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It seems that all peasant rebellions end the same way. The government is able to muster its forces against opposition and to "divide and conquer." People are sometimes able to unite briefly to defeat a common enemy, but eventually the various factions fight among themselves. We saw all Afghans unite against the Soviets, but as soon as the CCCP withdrew, they went to war against each other and finally the Taliban won. It can hardly be considered a victory for Afghanistan. In 1381 in England, the Peasants Rebellion arrived in a field outside London, and the King promised to address their grievances, but as soon as the peasants laid down their arms, they were slaughtered.

I would surmise, as in New Zealand at the moment, those who oppose repressive government far exceed those who support repression, yet somehow repression seems to win no matter how large the opposition. In the UK, for example, the British public is fed up with the Tory Government for both its lies and ineffectiveness to bring a positive result to the Brexit vote, and so it appears that the British public is going to vote in Labor which adamantly opposes the idea of Brexit. In the US, it appears that one party infuriates the American public so much that they vote in the other party, which is essentially the same thing. For years, I have referred to the Democrats and the Republicans as two sides of the same wooden nickel. What is needed is something other than the duopoly, but that same duopoly has rigged the system to keep out third parties.

I was once heavily involved in a movement to protect the right to buy vitamins and herbs as an alternative to allopathic medicine. Our mini-rebellion against the FDA took us to the Washington bubble, where all the Congressional aids were focused on a budget conflict with the opposing party and knew almost nothing of our concerns for medical freedom. At the time I owned a shop and I hooked up a separate phone line to the local Congressman's office and I encouraged anyone shopping in my store to push one button and voice their complaint against the established narrative. I espoused only one principle through all this. Freedom of choice. I can tell you that the Congressman didn't like it that his constituents were phoning his office to complain about an issue that he didn't care about at all. He told me so at one meeting.

Now, consider what has happened this week. The WHO has announced the formation of a digital health network, soon to be converted into a digital health passport which prevents anyone from traveling unless they have the mandated vaccinations and other medical interventions proscribed by the WHO. Many governments are looking forward to this mechanism so that they can enforce mandates but take no responsibility for those edicts. They can blame the WHO while at the same time enforcing rules that they want to enforce.

In the EU, over ten years ago, the German drug companies got the EU courts to rule that supplements are illegal in the EU. The rules of the EU are that they should always choose the minimum standard, not the most extreme, but the lobbying efforts funded by German drug companies pushed the law through the court system. Even the top lawyer for the EU said that the law was illegal, but they did it anyway, and some countries like Germany and the UK gleefully made basic supplements illegal. It goes back to the same basic issue as the Covid pandemic response. Governments want to make decisions that control our future. One size fits all, even though each person is individual and different from all others. They want to impose their rules on all of us. No dissent is allowed. No informed consent is permitted. You will do as you are told. It's for the greater good.

The majority of people I believe oppose this type of governance. In the EU for example, the Dutch farmers who the Dutch government is trying to put out of business have won huge support in regional elections and look to replace incumbent and WEF stooge PM Mark Rutte. In Canada, the Conservative party is now leading against the ruling party of Justin Trudeau. In last week's elections in the province of Alberta, the conservative party won a substantial victory over the Canadian NDP party which is in coalition with the liberals under Trudeau. In Sweden, the Sweden Democrats are taking about leaving the EU because of EU policies on immigration. The same is true of Poland, Hungary, and Italy. In France, Macron like Joe Biden, has sunk in popularity so that the opposing party would win if elections were held today. But will it bring about meaningful change?

This is the question in New Zealand. Will this coalition of opposition parties lead to change that will actually help the peasants, the little people, the pawns, the peons, the people at the bottom? The thing that I learned from the Covid crisis is the left despises ordinary people. They are snobs who look down on the unwashed as mere chattel. They know best and they will rule us all for the greater good and their version of the greater good is whatever they think it is at the moment. I worry about the state of humanity. I worry about the freedoms lost, the ability to actually have a free conversation. It's not just repression of public freedom of speech, but the ability to freely have a conversation with another person without anger and dismissiveness. Even people that I respect now cannot hold a conversation. I must be careful what I say because so many people have become intolerant of differing opinions. That's unfortunately the state of the world today.

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Conway Judge's avatar

Socrates is one of my heroes.

A man who knew a simple truth.

Assumptions are often dangerous.

The more you think you know, the more you probably don't and the more you actually know the more you don't think you know enough.

Unfortunately, the world seems to have forgotten this message.

Google everything.

Wikipedia says.

Today it seems like debating is a popularity contest.

About who can generate a craze.

Now imagine if Copernicus...

The Wright Brothers...

Gregor Mendel...

Newton...

And many others were simply ignored because their ideas went against the grain of the consensus of the time.

Without gravity. Without flight. Without hereditary biology. And with the sun still circling the Earth.

That just seems silly.

It seems ludicrous.

Yet here we are watching people shove their heads in the sand instead of trying to understand whatever is going on.

Bless their ignorance.

But damn them for damning us all to hell for it too.

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