaders when they were just representatives all along?

Rich Hoffman

King Solomon’s Great Mistake: The Keyhole tombs of Japan and lessons learned in fighting demons

Every time I go to Japan, it becomes more and more evident to me that the Kofan tombs, the many thousands of keyhole tombs in Japan, are the direct result of interactions with cultures of the Near East around 100 AD to 300 AD, which happened to be the time that the book The Testament of Solomon was written and was one of the books considered to be put into the Bible under the guidance of the Romans after the Greeks had preserved the stories over the previous 1000 years. Because Japan is an exciting culture that pays excellent reverence to its past, they have kept it better than in the West, so a window into periods of history becomes very obvious. Even though there is little to no archaeology occurring to explore the contents of these giant mounds built in the form of a keyhole, their dating points to a global culture that had a particular obsession with demons and how that spirit world rules over the minds of humanity, something that is just as concerning today as it would have been in times past. Talking to the modern Japanese, the considered wisdom from their culture points directly to their management of the spirit world through Shinto Buddhism, where they seek to utilize a relationship with the Kami, spirit creatures who roam about and work permanently in the background. In the Near East, in the times of the Bible or the Quran, we would call them Jinn, or “Genies.” In the West, we’d call them demons. And if you avoid assuming that everything over time was regional, the best window into that particular period and why they believe what they do can be reported from King Solomon himself in his book that never entirely made it into the official Bible, The Testament of Solomon.

In that book, Solomon, the great king of Yahweh, forms a relationship with a unique ring that God gave him to manage a pantheon of demons, and part of the signet was a keyhole symbol, according to legend. Solomon could use the ring to lock up the spirits and put them to work in building the great temple. However, by the end of the book, Solomon, in his never-ending quest to indulge in his sexual conquest of many thousands of women, finds one that refuses to sleep with him unless he grinds together five grasshoppers and dedicates their destruction to her god Moloch. So, Solomon does this, which makes God very angry, and essentially ends the line of kings created by the line of Abraham as the experiment to find a righteous people blew up in Yahweh’s face. At that point, the Hebrew people are doomed, the sons of Solomon are punished for their father’s transgressions, and Nebuchadnezzar soon follows to destroy the people of Israel and cast them into captivity once again. The mistake most commonly made by everyone is assuming that this Testament of Solomon is a regional story, not a global one. But I have a few maps that show the reach of King Solomon’s empire at the height of it, and it doesn’t take much creative thought to see that trade to make that empire so vast was extending into the New World, specifically the Amazon River Valley, and it spread to the East as far as it could go, Japan.

When you travel around modern-day Osaka, these keyhole tombs don’t look like much but a clump of trees in very packed urban settings. They are everywhere; some are much larger than others. But they remind me a lot of the various Indian mounds from North America, the same ones I have been saying contain the bones of a giant species of people, which is also not seeing much archaeology being done to investigate appropriately. Such a reach for the empire of Solomon is not unrealistic, traveling thousands of miles from Japan to the Middle East over a thousand years. Ironically, modern Japan’s relationship with demons of the spirit world is best captured by the work of the Near East writers, whether Arab, Greek, or Roman, or caretakers of the Indus Valley. The point is that people talk, and over the years, these stories took on a life of their own, but their point of origin was the empire of Solomon before being wiped away by a rival faction in Babylon. Solomon couldn’t have hoped to obtain such wealth without creating many enemies, and he had God’s protection with that ring as long as he was loyal to God, which allowed him to defeat his enemies and conquer many global territories. That is until he went too far by sleeping with women who worshipped all those previous gods, like Moloch and Baal, which still work in the background to this very day around the efforts of globalism. These interesting problems are best studied in cultures like Japan but still show signs of their practice. Because Japan has been protecting itself culturally from the effects of globalism, by fully embracing tradition the way they do, we can get a view into our past in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. If the mistake of assuming that Japan was always a regional culture can be avoided, more evidence of the truth can be utilized.

The giveaway to this global culture is in the site down the road from Osaka at Ishi-no-Hoden, one of the great megalithic sites in Japan and one of their current top three mystery sites. The dating for this gigantic rock that was in the process of being cut from the mountain is all over the place, with some of them dating back to 14,000 years, which would have put it in the Ice Age. During the Ice Age, these archaeological sites around Japan would have been the high ground as the entire Osaka Bay would have been drained of water, and a new oceanfront would have extended to the east, where many ancient temples are beginning to be discovered, now submerged. This is the same global culture working the stone at Easter Island, all over the Americas, and, of course, in the British Isles. Why an ancient people would go to such trouble isn’t the point, but what was is that there was a desire to work with such significant stone monuments, the same as was seen in the Near East at times before and after King Solomon for similar motivations. So, to assume that these are cultures in isolation is to do them a disservice. Therefore, to learn from history, we can look to the windows we do have, such as in the Testament of Solomon and the Kofan tombs all over Japan, and arrive at some very accurate understandings of how the people of the past dealt with malicious spirits in the politics of quantum physics. Whether we call them demons, jinn, or Kami, the modern Japanese people have been successful in managing those relationships, whereas people in the West have been seduced much as Solomon was, with the grasshoppers into throwing away everything, to sleep with another woman, especially when he had thousands of others he could have picked from. The lessons transcend time and are most apparent when visiting modern Japan, which has not used contemporary politics as a great eraser. We can still see some of the evidence left behind.

I think this map is much bigger

Rich Hoffman

The Marxism in Our Finance Industry: Teaching people to smell their own bad breath

The answer to where all the dumb ideas come from is now quite obvious, the finance industry is dripping wet with Marxism and has now for many years.  It gets hidden behind polite conversation and golf games, but fundamentally, the entire industry is functioning from Marxist inspiration, from the works of Karl Marx and not the great work of Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations.  So when you have the question, where do all these dumb ideas come from? Well, it’s relatively easy; it comes from what people are willing to do to get money from those who have it.  Personal politics are not so important to people until their financial needs are met.  Until then, they will sell just about anything to make a living, and the Marxist insurgents have figured this out over a long period.  Now, I know quite a few financial types: bankers, investors, and money movers.  As I’ve said many times, most people I know are very wealthy.  They don’t see themselves as Marxists and likely have never picked up a book on Karl Marx.  The grim reality for most is that people only have room for a few things: how they make money and what they spend it on.  Anything outside those parameters is considered useless, so we ended up with the philosophy of Marxism in our finance industry.  When most of the common talk is about golf scores and interest rates, there isn’t much room for a deeper discussion on the things that truly impact our culture, especially financially.  Most people who work in finance are like those who can’t smell their own bad breath; they don’t know they are Marxists.  They know the rules of the games they are playing.  They have no room for the question as to who made those rules up.  But the answer is global Marxists who purposely infiltrated the world’s money supply and have been the advocates for radical progressive politics across the globe, pushing people into outright communism as a result. 

They know that much; it’s easy enough to turn the ship back toward prosperity, just by understanding that more free-market ideas will inspire dramatic spikes in GDP.  However, removing the Marxists from finance is a bit trickier, and it will take several administrations of pro-capitalist growth to implement, well over a decade of work because the Marxism sickness that we see now is so embedded in our everyday lives that people can’t smell their own bad breath in regard to it.  They understand capitalist ideas when it comes to sports, talk about football games, and especially how to get a lower golf score.  But in the world of finance, they are lost to themselves to apply the same logic.  So until we have the same kind of discussions about Marxism and capitalism, people won’t see the problems they are creating in the flow of the money supply.  Most of our conversations have been about whether or not Marxism exists, while all these terrible things have been hidden in plain sight.  But the source of abuse of much power is in applying Marxism to what people will do to get access to money, instead of making it so that people will work harder and with more innovation in order to expand some market-driven necessity.   The tampering with that process by the financial industry has caused most of the damage we see today.

I was fortunate to have just about every kind of catastrophe in my life regarding finance, and at a tricky part of my life, a wealthy and influential figure in the Cincinnati economy gave me some great advice even though he was gloating at the time about his massive power and ability to crush anybody who stood against him.  He told me, “he who owns the gold rules,” as he was about to essentially destroy my life as much as he could because I was doing something that would cost his partners many millions of dollars at the time and put the politics of Cincinnati on its head.  But the lesson was worth more than any money I could have made at the time because I could put into practice ideas of capitalism and free myself of Marxism, which became quite clear to me in this experience.  He finished his advice to me by saying, “And you have no gold.  So you don’t rule.”  And that statement sent me on a path in life that has been very beneficial.  I have a bit of a temper, likely the worst anybody has ever encountered, but I have always learned not to show anybody the cards I’m playing with over time.  So to say the least, I took that conversation to heart and have spent the next thirty years fighting the things that made that guy have so much gold to rule over others because he was clearly a bad guy in the world.  But to hate money because of him was not the answer.  It was the way he thought and how the system was rigged to put money in his pocket to rule over others and not in the bank of people who otherwise deserved it, people of merit who had worked hard, done everything right, and made the world a much better place through capitalism.

We tend to incorrectly identify all wealthy people as greedy capitalists, which is part of the scam.  Most people who are very rich arrived with that wealth through Marxism and controlling markets for that philosophy, not through the free market associations of capitalism.  So, we never see the truth because we start with all the wrong definitions for what we are dealing with.  And without understanding what things are, people are easily seduced into some faulty philosophy that is essential Marxism hidden behind a veil of free market capitalism.  But in actuality, the truth of our economy is very far from what we thought it was.  And these radical leftists who have become very wealthy with this scam of brokering power to government in ways they could never otherwise dream of have put them into a position to force all of society to dance to their whims, to get their fingers on enough money to live on.  Few people are willing to stand for moral righteousness without cash in a bank account.  They tend to be bolder when they have full bank accounts, but often won’t do much publicly that might jeopardize that status, so the Marxists who now control most of finance have no incentive to change their ways because this system has worked for them.  Of course, in my personal story, I was able to get that guy back, and I profited quite a lot from that revenge.  But that’s another story all its own.  The purpose of this discussion is that I found it easy to destroy Marxists once you call them what they are by name and don’t allow them to hide in the background any longer.  President Trump has also figured that out over the years and is setting up a second term to do just that.  And in so doing, it will have quite an impact, for the better, on the finance industry.  So, there is plenty to be hopeful about.  It’s certainly not a done deal that global communism will ruin the world through finance, as it appears now.  There are a lot of changes coming.  But that is how we arrived here, and the lessons learned for America are pretty explicit.  And we can Make America Great Again. But first, we must remove Marxism from our finance industry as a top priority, which starts by admitting that the problem is far worse than we thought. 

Rich Hoffman

The Dangers of Marxism in California: Supply chain disruptions due to the electric truck mandates

The magic sauce anywhere in the world for successful government is not how much government can you make to create regulation but how much you can offer freedom to individuals and still have a stable society.  If the government becomes too large due to its expansion, you are failing as a society.  Of course, some government is needed, but when it is used as a crutch for creative enterprise, then the trouble starts.  And anywhere in the world this is true, in every country.  You can tell the success of the country and its measure of economic output, GDP, by this ratio.  Therefore, countries attempting to follow the false methods of the Masonic-driven experiment of Marxism where the government was created as a collectivist blob to replace the rulers of the world, then restricted economies are bound to occur, and that was never more obvious than in the movement against rationality with California imposing electric truck mandates that are starting to go into effect by next year, 2024.  There is no reason for the orders other than the government through its mass and force has decided that it wants to impose some limit on creative enterprise because, as a collective effort, they have a religious belief regarding climate change and its role in the universe.  A modern form of sun worship just like every other society of the past that has risen and fallen has embarked on.  Now, the government of California, and in general, the Biden administration, wants to force Americans into an electric car market one way or another.  And this government tampering shows up directly in economic health, especially in supply chain health.  Wherever supply chains slow down, look now to the size of the government and its not-so-well-thought regulations as the primary culprit. 

California has an increasingly hostile group of radical government believers. Once it is discovered that work is safest when laziness can be hidden behind government forces in size, they have decided to show their validity by disrupting supply chains to show their power to the world because they have openly embraced Marxism as a culture.  And that becomes obvious with their commitment to their power grid problems, and general approach to happy living in the world’s fifth largest economy.  California was always an obvious target for global Marxists who have infiltrated the government just as they do in the American government. Their next target is electric trucks to replace diesel semis by the middle of the next decade, starting with regulations for new truck registrations beginning during the next election year.   And they believe these regulations to be reasonable based on their purely fictional religious beliefs about sun worship.  Science or the marketplace is not driving these decisions, but the hunger for gaining the power of government rather than abusing that power to satisfy a mass religion of leftist values.  Even if the electric trucks were ready for prime time, the government’s radicalism into believing they can force society to live with the constrictions of the economy is truly dangerous.  And this is precisely the kind of behavior that has caused price increases at the grocery store during the Biden administration.  The lack of options and their price directly represent the amount of government regulating the behavior, and the result is slower supply chains and much less creative economic activity to meet the market needs of a free society.  When personal freedom is sacrificed to satisfy the power of government you get price inflation and slow supply chains in whatever industry you might be concerned with. 

Electric trucks could be an option under some conditions, but the marketplace must determine those conditions.  For instance, I have had exposure to electric forklifts for thirty years, and I generally like how quiet they are and how much instant power they provide.  But this is always the story with them; the charge rate requires at least an entire shift to utilize whereas their propane-driven counterparts can operate a total of 24 hours per day with the quick change of a tank.  So imposing electric forklift standards would force businesses to limit themselves to one shift per day where the forklift is charging and not doing work.  Or it would have to purchase another electric forklift that can operate while the other charges.  Either way, a restriction has now been placed on the business that it will have to pay for in some fashion, either in lack of output through production or the cost of more than one forklift that it will now have to maintain.  This is how the government causes inflation and disrupts supply chains, slowing the output to the end-use customer.  With the electric trucks of California, the essential same problem becomes apparent: the government assumes that employers will buy more electric trucks as an increase of the price of more than 30% each.  And that work schedules will be restricted to accommodate the lack of versatility to refuel.  Rather than make market decisions based on the logic of free enterprise, and in getting products to the consumer as quickly and efficiently as possible, the government has through force, imposed a religious belief that then limits the output of productivity.  And because they are a monopoly, there is no competitive means to measure success or failure based on competition. 

This is why Marxism generally does not like competition, because free markets expose their monopoly limits through comparison.  As a captured Marxist asset, California has all the other states in America to compete with, so the economic value can quickly become evident unless all forms, through federal mandate, are forced to do the same.  Therefore, if everyone is performing at the same level of insanity, then a better option will never be known to the public, which is their greatest present desire.  To hide their inefficiency behind government power, controlled free speech, and a lack of competitive criteria to measure against.  If electric truck manufacturers are forced to compete with other options, then their recharge time and other failings might be corrected through innovation.  But behind government force, there is no such incentive, and the limits rule the day.  And that is why the electric truck mandates in California are so disastrous and why government policy on them is so terrible.  Because of government intrusion in the free market of car manufacturing, many bankruptcies are on the horizon, and a significant impact on supply chains as old cars will suddenly become valuable because the new cars are so expensive and limited.  The electric vehicle market, in general, is representative of insanity because there are no power grid assumptions that don’t make electric bills horrendously expensive by forcing everyone to work with just another monopoly not using the best means of energy, the power companies.  We should be using nuclear power, but instead, the government has caused significant issues by going to war with fossil fuels and forcing solar energy and wind power, which is dramatically ineffective as a means of supplying energy.  And as a result, the economy of power becomes too expensive and under-supplied.  And society, in general, is much less vibrant because of the intrusions of a government that has too much power, and not nearly enough competition to keep it honest. 

Rich Hoffman

Judas Pence and the Siren Songs of Populism: People expect Republicans to win, not to be controlled opposition

Of course, the answer to Mike Pence’s comment on the siren song of populism, which has so well defined precisely who he is, is that those aren’t beautiful women posing as conservatives trying to lure well-intentioned people to the rocks of their destruction.  No, those utterances toward populism result from many years of lies by a party, the Republicans, who pretended to be a small government party but are no different from the Democrats.  I could say that about my own Republican Party in my town, but that’s not a new story.  I’ve been dealing with this balancing act since Ross Perot ran for president, and I supported him because I would never get behind the CIA. George Bush or his haphazard son, “W.”  Ronald Reagan was pretty good for a while before his assassination attempt, and after the party establishment started getting to him, he was much less effective during his second term.  Then we had the Clinton years and the fake government shutdowns.  When my wife had a chance to meet Newt Gingrich at a Republican Party event a few years ago, she refused to shake his hand because she was still mad at Newt for caving to Clinton when Republicans had him on the ropes and could have saved a lot of us a lot of grief.  No, populism is a much bigger story than just some fad.  It’s more than a movement and undoubtedly more sophisticated than some siren song attached to lustful desire and short-term gratification. 

Populism is a political strategy that seeks to appeal to the interests and concerns of ordinary people, especially those who feel that the established political and economic elites are not meeting their needs. It often involves rhetoric that frames the people as opposed to a corrupt or self-serving elite and emphasizes the importance of direct democracy and the people’s will. However, populism can also be controversial and divisive, and its effects on society and politics depend mainly on how it is used and by whom.  The conservative tether that Pence is talking about is a leftover idea fresh off of wins during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 when the Constitution was still new and victorious wars rallied people to the value.  But this Republican Party that Mike Pence is talking about is like some Dallas Cowboys fan still wearing a Super Bowl shirt from the ’70s or ’90s.  It would be best if you kept winning, guys.  You have to earn respect; it doesn’t just grow on trees.  And that is the problem with Mike Pence’s view of what conservativism is.  Conservatives have been the turn-the-other-cheek party, the party of losers.  Who cares what your principles are if you will always get your ass kicked?  That’s not good for branding.  And because they have been soft on everything, corruption has grown into a maddening contraption.  People want wins, and the Republican Party has not given it to them.  Instead, they have been happy to lose, and people are tired of it. 

I remember it well: the night before the election in 1992, I was at the Ross Perot headquarters in Dallas, Texas, getting gifts from his daughters and enjoying the patriotism of a hard-fought campaign.  Many people were mad at me for not supporting George Bush, the elder.  I was proud that Perot got 19% of the vote then.  But I hated Clinton so severely that I supported Bob Dole four years later.  He turned out to be pretty smart; he would become a big Trump supporter.  He was a pretty good guy, even if it took him most of his life to figure it out.  I supported John McCain, and he lost to the communist Obama.  And a few years after that, I supported Mitt Romney, and I remember how it was in 2012.  A bunch of people who thought they had conservative ideas all figured out.  One of John Boehner’s proudest moments was bringing the Pope to the congressional floor as Speaker of the House, as he cried like a baby at just about everything.  Republicans have been like that football team that always loses but are in your hometown, so you support them unquestioningly, like some fool who accepts losers.  That’s not how it’s supposed to be.  Especially when the Democrats have shown such a propensity for evil.  Going back to the Perot election to be in Downtown Cincinnati with many political influencers and watching Clinton give his concession speech was a real gut punch.  Would Bush have been better?  No, Clinton only accelerated the eventual drive toward populism.  As would Obama and now Biden.  Populism would come along regardless because defending the Constitution would require political victories, and nobody was promising that until Trump came along.  And that’s where things stand today.  Americans were hungry for an American First party and wanted it to be Republicans, the Party of Lincoln, the party that freed the enslaved people.  And the party of small government.  Other people allowed globalism to seep into the mix and ruin the character of America as a nation.  They did so by deceit, and people know that now. 

Americans want more than a tailgate party from their Republican Party.  They want to win and destroy the evil Democrats.  To truly stand for small government and to be fiscally responsible.  We now have a band of thieves who run the Beltway culture with lobbyists and overpaid consultants.  And it makes people sick to see.  They want victory and are turning to populism to give it to them.  People like Judas Pence sold out our country, allowed an election to be stolen, and are trying to put the country back in the hands of the people who screwed it up in the first place.  And people aren’t going to stand for it.  I am surprised to see how quickly Republicans in my region have forgotten, and it’s obvious they probably never understood the Trump years.  They were holding their nose and hoping for a return to the low expectations of party politics and controlled opposition.  But that’s never what I signed up for.  I was always a populist and more than that, I expected to win.  Not just once or twice but every time.  And unless my political party is committed to that, I’m not with them.  I will work against losers every time.  This is why Mike Pence, with all his years in politics, should know better.  Yet he didn’t, and he said those words against populism anyway, showing he learned nothing in all those years with Trump.  None of that magic dust rubbed off on him.  Is he happy to be a loser so long as he stands by conservative ideas, even if they are always just ideas and not a reality?  No, people want winners in their lives, and without victory, populism will take on a life of its own.  And if Republicans aren’t committed to winning, they aren’t committed to conservative ideas.  Because they have to be willing to fight for those ideas, and fighting means winning.

Rich Hoffman

Why We Must Be Cautious About the Power of Government: Too often the wrong people gain too much power over their rivals and they abuse it routinely

It doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as it should, but one of the biggest reasons the government should have limited power is due to the tendency toward corruption that those in government tend to be obsessed with.  It’s not just the danger of what a large government can do to those it is supposed to serve but also the annoying obsession that comes from those who discover how they can use it to destroy political rivals, which is just another form of election fraud that is so systemic in our current culture.  It’s not just the political hit on Ken Paxton at the national level that should draw our attention or the antics of the Ukraine War, the lies of the Chinese government regarding the Covid virus release out of Wuhan.  Of the Jack Smith prosecution of Trump, along with the many others who are doing everything with the power of their offices to stop the former president from becoming the next one.  But we see such abuses happening even in our neighborhoods.  For me, in Butler County, Ohio, we have witnessed Sheriff Jones go after political rivals abusing the court system to destroy competing politicians, and we have even seen a school board member from Lakota, Lynda O’Conner, call in the favor of judges to take her rival to court and attempt to destroy their life and manipulate anybody she could in the process to achieve her objective.  I could name off a long list of such instances just in my community, so across the reach of government, this is a genuine problem.  The power that the government can give worthless people.  The more Democrat-oriented the politician, the worse it gets, but government power must be a significant part of our concern.  What will a politician do to acquire strength so they can abuse it for personal reasons? 

I don’t have a lot of personal tolerance when I witness this kind of personal corruption and power of government.  Very few things make me angry more, especially the acquisition of a political office to abuse power over others to sustain some personal failing from the public eye.  I have a lot of people who report their stories of terror to me, from the harassing phone calls when they find themselves on the opposite of an issue from an influential person to the harassment that comes because of the power of government, tampering with financial transactions, digital meters mysteriously falling out of calibration for utility companies, strange people rifling through trash to dig up dirt on their political targets—open threats of violence and vandalism.  You would be surprised what people who want to abuse the power of government will do to harass their political foes.  Very few of them let the process of a republic play out honestly because they seek to abuse the power of government to gain more control; that’s why they are attracted to government in the first place.  They don’t get into government to serve the community; they seek that power to abuse it.  And it is their default mode of operation.  The tendency toward corruption is as abundant as salmon trying to swim upstream to their birthplace.  It’s a standard and is the primary reason we must maintain the smallest government possible.  To prevent such abuses from occurring as frequently as they do.  Knowing that corruption is the destination for most political figures, limited government must inspire them toward honesty because they won’t do it on their own. 

I always say it: I love all Republicans until they show me they aren’t.  Then I don’t like them anymore because, along the political scale, the more big government a person becomes, the less you can trust them as valuable people.  And you certainly can’t trust them with the power of government at their command.  And in my own regional Butler County Republican Party, I do not like to hear people referring to it as corrupt or that it’s like a mob.  That the country club Republicans are a mafia who will exert violence and abuse of the law through legal measures they control to subdue rivals no different than the kind of hits that are known in organized crime.  I have watched several very talented people interested in helping with politics run up against these influential people and see harassment of all kinds come their way, and I explain to them that isn’t how it’s supposed to be.  Many people get involved in politics for all the right reasons, but they soon find that if they don’t appease that mob-like power, they are destroyed in the process and personally harassed in entirely unacceptable ways.  And that’s not how it’s supposed to be.  Our government was designed to serve people, not to subdue them.  Looking for reasons to control the political process so it can be used as a weapon was not how the Constitution should be utilized.  But it’s the primary danger of government; we can’t just make blanket statements about rival political parties when the true villain is the size of the government itself and what weak people will do to gain the power to utilize for all kinds of corrupt reasons.  People wonder why there aren’t more good people in politics; well, it’s because we have accepted levels of corruption due to the size and influence of government that keeps good people out and preserves the power of those who least deserve it.

I even say that politics is a blood sport, and if the rivals want to lose blood, then so be it.  I’m willing to play the game to win in any way necessary.  But should it be that way? Of course not.  That is why limited government should always be our agreed-upon baseline.  The more government power there is, the worse people seek to be in it.  And if we make it profitable for horrible people to gain office, then to keep office, then we shouldn’t be surprised that the process lets us down.  We can complain about it, but what are we doing about it?  Accepting such corruption is not a position any healthy society would accommodate.  It’s all too tempting for people who gain power over others to abuse that power, so for any government that acquires such power, it is common to see them abuse it for personal reasons.  We can laugh about that level of corruption and how ridiculous the people who seek to use it are, but should we laugh it off?  I don’t think so.  If you can’t tend to things in your backyard and will put up with reprehensible behavior for worthless political seats, then we are contributing to evil itself.  I like to see good people enter political offices intending to do good work.  I don’t like to see lazy people who want to enter politics do a lousy job and then use government power to hide their lack of skill from a judging public.  Or they will clamor for a seat because it’s the only thing worth anything in their life, the only path they have to social respect.  And because they are so faulty, they will do anything to hold those seats of power by trying to destroy people who could do better than them.  In politics, if we are not creating an environment of competition to get the best people in the best spots to improve our government, then we are only feeding the tendency toward corruption for all the means of abuse that the government can utilize for all the wrong reasons.  And it should be one of our most significant concerns.  Remember when some politicians say to you, “There is misleading information about me and I want to set the record straight,” just think of the mobster who says the same thing before they try to take a baseball bat out to show how much power they have become because of the government.  Be sure to judge them based on what they do, not the worthless things they say.  Then, use the force of government to conceal.

When everyone wonders why such crappy people end up in elected office, it’s because the garbage who can do nothing else in life cleave for the power of government, then use it to stop better people from beating them in elections.  And that is a problem with Republicans, Democrats, communists, and revolutionaries.  Until we take away the power the government gives to people to use to prop up their otherwise broken and useless lives, bad people will continue to dominate in politics, whereas good, honest people who can do a million other things will do so.  And leave politics to the worst that the human race produces. Instead, it should be the other way around; our best should move into politics to help others become better because they are examples everyone should follow toward individual success.  

I’m happy to help build an excellent political team, and there are at least 20 people I can think of who want to get involved in Republican politics.  But I will not put up with weaponized bureaucracy by incompetent people who clamor for power because it gives them something they wouldn’t otherwise have: power over others.  That is not acceptable.   

Rich Hoffman

The Indians Were Not Indigenous to North America, Aliens Were: What we have learned about the giants found around the world

It’s not hard to see how it happened; if you understand politics, you know that mass populations are easily controlled by a political system that can capture a narrative, and humans, by nature, are best communicated with through story. So, if you own the story, you control the population, the primary focus of religions, and the politics that have spawned from them since recorded time. But this line of questions for me started in 2009 while at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and I picked up a map that had known burial sites of giants, people of gigantic stature. I thought that was interesting, so I have kept my ears open since then for evidence as it has come in. And as that evidence has been collected, it is pretty evident that in the Ohio River Valley and across the world, just about everywhere, especially in mound-building cultures, are the remains of giant people. That is why there isn’t better archaeology looking into the contents of these mounds, even in China and Japan and all over the Near East, specifically the many mounds of Israel that are essentially of the same construction and design. It came alive for me after visiting Stonehenge that something was strange because I saw the same features that I saw at home in Southern Ohio. And once you learn that the mounds weren’t burial in their orientation as much as they were intended to be celestial clocks, then suddenly things start making a lot more sense, which is the case of a massive earthwork near my home at Fort Hill, in downtown Hamilton, Ohio, and Serpent Mound about an hour and a half to the east.

Knowing what I do now, I am very comfortable calling it; the earth was settled by life from other places in space, likely many different species, and they have probably been interacting with us all along.  But they come and go, and when they arrive on earth to settle or for visits, they need to know when they are.  And that is the purpose of things like Stonehenge, the features at Göbekli Tepe, and even the mysterious Keyhole tombs in Japan.  We are dealing with a culture that lived quite well and vibrantly in what we call the Archaic Period, from the age of Leo and Tauras, and dying out around the age of Aries, only to emerge into what we now call Biblical ancient.  We know that because once you stop trying to look at history through what you find lying around the ground, which decays and erodes rather quickly, and start understanding that you measure activity in celestial time, which is the purpose of inventing the zodiac always was, relevant to stable ground features described, then you start to get the picture.  And the people doing all this were huge, called giants.  And that the Bible refers to as the Nephilim.  Only they were a global culture that understood how to navigate across the oceans, and they did so frequently.  Our assumption that hunters and gatherers rubbed sticks together and migrated across a land bridge into North America during an Ice Age period is, by now, just ridiculous.

But, the world’s politics has wanted us to think of them as gods and to worship them and their time of rule on earth.  So, they have been working to conceal this information behind the mechanisms of institutionalism.  To maintain that story, they have been trying to sell us all on this idea of indigenous people and that America should never have been settled by Christopher Columbus in 1492 because we interrupted the harmony of a nature-loving group of nomads with capitalism.  But that was all a lie; the Indians were not indigenous to North America.  Aliens were.  The Indians were the latest visitors migrating around the earth for thousands of years.  The way things look, we are dealing with at least 400,000 years of human history.  Probably longer.  We only see what hasn’t eroded yet, but there has been a lot of intelligent life on Earth over a long period.  That doesn’t mean there weren’t hunters and gatherers doing their thing, just as we can find such people worldwide today.  There were always homeless people not living within a structured society.  But our assumptions about life and how we arrived where we are, based on abundant evidence, are entirely wrong.  I think today, if we had reasonable archaeology into the many mounds of the world, we would find in them skeletons, like have been found at the Miamisburg Mound just south of Dayton, Ohio, lots of 8- to 10-foot-tall people.  The fact that nobody is seriously studying this matter tells you everything you need to know.  The social narrative of the exploitation of so-called indigenous people is far more valuable to the current political order of global communism than the truth of scientific discovery.  The evidence is so abundant, mainly by private investigations, not science funded by government grants committed to a political narrative, that there is no longer a question. 

I was always weary of this kind of alien settlement thinking until I watched the world’s governments lie to our faces about COVID-19.  We all know that the virus was artificially made in China and released to the public in a way that the world’s governments knew about.  They had even role-played the response, which Bill Gates led the effort.  They were so arrogant about their ability to lie to the public through controlled narratives that they essentially painted themselves in a corner and had to tip-toe through that wet paint to reveal their guilt.  Part of the reason for the arrogance, a big part of it, was their success in manipulating religious and scientific narratives to the public, such as they have gotten away with the indigenous people’s history, arbitrarily picking a habitation date of 1600 AD to 1800 AD, and saying that they were the indigenous people of North America and that all migration was evil so that the greatness of America can be delegitimized to the world and they would clamor for Chinese style communism because of their associated guilt.  People didn’t question the narrative much, which inflated the egos of those who seek to control narratives in the world so they can easily control masses of people.  So now that we know that aliens, or rather, our ancestors, came here from other planets, do we call them the indigenous people?  Or were they the invaders of what was here before?  But we know there was a global civilization that dates back all over the world into times during and even before the last ice age.  And that what was left behind were fragments of their previous cultures that were quite advanced, as we can see in all these ground-based celestial clocks that still have crop circles appearing next to them all the time as if someone were writing notes on the ground to figure out when they were in time and space.  Since time doesn’t move the same everywhere in the solar system, the galaxy, or the universe, which is the giveaway, they were concerned with time and the way we would wear a watch to measure our rotation to the sun.  These very tall people and others needed to know relative to their orientations in space when they arrived on Earth.  Was it 100 years later, or many thousands?  And that is the way we must look at history in the future.  Not in the way we have been.  Or allow governments and institutions to lie to us to control a narrative that benefits them politically when science says otherwise.

Rich Hoffman

Isaac Adi Loses His Man Card: Despite modern woke rules, people are still people

So they have drug Judge Lyons into all this? I love the Judge, and there he was in court serving as the stooge for a failed political figure, as Lynda is calling in all the favors, hoping to turn back the tides of reality like some crazy old woman seeks the fountain of youth before the grip of old age seals her doom. These political gymnastics can’t hide the terrible report card at Lakota. Lynda was in charge, and it’s on her, which will be the subject of tomorrow. But for now, man cards are still crucial in the world, despite the attempt to use new woke rules to remove such judgments from society. Men and women still have expectations from each other that have been relevant for many thousands of years, even millions. And that was something an old friend of mine, who ran WLW radio then, used to enjoy during his Saturday radio show from 9 a.m. until 11. Back before there was ever a YouTube, through the Obama first term, I used to do a lot of talk radio all over the country, and I had a good relationship, especially with Clear Channel Radio, who ran WLW, specifically through Darryl Parks when he was the big man at the station, setting all their programming priorities. He and I had similar politics, so I was a frequent guest with him and many other Marconi award-winning personalities, and we had a good time having fun with forbidden early woke social rules. It would be woke politics that would have Clear Channel remove most of the conservative talent (Bill Cunningham is not a real conservative; he only plays one on the radio), and Parks eventually lost his title. But while he had it, we had a lot of fun and did a lot of good radio making fun of ridiculous things, such as woke policies, well before anybody even knew what they were. We would often exploit that trait on his radio show, and one of the most popular mechanisms we would employ was removing people’s man cards when they showed weak behavior in a public setting, especially men who were not standing up for traditional masculine attributes. We would talk about them on the air during his show to hundreds of thousands of people and remove their man cards as a shame for their lack of courage and strength when it was needed most.

So in that fabulous and influential tradition, we must bring back the removal of man cards when they show they do not deserve them, and that is certainly the case with Isaac Adi, the Lakota school board member who attempted to have court protection from fellow school board member, Darbi Boddy.  He and Darbi were at a conference in Florida and had several arguments, which isn’t unusual.  They ran for school board together and have turned out to be quite different politically.  It didn’t look that way at first, but since Isaac won his seat, he has essentially become much more liberal, whereas Darbi is still the conservative mom that she ran herself as.  But unlike regular politicians, Darbi didn’t say one thing and then show herself to be something else.  And that is what the establishment types call a lack of “professionalism” when politicians do what they say they will do with the naive assumption that they might be able to change anything. For most politicians, you throw populist opinions to the public to get them to vote for you.  Then you say other things to those who donate money to political campaigns.  But when you are in executive session with other politicians, you are all friends; you talk about Bill’s cat and Sarah’s new dress, and no matter who they are, Republicans and Democrats, you enjoy a kind of silent membership to the club.  Darbi was always the same person: the campaign Darbi, the fundraising Darbi, and the daily school board member.  So when efforts were led by Lynda O’Conner, a supposed conservative school board member, to get control of these two new school board members a few years ago, Isaac and Darbi, only Isaac listened.  Darbi remained independently conservative, and since then, Isaac and Darbi have had a very contentious relationship, and they argue frequently for obvious reasons. If it’s anybody’s fault for destroying their relationship, it’s Lynda O’Conner who did it.

According to court testimony on September 15, 2023, because of this incident, Isaac was admitted to a hospital for two nights and three days, and he had a medical bill as evidence. That says everything.

But the only time they’ve been violent, that type of thing was initiated by Isaac. At least two times, I know where Isaac has punched at cameras recording him, and it was women holding those cameras. Isaac has a temper and has expressed it openly. He likes to be in control, and when he feels he’s losing control, he turns to physical aggression. I never thought it was a big deal, but under the definition of harassment that he expressed to a court on September 15th, 2023, then the smeller is the feller in this case. He’s the guy in the elevator passing gas and then looking at everyone else as if it were their fault. So it is ironic that after that Florida trip for school board business, he went to the courts to file a petition against Darbi, citing that he did not feel safe around her and that she had been “bullying” him. And that she carries a gun and he doesn’t feel “safe.” Jiminy Christmas, that is not how men talk! I understand that Darbi is tough, and she has a powerful personality. I have been to the firing range with her and her husband, and I can report that she does know how to handle herself with a gun. But what world is Isaac living in? Everyone carries a weapon, or at least they should. It’s like saying that a woman has earrings. Carrying guns is a common social enterprise, so it should not have been a big deal to Isaac. But he went to the courts to seek protection from her, which was pretty embarrassing, and he felt he needed to. The judge denied the request, as should have been understood from the start. Isaac failed to present evidence that an ex parte order is necessary for his safety and protection from imminent danger.

They should have never tried to knock Darbi off the school board. They just keep digging themselves deeper and deeper.

All that might be fine in the legal world of court talk and political discourse.  And to say it’s a dysfunctional relationship doesn’t go deep enough to the true heart of the matter.  What is the purpose of these frequent confrontations?  It comes down to acceptance of honest public discourse, and what I find valuable about Darbi is that as a genuine representative of the community and an unpolished political figure, she is a good gauge of how people feel in the district.  Yet the political trend is to be one way in public and another in private, which is an inherently dishonest position, and that understanding has led to healthy conflict.  But if you are a man, you don’t run to the courts looking for protection, for the “state” to protect you.  You handle your battles and don’t seek government help to resolve them.  That is why Isaac Adi must lose his man card.  By the woke rules of the modern world, it’s OK for men to cry and be emotional.  And to be afraid of guns.  But by the fundamental laws of manhood, those are all reprehensible traits that women classicly find destructive and unattractive.  And I think Darbi’s primary source of disappointment, knowing her pretty well as I do, is that Isaac has shown himself to be everything but the kind and conservative person she ran with on the campaign.  Darbi never wanted to be a political figure in the traditional sense.  She just wanted to be on the school board to help kids get access to a better life.  And she has had no desire to become what Isaac has, and that anger spills over into their conversations.  The Lakota school board’s dysfunction started when Isaac attempted to remove Darbi from the school board with many other hostile people, led by Lynda O’Conner, literally the moment that Darbi gave her the critical vote to make her president.  So, who in their right mind would expect Darbi to get along with them at this late date or that she’d want to join hands under a banner of peace now?  She can only hope that she gets more people on the school board who are better representatives of the community to work with, and until then, she is just holding her nose, like many people are.  But compromising with people without integrity is not an option, or dealing with people who have lost their man cards. 

Rich Hoffman

The West Chester Tea Party is Not Antisemitic: Trying to control the world through managed free speech established by institutionalism

It’s all About Politics and candidates who are afraid to let people see who they really are in a setting they can’t control

Supposedly, there was a meeting at the West Chester Tea Party at the St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church on September 5th, where accused vitriolic hatred toward the Jewish people was expressed in antisemitic rhetoric, and it was a news story that gained much attention. And it was members of the “Republican Party” who tipped off the Cincinnati Jewish Community Relations Council, pressing them to denounce the West Chester Tea Party for its actions. Apparently, there was a guest at that September 5th meeting where topics about the Jewish people’s role in the world came up. This Jewish organization wanted to attach that discussion to a form of controlled speech that we see as such a strategy of the political left, where they determine what parameters of debate anybody is allowed to have. Anyone who dares to step outside those boundaries will then be attacked publicly, such as what is being attempted by the West Chester Tea Party. And if that was all it was, we could perhaps overlook it. However, I have a long affiliation with the West Chester Tea Party and Tea Party groups in general, and of course, as Paul Harvey used to say, “there’s the rest of the story.” This isn’t about hate speech being expressed over a controversial speaker. But I would say this is all about the West Chester Tea Party coming out and not endorsing Lynda O’Conner for the Lakota school board and ensuring people knew about it. I wrote an article that has been seen by many thousands of people on August 27th, 2023, establishing that the West Chester Tea Party would not endorse Lynda for her next run for the school board. So just a few days later, at this September 5th meeting, supporters of Lynda were looking for something to attempt to water down that lack of endorsement because Lynda has been affiliated with the West Chester Tea Party for over a decade. And the Tea Party just didn’t become an anti-semantic group a few weeks ago.

How do I know all that? Well, because I know all the people involved and how it works. I know how phone calls are made and the favors from the media are granted. I understand that the West Chester Tea Party is an open, free-speech-oriented group and that the caricature created by an institutionalized religious group does not reflect who they are. Many tempers have flared in the background over their lack of endorsement. I’ve heard many of them myself and I just let it ride out. I can understand Lynda’s feelings being hurt, but she has brand damage that she did to herself. So getting mad at the West Chester Tea Party isn’t a rational expression of justice, but that has been the byproduct of their emphatic refusal to not endorse her. We keep hearing about how small the West Chester Tea Party is, yet so many people are concerned about what they say and when they say it as if they are rationalizing to themselves its importance in the community. But I like the Tea Party people quite a lot and know how they work, and they are as far from a hate group as you can get. But I do know they hate one thing I share with them. If hate is the correct expression, which I think it is, we all hate corruption, and this kind of story is dripping wet with just the sort of corruption that has targeted RINOs in the Republican Party, and that is the real essence of this story.

I write many articles, many of which are about religion.  Some of them, the West Chester Tea Party, has spread around their network, which is undoubtedly part of the criticism toward them by these institutionalized groups.  I’ve even specifically addressed the Jewish issue as conspiracy theorists think of it because it’s a natural part of modern politics.  I love the Jewish people and have said so many times.  Jesus was Jewish.  We wouldn’t have a Bible if not for the Jewish people.  I even recently wrote an article about why we should all participate in Jewish rituals such as eating unleavened bread.  Any criticism that was expressed falls under the general failures of institutionalism, which is a much larger issue.  And, of course, those who seek refuge in institutionalism to hide their levels of corruption are at the heart of the matter here, and the perpetrators of injustice are playing a dangerous game that is falling apart in this second decade of this new century.  The political game of controlled free speech.  To censor people based on what they say and do, as if institutionalism could control people’s thoughts through the act of peer acceptance.  This isn’t a new game; it’s an outdated one.  And the 2010s want their political games back.  Because in the increasing MAGA movement where President Trump continues to be the leader of the Republican Party, these games are exactly why there is a severe hatred of RINOs representing people in politics.  That is precisely why the West Chester Tea Party made sure to distance themselves from their long affiliation with Lynda O’Conner once they found out she was running again, because of the many mistakes she has made that they couldn’t endorse. 

We no longer live in a world where people care what the newspapers say or the television media in a city.  This idea of ruling over others with hurt feelings is what created the mess we are in presently, and what has given politics a bad name.  So, any hope that this story would destroy the West Chester Tea Party, by the established RINOs who want their party back, will only blow up in their faces.  The hope was to force anybody to crush free speech to stay within the parameters of institutionalized controls, which is expected of the West Chester Tea Party, to apologize, and condemn members with opinions.  Then, they minimize their message so that the RINO faction of the Republican Party can gain back some respect that they have lost.  Because of these games, the West Chester Tea Party is still around and a vital force that works in the background, especially for Central Committee members.  Party politics is never going back to what it used to be.  People are not happy with it.  And they certainly don’t appreciate being used by political figures to get elected, then to have those elected representatives turn away from the freedom movement, and align themselves with institutionalized politics.  And that is the merit of this entire West Chester Tea Party issue.  They have nothing to apologize for.  I think they will gain members with this news media coverage.  But more than anything, they will gain respect for their position against Lynda O’Conner and other political figures who have turned away from the Tea Party ways and hope to wipe their guilt away as Judas did after taking money to sell out Jesus.  When the responsibility doesn’t go away from the reflection in the mirror, getting rid of the mirror is all too tempting.  But the reflection comes in many forms, not just the bathroom mirror or a news media that is already a poor reflection of actuality. 

Rich Hoffman

Why We Should Eat Unleavened Bread: Keeping corruption out of society starting with food

It’s a good practice to have some mechanism in religion to remind you of important things, and as ridiculous as many might think, that eating leavened bread as the Jewish people have rituals against, remember one crucial thing, the descendants of the Hebrew people, of the inherited land of Israel have been around longer as a group of people on planet earth than any other groups.  They have been beaten up, killed, and spread all over the planet in displacement, but as a people, from one specific region of the world, they have remained so longer than anybody else.  So, their rituals have worked for them in many healthy ways, even if eating or not eating puffy bread is directly attributed.  In general, having some basic rules to live by from whatever religion you might happen to be is a good practice.  Not for the direct mechanisms but in that they get your mind focused on the real important things.  As it is stated often in the Bible, in consideration of many Jewish holidays, leavened bread or unleavened bread is an important ritual to invoke in their society an essential distinction between a healthy and unhealthy society.  This is certainly the case with the Jewish people and the Christian people who emerged from the kind of thinking that was quite in rebellion at the time, against the tides of the world which are playing out dramatically on the world stage today.  To surrender to the forces of nature and appeal to the sensibilities of corrupt gods and demons who plague our subconscious.  Or to rebel against those forces with deliberate laws, such as the Ten Commandments, the presentation of sexual organs, such as circumcision, and eating food at certain times of the day or year. 

Over time, in many societies, leaven came to signify corruption.  So, the feasts of unleavened bread were designed to remind people in the covenant community that they were supposed to purge sin as they celebrated redemption.  By the first century AD, the Passover and Unleavened Bread feasts were celebrated simultaneously, and their sustainability has helped the Jewish people stay organized as a community around the globe.  The actual health benefits of eating bread that has a rising agent in it or not are less the point than the psychological benefit from maintaining personal conduct with such commitments, which are obvious anywhere in the world where they are practiced.  When people from any place follow firm rules of conduct, they tend to be a much healthier society.  The question is not essential about whether God cares if we eat leavened or unleavened bread as much as we care about how we conduct ourselves and why we do what we do.  Making a purposeful decision not to do something or whether to do something has a direct connection to our success or failure as a species.  And even down to the kind of bread we eat, the proof has been observed over time that these Jewish rituals and overall, Christian views of the world have worked well against the heathen behavior of the pagan sense of sacrifice that permeates cultures that rebel against such rules and practices.  That is why we see ritual bread in religion as a little wafer, flat, and featureless consumed instead of a puffy sampling of bread.  The rising agent is supposed to represent our sense of ego.  The way to avoid corruption is to avoid applying lifting agents to the food we consume and to remind ourselves to function without such cosmetic utterances. 

Of course, it didn’t work very well in removing corruption from Jewish society; there was mass corruption from their political leaders and people in general over their long history, just as in any organization.  But the rituals at least force them to think about such things as opposed to hedonistic societies that never explore the problems that come from corruption.  A healthy culture that at least recognizes the dangerous nature of crime tends to function better than a society that ignores it, which is the entire point of unleavened bread.  Suppose there are a few times a year when an organization thinks about whether or not corruption is acceptable. In that case, it tends to impact a portion of civilization that may not fall to such temptations, and they might avoid some act of corruption when it is needed most.  And good moral conduct might save the day when other societies have no such restrictions.  Over time, the survivability of the Jewish people, no matter what anybody might think about their concept of good or life in general, can be said to have a world outlook that contributes to a prosperous society.  It may not stop evil from raiding and seeking to destroy them.  But it might keep them from killing themselves by having a way to remind their culture not to behave by embracing corruption, a lofty sense of self that can only be filled by the appeasement of others, which ultimately takes control of personal management from themselves and places it toward group consensus.  Corruption starts by seeking rising agents into your ego, a compliment from one person, or a gift from another, something that might sway you from making the best decision without inflationary considerations to alter your judgment. 

Once you can say no to unleavened bread, you can also start saying no to those who might want to bribe you or whisper sweet nothings to you to pull you away from good judgment and into self-governing, which is the key to American civilization.  In order to have self-government a person has to be able to do so, without outside forces blowing temptations that might alter the course of the individual.  The practice of not eating certain foods at certain times to keep on the top of their minds the dangers of corruption in society, in general, is an important, empowering mechanism to resist the temptations of darkness and social collapse. A community without an excellent governing philosophy will not stay a society for long, and that is certainly the mode of attack that we see being applied to America presently from lots of outside forces who want to exploit temptation for the benefit of social destruction.  Many of our current politicians, from school boards to the presidents of countries would do well to eat unleavened bread on purpose to remind themselves of the practice of avoiding corruption in their lives.  Such a position starts even with the kind of food you eat.  Once you’ve consciously made such a decision, then it becomes easier to resist that bribe from a co-worker, a donor, or a member of the media that throws enticements toward their egos to inflate them toward corruption and the appeasement of such forces at the expense of morality.  If such things could be utilized for the productive health of society in general, then we could say that things are good and value is at the core of what we do, from eating to management.  When we make purity a priority, we tend to get much better results than when such things are not recognized.  In such a fashion, any society that goes to such an extent as to eat unleavened bread to remind themselves not to fall to corruption in their lives is serious about maintaining themselves well into the future, which is where most people hope to go, but because of their personal decisions, find they too often, can’t. 

Rich Hoffman