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Vivek Ramaswamy Will Be Ohio’s Next Governor: The MAGA center of the universe, Middletown

The important lesson here is that when I tell you something, listen.  Don’t play around with debating things with me.  Just take the information I give you, do something good with it, and don’t waste time.  I told everyone weeks ago, like two weeks before Christmas in 2024 that Vivek Ramaswamy was going to be the next governor in Ohio.  DeWine would appoint Jon Husted as the senator appointee for J.D. Vance because Vance was going to the White House as Vice President.  It was more than a little irritating to watch during Trump’s inauguration that people still didn’t know why Vivek Ramaswamy was stepping away from the creation of D.O.G.E., a shared task with Elon Musk to bring efficiency and cost cutting to the government in general.   Things had changed since election day and I was letting people know about it so they could make plans.  But instead, people acted surprised by the news that Vivek was stepping away for some mysterious reason.  It’s not a mystery.  Vivek Ramaswamy is going to put his efforts behind running for governor, which takes work, and this is something that Trump wants.  In case people didn’t figure it out, J.D. Vance was being positioned to get some wins early in the Trump administration because he was the picked candidate to be the next president.  That’s why he’s so young, and when Trump was doing all the ceremonial stuff for the inauguration, it was clearly to put J.D. Vance in people’s minds to be the continuation of all the work Trump is about to do.  Vice Presidents are usually just background noise, but this was not the case when the Middletown High School band came to Washington, D.C., to perform at the parade, which was quite good to see.  Everything was happening for a new generation to pick up the baton and run with it, and this move with Vivek Ramaswamy is part of that plan. 

Ohio is positioned and nurtured to be the most technologically proficient state in America, an example of what MAGA politics can do for the rest of the country.  A boom looming in the background will require a person like Vivek Ramaswamy to make happen from the executive branch, not as President, but as the Governor of the State of Ohio.  Additionally, to facilitate all this, we now have two extremely pro-business senators, Bernie Moreno, and Jon Husted, to help make it all happen.  The signs for Middletown, Ohio, are already ready to place at the entrance to the city, indicating that it is the hometown of J.D. Vance, whom Trump will put on the fast track to some critical negotiations.  It’s all going to matter in a few short months, and by the time Governor DeWine steps away, and Vivek Ramaswamy steps in, we’re all going to be living in a different world.  It’s going to move, bewilderingly fast, and everyone will have to just hang on and make the most of it.  There’s a reason I even said anything at all.  I want to see people profit off the information because Ohio’s invention pace will matter much more than traditional media coverage.  Who knew what when so that the human race could advance?  Usually, in society, for something good to happen, there has to be a political will, and the point of all this Vivek Ramaswamy news is that there is a plan that comes straight out of the White House now that features Ohio as the place to be in the world for tech innovations, that only someone like Vivek Ramaswamy could bring about.

That’s also why I have been featuring the industries that will thrive under the Trump administration.  For all this time, most of the media coverage has been about whether or not Trump could ever become president again, and as Inauguration Day progressed and I had a chance to talk to thousands of people about it, it was pretty clear that I was the only one saying from day one of the Biden administration, that Trump would return to the White House and everything that happened on that great day on January 20th, 2025 would happen just as I said it would.  So when I tell everyone these things, listen.  Don’t argue with me when I talk about the hyperloop program in Ohio and sky taxi services that will replace Uber, and regenerative medicine, don’t debate me.  Take the information I give you and do something with it.  And I apologize in advance, not that I apologize for anything. We have to move fast here.  At my speed, not current culture speed.  I can’t possibly answer all the emails and call everyone who wants to talk to me.  Not because I want to be rude, but because there isn’t time in the day.  I had over 10,000 emails just yesterday, and there is no way I could read them all and still do everything I need to do.  Usually, I scan through for what looks like essential headings or people I know, and I give those more attention than the others.  But if I don’t call you back, it’s not personal.  My task is to let people know about each other and provoke them to take the following steps.  Because some of these ideas will take thousands of hours of planning and millions of dollars to facilitate, they will need champions to drive them. 

Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be the next governor of Ohio.  I have shown support for Attorney General Yost, but I’m sure there are accommodations for him to clear the way for Vivek because that’s the kind of person it will take to do all the things I mentioned and to make Middletown great again in the way that Trump wants to make America Great Again.  And it all comes down to J.D. Vance being in the White House for the next 12 years to carry on all the good work that is about to be done with Trump.  I first met Vivek at an event in Middletown, so this isn’t a new kind of thing.  Everything next-generation MAGA centers around Middletown, Ohio, and a restoration of an economy there that had been husked out by globalism.  But all that is coming to a fast end, and the things I have mentioned that are part of tomorrow’s economy only need the right people to make them happen.  And that is happening as we speak.  You might have noticed how Trump, after his speech in the Rotunda, specifically spoke with Vivek Ramaswamy and Kristi Noem before leaving.  Vivek is a rising star, not a descending one, just because he won’t be a part of D.O.G.E.  That is Elon Musk’s project.  Vivek has a different path, and it all points to a new tomorrow where Ohio, a Rust Belt state, will lead the world in a way that no country on Earth has yet.  More than Taiwan.  More than Dubai.  And much, much more than China.  But it all requires people to see the big picture, which I have handed to everyone so they can take the next steps and advance our culture in ways that have never been seen before.  Stop thinking small!

Rich Hoffman

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George Lang: The Morality of Money

I get asked often why I like George Lang, the Ohio senator for the 4th District, so much. I cover a lot of topics, and having so much respect for an establishment politician doesn’t often seem like they are elements that are conducive to each other. I think it’s the same kind of anxiety that is often witnessed when showing respect for Ayn Rand while still having great reverence for the religious right, the hard biblical conservatives. How can you serve the God of money and still serve God because we think of those things as opposed to one another? Yet, while Ayn Rand was an atheist, she was able in her work to cut through the true value of the measurement of money in a culture in very beneficial ways that are well represented in great American novels like Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. And few people in the world understand the morality of money more than George Lang, not in serving it as a deity of its own, but as a measure of good human conduct. It’s a side of politics that not many people get to see, especially translated by a media culture that has no way to express such a topic to the public, because they don’t understand it themselves. However, an economic report coming out will show Ohio in a very favorable way. The time of improvement is when George Lang has been in Columbus as first a representative, then as a senator. I see his fingerprints all over the detailed findings showing the state of Ohio becoming quite an economic powerhouse. I’m not allowed to talk about it yet, not in detail. But I was quite impressed with it, and it points to some not-so-well-known attributes that come directly from George Lang’s Business First Caucus, where he has stayed very focused, along with a handful of other politicians in Columbus. And that is very unique among any political class because if they don’t understand the “morality of money,” they quickly become the detriments often talked about in the Bible who lose their way and get distracted by every shiny thing. And by walking that tightrope, George Lang has done some extraordinary things as a senator that is making Ohio much better off than the federal government as a whole that is suffering significant hardships under Joe Biden and the other looters of the Beltway culture. 

You may have to turn up the volume, but this room paid great reverence to Senator Lang, which was well deserved.

A few things happened recently, I was in a meeting with a bunch of people from Columbus who expressed themselves with great respect to George Lang, and they wondered if the people of Southern Ohio knew how good he was behind the scenes when people weren’t looking. Of course, the answer is yes; most people do know. And I was also recently up in Columbus at the Statehouse talking to many people, and the running joke about “Georgie” is that he doesn’t want to talk about anything but a business-first agenda for Ohio. And it wasn’t a derogatory reference, but one of respect for being able to go to Columbus and, with all the pressure from various factions, to stay focused on the real measure of success for any state or federal government, and that is its financial health. Without financial health, society really can’t be moral. People can function morally independently. But society can’t function without revenue and healthy businesses to provide jobs for people; a society really can’t function without wealth. I’ve known George for many years, well before he was going to Columbus as a politician. I remember him well as a trustee in West Chester, Ohio, where the business first policies were well laid as a foundation for the greatness that is seen there today. George Lang has always had the idea of getting the government out of the way of the creative output that makes businesses happen, and that has translated to tremendous growth wherever his attention has been applied. And now, as a Senator for the 4th District, his influence has been rubbing off on other politicians very favorably, even into the Governor’s office. I have seen up close and personal that Governor DeWine and his Lt. Governor Jon Husted have significantly benefited from George Lang’s focus on business first and supporting infrastructure as an administration that has made business much more of a priority than it has been previously. 

Usually, when we talk about business, politics, and money, the first thing that pops into our minds is corruption. You can’t serve the two gods, God, and money, equally. That is the way that we have been taught incorrectly as a civilization. By doing good things, by having the means to work and be productive, the measure of morality is often in money. Good people tend to find that money is a direct measure of their personal morality. The many socialists who have been trying to infect American culture for more than a century now will apply that money is the root of all evil and that only collective wealth redistribution can establish morality. But actually, the opposite is true. Money directly measures moral conduct when it represents productivity, innovation, and strength of character. When money is corrupted, it comes from those most lazy who seek to align the power of government to get as much of it as possible without having to do work. So the government is used as a wealth extractor to redistribute wealth to the unearned. Behind most bad economic reports in state and federal governments all over the world, this is how corruption occurs. 

Yet, when government is applied to remove the barriers to morality toward the creation of businesses in which families can build lives around as job creators, then great things happen, and the morality of that good conduct directly translates into the health of a state government. I’ve seen George Lang perform in very good ways morally under tremendous pressure without ever compromising himself in the process, and that’s not easy to do in such a high political position. It would be very easy to stumble a toe under such pressure, but George Lang handles it always with great care and grace because he understands those basic Ayn Rand rules of money as a measure of morality. Rather than empowering those who would do anything to get it without the productivity that makes it, George empowers the kind of Adam Smith economic value that should be at the heart of every economic policy throughout the world. This is why the rest of the country is currently struggling and will continue to do so as long as Democrats continue to pervert the relationship between business and government. But Ohio is making a dramatic turnaround economically into something that is very respectful and is on its way to becoming one of the best states to live in America, which is saying something. George Lang has been in Columbus long enough to have rubbed off on the culture there, and they reflect his eternal optimism and industrious spirit. So, when people wonder why I love George Lang so much, it’s for all these reasons and more. He is the real deal, and he understands the morality of money and the need for the goodness that is represented by wealth creation. And for the very few who truly understand that unique ratio, the world is always a better place. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Lofty Expectations of the Ohio Statehouse: Senator George Lang is a politician it can be proud of

It was a great treat for me to get a day to visit the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus to see a good friend of mine, Senator George Lang. It was good for me to put things in perspective as some of the issues of the hour are intense and changing by the minute. The Ohio Statehouse is a grand vestige dedicated to a republic form of government, and it was built with love and ambition. I think all statehouses try to do the same thing. The Ohio Statehouse is a special place dedicated to intelligence, study, and the difficulties of a republic that spans thousands of years in the past. It’s a place of ambition and hope reflected in the Greek architecture, the various marble ornaments, and symbolic statues. Whenever I go there, I am reminded that much of the hard work that is done in politics, even when it often falls so short of expectations, is worth the effort. Even when people complain about the cesspool of politics and the corrosive elements of lobbyists, I see the work that goes on in places like the Ohio Statehouse as the best that there is in the world. I’ve been to the Parliament in London and other places where the work of politics is done, and I see the purity of the Ohio Statehouse as something special, unique. I am possessive that it exists to do the work all people in Ohio need done. Even if people disagree on what that work is, the place is there to make sure it has a chance to happen. 

Another friend of mine took a picture of me on the House floor, and that’s what I was thinking. I don’t usually get sentimental about those types of things, but I had just had a good meeting with Senator Lang with the door closed. I was very happy to hear what he was working on. But more than that, I saw the same eyes alive and well within him that I have known for many years as he was one of the original members of the West Chester Tea Party. George is still that same person who gives out copies of Atlas Shrugged at Christmas and believes in small government, fiscal responsibility, and a business-first political strategy which is the key to all wealth-building in any culture. George Lang is a good person, a very good person. And as I was thinking about the Ohio Statehouse and all its ambitions, most of the time, we resent politics because we give politicians all these great tools to work with, like the Ohio Statehouse.   Most of the time, the people we send to the congress and senate fall short of our expectations, leading to perpetual disappointment. But George Lang is one of those exceptions. He actually lives up to the lofty expectations. The building seems to have been built specifically for people like him.

I say all those nice things because I had an extended chance to watch him work with other members of the House and Senate. And to interact with Governor DeWine. George is friendly, engaging; he’s a great salesman. But while he is doing all those things, he’s also guarded and measured. He’s a hard nut to crack for a lobbyist because it’s hard to tell where to get a hook into him. What is the vice of George Lang? What makes him tick? Where is he vulnerable? It’s one thing to be sociable and even polite. George has been involved in Columbus politics for many years now. When our schedules match up, I speak to him quite a bit here and there, but he’s a busy guy. So, to be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect in his office with the door closed and talking about the business that needs to happen for the state. To talk about the upcoming primaries, his Business First Caucus, politics back home in Butler County, Ohio. But what I found was a person who loves doing a good job, that had not been swept away by any trace of corruption, and the same wide-eyed person I have known since he was a trustee in West Chester. And with all that has been going on, where the world presents us with disappointments at every juncture, especially in politics, that was refreshing. 

In that House chamber and its lofty contents, it was apparent that most of the members went to Columbus with big goals and that they were getting swept away by the ornate atmosphere. Just before that photograph, I had just heard from a politician who wanted me to know how smart he was and that he was reviewing the legal complications of a land purchase for a solar farm, filled with all kinds of rancid ESG requirements that he thought were great. He was a guy who had been chewed up and spit out of the meat grinder, and I could see that the chamber walls were almost ashamed of him. He did not live up to the expectations. But those big stone walls and finely carved woodwork would see many more like him over the years, as they had. But when George was in that room, the actual chamber seemed happy. There was a person worthy of the Statehouse. There was someone who would do the work and, when done, dash off to his wife and grown children at every opportunity. And I think that is the secret to George Lang working there. The Statehouse was built for people like him, who love their country, their state, and their communities, but more than anything, their families. When the rubber hits the road, that’s how he has managed to survive Columbus and live up to the lofty expectations that come with business there. 

It wasn’t just because I like George. Governor DeWine was walking around shaking hands and taking pictures. Most everyone he interacted with couldn’t wait to lick the shoes of DeWine and pander to him for the powerful seat he sat in. Those same people might badmouth DeWine the minute they were away from him, but when shaking hands and taking pictures, they were like little girls at a pop-rock concert backstage. Power was a seductive force, and they were undoubtedly under its influence when around the Governor. But not George Lang. While respectful, he stayed very true to himself and represented his district exceptionally well. And it wasn’t an act. I wasn’t always somewhere that George could see me. It was just how he was, and I was proud of him. It gave me hope that all the hard work in preserving our republic, first at the state level, then at the federal level, was worth it. That day at the Statehouse is how it’s supposed to be in politics. It’s an example of how to do it right. We build the temples to a republic that has taken us thousands of years to perfect. And our government in Ohio is supposed to be contentious. It’s not supposed to be a fraternity of consensus builders. The Statehouse was built to debate and flush out the best and brightest ideas from the weakest. And over the many decades that the Ohio Statehouse has been there, it has suffered many disappointments in the elected representatives who have gone there to do our work. But George Lang isn’t one of them. If the Statehouse could smile, it surely would when George walks into a room, for that is the reason the place exists.

Rich Hoffman

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Freaks, Losers, and Malcontents: Radical Union Leaders Launch Mindless Fools to Attack Taxpayers

In Ohio we are seeing plenty of these radicals show their inability to think for themselves in protest of Senate Bill 5.  Listen to Brian Thomas of 55 KRC interview Senator Shannon Jones and Mike Wilson of the Cincinnati Tea Party discuss the merit of S.B.5.

Unions think collective bargaining reform is about revenge, or it’s some conservative conspiracy.  Yet this is what the union opposition say is happening.  A guy sent me this comment while I was writing this article.

I listen to Doc’s show on 700; he is clueless on Labor and the issues that surround labor. Unions and collective bargaining have built the middle class in this country. What you’re seeing is big corporate interest trying to tear it down. Fire, Police, Teachers and all public workers should be getting a big thank you everyday for the job’s they perform. When you have a Gov that is bought and paid for by Wall ST. this is what you get.

What does Wall Street have to do with any of this?  I’m not part of big corporate interests and I want this bill. I don’t want my tax money going to union activity. End of story. These people live in a bubble their union leaders have created for them and they all say the same thing which has no basis in reality. Unions have used extortion tactics, such as strikes, marches, protests and other radical behavior to drive up the cost of their services, and people are sick of their act. This has nothing to do with the big Republican machine. These radicals have been pointing in that direction for years, and they simply don’t get it.

But we know what they’re about, because everywhere they use the same strategy.

Look at the Teacher’s unions in Mexico this week.

This is what they are doing in Wisconsin:

And this is what they were doing in Ohio:


Listen to this guy insult Tea Party people. Is this the cop, fireman, or teacher you want living next to you?

Here’s the problem with these people. They have no ideas, little financial knowledge or common sence. They only think that if they yell loud enough, like children, they’ll get their way, because that worked in the past.

But to all you malcontents, and radicals, I have news for you. The Tea Party isn’t going away. If the Republicans like you try to blame for this does not vote on bills like S.B.5., we will replace them with people who will do the job. So you can scream, cry, stomp your feet and carry your signs, because it won’t matter. We’re awake, and we’re not going back to sleep.

This is what we’re going to be doing from now on in every state in the union.

Get used to it!

Rich Hoffman
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The End of America, an interview of Porter Standsberry: and why S.B 5 is so important

Porter Standsberry had a great interview with Darryl Parks on 700 WLW. Standsberry has been accused of conspiracy theories and fear mongering. But in my experience those accusations come from people who can’t or don’t want to fathom the possibility of financial collapse in the United States. Listen to that great interview here:

Here is Porter Standsberry’s video referenced in the interview.

The State of Ohio is making a move to deal with its own 8 billion dollar deficit without even considering the possibility of a collapse of the US Dollar. Just last week Senator Jones introduces S.B 5 which will help the state deal with escalating labor costs and hidden raises called “step increases” which are currently entwined in Ohio Revised Code, and makes school boards powerless to control their finances. The opposition to that bill however reveals the same type of people who call Porter names like “tin hat” and they are the same people that make fun of Glenn Beck. They’ve even tried to say the same thing about me when I’m looking directly at the numbers and reporting them on the radio. Those powerful groups cry out not to look or listen to those conspiracy theorist.

Listen to this interview of Speaker John Boehner by Bill Cunningham of 700 WLW. John is my congressman and lives down the road. He’s a good guy that is in a unique position. Listening to him speak here gives me some hope that he’ll get his arms around some of the problems Standsberry is talking about.

But as all these cuts are made, the groups that currently are funded by those dollars on the chopping block will wail in pain, and they’ll make it sound as if their world is falling apart. We’re already hearing the cries from S.B 5, and this is just the tip of the ice berg as to what will be cut in 2011 in order to stay ahead of the problems we know are coming.

Check out this link to see the debt clock currently.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

The best way to describe the situation of powerful interests screaming with all the air their lungs can hold and pointing to visionaries that are proclaiming that there is danger just ahead, or the promise of a new world just around the corner, I resort to one of my best friends, literature.

Plato has the best explanation I’ve ever heard of this matter, from his book The Republic. He has a metaphor called The Allegory of the Cave. The text below is from the website: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/platoscave.html
Plato

Book VII of The Republic

The Allegory of the Cave

Here’s a little story from Plato’s most famous book, The Republic. Socrates is talking to a young follower of his named Glaucon, and is telling him this fable to illustrate what it’s like to be a philosopher — a lover of wisdom: Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It’s true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don’t care. Once you’ve tasted the truth, you won’t ever want to go back to being ignorant!

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[Socrates is speaking with Glaucon]

[Socrates:] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: –Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.

[Glaucon:] I see.

And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.
You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.

Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?

True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?

Yes, he said.

And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them?

Very true.

And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?

No question, he replied.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

That is certain.

And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision, -what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them, — will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?

Far truer.

And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?

True, he said.

And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he ‘s forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.

Not all in a moment, he said.

He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?

Certainly.

Last of he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is.

Certainly.

He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold?
Clearly, he said, he would first see the sun and then reason about him.

And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?

Certainly, he would.

And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together; and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions as to the future, do you think that he would care for such honors and glories, or envy the possessors of them? Would he not say with Homer,

Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner?

Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.
Imagine once more, I said, such as one coming suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?

To be sure, he said.

And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the den, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable) would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
No question, he said.

This entire allegory, I said, you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed whether rightly or wrongly God knows. But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally, either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.

If you didn’t understand the literary explaination feel free to watch this video:

The union leaders and politicians are in many cases identical to the masters in the cave which have learned to identify the shapes on the wall and developed the ability to predict their comings and goings. In that world they are the masters and they have no desire for the truth which the visionary can report. That’s what I see in the faces of these protestors, a clamoring to ignorance in favor of their feeble grip on power. Many of them would rather stayed tied to a stake with their heads faced in one direction, yet masters of their one useful skill than knower’s of the truth, able to turn their heads and see what makes the shadows, because once that happened, they’d no longer be masters. Most ignorant people will trade freedom for power, and that’s what resistance to budget cuts represents. That’s why I despise unions and the cost they impose on civilization.

As for the financial information, attack your personal situations boldly and with intelligence. And when someone tells you what’s causing the shadows, you should listen.

Rich Hoffman

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