The Foundation of Empires

The people of the United States do not have to have a civil war. They do not have to elect the right people to get what they want and deserve. There is another level to this and as anger grows over the ineffectual federal government’s inability to arrest criminals and traitors within the government; their collective inability to stand solidly behind principle while the left makes a mockery of the judicial system, there is a means to address the disillusionment.

I will reflect once again on the Michener book The Bridge at Andau, as I find it most instructive. It was not exclusively the abuse of the AVO men (the spies of the communist regime), nor the prison sentences for mere utterances of seeming criticism of the communists, that led to the revolution of 1956. While that short-lived confrontation lasted only twelve days during which the Soviets had been pushed back out of Budapest, a five day period when dreams of freedom inflamed the blood of patriotic Hungarians and a few more days of battle that saw the Russians regain control, it was not a victory.

With all the tanks, hundreds of advanced (for the time) T-54s, the fifteen hundred infantry, mostly gathered during the five-day hiatus from either Russia proper or other outlying Asiatic units, who would be vicious in their revenge for effrontery, but not Hungarians, because many of them were fighting alongside the revolutionaries, students, workers, housewives and children against Soviet oppression. For all of the warplanes, ammunition and artillery put against the poorly armed, in some cases unarmed, Hungarians until victory was complete, they did not achieve their goal of the submission of Budapest.

When the dust had settled, the smoke had drifted off and only the smell of dead Soviets remained (the Hungarians had been buried) there was one weapon left to deploy against the Soviet Union: the solidarity of the working class. These were the skilled craftsmen of Csepel, the very blood of the Hungarian manufacturing body that brought life to the arms, locomotives and other needed goods of Russia. Immediately before the revolution, they had been hailed as the greatest asset of Hungary and therefore a large manufacturing portion of the Soviet Union, who were unassailable as devoted communists, who were given preference over the other workers in shoe stores and farms, but not nearly so much as the soldiers and nowhere near the lavish compensation of the AVO men.

With everything sent against them, the skilled craftsmen refused to go to work. They could not be killed, because they could not be replaced. If they could not be replaced, shortages would soon reveal the lies and treachery of communism. While those lies and treachery were apparent in Hungary, it was the illusion in Moscow that was important to the communist party. They held out for more favorable working conditions and when those conditions were offered, they were rejected and new conditions were presented, holding the Soviets hostage to their iron will.

This is the crucial understanding. Without skilled workers blindly, obediently and selfishly going to work to pay mortgages, pay for food and healthcare for their families, no government, no matter how massive their arsenal, can function. That is the power that shakes the foundations of empires.

Yes, I said “selfishly” and that’s as much of a self-criticism as anything else. We’re all in that boat, because we feel a moral obligation to be there. We are good, decent people just trying to make life better for our families, but it must be recognized that as we do so, we are simultaneously condemning them to a future of depravity, brainwashing, manipulation and ultimately slavery. We are playing the game as given to us by the worst of the worst. The pandemic and the resulting shot were designed to rip from us our sense of power against the system. Combined they were the boot on the neck and the knife to the jugular of decent people everywhere.

Hopefully, I have forestalled accusations of communist tendencies by using the word “selfish.” The answer I hear in my own head is: “so I should stop working, lose my house, starve my kids, subject them to pain and misery from lack of good healthcare? For what?” The trouble with this thought is that when the complete assessment is taken, it doesn’t result in any of that. The regime can’t withstand it nearly as long as the average worker can. One might get a little behind on payments, while the whole of governmental pride is crushed under the weight of their idleness. There are ways of providing food for several months and if one thinks of healthcare in the same way as they did pre-pandemic, that’s a fool’s game.

No, one person cannot stop working and overcome the argument. With that, I totally agree. It wouldn’t have worked in Hungary and it certainly will not work here. But consider what I’m saying. We can continue along doing what we can and complaining about the lack of action by the FBI, DOJ and DHS and watch as the nation tumbles into another Democratic/communist administration no better prepared to fight than we are now. Or, we can try something that has worked the whole world over, every time it’s tried.

A straight up military-style battle is not likely. They would never give us such clear lines from which we might foist arms against the enemy. They’ve done exactly the opposite for years, they’ve played our good, decent souls against the lives and futures of our children.

There is the saying: “no one is coming to save you.” One should take that to heart. The only way any of this gets sorted out is to put the power rightfully back into the hands of the people themselves. That does not come with a certificate of concession from the government, it must be ripped from their grubby fingers by brutal force. They own the media, so whoever endeavors toward freedom must face being called every name in the book and a few that are made up on the spot.

If one is going to demand that arrests take place, they must realize that they are the only ones who can force that; through attrition. If they don’t want to be surveilled and branded as “domestic terrorists” for loving their freedom, they can come to understand that the ability of the government to do it comes with electricity.

I’m not talking about going Galt, of setting up some idyllic society away from the evil actors, but it works in much the same way without the self-congratulatory restraint of brilliance, but rather the refusal to support an illegitimate and barbaric system designed to bring us all into a state of slavery with electronic masters.

It will not take years of defiance to bring about the desired outcome. A concerted effort by even a small, but determined group, could do it, if they were able to withstand the onslaught of negative press. If they knew in their hearts that it was the only way to make life better for their children under a system that would come to fear a repeat of the “strike” for lack of a better word. If they could withstand the accusations of killing people while they selfishly sought their own benefit, they could achieve the victory in a short time.

The load could be borne by those surrounding that small group by combating the bad press, by standing in solidarity, by joining in the strike themselves. I say this with all humility, it is the only thing that will work to force the government to comply with the laws, the Constitution and human decency.

We know what they have done, they’ve robbed the people of their ability to provide for their children by over taxation, over regulation, immigration and by funneling money back to themselves while the average workers struggle to breathe from all the pressures put on them to finance the world’s leftist agenda, none of which actually benefits the people, but puts them in smaller and smaller, more controllable minorities.

We are not a communist people, but that should not prevent us from using the most effective form of resistance known to man. We should not be bullied into accepting the game as they have rigged it. Send your kid to school and you have to let the demons inject them with all manner of poisons. That is not freedom! That’s not even human, but it is this inhumanity that we enable by our idleness.

I will say it once again: “We earned it; they stole it; we want it back.” How badly we want it is left to be determined. But if one’s blood pulses with the demand for God-given rights as mine does, the freedom to say whatever I want, the freedom to condemn the crooks in Washington as I please, the right to defend myself from all enemies, I see no other alternative.

If the people of America went to war with their government kinetically, they would probably win, but that would take years and would lead to slaughter hatred and in the end, the same sort of people would gravitate to positions of power and the abuses and contempt would begin to build almost immediately. If the same outcome could be achieved with a strike, as soon as the government stepped out of bounds that would be an immediate solution, it would be a Damocles sword over their heads forever. We can stand together or we can swing alone.

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