Let's discuss the scientific method. And we're going to discuss truth. Gene Sharp's work demands this. We must know the truth. Truth is what we cooperate with.
2) Within the scientific method, there is a single most powerful moment. It is the moment we've discovered "proof of case." A vaccine for polio is possible. Heavier than air flight is possible. Birds are heavier than air. Leonardo Da Vinci made that case. The Wrights proved it.
3) A dictatorship can be defeated. It has weaknesses. It has vulnerabilities. How is it, I ask, that YOU comply? How do you allow our current dictatorship its power? How do you help it cover for its weaknesses?
4) The Republican Party was once the greatest, most powerful Party in the history of America. Abraham Lincoln was its founder. The Civil War that freed the slaves was its moral righteousness. It completed the equality clause of our Declaration.
5) While the Democrats opposed women's suffrage, it was the Republicans who supported it. I bet you had no idea of that. Freedom demands limited government. It has always been the Republicans who stand for that. It has always been the Democrats who oppose it.
6) Following FDR, Republicans lost their way. Through Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush 41, and Bush 43, each Republican President empowered government over the people. Since WWII, ONLY Trump and Reagan stood for American Freedom against the ever-encroaching government.
7) What we now suffer is a pure dictatorship. A President who steals his election is a dictator, a tyrant. Joe Biden is a tyrant. We now live in a tyranny. America's famed freedom is now lost. We are no longer free.
8) What happened to Hitler? While Stalin died in power, what happened to the USSR? It collapsed. Dictatorships die. This is America's hope today. Joe Biden's dictatorship will die. We shall return to the freedoms from which we were born.
9) Who remembers King George III? He was our dictator in 1776. Look at this simple equation:
King = Dictator
We rejected Kings in 1776. We fought a revolution against them and won.
10) And that's where Gene Sharp enters. He teaches us that no dictatorship is free from the will of the people. It was still the same dictatorship that India broke free from in the 1940s. Britain was the dictator. King George VI was no different from our King George III.
11) What brought King George VI's empire down? Non-violent political defiance did. Back in 1776 we had NO idea that non-violent political defiance could win a revolution. That was Mahatma Gandhi's discovery. We did not know.
12) What we did realize is that the tree-line was our friend. Redcoats marched on roads. We shot at them from the tree-line. We were an insurgency. They were an occupation. Insurgents win against occupiers. All this is now known.
13) We know now. Joe Biden's dictatorship will be brought down by our non-willingness to surrender. He stole the election. Our democracy demands that ONLY the will of the people determines who is President. We will not surrender.
14) Who was involved in the attempt to fool us? Yeah, you won't be surprised to hear that Britain was. Italy, Germany, Iran, Russia and China too. Oh, and North Korea. Yep. They're all with Joe Biden. Is that okay with you? Didn't think so.
15) We are not merely a democracy. We are also a federal republic. But, and this is key, we are first a democracy before the federal republic we may result. What is a democracy? We now know. It is where leadership is NOT transferred to one's descendants.
16) The will of the people, the consent of the governed, demands that those who lead must be those who follow...the will of the people. Prior to us, to U.S., there was no nation in the history of the world founded upon such principles. And...
17) And now...we are the oldest continuous government on the face of planet earth. We are the stable thing. Everything else rises and falls, and does so rapidly. How long was Hitler the most powerful dictator? How long was Stalin in power? Tiny fractions of our history.
18) What is the scientific method? It is the heart of simplicity. Make a bold prediction. Test it. If it fails, you have disproved it. If it succeeds, it stand for now. Sir Karl Popper defined this for us. No prediction stands forever. Theories only test for now, not disproved.
19) Since 1776 & 1789 our theory of freedom proved true until 2020. Our theory of freedom is now, for the moment, disproved. We are no longer free. We are now enslaved. A conspiracy of power, the DC Cabal, has now taken us over.
20) Since 1776, we have never been tested as we are now. The 1860's Civil War was a test. It was NOT the test we now face. We won that war. Will we win this one?
It is not possible to know yet. Yet, I say we will.
What say you?
Thread ends at #20.
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If there's a single fact we need Sharp to give us, it is the title of this chapter. Dictatorships have weaknesses. A moment from sci-fi will illustrate.
2) Be it an alien invasion or some creature from beyond like Godzilla, the question is always, does it bleed? If the poor creature can, then its doom is already in the can. Monsters bleed and that means humans can kill them.
3) This is 100% true of all dictatorships. They bleed and they can be taken down. The simple fact that dictatorships DO, in fact, HAVE weaknesses is one of Sharp's greatest points. Tyrants do NOT enjoy the cosmic powers they wish us to believe they do.
Can't get to my essay till this afternoon, but you'll want to dig into #FromDictatorshipToDemocracy Chapter 4, Dictatorships have Weaknesses asap if you can! Here are today's study notes.
2) This clip is a PERFECT reflection of EXACTLY what Sharp is teaching us. Do check this out!
3) Then last for now, here's the list of weaknesses Sharp gives us, as I've reduced them to smallest number of terms possible:
1) Cooperation Needed 2) Regime's Past Policies 3) Less Able to Adjust 4) Personnel and Resources NOT Available 5) Subordinates NOT Reporting Accurately
2) We have just completed Usurper Biden's 1st 100 days. This dictatorship is still very new, at least under his aegis. However, all its powers and infiltration throughout our society is almost ancient at this point. He holds no new powers.
3) What's more, it is critical that we remember we won 2016 handily, and we won a massive reelection landslide in 2020. This forced the dictatorship to expose its own weaknesses as never before. Truth is, this is not a new Biden Dictatorship, it is an old Swamp Dictatorship.
Sharp doesn't say this, but I believe it's right here in these concluding pages. Truth is a social function. We do know this from psychological testing. It's kind of amazing. I'll explain...
2) As I recall from college, psychologists decided to test what it takes to make someone doubt what they know to be true. So the created an experiment where there were 5 or 6 actors and 1 person being tested. We'll call the person be tested by the name X.
3) All the actors in the test were instructed to tell an absolute lie, 100% false, something like 1 + 1 = 3. The group leader would then put up the question:
What does 1 + 1 equal?
Actors 1 - 5 would all confidently and obviously answer 3.
I noted this key thought on the 24th, but today is the first time I've posted the image below as I so often do. The thing is, I discovered a new kind of problem to solve which I'll explain more below...
2) Here's the problem. I can't mark up the entire page, yet this page is one of the most powerful in the entire book and its every thought is critical for our mission.
What to do?
3) It hit me - and a good friend of mine has been pushing me in this direction - that reading the page out loud would serve our purposes in this essay very nicely indeed. Some of you may have noticed I just did a bit of testing of that method and it seemed to go well enough.
I posted a tiny, little ditty I wrote and recorded yesterday. Here it is again. Plus, a friend of mine asked for verses, so I wrote the following 3 last night. Not ready to record the full song, but the new lyrics follow...
2) First Verse:
I truly love my Mr. Xi
He gives me lots of money
And we both agree on
How much we hate Don
3) Second Verse:
I smell the hair on girls
And I do it round the world
Because you know I can, man
You really know I can, man