Has the time come for a real Galt's Gulch? If the worst should happen in November.
If the worst should happen, and the Democrats get power again (which let's be honest, will happen eventually even if we successfully delay the inevitable in 2020), I think we have to give serious consideration to some semblance of Galt's Gulch. Even Rand knew such a place in real life would be completely fantastical, yet we have advantages that Galt and Mulligan didn't have, such as the ability to organize online and recruit thousands if not millions of people where Galt had to do so one at a time.
I started thinking about this when Bill Whittle made a Stratosphere Lounge video talking about a "Plan B" should the worst happen this November. He used the analogy that if you were on a ship and a child went overboard, you'd jump in to save him/her. If you found yourself attached to an anvil, you know it's going down no matter what so you cut yourself off from it. The talk was a little rambling but he then mentioned geographic segregation, even the possibility of moving to one state like Texas or New Hampshire (has to be a state with an international border and/or coastline), and seceding.
I say this only PARTLY tongue in cheek - it's not a literal suggestion or an attempt to start such a movement... yet. But it's something to think about. We prepare for every other potential emergency in life. A socialist takeover of our government is bigger than any other emergency I can think of so shouldn't we have a plan in place? You can rebuild after a hurricane or earthquake. What the Democrats are proposing is incurable. It will eventually fail and there will be a call for more market and other freedom, but the situation would get far worse before it gets better. I keep saying the only way mask laws will EVER end, vaccine or no, is mass resistance. May be the same for our nation as a whole. Because like Bill Whittle's analogy, a Democrat victory in November is a sign that the ship is no longer salvageable, that the American populous, maybe America itself, is too far gone to save. So salvage what you can and cut ourselves from the anvil.
I started thinking about this when Bill Whittle made a Stratosphere Lounge video talking about a "Plan B" should the worst happen this November. He used the analogy that if you were on a ship and a child went overboard, you'd jump in to save him/her. If you found yourself attached to an anvil, you know it's going down no matter what so you cut yourself off from it. The talk was a little rambling but he then mentioned geographic segregation, even the possibility of moving to one state like Texas or New Hampshire (has to be a state with an international border and/or coastline), and seceding.
I say this only PARTLY tongue in cheek - it's not a literal suggestion or an attempt to start such a movement... yet. But it's something to think about. We prepare for every other potential emergency in life. A socialist takeover of our government is bigger than any other emergency I can think of so shouldn't we have a plan in place? You can rebuild after a hurricane or earthquake. What the Democrats are proposing is incurable. It will eventually fail and there will be a call for more market and other freedom, but the situation would get far worse before it gets better. I keep saying the only way mask laws will EVER end, vaccine or no, is mass resistance. May be the same for our nation as a whole. Because like Bill Whittle's analogy, a Democrat victory in November is a sign that the ship is no longer salvageable, that the American populous, maybe America itself, is too far gone to save. So salvage what you can and cut ourselves from the anvil.
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I try to take comfort in the fact that there must be places like ours that survived the revolutionary and civil war periods, but that is tempered by today's advanced mobility and surveillance technology, beyond being overrun by looters. Knowing that so many of my neighbors are flaming liberal socialists who would be among the first ones looking for help doesn't help, but I see the government and its enforcers as the bigger threat...catch 22.
I really think that the closest that we can ever come to true the Gulch will be what we currently have here. As we are free to express ourselves honestly and still move about within their society and hopefully influence some few of them to see the light. At least that's what I have been doing as a High School teacher.
On the other hand, a drive through Atlanta would likely be filled with Biden-Kamaliar yard signs and pealing Obama bumper stickers.
I now think I know the answer.
I can only imagine that willingly withdrawing from certain aspects of society/civic life can be helpful. Perhaps being able to only do business with other 'Gulchers' is sustainable as well, without having to give up home and hearth. This wouldn't be the first time there's been a secret society.
The idea here is to be as productive as possible without having looters take what's not theirs.
Getting people to leave their homes for a far away land is a decision that will make many rational people favor the familiar and convenient chains over possible freedom.
If the left takes control, any attempt at secession will be met with military force that will make Lincoln's war a triviality.
The same response will occur to any geographically focused resistance, e.g., a refusal to trade. How many farmers were sent to the gulag before farmers became more compliant in the USSR? Compliant is not competent or productive, and many more died of cirrhosis and starvation than went to the gulag. Either "peaceful resistance" choice leads down the same road to serfdom and the death of American freedom.
There is no easy answer and no path to freedom without great sacrifice.
Not many people are mentally prepared to make such a sacrifice. If the electricity goes off, surrender will be immediate for all but the most prepared. The great majority are lost when their smart phones lose connections.
Whatever is done must be geographically decentralized, extremely simple to do, and extremely difficult for the state to interfere with. The only thing that I can think of that has any chance of having an effect on the enemy is a consumer strike against large corporate products and a return to local trade. Even this may be a bigger sacrifice than 90% are willing to make.
There is no safety for pigs in a pig farm.
The best I think we can do is each create our own gulch and, if we are fortunate, avoid proximity to the looters. My limited experience says that looters are not congregating in remote farming areas, so the chances are fair that you and your neighbors are busy tending to the livestock, fencing, crops and blisters, instead of rioting or binge-watching the latest pap on Netflix.
(BTW, I have a giant crop of Central Texas rocks, if anyone is in the market. All ready for harvesting!!! 😊)
I have moved more rural, from a metro of 2.5 mil to a county of 75k. The bulk of the landmass is involved in primary trades of agriculture, forestry, mining and the immediate secondary and tertiary processes of these. People who are closer to the sources of their mortality make less assumptions than those distanced in larger cities. We are closer in community and all the natural supports that come from less anonimity. The rural areas "feed" the cities....we don't have to do this if the demand for control over our lives become too great...all we have to do is blockade the urban areas for a few weeks. We can adjust our rural lives to that of sustenance vs the belief that we must enjoin in the fictions of economics of the Metropolitans.
There is no greater teacher of humility than a slack belly.