The Communist who looked back…
The story of a man who cared and made a difference.
There are two kinds of people. Well, it could be argued that there are an infinite number, but go with me on this little journey and see where it leads, okay? Not in the negative sense, but science is basically the act of dividing, they look into the pieces to discover what makes them tick, atoms, quarks, quantum particles, dimensions, even trees and rocks. So, for the purpose of this discussion let’s divide people into two groups. ‘Group A’ only, or at least primarily looks forward, and ‘Group B’ only or primarily looks backward.
Again, I understand there are people that can do all kinds of variations of these but we are trying to dissect the nature of what these ‘primary’ positions yield.
Most of the time the germ of a concept for an experiment comes from a simple observation. Okay, here’s where I try to keep it real and not sound like Stephen Hawking!
I see a world where every reasonably well-adjusted earthling wants to improve our existence. Some may think it does not need improving, but a wide majority wishes to move us toward a ‘better life’. Yeah, yeah, but what does that have to do with this ‘Communist’ you hooked me with?? Can ya get to the point???
I’m ‘baking a cake’ here, so give it time and I promise it will be worth it. The reason I am writing this is because I was a ‘forward looker’ all my life until 2016! When you spend most of your time looking forward it becomes too easy to ignore your past missteps and not gain any wisdom from those past actions, so you don’t even feel the need for a course-correction. You ignore history and we all have heard the famous quotation, “Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”
The reason most young people are forward lookers has to do with their brain’s development. Did you ever wonder why a kid would want his friend to make a video of him riding his bike off a roof? Until about the age of 25 (can be earlier or much later), that kid was using his amygdala, instead of his prefrontal cortex!
What difference does it make? A lot! Pre-25 the prefrontal cortex which is responsible for your understanding of consequences (cause & effect, for example) has yet to mature, so in his case the decision to ride the bike off the roof was formulated by his amygdala, which uses primitive emotions, urges, impulses, fears, aggression, and primitive desires to make the judgement!
Me caveman! Me jump bike off roof!
Well, our Communist (from my title) was a college student and was sure communism was the best form of government! I might add not only do students lean that way for lack of a working prefrontal cortex, but some sinister organizations including the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their American counterpart, the Confucius Institute, (which got its hooks into hundreds of U.S. schools by supplying 100,000 to 250,000 dollars, books, and even specific teachers chosen by the CCP!), are pushing those American students even further left!
Chinese-funded institutes on U.S. college campuses condemned in Senate report - POLITICO
Top Universities Take Millions From China Front Group (freebeacon.com)
Our ‘Communist’ began hyper-development of his prefrontal cortex when interning for a government entity that controlled the minimum wage requirements. They had just forced a higher minimum wage and everyone in the office celebrated. Shortly after that, our Communist did some research and discovered that 6.8% of low-income workers, or 5000 lost their jobs since the passage of the minimum wage bill! Through Thomas Sowell’s research he proved that the very bill to raise minimum wage to help low-income workers has hurt low-income workers more! While some got extra money many now had no jobs!
Thomas went to the government organization where he had interned and presented his data. This is the moment Thomas Sowell attributes to his awakening away from the Communist Party and into the loving arms of American Capitalism. His response from the government agency was something like, “It is our job to raise the minimum wage and we did that. We are not concerned of whom it helps or hurts, we just did our job.” They told Thomas to keep his mouth shut.
Thomas Sowell on the Cruelty of Minimum Wage Laws | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Here he saw a firsthand instance of only looking forward. With blinders on! Are higher wages good? Yes! To this day our government has not benefitted from its historical failures because it always has its nose pointed forward, never looking back, it wants more, more budget, more power, more terms in office, more, more, more!
In the year 2016 my oh so slowly developing prefrontal cortex fired up and I had my ‘Thomas Sowell’ moment. I, along with a staggeringly massive group of malcontents voted ‘No’ to both parties (nearly impossible in a two-party-centric system) and chose ‘other’ by hijacking the conservative party and electing the most ‘un-president’ ever! This man has never held political office, not even a city council position and we made him Commander in Chief of the United States of America!
To this day few ask why? Almost no one in either party has learned the valuable historic lesson of 2016 and just labels it an anomaly. Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it. 2024 is coming and the number of malcontents is bigger than ever, so big they are now leaving both parties and wanting to vote ‘other’ in even greater numbers. Maybe this is the ‘two-by-four in the head’ to one of these parties that it’s time to fix their platform, lower the greed, limit the terms (ending career politicians forever), and give the power back to the people and their states where it belongs.
It is not and never should be the job of the federal government to ‘tuck me in at night’. There are specific powers that are already written into the Constitution that belong to the federal government. They do not include controlling, and spying on citizens, they do not include launching politically expedient prosecutions.
They also do not include the creation of self-funding, by going around the House of Representatives (that controls our nation’s ‘purse strings”, (budget)), and creating a federally controlled digital currency and/or ‘self-minting’ trillion-dollar coins (non-digital, just a trillion-dollar physical coin like a silver dollar! See below image…) as our current White House occupant is considering as I write this!
From Section 4 of Biden’s Executive Order 14067
My Administration places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). These efforts should include assessments of possible benefits and risks for consumers, investors, and businesses; financial stability and systemic risk; payment systems; national security; the ability to exercise human rights; financial inclusion and equity; and the actions required to launch a United States CBDC if doing so is deemed to be in the national interest.
(So, by Biden’s executive order, these reports should have been in his hands by September 22nd 2022!)
Federal Register :: Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
Nor is it the right of our federal government to create and/or foster a cabal of our biggest banks, (Chase, Bank of America, Truist, Wells Fargo, and more) that ‘defunds’ or ‘debanks’ anyone that has ‘the wrong’ political philosophy!
Stop the Troubling Trend of Politically Motivated Debanking | Opinion (newsweek.com)
Or, here where banks that are debanking fossil fuels, (still needed for human survival) are tanking our future energy tankers! Tank you very much!!
Redlining 2021: Banks are denying financial services based on ‘morality’ | The Hill
Biden’s personal choices, many not supported by Congress or the people, have alienated countries, that in turn have taken themselves off the U.S. dollar! Pretty much all energy bought around the world used our dollars to make the sale. Russia has left, the United Arab Republic, and China even Iraq and India (the largest democracy in the world today) is planning to leave the U.S. dollar! This will deflate the value of an American dollar worldwide, and it all happened in the Biden administration.
This adds more pressure to reinvent the U.S. dollar as suggested in Biden’s executive order 14067. A digital dollar that can be controlled is a dictator’s dream! The CCP is scurrying to create and implement their own! They already have their electronic Chinese Yuan (eCNY) digital currency in local Chinese test markets, hoping soon to spring it on the world!
The U.S. digital dollar (CBDC or Central Bank Digital Currency) Biden is suggesting will not be the same as Bitcoin or Ethereum, where they are limited and controlled by an isolated ‘blockchain’ and only changes value through a complex and constantly self-revaluing process. The Biden proposal potentially will be controlled by a governmental ‘switch’ giving untold new power to the federal government!
Just think about it, do you for a second think our government would base their currency on a ‘blockchain’ (a complex algorithm to guide a real value) where they had to be financially responsible to maintain its worth?? Of course not, otherwise they would present balanced budgets, and we would not have a national debt that has its own runaway website, where in the time it took to locate its URL, (less than a minute) it increased over a million dollars!
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time (usdebtclock.org)
(When I wrote this blog, the debt was $33,801,390,296,729. See what it is as you read this by clicking the link above… It rises in part due to interest fees climbing on the unpaid amount.)
This new digital dollar could end all our current ‘fiat’ money (paper dollars and coins) and could easily give our government the ability to turn your money up (to a greater value) if they like what you are doing or down if they don’t! Not only could they immediately take taxes from you, but they could stop you from buying red meat (if your doctor recommends that) or an extra gallon of gas if you were driving too much in their opinion. See how wonderful the forward lookers would have it?
What a fabulous world if everyone cooperated with our consensus! We would have 100% participation in recycling, all climate change measures, everyone would vote the same way in favor of the party at the switch or lose their fortune overnight! Forward lookers unite!
Now, we, with a prefrontal cortex, see how devastating this is to life as we know it. We all need to keep looking back at what worked and didn’t. That is exactly why the CCP’s Confucius Institute published all those books and gave them, along with hundreds of thousands in bribes and teachers to teach what’s in them to American schools.
Their handiwork has resulted in the devaluation of American History as a course, the rewriting of what’s left, and the numbing of young minds so they only continue to look forward, ready to make the same mistakes over and over again (as they have not been shown the victories and mistakes our country has made.) This is the reason that an alarming portion of American students believe our country is based on evilness and deserves to be dismantled. The lack of a prefrontal cortex does not make them question, what would be better?
They plow on, ‘defund police’, (an action that only would make the minor problems much bigger with less pay and shrinking funds not allowing officers the needed education to improve.) “From the river to the sea”, which calls for all the land that Israel could live on, but not understanding it calls for annihilation of all Jews? Believe it or not Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat from Michigan and the only Palestinian-American in Congress, promoted false narratives about Israel and the Hamas attack on Oct. 7th, and was censured by Congress for promoting “from the river to the sea” on her social media.
House Censures Rashida Tlaib, Citing ‘River to the Sea’ Slogan - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Or, even worse, if those students really understood that meant death to all Jews, being willing to walk in the horrifying, shiny black boot-prints of one of the darkest souls in human history, but there’s that word again, ‘history’ which today’s and the last few generations of students have not been exposed. It will be difficult convincing those minds to look back, but if they do many will join “we the people” that now know to look both ways before “moving down that street”.
Click the link below to watch the best hour you’ll ever have the privilege to view.
(1492) Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality - YouTube
I would like to thank and honor Thomas Sowell for his honest appraisal and clear explanation of the big picture. Without his insight I would not be writing this. His books and videos have given light and direction to anyone willing to read and watch them. I highly recommend experiencing any of the brilliant works of Thomas Sowell.
Me jump bike off roof. Great article, too much for me to type in this space. You need to read it several times. Keep it up Mark.