Tag: Socialism

“Your Mom is a Whore”: How government grows and why people let it

One thing we don’t talk about enough, and we should, is the cause of big government in the first place.  It’s one thing to point it out, and to complain about, and to blame some secondary condition, such as the evils of the World Economic Forum or the secrecy and malice of the CIA.  But in truth, I would say the number one reason that Bill Cooper was killed on his front porch by a couple of Arizona law enforcement had more to do with one of the most intelligent statements I have ever read in a book, which William Cooper accurately put his finger on as the root cause of all conspiracy theory, and the evils that follow.  In his book Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper pointed out what caused most of the problems in the world, which was devastating to all the people and groups out there who want those problems to continue so that they will have power over people in general, especially from government expansion and the abuse that comes with it.  And it wasn’t the talk about UFOs enslaving civilization, which is undoubtedly in that book, or the secrecy of power groups who operate in the shadows with a tax-eating shadow government.  Those are all true things, but not the reason I think they killed Bill Cooper. Instead, what he said about the natural psychological state of children and their parents that was the secret sauce that resides behind all government power.  And it is the biggest challenge to creating a country like America.  And that the way to destroy America was to exploit this weakness.  To strengthen it would be to help people with this essential problem of self-fulfillment and reliance on individual behavior instead of social collectivism.  Bill Cooper’s analysis in that famous conspiracy theory book is one of the most intelligent and powerful statements ever put on paper regarding mass society. 

The essential problem is this, and it’s a specific human issue in that people spend 18 years learning things, and most adults don’t live stable lives raising children over those 18 years.  They may do well at raising kids initially when all the rules are straightforward, and children depend entirely on their parents to function.  This is as opposed to other animals, such as young deer, that can stand up and run around just minutes after birth.  Humans have vast, complicated intellects not designed to be the drivers of mere animal behavior, basic sustenance, the acquisition of food, procreation, and shelter during heavy rains.  Humans take time to make, not their biological bodies but their minds.  At any point during those 18 years, even though their bodies may be ready to reproduce at 12 to 13 years old, their needs for thoughtful expression and social function continue into their 20s.  It takes a long time to build a human being, and then they don’t last very long after all that emotional investment; they are usually dead by age 70 to 80, with all that effort lost to time and what insecurities that bring to the effort of such an endeavor.  Many adults look at life and say, “Why try so hard if it’s all going to be over so fast.”  So they don’t do their jobs in instructing the youth, and the youth end up carrying on that trait to their children, then their children, and more children perpetually for infinity, leaving the world in the mess we have been talking about throughout human history.  Almost nobody gets this process right, which is the root cause of most trouble in the universe.  Suppose we were talking to aliens from the other side of the galaxy living in a type 1 or 2 civilization. They likely would have the same frustrations that they have been unable to overcome in their highly advanced technical society. 

We have tried to compensate for this problem in various ways, but none have worked, especially on the education frontier.  The social answer to this problem is to have the state educate society for its perpetuation of power as a collective entity of its own, viewing the people of society in much the way individual people might look at the cells of their body, as communal heaps of life that work together for the function of a living being.  The government was created to fulfill these needs and insecurities and thinks of itself as an individual, as “the state.”  And it expects people to fall in line to the service and maintenance of it as an organism in the plots of life as we know it, everywhere in the universe.  And as much as people talk about personal freedom and self-expression under Constitutional law, most people never develop individually to live that kind of life because they grew up with unhealthy relationships with their parents.  They often do not get the type of security and reliability of thought that humans require from their insecure parents, so that trait of confidence is never passed on to the children.  And they grow up to perpetuate the mistakes of their parents, who essentially got where they did in life through the same flawed method. 

Often, kids get loving parents who confuse their role in providing security with being afraid of everything that threatens it.  Then, by the time those children become teenagers, their puberty hard-wired behavior becomes their escape velocity only to become independent of their parents to learn life is hard, and they fall flat on their faces only to run back to the arms of a parental figure that can help them.  Since they can’t run back to their parents for that security, often, they create a big government and its various tyrannies to duplicate that infantile parental experience to give them a barrier to the dangers of life.  And those who want to be perpetual parents, always telling people what to do to mask the fact that they don’t know much themselves, use government to continue this dysfunctional relationship to keep the solution off the table.  We have identified the problem in works of philosophy, such as the founding documents of America clearly express.  But often, the people’s minds are not prepared for the responsibility of self-government because of all this sabotage of the parental role that produces such dependent children perpetually in need of parental roles that the government seeks to grow and expand for their own survival.  By weakening children’s minds, the defective parent can disguise love for the menace of keeping those children dependent on their parental fulfillment, realizing that the children never grow up and move away or that the children might surpass them in some way or another.  This vital part of the human relationship between parents and children sets up all the world’s tyrannies.  While parents might grow old and die away, freeing the children of their bonds to the traditional terror of low-intellect relationships, the government only changes the roles of the parental players.  The personalities might come and go, but the entity itself only continues to grow from one generation to the next, worsening until it either collapses or forces rebellion against its tyrannies from the minds who learn better what should be and refuse to accept what is, which is where we find ourselves on this razor thin precipice with the future gazing at us as a challenge.  How we handle that challenge is the cause of some of the most ostentatious fear that permeates the universe, which is conducting itself into a grand fortissimo in this current time in a fascinating way to watch.  What made Bill Cooper such a threat to the order of things was that with him essentially pointing out to his readers that their “mom was a whore,” he was undercutting the desire that mother government had to continue a relationship that benefited her at the expense of all the children.  Which couldn’t stand, so she plotted to get rid of him so that her children would never learn what she was doing to them with dependency disguised as safety.  And at the center of it all is the cause of most problems in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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There is no Right-Wing in America: The various levels of accepting Karl Marx that destroys people from the inside out

For a lot of reasons this 2023 election has been contentious, but we must clear something up.  In America, there is no such thing as “the radical right.”  The political spectrum that so many people report, especially in the media, is all based on Karl Marx.  Karl Marx is the center position, and we measure everything off him.  When we talk about a political centralist, we are talking about Marx and people who have accepted various degrees of Marxism over time.  In America, we created our own definitions for things, most of which center around the Constitution, which was most displayed at the beginning of the country, such as Federalists and Anti-Federalists, which I most identify with.  And our American Constitution represented a right and left position to some extent.  But around the rest of the world, and what has been adopted by the global media, it is Marxism that they build their entire presumption around, and it is all wrong.  Their political spectrum is just another scandalous trick meant to lower people’s aversion to Marxism so that various degrees of acceptance could take place in America.  But at the core of most American politics is this mysticism as to why people seem to behave so much differently than the aristocratic ruling class which wants to separate the ordinary people from those who desire to boss other people around.  Marxism was their little curtain like the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz, where they could hide behind something and rule over others from a powerful central government, and a lot of people who came out of their childhoods with such desires accepted Marxism to various degrees to satisfy those inner insecurities.  But America was designed to get away from Marxism, which is a European creation and an export to other cultures, which it has destroyed many in its wake.  But in America, it just isn’t applicable. 

A lot of people during the 2023 elections have said of me and others in the MAGA movement that we are right-wing, which I find perplexing.  I watched old westerns like Gunsmoke, Little House on the Prairie, Davy Crockett from Disney, and Zorro as a kid.  Those are products from an unusually free country that had expectations of personal identity that is unique in the world and there is a reason we don’t see those kinds of stories being produced by modern-day Hollywood.  Because the Marxists, as I have explained and which is quite well chronicled now, intended to take over Hollywood, destroy those types of stories, and present the public with Marxist propaganda.  A really good example of that is in the movie Kong: Skull Island which just had China buy up Legendary Studios who produced the film.  I’ve talked specifically about this movie on several occasions and there are a lot more, this isn’t an isolated incident.  But it is overtly obvious what is going on, and it is an excellent example of how the movie industry gradually accepted various levels of Marxism, socialism, and communism into their lives.  To the point where in 2023 the political scale is so distorted with tainted perspective that nobody even remembers where the baseline was because it has been removed from social discourse.  But people are still people and they believe what they do, the same as they always have.  This attempt to change them has been a failed experiment and it is starting to frustrate the perpetrators.  Out of frustration because they can’t get people to follow them, they refer to those who reject them as “right winged.”  When really, it was people who were never drug to the left to any degree that they are referring to. 

I understand what happens to people throughout their lives; they might experiment with drugs, and they might even delve into a homosexual experience.  At some point in the many temptations of youth, they step away into the darkness of Marxism and start accepting various degrees of leftist ideology, which compromises their integrity, and they end up becoming some degree of a lefty.  Maybe they like the Beatles, who were overt communists in their artistic offerings, or they fear standing alone in the free market and find some powerful government that can distribute fairness attractive, so they start adopting little bits of Marx into their lives to hide from the reality of a competitive existence.  Most of the RINOs I have known over the years fall into one of these categories.  At some point, they did drugs, drank too much, cheated on their spouses, and lost their ability to be “holier than thou,” so they accept little bits of lefty politics to hide their shame.  Over time, their political view moved far to the left, and they wanted to believe that they were centralists, when in fact, they were all the dangers of what the Federalists represented, those who love big government to hide their many mistakes in life and still be celebrated in social circles as respectable.  After all, don’t all people have those problems?  Well, I don’t; I have never liked socialist classic rock songs, done drugs, or enjoyed a promiscuous lifestyle.  I’m essentially someone who could have walked out of any movie from Hollywood’s Golden Age and am proudly untainted by the corrosive effects of Marxism.  And that makes it easy for me to see various levels of Marxism in other people because their behavior is so overtly leftist, as the Europeans classify it. 

I am sympathetic to people who have lost their way, and I’m happy to help them through the dark caves of life with a flashlight that will show them the path to righteousness.  And when you further peel back the intentions of Marxism, which was wonderfully captured in the book We the Living, our society was designed to desecrate individuals so that they would seek to hide their shame behind Marxism for relief.  I have known this for a long time, especially in my own college days.  I would look at women passed out in the halls of dorms and the apartments of strange young men, equally compromised and disgraced with vomit all over their faces after a night of partying, and I would wonder how they would explain all this to their kids someday.  That kind of personal conduct is an element of Marxism and it was introduced into American culture early as the intrusions of Marxism and his soft socialism were being sold to America during the Industrial Revolution.  When we talk about people being “right-wing” we are essentially talking about people who refuse to accept failure in human conduct as a default mode for living life.  Marxism gives weak people the illusion that they can misbehave, drink too much, cheat too often, and hide their aversion to personal risk with the skirt of the mother government to protect them from too much competition in the world, to shelter their fragile egos from the realities of a hostile world.  Marxism let them believe that they could rule without risk, and be aristocrats without having actually to become a capitalist.  They could appease a docile public with charity and sacrifice just like the ancient Palestinians did when God told Abraham to take the nation of Israel and make it the “Promised Land.”  America is a promised land, and it has been invaded by left-leaning European imports, which Marxism defines.  And some people have accepted it, and from my perspective, they are some degree of a Marxist, depending on how much they use powerful centralized governments to shield them from their many mistakes in life.  There is no right-wing party that validates people who are encumbered with a mistake-riddled existence.  There are only failures and Americans.  Our classic Westerns used to distinguish to a hungry public the difference and show why any form of leftist political ideology is not only dangerous but destroyed people from the inside out.  And I consider anything to the political left of me as devastating to the individuals involved. 

Rich Hoffman

‘Irresistible Revolution’ by Matthew Lohmeier: Marxism is everywhere and people are just now willing to admit to it

I was having a perfect top-grade Kobe steak in Japan with a friend of mine, a retired colonel in the military when the next layer of discussions started to happen. Usually, in polite conversation, you talk about all the surface stuff from the time you order until the food arrives, between 15 to 20 minutes. And in those conversations, you talk about family, hobbies, and general interests that are usually neutrally driven, and non-political. I typically have many of those where the actual talk of anything never has time to hatch. Yet these days, more often, that polite conversation is not happening and people are discussing with me the heart of most matters, the actual survival of the human race in what appears to be the apocalypse as described by John in the Book of Revelation. Usually, among military people, people who work all their lives with ranks and procedures have typically kept their opinions to themselves. But growing among this group is a concern that they have had for a long time, accelerated by their observations of woke policies advancing into the military, they are not happy about it, and they want to do whatever they can to save it. My advice to them is to vote for Trump in the next election. But our dinner conversation went further than that, and a book recommendation came my way which I then read quickly once I returned to my room, and finished while on the plane back to the States. I was surprised by it because I usually get recommended these types of books, and I don’t learn much new. But the book Irresistible Revolution by Matthew Lohmeier was excellent and current. It’s only a few years old, but as I read it, I was surprised by the content because it went down the rabbit hole on Marxism in America in ways I had not seen before from what I would consider a mainstream, military personality.

Honestly, this is the talk of the world; people aren’t happy, normal, regular, everyday people. They ask me about the crazy politics in the United States and their first concern is “When will Trump be back,” because the world wants a strong dollar, and they want a political defender of it because most of the world sees what’s been happening now that the trouble has arrived at their front door by way of altered supply chains, the hidden tax of inflation, and the moral depravity of the current generation. And especially military people, once they achieve a high enough rank to express their opinions, they are concerned by what they see, which is the case of this author has a very respectable military career that migrated into the recent Space Force and has several advanced degrees. He’s not Alex Jones or Glenn Beck, who is known for conspiracy theories; he is a regular guy who has been among the best that the military produced, and I was surprised to hear other knowledgeable people beginning to talk about the cost of woke policy to American policy generally, and how destructive it has been. It was something that they wouldn’t have been caught doing before 2019, which was the last excellent year for America in most categories before Covid came along, and the unmasking of Marxism overtly showed itself to an unsuspecting public. What was unique about this particular book, Irresistible Revolution was that it was saying about Marxism much of what I have, but it was coming from another reliable source with a cutting critic that was very refreshing, and helpful to many people who are now clamoring for some sense of sanity, wondering what is wrong with the world.

It’s true, even though the Illuminati only lasted for just over a decade as a secret society political movement, before it was eradicated, dissolved under its own pressure, or went underground and stayed underground behind the Masonic activity disguised as something else, what political people would in the future call globalism, Marxism was a creation by them to perform precisely what we are seeing today, the overthrow of all the world’s governments so that a one world government ran by these secret society orders could then run everyone from the background. The culmination of all these plans over the last several centuries was in Covid, used as a bioweapon of terrorism to stun the world into global compliance. But the goal was always the spread of Marxism to every corner of the world to gain control of powerful countries’ governments in an international chess game meant to confiscate the world’s wealth into a centrally controlled power. Don’t forget Karl Marx and his friends at the time were Masons, and it was through that order that Marxism spread behind the many social masks they wore in public to advance the old aims of the Illuminati, which created the policies of Marxism and then spread them. How does anybody think that Vladimir Lenin was in exile and suddenly, by train, was sent to St Petersburg to overthrow Russia, and it did it on its own? That sounds pretty wild to regular people who don’t read many books and get their news from CNN or Fox News. But that is part of the mask that has hidden Marxism from everyone’s views because it was too wild of an idea even to be accurate. Yet, now we know it was all too real all along.

I have known these things about Marxism in our culture for the last three decades.  It has only been recently, though, that all the dots connected into how Marxism became the weapon of choice by the global insurgents and how they were able to spread their message, which was particularly appealing to low-level masonic initiates who thought they were studying the workings of Christ and not the ancient wisdom of Thoth and the seeding of the earth by an experiment of the gods contained in hidden history that isn’t so hidden these days.  The government of the world by these people using selected biblical passages to soft sell it to an unsuspecting public was Marxism, and we have it dripping wet all over American culture because nobody knew what they were dealing with.  The names were changed, and the motivations sold as wholesome and fair, until those masks have come off over the last few years to show what they were all along.  And in that crisis, we have very good people like the colonel I was talking about and military people like Matthew Lohmeier, who are heroically ringing the bell to alarm others to their discoveries.  I read Irresistible Revolution and thought it was about time for this level of conversation.  People just weren’t ready to admit to it before Trump came along and exposed this maniacal scheme.  But the truth is what it is, and Matthew Lohmeier hit the nail on the head.  And I can’t recommend enough to people his excellent book on Marxism.  But I would add, that it’s not just in the military, but in all levels of society, especially in corporate culture.  And Marxism will have to be destroyed everywhere in the world.  It’s the current world war.  It’s wrapped up in finance, entertainment, and politics; Secret societies spread it, not so secretly, and now the damage is apparent.  And before us for time to judge our reaction to it.  And with all that said, that Kobe steak was delicious, as was the conversation afterward.

Rich Hoffman

The Need for Speed in American Management: Fast Draw is the perfect sport to understand the benefits of capitalism

I had a good shooting season this year, as is usually the case.  Over the Labor Day weekend, there was one that I look forward to each year specifically.  I go all over the region to attend these gun-fighting competitions and meet many different people to satisfy my obsession with speed, which has been with me for a lifetime.  Cowboy Fast Draw is a unique sport that is very popular, and it should get a lot more news coverage.  But since it’s guns and a deliberate reverence toward a specifically American lifestyle, many woke media won’t touch it in even casual ways.  But not doing so is very disingenuous to American culture, which is the point of social rejection.  It would be like avoiding discussing knighthood in Europe or the samurai in Japan.  Gunfighting in America is one of those core elements that almost everyone can relate to, but the forces hostile to our country want desperately to remove it from people’s minds.  So we have these competitions all over the United States that are very well attended and increasing in popularity, yet many people don’t even know about them.  The shooting season occurs mainly during the warm months, from April to around October.  For me, the one over Labor Day in Darke County, Ohio, is usually the last, so it has a special meaning.  There are a few more in October and November, but I’m often too busy to get to them.  My reason for getting to as many as possible is that they are very positive experiences.  I think about many things that don’t make much sense in everyday life, but all the pieces come together nicely at Fast Draw events.  In the Labor Day of 2023 competition, I received a very hard-won award with significant meaning, and you can read the faces.  A lot is going on with these kinds of things. 

I see Fast Draw as a lot like golf; you get together with friends and see how low your score can be over some time. Gunfights usually last all day, so it’s not a one-and-done endeavor. It requires long, sustained skill that is repeatable. But unlike golf, this is a timed sport. You are forced to react as quickly as possible to the target, making this kind of competition very unusual and American. I like many things, including golf, but there are many things extraordinary about Fast Draw that I find very beneficial personally. Particularly when it comes to metaphors for speed, in regular life, where people don’t show up for gunfights with their guns on their hips and all the special equipment you get to mess around with to play the sport, there are lots of excuses for why things don’t happen or can’t. I find the typical labor position that has come out of the Department of Labor in government particularly repulsive, and since COVID was introduced to liberals, and they have used the potential for sickness not to do any work, my frustrations with the world have only increased dramatically. I do not look for excuses for anything. I think production is beautiful, but most of the world is looking for reasons, and the more liberalism in a culture, the more excuses that culture has for things that they think cannot be done. The attitude is, “If you want to do something right, you should take your time,” assumes that the faster you go at something, the worse the quality of the endeavor. In that way, the labor market that has evolved with lots of Marxism has sought to do less work and do it slower, rather than the classic American approach, which is faster and more accurate.

The reason that gunfighters in classic American Westerns were so obsessed with being faster than the other fighter is the proper metaphor for American culture, where the expectations for everything was tight. Capitalism evolved in America under the premise of speed. And, of course, the speed wasn’t of much value if accuracy wasn’t a part of the story. Of all the sports out there, Fast Draw is the fastest sport. It has elements of many popular sports, mainly drag racing. But there is nothing faster than Fast Draw, where the main objective is drawing a gun and hitting a target with a wax bullet in under half a second. And what I learn from watching different shooters from different places around the country is fascinating. And very refreshing. In the business world, slowness has been embraced because of all the socialist, communist, and under-all philosophies of Marxism running in the background, dripping wet in the compliance culture. Those who make the rules that human resource departments must follow load assumptions against the speed that a company can operate, and too often, people unthinkingly follow without pushing back against the essential premise. And it can be very frustrating to deal with, especially if you think about it, which most people avoid. In golf, you can take your time with the game and are often rewarded for going slower, so many people in business assume that slower is better and that success means making that adjustment. But from the perspective of my favorite sport, Fast Draw faster is better, and the management of speed and accuracy measures success and failure.

There are a lot of essential lessons in Fast Draw that should be directly applied to the business world, which is why I wrote a book on the subject, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business.  You must remove as much nonsense from the process to get the speed you need in the sport.  The more motion, the more steps, and the more variables there are, the slower your time will be.  And under pressure, you still must be able to hit the target.  You don’t have time to be casual.  Most of the winning times in the sport are around a quarter of a second to a half a second.  So, the pressure to achieve speed will expose anything unnecessary.  And that’s how it should be in business, whether it’s a drive-through window at a fast-food restaurant or selling a new car to a customer.  You might have noticed that since COVID-19 and the Biden administration has been in the White House, things have slowed down significantly in America.  The business world expects to go slower and blame the supply chain upstream for failure.  This is a very un-American concept, one of the biggest problems of the modern age.  And it’s very different in 2023 than in 2019 before Covid came along.  Yet, without measuring things with speed and accuracy, people might not notice that the value system was slow and, ultimately, communism with low-performance expectations.  The more Fast Draw events I go to, the more hope I have for the world because I can see people who know how vital speed is to modern culture.  Not just dressing up in gunfighter garments and paying reverence to the Old West.  I appreciate the shooters I meet and their “need for speed,” which is specifically American.  And it certainly gives me hope for the future when I see how hungry people are to win at Fast Draw.  Because if they can figure out that balance in that sport, they may do well in real life in ways that capitalism best reflects. 

Rich Hoffman

The Company of Tomorrow: Political trends are shifting away from the World Economic Forum values, and that’s a great thing

Everyone is always looking for the next great business tip for a competitive advantage, so here it is.  You can tell because of trends like what is going on with the Washington Redskins NFL team and the Cleveland Indians.  The fans of those teams are getting petitions signed to restore their names to what they were pre-woke.  The momentum of wokeness has shifted, and we see the political pendulum swinging the other way.  The Marxists had their chance, which didn’t have a positive impact that society could see for themselves.  The Beatles song “Imagine” didn’t come out very well when the World Economic Forum was starting mass viruses for their Great Reset and turning the responsibility of enforcement over to your local human resource office to do through businesses what nobody would ever be able to do through government regulation.  The Marxists of the world figured out that by design, our political systems in America were established to go slow to keep the government from interrupting the machine of capitalism.  So, they turned their attention to businesses to attack them there, and what we have seen happening in business climates over the last several decades has been Marxism, and people didn’t notice until recently.  Because most people have an adversarial relationship with their employers, it wasn’t something people saw coming in the front door.  But now that it’s here, they want it gone.  And that is the future state of business.  I’ve seen this communist, Marxist approach in the industry for a long time, growing year by year, and finally, after Trump was removed from office after a government-organized coup, no different from the many communist revolutions around the world, people finally have had enough of it, and that trend began to go the other way after the last Covid vaccine mandates. 

Just as professional sports teams were tricked into changing their names into woke acceptance, this is not what society wants.  They want cool names for their sports teams, not the Guardians, but the Indians in Cleveland.  I was just in Cleveland, and that name change a few years into it is still a joke, and it’s not getting better.  I have had some interactions with members of the family of that team, and their woke acceptance has not gone over well.  People are turning on them for allowing woke politics into their sacred sports franchise.  And that is certainly the case with the Washington Football team in D.C.  People want their Redskins back.  This anti-capitalist approach to life is not what people want in the world.  They have been patient with corporations that became politically active toward Marxism, some of America’s largest corporations.  When we talk about globalism, we are essentially talking about Marxism because that is how it is everywhere else.  Americans have taken the advantages of capitalism for granted because they didn’t know any better.  And they assumed that the companies they worked for had at least primary American values.  But that’s not how most corporations are these days; they have drifted into this Marxist compliance because if they had manufacturing plants in China, Vietnam, or Europe, they were dealing with some level of Marxism, whether it was outright communism or socialism.  It was not free market capitalism that was the driver of their economies.  It was the slow-moving and lazy administrative state, and it was slowing things down to levels that have been unacceptable in America.  I’m old enough to know what it was like before, and I have watched over several decades of being on the front line how Marxism has migrated into the human resource departments to influence how people live their everyday lives.  But the final straw happened during Covid and the slow realization that most people have from President Trump being in the White House, then Joe Biden.  Bidenomics has not been good for anybody but the global Marxists. 

I have often pointed out, over a long period, how the Lean Manufacturing trend was filled with cultural Marxism.  Many of the central foundations of business ethics these days attack the notion of the golf-playing CEO with a nice car, a trophy wife, and is oozing with success.  In Lean Manufacturing, they want the members of management to come from their offices out to where the work is done, not just to become more effective in understanding a problem.  That is how it sold to them.  But it’s really to minimize management in the eyes of the employees, to establish a level of sameness among everyone that displays nobody is in charge but the centralized employees.  Not even the marketplace.  Compliance with regulators as they get their talking points from the World Economic Forum has been their weapon of choice and has been a slow burn.  The CEOs and CFOs who have survived the most were those bootlicker types who appeased the bureaucratic regulators and were not focused on giving the public what they wanted—but imposing on the public Marxist restrictions not just in the employer but in the marketplace itself.  Rather than march people into Washington D.C. at gunpoint as Castro did in Cuba and kill political rivals off point blank, the Marxists took a much more passive-aggressive route.  They regulated capitalists out of existence.  But the marketplace is catching on and is pushing back.  Because of Trump’s successful administration, people tasted the good life again and want it back.  So, the political sentiment is swinging the other way. 

The World Economic Forum is failing; many of their 2030 plans, as scary as they are for their intent, are falling apart, much the way the name changes in sports are getting so much public pushback.  I do get to talk to people worldwide for perspective, and the sentiment is pretty much everywhere the same.  They are upset with Marxism and don’t want it in their products or the companies that make them.  And they certainly don’t want it in their sports teams.  People were willing to put up with it as long as they had the illusion of capitalism functioning in the background.  But now that they know differently, they want their capitalism back, so the future of business will go to those companies who most embrace capitalism for the majority of market share in the future.  Further woke trends from the human resource departments, such as paperless paychecks into bank accounts that centralized bankers can completely control, are not tomorrow’s trend.  But quite the opposite.  Ownership was diminished by the Marxists, including how pay was distributed or whether or not your employer could force you to get a vaccine of poison to keep your job.  The Marxists got caught talking out of both sides of their mouth; while they were saying work from home, fair pay for fair work, and make sure you get an excellent ESG score, the radical leftist Larry Fink and the Wall Street insurgents were saying, if you value your job, you’ll get the government medicine from the world’s largest drug dealer, the federal government.  People were willing to listen before and in the years leading up to these ridiculous sentiments of globalism on American corporations.  But now they aren’t, and success will be measured differently.  The less compliant with Marxist measures globally, the better companies will be.  And that is tomorrow’s trend for those who want to get a jump start.  Capitalism works not just because it makes money for those who utilize it.  But also, it’s a measure of morality that the public can influence, which was always at the heart of all economic activity and always will be.

Rich Hoffman

The Marxist Dream of Modern Monetary Theory and the New Ways of War

We are currently seeing the largest-scale military maneuver against nations in the history of the world.  Only the weapon of choice isn’t traditional military weapons.  But for all the same reason that wars have been started to defend national borders, this is how we must view Modern Monetary Theory.  The scam is currently, for instance, in the United States to use the strength of the dollar to print infinite amounts of cash to prop up the wealth of companies like Blackrock, Blackstone, and Vanguard.  Then use that power to take over the corporate boards of most of the world’s companies.  Once that has happened, then the world will move away from the dollar and convert everything to a digital currency that is controlled by China.  Then the entire wealth of the United States would be evaporated, along with everyone in it.  It would be an attack on a much larger scale than when Mesopotamia attacked Israel, the Persians attacked Greece, or the Romans the known world.  But the attack is just as bloody and ruthless, and this is how they are doing it with MMT.  And the Biden administration is the insurgent force controlled by the World Economic Forum, which is behind the effort.  

Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, is a relatively new economic theory that has been gaining traction in recent years. Developed by a group of economists including Stephanie Kelton, Warren Mosler, and Bill Mitchell, MMT challenges traditional views on government spending and the role of taxes in the economy.

At its core, MMT argues that governments that issue their own currency can never run out of money. This means that, unlike households or businesses, governments can always spend more money than they take in through taxes. This is because they can simply create more money out of thin air.

This may sound like a recipe for hyperinflation, but MMT proponents argue that as long as the economy is not operating at full capacity, increased government spending will not lead to inflation. In fact, they say that increasing government spending can actually stimulate the economy and create jobs.  But of course history proves this not to be the case.  These people are crazy, and not very smart.

One of the key insights of MMT is that taxes do not actually fund government spending. Instead, taxes are used to regulate the economy. By taking money out of circulation, taxes help to control inflation. In addition, taxes can be used to incentivize or discourage certain behaviors. For example, a carbon tax could be used to discourage the use of fossil fuels and encourage the adoption of renewable energy.

MMT also challenges the conventional wisdom that government debt is a bad thing. In fact, MMT argues that government debt is necessary in order to provide the private sector with the financial assets it needs to function. When the government spends more money than it takes in through taxes, it creates new financial assets in the private sector in the form of government bonds. These bonds can be bought and sold just like any other financial asset, providing a stable source of income for investors.

Critics of MMT argue that it is a dangerous and untested theory that could lead to runaway inflation and economic collapse. They point to examples like Zimbabwe and Venezuela, where excessive government spending led to hyperinflation and economic disaster.

However, MMT proponents argue that these examples are not relevant to developed countries like the United States. These countries have much more stable political systems and financial institutions, which make hyperinflation much less likely. In addition, MMT argues that the government can always use taxes to control inflation if it becomes a problem.

Overall, MMT is a Marxist dream and controversial theory that challenges many of the traditional assumptions about government spending and taxation. While it is still a relatively new and untested theory, it has already gained a significant following among economists and policymakers. Whether or not it will ultimately prove to be a viable alternative to traditional economic theory remains to be seen. 

Rich Hoffman

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Say No to Globalism: Pedophilia is the true objective behind the charities, Marxism, and climate change

When I think of globalism, and I will provide lots of examples in the weeks to come to support this statement, I think of the Rothchilds controlling around 100 trillion dollars of global wealth, worshiping ancient bloodlines they believe are the roots of all the royalty on planet earth from the beginning, telling King Charlie and the royal family what to do, who also controls around 100 trillion dollars of wealth, all who have been exposed by the terrible exploits of the BBC celebrity Jimmy Savile and the pedophilia ring on the island of Jersey, just north of France. I am convinced that most of what is stated at the World Economic Forum, which is a partnership with King Charlie and Klaus Schwab and the old Nazi roots of both men to continue with the occult practices of yesteryear, which is ultimately the consumption of children sexually, and in their life essence which is disguised behind Liberal World Order ideas propped up by charities, Marxism, and climate change, to essentially hide the terrible things they do because they have acquired so much wealth and power that they use it to stay above the law. Those are stories for another day but serve here to explain that there is nothing at all good about Globalism. We are at a point where we’ve seen what they are up to, which is essentially using Modern Monetary Theory to hijack the world’s corporations and to gain Marxist power over the entire world by collapsing their economies and replacing that value with phony money they printed for an all-out assault on our nations. What all globalists are proposing is essentially a military attack against our country, and that is the heart of what the next election is all about. And now, we need to essentially do what President Eisenhower didn’t when he identified this globalism problem in his last speech as president. He saw what was happening and warned President Kennedy about it. Yet within just a few years, Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA in what we now know is no longer a conspiracy theory.

Globalism is a complex concept that refers to the interconnectedness of countries and their economies, as proposed by the United Nations and the ghost group for Marxism, the World Economic Forum. It is the idea that what happens in one part of the world can have an impact on other parts of the world. While they talk about the benefits to globalism, challenges and risks are associated with it. One of the biggest challenges is how to ensure that the benefits of globalism are shared fairly and that the risks are managed effectively. This requires cooperation and coordination among countries and a commitment to transparency and accountability, which clearly isn’t happening.

Here is President Eisenhower’s farewell speech as he gave it.  “My fellow Americans, as I stand before you today, I am filled with a sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving this great nation. For eight years, I have had the honor of holding the highest office in the land, and I have done so with humility and a deep sense of responsibility.

As I prepare to leave office, I want to take this opportunity to share some reflections with you. I want to talk to you about the challenges we have faced together, the progress we have made, and the work that remains to be done.

When I took office in 1953, the world was a very different place. We were in the midst of a Cold War, and the threat of nuclear annihilation hung over us like a dark cloud. Our economy was struggling, and our society was still grappling with issues of inequality and discrimination.

But despite these challenges, we never lost sight of our core values as a nation. We remained committed to freedom, democracy, and human dignity, and we worked tirelessly to advance these ideals both at home and abroad.

Over the past eight years, we have made significant progress on many fronts. We have strengthened our economy, expanded access to education and healthcare, and made great strides in the fight against discrimination and injustice.

But we cannot rest on our laurels. There is still much work to be done, and we must remain vigilant and committed to our goals. We must continue to work for peace and understanding both at home and abroad, and we must never forget the lessons of our past.

As I prepare to leave office, I want to thank each and every one of you for your support and your commitment to our great nation. I have been blessed to serve as your President, and I will always cherish the memories of this remarkable journey.

May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.”

And here is Klaus Schwab in 2020, speaking in full-throated support of globalism “As we move forward in these unprecedented times, it is clear that a great reset is necessary. Our systems and structures have been exposed as fragile and unsustainable, and it is time to rebuild them in a way that prioritizes the well-being of all people and our planet. We must seize this moment to create a fairer and more equitable world, where access to healthcare, education, and basic necessities are not determined by one’s wealth or status. Let us come together and work towards a brighter future for all.” Klaus Schwab, for those who do not know, is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum and has been closely monitoring the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He believes this crisis can potentially reshape the world and create a new global cooperation and solidarity era. Schwab has called for a “Great Reset” of the global economy and society, which would involve rethinking our priorities and values in order to build a more sustainable and equitable future. He also stresses the importance of investing in digital technology and innovation to help us navigate the challenges of the post-COVID world.

Then here is a speech by King Charles from the same Davos event in June of 2020 “My fellow countrymen, it is with great concern that I address you today. We are facing a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty as the world grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its vast economic repercussions. But alongside these immediate challenges, we must also confront the longer-term threats posed by climate change, social inequality, and the rise of authoritarianism. It is in this context that many have proposed a so-called “Great Reset” of our global systems and institutions. And while I am sympathetic to the goals of this movement, we must be careful to proceed with caution and thoughtfulness.

The Great Reset, as I understand it, seeks to fundamentally transform our economic, social, and political structures in order to create a more sustainable and equitable world. This is a noble goal, and one that I believe we must work towards. But we cannot simply tear down the existing systems without considering the potential consequences. We must engage in dialogue and debate, and we must ensure that any changes we make are done in a way that is transparent, inclusive, and equitable.

Furthermore, we must also be mindful of the challenges that lie ahead. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the fragility of our global systems, and we must work together to build resilience and preparedness for future crises. We must also address the urgent need to combat climate change, protect our natural resources, and promote sustainable development. And we must do all of this while upholding the values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.

In conclusion, I believe that the Great Reset presents us with both opportunities and challenges. As we move forward, let us do so with a clear sense of purpose and a commitment to working together. Let us engage in open and honest dialogue, and let us ensure that any changes we make are done in a way that is fair, just, and sustainable. Only then can we create a world that is truly fit for all. Thank you.”

Essentially what has been talked about regarding globalism is theft, stolen wealth propped up with phony money to steal real wealth from America to serve their illustrious schemes.  Its essentially a communist trick to attempt to convince countries of great value to share all their hard work and innovation under the threat of new technology that they poise is a big and scary new Big Bad Wolf in the world, and that only together can we defeat it.  But when they say “all countries must participate,” they mean it as a threat.  The purpose of the history lesson here is to show that it started to really get out of control during Eisenhower’s administration, and he knew it at the time.  This globalism thing is not something that just occurred, it has been many years in the making, and it has taken advantage of the niceness of our character.  But always, there has been a hidden menace, and ever so softly we have gradually learned about it over time, and from their own mouths.  They used a crisis they created in Covid to show their cards on globalism, and their intense desire to establish a coup against America’s pick for president, just as Eisenhower began to learn about during his term and Kennedy felt the wrath.  Nixon was done wrong by globalism even though he tried to play along with the creation of China on the world stage.  Henry Kissinger ended up selling him out, as they all do.  Trump is just the latest in a long line of globalists victims who learned all too late that the world has already claimed us as theirs; they don’t respect our rights, liberties, or laws.  And now they are in our faces about it, thinking it’s too late to turn back.  But it’s not.  We can still defeat globalism, and we must.  First, though, we must recognize it for the threat it is and what it’s really about.  Regarding the pedophilia trade by globalists, which by the facts, seem to go together as one and the same, I will provide a much more detailed exposition of that problem in the days to come.  Formally, I heard the stories but didn’t believe it until I saw that network in my own neighborhood up close and personal.  Pedophilia and crimes, in general, are a byproduct of globalism because the chaos of not having established legal parameters to establish moral behavior has unleashed the worst of people’s inner secrets.  And when they think globalism will conceal their vile actions, they indulge more in the worst sins of existence.  We now have a paper trail that establishes this fact beyond speculation or conspiracy.  And it is now upon us to say No to Globalism.  For all kinds of reasons.  But mainly because it’s wrong, parasitic, and an evil unleashed upon the world that must be defeated.  And one that we must recognize as such after many years of playing along to get along. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Miracles of Free Market Capitalism at Put-in-Bay: When the market seeks to satisfy customers, good things happen

My wife and I have a great appreciation for the RV life. With our fast-moving lifestyle, it is the method that works best for us, and it’s uniquely American in that we have as part of our lifestyle an expectation of freedom that is certainly dominant with RV travel. We like taking part of our house with us when traveling, which we do extensively throughout the year. It is great to have your own bathroom, your own refrigerator, tools, and storage. And as far as camping, I prefer it to the static existence of hotel life where you depend on everyone else for everything, from food to rest. My camper has my own pillows and sheets that my wife keeps very clean. It makes travel much less stressful when you have your own stuff while staying in places far away. And that’s how we found ourselves up near Put-in-Bay, Ohio. I was at a competitive fast draw competition near that area, so my wife and I camped in our RV for a few days to participate. Then in our downtime, we went over to South Bass Island, where Put-in-Bay is, to look around. I wanted to go to the Perry Museum because I love the Oliver Hazard Perry story of stopping the English during the War of 1812, so because we were camping, we had the flexibility to do that kind of thing while in the area. Plus, there was a really nice campground over on South Bass Island that we have been thinking about as a family trip, as a way to explore all the area islands in the near future, so we wanted to see how the ferry system worked for taking RVs over to the island. 

Of course, Put-in-Bay is very nice, they call it the Key West of the North, and as everyone knows, I like Key West for the audacious independence that it expects, as related to other island lifestyles elsewhere in the world. What’s astonishing about Put-in-Bay is that it’s so close to the border of another country, yet it’s in Ohio, and it has all the island vibes of Hilton Head Island and Key West all wrapped up into a kind of Charleston presentation. It’s a very unique place, and my wife and I enjoyed our visit after doing well in the competitions. For me, it was a rare down day that I greatly appreciated. But what was most impressive to me was the Miller Ferry system itself. I have had the benefit of traveling worldwide and have seen many ferries, many of them creatively stuffing as many people as possible onto their boats to make as much money as they can. But the Miller Ferry had the added complication of maintaining a high American lifestyle. South Bass Island has cars and, as I said, RVs. There is a really nice campground where you can RV camp, and people take their big rigs over to the island routinely. While going over and coming back, I watched the Miller Ferry crew completely load up one of their craft with many millions of dollars in personal RVs, and I couldn’t help but think of the complexity of insurance risk. Most places in the world, especially communist countries, would discourage such travel, where people expect to haul their own personal property over to a tiny island with such an expectation of freedom. That expectation is a particular trait that you find at RV campsites all over the United States and is very consistent as opposed to the type of people who stay at hotels and are dependent on that type of entertainment structure.

Those elements came together nicely on the Miller’s Ferry, where dozens of RVs, many of them over 53 feet long, loaded onto the ferry quickly and traveled across the lake as casually as people ride an elevator up a skyscraper. It was astonishingly competent to watch the ferry crew, which are all very good, load and unload the many millions of dollars of personal equipment so casually. Most organizations and countries that govern them would be much slower and more regulatory-bound. But within moments of landing, the ramp came down, and giant RVs of great worth were leaving the ferry to resume their journeys wherever they intended to go. I found it an astonishing display of competence driven by high personal expectations of customer service based on a lifestyle of freedom. It was audacious to have the ability to take your house to an island to stay for an extended period. Most places in the world would have a lot of regulatory burdens to overcome, and by the time they did, the option would have just been thrown out the window. Why do all that just so people could take their RVs over to a little bitty island? Why couldn’t people just rent a hotel room or stay in a condo? Why did people have to haul their RVs over to a place for such audacious expectations of freedom that were clearly the core of the lifestyle? The island is so tiny, only a few miles across in any direction, that golf carts are the most dominant form of travel. People do drive their cars around, but golf carts are the way to go. The exhibition displayed the difference between government-run facilities and private ones.

The Miller Ferry organization, a private one that has grown to meet the market demand, had no trouble handling even the most complicated loads they did all day without incident. People loaded onto the ferry without crashing and causing other people any trouble, and they did it day in, day out all day, well into the evening. The crew wasn’t overly regulatory and panicked, as you see in many government facilities when they have to deal with crowd management. With the Miller Ferry and the culture of South Bass Island, the expectation is to take care of the customer experience as well as possible, which certainly is not the case with any government-run endeavor. The market serves the consumer and doesn’t seek to control the consumer. If the consumer wants something, then the market finds a way to satisfy that market need, even if it’s as audacious as taking your own home over to a remote island for a day or two so that the traveler can enjoy the comforts of home in their own private way. The amount of cost and investment needed for that experience to happen is ostentatious. Yet they facilitate that life at South Bass Island with the option of the Miller Ferry. As we were experiencing all this, I had to think of where in the world such a display was shown in this way, the level of competence, the expectation of delivery with such a large payload, and people’s private homes. Europe and Asia do not facilitate lifestyles that even have those options as tangible. Their roads aren’t big enough for our RV lifestyle in America. Let alone have a ferry that can take those big vehicles over to an island for vacation. And if the governments were in charge of the ferry, it would take all day to just run through all their regulatory checklists. But at the Miller Ferry, everyone loads up in minutes. They are off just as fast. Nobody crashes. Nobody fights. Nobody worries. People just do what they do and enjoy doing it, which is a wonderful example of how it should be everywhere in the world if only free market capitalism were as vital as it is at South Bass Island.

Rich Hoffman

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A Guide Across the Change State Economy: Through the traditions of the gunfighter, America can be saved from global communism

It’s not that I’m trying to sell you another book. But I didn’t write The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business to sell the book as an author. I saw what was happening in the world ahead of some of the terrifying stuff we are seeing now while Trump was still in office. We were seeing market trends that would reflect the world as a whole, and I wanted to provide people with a book on strategy that would help people deal with those changing circumstances. And now, a few years into it, I’m getting a lot of positive feedback on it, and I’m reminding people of it because there are many scared people out there. I’m not afraid, not at all. I worked out a lot of the strategies outlined in the book while competing in Cowboy Fast Draw competitions, and I was just at one in what they call the Shootout in the Black Swamp. It features a lot of chiseled veterans from the fast draw world who have been around the block a time or two, and there were some conversations they had with me that were different this year as opposed to years past, in what they see happening with the Biden administration, global politics in general, and the presence of an absolute evil in the world that has shown an unholy alliance between the world of finance, corporations, and the kind of evil worship that destroyed the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Sumer, and the entire Middle East. It’s with us now; people are scared and want to know what to do. And it is for them that I wrote The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, which offers a way to live a healthy and productive life in the face of grave danger presented by the essential failures of the Administrative State driven by the needs of the liberal world order under the maniacal direction of the Deep State which resides behind everything and has its roots into evil occults. 

Shootout in the Blackswamp June 2023

It’s not that going to college is a bad thing; most people I know and communicate with daily are people with at least one advanced degree, and in many cases, several. But it’s becoming increasingly evident, which I pointed out in The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, that much of our education systems were built not to instruct people but to make them submissive to the ultimate goals of the Deep State. They were designed that way from the beginning, especially the notion that the college system of buying your way into various financial levels of society through the degree program would never be successful. People have been wondering about it for years, but now they are finally starting to admit to themselves what the college experience has really been about, and it hasn’t made our society a better one. As featured in Charlie Kirk’s book, The College Scam, which is fantastic and honest, it’s not just American society that is starting to view college as just an early attempt to subjugate all people to an aristocracy of thought that was a creation of the Liberal World Order. That kind of society was not a meritocracy driven by Adam Smith’s capitalism but a tyranny by a global crime syndicate residing behind the hidden menace of communism, as China had been built around. And the only way to face down that kind of evil was in the classic way of the gunfighter, out in the street against a black-hatted villain to bring justice to a town overrun by crime.

I’m not part of the professional network of LinkedIn. Before I wrote my book, I was, but as it was being released, I did an excellent interview with a guy influential in the media culture of Los Angeles who ran a PAC in Washington D.C. that was professing that America decouple from China. It was a very compelling interview, and the moment it went up, LinkedIn locked up my account and essentially sent me a note that I still have, which says I must submit to the LinkedIn China policies before I can have my account back. I don’t need their account or their network. As we are learning, as is the case with a lot of social media, LinkedIn is already a Chinese asset, which is the case with most of our media and political figures. China pours a lot of money into these various organizations. Many corrupt people are willing to build their entire lives around easy money, and you quickly end up with a very corrupt corporate structure. We are seeing that Chinese style of communism shows itself in corporate brands like Bud Light, Disney, and even Chick-fil-A. It started with the idea that you couldn’t have a good job without an advanced college degree from a liberal thought processing factory. If you don’t respect “trans” rights, you will be removed from all respectable society. But that only works if everyone submits to that communist authority, and many people don’t want to, which has led us to this current impasse. In that LinkedIn interview, I laid out the case that if business owners wanted to save themselves from this communist tyranny, if corporations  wanted to free themselves from the perils of globalism, then I had the strategy that could do it. My book worked on many levels for the personal benefit of the reader or the resurrection of entire nations. The concepts were the same no matter on what scale they were applied. And that if people followed them, China could easily be defeated. 

I advise a sizeable number of people directly on the methods discussed in The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, which were formed under tremendous pressure. I provide the video here of a sample gunfight in the sport of Fast Draw from that Shootout in the Black Swamp: speed, efficiency, management under the pressure of danger, and duress. As I say to everyone, be the one in the room with the biggest metaphorical gun, and know how to use it. And most of the time, victory follows. Even when it comes to one nation against another, it’s always the same kind of thing in a competitive world that is best represented in the classic gunfights that resulted in American culture. The assumption by the Liberal World Order was that the world would follow them to the ends of the earth and eventually submit to communist rule controlled by global forces. And that if only that Liberal World Order and its minions in the Administrative State, who take their orders from the occults of the Deep State, could control all of global finance, all the world’s big corporations, and rule over people through an education system that dumbed people down instead of teaching them to think, that they’d get away with it. But people are waking up to it, and I’m happy to see it. I wrote The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business not just for the success of individual lives but for the eventual destruction of the Liberal World Order, to teach people how to beat it. And now that people see what’s been going on, they want answers, so I have put them in that book to make it easy for people. I’m very happy to see it is starting to do its work right on schedule.

Rich Hoffman

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We Need More Capitalism in Healthcare: The government ruins everything and they need to stay away from trying to fix people

Another thing that has come up a lot lately is the condition of our American healthcare system. Now I have a special relationship with this topic, too; some unusual perspectives that I think are humorous, as I have been warning about this industry much like I have been warning about the public education system. I have several family members who work in the healthcare industry. One of my sons-in-laws came from England, where their healthcare industry was already worse than we see in America now, with long waiting lines for operations and selective care. All kinds of really stupid rules collapsing under the weight of its own bureaucracy. He was with me when I had to get ACL surgery; the entire family went to the hospital because seeing me in such a vulnerable condition was pretty tragic. I have always had a “don’t go to the doctor unless it’s an absolute emergency” policy, so it was hard for them to see me go into an actual operation that involved anesthesia.   But it was the only way to repair my ACL. I had torn it during an intense basketball game. I worsened the situation during an entertaining stunt where I jumped through a wall of fire with my bullwhips slinging, one in each hand. When I landed, the grass was wet, my footing slipped, and my thigh bone ultimately came out of the knee socket and drove itself deep into the dirt. I popped everything back together using my MCL to hold my leg in one piece so I could limp away. But a lot of damage had been done, so I went to an outstanding surgeon who worked on Cincinnati Reds players to fix my knee. 

I’ve had hundreds of stitches, so going to the doctor has been common. But every time I have hated the experience so much, I have taken extreme measures to avoid going to the doctor because the service in the healthcare industry is so bad. When I have been cut really badly, my policy has always been to Super Glue everything back together, literally. I’ve been doing that for my entire adult life.   I used to work in a hazardous metal stamping factory, and it was common for people to lose fingers. I had a lot of bad cuts, and whenever I could, I used Super Glue rather than getting stitches to get right back to work. Even with bad injuries, I never missed work. And when my kids had really bad cuts, my policy was to glue them together. There were a few times when they were bitten by animals, both times in the face. Particularly a nose injury where a good part of it had been ripped away. Another time an ear. In both cases, I was concerned that the stitches would pull the skin together in hard ways that would leave a terrible scar, and these were girls; they would need their faces as pretty as possible. So I glued them together, and everything healed nicely, with very little scarring.

In the aftermath, people can barely tell. It comes to my mind because I recently had a birthday, and the family was gratefully joking about these kinds of things. My approach was certainly unorthodox and, ironically, way ahead of its time. It was interesting during that ACL repair to hear my son-in-law talk about the horrors of the English healthcare system because he was amazed at how efficient ours was in America. But I hated it. I hated the assembly line feel of surgery, and I had the best that Cincinnati had to offer. But to me, it was garbage. Our health care should be so much better, and I know it can be.

My extreme measures are born from my hatred of it. My wife just broke a bone in her hand the other day, and she was asking me what to do about it because it hurt. She fell and hit the ground hard after playing with the grandkids in the way that kids under ten typically play. She plays with them, and that usually involves falling. When you are a kid, and the bones are still rubbery, they can generally get away with hard falls into the concrete. But the bones get brittle when you are over 50, so she broke a bone in her hand while bracing for a fall. I reminded her of a recent motorcycle accident I had where someone ran into me at a high rate of speed while I was just sitting there, merging into traffic. The accident totaled my very expensive motorcycle. The driver who hit me wasn’t looking for motorcycles and hit me at full speed. I watched her closely in my mirrors and determined that she would hit me, so I jumped off the bike head first just in time. I would have lost my legs from the impact if I hadn’t jumped off my bike. I broke my wrist just below the pivot joint to the hand when I hit. I instinctively popped it back into place because I couldn’t stand to look at it. And once the paramedics and all the police left the scene, the woman who hit me was crying in a massive panic. I assured her I was going to be alright. Her lawyer called me immediately to offer whatever assistance they could, and so did her insurance company. Nobody denied anything. They wanted to take care of me. I told them just to pay for the bike, and we’d call it a day. 

I probably could have obtained a lot of money for that accident because there was significant damage, and the lady who hit me was dangerously complicit. But I had a critical overseas conference call that I was late for with Spain, so I did the call, took care of the people I was working with, and I told the insurance people about my broken wrist but that I would wave any medical care on it. I would just fix it myself. I didn’t want any further delays to my life; I was busy and wanted to return to it. Once you enter the medical system, they want to live off your life, and I want nothing to do with what they offer. Anywhere the government has gotten involved in anything, it turns to crap. And health care is terrible. We could do so much better. I think we should have medical care as common as fast food restaurants, where if you want a hamburger, you can get one from McDonald’s instead of a 50-dollar hamburger at a nice restaurant, But you ultimately have a choice. Now with all the government interference in health care, it’s all garbage. Medicare is a scam, the pharma companies have the economics all rigged as fancy drug dealers, and it has ruined the entire industry by making people sick who otherwise would be healthy. Anything that involves the double snakes of the medical industry is something I avoid to the extreme because I consider going to them far worse. So when people say, “We need more government health care,” I say, “No, I’ll just do the care myself because those idiots working in it are dumb, slow, and incompetent, and I want nothing to do with them.” Just like everything else the government does, from public school to license bureau work. There is too much socialism and communism in health care and not nearly enough capitalism, and until they change that ratio, it will always be terrible. 

Rich Hoffman

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