Yes, It Is A Time For Choosing…And More

Underground USA

If you listen to or read Underground USA regularly, you know that I term contemporary election contests – at every level – as over-glorified junior high school popularity contests. Why else would anyone give a shit about who Taylor Swift or George Clooney, or any professional athlete or musician support?

But our society is so incredibly devoid of critical thinking skills that the installed narcissism so prevalent in the mainstream today—and fostered and nurtured by the elitist-pocketed mainstream media—leads most of the voting population by the nose to the belief that it’s all about personality and whether or not you are getting behind who the “in crowd” is supporting.

This is the shocking reality with which we are faced. Our freedoms – our liberties and rights to individualism – are now hanging by a thread and are so at the mercy of those who view politics and government with an intellectually shallow eye. Most, if not all, of the so-called “uninformed” voters refuse to take the time to do deep dives into the presidential and congressional candidates. They are lazy. Full of excuses, they have abdicated their responsibility to the rest of us and the Constitution – to be educated on politics and government. To them, it’s all about the bumper-sticker tagline. It’s all about the slogan. It’s all about the Madison Avenue packaging, the marketing.

Orange man bad! Joy! Forward! It’s all manufactured to manipulate and deceive the people who have been conditioned to consume substanceless, intellectual bubblegum for the mind. How else could a presidential candidate like Kamala Harris get on a debate stage, literally not answer one question asked of her, and call the event a victory? How else could a presidential candidate, again, like Kamala Harris, execute an Olympic effort to avoid answering substantive questions that require detailed answers about what she stands for and what her policies are?

I have repeatedly said that this election is not a choice between Republican or Democrat. It is not even really a choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (and especially the latter since the Biden-Harris administration is actually being puppet-mastered by Obama 2.0). It is a choice between maintaining our freedoms and liberties and protecting our unique American form of government and the continuing advance of neo-Marxism, or as one of my friends puts it, the advance of neo-Bolshevism.

A different friend – a friend from college, recently sent me a podcast clip that illustrates the subject at hand. The podcast is called Modern Wisdom, hosted by Chris Williamson, and features Eric Weinstein, managing director for the venture capital firm Thiel Capital. Weinstein is also the person you coined the phrase “intellectual dark web,”referring to academics and social commentators who express concerns over the perceived excesses of Left-wing identity politics.

In this clip, Weinstein – who admits he is from far-Left political stock – expounds on why Kamala Harris constantly repeats the phrase, “What can be, unburdened by what has been.” It’s not an innocuous statement. In fact, it is an ominous statement:

It all sounds good until you peel back the ideological onion layers to expose the rot manifesting on the inside. This rot has been facilitated by the progressive movement, which has now revealed itself as a Marxism-fueled drive to first democratic socialism, then socialism, and then, as an end goal, full-blown communism and the end of the Great American Experiment.

Yes, our federal government has transformed into something quite different from what our Framers wanted for us. They despised the idea of a centralized government and centralized planning. They believed in the genius of fifty separate states with fifty separate constitutions affecting fifty separate social laboratories that cultivated government tailored to their people. The federal government was meant to be a compact between the states that filled in the cracks, not one that forced the states to their knees in subservience, and definitely not one of a fascist nature that colluded with global corporations to enslave its citizens.

Yet, here we are. We have a growing and increasingly oppressive federal government, captured by Deep State fascists (think the massive disappointment that is Dick Cheney), who enrich themselves to largess even as they lead the rest of us down the “road to serfdom.”

In 1964, future President Ronald Reagan gave a prophetic speech that has now become known as his “A Time for Choosing” speech. In it he laid out the exact evils our country would face at the hands of Marxists masquerading as progressives and socialist democrats. I present an edited version here (the complete speech linked above):

I urge you to listen to the full speech, and when you do, consume his statistics, translating them into a 2024 context. Each of his points applies – absolutely and completely – to our situation today.

We have certainly arrived at a “time for choosing.” But we have also arrived at a critical moment in time that should be termed “a time for educating and informing.” We have approximately 40 days to educate as many “uninformed” voters as possible that elections are not about electing the best candidate but making sure the worst candidate is kept away from power.

You may not like Donald Trump’s personality, but that idea – those emotions – must take a backseat to doing what is right for the country, your neighbors, and – at this juncture – the world. November 5th is not a popularity contest. It is a vote to determine whether we maintain freedom and start back to a place of government of, by, and for the people or whether we embrace Marxism toward the inevitable moment of oblivion.

Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.

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