Last year (in 2022), Charlie Kirk wrote a tiny book “How We Win”.
He has an excellent point that if we don’t have a plan we won’t “win”. If we don’t know what success looks like then it won’t magically happen.
What do I mean by “winning”? Winning is restoring freedom and stability, winning is improving the standard of living of the entire population, winning is throwing off tyranny and reducing the “wealth gap”.
How does this winning differ from the push for socialism winning? Socialism does not value freedom, socialism leads to more and more tyranny. Socialism also does not encourage hard work and innovation, thus the standard of living tends to drop rather than improve. Socialism pretends that it reduces the wealth gap but in reality the key individuals at the top gain an even greater amount of relative wealth compared to the typical citizen.
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How do we win?
We build businesses that support the same values we do and we support those businesses. (even if the price of something is slightly more than on Amazon)
We reject funny money. Fiat money (money that has no value beyond the promises and blessing of a government) is a recipe for future problems.
We reject speculative banking. We should not tolerate banks taking huge risks with our deposits.
We reject propaganda and in particular fear mongering.
Much of this is based on rejecting the mega corporations (and farming) and encouraging and supporting small businesses and small healthy farming (do some yourself!). Competition is a good thing!
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Note: I haven’t mentioned anything about politics or voting. There are many important things that can be done to help improve the future. But a real win won’t occur without changing the fundamentals and nothing is stronger than voting with your money.
Good points.
There are few things more damaging to a society than trading something for nothing, repeatedly. I am referring to fiat currency and the required physical collateral as security for money printed with no backing. Add usury, and you have a sure way for the lenders to end up with all the goods. Usury is a system of requiring more money to be repaid than was lent. Where does that money come from? Thin air.
In our case, the non-federal Federal Reserve Bank controls the terms of not only each bank loan, but the entire system. Having the power to create booms and busts means they are in control of your wealth.
This boom-and-bust cycle has been going on for, what, millennia? Yet, most people seem unaware of the inherent problems of such a system. They think they are making more money with this system, and for a time it seems to be true. Until another inevitable bust happens, just like what’s happening now.