Should Freedom-Loving Americans Go Galt?
For those that haven’t yet read Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s last and best novel, the term “go Galt” or, as popularized on bumper stickers, “going Galt,” comes from it. In the novel (and I’ll avoid giving too much away), a group of the protagonists found their own hidden community in the hills of Colorado. That community has no real government and is instead governed by the idea that each individual is there to pursue the profit motive, be productive, and live out their life as they see fit. The point of the community is to withdraw from a corrupt, socialist-leaning society and no longer artificially preserve that society with their talents, tax dollars, or innovations.
Why We Might Need to Go Galt
In the past, such an idea as a large segment of society choosing to “go Galt” would have been absurd. For one, things weren’t that bad. Up until Obama, the government’s policies went back and forth but America was still united behind a common creed, the American Creed, and individuals were relatively free to see as they saw fit. There was no need to go Galt because society itself, while imperfect and a far cry from Ayn Rand’s vision as articulated in The Virtue of Selfishness, was relatively capitalistic.
With Obama, that started to change. Obamacare socialized medicine and, with it, about a fifth of the American economy. Welfare programs grew and grew, an ever-shrinking number of “producers” supporting an ever-growing number of “looters.” Meanwhile, regulations strangled the economy, corporatism replaced capitalism (especially in the financial world, where banks were bailed out with dollars stolen from the very taxpayers that those banks had almost crushed with their irresponsible policies), and the average man was increasingly sacrificed to the whims and preferences of the elites. Our world was not necessarily a Randian one from the later stages of Atlas Shrugged, but many aspects of it, especially regulations and the corporatism that came with them, were shockingly similar.
Then came Trump. He fought against the globalists, the elites, and the corporatists in a desperate attempt to preserve traditional American values. He fought for real capitalism instead of corporatism, free enterprise instead of excessive regulation, and for “producers” instead of “looters.”
But such a state of affairs was intolerable to the elites. By hyping up the Covid plague and using our fear of it to crush the Trump economy, using voter fraud to give them an edge in the election, and weaponizing the bureaucracy and judiciary against Trump, they cast him out of office.
Now we have the most radically far-left administration yet seen in America occupying the White House. Biden might be senile and not as radical as some in his party, but those radical leftists have taken over. They’re now doing their best to stifle industry with ridiculous green mandates (as we saw with the Keystone XL pipeline), reverse wise Trumpian policies that protected the American worker and American enterprise, and generally attack capitalism. They want to raise taxes, increase the size of the regulatory state, and punish dissent. In short, they’re destroying America.
Should We Go Galt?
So, the average conservative should be worried. Biden is bad news for our way of life. But is deciding to go Galt the solution and, if so, what would it entail?
Going Galt Geographically
I believe that, geographically, at least, conservatives need to go Galt, albeit in a different way than in the book. Things have grown so bad, especially in certain blue states, such as New York and California, that conservatives need to leave them and head to pro-business, freedom-loving states where free enterprise and individual liberty are respected. I believe that by focusing on our own communities and preserving the American way of life at the state level, we can go Galt while also not surrendering the country to the radical left.
For one, there’s no hidden valley we can retreat to and hide out until leftist policies cause the country to collapse. Everything has been mapped. There’s nowhere to hide.
But we can move to freedom-loving states and starve the blue and RINO states of the producers they need to keep going. Could California survive in its present state without mechanics or farmers? How would Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Pennsylvania handle large numbers of their citizens leaving, as Americans have done for our country’s entire existence, and heading to the West? Can New York and New Jersey survive yet more citizens fleeing to Florida?
So, rather than try to retreat to some hidden valley or sheltered mountaintop retreat, we should instead focus on establishing communities in states that still embody the American spirit. Move to a small town in Tennessee or Wyoming. Put down your roots in Texas, Florida, or Idaho. Live somewhere where the government that affects your life the most, the state and local government, respects your right to be free. Withdraw from “blue” society and rebuild your life in a community that, like Galt’s Gulch, allows you to live as a free man and live your life as you ought.
Going Galt Economically
The other, tougher decision is whether we should go Galt economically. Should we withdraw from the economy in the same way as the good guys in Atlas Shrugged?
In this case, I believe some moderation is called for. Were we to ditch every government-recognized business and only sustenance farm or work in a black-market, untaxed economy, our lives would be undeniably worse. There would be no freedom resulting from that, especially if we move to pro-liberty states, only constant worry about state scrutiny and the tragedy of lives wasted because of overly rigid ideology. Plus, because we’d have no money, the leftists would be able to buy almost any election they wanted, turning the whole map blue. it’s as impractical as it would be useless.
But we can ditch leftist businesses and work for, shop at, and invest in conservative ones. If you’re a businessman, no longer waste your talents at some woke corporation like Coke that forces you to attend racist anti-racism seminars and uses its declining profits to fund leftist causes. Instead, work for a conservative company. Or, better yet, start your own business and run it with conservative values in mind. Hire other freedom-loving Americans, buy from like-minded businesses, and, most importantly, avoid investing in woke companies.
By doing that, we’d partially be going Galt. When characters in Atlas Shrugged go Galt, they prevent their brains and earnings from being used to further socialist causes. While only working in red states for pro-liberty businesses wouldn’t perfectly mimic that, it would, I think, do a good enough job. The woke companies would crumble as they filled up with woke culture warriors rather than hard workers, their stock prices would decline as we withdrew our investment dollars, and by continually investing in our small businesses and using smart tax strategies we could avoid paying taxes to whatever degree is possible.
Conclusion
These are dark times. The American ethos of the halcyon days of our glorious past is long gone. Since the Progressive Era, it has steadily been replaced with socialist, statist policies. Yet worse, many private companies have bought into the woke nonsense and are using their power to silence dissent and further wokeism.
But all hope is not lost. If we freedom-loving Americans decide to go Galt, both geographically and, to some degree, economically, then we can push back against the left, limit our exposure to their horrible policies, and hopefully gather our strength so we can push them out of the government. Go Galt; you’ll be happier, free from worry about being canceled, and likely more successful. We don’t need to stop the motor of the world. We just need to stop the motor of the left.
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“Is It Time To Go Galt?”
a little late.
the left are the lackeys of a genocidal tribal slaver cult that has thousands of years of experience infiltrating and subverting nations. they have nothing and they are nothing except for what they get from you. no matter where you go they will pursue you to the ends of the earth screaming for your submission and slavery, and your death if you refuse, so you can’t run. they already have all the data on where you are and where you could go, so you can’t hide. and those of you who are truly isolated are not hidden, so when it’s down to just you then you will be droned. so you need to go lexington common instead.
So far, four wretched, pathetic, weak, effete, losers down voting so far. Oh ant7, you are referring to the generally evil nature of Man, no?
“you are referring to the generally evil nature of Man”
well, that’s like saying cholera is caused by bacteria. true, but not identifying.
ever wondered at the breathtaking arrogance of the “elite”? where it comes from, what drives it in every generation, where it’s going? ever wonder about all these “global elites”, these “international financiers”, this “deep state”? ever wonder why the corruption of our nation proceeds ever onward, limitlessly funded, irrationally defended, never willingly rescinded, intelligently guided, in every generation? ever ask yourself – “who are these people?”
“Gooyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world—only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat.” Rabbi Yosef, Israel’s Shas Party
“genocidal tribal slaver cult that has thousands of years of experience infiltrating and subverting nations”
And Ayn Rand was one of them!
WOW what drek.
First of all stop trying to explain that the government takes our money and gives it to looters. It is not real money anymore. That which can not be repaid will not be repaid. If I owe you $10,000 bucks I am screwed, if I owe you 10 MILLION bucks YOU are screwed. Just stop
From PCR and LD and on you guys always have this idea that a muthafucka can just un root and ” move to a conservative state” You will cease and desist on pain of being cancelled from the internet. YOU ARE TELLING THESE LIBERAL ASSHOLES TO SPREAD THE PROBLEM. Stop telling these people who screwed up californication to stay the hell there and fix that shit not go elsewhere and breed. It will not be ” just conservatives ” who move.
The best one here today was :
If you’re a businessman, no longer waste your talents at some woke corporation like Coke that forces you to attend racist anti-racism seminars and uses its declining profits to fund leftist causes. Instead, work for a conservative company. Or, better yet, start your own business and run it with conservative values in mind.
Did this guy just imply that creating the next coca-cola company , an $84 Billion company , is as easy as takeout lunch? JUST DO IT?
I got a lot of problems with you people and now your going to hear about it………..
“stop trying to explain that the government takes our money and gives it to looters. It is not real money anymore.”
more exactly it’s the looter’s money. they determine how much of it they have and how much it’s worth and thus how much of your labor they can “buy”.
“That which can not be repaid will not be repaid. If I owe you $10,000 bucks I am screwed, if I owe you 10 MILLION bucks YOU are screwed.”
no, not quite. if you “owe” them and they’ve rigged the system so that you can’t pay (which is exactly what they’ve done) then they’ll confiscate everything you have – and that everyone else has. this is the actual goal – not repayment, but total seizure – and has been from the very beginning.
“Did this guy just imply that creating the next coca-cola company , an $84 Billion company , is as easy as takeout lunch?”
? no, he said start your own company.
“That community has no real government”
the hallmark of the individualist/loner – “no government will be necessary, because no reasonable person will seriously disagree with me on any substantive issue.” works great, until it doesn’t.
While not a fan of everything Rand, on this point, I agree. Been saying this for a while, but producers need to take a week or two off, and see how the parasites fare. Let them burn hotter than a hooker’s door knob on payday.
As always, with those playing catch-up, the answer is to exodus in a flood and destroy those who had the foresight well before hand and an honest desire for the lifestyle. ALWAYS a lack of critical thinking, ALWAYS knee-jerk reaction to – Oh, my God; it caught us by surprise. Like anybody still having it dawn on them will be any kind of asset. If they’re that lost and myopic, what is going to change? Other than the place they decide to bless with their wisdom. For the worse, I might add. There’s always a few that would be welcome additions, but those are few and far between and we all know it.
His last paragraph says it all. Myopic to the point of total blindness. I don’t want him and his ilk in my neighborhood.
“His last paragraph says it all. Myopic to the point of total blindness. I don’t want him and his ilk in my neighborhood.”
because he uses the words “our” and “we”, yes?
who would you want in your neighborhood? do you control who is in your neighborhood? should you?
What makes you think I owe you an explanation? It’s my place, not yours. Worry about your own, not mine.
“What makes you think I owe you an explanation?”
(laugh) you don’t. but your answer demonstrates my point.
OK, smart-ass. The whole point of my pointing out the myopia was that he still clings to the idea that there is a political solution. That makes him decidedly out of focus with reality. That kind of clinging to what-was has real-world ramifications, that would rear their ugly heads and lead him and his kind to divert the necessary energy and behaviors that are needed to actually be of any worth in what is hurtling down upon us.
If you had been any kind of decent I would’ve answered you the first time. I don’t need your brand of bullshit.
“he still clings to the idea that there is a political solution”
I agree that there’s no political solution, or any secession solution either. but I wasn’t asking about his solution, I was asking about yours.
What is your solution? Did we miss it?
“What is your solution?”
“go lexington common instead.”
Or, but no one wants to fire the first shot.
“Our world was not necessarily a Randian one from the later stages of Atlas Shrugged, but many aspects of it, especially regulations and the corporatism that came with them, were shockingly similar.”
of course. that’s because alisa rosenbaum was a member of the tribe and understood where they were driving things – she agreed with their goal except hers was deliberately secular and self-centered. like theirs, her world consisted of a handful of individual real humans who were the sources of life and of all that was good and useful in the world, while the whole rest of humanity was divided up into two camps – those who wished to live but who could not generate that life themselves and who therefore served the sources of life, and those who did not wish to live and who therefore did not serve the sources of life. “I’m a proud serf of taggert transcontinental!” eddie proclaims proudly – that’s the view alisa rosenbaum has of your place with her.
What the hell? “Trump fought for real capitalism”? I must have missed that part.
Shoot. Double post.
“Has there been a psyop more devastating for White nations than Libertarianism?”
yes. “judeo-christian”.
“Libertarianism is an IDEOLOGY. It was constructed to oppose Communism”
actually it was constructed to neuter opposition to communism. “the best way to control the opposition is to lead it.”
What nation/society in history was ever created/existed based on the premise of Libertarianism? It waaar not the founding fathers. Washington’s suppression of the Whisky Rebellion proved that. Suppression of Shay’s rebellion and the State of Franklin rebellion as well. Oh, almost forgot, the War of Northern Aggression. I know what precipitated it all…it waaar )))them(((.
Greetings,
I’ve said repeatedly that Atlas Shrugged would be the dystopian future that we’d get but the other side of that coin is John Galt.
Last year I moved from Blue California to Red Flyover Country. I did this to deprive California of any of my talents and all of my tax payments. I’m certain that California feels smug in the fact that they replaced me with 10 illiterate illegal aliens but those 10 people are just an additional strain on the system and not an asset.
I was told that I was “non-essential” and my business was forced to close. Great! Now, I am in the process of moving as much manufacturing to Asia as I possibly can. They didn’t shut down and really really want my business. The unconstitutional mandates issued by our governors were beyond credulity and they have FOREVER lost my loyalty. I will deprive them of every penny possible.
The American people threw small businesses under the bus for a $1200 check. Landlords and business owners are the “bad guys” and if we’d just pay $100 per hour for labor and forever forgive rent then we’d have our utopia, right??? We are perceived to be the villains of this story unless we are telling our employees to “act less white” and then we get a pass. Well, good luck living in a country without any small business. Enjoy all that comes with it.
I no longer consent.
“The American people threw small businesses under the bus”
aren’t you conflating the ones who parade as “the americans” and as “the leaders” with the actual americans?
“I no longer consent”
(shrug) anywhere you go you consent to other peoples’ rules there. first chance they get the same thing will happen to you with your asian facilities.
So, just to be clear, because the policies of the state of California were not “Libertarian” enough, you decided to move your manufacturing to an Asian nation which was either Communist (China), an autocratic military dictatorship (Burma, Indonesia, Thailand), a racial ethnostate (Malaysia or Singapore), a homogenous racial state (Japan), or a homogenous racial vassal state of the US (South Korea).
Fucking brilliant.
So you’re not only delusional, you are a principled hypocrite.
Gotta love those autocratic military dictatorships that “really want your business”, lol.
“you are a principled hypocrite”
well if you look at it from an isolated self-centered self-sufficient point of view, it makes sense.
Is he NOT sovereign?
(laugh) “isolated self-centered self-sufficient” == “sovereign”?
well yes it would. ‘cept while he is indeed self-centered he’s not isolated and he’s not self-sufficient. no-one is. these guys that say “I am and there is none beside me” and who seek to reduce all human interactions to black-box economic exchanges that they control are not sovereign, they’re just high on a theoretical ideology that cannot be implemented.
love how alisa rosenbaum had john galt leave home at – what, age 8? why not 6? 3? why not, indeed.
Self centered? Now that is Libertarianism, is it not? Make up your mind.
“Self centered? Now that is Libertarianism, is it not?”
yes. “Let me make it very clear for you. I COME FIRST. Next, comes MY FAMILY.” is pretty clear.
I wouldn’t read too much into that. If that poster is a family man, with his point of view, I suspect I come first and next my family is inexorably intertwined. As head of the household, his decisions are his first his, then applied to the family. Wish I was a bit more articulate in explaining my point. I make the decisions, in consultation w/ my spouse, and absent substantive counter argument…if an important matter, I decide.
“Let me make it very clear for you. I COME FIRST. Next, comes MY FAMILY.”
see what I mean?
It is brilliant. Unlike some, I actually have options and I’ve exercised those options. Adopting a Libertarian philosophy is what has allowed me these options.
I suspect that YOU are without options; without that 2nd passport and have painted yourself into a corner.
Let me make it very clear for you. I COME FIRST. Next, comes MY FAMILY. Following that, I’ll give my loyalty to whoever treats me the best. Again, enjoy having a country without small business – you’ve earned it.
I can’t argue with your point of view. Individual sovereignty has been destroyed as an American credo, so there you go.
Sounds more like Objectivism.
“Following that, I’ll give my loyalty to whoever treats me the best.”
Top goy
Exactly
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I did this to deprive California of any of my talents and all of my tax payments.
“I am in the process of moving as much manufacturing to Asia as I possibly can.”
Move yourself there as well.
I have gone as Galt as I am gonna go.
Same here. I’m right where I need to be, pretty much in all areas. Can always improve, but that’s want not need.
Ditto ;0
Bravo.
You are 100% wrong. Please allow me to present Exhibit #1: Detroit
Detroit was the wealthiest city in the entire world. Its workers were the best paid in the entire world and the residents of Detroit enjoyed the highest standard of living in the whole world.
So, what happened?
Detroit was the first place to go Full Retard Woke and in response to that, all the John Galt Libertarians fled the city and left it to fend for itself. Now look at it. Look what happens to a city when its Libertarians flee.
Case closed.
“liberarians fleeing” presumes that someone else has built a society to which libertarians can flee. what if there is no such place remaining? would it not have been better to stay in detroit and fight for what already existed than to flee and attempt to take advantage of someone else’s labor?
They were not libertarians they were whites looking for a job and fleeing integration of schools.
I’m not even going to respond to such silliness.
which is why you never make any progress.
Amerikan Proletariats Unite! The Dictatorship of the Proletariat will smite the white devils so that you may live in a black kultural utopia…
Detroit started going to complete shit when there were still Democrat NRA members, patriots, pro-lifers, America firsters etc. Also a little thing called White flight was a factor.
IIRC Libertarians were also “economic conservatives” that were pro-abortion when they first showed up. I see the definitions of words in recent years as being very much in flux.
The UAW and Democrat idiots who in this case were Black. White Democrats would have eventually done the same.
Go Galt and lone wolf. Each one teach one.
galts and lone wolf’s seldom do “teaching”.
Depends on what teaching method you use..
reed seej
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
So your intellectual contribution is “Muh Nazi Bad.”
Impressive.
https://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/falsenaziquotations.htm
Thanks for the link to the false Nazi quotations.
Meh. The coup is complete as is the government takeover. Soon we will be Europe, except with Latinos rather than Muslims. We are already censored, subjected to punishments that the ‘non white non natives are immune from, we are tax mules and what we own is being taken away and given to illegals. Whites are the unter menschen and the goal is Zimbabwe.
Going Galt in the author’s conception of going Galt is a joke. Texas is overrun, ditto the other red states (all by plan) and there is no place to run to…the only truly free are the homeless because they have nothing to go after.
The goal was to create a Marxist state and that has been achieved. Whatever you have will be taken from you. Look to Romania for a blueprint. Or Soviet Russia….
“Things have grown so bad, especially in certain blue states, such as New York and California, that conservatives need to leave them and head to pro-business, freedom-loving states where free enterprise and individual liberty are respected.”
Back when I used to advocate for secession (which I don’t anymore – not because secession would be ineffective but because I know it is useless to try to convince most people that it would be a good solution), one of the most common objections that I heard was that if the U.S. split into one (or more) “red” countries and one (or more) “blue” countries, people who ended up in the “wrong” country (e.g., conservatives in the blue country) would have to move if they wanted to be in a country of their liking. Well, now things are so bad that many people are moving, or considering moving, anyway, and without even getting most of the benefits that they would get if the state they were moving to was a separate country. Conservatives in New York and California who move to a red state will still have Biden and a Democrat congress and still have open borders, which will eventually cause their new red state to turn blue anyway, so at best they are only buying a little time with their move. If they moved to a separate red country, with a conservative (and presumably very limited) federal government, that effectively controlled its borders to keep out most foreigners, including liberals from the blue country, then they would be much better off.
The author’s proposal here to go Galt is useless as a long-term solution to any of our problems. At best, it is a short-term solution that will involve a lot of time and expense, and only delay the inevitable for a little while.
Incidentally, I live in California, but I am not going anywhere. I like it here too much (climate, scenery, nearly perfect home that I have lived in for 30 years, etc). But then I am not really a conservative. I don’t fit well in the Left/Right spectrum. I am more of a libertarian than anything else, but I have some Right leanings, and also some Leftist/Green leanings. So both the Republicans and the Democrats (and the Libertarians) mostly disgust me. If I moved to a red state it would be very little, if any, improvement for me, certainly not enough to justify leaving a place I like a lot. So I am just going to stay here and make the best of things, no matter how bad they get.
“If they moved to a separate red country”
or if they made one. say, the united states ….
How do you make a country red when it has more people on the left than on the right, and adding new leftists all the time (due to young people being indoctrinated with Marxist ideas in school, and leftist foreigners coming across the open borders)? Even if you could somehow actually make it red (like Trump said he was going to do, but didn’t actually try), it would turn back to a blue country as soon as the federal government returned to Democrat control, just as is happening now with Biden and the Democrat congress.
the old fashioned way.
Democrat control, aka: Leftist/socialist control ALWAYS fails. No exceptions. The ignorant and lazy are programmed to believe the lies of socialism, it suits their nature. When the government becomes the all-knowing provider and care giver you have serious problems. Remove and punish the productive. Remove the host and the parasite dies.
Atlas Shrugged succeeded in describing in minute detail the processes that created “Progressivism’ and it also described the people who benefited from said policies and their motives and behaviours, their policies and laws and it most eloquently demonstrated the denouement that comes when those policies and practices reach the end. They reach the end when, as Thatcher stated, they run out of other people’s money.
It’s hard to run out of money when you can print to infinity, but printed trillions eventually become worthless, Weimar worthless.
The going Galt meme works if, and only if, the person going Galt is willing to make serious sacrifices in lifestyle and income and willingness to do without. How many do that? Living in self induced poverty is a choice and that is the real meaning of going Galt; no longer supporting the corrupt system by laboring or exchanging that labor for goods. Who can do it?
“Who can do it?”
well the russians living in the soviet parasite union did. the russians subsisted with very little, including food, for quite a while – while the soviet foreign invaders lived very well on foreign payments and subsidies.
Gad, you are annoying. Are you going to troll all the comments? Every one? At least take a breath, back away from the keyboard, grab a frosty beverage, chill.
The question was rhetorical. The Russians had no choice. Going Galt is a choice, not an imposition. Poverty created by actions of the State isn’t going Galt, refusing to contribute to sustaining an illegal government by refusing to produce and provide taxes and labor is going Galt.
Hot! :}
That last paragraph was shear poetry. It amazes me that people don’t want to give up all the trappings of life they say they want to get away from. Living in the self induced poverty becomes a challenge and I’m up for it. That there in a nutshell is my spice of life. Do the most with the least is my motto.
Most people don’t want to be inconvenienced, they want their toys and amusements and distractions. Very few people will give up cable or smart phones or teevee or any of a number of mind numbing activities. They want their sport ball, their Facebook and social media, they want their doses of insipid ‘celebrities’ and being told who and what to like and what and how to think.
Most people in America are basically brain dead, ill educated and lazy. They are cannon fodder and sheep, and if native born, they are soon to be replaced. habla Espanole?
Reading that first paragraph…it’s no wonder so many people are unhappy. What a crappy existence. No matter how simple I have tried to make our life it seems there is always something that needs be done, whether it’s finally working on that chainsaw/weed eater, fixing the door on the chicken hut…whatever, there are always better and more important things to do. I guess when you can get on your smart phone and find someone to pay and do these things for you…then you have time to sit on your ass and waste time with that meaningless crap. Lazy and stupid seems to be a badge of honor.
Now that we’re in the country, I’ve found that finding competent, dependable, and competitive tradesmen (triggered) a laborious chore in itself. I’m about to set upon another project, since again, I am more or less on my own. Significant renovation of our extensive multi level decking. I’m a bit leery as my experience level is wanting. Former suit and tie, sky scraper office drone, former owner of two Volvos (;0)…you get the picture. But this is what I wanted as an opportunity to grow intellectually in a significantly different direction. To be more self reliant, use my brain-hand coordination for other than writing and keyboarding. Every day is my opportunity to get closer to Galt. Leaving the BeeHive is a positive step toward starving the beast.
Work with what you’ve got and learning how to fix stuff goes with the territory. There is great satisfaction in a job well done and…I still Yutube the site because there are some really good videos on how to do and make and fix stuff.
I get moar satisfaction from log splitting than most any activity I performed back at the office. I said most, I really liked lunch time. ;0
Gratification is the Amerikan Credo…/s
So you don’t know who you are. I’m none of the above. I’m a constitutionalist, and that makes me a suspect domestic terrorist, according to all of the above.
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I don’t fit well in the Left/Right spectrum. I am more of a libertarian than anything else, but I have some Right leanings, and also some Leftist/Green leanings. So both the Republicans and the Democrats (and the Libertarians) mostly disgust me.
I know exactly who I am. I just said that I don’t fit into any of the standard existing categories. I am in a unique category. And I am certainly not a constitutionalist. The U.S. Constitution was sold (by the Federalist Papers and other methods) as a means to limit the federal government, but it was all a lie and a con. As Lysander Spooner said, “that [the Constitution] has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist”. Any thorough analysis of our existing federal government should disabuse anyone of the notion that the Constitution is an effective means of limiting the federal government. The country would have been better off if the Founders had stayed with the Articles of Confederation. I know this is blasphemy to most conservatives, but so be it.
I apologize. I have often stated that the 2nd constitution should be dissolved with a return to the AofC.
“Were we to ditch every government-recognized business and only sustenance farm or work in a black-market, untaxed economy, our lives would be undeniably worse.”
Fake news.
“Fake news”
well yeah, if you pre-stock your hidey-hole with all of modern life’s goods and tech before you tell everyone “I don’t need you” and burn the bridge, yeah, you yourself can cruise happily along for a long time. ’til they come looking for you at least. but that’s not subsistence life.
That our lives would be undeniably worse is the fake part. Those conditions improve your life.
Subsistence is not impoverishment, in fact it is the exact opposite. It means to provide for one’s needs by your own labor and will.
And my gate is open to all comers, it’s one thing to criticize something you have first hand knowledge about, quite another to speak authoritatively based on ignorance.
’til they come looking for you
“It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain it’s own until the very end. For such a soul will never be at rest— by longing for things to come it will lose the ability to enjoy present things.” — Seneca
That quote seems in conformity with the CCP’s version of Communism…total control by the party w/ a smidgen of consumerism. Hell aren’t things of consumption the hallmark of liberty? I agree Fake news.
AWESOME rant!
Libertarianism is a lot like the sign the Underpants Gnomes from South Park have in their warehouse.
Step 1) Collect All Underpants
Step 2) ?
Step3) Profit!
Step 2 is the warning sign the stairs of this concept do not go all the way to the top.
Things have grown so bad, especially in certain blue states…. Colorado.
they’re gonna get worse. get ready.
The best way to get ready is to get the fuck out of there if you live there.
the best way is to respond appropriately. maybe get out, maybe move to a better-positioned location nearby, maybe fight where you are, maybe wait.
“…that conservatives need to leave them and head to pro-business, freedom-loving states where free enterprise and individual liberty are respected. ”
Sounds all warm and fuzzy, and I’m all for the idea, but those states will always be one election away from turning into blue crap holes. At this point I don’t believe there truly is anywhere else to run.
The United States is clearly undergoing a Soviet-style imperial collapse right now. No matter where one lives, everyone will feel the effects of it all, especially once The Dollar reaches the Stage of using $20 bills as toilet paper. However, where you live will effect you having the maximum probability of not being killed by raging masses of Wokesters fleeing the ruins of what I call Democratic Communist Shithole Cities.
If you live in a state controlled by the Bolsheviks, replete with their shithole cities,you will have little chance of survival. The best place to live is some locale that time and the economy left behind 50 years ago. They may be de-industrialized rust belt towns, cities, and their surrounding country side, but once this is over with, those places will be all that remains of what we used to call civilization.
“The best place to live is some locale that time and the economy left behind 50 years ago”
only if it is in fact independently self-supporting, and those are very few and far between. overall cities will do better than rural areas.
Economically derelict places have been pretty much on their own for decades. Other than the welfare programs whose disassembly will likely end in death of those dependent on it , the productive people have been dealing with it on their own far sooner than those elsewhere.
“Economically derelict places have been pretty much on their own for decades”
uh, no, they don’t make .95 of their own food, they don’t make their own shoes or clothing, most drink municipal or county water rather than water out of a creek, etc etc etc. grid down these places will have zero (0) input and will lose a larger percentage of their populations than cities. cities however will still be at the confluence of political power and trade routes, and will have first go at anything still remaining. not saying they’ll do well, but that they’ll do better.
I live in Eastern Kentucky. So what other shit hole do you hail from?
Cities are not independently self-supporting, how is it that with a much larger population they will fare better than the areas where sustenance is produced?
You haven’t really thought this through, have you?
“once The Dollar reaches the Stage of using $20 bills as toilet paper”
by that time there will be no $20, everyone will be using atm cards.
You have to have reliable electric power for that to function, besides, The People running things aren’t managing this collapse very well. They really screwed up when they didn’t go after the guns 25 years ago.
“They really screwed up when they didn’t go after the guns 25 years ago”
? “they” did try to go after them. they largely failed. this has been going on for a long time.
…and so there will likely be bloodshed, as the failing PTB try to grasp on whatever they think they need to control.
GenZCon, Thank you for your thought provoking Galt article. Having been a small time provider/producer employing a few dozen employees for decades the concept has been on my mind a lot recently.
The geographic Galt idea is not the same now as it was when Atlas Shrugged was written. Rand was prescient enough in her concepts, but there was no way for her to envision the depth and breadth of the police/surveillance world we now live in. Geographic Galt is passe. We are tracked daily by cell phones, transactions, registrations, retail video, satellites, drones and even old fashioned snitches. There is no place to hide and no place to run.
So merely changing geography is not going Galt. If one lives in a blue hive, sanctuary city by all means move quick. But that’s not a Galt move, it’s simple survival. The democrat controlled urban jungles will surely become no-go zones. If one lives in a rural area of a blue state at this time it may be best to stay put. Don’t sacrifice livelihood, family, home, preps, and social networks just for geography. Remember many blue states are just barely blue, and many red states are just barely red; but the overbearing Fedgov hovers over all of them. Many people will be disappointed with their new location.
Thus, going Galt is primarily an economic response. You want to deny your blood to the parasitic government and the malignant elitist overlords, while at the same time sucking as much of its lifeblood as possible. Economic Galt is now best accomplished by the gray concept (not going dark). Maintain a regular deplorable lifestyle and livelihood
working just enough to report some income but little or no taxes. Your real income is in the real economy. You become as independent and self sufficient as possible, giving up as many of the trappings of our modern, fake life as possible. Trade with good people. Don’t buy from China. Put sand in the gearbox. Burden the bureaucrats. Disrupt when and where possible. Live to fight another day. Quit paying to have your mind programmed with poison– if you love the poison and the hand that offers it then just forget it, there’s no hope for you. You get the idea.
Realize there are two groups in the world; those that want to be left alone and those that can leave no one alone. Those groups are horribly irreconcilable and are mutually exclusive. (redundant, but true). There is no middle ground. The elite and their lapdogs hate you and want you dead. Everyone in Galt’s Gulch will eventually have to fight, either sooner while there’s still a chance to defeat the beast, or later when only our defeat is certain. GO, GRAY!!!
“there are two groups in the world; those that want to be left alone and those that can leave no one alone”
and a third – those who cohere and work together as a team/family/clan/tribe/nation.
What’s not OK about that?
Here is proof positive of race war against Whites and how we don’t control the government.
He’s a typical GOPee cuck. He is the Texas version of Ohio’s Gov. DeWine…a traitorous GOProgressive.
Every place with free speech eventually becomes anti-semitic.
“In the video, Abbott is seen sitting in his wheelchair while flanked by the American and Texan flags, with the Israeli flag taking a prominent role centered directly behind him.’
Well, we know which is more important.
The governor then displayed an unnamed piece of legislation created by Republican Texas representatives Phil King and Craig Goldman, which he proudly proclaims to fight “anti-semitism in Texas.”
I wonder what that will be. They already have laws favoring israel there.
I doubt you’d know a libertarian if one stuck a thumb in your eye. Whoever these people are that are triggering you to post such a misinformed rant, they aren’t libertarians. Whatever has you so stirred up, it ain’t going to help to throw out a blanket slur on a good number of the people here.
Look for enemies and you’ll find them, even if you have to turn allies into enemies.
jimbo,
the best post that i’ve ever read by you–
I am already doing this as many of you are but you do realize they are still going to come to take our money and wealth right? We should also be more honest that this is about race and culture as much as it is about liberty. The white male renaissance will drive the exodus.