Know your real enemy

You guys know I try to isolate political from general self-reliance and community content. There are times when we need to address direct threats to our community, and shut-down efforts to sully the meaning and purpose of self-reliance through disingenuous attempts to spin it as an individualistic endeavor of anti-governmental separatists or terroristic groups, militias, or actors. The people pushing that narrative are on both sides: Chirping a false media narrative on the left, and lining their pockets with a different flavor of fear narrative on the right.

Political theater is designed to seep into every other conversation like water through cracks in the concrete. We "weather seal" by determining if we can directly create, influence, control, change, prevent progression of, or stop an intended outcome.

If we can, then we decide first if we are willing to become active participants in that effort; Are we accepting the responsibility, work, and/or consequences of standing up? Do we know what our ideal and/or acceptable alternative outcome could be? Is it realistically achievable; how do we do it?

Most importantly: Is there enough support and participation from others to influence that outcome, or are we just going to sacrifice ourselves as unrecognized but stoic martyrs?

Sometimes the individual battle must be fought -- Unavoidable or unexpected realities that directly threatens you or your family -- and the only options are do nothing and be victimized, or fight and win or die. These are the battles of isolation that cause men to either stand up or kneel down.

General authoritarianism is the brine we are all soaked in through various policies, actions and decisions made either without concern for public sentiment, or openly and indifferently in conflict with the will of the people who have never held them accountable.

Once these new [rules/policies/ordinances/laws] are enacted, enforcement or protection of those anti-public infringements begin in earnest.

Ask yourselves: Has great any voice or thinker on the left or right noticed that NONE of these legislative/county/city level laws/policies/ ordinances, or codes are designed or aligned to benifit the citizens or voters in their own communities? Laws are *enforced* because people do not want to obey them.

There is a self-inflicting, internal consequence of unhealthy eating. There is an external consequence for not paying property taxes.

I get it: We need laws and consequences to assure people don't run red lights or, umm.. issue RealID CDL licenses to unqualified, illegal immigrants.

But ask those great thinkers on the left or right why there were no consequences for their own failures, when these laws and decisions and policies were imposed upon the people against their will, and resulted in numerous dire outcomes. Lack of accountability for me, but not for thee.

Decisions are being coordinated and made in lockstep at at every level of counsel, board, commission, State and Federal level - in contempt of public discourse. This is what I call, essentially, reverse Marxism: The Enterprise controls the State. The people are still victimized in the same fashion, only difference being who is holding you down and who is raping you change roles or holes.

The consequence of bitching about a pattern, but doing nothing about it:

Once implemented, there is are immediate revocations of voice, rights, and liberties. This is enforced by Orwellian surveillance, remote technical or process controls, non-compliance cancelations or revocations, or other legal or financial consequences -- and ultimately -- direct physical intrusion, violence, incarceration, or extrajudicial retribution.

After the brine seasons the populous, the fork and knife of tyranny will devour any individual that stands their ground from the whole.

This was preventable however: The frogs in the pot attacked the frog who was hot for trying to turn the burner down before everyone was cooked in the brine they collectively bathed in.

The frogs who work to turn that heat up instead of down are just as culpable as those who lit the burner to begin with. Their methods are different, they cause friction inside the bath water, independent of the flames under the pot. The goal is the same: Cook everyone else with the false confidence they can leap out before it gets to hot for their own survival.

It disgusts me when I hear people say they are not going to vote because "the system is rigged" after all the work personal risk, and suffering of so many who have stood up to bring light to that truth (Tina Peters, many others but she is a perfect metaphorical hood ornament).

It has not been easy to expose it and work to change it - and succeed in so many places in spite of constant undermining and attacks - it troubles me, because those who speak against the easiest and most sacred of all rights to change our direction are the ones who kneel and watch the others who stand up get cut down without lifting a finger or raising a voice to help them - not even casting a single fucking vote while the steam rises from the pot they stand in.

For those that think they will get off the couch "when the balloon goes up" and "fight for our liberty" - if you have never attended a school board, city counsel or county board meeting to speak for/against anything - or show up to support someone else who can speak better than you; If you just gave up your vote and never bothered to educate your self on who was running to begin with; or never attended your local district party legislative meeting to even get a clue what you could be doing at the grass roots to make real changes to outcomes - or if you are just some ass clown, venom spewing troll, shilling post-apocalyptic bobbles and soldier of misfortune narratives to to the disenfranchised general public - you are the problem. You are either the friction or the victim in the pot -- a traitor to the very ideals of liberty and freedom our Republic was founded upon.

There is a world of difference between being educated versus being intelligent; between any measure of success versus genuine contentment in the role or station in life you occupy. Easy discernment lesson: Those who marginalizes you for not being them, those who attack or judge you out of jealousy, envy, or a covetousness of what you may be or have - they are the ones with their hands on the burner or creating friction in the pot. Call them out. Avoid them. They are clearly showing their intent to kneel while you get cut down for standing on your own two feet. They will pull you under and step on your head to get out of that collective brine when the heat gets too high.

These are the voices that are selling you dehydrated bitcoin and basement beans from the safe side of a keyboard. They are the ones teaching you how to be more challenging target practice for drones; lining their pockets with money redirected from your family's needs into a future loot drop for the enemy as you stand alone in front of your proverbial keyboard. They are NOT going to "be there with you" they will not be doing anything beyond taking your money, scurrying away into the hinterlands, and hiding out for as long as they can while the consumers of their bullshit die in the streets or boil to death in the stew they have seasoned with words of malcontent. They will kneel and hide in darkness, not lifting a finger to help while you are cut down for standing up. That is the recipe they are selling when the message of self-reliance is defiled with the seasoning of isolationism and angst against efforts to mend civil society - their goal is to destroy it, not heal it.

What is the litmus test between a shit-talking muppet and an active steward, active participant, or credible leader? Who is pulling you back into the pot when you are trying to turn the temperature down? Who is marginalizing your efforts when you work within your community, engage in civic discourse, inspire others, or attempt to rationally dissect real problems into root causes and actionable outcomes? Who is peddling bullets and bomb shelters instead of inspiring and building resilient communities and demonstrating active participation in addressing real problems with real solutions to those problems?

I believe in the right of self-defense and self-reliance. If "the balloon goes up" however, an AR-15 is literally the least useful tool I can imagine when there is no water, no food, no utility services, and no civil order. The rifle is for everything that tries to come for your door from the street. Self-reliance is being repaired to endure and sustain the basic needs of your home first, then your neighborhood, then your community, without being a victim, refugee, or predator. You cannot expect any positive outcome from engaging government tyranny on the streets with nothing more than bullets in your magazine. Look no further than Gaza, Eastern Ukraine, or any African or Arab shithole for examples of how that works out.

This does not imply one should give their future up to an external locus of control or unrealistic Pollyanna faith in some greater cosmic good that will just solve the world's problems. It does not mean you should ignore the who, what, where, and how in analysis of the conflict space. All it means is this: You cannot solve for global problems, only local ones.

Voting in isolation of knowledge and selection of candidates is factually pointless. The biggest myth of voting is that it only happens on election day. That, in itself, is a fruitless endeavor. It is the work that must be done before campaign signs go up on the street corners that matter. Unfortunately, it is this exact work that is marginalized and dismissed by the friction frogs and burner controllers. They WANT you to lose total faith in the system as a whole, instead of dissecting actionable elements of success and supporting the efforts of those working against the public good. Our enemy has mastered campaigns of voter apathy to assure the insertion of uniparty agents as the only choices on a given ballot.

It isn't the one day vote that changes the course of our Republic. It is the long period of no-show effort that destroys our chances of ever correcting a rigged system. Those who want you to remain in the pot will never allow you to understand how to dissect and remediate root causes of the larger problem space.

"Fuck it. Why vote? The system is rigged."

This defines the whole problem space.

Engage the system before the vote, engage candidates who represent your local community, values, and concerns. Elections are decided by the 3,140+ counties, 435 Congressional Districts, and thousands of Legislative Districts where you live and have direct, meaningful influence.

I know this because I know every single one of my legislators by name, and they know me. I did the work to fight the City of Phoenix on behalf of our homeless denizens; I did the work to push three separate First Aid bills into session; I know because I am an active participant in the local, grassroots process of selecting honorable candidates that can compete against the uniparty borg, and demonstrating success in pushing out those well-funded globalist candidates before they become the only choices on a general election ballot.

It takes work. It takes engagement. It is unforgiving and failure is frequent and frustrating. But the alternative is to do nothing. To kneel. To stay in the pot. To give up.

Anyone who is dismissive of this absolute survival imperative of engagement before the vote is your enemy. They either work for, or are benefitting from the corrupt system that is sold as a one day, pointless voting exercise. They lose their power and their relevance when the self-accountable stand up, take the task of active participation seriously, and get in front of the safe side of their keyboard.

I am not saying you won't get your ass kicked in some of the fights you showed up for. I am saying, factually, you will boil in that pot if you do nothing and allow the grifting naysayers to marginalize and undermine your right and real capability to change the system.

Your AR-15 is going to boil in the same pot with you like carrots of inaction in a broth of surrender before your very eyes.

Nobody wants to waste a thursday night at a school board meeting. This is why US Flags are now offensive relics of contrived oppression in Marxist led classrooms. Nobody wants to run for city counsel or support the campaigns of willing and honorable candidates who can vote against flock cameras and datacenters in your community. You don't influence global policy or National politics by staying home. You have to fight. You have to decide what is more important: Watching the world around you slowly rise to an inevitable and scorching boil; Or getting out of the pot and actively participating in saving your own family, country, and way of life from being consumed before those rifles and freeze-dried rations will ever make a difference in whether or not you survive - because you won't.

Don't live in a hole. This is YOUR Republic if you can keep it. Get off your ass or get off your virtual soapbox of faux disdain for what is happening in real-time around you.

-tC