Last autumn, in 'The Red Wave psy-op,' I concluded that a 'red wave' had never been in the offing. It was just a corporate media ploy to lull, then demoralize right-wingers. I opined that controlled demolition of the US public education system - carried out from within by 'educators' themselves - has left too many Americans too stupid to understand what they're voting for. Moreover, as we saw in Arizona, even when there's a shortfall in stupid-voter turnout, Democrats and their RINO allies have mastered techniques for making up the difference through voter fraud and suppression that neither the GOP nor the courts will challenge.
'Hopefully soon the MAGA movement, and others unwilling to live under a banana-republic despotism, will realize that massive sustained civil disobedience is now necessary, though perhaps still insufficient to thwart the usurpers,' I wrote. I promised to discuss 'what an effective resistance might look like ... focusing heavily on Texas and other places where the [grassroots] right remains strong.'
Then last week, in ‘Doctors and judges are groomers too,’ I shared a thoughtful post by El Gato Malo on (as I summarized it) 'the intellectual incoherence of the groomer campaign to transform young schoolchildren into whatever "gender" it is that they want to bugger.' Above the link, I observed that 'the chink in the pedophiles' armor, just now, seems to be the medical professionals who ... prescribe the drugs and offer "counseling" and surgery ... [since] we know exactly where they work ... It's easy to get in their faces, legislatively and personally.'
I suggested some leftist-style forms of civil disobedience: doxxing and picketing not just doctors who ‘affirm’ gender dysphoria with irreversible drugs and surgery, but judges who protect them by blocking state laws banning those vile experiments. I even suggested pelting them with rotten eggs. I should have added, ditto for prosecutors who go after protesters.
Throwing eggs at people can probably get you charged with battery in just about every jurisdiction in America, and I expect picketing judges' homes is illegal too. But we are talking civil disobedience here. There’s also no doubt that groomers and their lawyers deserve much worse than the worst damage rotten eggs can do: cornea lacerations from eggshell fragments, and ruined suits. Hey, the groomers have insurance.
If this sounds a bit like Antifa, you're on the right track. The regime’s street muscle gets away scot-free, all the time, with stuff like this. Therefore we already inhabit an essentially lawless environment. The feds, and a great many local blue-state prosecutors, have systematically replaced blind justice with lawfare targeting political dissidents. The 'Covid response,' the Houck case, the January 6 prosecutions, the Mackey imprisonment for a ‘voter suppression meme’, the Trump indictments and those of his lawyers, and any number of other outrages have proven that our rulers will exploit the flimsiest pretext to suspend civil liberties and come after dissidents with guns drawn, and sometimes blazing.
So let's broaden the discussion: Let's talk resistance, not just to the gender Mengeles and their pet judges, but resistance to lockdowns, election theft, 'climate' restrictions, vaccine mandates, state-sponsored infanticide, 'public health' tyranny, gun control, forever wars and critical racism. Let's talk resistance across the board to the usurper regime promoting these crimes. This post is for everyone from red-state secessionists to ivermectin prescribers, and anyone else bold enough to mock the naked emperor and his Lupron-induced micropenis.
Civil disobedience, if widespread, consistent and persistent enough, might be enough to turn the tide. Or it might not, in which case we'll have to escalate from defiance and rowdy protests to guerrilla warfare. The goal isn't to overthrow the regime so much as to make it irrelevant. We do that by undermining and defanging its local enforcement mechanisms, county by county, all across the fruited plain. We make ourselves ungovernable.
I'll confine my advice today to recognizing and overcoming common attitudes that could hamstring our efforts. I’ll follow up shortly with more detailed practical ‘how to’ suggestions in Part 2. That will cover organizational and tactical issues, like when not to throw rotten eggs, and what to do when Antifa shows up.
Having read this far, you may be shocked. You object, ‘We must respect the rule of law. That’s what distinguishes usfrom them.’ And you’re not wrong: We must, eventually. Once victory is assured, we must restore impartial rule of law, for example, granting our vanquished foes due process and fair trials, even though they would have just shot us down like Ashli Babbitt if roles were reversed. Right now, however, is most definitely not the time. When our rulers act lawlessly, remaining slaves to their regulations amounts to uniIateral disarmament and then surrender.
You might protest that I'm ‘sinking to our enemies’ level.’ Nonsense. I’m not suggesting we torch courts and clinics, let alone legitimate minority-owned businesses, like Antifa and BLM would (and did). Just picket them, for starters; though it's true we might have to escalate. But more to the point, if you’re even reading this, you can’t sink to their level. God is on your side. Your cause is just. They, on the other hand, are evil fascist thugs and perverts whose cause is satanic. In general (with certain exceptions, like rotten eggs) don't strike the first blow. But be ready to duck their blows, then strike back, hard.
Does that sound a bit Manichean? A bit like Dubya telling us 'You're either with us [lying, psychopathic warmonger neocons], or you're against us'? A bit like - God forbid - 'Our ends justify our means'? Well, you're wrong, because when you raise those concerns, and I address them, that alone proves we're not lying psychopaths like our enemies. If you think I'm arguing ends justify means, you didn't read the paragraph right before that, the one about rule of law and unilateral disarmament. And you need to ask yourself how strong your beliefs really are.
The knee-jerk replies I described can take other forms too. When I shared some of my counterrevolutionary ideas with a retired special operator who was contemplating running for office, his horrified response was, ‘They’ll drone you if you do that.’ That’s exactly the same as invoking the nonexistent ‘rule of law,’ only more straightforward: ‘You can’t fight them, so you must surrender.’ Now I'm not saying that nobody's going to get droned. It may well come to that. Yet, we droned a lot of Taliban - and their families - and they still won. Also, if the regime sends drones after you, it's a sign you're doing something very right, so keep it up. In any case, there are lots of ways to minimize your risk of a drone strike.
Those counterproductive responses spring from a very deep-seated American mindset and worldview. Please forgive me for veering leftward a bit: Go back to my post 'The Red Wave psy-op.' If you don't care to read the whole thing, scroll toward the end where I quote Lev Trotsky and his insights on Anglo-Saxon attitudes toward revolution. Now - take a long hard look in the mirror.
Besides what Trotsky called Anglo-Saxon pragmatism, Americans in particular are steeped in our 'exceptionalism.’ This meant something very different a century ago than it means now. It used to mean: We set up a unique form of representative government, which proved better than any other at promoting individual liberty, responsibility and industry, as well as family, community and national flourishing. You were welcome to come take part. But we sure as hell weren’t trying to export it. John Quincy Adams: America 'goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.’ That’s the exceptionalism I still believe in.
After WWII, the meaning began to evolve rapidly, as we struggled to contain expansionist Soviet communism. Non-intervention went out the window. We helped convince much of the world that popular elections were better than dictatorship. But then Soviet-friendly leftists won some of those elections, typically in former western colonies like Iran, still subject to western resource extraction. Our Cold Warriors then quite often opted for pragmatism over principle, overthrew the elected leaders, and replaced them with US puppets. In other countries, we helped established anti-communist strongmen suppress the popular will, often every bit as brutally as the communists. 'He's a bastard,’ the Cold Warriors said, ‘but he's our bastard.'
Thus an ugly expedience tainted our exceptionalism and began to transform it. The Cold Warriors, and their heirs the neoconservatives, quietly accepted that ends justify means, the precise mindset we castigate leftists for. 'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.' It leached all the way down to the grassroots: I was there, and it happened to me too. (I'm better now, thanks.)
The unsustainable Soviet system collapsed in 1991. By the end of the 1990s, a new 'American exceptionalism' had emerged explicitly at the foreign-policy level: 'It's the end of history. We won. If you want to avoid economic sanctions and not get bombed or invaded, you must run your affairs just as [we pretend] we run ours. In short, run you affairs just the way we tell you to.' Thus 'American exceptionalism' came to mean nearly the opposite of what it had meant a century earlier.
Across the political spectrum, 'American exceptionalism' means that many of us are way too comfortable with our leaders telling others (especially foreigners, but also us and our neighbors) how we should run our lives. That's why so many progressives are suddenly cheerleaders for foreign military intervention. That's why so many conservatives - purported 'white supremacists' on DOJ / DHS watch lists - irrationally cheer on Biden's war in Ukraine, which the US provoked by arming actual white supremacists and siccing them on the country's ethnic Russians.
Most of all, our exceptionalist mindset is also why so many right-wingers are so reluctant to admit that the things that made America great, like the rule of law and an independent judiciary, are now dead, or at least comatose. It's hard for us to admit we're ruled by a secret junta of usurpers. Unlike more functional banana republics - Niger springs to mind - in America we don't even know for sure who's on the junta. All we know is that the nominal president most certainly isn't calling the shots.
It's hardest of all to swallow our pride, and accept that techniques and strategies that won wars against tyrants - some of them ‘our bastards’ - in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Cuba and other 'shithole countries' might be of great use to us today. What's that feeble whimper? 'Surely we're better than that …' ?! Now that's the voice of your inner exceptionalist. Silence that little fucker. We're not better than that. We're not better than Nicaraguans or Afghans. If we were, we wouldn't be in this mess. And whatever you do, don't kid yourself that we can vote our way out of this. As the past decade or two should have taught you, even when we win, the people we elect aren't necessarily in charge.