Institutional Confidence

Institutional Confidence

As confidence in American institutions drops, support for secession rises.

This shift is not exclusive to conservatives. Even liberals, who voted for a higher minimum wage, student debt forgiveness, and a clean withdrawal from Afghanistan, are disillusioned with our rulers.

But dissidents aren’t immune to cognitive dissonance. Members of Gen Y, Gen X, and the Boomers who remember the fall of the Berlin Wall have difficulty accepting that America holds and tortures political prisoners.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the last big communist bogeyman show more concern for their people’s future than the sadists in Washington show for theirs.

Amid all the confusion, the only certainty is that our rulers no longer have the least thing in common with us. American’s government is at war with its citizens. We find our elites untrustworthy, and they find us loathsome.

As a result, more and more people are reaching the healthy conclusion that peaceful separation is the best solution.

The problem is, a political divorce from Washington, even if possible, may not prove sufficient.  The main impediment to escaping America’s totalitarian regime is technological, not political.

The term “totalitarian regime” probably made you think of secret police, midnight knocks on the door, and labor camps.

What you probably didn’t think of, but should have, is this:

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Assuming that only governments can oppress people is a vestige of Conservative and Libertarian ideology.

It’s not the government that’s censoring dissent online and exiling people from the economy without appeal. Neither has legislation made popular media a constant flow of Death Cult propaganda.
The madness gripping the country is being driven by corporate culture run amok.  Politicians aren’t silencing all deviation from the secular cult. They’ve outsourced censorship to a managerial class of woke HR directors and executives.
Membership in the Woke Cult is now required to remain a member in good standing of the managerial elite, and that twisted culture now permeates every company over a certain size.
Perhaps a peaceful break with the federal government is possible. What about a personal break with your smartphone? With your Netflix subscription? With your PS5?
The Death Cult hasn’t needed state power to enforce its heterodoxy for a long time. Thy have the entertainment and tech industries, which are all based in coastal blue states.
Political secession will not be enough to escape Clown World. Free states would have to somehow keep their populations from consuming product and getting excited for next product.
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5 Comments

  1. D Cal

    Speaking of corporate censorship, I’m still waiting for my ISP to charge my life savings for visiting your blog—or at least block my access to the online Douay-Rheims Bible. I still remember how the noble coalition of Google, Facebook, and Twitter failed to stop the end of net neutrality, which plunged the whole Internet into a Republican/conservative dark age…

  2. Rudolph Harrier

    It’s curious that the confidence listed in the poll largely increased from 2019 to 2020 before dropping to a lower level in 2021.

    • Chris Lopes

      Not that surprising. Going into covid, institutions become important. Then those institutions demonstrate their lack of competence and people are back to not trusting them again.

  3. Harrison

    Big tech aside, a peaceful divorce was never gonna happen. If liberals, much less desth cultists, were capable of “live and let live,” then we wouldn’t be here in the first place

  4. Anti-Rationalist

    Yet another show of just how much China and Russia care about their future generations is the fact that they are effectively in the process of building their own internet.

    We all called Iran crazy for wanting to build their own, but after seeing the BS and insanity coming out of USA owned Big Tech Totalitarians, we really shouldn’t be surprised and we should likely be taking notes.

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