Guest post from John Wilder at Wilder Wealthy Wise.
“Restoration may be possible, in two days. By the book, Admiral.” – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
We can finally predict the platform that George Bush’s kids will run on.
The United States is in a bad place. Monetarily. Philosophically. Morally. It even has bad manners.
Ultimately, the systems that led us to this situation won’t lead us out. Voting won’t save us. The Supreme Court won’t save us. Conservatism?
Conservatism© certainly won’t save us. It certainly didn’t save itself, and it becomes increasingly quaint as Conservatism 2021® quietly ignores nearly every position of Conservatism 1965™, if not right out taking the exact opposite position from even a decade ago.
Conservatism® has led us to where we are today. It’s just last year’s Leftist platform, but dressed up in a suit with a useful idiot explaining the Conservative Case for Sex Change Surgery for Toddlers. Oh, and this should be done even if the parents disagree. For the good of the child, you know, which they will all nod and agree, is a Conservative™ value.
Imagine if we called the Left intolerant! That would show them!
The reason for this is the Conservatism™ is inherently a negative philosophy. It doesn’t stand for anything, merely against (mainly) Leftist ideas. Once those Leftist ideas gain a mainstream following? They become a part of Conservatism®, and Conservative™ shills pretend those ideas were always part of their philosophy.
Conservatives® were always in favor of sending troops to Uganda to secure the rights of Ugandans to have gay marriage.
But Conservatism™ in 2021 is now as dead as whatever it is that lives on top of Sean Hannity’s head. There is zero actual Conservative™ philosophy, merely a money and influence game where politicians sell their influence to the largest corporation for thirty pieces of bacon-wrapped shrimp monthly.
So conservative!
All is not lost. Look at, for instance, gun rights. Gun rights were presented not as, “what the Left wants, but more slowly” but instead as, “from our cold, dead hands.” It was that level of determination that led to the “assault weapon” ban lapsing. What started with a concealed carry movement has now led to Constitutional carry (i.e., concealed carry without a permit) in state after state.
In the year 2000, one state had Constitutional carry. In 2021 (by my count) the number is over 21. And gun rights is where the Right has had a similar victory recently. In Missouri, the governor signed into law a bill that bars the police from enforcing Federal gun laws.
All of them.
Of course, the Leftist Justice Department was quick to sperg out and say, “Missouri, you can’t do that” but Missouri just kept hitting “ignore” and sending them straight to voicemail when they called again and again. In truth, the Feds will never be able to enforce Federal law in Missouri unless they unleash the might of the American military against the people of Missouri.
The chances of that happening aren’t particularly high, plus Missouri seems entirely justified.
Amazing what a little light will show you.
Missouri is just following the pattern we’ve been seeing from States for years. Want to sell marijuana in violation of Federal law at the State level? Sure. Multimillion-dollar industries can be set up in a year. Want to exclude police from helping enforce immigration laws? Sure.
This is just the next, logical step.
And it gave me a crazy idea.
The 1819 Project.
In 1819, the Federal government didn’t have these regulations and laws. In 1819, the average citizen’s interaction with the Federal government would have been voting for a Representative and voting for President. We weren’t THE United States, we were the united States.
Until the Civil War, that was fairly clear – States were sovereign entities – they didn’t gain their existence from the Federal government, the Federal government got its existence from them.
The Federal government didn’t tax individuals. The Federal government didn’t place arbitrary restrictions on what you could do with your business, your hiring, and your land. These simply were not Federal issues.
Could the States regulate these things? Certainly, that’s what the Constitution said. Did they? I imagine they did, some of them. Were the states free to pick and choose who voted and how and why? Yes., they were, and without resorting to appeal to the nine black-robed justices in Washington, D.C.
It’s funny that I can write the speeches the governor of Oregon will give in the future.
Could Oregon turn itself into a communist paradise? Sure. But it couldn’t turn its people into serfs, and it couldn’t put up walls to keep them in. It might be able to keep people it didn’t want out, as would any State.
Sure. That’s freedom. But the Commie Rot would be stuck in Oregon. And people could leave it. Senators wouldn’t be elected, but appointed by State legislatures. This improves the ability of the States to fight against silly things from larger States, and makes the ratification of a treaty a real event, not a popularity contest.
Corporations? Well, like people, they’d have a finite purpose and a finite lifetime. If corporations have the same rights as a person, they have to die, too. 70 years might be too long.
How about 40? Regardless, in 1819, corporations had a charter, and existed for a specific purpose and had a specific lifetime. That changed with a Supreme Court decision (not looking it up, it’s late) in the 1880s that gave corporations an infinite lifespan.
Sounds good to me. Every corporation should have an end date.
But the point is that we don’t fight to conserve anything. The time has now come for a Restoration. What do we restore? A culture filled with freedom; a culture where the Federal government was a tiny, distant force that had the responsibility of national defense and regulation of interstate commerce.
No, not the creeping interstate commerce regulations we have today (where having a phone number constitutes evidence of participating in “interstate commerce”) but a very limited scope so Texas can’t put tariffs on goods from Oklahoma. This leaves room for the FAA, but very little room for the FBI since 99% of Federal crimes disappear overnight because they no longer exist. And the ATF? Only to enforce taxes and not kill women and children with fire.
Hey, it’s not easy to brutally enforce arbitrary regulations on law-abiding citizens.
Politics is downstream of Culture. What’s needed is a Restoration of Culture.
If it sounds like I’m making up a movement, I assure you I’m not. The 1819 Project is well underway and has been for years. Parents are, especially in the Leftist parts of the world, pulling their kids from government schools and putting them in religious schools or homeschooling. Why?
The 1819 Project has already started, at best, I’m giving it a name. It’s well underway in places like Modern Mayberry, where a kid can grow up (more or less) free. The Feds seem to have forgotten that rural places exist, and hardcore Leftists don’t seem to want to live here unless they can get ganja and free stuff.
That can be tough to take in. Next week we’ll start in on how he’s born to treat women badly.
Places like Missouri are going to become the norm. I anticipate that, with the coming Troubles I see, the Federal government will become weaker and weaker. The hallmark of a failing government is more tyranny, but the people of the united States have seen their share of what happens when they give up their guns. Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin have provided a clear example that gun confiscation precedes life confiscation.
Will we get back to 1819 in values? I have no idea.
But I do know we need to be headed towards something, and not just reacting. 1819 is a good start.
The plan.
Nice article. 2 points well made…
1) “States were sovereign entities – they didn’t gain their existence from the Federal government, the Federal government got its existence from them.” Central Banking/Fiat gave the Federal government exactly what it needed to be the squid.
2) Corporate charters. Corporations were never to exist forever. We fought the King just as much as we were fighting against his corporations.
Bravo. Not dragged out with an endless litany of facts to awaken the American people. Culture is key. I am not so optimistic. Let’s say John Wilder has an IQ of 140. One might thing of oneself as average, but that is far from true. To intelligently discuss politics and civilization, one must have an above average IQ, which is not the majority by definition. Through in a requirements of emotional self-possession and rejection of narrative authority and who does that leave that can even correctly identify the problem? There will not be a great awakening without a great circle-jerk narrative. We need to be rid of these idiots and their masters. This is not complicated.
He is talking about the Sliding Scales of liberalism (ref the Hagelian Dialectic theory of the Communist). Liberals have rubber backbones/brains that can bend backwards until their heads easily slide up their own asses. As a rule, Liberalism only changes in one direction: downward & worse. Conservatives instinctively “have lines in the sand” or “carved in stone” and don’t bow or take a knee to stupidity and evil (e.g. it doesn’t matter how many Useless Idiots are taking The Shot, it’s not going in my arm without a bloody fight; or how many Putos are playing hide the sausage, Homey don’t play). Conservatism doesn’t change because God doesn’t change. PS: NWO Republicans are RINOs, not Conservatives; expecting RINOs to act like True Conservatives would be like expecting them to jump over the Moon in order to deliver each new illegal that just swam the Rio Grand River a new Cadillac, caviar, champagne, Citizenship Papers and their Democrat Voter Registration Card; they even bounce from corporations to government and back , from promises, grift, and lies like they were pure rubber liberals themselves.
If muh conservatism hath not changed, hit your wife when she is a manipulative drama queen. If muh conservatism hath not changed, make your wife provide sex on demand. If muh conservatism hath not changed, bear arms anywhere and everywhere. If muh conservatism hath not changed, don’t give government more than a tithe. If muh conservatism hath not changed, throw the bums out. If muh conservativism hath not changed, teach a lesson to the drag queen teaching children. If muh conservatism hath not changed, throw out the foreign elements. If muh conservatism hath not changed, take the law into your own hands. You, sir, seemeth to me to beeth fulleth of sheeteth.
And God has changed. Spanish conquistadors would break you and laugh at your corpse for claiming to be either a man or a Christian. Witches are no longer burned. Santa lives at the north pole. Islam is expanding again, and Jews are Jews again. By the Eternal, there is no eternal. Change is the only constant. You’ve never met God, and you have no way to check His measurements over time, except here on earth. But you go, prayer warrior, you go best Satan.
I wish you conservatives would gag to finality on your blusters. It is the lube of sodomy. Damn you lubbers of Jesus!
The whole premise of control…”From the end of a gun”. Ole Mao wuz right. Have no idea how it’ll turn out but will be a hell of a ride.
Stay tuned.
I like it!
But is this written by the real Wilder? I didn’t see any painful puns.
Same. I love his puns.
the eschatron girl is gorgeous though.
The 8-year old responsible for all whitey’s crimes looks as concerned as I am (no fucks given).
Ear up, folks.
-“Criminals” are the real conservatives (ever hear what happens to pedos in prison?)
– The black market (System D) is the only real Free Market. It exists in EVERY political structure from Communism to Capitalism.
– Currently, 2/3 of the world’s economy is estimated to be in System D.
– Seeking to be a ‘law-abiding’ citizen in this country is a fool’s game.
– Much of colonial America were smugglers (failing to pay the king’s taxes).
– It is no different today; be the best smuggler you can be.
We need some of your American spirit here in Britain. Look how many have had the jab. The Brits have lost their moral moorings and now Boris is going to teach them a lesson that will never forget – it’s coming fast now: The British BioSecurity State – 90% are cowed and lost souls.
Did you trade mark conservatism? If so are you going to start lawsuits, or do you get paid? Just kidding.
I like your plan.