OK, so give us some solutions.

(you may not like them though)

There are some complaints that dissidents don’t offer enough solutions and instead spend too much time on analysing problems.  I have some sympathy with that view, on the other hand that analysis has helped to expose deep-seated problems that are now more widely acknowledged.  Even the idea that there was a Uniparty, or a  Deep State seemed slightly crazy to many (including me) not too long ago, but these facts are now largely accepted.  I have included a short list of problems that I and others discovered over the past four years in bullet format and those are the problems I am attempting to address here¹.

Looking at solutions, it is very tempting to dive into all sorts of technical solutions over voting arrangements, conflicts of interest codes and so forth.  This approach unfortunately would result in the proverbial house built on sand, since our problem is really in the foundations.  Before, presenting some possible solutions, I wanted to give the Alistair Williams caveat, that I can suggest a solution, but you are not going to like it!

The good news is that we have solutions which could be described by the Russian proverb, which loosely translated says “the novel is that which has been completely forgotten from the past”.  Many of these solutions relate to the way in which important philosophers thought about the function of governments in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries. 

The political philosophers of the past I feel had a much better understanding of; the nature of God, of human weaknesses and of the proper role of the state than we have today.  The process which we mistakenly call progress has, for the most part, involved dismantling that inheritance. So, here goes.

1. Christianity is the moral code that underpins the United Kingdom

This does not mean that other religions are not welcome, as they are.  In fact many religions seem to have a similar core concept of what constitutes “good” behaviour and agree that it is important to maintain this “good” behaviour in order to achieve a favourable outcome upon death.  The main point here is to get morality out of the hands of men since we can already see where “progressive” morality is heading.  Progressive morality is determined by a show of hands, often amongst political activists, and reflects the current zeitgeist. This morality’s primary focus seems to be on the destruction of any pre-existing norms of behaviour.  The only way to stop this process is to have an immutable set of principles and rules, not subject to amendment, or revision.  In fact these are the arrangements that are still set out in the Coronation Oath despite attempts to water this down, the Monarch’s still swears to “maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law”.

2. Rights come from God and not from the state

Accepting item one effortlessly leads to the concept that rights come from God as set out in the American Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.  The administrative state wants to make every right conditional upon some bureaucratic determination and inserts phrases like “subject to” into every inalienable right. If the state determines there is a “health emergency” based on a spreadsheet forecast then your rights are withdrawn.  That is not possible if we accept that we have inalienable rights. 

For many (including me) the idea of moving towards a secular state, seemed to make sense as we are collectively became so grown-up that it would be better to make our own rules than to be beholden to “fairy stories”.  The real problem though is that the gap left by the forced retreat of Christianity is not being filled with rational thought but rather by neo-pagan beliefs, be that The Science, the worship of Gaia or other cult beliefs.  We discussed this topic with the author of Ruler of Kings, Rev. Dr. Joe Boot.²

Concepts 1 and 2 somewhat paradoxically create the foundation for a free society, perhaps the biggest challenge though is keeping a society free and that depends entirely upon the engagement of the citizenry.

3. Eternal vigilance

This line from the 1790 essay by John Philpot Curran (often misattributed to Jefferson) summarises the position perfectly, “It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”  Wow!

This could well be a vintage version of a “conspiracy theory” in that Mr. Curran warns us that there is a group of active individuals who are determined to seize the rights of the people.  This could easily translate into the WEF and their Great Reset plan today, which leaves people completely without individual rights.

4. Place a value on integrity

Related to the above, integrity then becomes vitally important.  In this area, I’d like to borrow a great quote by Warren Buffet;

I am a firm believer in this quote, which unfortunately is not widely held.  Oftentimes, people will see a transactional benefit of dealing with dubious individuals imagining that they are applying some clever realpolitik.  In reality, the wheels almost always fall off these arrangements.  The most frustrating part of the last four years has not been the political-media complex’s willingness to coerce people with COVID measures, but rather people’s willingness to then embrace those same politicians and talking heads.    

5. Do your homework

It is widely recognised that lying is now absolutely pervasive in public discourse, here I use the only sensible concept of lying, which is the intention to deceive.  This means that cherry-picking statistics and the omission of important context and similar tricks fall squarely within this definition.  By now, most people have figured out that virtually every video you see posted on social media has been dishonestly clipped and every tweet at a minimum lacks important context (this is of course a design feature too).  There are only a handful of credible sources who will not twist facts to generate sensational clickbait, or push an agenda.  Unfortunately even the U.K.’s ONS has gotten in on the act and this former bastion of reliable facts has now succumbed to data manipulation.³       

It is impossible to check every story, so you would need to assume that whatever you are told about an event, this version will be at a minimum manipulated, unless proven otherwise.  The extent to which the state is prepared to lie in order to justify military action is quite literally astonishing.  In the now declassified documents on Operation Northwoods, you can see that the U.S. military considered attacking its own base in Cuba, subsequently blaming Cuba and using this as a pretext for launching military action against Cuba⁴.  So if you see any policy being justified by an event, or series of events, it is worthwhile to carefully check the veracity of those events.