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14 Oct, 13 tweets, 2 min read
It's funny how so many people who claim to worship "democracy" also dismiss nationalism as selfish xenophobia. Democracy is absolutely meaningless without strong national sovereignty. Under globalism, citizens of any given state have little influence over how they are governed.
Nationalism isn't just mindless tribalism. People are correct to insist their government has a responsibility TO THEM that vastly outweighs any imagined responsibility to foreign governments they have absolutely no influence over, or foreign populations.
We've seen that point taken to absurd extremes by the Left during the Trump administration, with whack-job judges ruling that foreigners have rights that EXCEED those of American citizens, including absolute rights to enter the U.S. and influence its government.
And we're frequently told that some international elite "consensus" completely overrides our ability to make individual decisions - or even to petition our own government, or vote for representatives who disagree with whatever "the world" has supposedly decided.
All of that is the absolute negation of "democracy" in any form, including the dangerous mob rule and majoritarianism that the Left selectively advocates. (Notice they always have a list of things nobody gets to vote on anymore, no matter how strong the majority vote would be.)
The key element of any just system of government is RESPONSIBILITY - from citizens to each other, and from government to its citizens. Erasing responsibility leads to injustice, strife, and tyranny. Without nationalism, the government has no responsibility to its citizens.
This is made quite explicit under globalism, which is not shy about attacking sovereignty and declaring various issues are no longer subject to the votes of citizens. The people of any given country have no influence over globalist power, and it feels no responsibility to them.
The globalist fetish for open borders and mass migration is a deliberate attack on national sovereignty with immediate practical consequences. It's a direct assault on the notion that citizens of a country have rights, AND responsibilities, beyond those of non-citizens.
Globalism diminishes the responsibility of hideous regimes for corruption and abuse, providing financial relief and migration safety valves. It's a transmission system for the most irresponsible ideologies. The benefits of advanced society are redistributed without requirements.
The absolute farce of China getting on the U.N. Human Rights commission illustrates this perfectly. China PRACTICES SLAVERY, a total contradiction of core American values. But we have no sovereignty at the U.N., no right to say fascism, slavery, and genocide are unacceptable.
The constructive form of nationalism - rights inextricably linked to responsibility, sovereign nations governed with the consent of sovereign people - is diminished under this globalist system. Instead, the WORST form of nationalism, China's form, is rewarded.
The winning strategy is to have an utterly ruthless, amoral elite corrupting every globalist institution to serve its selfish interests. Give lip service to globalist ideals while ruling as selfish tyrants. Break every "rule" and laugh at the chumps who follow them.
If you want democracy of any sort, you must insist on a sovereign nation whose first duty is always to its own citizens - governing with their consent, honestly protecting their interests, and zealously guarding both the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. /end

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15 Oct
I wrote about Internet freedom a few hours before it suddenly became a massive crisis in the United States, so the post (and the Freedom House report I discussed) became an instant time capsule. The questions I asked are more urgent than ever:

breitbart.com/national-secur…
"Disinformation" is treated by analysts as a menace to Internet freedom, but so are the measures employed to combat it. The worst totalitarian regimes on Earth justify Internet repression as efforts to control disinformation. We're getting a taste of that in America right now.
"Cyber sovereignty" means states like China establishing their own little Internet backwaters, ruled according to their definitions of acceptable speech, hate speech, disinformation, and sedition.

We have that too. In America, cyber sovereignty is imposed by Big Tech moguls.
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It's so weird that the big social media platforms simultaneously decided to throw away their "platform, not a publisher" protection to suppress a flimsy nothingburger story that should be like the buzzing of flies to a candidate with an insurmountable lead in the polls.
It almost makes you wonder if maybe that candidate knew even worse revelations were coming, so he got in touch with his very dear friends at the social media giants and told them to crush the early releases at all costs, to shut the whole chain of stories down.
DNC Media long ago mastered the art of the soft embargo. They simply refuse to amplify stories that don't fit their precious political narratives, while the stories that DO fit get wall-to-wall coverage. They don't confront Democrats about inconvenient stories.
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The media's complaints about transparency in the Trump White House are hilarious when you consider how opaque Obama's was, and Biden's would be - with the active complicity of the media. Reporters will block damaging stories like Secret Service agents diving in front of bullets.
Given a media as thoroughly corrupt, lazy, and partisan as ours, and the immense power of the central government, no one truly concerned about in "transparency" can possibly vote Democrat. You're literally voting for the media to become PART of the administration.
There is simply no possibility of an adversarial relationship between the degenerate mainstream media and a Democrat administration, especially not after they push Biden into the White House. "Reporters" would be taking victory laps right alongside him.
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A Biden win would decisively hand the 21st Century to China. I think it's very important to prevent a fascist superpower from ruling the world. Funny how so many self-professed "anti-fascists" seem untroubled by the prospect.
Of course, some of the people sleeping at the wheel on China think of it as "communist," view communism as super-sized socialism, and think socialism is good. They should be thinking harder about how China demonstrates the shared DNA between socialism, communism, and fascism.
China, at any rate, is more clearly fascist than anything else. Its core structure long ago shifted to fascism - nominal private ownership of capital, but absolute control by political dictators. Chinese Marxists frequently get thrown in jail for complaining about this.
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China did everything it could to spread the coronavirus OUT of the country - this was obvious and quite deliberate - but they brought iron walls crashing down around cities with coronavirus outbreaks. They were literally locking sick people inside their homes.
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Further evidence that Trump's election travails are based almost entirely on what he says, not what he's done in office. This is an astounding number given the coronavirus.
Those who think the polls are wrong will see this amazing "better off than four years ago" number as strong evidence of a hidden Trump vote that will overwhelm Biden's edge in the polls. How can people give historic high marks to Trump - better than Reagan! - but throw him out?
A related possibility is that Trump really is lagging behind, but much of his deficit against Biden is transitory anger at things he says, fueled by the relentless media campaign against him. It will dissipate and they'll vote more on the "better off than four years ago" feeling.
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