Indeed. I find it quite tiresome trying to explain to certain self-described (ultra-partisan) progressives that if you step back a little and take an objective look, you might observe that the ground under our feet is shifting as it pertains to the mostly artificial, media-engineered political divide they we have come to know for so many decades, and that in fact it has increasingly evident for a while now, as I attempted to do as recently yesterday at a family picnic, only to elicit the predictably vacuous response "yeah well Tucker and Rachel really hate each others guts at this point".
"Cult" really, they're liability labels to justify & rationalize one selfish endeavor, additionally your username "goat" really > "Scapegoat" makes your intention questionable. What's with gamification & reductionism? Huh.
This article itself has a questionable framing & you're not helping.
Caitlin: Why do you keep saying it is a capitalist system? It is not. Free market capitalism cannot exist when the central bank sets interest rates and the banks use fractional reserve banking to create currency. That is NOT capitalism.
Fascism would be a better description of our current economic situation.
She can speak for herself, but from what I understand from her is that she realizes that, as CJ Hopkins calls it, Globo Cap has taken over the world. It's not truly free-market economics by any means, rather, it's the crap that people like Rush Limbaugh spouted in his "corporations are people too" ideological subversion.
You bring up a fantastic point, and that is that prior to getting into these discussions people need to define their terms. Here are a bunch that have varying meanings depending on who it is that you're discussing with: Capitalism, conservative, christian, liberal, communism, jewish, etc. to name just a few.
Same as when people say that we're (America) the freeest country on earth. That very much depends upon which aspect of freedom one is talking about. Economic, religious, societal, speech, etc.
Too many times people go running down the hall with their hair on fire engaged in a discussion or debate and both people referring to "x" aren't even talking about the same "x," many times either being in agreement or disagreement when the opposite appears to be the case.
As to the big picture, understanding what's really going on at the top levels, and so few, an irrelevant few, actually do, requires years of not only educating oneself on what's going on, but shedding almost literally everything that we've been taught since we were kids and clearing the palette of one's world view entirely since so much of it is pure bullshit.
Only when one understands how badly they've been screwed over ideologically in the past does one begin to see things clearly as they develop today. But sadly, more Americans have been preoccupied with sports, immoral crap that passes for entertainment, bogus "news" etc., and other ideological drivel, that had they spent a tenth of that time over the past decade informing and truly educating themselves, we may have had a chance. THAT'S what's meant by defending liberty, not bitching and griping over stuff spouted by Tucker Carlson that is designed to keep the sheep in the ideological corral.
Most people aren't political at all. The (wisely) pay almost no attention to it. Looking at history, what gets Jill Public going is hunger and/or runaway inflation that destroys their savings.
The ones who are glued to the news actually know less. They say "low information voters". I'm more concerned about what I call negative information voters, people who believe falsehoods. That's worse than nothing.
The absolute last thing that I was referring to in my original statement was what everyone calls "the news." That's absolutely nothing but mind, moral, and conscience destorying drivel.
Understanding for example, who owns the Federal Reserve is relevant. So is how and why our Central Banking System came into being. So is the fact that the majority of our government is controlled by people with dual citizenship. I mean consider, would people start to think a little bit more if our country's highest levels of government were entirely occupied and controlled with people possessing dual American and Saudi/Russian/Iranian/Nigerian/etc. citizenship? Yet, it all seems to be fine and dandy because they're Israeli citizens. It makes zero sense.
They want people watching "the news," that's how they control minds, or part of how they do. That's also why "the news" is furtively moving to alt-media, because the traditional means of "news" delivery are well on the way out. Think Carlson here.
As I often tell people, history is boring the way that it's taught, because it's ALL bullshit! REAL history is incredibly fascinating due to the extensive societal and philosophical subversion that has and continues to occur.
Sadly, people would rather be in good company and on the popular side of an issue than to act according to the truth. That's why so many wore masks instead of standing against it since they knew it was bullshit.
God doesn't instruct his people (aka church) to acquiesce to lies and satanic agendas, he calls us to speak out and stand against them, to obey God, not man. Yet, people en masse CHOSE the path of least resistance and confronation. So it is with learning history. Tell people that the Holocaust for example was contrived, for a purpose, and they'll balk. There's a reason why the USS Liberty incident is not taught in any publicly controlled history classes for example.
We make our own bed, we really do, and on the Christian side it's due to obeying man, not God.
I don't think one ever finds the complete truth about anything regardless of the time spent on research. It depends on which end of the elephant you examine. Isn't it the curiosity and the need to seek truth the most important part of that journey? I read an interesting article that defined humans as either seekers or hiders, depending on their own experiences and emotional state. Most people reading this article are seekers, and we really don't understand the hiders. We argue about the isms, but we don't really understand human nature.
Nancy in NC: I agree with your comment. I was a seaplane mechanic for 30 years. I understood the airplanes, but not the people in the business. I know some hiders here in town. We call them the "hummingbirds and butterflies people."
I hear you, but remember, the first thing is exposing the lies, which takes effort. But if people are too busy binge watching immoral filth on the Lobotomy Box, ... we make our priorities.
I could provide a list of lies taught society I'm sure that some of which you believe and you'd be irritated at even the thought. I'll provide a few high level ones, and not saying these are those, but the average Amerian has absolutley no clue as to the extent that they've, A, been screwed over, and B, the extent of the lies that they've been told.
9-11, the Holocaust, the Boston Bombing, PSYOP19 even, the Moon Landings (not), the fact that the Federal Reserve is a privately held corporation whose owners are largely foreigners, etc. That's the low-hanging fruit, if people can't get past that they'll never even make it anywhere near the core of the truth.
Truth also is not subjective, another lie that we've been taught to believe.
I certainly don't think truth is subjective. I'm just saying sometimes it's difficult to know the whole truth if you weren't there. You are depending on what someone else says; if you don't know the person and their biases, you can be taken for a ride.
Well, I suppose, in limited ways. I wasn't there for the subversive nature in which the Federal Reserve was created, I wasn't even alive, but I know what the truth is. I wasn't in NYC on 9-11, but I know what the truth is. I wasn't in the Mediteranean when the USS Liberty was attacked by our "good godly friends" the Israelis, but I know the truth. I was all over PSYOP19 from the moment it popped up, but I also wasn't there. I wasn't in the places where the Moon Landing hoax was promulgated, but we also know that was entirely false. I knew that back in the '90s.
Just sayin'. The reason why I knew, 100% certain, that PSYOP19 was a false-flag when it broke, was because I understand who is behind it all, from the very top of the pyramid, not merely the W.H.O., WEF, etc.
They've told us what they're doing, just like Larry Silverstein admitted that 7 was a controlled demo.
lance arrowood: Libertarians don't believe in unicorns. Libertarians believe in people living as they wish with the caveat that people can't hurt or defraud others in pursuit of their happiness. Central banks, fiat currencies, and fractional reserve banking are all fraudulent.
I clicked like on your post, and have been down quite the intellectual journey myself, lately, by reading economics that dismantles the Fed, and reading John Taylor Gatto (who dismantles the schooling system), and listening to the Academy of Ideas (on YouTube).
I think you're wrong about Tucker Carlson. I think he was fired because he changed his mind about wars, fake currency, Big Pharma, and the power structure that keeps us propagandized, fat, sick, and demoralized so that they can control us. He opened up his eyes, and he was riveting to watch, and I can't wait for his return.
Rogan did a great job of questioning the covid shots. For others, I've been a mission to help them detox from the heart-attack-inducing spike protein. I will be forever grateful to Rogan for platforming many people who have torn Pfizer and the rest of our corporate masters to pieces.
Jones, too, got de-platformed all over the place.
Rush, too, had many problems, but he was deeply hated by the left.
BTW, so many seem to think that Rupert Murdoch is some great media guy. He's become more exposed, but what people like me were trying to tell people 20 years ago, that namely he's no different than the rest, and "part of the rigged game," and for sure no friend of liberty, it's taken people years to finally say, "hey, wait a minute ..." Why? Did he change? Short answer, no, he didn't. What changed was the perspective of people. The tough question is why did it take so long.
I sometimes wonder why people like Rupert Murdoch are so physically ugly. There is a psychological theory that many people's looks are basically show what they are like on the inside. Hence, the need for Hillary Clinton to be 90% chemicals.
But you touched on someting important, when a source is controlled, that hardly means that they're putting out all lies. To the contrary, there has to be enough truth in there to be plausible.
Here's the thing in this case, the Injections(TM) are a secondary if not even tertiary issue. How much time are those sources spending on who the owners of the Federal Reserve (the real core problem) actually are? ... or why our US Government is essentially controlled and run by people possessing dual Israeli-American citizenship?
Have you ever looked into the Bill Hicks transition?
As to sources, I'll leave that to you. I've found that if I simply provide them, and there are numerous for each source, that people asking for them already have a predetermined world-view that they're not going to break from unless and until they seek out those answers themselves. THAT'S how people learn the best.
But always ask yourself, why aren't those people touching that third-rail? Also, go back and look, ask yourself what happened to high-level people that did?
JFK was among them. Some more modern media/pol types are Cynthia McKinney, Jim Traficant, and Tim Russert to start.
THAT'S when you'll start uncovering the truth, not by being spoon-fed sources.
I would say this though, if you don't first understand who owns the Federal Reserve, then that's the first thing to look into because it all flows downhill from that general issue, namely the Central Banking Cabal. For THAT I can give you some links to learn. Let me know.
I'm well familiar with the Central Banking problem. I thought your comments on real money vs. fiat currency were spot on. I hope other readers follow up on them. "The Bitcoin Standard" and "The Fiat Standard" are excellent books by an honest economist.
In an absolute “free market”, can we buy and sell children? Can we sell a few grams of plutonium? Can we buy the services of mercenaries to acquire lands from “savages” for our gold mine? Without doing any safety research whatsoever, can we put phthalates in clothing or can we put aluminum oxide nanoparticles in vaccines? Is it okay if we dump the waste from our manufacturing plant or from our factory farm into the river upstream from a city? In a private market, don’t we argue that everything ought to be owned, including all water, air, and land, because there is not such thing as common or public value?
Is that the free market you’re talking about?
BTW, if you'd said we should all be socialists, I could come up with a list just as repugnant. The point is, there is always value in a contrary viewpoint. Civilized, cultivated debate, improves us all. That's why it's prohibited.
A: Yes, but only by the parents. Cannibalism is also allowed.
B: Yes. But if you hurt someone with the Plutonium, you get sued.
C: Yes. The land belongs to those who can defend it. Sorry. That's reality.
D: Yes. But again, if you hurt someone you get sued.
E. Yes. But again, if you hurt someone you get sued.
F. Yes. The tragedy of the commons is a well known phenomena. Look at Washington State. The forests owned by the state are clear cut and destroyed. Privately owned forests are well maintained.
G. Socialism, Central Planning never works. It leads to poverty and death.
It is still capitalism, just the late-stage kind controlled by huge corporations and evil amoral schemers, plotters, and criminals.
It's Crony Capitalism at its finest. Capitalism only has the potential to work at the level of small businesses, which today's bastards have almost obliterated, and on a level playing field, which has been (and always inevitably would be in ANY system, given human nature and the ease of exploiting it) tilted competely in favor of these unscrupulous power players.
Bakelite72: I agree with your comment, we only differ in terms. Crony Capitalism to me is just a euphemism for fascism. Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. But the Big Boys want all of the market share. Is human nature easily exploited? I think exploitation has many other factors.
I was told once as a kid that all these descriptions of "our rulers" and how our system works were just nonsense. Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism etc etc.. are all the same ... in that we plebs work for a select few ... whether the figurehead is 1 or a few, or a board of Directors... same same; with just a few different differences to fool the masses.
The same man THEN would tip his hat at the local (UK based) squire or major land owner of the land near him .. then curse at them, once they had passed; same with the local politician.
He was my Grandfather (totally uneducated and left school at 14 or 15 or something) ... and today I honestly believe he was right.
YES I DO AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENT ABOUT THE BANKS ON PRINCIPLE, but I think we spend too much time labelling things with descriptions or deceptive ways, that we have been force fed into believing.
The World's a stage and it has been for many decades (centuries even) ... but now, millions are "awakening" to the fact ... but what next; ignoring their plans and all that ?.
I come from a family of nomads. My great-grandparents came from Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Norway. My own family has lived in a dozen states or more in the USA. We all have millions of air miles and more of highway miles in our pasts.
There's a thousand variations of capitalism (and of every form of government). Free market capitalism is oppression and wealth disparity on steroids. Capitalism of any form needs to be restricted at the very least.
Vayu: Restricted by whom? You? Some perfect human beings who know all? Free market capitalism does cause wealth disparity. So what? FMC has led to human prosperity, even of the poor. Do you think serfs in the middle ages had TVs and cell phones or were fat? World wide poverty has never been lower.
Patrick Powers: Show me a better economic system. Human nature never changes. No economic system can change or control the greed or lust for power of some. As John Wayne once said, "If you have fifty people and give them all a dollar. Come back in a year and one guy has most of the dollars. It's human nature. That's the way it is."
You find a way to change human nature. The religions have been trying for millennia.
We all know about the Xmas truce in WWI. It didn't last. We are all against war on this site as far as I can tell. What does this have to do with economics? All types of economic systems have gone to war.
"Show me a better economic system." I have a strong premonition that such an exchange would result in no change in either of our positions.
"You find a way to change human nature." OK. In my Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech I'll make sure to give you credit for supplying the spark. You'll be famous!
You might want to talk to the sweatshop worker in Haiti who stitched together your clothes, the migrant worker who picked your vegetables, or the caged factory worker who assembled your cell phone before you start talking about how great Capitalism is. Oh... those people are far away, we don't see or interact with them. How convenient. Capitalist extraction combined with fossil fuel energy led to the most explosive boom in production in humanity's history and a small minority has reaped the benefits, but once the cheap energy runs out, we might be faced with something worse than the Bronze Age Collapse or the Medieval Dark Ages.
Gavin Farrell: Capitalism, free market capitalism, is the best economic system discovered by mankind so far. It isn't perfect as I've pointed out and so do you. But world wide poverty has never been lower. Life spans have never been higher (or were until the government lockdowns and Covid Con).
Cheap energy is the key as you point out. The Earth has plenty of it. My guess is that we all nuke each other before cheap energy runs out.
Well, we're going to disagree on Capitalism. In my opinion Capitalism is just another form of tyranny. When others can make decisions that drastically impact your life (and the life of millions of others) with no real democratic input ('the market' is certainly not democratic), that is tyranny.
And you have a pretty dismal apocalyptic world view there. Nuke each other before we run out of energy?? Peak fossil fuel extraction may be occurring right now. New discoveries these days tend to be of the type that have a more energy intensive extraction process. We may have 30 years or less of easily extractable reserves left, which means the cheap energy that we've lived on for our agriculture, transportation, and industry is going bye-bye. To survive, new ways of living and managing resources may be needed, rather than the anarchic tyrannical free-for-all of Capitalism.
Gavin Farrell: "Capitalism as just another form of tyranny." Others making decisions can always have a drastic impact on people's lives. Capitalism is the cause? Look at Covid Con. Fauci et. al. did the Covid Con for power, greed, and population control. What does that have to do with capitalism? Capitalism is the use of capital (savings) to make investments in production. This leads to higher productivity.
You mention fossil fuels. The money to buy the equipment to mine hydrocarbons (a much more realistic and scientific term than "fossil fuels") comes from capital.
People have been predicting shortages of this and that for a hundred years. There was a famous bet about a hundred years ago between Paul Ehrlich (I think) and a free market economist. Ehrlich bet the economist the Earth would run short of a basket of commodities and the price would go up. Ehrlich lost the bet. The price of every one of the commodities went down sometimes dramatically.
I agree that a new clean and cheap energy source needs to be found for all energy sources we have now have problems.
As for nukes, I have yet to see in human history an instance where Homo Sapiens put down the weapon and didn't use it.
Agreed. Consumerism is not prosperity. Prosperity results from low time preference behavior - creating capital, deferring consumption, living below your means, saving for the future, investing in your community, etc.
Consumerism (ie high time preference behavior like eating the marshmellow, vapid culture, capital consumption, etc) is a consequence of monetary policy leading to malinvestment and bad incentives.
BaconIsGood4You: Yes. You describe the differences between capitalism and consumerism very well. The capital then leads to investment in machines or practices that lead to more productivity of labor and voila! Prosperity arrives.
Horsea T: Austrian economics, Ludwig von Mises is the expert. Murray Rothbard was also a famous proponent of Austrian Economics. Their work is available at Mises Institute.
Consumerism has always been a thing for those who had money. Credit just allowed more people to get on board. Credit cards aren't inherently bad; abuse of credit is. The human condition is the problem, and all totalitarians think they know how to fix it or control it.
Another excellent written construct at putting together a cluster of passages that speak to the core of my being. I'm a Moderate who doesn't believe that western governments are in the business of truly caring for their population, but only pacifying them while bleeding them dry financially, intellectually, morally, spiritually and physically.
I praise you for triggering us to think differently than what we've been taught all our lives by the Propaganda Industrial Complex and all the other three letter government agencies that seek to control us by telling us that they are "safe & effective" even while in the midst of the world's biggest silent war: The Plandemic. Keep doing what your heart compels you to do because it's very effective in comforting those of us who really understand your words of wisdom. The world needs your medicine to heal the millions of lost souls who put too much trust and service in their government.
I unashamedly admit that this is my personal echo chamber. Here I am seldom subjected to the ranting of idiots who see the world in a different way. That's why I come here.
I’ve been left my whole life. Covid and the vaccine woke me up. Now that I’m awake I see where the left is headed and what they’ve been planning. Moving the west towards a tyrannical corporate run state on the name of “climate change” is insanity. You don’t agree with this?
I consider myself independent and my line my entire life is “politics should be played between the 40yd lines. Everyone hanging out on their own 5yd line is close minded.
I see things differently nowadays. The left is out to destroy middle America and especially “white” middle America because we represent a class who will fight against tyranny and censorship. Point being... it’s different now.
I find your language and references confusing. If there is concentrated, unaccountable power of ANY ideology, and you are opposed, you are on the left. If liberals are forcing integration on defiant conservatives or shutting down platforms where loons and racists spew hate, or closing factories and eliminating jobs as part of a grand global vision, or imprisoning whistleblowers for exposing government fraud, this isn’t an evil left wing despotism. It’s late capitalism where totalitarianism is the favored logic of power.
The fake adversarialism of the U.S. electoral system would have us all believe that the right loves small government, opposes abortion, and favors white-skinned, god-fearing gun owners, and the left promotes black causes and gay rights and access to abortion and scandalous American histories where racists were empowered and the innocent were persecuted.
It’s all third-rate theater. There is no left in America, and only feeble remnants in Europe.
I'd note that "right" and "left" no longer have any meaning other than being the party lines of the Rs and Ds. And their doctrines can change at any time.
All this is just like the USSR. One day you hear nothing but how great Leader A is. The next day the photo of Leader A is replaced by one of Leader B and you hear nothing but peans to B. It was like that with the Covid lab leak idea. One day it was banned. The next day it was required. The media was like a company of marching soldiers hearing "face right! face left!" But I have learned that hardly anyone notices stuff like this.
"I'd note that "right" and "left" no longer have any meaning other than being the party lines of the Rs and Ds. And their doctrines can change at any time."
This was a core criticism of Orwell. It is not something to agree with or aspire to, but rather resist. Words have meanings. Not every opinion is equal. Facts matter. Expertise is not the same as elite control. There are sharp distinctions between "left" and "right" in terms of premises about human nature, economics, culture, and politics - and even theories of history.
Stop jumping on this brain dead "no difference" bandwagon.
What I take from much of Caitlin’s writing, we all live too much in our heads. We are not wired to accurately gauge how false or toxic our acquired thoughts and knowledge actually are or can be. When I was very young, I “knew” that my country was on the side of good. That message was never imparted directly, but it was so insidiously driven home from every quarter. The church, the teachers, my parents and older friends and siblings. The TV and newspapers and books. How could they all repeat and underscore the essential moral upstanding and “intelligence” of our home if it was not true?
I’m not sure why you use “what we hear” about the Soviet Union as analogous to my comment. I’ve never been to Russia, but what I hear about it, I am fairly certain is not to be believed. And, not to be critical, but I think you missed my point, or you completely disagree with it. I believe the labels “right” and “left” do have meaning, and their meanings don’t change. The terms are bastardized by the ruling elites, to put forth narratives to keep the public distracted. So the issues over which the fake parties argue can change, but those are not to be confused with “doctrine.” To me, at least, doctrine is what all the fraudulent players agree upon, namely power is to be wielded, not shared, money, and those who possess it are always accorded respect, war is good, enemies abound, taxes are evil, truth is what we are told, and surveillance of everyone is necessary for everyone’s protection.
Did you miss the part where he's blocked all access to the files again, and censored all links to Substack? Because the little putz is terrified by Substack's new Notes feature?
It suited him to play the free speech card for a few weeks, but he's the same dissociated asshole he was last year, and the decade before, building toy rockets while people starve in the street. Pretending Teslas are saving the environment when their ecological impact is 100 times worse than my '96 Tacoma. Heedless extraction and mindless consumption are all he "understands," if you can stomach calling that understanding. He's the perfect person to be head Twit.
You only need to engage the public in a discussion of substantive issues, ie. social reform to find out how closed their minds are due to the pervasive propaganda they are subject to daily. Our minds are shackled to this Kool Aid Fountain of misinformation and lies. The worst part is that the public is oblivious to it.
Too much illegitimate unaccountable power in too few hands=chaos and decline.
All the great ideas have been expressed what remains is to act upon at least a few of them of which we appear totally incapable.
While the West appears totally determined to destroy itself, I hope the East survives and moves forward. Here in the West we constantly ignore we are only 13% of the world's population and we think that entitles us to rule the world! Global parochialism and parasitism are very big issues of our times .
If anything, it is the distortions and corruption that have rendered capitalism as an unworkable thesis. Any institution or organization can be corrupted, even saintly religions.
Faulty capitalism still works far better than socialism or communism on its best days. The WEF and other parasitical elite cults all use capitalism to gain power and prominence until they get around to enslaving mankind.
I couldn't care less about musk, CNN or liberals. They are all firm examples of brain dead, over propagandized people and organizations all basking in their supreme arrogance while hating humanity at the same time. I guess it's a kind of multitasking.
“I've never encountered anyone with whom I agree all the time, and it would be silly for me to expect to. I agree and disagree on various subjects with the communists I follow, and the libertarians, and everyone else. I've agreed and disagreed with things I've heard from Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. And you should too. That's normal.”
You nail it here for me. It is very hard these days in the online world to deal with differing viewpoints. And lest someone thinks I agree with you (Caitlin Johnson) on every issue: no. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other documents like the Bill of Rights (USA), and Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) are very important to me human rights take priority for me. Therefore, I am very critical of the CCP and Xi Jinping due to Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. But my country (Canada) takes a hit thanks to the Fairy Creek Old Growth protests, Indigenous land defenders and the Truck Convoy. No fan of Stephen Harper or Justin Trudeau (last two Prime Ministers).
If you find yourself agreeing with your preferred slice of the political spectrum all the time on every issue, it means you are in a cult.
I always agree with Caitlin. The Cult of Caitlin? Sounds Irish.
Once you get deeply into it they tattoo a shamrock on your forehead and drink the blood of something or other. Then it's too late to get out.
Don't tell anybody I told you this. I'd get in trouble. Big trouble.
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I lol'd at this bc I do too but she's a truthsayer. A truth cult I guess.
Indeed. I find it quite tiresome trying to explain to certain self-described (ultra-partisan) progressives that if you step back a little and take an objective look, you might observe that the ground under our feet is shifting as it pertains to the mostly artificial, media-engineered political divide they we have come to know for so many decades, and that in fact it has increasingly evident for a while now, as I attempted to do as recently yesterday at a family picnic, only to elicit the predictably vacuous response "yeah well Tucker and Rachel really hate each others guts at this point".
Um yeah Ok. Never mind.
"Cult" really, they're liability labels to justify & rationalize one selfish endeavor, additionally your username "goat" really > "Scapegoat" makes your intention questionable. What's with gamification & reductionism? Huh.
This article itself has a questionable framing & you're not helping.
That's a good point.
I'm a Zardoz man myself.
We can export the excised genitals to China. It could be big. Really big.
Caitlin: Why do you keep saying it is a capitalist system? It is not. Free market capitalism cannot exist when the central bank sets interest rates and the banks use fractional reserve banking to create currency. That is NOT capitalism.
Fascism would be a better description of our current economic situation.
She can speak for herself, but from what I understand from her is that she realizes that, as CJ Hopkins calls it, Globo Cap has taken over the world. It's not truly free-market economics by any means, rather, it's the crap that people like Rush Limbaugh spouted in his "corporations are people too" ideological subversion.
You bring up a fantastic point, and that is that prior to getting into these discussions people need to define their terms. Here are a bunch that have varying meanings depending on who it is that you're discussing with: Capitalism, conservative, christian, liberal, communism, jewish, etc. to name just a few.
Same as when people say that we're (America) the freeest country on earth. That very much depends upon which aspect of freedom one is talking about. Economic, religious, societal, speech, etc.
Too many times people go running down the hall with their hair on fire engaged in a discussion or debate and both people referring to "x" aren't even talking about the same "x," many times either being in agreement or disagreement when the opposite appears to be the case.
As to the big picture, understanding what's really going on at the top levels, and so few, an irrelevant few, actually do, requires years of not only educating oneself on what's going on, but shedding almost literally everything that we've been taught since we were kids and clearing the palette of one's world view entirely since so much of it is pure bullshit.
Only when one understands how badly they've been screwed over ideologically in the past does one begin to see things clearly as they develop today. But sadly, more Americans have been preoccupied with sports, immoral crap that passes for entertainment, bogus "news" etc., and other ideological drivel, that had they spent a tenth of that time over the past decade informing and truly educating themselves, we may have had a chance. THAT'S what's meant by defending liberty, not bitching and griping over stuff spouted by Tucker Carlson that is designed to keep the sheep in the ideological corral.
This topic can be discussed for months.
Most people aren't political at all. The (wisely) pay almost no attention to it. Looking at history, what gets Jill Public going is hunger and/or runaway inflation that destroys their savings.
The ones who are glued to the news actually know less. They say "low information voters". I'm more concerned about what I call negative information voters, people who believe falsehoods. That's worse than nothing.
The absolute last thing that I was referring to in my original statement was what everyone calls "the news." That's absolutely nothing but mind, moral, and conscience destorying drivel.
Understanding for example, who owns the Federal Reserve is relevant. So is how and why our Central Banking System came into being. So is the fact that the majority of our government is controlled by people with dual citizenship. I mean consider, would people start to think a little bit more if our country's highest levels of government were entirely occupied and controlled with people possessing dual American and Saudi/Russian/Iranian/Nigerian/etc. citizenship? Yet, it all seems to be fine and dandy because they're Israeli citizens. It makes zero sense.
They want people watching "the news," that's how they control minds, or part of how they do. That's also why "the news" is furtively moving to alt-media, because the traditional means of "news" delivery are well on the way out. Think Carlson here.
As I often tell people, history is boring the way that it's taught, because it's ALL bullshit! REAL history is incredibly fascinating due to the extensive societal and philosophical subversion that has and continues to occur.
Sadly, people would rather be in good company and on the popular side of an issue than to act according to the truth. That's why so many wore masks instead of standing against it since they knew it was bullshit.
God doesn't instruct his people (aka church) to acquiesce to lies and satanic agendas, he calls us to speak out and stand against them, to obey God, not man. Yet, people en masse CHOSE the path of least resistance and confronation. So it is with learning history. Tell people that the Holocaust for example was contrived, for a purpose, and they'll balk. There's a reason why the USS Liberty incident is not taught in any publicly controlled history classes for example.
We make our own bed, we really do, and on the Christian side it's due to obeying man, not God.
Good comment. It does take time and research, lots of research, to find the truth.
I don't think one ever finds the complete truth about anything regardless of the time spent on research. It depends on which end of the elephant you examine. Isn't it the curiosity and the need to seek truth the most important part of that journey? I read an interesting article that defined humans as either seekers or hiders, depending on their own experiences and emotional state. Most people reading this article are seekers, and we really don't understand the hiders. We argue about the isms, but we don't really understand human nature.
Nancy in NC: I agree with your comment. I was a seaplane mechanic for 30 years. I understood the airplanes, but not the people in the business. I know some hiders here in town. We call them the "hummingbirds and butterflies people."
I hear you, but remember, the first thing is exposing the lies, which takes effort. But if people are too busy binge watching immoral filth on the Lobotomy Box, ... we make our priorities.
I could provide a list of lies taught society I'm sure that some of which you believe and you'd be irritated at even the thought. I'll provide a few high level ones, and not saying these are those, but the average Amerian has absolutley no clue as to the extent that they've, A, been screwed over, and B, the extent of the lies that they've been told.
9-11, the Holocaust, the Boston Bombing, PSYOP19 even, the Moon Landings (not), the fact that the Federal Reserve is a privately held corporation whose owners are largely foreigners, etc. That's the low-hanging fruit, if people can't get past that they'll never even make it anywhere near the core of the truth.
Truth also is not subjective, another lie that we've been taught to believe.
I certainly don't think truth is subjective. I'm just saying sometimes it's difficult to know the whole truth if you weren't there. You are depending on what someone else says; if you don't know the person and their biases, you can be taken for a ride.
Well, I suppose, in limited ways. I wasn't there for the subversive nature in which the Federal Reserve was created, I wasn't even alive, but I know what the truth is. I wasn't in NYC on 9-11, but I know what the truth is. I wasn't in the Mediteranean when the USS Liberty was attacked by our "good godly friends" the Israelis, but I know the truth. I was all over PSYOP19 from the moment it popped up, but I also wasn't there. I wasn't in the places where the Moon Landing hoax was promulgated, but we also know that was entirely false. I knew that back in the '90s.
Just sayin'. The reason why I knew, 100% certain, that PSYOP19 was a false-flag when it broke, was because I understand who is behind it all, from the very top of the pyramid, not merely the W.H.O., WEF, etc.
They've told us what they're doing, just like Larry Silverstein admitted that 7 was a controlled demo.
Unicorns would exist if only we got rid of central banks. (Insert free markets instead of unicorns if preferred) I love libertarians.
lance arrowood: Libertarians don't believe in unicorns. Libertarians believe in people living as they wish with the caveat that people can't hurt or defraud others in pursuit of their happiness. Central banks, fiat currencies, and fractional reserve banking are all fraudulent.
I clicked like on your post, and have been down quite the intellectual journey myself, lately, by reading economics that dismantles the Fed, and reading John Taylor Gatto (who dismantles the schooling system), and listening to the Academy of Ideas (on YouTube).
I think you're wrong about Tucker Carlson. I think he was fired because he changed his mind about wars, fake currency, Big Pharma, and the power structure that keeps us propagandized, fat, sick, and demoralized so that they can control us. He opened up his eyes, and he was riveting to watch, and I can't wait for his return.
No one in that kid of position getting paid that much is freelancing.
Joe Rogan and Alex Jones are both owned by Time Warner, they're controlled as well.
As was Rush Limbaugh, although in his case likely more because he was easily tempted with simple money and status.
Sources, please.
Rogan did a great job of questioning the covid shots. For others, I've been a mission to help them detox from the heart-attack-inducing spike protein. I will be forever grateful to Rogan for platforming many people who have torn Pfizer and the rest of our corporate masters to pieces.
Jones, too, got de-platformed all over the place.
Rush, too, had many problems, but he was deeply hated by the left.
BTW, so many seem to think that Rupert Murdoch is some great media guy. He's become more exposed, but what people like me were trying to tell people 20 years ago, that namely he's no different than the rest, and "part of the rigged game," and for sure no friend of liberty, it's taken people years to finally say, "hey, wait a minute ..." Why? Did he change? Short answer, no, he didn't. What changed was the perspective of people. The tough question is why did it take so long.
I sometimes wonder why people like Rupert Murdoch are so physically ugly. There is a psychological theory that many people's looks are basically show what they are like on the inside. Hence, the need for Hillary Clinton to be 90% chemicals.
Again, both work for Time Warner.
But you touched on someting important, when a source is controlled, that hardly means that they're putting out all lies. To the contrary, there has to be enough truth in there to be plausible.
Here's the thing in this case, the Injections(TM) are a secondary if not even tertiary issue. How much time are those sources spending on who the owners of the Federal Reserve (the real core problem) actually are? ... or why our US Government is essentially controlled and run by people possessing dual Israeli-American citizenship?
Have you ever looked into the Bill Hicks transition?
As to sources, I'll leave that to you. I've found that if I simply provide them, and there are numerous for each source, that people asking for them already have a predetermined world-view that they're not going to break from unless and until they seek out those answers themselves. THAT'S how people learn the best.
But always ask yourself, why aren't those people touching that third-rail? Also, go back and look, ask yourself what happened to high-level people that did?
JFK was among them. Some more modern media/pol types are Cynthia McKinney, Jim Traficant, and Tim Russert to start.
THAT'S when you'll start uncovering the truth, not by being spoon-fed sources.
I would say this though, if you don't first understand who owns the Federal Reserve, then that's the first thing to look into because it all flows downhill from that general issue, namely the Central Banking Cabal. For THAT I can give you some links to learn. Let me know.
I'm well familiar with the Central Banking problem. I thought your comments on real money vs. fiat currency were spot on. I hope other readers follow up on them. "The Bitcoin Standard" and "The Fiat Standard" are excellent books by an honest economist.
In an absolute “free market”, can we buy and sell children? Can we sell a few grams of plutonium? Can we buy the services of mercenaries to acquire lands from “savages” for our gold mine? Without doing any safety research whatsoever, can we put phthalates in clothing or can we put aluminum oxide nanoparticles in vaccines? Is it okay if we dump the waste from our manufacturing plant or from our factory farm into the river upstream from a city? In a private market, don’t we argue that everything ought to be owned, including all water, air, and land, because there is not such thing as common or public value?
Is that the free market you’re talking about?
BTW, if you'd said we should all be socialists, I could come up with a list just as repugnant. The point is, there is always value in a contrary viewpoint. Civilized, cultivated debate, improves us all. That's why it's prohibited.
A: Yes, but only by the parents. Cannibalism is also allowed.
B: Yes. But if you hurt someone with the Plutonium, you get sued.
C: Yes. The land belongs to those who can defend it. Sorry. That's reality.
D: Yes. But again, if you hurt someone you get sued.
E. Yes. But again, if you hurt someone you get sued.
F. Yes. The tragedy of the commons is a well known phenomena. Look at Washington State. The forests owned by the state are clear cut and destroyed. Privately owned forests are well maintained.
G. Socialism, Central Planning never works. It leads to poverty and death.
It is still capitalism, just the late-stage kind controlled by huge corporations and evil amoral schemers, plotters, and criminals.
It's Crony Capitalism at its finest. Capitalism only has the potential to work at the level of small businesses, which today's bastards have almost obliterated, and on a level playing field, which has been (and always inevitably would be in ANY system, given human nature and the ease of exploiting it) tilted competely in favor of these unscrupulous power players.
Bakelite72: I agree with your comment, we only differ in terms. Crony Capitalism to me is just a euphemism for fascism. Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. But the Big Boys want all of the market share. Is human nature easily exploited? I think exploitation has many other factors.
I was told once as a kid that all these descriptions of "our rulers" and how our system works were just nonsense. Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism etc etc.. are all the same ... in that we plebs work for a select few ... whether the figurehead is 1 or a few, or a board of Directors... same same; with just a few different differences to fool the masses.
The same man THEN would tip his hat at the local (UK based) squire or major land owner of the land near him .. then curse at them, once they had passed; same with the local politician.
He was my Grandfather (totally uneducated and left school at 14 or 15 or something) ... and today I honestly believe he was right.
YES I DO AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENT ABOUT THE BANKS ON PRINCIPLE, but I think we spend too much time labelling things with descriptions or deceptive ways, that we have been force fed into believing.
The World's a stage and it has been for many decades (centuries even) ... but now, millions are "awakening" to the fact ... but what next; ignoring their plans and all that ?.
Bob-Enough: I have found that the only vote or action that matters is;
Do I go? Or do I stay?
Jimmy Durante does a comedy bit on this playing the piano as Bingo in the Christmas movie "The Man Who Came to Dinner".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-zmJ1VCQI
All of the rest is noise.
I come from a family of nomads. My great-grandparents came from Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Norway. My own family has lived in a dozen states or more in the USA. We all have millions of air miles and more of highway miles in our pasts.
Do I go? Or do I stay?
Fight or flight ?.... strangely, we could be related apart from the ref to Sweden. I am too old and arrogant to run.
Agree with the noise part.
ANyway, a blast from the past = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM
I can't move again either. I'm stuck here until the dirt nap. Thanks for the link.
There's a thousand variations of capitalism (and of every form of government). Free market capitalism is oppression and wealth disparity on steroids. Capitalism of any form needs to be restricted at the very least.
Vayu: Restricted by whom? You? Some perfect human beings who know all? Free market capitalism does cause wealth disparity. So what? FMC has led to human prosperity, even of the poor. Do you think serfs in the middle ages had TVs and cell phones or were fat? World wide poverty has never been lower.
Well, if you like the way things are, then you like the way things are.
Patrick Powers: Show me a better economic system. Human nature never changes. No economic system can change or control the greed or lust for power of some. As John Wayne once said, "If you have fifty people and give them all a dollar. Come back in a year and one guy has most of the dollars. It's human nature. That's the way it is."
You find a way to change human nature. The religions have been trying for millennia.
Here's muh plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJi41RWaTCs
That really happened, y'know.
We all know about the Xmas truce in WWI. It didn't last. We are all against war on this site as far as I can tell. What does this have to do with economics? All types of economic systems have gone to war.
"Show me a better economic system." I have a strong premonition that such an exchange would result in no change in either of our positions.
"You find a way to change human nature." OK. In my Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech I'll make sure to give you credit for supplying the spark. You'll be famous!
What is your position? Socialism? Marxism? Central planning right on down the line? Some utopian egalitarianism? Pick and ism.
You might want to talk to the sweatshop worker in Haiti who stitched together your clothes, the migrant worker who picked your vegetables, or the caged factory worker who assembled your cell phone before you start talking about how great Capitalism is. Oh... those people are far away, we don't see or interact with them. How convenient. Capitalist extraction combined with fossil fuel energy led to the most explosive boom in production in humanity's history and a small minority has reaped the benefits, but once the cheap energy runs out, we might be faced with something worse than the Bronze Age Collapse or the Medieval Dark Ages.
Gavin Farrell: Capitalism, free market capitalism, is the best economic system discovered by mankind so far. It isn't perfect as I've pointed out and so do you. But world wide poverty has never been lower. Life spans have never been higher (or were until the government lockdowns and Covid Con).
Cheap energy is the key as you point out. The Earth has plenty of it. My guess is that we all nuke each other before cheap energy runs out.
Well, we're going to disagree on Capitalism. In my opinion Capitalism is just another form of tyranny. When others can make decisions that drastically impact your life (and the life of millions of others) with no real democratic input ('the market' is certainly not democratic), that is tyranny.
And you have a pretty dismal apocalyptic world view there. Nuke each other before we run out of energy?? Peak fossil fuel extraction may be occurring right now. New discoveries these days tend to be of the type that have a more energy intensive extraction process. We may have 30 years or less of easily extractable reserves left, which means the cheap energy that we've lived on for our agriculture, transportation, and industry is going bye-bye. To survive, new ways of living and managing resources may be needed, rather than the anarchic tyrannical free-for-all of Capitalism.
Gavin Farrell: "Capitalism as just another form of tyranny." Others making decisions can always have a drastic impact on people's lives. Capitalism is the cause? Look at Covid Con. Fauci et. al. did the Covid Con for power, greed, and population control. What does that have to do with capitalism? Capitalism is the use of capital (savings) to make investments in production. This leads to higher productivity.
You mention fossil fuels. The money to buy the equipment to mine hydrocarbons (a much more realistic and scientific term than "fossil fuels") comes from capital.
People have been predicting shortages of this and that for a hundred years. There was a famous bet about a hundred years ago between Paul Ehrlich (I think) and a free market economist. Ehrlich bet the economist the Earth would run short of a basket of commodities and the price would go up. Ehrlich lost the bet. The price of every one of the commodities went down sometimes dramatically.
I agree that a new clean and cheap energy source needs to be found for all energy sources we have now have problems.
As for nukes, I have yet to see in human history an instance where Homo Sapiens put down the weapon and didn't use it.
Horsea T. Easy credit is part of the problem. Fiat currency is the big problem IMO.
Agreed. Consumerism is not prosperity. Prosperity results from low time preference behavior - creating capital, deferring consumption, living below your means, saving for the future, investing in your community, etc.
Consumerism (ie high time preference behavior like eating the marshmellow, vapid culture, capital consumption, etc) is a consequence of monetary policy leading to malinvestment and bad incentives.
BaconIsGood4You: Yes. You describe the differences between capitalism and consumerism very well. The capital then leads to investment in machines or practices that lead to more productivity of labor and voila! Prosperity arrives.
Horsea T: Austrian economics, Ludwig von Mises is the expert. Murray Rothbard was also a famous proponent of Austrian Economics. Their work is available at Mises Institute.
Consumerism has always been a thing for those who had money. Credit just allowed more people to get on board. Credit cards aren't inherently bad; abuse of credit is. The human condition is the problem, and all totalitarians think they know how to fix it or control it.
Another excellent written construct at putting together a cluster of passages that speak to the core of my being. I'm a Moderate who doesn't believe that western governments are in the business of truly caring for their population, but only pacifying them while bleeding them dry financially, intellectually, morally, spiritually and physically.
I praise you for triggering us to think differently than what we've been taught all our lives by the Propaganda Industrial Complex and all the other three letter government agencies that seek to control us by telling us that they are "safe & effective" even while in the midst of the world's biggest silent war: The Plandemic. Keep doing what your heart compels you to do because it's very effective in comforting those of us who really understand your words of wisdom. The world needs your medicine to heal the millions of lost souls who put too much trust and service in their government.
I bet the government doesn't see you as a moderate; you're a rebel and domestic terrorist by their definition.
I refer CNN to my liberal friends and family as "The other Fox news".
I unashamedly admit that this is my personal echo chamber. Here I am seldom subjected to the ranting of idiots who see the world in a different way. That's why I come here.
You are welcome here Patrick, in the echo chamber.
Mass media has *The Sheeple* fighting a culture war instead of a class war.
And they've very effectively blamed government and "liberals" instead of corporations and capitalism.
Get it. I’ll be brief.
I’ve been left my whole life. Covid and the vaccine woke me up. Now that I’m awake I see where the left is headed and what they’ve been planning. Moving the west towards a tyrannical corporate run state on the name of “climate change” is insanity. You don’t agree with this?
I consider myself independent and my line my entire life is “politics should be played between the 40yd lines. Everyone hanging out on their own 5yd line is close minded.
I see things differently nowadays. The left is out to destroy middle America and especially “white” middle America because we represent a class who will fight against tyranny and censorship. Point being... it’s different now.
I find your language and references confusing. If there is concentrated, unaccountable power of ANY ideology, and you are opposed, you are on the left. If liberals are forcing integration on defiant conservatives or shutting down platforms where loons and racists spew hate, or closing factories and eliminating jobs as part of a grand global vision, or imprisoning whistleblowers for exposing government fraud, this isn’t an evil left wing despotism. It’s late capitalism where totalitarianism is the favored logic of power.
The fake adversarialism of the U.S. electoral system would have us all believe that the right loves small government, opposes abortion, and favors white-skinned, god-fearing gun owners, and the left promotes black causes and gay rights and access to abortion and scandalous American histories where racists were empowered and the innocent were persecuted.
It’s all third-rate theater. There is no left in America, and only feeble remnants in Europe.
I'd note that "right" and "left" no longer have any meaning other than being the party lines of the Rs and Ds. And their doctrines can change at any time.
All this is just like the USSR. One day you hear nothing but how great Leader A is. The next day the photo of Leader A is replaced by one of Leader B and you hear nothing but peans to B. It was like that with the Covid lab leak idea. One day it was banned. The next day it was required. The media was like a company of marching soldiers hearing "face right! face left!" But I have learned that hardly anyone notices stuff like this.
Patrick - you write:
"I'd note that "right" and "left" no longer have any meaning other than being the party lines of the Rs and Ds. And their doctrines can change at any time."
This was a core criticism of Orwell. It is not something to agree with or aspire to, but rather resist. Words have meanings. Not every opinion is equal. Facts matter. Expertise is not the same as elite control. There are sharp distinctions between "left" and "right" in terms of premises about human nature, economics, culture, and politics - and even theories of history.
Stop jumping on this brain dead "no difference" bandwagon.
I wrote of the world in which I live, not of a world in which I would prefer to live.
I write to change the world in which we live to make it more like the world I prefer to live in.
What I take from much of Caitlin’s writing, we all live too much in our heads. We are not wired to accurately gauge how false or toxic our acquired thoughts and knowledge actually are or can be. When I was very young, I “knew” that my country was on the side of good. That message was never imparted directly, but it was so insidiously driven home from every quarter. The church, the teachers, my parents and older friends and siblings. The TV and newspapers and books. How could they all repeat and underscore the essential moral upstanding and “intelligence” of our home if it was not true?
I’m not sure why you use “what we hear” about the Soviet Union as analogous to my comment. I’ve never been to Russia, but what I hear about it, I am fairly certain is not to be believed. And, not to be critical, but I think you missed my point, or you completely disagree with it. I believe the labels “right” and “left” do have meaning, and their meanings don’t change. The terms are bastardized by the ruling elites, to put forth narratives to keep the public distracted. So the issues over which the fake parties argue can change, but those are not to be confused with “doctrine.” To me, at least, doctrine is what all the fraudulent players agree upon, namely power is to be wielded, not shared, money, and those who possess it are always accorded respect, war is good, enemies abound, taxes are evil, truth is what we are told, and surveillance of everyone is necessary for everyone’s protection.
I have read that 1984 is Amazon's best seller. Evidently I am not the only one who thinks are living in the 1984 world.
For Twitter Files alone Elon Musk has entered history.
True! And yet I believe that Caitlin is right that he's yet another status quo personality.
Did you miss the part where he's blocked all access to the files again, and censored all links to Substack? Because the little putz is terrified by Substack's new Notes feature?
It suited him to play the free speech card for a few weeks, but he's the same dissociated asshole he was last year, and the decade before, building toy rockets while people starve in the street. Pretending Teslas are saving the environment when their ecological impact is 100 times worse than my '96 Tacoma. Heedless extraction and mindless consumption are all he "understands," if you can stomach calling that understanding. He's the perfect person to be head Twit.
No - I didn’t !!
But Twitter Files revelations are infinitely more important than e.g., Watergate.
You are just blinded and unbalanced ;-))
You only need to engage the public in a discussion of substantive issues, ie. social reform to find out how closed their minds are due to the pervasive propaganda they are subject to daily. Our minds are shackled to this Kool Aid Fountain of misinformation and lies. The worst part is that the public is oblivious to it.
Here's Sam Spade Jr.'s musical take on this situation. 1984 Blues. https://youtu.be/0LoE5lGGM24
Too much illegitimate unaccountable power in too few hands=chaos and decline.
All the great ideas have been expressed what remains is to act upon at least a few of them of which we appear totally incapable.
While the West appears totally determined to destroy itself, I hope the East survives and moves forward. Here in the West we constantly ignore we are only 13% of the world's population and we think that entitles us to rule the world! Global parochialism and parasitism are very big issues of our times .
YES!
And may it never go to your head!
If anything, it is the distortions and corruption that have rendered capitalism as an unworkable thesis. Any institution or organization can be corrupted, even saintly religions.
Faulty capitalism still works far better than socialism or communism on its best days. The WEF and other parasitical elite cults all use capitalism to gain power and prominence until they get around to enslaving mankind.
I couldn't care less about musk, CNN or liberals. They are all firm examples of brain dead, over propagandized people and organizations all basking in their supreme arrogance while hating humanity at the same time. I guess it's a kind of multitasking.
"American liberals just spent days raging at CNN for hosting a town hall with Donald Trump"
The goal is to prevent the havenots from organizing by depriving them of leadership.
Opinions and assholes, everyone has one... Keep on poking holes in the matrix. Arguably, I agree most of the time with your writing ... :)
This is entirely intentional.
“I've never encountered anyone with whom I agree all the time, and it would be silly for me to expect to. I agree and disagree on various subjects with the communists I follow, and the libertarians, and everyone else. I've agreed and disagreed with things I've heard from Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. And you should too. That's normal.”
You nail it here for me. It is very hard these days in the online world to deal with differing viewpoints. And lest someone thinks I agree with you (Caitlin Johnson) on every issue: no. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other documents like the Bill of Rights (USA), and Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) are very important to me human rights take priority for me. Therefore, I am very critical of the CCP and Xi Jinping due to Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. But my country (Canada) takes a hit thanks to the Fairy Creek Old Growth protests, Indigenous land defenders and the Truck Convoy. No fan of Stephen Harper or Justin Trudeau (last two Prime Ministers).
Thanks and take care :)