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When I Tell You Something, Shut Up and Listen: Getting rid of The Department of Education

Of course, the crazy lunatics on the political left are upset, and locally, after this 2024 election, they are very angry with me.  And that’s fine.  If those derelicts are mad at me, I consider that a job well done and am very happy about it.  But don’t say I didn’t warn everyone.  I’ve been pointing to this 2024 election for a long time as something inevitable, and it happened just as I said it would, to nearly every detail.  There are people out there who get paid a lot of money who didn’t come close to my predictions, and I get it; there is a lot of anger out there.  But tough tootles.  Maybe from now on, when I tell everybody something, they’ll shut up and listen.  There is a general mental problem with people who support left-leaning causes, and that is a belief that they can alter reality by controlling the message.  And anything coming from me that deviated from a message they wanted to be communicated was forbidden so they could give themselves the illusion of changing that reality.  That’s how so many angry people arrived at this moment, and it’s their fault.  All the cheaters of the 2020 election did was put off the needs that were very well present throughout the 2010s.  It reminds me of how the radical labor union types behaved back in my No Lakota Levy days when I’d go on WLW radio to talk about how our yard signs were being stolen.  The crazy belief was that the tax increase would pass if people didn’t see the message.  And because I would talk about them stealing the signs, I was to be eliminated so they could control the message.  Well, that didn’t work out too well for them.  Fifteen years later, I advise a lot of people about a lot of things, and I do it for a lot of tricky topics.  And I do it for free because it’s not even my most valuable skill even though I am usually right about everything.  For me, it’s like helping a child open a gallon of milk, but they just aren’t quite strong enough to do it themselves.  And as it stands now, after that 2024 election, everyone would do well to listen carefully. 

After my experience with the Lakota school system, especially after the superintendent debates centered on school board member Darbi Boddy, I backed off the school board discussions.  I realized many years ago that Lakota was going nowhere, as with public education in general, as John Dewey proposed originally.  There was too much Marxism in it to survive in a country like the United States.  I’ve tried to play along all these years to be supportive, but I told important education officials back in 2010, before Trump became a politician, that the future of public education was School Choice.  That’s how Doc Thompson and I met on WLW radio and became fast friends. We were together with some big-name politicians at a School Choice conference, and things were pretty obvious.  Around that same time, Doc and I both worked on promoting the Atlas Shrugged films, and they had all kinds of ridiculous labor problems where the same anger that always followed me around was draped all over those movies, which was so bad that none of the actors came back for all three movies because the blacklisting was so intense.  But by the time they got to Atlas Shrugged 3, and they covered the schooling of the children in the Atlantis colony hidden in the Colorado mountains, I understood the anger quite clearly and knew that the political left was just going to have to be drug into reality one way or another.  I warned them there was no way to preserve their public education model, and they could choose to listen or be destroyed.  But they were not going to control the message. 

I’ve had countless people beg me to be a school board member for Lakota schools or to do some other political job, and I have stayed out of that business because I knew fighting them from that direction was useless because a day of reckoning was always coming on the horizon.  And that time came with the re-election of President Trump back to the White House after trying to stall the effort in 2020 with a stolen election and an attempt to destroy him utterly.  Thankfully, he had the guts and the brand to endure everything they threw at him, and he emerged victorious on election night in 2024 in ways that seemed to surprise many people, including supporters.  But I wasn’t surprised one bit.  And here’s what’s coming next: the Department of Education that started in 1979 is going to be eliminated by President Trump.  He would have done it during his first term, but it would be controversial, so he would wait until his second term.  Well, this is his second term, and he will do it early, so the smoke will clear by 2028.  But it will happen, and nobody can do anything about it.  That was ultimately the solution to the education problem in America, by getting rid of the kind of worthless losers who were causing all of the issues through institutionalism.  The Department of Education never should have centralized education policies lecturing the states through federal funding to drive a ridiculous teacher’s union wage rate and grotesquely liberal education topics to brainwash our children into the next generation of Democrats. 

It was all the people advocating hate now who have been lying to themselves as if the future where they had to pay for all their misdeeds over the years would never come.  It has arrived.  And regarding education, School Choice will replace The Department of Education; money will follow the student, not the zip code.  Schools like Lakota will have to operate cheaper and competitively with their neighboring school districts because parents will have the choice of where best to send their child.  And the labor unions are going to lose control of the liberalized education process, which they should never have had in the first place for a glamorized babysitting service that isn’t worth the vast amounts of money we spend on it only to get a bunch of purple-haired losers who would vote for Kamala Harris so they could have a right to an abortion, do drugs, and work from home yielding to some virus made in a Wuhan lab by global terrorists to control the global economy and to obey without question what the white coated losers of the administrative state said to do.  Nobody on this topic probably values education more than I do.  But what we have been doing since Dewey came up with it and using the government to fund it has been a disaster in every way it could be.  And it’s time for it to end.  I told everyone this day was coming, and they didn’t listen.  Maybe you’ll shut up and listen for your own good the next time I tell you something.  As to the people who have worked against me all these years and smeared my name so often, all it has done is motivate me to destroy them.  I enjoy fighting, and I love to have someone always to fight.  I would be bored if I didn’t have enemies in the world.  So, I am not warning some of these people for their own good.  I want to see them crying in pain because I hate them.  If Jesus wants to turn the other cheek, have at it.  I don’t.  And I will enjoy all the face-melting that will go on in these next few years.  But never say I didn’t try to warn everyone.  They chose not to listen, hoping the day would never come.  But it has. It’s here.  And there is nothing any of them can do about it.  They showed themselves for what they always were, and now they must pay for it.

Rich Hoffman

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The Establishment Failed: And they can only blame themselves for what happens next

Eventually, you become the establishment, so I wouldn’t say that what is happening in the world is an anti-establishment movement.  I would say it’s a rejection of the current establishment.  Beyond speculation, we see what globalism has presented to us, and that was the establishment offering for most of our lives.  It has proved itself to be a massive failure, down to how we educate children, how we maintain border security, and how central banks manage money.  People have watched what the establishment presented to them as an offering to manage life, and they don’t like it.  That is essentially what is happening with even Democrats crossing over and supporting Trump.  And you can bet beyond the polling that the media tells you about, which is not good for Kamala Harris, who hasn’t yet caught up to this new reality.  Even the most dedicated Democrat political pundits admit that Harris is lucky to have one electoral path to victory at this stage, going into September of 2024, with the election only a few months out.  With Democrats endorsing Trump, from RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and now significant celebrities who sat out in the last election, the trend toward an anti-establishment desire is clear.  I would consider Elon Musk a Democrat, and if you haven’t been paying attention, he sounds like me lately, me over the years.  He’s one of the wealthiest people in the world, running one of the most profitable car companies, and has been quoting the Second Amendment and The Constitution as if he were in the Tea Party from 2010.  That’s the same guy who stood in line for many hours to meet Barack Obama.   So, we are discussing a very different world going into the 2024 election.  And the establishment’s panic is starting to show that they are being rejected everywhere.  Not just in America.

Back to Elon Musk, you might have heard about the corrupt judge in Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, who is behind the election fraud there putting jail inmate Lula as the China installed president over Bolsonaro; Moraes wants to jail Musk over the free speech platform “X,” just as they have been doing in France and wanting to do in England.  The global tyrants are showing their cards because they have to, and it was too soon for their plans.  The people of the world have now been stirred up, and the wheels are coming off all their establishment plans for global communism run by the World Economic Forum through the United Nations.  And they thought that they could put an East Berlin style approach to the world, into submission.  That was their entire plan.  They have no plan B.  People didn’t usually talk about these things; they wanted to think well of other political points of view.  But the Establishment did it to themselves.  They have nobody else to blame and shouldn’t be angry about it.  They certainly shouldn’t feel like they have a right to be abusive and intimidating.  We are not, and never were, going to be suckered into globalism and live under the thumb of the United Nations and their stupid laws.  As we speak, there are massive hoards of motorcycle gangs headed to Aurora, Colorado, to deal with the thugs who are taking over apartment complexes by force and intimidating innocent people.  If our Department of Justice isn’t going to do its job and want to be a part of this Establishment, then we’ll take matters into our own hands.  The FBI, Homeland Security, the corrupt CIA, all of them, if they are going to let criminals molest our free society, then there will be punishment for the incursion.  Don’t get mad; they all should have known better.

And ultimately, that’s what nobody took into account.  Even though Brazil, the European Union, China, really most of the world have nothing in their culture like our Constitution, the plotters of this failed Establishment didn’t read it.  That was clear during the created COVID crisis when even Bill Gates had not bothered to study the purpose of all American law articulated in the American Constitution.  It puts limits on the powers of government.  Not subservience to government.  All the cases that went to court regarding the government versus the People of the United States fell in favor of the people.  The Constitution limits the government from imposing itself on free people.  And that is the end of the story.  And if the government doesn’t do its job and protect people, then free people will do the job instead of them, which is why the Hell’s Angels are headed to Colorado.  And I’m glad they are.  The criminal thugs and scumbags of international border crossings intent to bring crime and injustice to our neighborhoods will not be permitted to impose on us unmolested.  Even Elon Musk now sees things clearly, and more than anybody in the world, he has done more for free speech, which the world is responding to with this rejection of the Established order.  Musk and his companies have brought open communication to every corner of the world with the Star Link internet network.  “X” is Brazil’s number one news platform, which is why the establishment there is suddenly upset about Musk.  Their imposed tyrannies are not working there, or anywhere for that matter.

I would suggest to the world, especially Americans, that nobody needs to panic.  It’s all right there in the Constitution.  The government has to prove to you that they have the authority to do anything, and most of the time, they don’t have it.  You can challenge them, and they will lose. And that is, in America how the ball bounces.  No World Courts or other countries can file a petition against America or its people.  And if America wants to shut down their little armpit countries, it can be done in a fraction of a second, which is one of the policy positions of the incoming Trump White House.  We are the only ones in the world with any real money and value.  The central banks know it.  The United Nations knows it.  And the World Economic Forum needed a lot more suckers like Bill Gates to implement their plans, and not even Gates understood our own Constitution.  Covid was a test, and the panic after that was that it failed to capture people’s minds toward the goals of the Establishment.  Instead, it turned them against it and going into an election where the Establishment is counting on Kamala Harris to be inserted into the American presidency, just as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was put into office in Brazil, Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, and Macron in France barely survived a challenge to his authority this year.  Add that to the radical socialist in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who is now president, Justin Trudeau in Canada, and many other places, and the battleplan was obvious, but before they could pull it off in America, they forgot that we have a Constitution that protects people from its government and that we have all the real money in the world and can use it against these tyrannies much to their detriment.  And don’t forget, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, its leader, is a devout socialist.  So these people are the Established order that has been pushing the world in the wrong direction for a long time, and finally, people are starting to see the picture, and just in time.  It has all been exposed because of Trump running for president and all these characters trying to stop him; it has exposed their hiding places where ordinary people could see them.  And now we are living in a completely different world.  The establishment has given rise to an anti-establishment sentiment, and they can only blame themselves for what is coming their way. 

Rich Hoffman

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Public Schools Need to Be Destroyed: They are communist concepts run by people like Jill Biden, and we need to get rid of them

Now that things are shaping up into reality for many Democrats, especially Jill Biden, the reality that President Trump will be returning to the White House is taking hold.  And Dr. Jill is worried that Trump will end public education as we know it.  Now, there is probably nobody on earth who loves education as much as I do.  I am perpetually learning; I read an average of three weekly books on various subjects because I love to learn.  Most people I know have advanced degrees and many times have multiple degrees.  They are primarily wealthy, too.  And a lot of them speak three or more languages.  I am not a fan of slack-jawed losers and dope-smoking hippies or people too lazy to get out of bed early each day and get the most out of a day.  But as I have said for many decades now, public education is a disaster.  Government-made education is a horrendous detriment that was ill-conceived in the beginning and has turned out to be a disaster for our society.  The teacher unions have destroyed the concept and ruined many children along the way, and the future of education cannot be public education.  It needs to be destroyed for the impediments it has imposed itself to our nation and lives.  Like a lot of things that progressives (communists trying to mask themselves in a free culture like America), their concepts of a centrally planned society vacant of individual achievement were wrong from the start.  And every generation that continues with this mess will be further destroyed intellectually, so time is of the essence.  When President Trump is restored to the White House, he needs to do what Ronald Reagan never had the guts to do, and that is to end the Department of Education, decentralize how education is performed with kids, and make sure that any tax money that goes into education goes to the child, and not a zip code brick and mortar school system.

I have been warning my local school system that the financial model for public education was going to have to change.  And why wouldn’t it?  What is good about public education?  When I was growing up, adults told me that what would matter to me were the friends I made, the school jackets, the class rings, and the sense of belonging that you get from the public school experience.  It would be about class reunions, the memories of learning things, and the friends you made along the way.  In reality, none of that matters.  In adult life, people revert their attention to their families and quickly forget about the people they went to school with.  Those high school years are of very little significance and certainly not worth the damage they do to a person trying to make them into social creatures.  That is not the natural state of a human being but a desired attribute of a centralized, planned society.  So, we have built this entire social system to implement the communism that was becoming fashionable in the late 1800s. The check is coming due to its monstrous failure on all human beings worldwide.  Public education has been a mess from Dewey’s beginning, and there are no prospects of that changing any time soon.  Under the labor unions that run these schools, it is communist ideology that they function from and teach to the students, which then ruins them for life.  And in most cases, that includes the people reading this right now.  Few people escape the damage done to them by public education because its foundation from the beginning was rotten. 

Of course, when we talk about communism, we are not being inflammatory; we are just using the correct words.  Marx and Engles’s ideas about communism were migrating around Europe through Masonic memberships, and they were being exported as dangerous ideas directly into churches, labor unions, and society memberships as Marxism, socialism, and progressivism to percolate around most thinking at the turn of the twentieth century.  Most people are so accustomed to these concepts that they don’t know anything else at this point.  So these are assumed traits, but they were never American.  Communism was the European fad, and it was exported worldwide.  As it moved as a philosophy into Russia and then down into China, they were calling it Democrat politics in America to soft sell it as something that could Trojan Horse it into our culture, which was taught in public education as its core foundation.  To prevent any competition of thought, the labor unions set the agenda, which was the net objective of communism.  So, at their core, what they were teaching children and society at large was outlined in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, and we are witnessing the danger across the world to this very day.  Luckily, there are some competitive alternatives in America, such as homeschooling and private schools.  And in the case of mass media culture, competing ideas can undo or overshadow the bad things learned in public education.  We are free to read, watch, and consume many other ideas, which is why our culture hasn’t failed.  However, the centralized model of public education has been a complete disaster with very little redeeming value to it.

Granted, when we designed a public education system, one of the reasonable goals was for people to learn the basics.   A person living in a very remote area such as the mountains of Colorado would learn to read, write, and gain basic social skills that would allow them to interact with someone from New York City with a standardized understanding of the world.  So public education isn’t all bad if looked at from that point of view.  But if that is the goal, there are other ways to get there.  To say that education is essential is an understatement.  However, public education, run by the same government that can do very little else right, is socially destructive and a menace to the furtherance of human civilization.   If communism is the foundation of all public education, then it’s rotten and needs to be tossed out.  Only free market ideas pushing each other to be better should be acceptable, and we must be bold enough to admit that.  I would say that education is the cornerstone of any advanced culture.  However, a centralized education cannot be driven and set by the government.  It needs free market applications that are much less prison-like and more designed to unlock the intellect of curious creatures before they lose their ability to grow at their critical age junctures.  Unfortunately, Most people don’t develop much beyond the age of 15, so a person’s intellect can be destroyed forever by whatever they have learned before that age.  So, with that in mind, we must make significant adjustments to our nation’s education policy.  For those reforms to occur, we have to admit to the massive disaster that public education has been causing for generations of people and stop destroying more generations.  We need to be bold and decentralize it completely.  Only then can we hope to see any improvements in our social intellect.

Rich Hoffman

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World War II would have Never Happened if not for Tom Lamont of J.P. Morgan Bank: Why Making America Great Again is the only light the future has for the world

It’s an easy catch-all to think of banks as evil entities that control the world through mass manipulation.  But it’s inevitable that without banks, the world would still be digging through dirt to make a mud hut in which to reside.  The problem with banks is that the further away they get, like most things, from individualized control, where unique personalities drove them to goodness or detriment, the more evil they became.  Today’s trouble is that they are so big, powerful, and global that they no longer respect a sovereign nation.  This is why my emphasis on things is to reflect to the beginning, toward western expansion for our national identity, as I point out often in my book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, because the mistakes that banks have made over the years have only compounded on top of each other as more socialism and communism seeped into their practices, and golf swings became the measure of individual merit more than wisdom, and social utility.  And that was certainly the case with Tom Lamont, one of the leading partners at J.P. Morgan, who would eventually run the whole bank.  The banks caused most of the last century’s wars and created the blueprint for all future wars, which ultimately would become all about debt maintenance and not national values defined by borders.  And keep in mind, the banks were best when people like Tom Lamont ran them.  What we see today is far worse and demands a complete rethinking of how we maintain the value of our currency and how people protect it and use it for capitalist endeavors.  But before we can fix it, we need to understand it, and many people don’t.  When you start talking about monetary value, people’s eyes glaze over with boredom.  Yet, it is one of the most important aspects of modern society, and to have a well-managed banking relationship with the rest of the world is a challenge.

There would not have been World War I if progressive globalists weren’t trying to push everyone’s buttons to form a League of Nations for global government.  However, the debts incurred by that war caused forever trouble with other nations and started to erode the sentiments of everyone involved in the mess we see these days, which many have assumed was a forever condition.  But we can’t accept that, and if we want to Make America Great Again, we have to start with a good, sound policy. Out of all the people involved in politics these days, Vivek Ramaswamy has some of the best ideas on how to restore the financial sovereignty of the United States and to start the process of undoing the many mistakes made by financial institutions as they began to dig themselves in a hole during Tom Lamont’s time.  Like most things in life, the big banks that the Morgans and Rothschilds ran did some great stuff and many evil things, but the path to Hell was undoubtedly paved with good intentions.  To say that World War II was caused essentially by Tom Lamont of the J.P. Morgan bank would not be wrong.  Much of it was in reaction to massive bankruptcies that started on collapsed fiscal policies from World War I, especially in Germany and Italy.  Tom Lamont was personally involved with Bonito Mussolini, the rise of the Nazi party, and the Emperor of Japan as they were all cash-strapped, and J.P. Morgan Bank tried to help manage them to keep them sovereign and independent. 

The mistake happened when Tom Lamont thought he knew more about market conditions than the market itself.  That is always the problem with banks: they try to micromanage their limits of vision into a more productive economy.  Instead of serving the economy, they try to see themselves as super managers, and soon, they are putting constraints where they don’t belong, and things start getting out of hand.  And that was the mistake with Tom Lamont and the Axis Powers during World War II.  I have a problem that always comes up that causes me to think about this issue.  I often talk about the Flying Tigers, the AVG group led by Claire Chennault to protect China from an aggressive Japan seeking to take their property.  And how globalists at the time wanted to soften up China for a communist takeover after the defeated rebellion of communism occurred in 1926.  So by the thirties, the Red Scare was spreading to all corners of the world, set afire by secret societies managing the decline of currencies everywhere.  And the J.P. Morgan group out of New York wanted to save the world from this happening.  However, they also behaved with too much socialism and micromanagement which was the trend of the time, thinking they could control banking enough to keep peace between everyone.  But they tampered with market conditions and helped keep the Germans, Italians, and Japanese afloat when they should have collapsed under their mismanagement.  Competition should have picked winners and losers, not banking relationships.  And so it went that Japan had many hundreds and hundreds of planes financed by the banking industry intent to keep the peace, but instead cause the massive atrocities that were seen in the early days of World War II, and during it until it was eventually concluded with a nuclear bomb. 

And the world never recovered from these mistakes.  And instead of dealing with the errors, they have dug in and gone in the other direction, giving rise to an administrative state that is now ruling the world far worse than the days when Tom Lamont was giving money to the fascists of Italy and the Nazis of Germany, and making it so that the Japanese could build all those planes and navy to create a global monstrosity that could only be settled by war, in the aftermath of all that was the creation of the United Nations, which caused monumental problems on the world stage.  However, they care only about creating a global government, not the impact it might have on individual people.  The problem all these large institutions have is that they tamper with the markets rather than serving market needs, which is the heart of free market capitalism and the concept of the invisible hand, which hints at God managing the affairs of humanity, not institutions, which has always caused massive consternation.  However, the fact remains that the banks were wrong from the beginning.  They have done a lot right and a lot more incorrect.  People like Tom Lamont should never have as much power over individual lives as they did.  But the administrative state is a far worse creation than the power the banks had initially because they followed a wave of communism built off a Marxist ideology that ruined everyone’s approach from the very beginning.  It’s not that modern society can’t live without banking relationships.  But how they interact with the world needs to be much more Adam Smith and much less Karl Marx.  In the beginning, nobody truly understood how market conditions were created and maintained, and a few individual tycoons like the Morgans, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts rose to meet the challenge.  However, over a very short time, their failures migrated into the market and created disasters on a scale that nations couldn’t even deal with, but with war and carnage.  It is an important lesson to consider as we fix the many problems of today, to Make America Great Again, and why that is the only hope for the world.

Rich Hoffman

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A Perspective on the Value of Money: What a long marriage can teach you

Perspective is an important thing, especially when its based on experience. And unless you live in a culture that can produce experience, it will be difficult to create a society that embraces any hope of wisdom.  Recently, I think it was a combination of the Kentucky Derby and all its festivities, where invites to that event created challenges to our schedule and the 36th anniversary of my marriage to my wife.  Many things get said, and stories are told, especially when people discover how long my wife and I have been married.  There are just assumptions that nobody stays married that long these days for any reason.  Our perspective on social values is very traditional, as well as our opinions on money, how it’s made, and what it says about people.  One story about our early days is worth some perspective and sharing, which is the point here.  I’ve told many stories about my past; it was unique.  To put it mildly, I worked for the mob, not because I wanted to work for mobsters, but because it was an excellent job to get some experience in Sharonville, Ohio, along the Chester Road corridor, which back then was the entertainment zone for the entire city of Cincinnati.  I was a very ambitious young man who wasn’t afraid of anything, which was very attractive to my employers.  I came to know many influential people in Cincinnati politics very early in my life, and some of the wealthiest people were people I called friends.  I was the private chauffeur for many local celebrities, especially team members of the Bengals at that time, so I had an early education about the value of people unique to my circumstances.  I was making more money before I turned 18 than my parents had, and I was just getting started. 

Naturally, once I left that job for something more traditional, income was a prime concern and I wanted to make as much as I possibly could at 18 years old as I was moving out on my own.  And again, I would make more money at this time than my parents which was important to me.  I was in a race to conquer the world the way that the world measured it.  I would go as far as to say that I was ruthless and was intent on having millions of dollars of hard-earned money in my bank account within a few months of working as a car salesman at a local Tri-County front group for money laundering.  That was common in those days and why I know so much about the current Ukraine operation that the government is involved in, and why I said that the mob moved into government.  I was on the front line of that movement and watched it happen up close.  My job was legitimate: sell new and used cars to people and make a commission off that effort.  Even if the job itself only existed to wash money from organized crime efforts at that time, the ownership and upper managers were all in on the effort.  And yes, at all these jobs, the police were involved, and judges, and I knew everyone.  Or, instead, they knew me and were proud to tell people they did.  As I have said before, I had a get-out-of-jail-free card in several communities that lasted as long as I made people a lot of money.   But the moment I didn’t, it was a different story. 

But I had moved out of the house and made more than most adults in the Cincinnati area.  However, along the way, I met my wife.  The timing was inconvenient.  I wasn’t looking for a wife then; she had everything you would look for.  She was a fashion model, her family was wealthy, and they were prominent Beckett Ridge Country Club members nearby.  So our relationship got serious quickly, and soon, she visited me at my job for lunch dates.  On one particular day, she came to my desk just as I was sending over one of the most significant commissions this dealership had ever seen; it was an older man I was selling a used truck to for over $5,000 over invoice and to show how strong I was at the sale, I had him going across the street to the bank to take out all the cash to pay for it with a pile of money.  It was a big deal, and it set the men from the boys in the sales world in that particular culture, and I thought my wife would be impressed.  But she wasn’t, she started crying.  She already knew many successful people and wanted to get out of that life.  She was being set up to be the trophy wife of some doctor in that Beckett Ridge Country Club who was older than her dad, and she wanted off that train at 17 years old.  And I was that rebellious ticket.  So, to make her happy, I redid the deal and gave the guy the truck for just a bit over margin, and he was pleased.  I went from hero to zero in that dealership within an hour, and many life lessons were learned that set the course for many years.  Just making money isn’t enough, especially with people like my wife.  How you make it matters more, and this will be a theme for us over the next four decades. 

It was hard; I went from living high on the hog and being the center of every social circle to the opposite life.  To make my wife happy, I worked at a series of complex manufacturing jobs to earn money as honestly as possible, and I learned a lot of precious experiences from that perspective.  My wife’s requirement to earn money honestly seriously crippled my lifestyle, and it has been challenging over the years.  But that standard has allowed me to have a perspective that few ever get or survive in life—especially the Kentucky Derbi crowd, where the goal is to see and be seen in the crowd.  But most of it is cosmetic and not what my wife values in people.  And naturally, with those values, we have a concise list of people we associate with.  Because most people are still at that phase I was in at 18, where money is the measure of your worth, so you do whatever you can to make it.  To advance beyond that is a journey that few ever get to.  But obviously, we have been married for 36 years for a reason, and if she hadn’t pushed me the way she did, I might never have learned some of those hard lessons about money and value sometimes, when someone gives you a 7 figure opportunity, its better not to take that job but to do something that fulfills other requirements in your life.  But before you can do that, you must have standards to live up to.  At an early age, we were both blessed to have had the chance to get that kind of life out of our systems.  By age 19, I was married, and we were working hard to start a life of our own together, which continues to this day.  But when I say that making money is easy, how you make it matters most; that is the context.  I have never been impressed with people who make a lot of money.  But money is a good measure of people’s value because it tells you a lot about the quality of the person making it.  If they are cheats or cutthroats, money will reveal it, as opposed to some communist centralized government that is entirely built around who you know and how much they like you.  My perspective comes from that critical experience at the dealership and the highlife that came with it.  And the value of an great woman to chase after took me on a wild ride that brought experiences wealth itself could never provide alone. 

Rich Hoffman

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Elon Musk and President Trump: Coming over to the right way of thinking

If I were recruiting people in my life who only thought just like me, I would never speak with anybody.  So, I am always open to giving someone a chance to get it right and to come around to the right way of thinking.  Not all people come to the right way of thinking the same, but in a competitive exchange of ideas, some things are revealed that are universal truths.  So, I am always open to people discovering those truths, even if they come from a background where their thinking has steered them down the wrong path.  And that is the case with President Trump.  I wouldn’t have cared to speak one word to him twenty years ago during the height of his Apprentice show on NBC.  Unevolved playboys never interested me.  But people who make fortunes and then want to do good things with those fortunes do.  And that is the trajectory of Elon Musk, one of the world’s wealthiest people, trading back and forth with Jeff Bezos for that title.  But without question, Elon Musk is one of the biggest influencers on planet Earth.  There have always been aspects of his character that I have liked, particularly the kind of guy who would appear on the television show Rick and Morty and be associated with the Babylon Bee podcast.  However, I was not interested in the guy who loved Barack Obama and the idea of climate change and globalism—and managing supply chains in China.  However, I noticed a change in Musk’s political interests about a year into Biden’s first term.  I wouldn’t say I liked how stand-offish Musk was toward Trump during his first term, so I had a lot of questions about Trump and Musk’s relationship, which was put into context in the recent book Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. 

It’s exciting to see in that book that the author, Walter Isaacson, was uncomfortable with Musk’s relationship with President Trump over the time he covered him.  This book project is a Simon and Schuster New York thing, and they are all part of the Trump-hating group who find the concept of the President as revolting because it’s a serious disruption to their plans for global communism China style.  So, Walter would look for ways to demean Trump in the text, even though Elon Musk has been moving toward Trump over the last several years.  A couple of things happened to Musk by Biden’s administration that set things in motion for which Musk and many others took for granted in the pre-Covid world of Trump successes.  The biggest thing is that Biden had a big event at the White House to celebrate the EV car market, and there simply isn’t any bigger name in the business than Tesla.  So Musk should have been the feature guy.  But Biden made it all about union labor, and Tesla isn’t unionized and has no plans to become so.  So Tesla was cast out of the White House spotlight, which, from then on, changed Musk politically, and he took a hard turn toward defending free speech and conducting a less rules-based society centrally run by big government bureaucracies.  The Elon Musk of the last three years or so is not the same political Elon Musk from the Obama period going into Trump’s administration, and that is consistent with my observations and what I have said about Musk’s political transition.  Like I said, I don’t hold people to previous assumptions.  As people learn things about the way the world works, I expect people to come around toward a big tent party, so it does not surprise me that Musk is now supporting Republicans rather than Democrats, which many of Musk’s friends find apocalyptic, best expressed in that book by Larry David who thought Musk was casting off a responsibility toward Democrats that he played a central role in.

As I have said for years, there is no way to become a human civilization going to space under a communist flag with mixed societies of socialism as part of the process.  The more capitalist space endeavors are, the more successful they will become.  And that is certainly the case with what Musk wants to do with SpaceX and the Starship program.  Math is math; the more accessible society is, the more opportunities there are for the human race to get into space and still support a positive culture on Earth.  The more socialism and communism there are politically in those systems, the more failure is introduced into all the assumptions. And now that everyone has seen what kind of world a third term of Obama looks like, through the inserted President Biden, people have decided that China-style communism is not their thing.  And people like Musk have moved toward the direction of a big tent version of the Republican Party that is fighting for personal freedoms, starting with free speech.  Musk had been supporting softer versions of Republicans like Ron DeSantis, and as I have pointed out, I have been on presentations online where Musk participated in conversations with Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance.  So Musk has indeed transitioned into a supportive Republican understanding that America will not survive if the global communists get their way.  Now that the game plan is relatively straightforward, these intentions are no longer a “conspiracy theory.”

There was a part of the Elon Musk book where Walter was disturbed by Musk’s father, a Trump supporter who would send messages to his son indicating that Biden didn’t win the last election, which was stolen from Trump.  Walter writes about all this as if Musk’s father, Errol, was “one of those people,” a conspiracy theorist with one foot into insanity.  The emphasis on the many mistakes Errol had made in his life was something that Walter wanted to make prominent, such as having children with his stepdaughter and Elon Musk and his brother being so upset that they refused to have continued relationships with their father.  But there is more to the story; intelligent people can’t ignore the evidence.  You can’t have corrupted software in society and expect everything to run right. The obvious problems with COVID and the 2020 election converted Musk to a less authoritarian government in America. He is now deeply committed to that pursuit, starting with the purchase of Twitter.  However, the definitions of success are the same, even if the means of getting there are varied.  And when people like President Trump are willing to put everything on the line to preserve our culture, and Elon Musk is signing up to be on your side of things, you open the door and let them in.  You open the door for them wisely, not linger on their past mistakes.  Be happy they have seen the light and are now on your team.  Logic dictates that people will discover the truth if only they can access it.  But it’s what happens after they find out it that matters most, and Elon Musk is now a tremendous advocate for a more capitalist society led by the United States and companies that are distinctly American, like Tesla and SpaceX.  And now, with Twitter being converted to Musk’s “X,” there are many opportunities for greatness that weren’t present before.  But they are now, which will impact the growth of the human race in the months and years to come.

Rich Hoffman

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The Third Term of Obama: What a dumb fundraiser they had for Biden in New York

To add the ultimate failure to the Biden term we have been experiencing is to acknowledge it for what it is.  No, this was not a freely elected man who spent his life in public service and made good on the people of Pennsylvania to help them from the Executive Office. Instead, this is a crime lord put in office by conspirators who want to topple America and wanted a third term of Barack Obama, a continuation of the Weather Underground terrorism that gave us two terms of that communist insurgent, who was never qualified to be president in the first place.  But they got away with a lot with Barack Obama, and so, of course, they were going to steal an election and put Obama in place and use a compromised person and old fool in the White House so they could move his mouth and make him say anything they wanted him to.  They were willing to break the law for the good of their communist revolution, which they suckered so many into embracing, in a push for a global world order under the rule of China, the propped-up impoverished country that only gained wealth because it essentially became the 401K plan for the billionaires of America.  It’s been a sucker game all along, but you know what’s funny?  It hasn’t been working.  Biden is trying to run for president after trying to be Fidel Castro for his first term essentially, and people are sick of him.  So, at a fundraiser in New York, they brought out all the old tricks, Obama being one of them, and they looked like a bunch of out-of-touch fools.  Supposedly, they raised 26 million dollars at that fundraiser, as two former and one current president were raised dramatically out of the stage.  But in many ways, it was a perfect metaphor for what they had done to America and were now losing. 

Essentially, this has been Obama’s third term.  Hillary Clinton was supposed to carry the torch in 2016, but Trump won.  And the globalists who had put so much effort into the destruction of America were angry about it; after all, that was Obama’s first mission, to “remake” America.  To “transform” it into something else, from a capitalist country into a communist one.  That was why the newcomer Obama had his political career launched in the living room of the American terrorist Bill Ayers.  We were told to ignore that little news story; it was no big deal.  Neither were the problems with the Obama birth certificate, which turned out to be a digital fake made on a modern computer.  They got caught trying to fake one during Obama’s terms in office to shut up all the “truthers” out there who were onto the many problems with where Obama came from and who his daddy was.  Many still don’t know, but we do know that they lied to us about a lot of things.  But they got away with those lies, and the media, already taken over by this communist globalist plot, were willing to carry water for Obama and keep him propped up.  But they never wanted him to go, so they were angry with Trump for interrupting their communist takeover of America.  So they conspired and plotted and manipulated to extremes to destroy Trump, his supporters, and any notion of the Make America Great Again political platform.  Because for them, that was the worst thing in the world.  They wanted to destroy America.  Not make it great again.

But who are “they,” you might ask, dear reader?  Who are they?  Well, it’s the international finance community who were allowed into our money supply with that stupid Jekyll Island mess that created the Federal Reserve.  The secret societies of Europe have been plotting and scheming the decline of the West since it was essentially started.  The globalists have their people in the European Union and the United Nations.  It’s the billionaires who invest so much money into China-style communism for the entire world, using that paper tiger to look like the sales face of managed communism success by tying the hands of all the other countries in the world with ridiculous economic policy and climate change standards.  And “they” keep their politicians in office to destroy the world to their liking with massive election fraud, which they utilize all over the world.  Why do you think they were so upset that people were onto the scam with digital voting machines in the United States?  Because that was their most accessible means of election fraud.  That’s how they do it in communist countries like China, Russia, and South and Central America.  Don’t forget that Mexico and Cuba are socialist countries.  All of Europe are socialist countries.  The head of the United Nations is a socialist.  The head of the World Health Organization was a socialist.  Everything about COVID, created in a Chinese lab in Wuhan by human beings as a bioweapon, was about bringing socialism and communism to the world through mass manipulation of our health care system where they could get access to all people without the stigma of a political movement.  Oh, yes, “they” have been naughty, and they’ve killed a lot of people along the way.  And they didn’t care who it was or under what conditions.  They just wanted power and were willing to do anything to have it, including keeping Obama in the background and pulling the strings to Biden to keep their plans for globalism intact.

However, those efforts have spectacularly failed, and they are pretty well aware of it, which was apparent when they tapped into Obama and Clinton thinking that putting them on stage with Biden would help him.  The effort showed how tone-deaf many globalist consultants are to reality.  When forced to come out of the shadows and reveal who they are, they are bland, even out of touch.  Putting many old men on stage whom many Americans hate together shows how regional their thinking is and how little they respect ordinary American voters.  And that’s why they are losing any notion of a fair fight.  Without election fraud, they are desperately exposed.  And out of all that 26 million they raised, they couldn’t move the needle with a billion dollars.  The media might want that money wasted on them, so of course, their will whore themselves out to the Democrat Party, America’s version of the communist party in the West.  But people have been lied to, killed, harassed, abused, and manipulated in every way by both parties.  And “they” are sick of it.  Trump was never supposed to be in this position, the frontrunner as President once again.  I’ve been telling everyone since January of 2021 that he would be.  I understand the guy.  I knew he’d be back.  And he’s going to be president again, and many of us are going to aggressively undo all these communist plans that have been pressured upon us for many years, including all the terrorism that came from Barack Obama.  We will undo their corrupt world right in front of their faces, and they will deserve all the pain that comes with that.  And they should consider themselves lucky that their punishments won’t be more severe for all they have done to us.  In my mind, they are getting off too easily.

Rich Hoffman

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Bernie Sanders Dumb Idea for a 32-Hour Work Week: Socialists and Communists are Lazy, dope-smoking losers

This is a long-term gripe from me and one of the most significant reasons to never listen to socialists and communists.  Communists are lazy people by nature; that’s why they want big government to confiscate the wealth of others and redistribute that income to them while they sit around all day smoking pot and playing video games.  We can see socialists a mile away, and their work ethic exposes them.  Lazy people tend to favor the works of Karl Marx.  So it is unsurprising that Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who has been in the news a lot over the last several years, has proposed a 32-hour work week.  I missed the news in a form I could comment on because I was traveling through many airports and happened to be in Japan waiting on a driver sent to pick me up when I heard the news.  I watched a video clip of this ridiculous proposal as my Japanese driver ran down the road to get our car.  He was running because he didn’t want me to wait an extra 15 to 20 seconds and to be guilty of giving me an inefficiency problem that day.  So, the news was particularly powerful at that moment because of the excessive contrasts.  They like to work in Japan, and they want to work hard.  So do I.  Out of a 24-hour day, 17 of them are dedicated to working.   I don’t have much time for silly chit-chat and wasting time on stupid things.  And I also work Saturdays and Sundays most weeks.  And I like it.  I love Mondays, I see Fridays as just another day in the week.  And I expect the people around me to work hard, too. Otherwise, I don’t get along with them.  No matter what people think about politics, sports teams, or religion, I can find common ground to build a relationship if a person likes to work hard. 

They work hard in Japan

But this idea of Bernie Sanders was one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.  America was trying to dig out of several years of bad economic policy during the third term of Obama’s presidency.  During Trump’s first term, America had three years of prosperity, but Biden quickly turned all that into a disaster, and America needs to work its way back to greatness.  And here is this idiot saying we must work a 32-hour workweek.  What will people do in all those other hours? Look out the window.  Have more leisure time.  How long must people sit on a beach and look at the water?  It reminded me of the many things that I don’t like about Europe.  They have too much vacation and have a daily expectation of doing too little.  It’s common in Europe to only work three days out of five and to have frequent breaks.  And to be honest, it disgusts me to my very soul.  What a wasteful existence.  America has been great in the past because the people weren’t afraid of hard work.  It was hard work that built a great country, and it was hard work that made any culture prosperous.  And here is an old hippie socialist advocating for Americans to work less.  It’s probably the dumbest idea in the history of dumb ideas.  It’s a general attitude you can easily observe in communist and socialist countries; their social centers are often crowded with people walking around aimlessly eating food and sitting anywhere available because they aren’t working enough.  And they wonder why they have poor GDP numbers. 

That isn’t unique; in my experience in Japan with the driver, it’s expected.  Japan has the third-largest economy in the world for a reason.  They work hard there, and they don’t complain about stupid things.  When there is work to be done, they pull together and get things done quickly, and they aren’t in love with the hours of the day.  If it takes longer to do a task than the usual hours of a business day, they stick around and finish it, making tomorrow always filled with completed work, waiting on new opportunities.  I am always impressed by even ordinary people on the street who are overtly ambitious and gratified for an opportunity to work.  Whether it’s a clerk at a convenience store or an attendant at the airport, when work is faced, or the chance to do business with another person presents itself, they honor that opportunity with a deep bow to revere the work and the opportunities that come with it.  You are in for a treat when you fly to Japan on any Japanese airline with an all-Japanese crew.  They work hard and treat everyone very respectfully.  They really care about the work and it shows as they enter the work zone, they bow to the public and bring real diligence to the effort.  But often, when you return home on Delta, United, or some other American airliner, you get a menagerie of lazy characters brought to you by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and they are ridiculous to deal with, especially on a long flight.  Even in premium seating, they make the experience miserable because they are usually lazy, overweight, and can barely fit between the seats, and you can tell they are always in a hurry to sit back down and waste their life away somewhere.  With the Japanese airlines, everyone is in a hurry, but for the opposite reason, so they can do more work. 

Bernie Sanders lists himself as an independent who caucuses with Democrats.  And he’s had a few good runs at the presidency, headed off by the Democrat’s cheating machine who would not let him near the White House.  But as a result, Democrats have steered hard left on Bernie Sanders types of communist policies.  Sanders is technically a socialist, and there are many like him in the Democrat Party; they don’t refer to themselves as such.  Much as in the Republican Party, there are Democrats who know they could never get elected if they called themselves what they were.  Socialists and communists in America have been changing their name to Democrats, trying to hide their real nature.  These days, they feel more comfortable revealing what that nature is than they were in the past.  And it’s communism that is behind the effort to have America work a 32-hour work week.  I think Americans need to work a 70-hour work week, at minimum.  I never have any compassion for someone who says they don’t have enough money when they are barely working 40 hours a week.  It was labor unions who gave us the stupid 40-hour work week, and that just isn’t enough when you have a productive culture filled with opportunity. What are people expecting to do with all that time off?  Why not work and make more money?  In my life, I have often worked two full-time jobs of 40 hours each, and held a part-time job on weekends, four or five hours a day on Saturdays and Sundays.  And I always spent time with my family.  I had time to play video games, read books, and watch movies.  People waste a lot of time in life, depending on the political philosophy that governs their society.  And if Americans want to Make America Great Again, they need to learn to work hard again.  And to stop listening to ridiculously stupid socialists, Marxists, and communists who just want to sit around smoking pot, living off welfare, and wasting their lives away with scratch-off lottery tickets, hoping to hit it big so they can work even less.  Those kinds of people are the slugs of society, and any culture that wants to be better needs to make fewer of them. 

Rich Hoffman

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Let the Communists Leave America: Nobody will miss you

It’s comical to watch, and we all deserve the pleasure of it.  But the communists are threatening to leave when President Trump is re-elected, and they think we care.  As in the threat of it will frustrate the America First political movement.  So, for context, let’s review how we arrived here.  For years, the communists, because that’s what they always were on the political left, communists, planned to conquer American capitalism with guilt by exploiting race tensions and gender roles to advance their Karl Marx agenda.  We can say what we couldn’t before because they have revealed their agenda in the wake of the stolen 2020 election.  The communists thought that their capture of the legal system would put Trump down for good and that the MAGA movement was gone forever.  And it’s not just Democrats; in Ohio, it was Speaker Stephens and the Blue22 coalition who have been working against state central committees to put Matt Dolan on the slate cards across the state over Bernie Moreno, which is just as dumb as when Governor Kasich, ignored the political sentiment of the state and continued to run for President, just as Nikki Haley just did.  The people they are talking to all believe they understood how politics worked in America and that they would continue to enjoy this left-leaning version, even in the Republican Party.  So it’s not just a few dumb people going through all this.  But in the face of the reality that Trump is coming back to the Executive Branch, and this time, there will be a lot more support in the House and Senate to support his administration, those same communist personalities are turning toward their narcissism as their last resort revealing the inherent insanity of their position, that people actually care what they think.  If they threaten to leave the country, people will miss them.

I would be completely fine with all communist-oriented people would leave America after this next election.  Go!  Please do us all a favor and leave.  Go to some other communist country and ruin their lives.  Please leave us alone in America.  We don’t want you!  Nobody will miss you!  If all the communists leave America because of the Trump election, then our country will be a lot better off.  And yes, communists is the right word.  Anybody who has sympathy and a yearning for anything Karl Marx advocated should be said to be a communist.  Those standing against the MAGA movement are functioning communists and that’s not an inflationary statement.  Even the soft-shelled Republicans like the Dolan supporters are functioning communists because they support a government form of collectivism and state controls that Karl Marx advocated for.  And that people are so willing to reject the communist plan is shocking to them.  That the race-baiting and exploitation of the sexes have run its course.  People are no longer sympathetic to the dumb messages in the NFL endzones, “stop racism,” and those types of propaganda.  They got suckered before, and people were burned when they watched the communists ruin their country with a communist insurrection in 2020 and endure the constant criticism the previous four years.  Now, we have had eight years of outright communist propaganda, and people are finally done with it.  Their economy is ruined, their jobs are infected with corporate communism, and life has been horrible.  But those same people finally see what I’ve been warning about for thirty years.  Communism has been loose in America through the Democrat Party and the Republicans who want to make deals with those communists, and it has been a good gig for those playing the game.  But it has been horrible for America, and people are finally ready to admit to just how bad it was.

Part of the communist plan was to control the media; it was one of their goals starting in the 1930s, during the “red decade.”  What kept communism in the background was the outbreak of World War II.  But it was communism that was behind the hippie movement and that dumb peace sign.  It was communism that was behind the Rap music radicalism of minority communities seeking to destroy America.  It wasn’t an organic movement but an attempt to overthrow the values of American culture.  And Americans put up with it for a long time because they were living somewhat decent lives.  There was bread on the shelf at the grocery.  They had March Madness to watch.  And they had easy access to gasoline.  Even though the communists continued to turn down the screws of their plan a little bit each year, the pace of change was slow enough for people to ignore.  That is, until the communists got desperate after Trump was elected, and they increased their radicalism, showing the world what they always had been.  In so doing, they exposed their scam all along.  People were shocked by what they saw happening, and those who doubted that communism was a real problem in America suddenly were seeing the light.  Which is about two decades too long, but who’s counting?  Communism has no place in America, not as a mixed economy, not as a social enterprise.  Communists must be destroyed just as McCarthy was trying to establish in the 1950s.  The threat was always there, but only recently were Americans forced to face the facts. 

I also talk about the public school system being designed by communists wearing the mask of progressives to avoid the stigma.  In public schools, children are introduced to the class system of a communist society.  To get into a higher class, you must appease the members of it to be accepted into their collective membership.  So they are used to setting the terms for their appeasement.  Such as, “I won’t like you if you don’t wear Nike tennis shoes.”  And some people become very stressed about these parameters.  Over time, the communists in America have gotten used to setting the priorities for their appeasement because they controlled a political class, and like dummies, Republicans and Democrats crawled through broken glass naked to appease them.  “No, I’m not a racist.  See, I voted for Obama.”  Or, “See, I’m not a sexist or a member of toxic masculinity because I wore a pink dress shirt with rainbows on it.”  And in so doing, we have worked to undo our country and its values and to usher in a society of communists. That is, until now.  Knowing that the class setting the standard was communists, Americans are now changing their tune and are not working to appease those people.  And now the communists, in a fit of anger, are threatening to leave, as if we ever really cared.  What they fear is that people don’t care because that was the only leverage point that they had was that people would want to appease them for acceptance into the communist class in a social structure.  In that context, what we are seeing now was something that it took us over a century to admit to, and I think we will be far better off for it.  The communists have been exploited and shown for what they always were.  And finally, people are ready to confront them honestly, instead of trying to appease them.  This means there is a lot of hope for the future that we are just now beginning to understand. 

Rich Hoffman

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Rural People Were Never Going To Submit to Big Parental Government: The panic by global progressives in what they are watching happen

As I wrote this one I was traveling all over the world, I was in an airport in Tokyo waiting for a connecting flight, and the nature of politics was obvious.  If you only get your news from American news sources and, from there, captured assets like CNN and The New York Times, you probably won’t understand.  But this game that progressives have built for themselves, specifically that some magical mechanism would come along, such as the internet and centralized surveillance, and that they would be able to steer people toward their political sentiments.  They counted on all that working, perhaps, too much.  And if they had a more “global” perspective at the time, they would have saved themselves a lot of pain.  No matter where they come from, most people want the same things, which was just as accurate in Tokyo as in the dusty streets of an impoverished African economy. People generally want less government in their lives so not to slow them down from the things they want to do, and they aren’t going to vote for more government to give them more access to all the intrusions that the government imposes by default.  People would never support life with too much government that made their lives more challenging moment by moment.  And that becomes excessively obvious when you travel; the further, the better.  The idea that people would support more government even in parts of the world already choking on socialism, communism, or some mashed potatoes version of the two, that they would have an infinite tolerance for political abuse, has just not been correct.  So dismantling their assumptions is almost comical, even if it is the end of the world for them.  I have tried to tell them, but they didn’t listen, and this essentially starts as a strategy that was started at the World Economic Forum and flowed through to government attempts of the United Nations.  The planners for all these central planned communities assumed that everything would magically work out if they could manage the entire world through the various large cities.  And that just has not been the case. 

Even as I talk about travel on the other side of the world and the perspective of people in general, I pointed this out after the last election, where I traveled all over the United States to ensure that my assumptions were not just regionally driven.  I live in a pretty conservative area, and even with transplants coming in from the various coastal communities, they are generally running away from big government, not embracing it, even if intellectually they don’t understand why.  But it was easy for me to confirm that no matter where you go in America, once you get out of the city limits of even the most blue-led city, people do not support big, intrusive governments anywhere.  And this realization has stoked a lot of panic among Democrats, who are learning now all too late that people could not be controlled to the level they thought.  The only way that places like China, Russia, and Europe could apply centralized governments with too much authority and got away with it was because people didn’t know better as it happened.  However, in a free country like America, where people can talk about things and assume a smaller government, their natural reaction to too much government growth will be hostile.  And we’d end up with the problems we are seeing now, where tight micro-managed communities run by blue-state governors would quickly lose their power and influence further away from the big cities where people lived. 

Most people are willing to have reasonable concessions about government intrusion if they are themselves timid types who never grew up away from their parents and still have dependency problems for which the government becomes a fantasy-oriented replacement.  So, they go to the government for transportation, price controls, and general, orderly services for their safety and security.  Looking at the situation in Japan, in one of the most populated areas on earth, Tokyo, there are a lot of people willing to accept big government as long as they can get some sense of security in their daily lives, to be able to get to work, take care of their families, and call the police if they had a crime problem.  But this Democrat idea behind the World Economic Forum, that free people would select an intrusive, micromanaging government that would steer society into electric cars, they didn’t want a paperless society that was more of a pain in the neck, making life too complicated when technology failed and being told that men and women weren’t what they were and that people could decide for themselves what sex they were, that these where things people would accept was insane.  And a clear overreach by those desiring centralized planning.  The panic they are experiencing now is that they couldn’t take away people’s desires for free will, even after trying for over a century.  Given a choice, they pick President Trump.  This has been devastating news for much of the big government world, which did not see it coming.  It was obvious to me, and I’ve been trying to tell people.  But they didn’t listen. 

This government ratio thing is not a Republican or Democrat kind of deal; it’s a human condition, and people who do not understand people turn to the government to use the power of collectivism to impose on people things they wouldn’t choose to do for themselves.  That power went to people’s heads, and they were the wrong kind of people—people broken with undeveloped minds.  Parents who had a dependent child-like mind tended to support Democrat policies, instead of someone used to doing things for themselves, as we find in areas outside American cities or all across the world where people desire to be free of intrusive governments, have jobs, and care for their families.  The games of liberalism were never created in logic but in fantasy.  Even the most robust political scientist have found their political theories rooted in the same stupidity as those who told us to wear masks for COVID and that climate change meant we all needed to give up our gas-powered cars in exchange for something that was much more expensive, didn’t go nearly as far, and gave us a lot less freedom.  As I traveled through that bustling Tokyo airport talking to people, most people only saw it on television or read about it in a magazine. The relationship to small government was not just an American thing.  And when you talk to people at the sushi bar or the grocery, when they find out you’re from America, they don’t ask about Joe Biden.  They ask about Trump.  They know Trump and would like to have their own version, no matter where they happen to be.  And you know why? Trump means more prosperity and more freedom for individuals.  It is the opposite of a big nanny government that replaces the micromanaging parent in people’s lives.  People might sympathize with that intrusive parent but don’t find themselves drawn to them.  And so it’s no surprise that people did not fall for the snake oil of big government as Democrats proposed it.  And that the power they thought they’d have over the 2024 elections was not, in reality, what they thought they’d end up with.

Rich Hoffman

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