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At least 10 more years of lawfare ahead…then constant cherry nitpicking ‘told you so’ complaints, while ignoring positives, by so-called experts and academics, not to mention mainstream media.

The people (researchers, NGO’s, govt bureaucrats at all levels, contractors) addicted to money from public dole will not give up their golden goose without a fight.  And the oligarchs who designed this mess want total control of the people and natural resources; it is not enough for them to already be able to buy anything they want, it is a compulsion to control.  It is like asking a king, count or duke in feudal England to give up his power and fiefdom from which he taxes and controls his people; he cannot accept that his people are sovereign.  King John I of England murdered most of his 20+ barons who had forced him to sign the Magna Carta which gave some sovereignty to the people.  John had those barons murdered even though most of them were his cousins and uncles.

Zohran Mamdani, Keir Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, Hillary Clinton, and similar in all countries push universal childcare, government run grocery stores, open borders, limits to freedom and property, etc. What could possibly go wrong with programs like these? They have failed where they have been tried. They call themselves progressives or coastal progressives in their upside down Orwellian Newspeak.

Newspeak refers to a fictional language created by George Orwell for his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is designed to limit freedom of thought and control the population of the fictional country Oceania by drastically reducing the vocabulary and simplifying the grammar of the English language, making it impossible to express ideas that contradict the ideology of the ruling Party. Read the book. Watch the multiple versions of the movie. Then read almost any document of United Nations, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization document, or ICLEI, “a global network of more than 2500 local and regional governments” probably being implemented in your town https://iclei.org/our_vision/ . Václav Klaus understands. The former President of the Czech Republic, authored the book Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? and another book: Free Society Fatally Endangered. https://www.klaus.cz/english-pages/

Trump and his successors will continue to shut down corrupt globalist programs, but every shutdown and defunding will be challenged in courts.  It will take time. The U.S. Congress just sits on their asses and does nothing substantive, though a law could fix it immediately, as does the European Parliament and similar in most countries.  The situation in the climate change industry after all these years of brainwashing is almost identical to the transition of the Soviet Union into Russia; the people shut it down. Today there are still many Russians who want a return to Stalin-like rule, but not enough.  Re-educating indoctrinated true believers, especially those academics who truly believe they are the experts, is much more difficult than was their indoctrination into the religion of government tyranny.

You may recall the old proverb (maybe Reagan? Or Churchill?) :  “If the government is put in charge of the desert, then soon there will be no more sand.”  If the government is in charge of the environment, then soon the environment will be destroyed.  If the government is in charge of childcare or groceries, or private property, or freedom of expression, then soon there will be no more children, groceries, private property, or free speech. These same ‘progressives’ are the same people who believe the planet is overpopulated and eugenics is the solution. They believe vaccines and geoengineering must be used to reduce human population. Apparently this lesson will surprise many people.

They never learned the lesson of the tragedy of the commons from the colonial period and the Pilgrim colony in Boston.  Academics and more recently courts fight for more government control and resist the lesson of the ‘tragedy of the commons’, which summarizes the overall problem with socialism, communism and excessive government bureaucracy in general. Government bureaucracy is a shared common resource supposedly working for the benefit of the people, but, like the overgrazed Boston pasture, the accountability and responsibility of private ownership are missing and the bureaucracy eventually grows to the point that its leaders work primarily to protect and grow the bureaucracy, their headcount and budget rather than to serve the people as originally intended.  This is how the U.S. and most other countries got our deep state swamps.

The late Jerry Pournelle (1933-2017), an American science fiction writer, journalist, and scientist described a derivative of the overall problem we face as “The Iron Law of Bureaucracy”. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states: “In any bureaucratic organization, there are two types of people: those devoted to the organization’s actual goals, such as dedicated teachers, engineers, and scientists, and those dedicated to the organization itself, including administrators, union officials, and headquarters staff.  In every case, the second group—the individuals focused on the bureaucracy’s survival and expansion—will ultimately gain and maintain control, writing the rules and controlling promotions within the organization. This dynamic leads to a situation where the mission of the organization is increasingly subordinated to the interests of its internal structure, often resulting in inefficiency and a focus on self-preservation rather than achieving stated objectives.” “The law has been used to explain phenomena like the persistence of government departments, the failure of reforms, and the prevalence of inaction and ritualistic behavior in large institutions.”

The tragedy of the commons is an economic and environmental theory describing a situation where individuals, acting in their own self-interest, deplete or spoil a shared resource, even though it is in everyone’s long-term interest to preserve it. This occurs because the resource is rivalrous in consumption, non-excludable, and scarce, meaning one person’s use diminishes the amount available for others, and no one can be effectively prevented from using it. The concept was popularized by ecologist Garrett Hardin in a 1968 essay published in the journal Science, although the underlying idea dates back to classical antiquity, with Aristotle observing that “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it”. Hardin used the example of herders sharing a common pasture; each herder benefits individually from adding more livestock, but the cost of overgrazing is shared by all, leading to the eventual ruin of the pasture.  The conservative Pilgrims in the Boston colony shared a common pasture, the Boston Common, which became dilapidated and useless because no individual owned it and took responsibility for maintaining it, and thus it was destroyed by overgrazing.

Millennials, Gen-Z’ers and younger generations who vote for Mamdani for mayor of New York City and his ilk elsewhere should study the Soviet Union. A commune sounds great, but in reality people waited in long lines in freezing weather in front of giant grocery and other stores on Red Square in Moscow. The shelves were mostly empty, the manikins mostly bare. Centrally controlled government bureaucracy was responsible for growing and distributing food and making everything according to plans produced by experts. But the plans failed time and again. But around the corner was a fully stocked grocery where ex-pats and politically connected could buy anything. Now imagine Mr. Mamdani’s latest proposals, universal child care, and government run grocery stores for example. In short order, that would become universal indoctrination, limits on numbers of children, and food shortages.

Hardin argued that this dynamic is inevitable without intervention, as individuals prioritize immediate personal gain over the collective good, leading to overconsumption and depletion of resources like water, land, and fish stocks. He cited the collapse of the Grand Banks cod fishery as a real-world example, where advances in fishing technology led to massive overfishing, ultimately destroying the fishery. The theory has been applied to modern issues such as pollution, where the atmosphere and oceans are treated as common dumps for waste, leading to problems like acid rain and climate change. Hardin concluded that the solution lies in “mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon,” suggesting that regulations, private property rights, or collective action are necessary to manage shared resources sustainably. Why is it so difficult to see that in all of history Adam Smith’s capitalism has delivered the most success to humanity?

Of course, the theory of the tragedy of the commons has been widely debated and criticized in academia.  No one should be surprised that most academics, intellectuals, globalists etc continue to argue for forms of socialism and communism or worse; most would say like Hillary Clinton ‘it takes a village’ to raise a child or to do most anything. A communal village sounds virtuous until you try it. Mao required that his people give up their metal, cookware, plows, etc for the good of the commune and tens of millions of his own people starved to death.

Some scholars argue that over-exploitation is not inevitable, as communities can manage common resources effectively through self-imposed rules and cooperation.  The work of economist Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize, demonstrated that many common-pool resources are successfully managed by local communities without privatization or top-down government control.  Evidence please. Critics also point out that Hardin’s historical example of common land in England may be inaccurate, as the open-field system persisted for centuries without the predicted collapse. But those fields were owned with feudal responsibilities to the royal. Furthermore, Hardin’s views on overpopulation have been criticized as simplistic and racist. Despite these critiques, the concept remains a foundational idea in discussions about sustainability, resource management, and the challenges of collective action.

The founders and framers of the United States of America, as well as Adam Smith and others of the Scottish Enlightenment wrote a Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution and books of genius like The Wealth of Nations which implemented limited government, individual sovereignty, private property and personal rights, capitalism, and control of government by and for the people. But the so-called ‘coastal progressives’ like Mr. Mamdani and most Democrats in America as well as globalists around the world argue for the opposite of individual sovereignty and rights; they want to return to government control of the people, 15 minute cities and the like. If you look around the world today, governments are advocating and rapidly taking away rights of free speech, freedom of movement, property rights, religious rights, even the right to control what is injected into your own body and the information you are allowed to know. This is a war for your mind and body.

So far, it appears that most of America is standing for sovereignty, freedom and individual rights.

Meanwhile U.S. Democrats and globalists in the European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, United Nations, NGOs, etc are regressing rapidly, doubling and tripling down, like a cult, or Iran, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela or tyrant retreating to their ideological bunkers, protected by bought-and-paid for mainstream media and globalists.