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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

It's happening in the UK with the obesity crisis. Made worse of course by ludicrous public health decisions to close leisure centres but leave McDonald's open.....we had a "sugar tax" a levy imposed on soft drinks to erm.....stop folk drinking them. Didn't work. Scrapped. I read numerous suggestions as to how the government can make people eat better, move more.....nobody gets it. Let folks make their own choices, sometimes those will be poor, but allow them to make them for themselves.

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

The better German word for the top-down approach would be Zwangswirtschaft. Command economy.

Yes, I’m getting called a pedant all the time, why?

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The "top-down" people aren't all that bright. Their favorite socioeconomic philosophy, Marxism, was one of the leading causes of death, malnutrition, poverty, and overall misery in the 20th century. Did they ditch Marxism? Nope! They rebranded it as ESG and imposed it upon the formerly flourishing First-World economies. But don't worry. When that ends in catastrophe (as it inevitably will) they'll just rebrand it again and find a new generation of hipster morons willing to embrace it.

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I love the idea we’re cooperating .

Politico is no doubt 💩💩 about our cooperation, where might this lead?

The people then who cooperate bottom up are in a race with the Top’s plan to ruin us comprehensively from the top.

The problem being there are only so many Feds, its such a big country.

In 2009 Bernanke remarked we saved the Markets but lost the country. This has been the situation since. The elites chose unsurprisingly LOCAL which means to them DC and the ACELA corridor. Just as Newsom chooses Sacramento.

In choosing the top they lose the rest, which is considerably more than the bottom. The ACELA corridor and the SuperZips are fine enough to rain down nonsense on the peasants if those peasants are Iraqis, Afghans or Germans. Its most unwise when the peasants are in the same land as their Castles.

Trump had the country but not DC. DC saved DC but lost the country to stay in power awhile longer

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”Back in 2012, long before soil health, regenerative agriculture or carbon farming became cool.”

Is it pedantic to point out this was cool in the Middle Ages?

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"We’re healthy from the bottom up, and sick from the top down"

That resonates as much or more now than it did the first time you wrote it. The solutions are all lying around waiting to be implemented, and some people are just rolling up their sleeves and doing what they can to get it done. But we're saddled with this anti-elite that's horrified at the prospect that they won't get the credit for it, won't profit from it, or worse, will be found surplus to requirements if the solutions don't involve them. So they jump in front, interfere, prevent things from getting done, and what little they do is invariably a perversion that only makes things worse.

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Today, Humboldt. Tomorrow...South Pasadena??? One can only hope...

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Sep 26, 2022·edited Sep 27, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

It's somewhat ironic that with regard to issues such as abortion and drug addiction, I often hear the rejoinder that 'you can't legislate morality'. Of course, that is true, but those who spout that line are first in line to mandate vaccines (for the common good!) and veganism (for the environment!) and electric vehicles (to combat global warming!). They never explain how it is that these 'solutions' will fix the problem at hand and reject any suggestion that there may be a downside to them. As Thomas Sowell likes to say, there are no pure solutions, only tradeoffs.

My general feeling is that those who crow the loudest about their 'solutions' should be the first to forfeit whatever winds up in short supply because of their short-sightedness. They should be the people who have to skip meals when food is not readily available and they should be the people who freeze their arses off when there is not enough 'green' electricity or natural gas to go around.

As for the fallout from the 'safe and effective' vaccines, I had to chuckle at the news that the smarmy CEO of Pfizer just announced that he has Covid for the second time in 6 weeks. Of course, this dimwit is saying that perhaps he needs a third booster (fifth shot). (Didn't he avail himself of their other wonder drug Paxlovid to treat his first bout of Covid? I thought that would make him all better.)

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Sep 26, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Check out Missouri Star quilt company. They did a similar thing in turning around their town based on a quilting shop. Amazing story.

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While you might be saying this a bit tongue in cheek, this seems to be the entire philosophy of the "left" at the moment: "Because the government says so. It has to work: It’s the law." I think Mao tried something similar in China once.

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Sep 26, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

A few years ago I started following a Twitter account called @veritasvital. He’s still there and is worth a look. He often speaks of living your life as the free person you are. This is his current pinned tweet:

“Live according to your principles-you needn’t speak or debate them.”

This sentiment is what I see the the people of the Fuller Field School and residents of Humboldt, KS being. They simply are what they know to be true. So simple! And yet so hard. It’s not the divorced from reality truth so perfectly exemplified by the ongoing multiple disasters of California. Far from it. It is the spark of God’s grace and eternal truths leaping to life in His creation…us.

This truth is rising up in people everywhere. And I do believe it will be unstoppable.

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BTW, Marx was a satanist. Not a surprise, really.

Mark Milley is one of the top-down people. He should have been fired long before he called his counterpart in China to tell him he'd let them know if/when we decide to attack them.

There should be a tax strictly on stupid. DC should charge themselves enough taxes to cover everyone's taxes. They should pay for us for a change!

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It’s similar to my work environment. Management always knows better. Even tho my “expertise” (haha) has produced a very good product, management always needs to “help “

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No-till farming has been a niche for quite a while. Also, farmers tend to focus on soil management.

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American Elites are not Marxist.

American elites want the Powers of Communist governments.

They don’t believe in anything but being on top.

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The problem is the Left is going to crash into a reality they cannot change by diktat. They will never accept or admit they were wrong anymore than Communists ever have.

Bring popcorn along with your guns.

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