By Brandon Smith
Travel back in time to the year 2021 and you might find yourself in the middle of a bizarre debate over the virtues of “cancel culture”. At the time the political left was aggressively trying to secure long term power within the US through a multi-pronged psychological offensive – A war on the minds of the masses designed to force Americans into submission.
A big part of their strategy relied on the fundamentals of Cultural Marxism: The combination of Marxist mob tactics, artificial consensus and the exploitation of minority grievances as a vehicle for controlling speech. This was the rise of the “woke movement” to the halls of government.
The root of their power was not martial. In fact, the political left is weak and largely astroturf with minimal ability to project power in a physical way. If conservatives wanted to destroy them tomorrow the task would be relatively easy. We don’t because many of us still have hope that our problems can be solved through peaceful discourse.
What the leftists did have at their disposal was a massive institutional apparatus of government agencies, corporations, Big Tech and NGOs. The full might of the establishment cabal was on their side, which meant they had the means to enforce “cancel culture” and silence their ideological opponents.
I don’t think there has ever been a psychological war on a population that was more pervasive and tyrannical. Not since Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China has a citizenry been under such a siege by their own government. The fact that we survived this event, defeated the onslaught and actually grew a grassroots anti-woke movement without the use of social media forums is truly mind blowing.
Very few people today realize the level of victory that was achieved. We thwarted perhaps the largest 4th Generation “mind war” ever devised and we did it without any institutional access. We won by simple truth and word of mouth.
Another tool that the leftists and globalists used was the mobilization of illegal migrants, gays and minorities as a shield against criticism or counter-protest. If conservatives and moderates fought back with superior debate or our own protest groups, we were immediately accused of racism, xenophobia and homophobia. Merely presenting an opposing view to the progressive machine was considered an act of evil.
Large contingents within all of these groups were happy to go along with the agenda for numerous reasons. First and foremost, DEI allowed them to easily game the system. They could snatch up grants, subsidies, welfare, and leapfrog over more talented and more intelligent competitors in education and business simply because of their “marginalized status”.
Secondly, the system under progressives was two-tier; leftists activists, illegals and minorities were given preferential protection while breaking the law and causing chaos. Conservatives were labeled terrorists for any act of defiance. We were banned from the largest web platforms. Some of us were targeted by the online mob and lost our jobs. Others were “de-banked” and threatened with ostracism from the economy. Still others were imprisoned.
This imbalance of the law bred a culture of entitlement, especially within the LGBT cult and the black community. Illegal aliens were given carte blanche to enter the country and feed like parasites. Not only that, but they were treated like heroes coming to save the US from “population decline” and “labor shortages”.
They all participated in the game willfully and joyfully. They were ALL part of the problem. But, of course, none of them ever thought the party would end or that they might end up facing consequences for their behavior. They joined in the feeding frenzy without considering the inevitable clap-back.
The primary argument that leftists would often use to defend the application of cancel culture was that there was “no such thing as cancel culture”, only the righteous utilization of “consequence culture”. This was, of course, a misdirection. The word “consequence” suggests that a person deserves punishment for wrongdoing and that the leftists canceling him (or her) have the right to do so.
Cancel culture was never about justice or karma, it was about suppression of anyone who disagreed with the political left. A corrupt group of psychopathic people with no support from the majority is in no position to dole out consequences. They can dole out harassment and intimidation, but not justice.
In recent months, however, I think these people are finally beginning to understand what “consequence culture” really is and clearly they don’t like it. I touched on this issue when it comes to Hollywood and liberal entertainment media in my article ‘Conservative Creators: Don’t Let The Liberal Entertainment Crisis Go To Waste’, but I wanted to expand on the idea of payback for the political left and what it will mean going forward.
For example, I have to admit I can’t help but laugh over the Stephen Colbert controversy and leftists crying about violations of “free speech”. Keep in mind that a multitude of journalists and celebrities were fired, banned from public platforms and silenced for not going along with the establishment narratives on covid, open borders, the 2020 election outcome, January 6th, etc.
Leftists celebrated when FOX was pressured to fire their biggest name, Tucker Carlson, over his skepticism of the 2020 election and the “insurrection” claims surrounding J6. Carlson was mostly correct in his positions, but that didn’t matter. The progressive view? “It’s a private company, they can fire whoever they want…”
Now they are raging over Stephen Colbert getting the boot and losing his time slot (it’s a sign that most leftist late night hosts are facing the chopping block). Never mind that the guy’s show was bleeding around $40 million per year and his audience in the coveted 18-34 age range was shrinking into oblivion. Never mind that Colbert was acting as a shameless shill for Big Pharma. Liberals demand that his show remain in place. They demand that he never face any consequences for selling out and acting as a propagandist instead of a comedian.
Too bad. He’s toast, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Welcome to REAL consequence culture.
Within the black community there is another form of accountability taking place. The BLM movement basked in their privileged status, rampaging through cities and doing as they pleased under the protective hand of Democratic governments. In the process they destroyed whatever social capital they had left and ended decades of “white guilt” in the span of a few years.
Now, white conservatives and moderates just don’t care anymore. We don’t care about being called racist. We’re not interested in the supposed trespasses of previous generations. We’re NEVER going to pay reparations (you’re never going to see a dime), and we’re not going to tolerate ghetto behavior in shared public spaces any longer.
The term “black fatigue” has gone viral in the past month for a reason: White people are done with passively accepting bad behavior from a certain subset of blacks (many black Americans are also tired of ghetto culture and want it to end). The magical accusation of “racism” holds no power over us anymore.
Interestingly, we’re seeing this change culminating across the board, even in the corporate world. We see cruise lines banning typical ghetto habits on their ships. We see retailers abandoning predominantly black neighborhoods because of unfettered crime. We see DEI being dumped in hiring and blacks (and women) say they are being overtly affected. Well, this is what happens when you spend the last several years acting increasingly more unhinged, entitled and violent.
You were protected by a liberal narrative of historical shame, but that’s dying out. Which means people are going to start expecting you to display manners and self control. Otherwise, there will (finally) be consequences.
Illegal migrants might be the most entitled group of all. I can’t fathom a bunch of Americans entering another country illegally and then demanding access to their jobs market and welfare programs while also carrying around Americans flags in protest and asserting that they have no intention of assimilating. They would be shot in the streets in most places and no one would tolerate them.
The same standards are being enacted in the US after years of open borders. The illegals are outraged…and no one cares. There is some moderate empathy for agricultural workers, but they represent a tiny minority among the tens-of-millions of alien migrants that have invaded the US. And honestly, I really don’t care if they sweep up the farm workers, either.
America needs an immigration reset, at least for the next decade so that we can figure out what the hell happened and repair the damage done to our job markets, housing markets and wages. The media publishes sob stories regularly about illegal immigrants living within the US for 20 years or more that are suddenly facing deportation. Meaning, we’re supposed to care more about illegals that broke the law for 20 years compared to illegals that broke the law for 20 days?
No, consequences must be handed down and no one gets a pass. Not anymore.
I was also greatly amused by the recent interview with a slobbering, raving and classless Hunter Biden. Let’s not forget that Joe Biden was probably mentally vacant for a much of his presidency and ostensibly Jill Biden and Hunter were running things with their advisors behind the scenes. Is it any wonder that America was falling apart? We had a degenerate crackhead and his psychopath mommy at the helm.
The moron STILL acts as if he could officially be president one day. But if it is proven that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent during his term and most of his pardon signatures were forged by aids without his cognitive understanding, then ole’ Hunter is in for some legal consequences of his own. In the meantime, the fact that the family has fallen from grace and Hunter is a national laughing stock is enough.
When I witness the wide-eyed astonishment of these people as they finally face punishment, I think of the legacy of the western world. I think of the generations of good men that worked tirelessly to institute a sense of order, principle and the conventions necessary for our society to succeed. I am reminded, time and time again, how difficult is it to create a thing vs. how easy it is to destroy a thing. I’m reminded that our forefathers never would have put up with this shit.
In the end, civilization cannot survive and thrive unless consequences are exacted upon people who deserve them. I believe we are entering a new epoch when any person or any group, no matter their purported circumstances, will face automatic retribution for seeking to tear down the west. This is the way things used to be, and deconstructionists had best prepare themselves for the returning swing of the pendulum.
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This war is far from over. I try to simplify the situation by considering their are two halves to every whole; left-right, man-woman, democrat-republican, etc. When they are in balance, the two halves provide balance. We are out of balance and it is going to take much more in the way of violence to correct the balance. Leftists love violence because it can be used by a small number of participants to control the main group. It has been used since the dawn of time. Most terrorist organizations are leftist by nature. Not all, but most. We are currently inundated with ANTIFA, Militant Trannies, Socialists, Marxists, Islamists and the list goes on. They are combining their efforts. There is but one way to defeat terrorists who are committed to fight until the death. If government is aligned with the terrorists, then the job falls to the people.
The war on the information front is definitely over for them. Now they can only revert to terrorism and sabotage, which is also a losing battle. The end result is inevitable and predictable, though they will definitely make things as difficult as they can along the way.
And in doing so will seal their fate once and for all. The mask is off and now everyone sees them for the demons they are.
“… A war on the minds of the masses designed to force Americans into submission.”
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The way to seize real power is not through brute force or military occupation. That takes a lot of time and effort and is always under threat of losing its grip as days move along. The real way to gain power over people and society is through the will and mind of human beings. Get people to think and believe what you want them to – and get them thoroughly saturated and propagandized – and your job as power-mad-thug is over. You got people to buy in to their subservience to you and you’ve got them not even thinking about alternatives or that they’ve surrendered their own precious power and agency to you. You got them hooked – and they seem to love it. That’s the secret to real, long-term power. The Willing Slave. The one who does not even realize that they have become a slave. Or worse, one who has accepted their slavery and given in to it.
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Tyrants and spiritually-deranged people have used this process of thousands of years. And no doubt… will continue to use this process until and unless the human family stops falling for this sick game of manipulation and dehumanization.
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DEI is one of our current Mind Viruses and spiritual sicknesses. But there are others, now and in the past and no doubt in our future. Mind Viruses will exist so long as there are people willing to be infected with them.
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And the answer to fighting against Mind Viruses? It’s not complicated. Just. Say. No. That’s all it takes. With three little words you retain the sanctity of your mind and you clutch and retain your personal power. You resist the sickly campaign against you to steal your soul… and you pity and laugh at those who dare to try to steal you away.
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“We don’t care about being called racist.”
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No sensible person anywhere advocates for the kind of blatant racism that dehumanizes another person just on the basis of skin color or their choice of belief alone. But likewise, no one should apologize for being proud of and advocating for ‘their race’ and ‘kind’. That is part of a healthy ego structure. We each have the authority over our own belief system. And we have the human obligation to treat others fairly and with respect. If you do these things – and you are still called a Racist – know that you are not what someone else labels you as. You are not a label. It is the other person who has a problem of needing to call you names in order to justify the bias in their own heads – and the existential weakness of their contention.
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We are currently awash in a sea of dark-colored-skin faces on all forms of media. Media does not consider itself a ‘fair’ space but one that pushes agendas and shapes minds. For whatever reasons, media is flooding the social space with such racially-uniformly-based images and themes. It is our job as viewers to watch that stuff or not… and to decide what to do about the mind-warping campaign that we are under seize from. Darker-skinned-persons have a seat at the media table. But they should not be getting most all of them… especially when certain others are being deliberately excluded.
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… “civilization cannot survive and thrive unless consequences are exacted upon people who deserve them.”
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What will be will be. Ultimately, each person gets what they deserve. Karmic Law is the Law of Universe. And society at large will thrive or fail based upon how many of its participants retains their true humanity or surrenders it to dark spirits with bad intentions.
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Our World is dominated by elitistits who have carefully built safeguards for themselves in the system they created. But Karma works in mysterious ways and in its own time. And honestly… watching how that plays out is going to be the best show in town.
I remember when Trump won the first time. A young, black kid said to me, “Trumps going to send
us all back to Africa”. I liked this kid and gave him Dr. Ben Carsons name. Same thing happened
a few years later with a young, poor mother. I said once “do you want to win”? I gave her
Candice Owens name. These folks have no comparison at hand.
I was in the grocery store today and saw a person who might be a woman, but might be a man, but I wasn’t sure. I never used to have moments like that but now it happens once a week. The left has made me unsure of what i’m seeing and what I believe.
I just returned from vacation on a flight and the lead flight attendant was an obvious 20 something year old man dressed as a woman. Not a very convincing one either. Just 20 years ago this would have been unheard of
Car maker, Jaguar wishes they didn’t hire an LBGT+ marketing firm because several commercials that were created by the Woke firm they hired, seriously hurt their sales.
“Jaguar Sales Plummet By 97.5% After Awful They/Them Rebrand”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jaguar-sales-plummet-975-after-awful-theythem-rebrand
Brandon, I appreciate all your work and agree with this article. But I just want to point out that I’ve heard long ago that Tucker Carlson’s dad was a CIA agent. And I tend to think that he’s a plant for that reason. And see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=586ZlVGK9W0
And Rolo Tomasi, that happens to me all the time now, wherever I go.
I don’t really care who his dad is, I only care what he says and does. And, frankly, he’s been on the right side of history so far.
Totally agree.
Unfortunately just like the Epstein coverups- until these demons are actually punished and jailed for their crimes- nothing will truly change. They will crawl back into their little holes like the cockroaches they are and reck havoc with a vengeance when the time is right. The fact like these fiends like Hunter Biden, Fauci, and others are still walking free doing whatever they please- speaks for itself. Sad times but I suppose there’s hope now that most conservatives will not tolerate more of this craziness.
I think there is a tendency for some on the right to grossly overestimate the strength of the left as well their capacities as combatants. The only real strengths the left have got going for them are their ability to organize and their murderous zealotry. But those don’t really count for much when you’re laughably incompetent at everything you do except being destructive. I believe this line of thinking from parts of the right comes partly from skepticism of the left losing power. “It’s too good to be true”, they must be thinking. We’ re so used to being the underdogs that it’s difficult for some of us to being anything else.
An excellent summary of events. This was organized victimhood taken to an extreme. The underlying basis is sociopathy i.e., inability to connect to other’s at a base level. It is seeing others as chess pieces to be manipulated for self interest rather than viewing others as equals. The worst cases of this are psychopaths. This is a mental defect. Some comes from the cultural isolation of having wealth that one seeks to protect. Some is shallow tribal behavior fostered by cultural upbringing. Both of these are not permanent if life experience is wide enough to break through to basic humanity. And then there are the true predators of others. Those described in “The Mask of Sanity”, 1941. These are incurable by any means and if left to operate freely become the next Hitler, Mao or Bill & Hillary Clinton. Predators with skills and wide destructive influence. We need to recognize this personality type and not give it a chance to accumulate social status.
Obama was the man behind the curtain during the “Biden” administration. It reeked of his “fundamental transformation of America.”
What would Christ say concerning immigrants, illegal or not? I fully understand regulating it. Our government has failed forever in their obligation to come up with solutions. We need to follow Christian ethics on this though. Mass rounding up of individuals, and detainment in concentration camps can be used against other vulnerable groups as well. Dont for a second imagine you’ll never be included in one of these groups. Not with MAGA and the current administration in charge. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book about such possibilities in the 1930’s. Its no real stretch to go from freedom to fascism in a few short steps.
This is a perfect example of weak pacifist evangelical type Christians with no understanding of history or the bible actively sabotaging the west (and themselves). Nowhere in the Bible does it say the Christians must tolerate foreign invaders. In fact, the Bible is replete with stories of invaders being repelled and defeated. The Christian Crusades were ALL ABOUT Christians finally being forced to stop the Muslim invasion of the Levant and Europe after they ravaged the land and oppressed Christians en masse. Even Christ had is limits, whipping the money changers and removing their influence from the church. In the US we face an invasion of mostly socialist migrants that feed like parasites on our system – They are NOT people in need, that is a fallacy. They are opportunists exploiting our system, then happily traveling back home when they have stolen enough wealth. Just look at how quickly the build up on the border disappeared when Trump started cutting benefits. If they have nowhere to go, they would still be piling up at the gates, yet, they disappeared and Mexican border towns are empty. I’m sorry, but your interpretation of Christianity is passive, and it’s incorrect. You should learn your history and repent for your ignorance on this issue.
“In the US we face an invasion of mostly socialist migrants that feed like parasites on our system – They are NOT people in need, that is a fallacy. They are opportunists exploiting our system, then happily traveling back home when they have stolen enough wealth.”
And the irony of it all was dumbass politicians who encouraged this invasion which is what it was. I like Tucker Carlson’s view that the government should put the welfare, wellbeing and prosperity of its own people ahead of those outside the country. Democrats and socialists thought otherwise.
Great article as usual. Am glad to see some of the recent insanity start to lift. One minor correction: Jill Biden is Hunter’s stepmom if I’m not mistaken.
Brandon I read extensively on this and related topics, but this article is a standout. It’s exceptional, and thankyou for writing it. In Australia we suffer under the deadweight of a Leftist government which seized power by corruptly gaming the preferential (ranked choice) voting system to its advantage. It doesn’t represent the will of the people, and ideologically it’s where the Biden regime was in 2020. We look forward to consequences for actions happening too.