​I know and routinely spend time with many members of the US military and former members of the military. It is shocking how the military top brass has turned from their jobs to social justice harridans. The problem with this shift is that the best will leave the services, leaving the services with an inferior cadre of officers, non-coms, and grunts. No military service can go into battle in this condition. Just ask the Soviet Union after the German WWII invasion. 

We are in a world of hurt. The only saving grace is that nearly every other nation, particularly China, and our enemies are worse for nearly the same reasons. 

The US is now deep in the corruption phase of the progressive movement. It will be this massive corruption that is the movement's undoing and collapse. This crisis period is likely to be the largest and most dangerous of the three the nation has faced, including the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, and WWII. 

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

​We are now at the spear point of the Crisis Period. Much will happen over the next few years, and many will be shocked by the changes that occur. During the past three Crisis Periods, the outcome was unexpected, but it propelled liberty forward while repressing the forces of authoritarianism. 

Human history is generally linear and easy to understand. Events follow an understandable path with obvious links between them. This makes forecasting short to midterm historical events relatively easy. But when the crisis rises to the zenith, historical linearity fails, and history moves into a quantum mode. At that point, the events no longer have any linear relationship with each other. This seems impossible, but it nearly always bears out during these seminal Crisis Periods. 

One example occurred during WWII. Both the German and Japanese war machines appeared unstoppable shortly after the war was engaged. Germany took the Low Countries and France (the most powerful nation on Earth) with little fanfare in 6 weeks. The Japanese attacked the Asian mainland and then America and seemingly rolled up most South Pacific without significant problem.

But the Japanese attack on American and the German declaration of war against America had the effect of triggering a quantum change. 

You will often hear that the USSR won WWII in Europe. But this is not accurate. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, no nation or group of nations had the industrial ability to produce the war materials necessary to beat Germany or Japan. The USSR would not have been able to succeed in that conflict without the US entering the war. No nation in the Asian sphere would have beat Japan in the production of war materials. Why?

The essential reason was that the Submarine Wolf-Packs kept Britain from unleashing its industrial might. Britain is a small country close to France and subject to constant air attacks by German forces. Britain is lucky it did not succumb, but that was due to the character and doggedness of the British. 

To keep this short, let's focus on Europe and not bog down with Europe and Asia. 

The attack on the US forced isolationist Americans into the war and, within a few months, unleashed the full power of the industrial might. The US produced more of every type of essential war material than not just our enemies or our enemies and our allies, but of the entire world combined by a huge margin. The US produced this massive amount of war material not in decades but months. This is the often unacknowledged quantum leap that changed the outcome of WWII from likely German and Japanese victories to defeats. 

Few seem to realize that not only did the US provide war materials to the Brits and our other allies while arming and organizing and arming French military units, polish military units, and similar allies who were under German domination, but we provided the majority of all kinds of military materials to the USSR including jeeps, trucks, aircraft, general war materials, train cars, locomotives, fuel, food, nearly everything else needed to support the people and fight the war. 

The US, for a time, was producing Liberty ships at a rate of one ship per day. The Axis forces might have forecast the US ability to produce a few dozen ships per quarter, but that did not happen. Instead, what happened was the number of drydocks multiplied, and the ability of each dry dock to produce ships increased exponentially. Remember this was Liberty Ships used to transport war materials to US and allied groups and nations worldwide. 

What was the difference in actual combat ships? The video below is an excellent discussion of that issue. It shows through a chronological graph the type of ships produced by both the US and Japan and establishes why the US could win the Pacific war.

Note I have not needed to discuss that the Atomic Bomb was the ultimate quantum leap of WWII, which the US produced.

I wish I could tell you what the quantum leap will be in this crisis, but I cannot. It will happen. It will not likely be apparent until the quantum leap has happened and become obvious to everyone. 

The Video below is an excellent introduction to the issue.

​Generally, belief works. But this is fraught as we can see today by the damage being done by progressive beliefs.

​We are in a political free fall with senile old Joe dictating our medical policy to us from his chair in the Oval Office of the Whitehouse. Here I thought we fought Hitler, Mussolini, and their allies to a standstill because they were dictators. Apparently, the Nazi Germans won; we just didn't realize it.  

The video is excellent and outlines the problems with the data and the insanity that has gripped the media, the progressive politicians, and much of the public. 

To understand what is happening, one needs to read:

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds: All Volumes - Complete and Unabridged

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

These two books will provide the basis by which to understand the human failures propelling us today.

Matt references this letter in the video; it is necessary to read:

From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787
To William Stephens Smith
Paris Nov. 13. 1787.Dear Sir
I am now to acknolege the receipt of your favors of October the 4th. 8th. and 26th. In the last you apologize for your letters of introduction to Americans coming here. It is so far from needing apology on your part, that it calls for thanks on mine. I endeavor to shew civilities to all the Americans who come here, and who will give me opportunities of doing it: and it is a matter of comfort to know from a good quarter what they are, and how far I may go in my attentions to them.—Can you send me Woodmason’s bills for the two copying presses for the M. de la fayette, and the M. de Chastellux? The latter makes one article in a considerable account, of old standing, and which I cannot present for want of this article.—I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.—You ask me if any thing transpires here on the subject of S. America? Not a word. I know that there are combustible materials there, and that they wait the torch only. But this country probably will join the extinguishers.—The want of facts worth communicating to you has occasioned me to give a little loose to dissertation. We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform. Present my respects to Mrs. Smith, and be assured of the sincere esteem of Dear Sir Your friend & servant,
Th: Jefferson

It would seem it is time for a Pheonix-like refreshment of the tree of life. Don't be surprised if actual violence is the result of the corruption in government, not just among our politicians but also among the bureaucrats/bureaucracy. The chances of this are a probability, not a possibility. Oremus pacem para bellum.

​Portland is in collapse due to the voters' desires to be dictated to by progressive nincompoops implementing policies that fail to consider human nature, incentives, and reality. The politicians and bureaucrats in Portland and Multnomah County are so out of touch with reality that they continue to double down on policies, which have resulted in epidemic homelessness, an army of drug zombies, the city filled with trash, feces, urine and filth, rampant crime, and mass shootings on a daily or sometimes hourly basis. The city continually claims new programs designed to clean up the trash, filth, and human waste that fills the streets, yet each week, the problem grows. The politicians thought the problem was the police, so they defunded it; now, crime, shootings, and murders are skyrocketing. 

Until the voters of Portland grow up and realize that the progressive policies they demand and the progressive politicians they elect are destroying the city, the city will continue its catastrophic decline. 

We moved out of Portland in 1998 because we could tell then that the city was run by clowns, the rapacious transit MAFIA, and grifters. Since then, things have changed; the voters doubled down on stupid three times, making the problem 8-10 times worse today. The idiot Portland voters intend to double down as soon as possible, making the problem at least 20 times worse. This is less a problem of politicians and policy and more a problem of a City of Fools. If you thought a Ship of Fools was bad, come and visit the City of Fools and be amazed. 

Now is not the time to move to Portland since it is trying its damnedest not to replicate but beat both Chicago and Detroit at their respective games. Portland is winning. 

It is also too dangerous to visit. Shootings, murders, violent crimes, and property crimes are all out of control, and there are no police to bring the situation under control. The roads are Mad Max on steroids, a veritable free-for-all of lawlessness with the threat of violence should you misunderstand and honk your horn at one of the out-of-control miscreants. 

One must go armed at all times yet understand that protecting oneself from violent crime will surely mean arrest, charges, and bankrupting costs because the District Attorney wants the violent, fascist Black Block, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter groups to win over the middle class and the working class. When the revolution comes, and it will, I fully expect the politicians to meet a fate similar to Mussolini. Google it but be warned it was not pretty. 

The collapse can be stopped if the voters grow up and vote the progressives out of office. I expect that will not happen. 

You should have visited Portland back in the late 1980s or early 1990s; it was beautiful. Yes, the political grifters and fools existed then, but they had done little damage. It is too late now. Perhaps there are old YouTube videos of Portland, however.

Portlanders have worked hard to get the government they have, they deserve whatever comes from their choices.

Enjoy the collapse Portlandians, you're earned this. 

Revelation 13:16-17

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

I am not particularly religious but there you have it, the new Mark of the Beast being perpetrated against the people of Canada. Australia is beating people if they leave their homes and is intent on concentration camps to house anyone who leaves their home without permission. 

This is not different than any other tyrannical 20th century socialist dictatorship like the Nazis, the Soviet Socialists, or the Maoists. 

The sad tragedy is millions of people in these countries will not only accept this totalitarian subjugation but many will embrace it and demand it. 

Few stood against the Nazis. Few will stand against the current tyrannical totalitarian subjugation of the west. 

It is time to take a stand. 

The four horsemen of the apolyclapse are coming.

Revelations 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Yes, this is an end times prophecy so not directly apropos to what we are facing but this is what will be unleashed nonetheless because the totalitarians once they taste this power will not be satisfied with anything less. They will need to be deposed. Only war will provide the necessary kinetic action sufficient to dislodge the tyrants from power. 

​Si vis pacem, para bellum! For war is coming. 

Biden is the worst President in American history; he is the most damaging President to US interests. Biden is America's worst enemy. Lastly, this fiasco will be seen in the future as the trigger for the massive international conflict that is now brewing and which will soon be unleashed on the world. 
Biden is the worst President in American history; he is the most damaging President to US interests. Biden is America's worst enemy. Lastly, this fiasco will be seen in the future as the trigger for the massive international conflict that is now brewing and which will soon be unleashed on the world. 

Progressives and Democrats have become our greatest enemies. They more than any other want to bring down the institutions, ideas, and We the People of the Great American Experiment in liberty because they want to destroy liberty and replace it with tyrannical totalitarianism. This includes the progressive Republicans who are so firmly entrenched in our political class.

THE EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE

THE EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE
By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, President, Genocide Watch
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Classification Symbolization Dehumanization Organization Polarization Preparation Extermination Denial
Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable, but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it.
It is not a linear process, but logically
the later stages must be preceded
by the earlier stages. Logically prior
stages continue to operate
throughout the process.
© 1998 Gregory H. Stanton

 1. CLASSIFICATION: All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality: German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi. Bipolar societies that lack mixed categories, such as Rwanda and Burundi, are the most likely to have genocide. The main preventive measure at this early stage is to develop universalistic institutions that transcend ethnic or racial divisions, that actively promote tolerance and understanding, and that promote classifications that transcend the divisions. The Catholic church could have played this role in Rwanda, had it not been riven by the same ethnic cleavages as Rwandan society. Promotion of a common language in countries like Tanzania, the U.S., and Thailand has also promoted transcendent national identity. This search for common ground is vital to early prevention of genocide.

2. SYMBOLIZATION: We give names or other symbols to the classifications. We name people “Jews” or “Gypsies”, or distinguish them by colors or dress; and apply them to members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universally human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to the next stage, dehumanization. When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups: the yellow star for Jews under Nazi rule, the blue scarf for people from the Eastern Zone in Khmer Rouge Cambodia. To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be legally forbidden (swastikas) as can hate speech. Group marking like gang clothing or tribal scarring can be outlawed, as well. The problem is that legal limitations will fail if unsupported by popular cultural enforcement. Though Hutu and Tutsi were forbidden words in Burundi until the 1980’s, code-words replaced them. If widely supported, however, denial of symbolization can be powerful, as it was in Bulgaria, when Bulgarian religious authorities denounced and the government refused to distribute the yellow star, depriving it of its significance as a Nazi symbol for Jews. In Denmark, Nazis did not even distribute them because Christians, and according to legend, the King said they would be the first to wear them; Danish “fisherman” smuggled most of Denmark’s Jews to neutral Sweden.

3. DEHUMANIZATION: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group. In combating this dehumanization, incitement to genocide should not be confused with protected speech. Genocidal societies lack constitutional protection for countervailing speech, and should be treated differently than in democracies. Hate radio stations should be shut down, and hatepropagandabanned. Hatecrimesandatrocitiesshouldbepromptlypunished.
Genocide Watch is the Coordinator of the International Campaign to End Genocide P.O. Box 809, Washington, D.C. 20044 USA. Phone: 703-448-0222
E-mail:genocidewatch@aol.com Web: www.genocidewatch.org

4. ORGANIZATION: Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, though sometimes informally (Hindu mobs led by local RSS militants) or by terrorist groups. Special army units or militias are often trained and armed. Plans are made for genocidal killings. To combat this stage, membership in these militias should be outlawed. Their leaders should be denied visas for foreign travel. The U.N. should impose arms embargoes on governments and citizens of countries involved in genocidal massacres, and create commissions to investigate violations.

5. POLARIZATION: Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction. Extremist terrorism targets moderates, intimidating and silencing the center. Prevention may mean security protection for moderate leaders or assistance to human rights groups. Assets of extremists may be seized, and visas denied to them. Coups d’état by extremists should be opposed by international sanctions.

6. PREPARATION: Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, forced into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved. At this stage, a Genocide Alert must be called. If the political will of a lead nation, a regional alliance, and the U.N. Security Council can be mobilized, armed international intervention should be prepared, or heavy assistance to the victim group in preparing for its self-defense. Otherwise, humanitarian assistance should be organized for the inevitable tide of refugees.

7. EXTERMINATION begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.” It is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human. When it is sponsored by the state, the armed forces often work with militias to do the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge killings by groups against each other, creating the downward whirlpool- like cycle of bilateral genocide (as in Burundi). At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be established with heavily armed international protection. A U.N. or regional rapid intervention force should be mobilized by the U.N. Security Council if the genocide is just starting. For larger interventions, a multilateral force authorized by the U.N., should intervene. It is time for nations to recognize that the international law of humanitarian intervention transcends the “sovereign” interests of individual nation states. When the U.N. will not intervene directly, leading nations should provide the airlift, equipment, and financial means necessary for regional alliances to intervene with U.N. authorization.

8. DENIAL is the eighth stage that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes, and continue to govern until driven from power by force, when they flee into exile. There they remain with impunity, like Pol Pot or Idi Amin, unless they are captured and a tribunal is established to try them. The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts. There the evidence is heard, and the perpetrators punished. Tribunals like the Yugoslav or Rwanda Tribunals, the tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or the International Criminal Court may not deter the worst killers. But with the political will to arrest and prosecute them, some may be brought to justice. And such courts may deter future potential genocidists who can never again share Hitler’s expectation of impunity when he sneered, “Who, after all, remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Run away, they do not retreat, they run away. 

Comically, they come for a fight but when the fight materializes, they cower and run away.