It’s Time for the Great American Tradition

Government Shutdowns are back! [The Rude Awakening] September 26, 2023 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( The Great American Tradition Resumes - Current funding for the federal government is set to expire on September 30, 2023. - It’s too bad Congress can’t be permanently shut down. - Are you essential? What does that even mean? [External Advertisment] [New Cash Law Will Be Disaster for Savers]( New law has expert warning seniors and retirees to beware. There’s a darker truth behind this political event... [Read The Full Story Here]( [Sean Ring] SEAN RING Dear Reader, Good morning from sunny, crisp Asti! I was just trundling through the news when I came across one of my favorite terms: shutdown. As in, government shutdown. I can’t think of a more helpful thing a government can do, especially a Western government. (Even Belgium’s economy registered growth during their myriad shutdowns.) Not only do the usual government shutdowns not matter, this one is especially ridiculous. Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, who continually proves himself to be about as useful as nuts on a Catholic priest, has decided not to stop Ukraine’s funding during the shutdown. So, Johnny Foreigner gets his wedge while Americans must dutifully wait for their share of the spoils. Their spoils. The question isn’t how it took McCarthy fifteen votes to get confirmed as Speaker; it’s how he got confirmed at all! Let’s poke fun at the whole ridiculous thing on this autumnal Tuesday. It’s Shutdown Time! Ah, yes, the time-honored American tradition is upon us once again. No, I'm not talking about Thanksgiving or the Super Bowl. I'm referring to the ever-so-dramatic, always entertaining, and utterly pointless spectacle known as the "government shutdown." You see, folks, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, there’s this peculiar ritual where elected officials—those paragons of virtue and wisdom—can't agree on how to spend the money they've already taken from you. So, what's the logical solution? Shut it all down, of course! [Warning: Could Massive Civil Unrest Come To U.S. Cities In 2023?]( The streets are mayhem… Everyday supplies at the grocery store are cleaned out… In the parking lot outside, you see a large guy yelling at an elderly man… The big guy has something in his hand, and rage in his eyes... Things look like they could get out of hand at any moment. Is this disturbing scenario set to play out in U.S. cities across the country? [Click here now for an urgent warning from a former advisor to the CIA and Pentagon](. [Click Here To Learn More]( Of Course, It’s All Trump’s Fault From the [AP]( A government shutdown would disrupt the U.S. economy and the lives of millions of Americans who work for the government or rely on federal services — from air traffic controllers who would be asked to work without pay to some 7 million people in the Women, Infants, and Children program, including half the babies born in the U.S., who could lose access to nutritional benefits, according to the White House. It comes against the backdrop of the 2024 elections as Donald Trump, the leading Republican to challenge Biden, is egging on the Republicans in Congress to “shut it down” and undo the deal McCarthy made with Biden. Republicans are also being encouraged by former Trump officials, including those who are preparing to slash government and the federal workforce if the former president retakes the White House in the 2024 election. With five days to go before Saturday’s deadline, the turmoil is unfolding as House Republicans hold their first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing this week probing the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden. “Unless you get everything, shut it down!” Trump wrote in all capital letters on social media. “It’s time Republicans learned how to fight!” The Blame Game Now, let's not kid ourselves. The blame game is the main event here. Democrats will point fingers at Republicans. Republicans will point right back. And the media? Oh, they'll have a field day, churning out headlines faster than the Federal Reserve prints money. But let's be honest: this is a bipartisan failure. It's like watching two kids fight over a toy, except the toy is a multi-trillion-dollar budget, and the kids are supposed to be adults. Essential vs. Non-Essential During a shutdown, we're often reminded of the terms "essential" and "non-essential" government services. It's a fascinating exercise in discovering just how much of the government is, in fact, non-essential. Here’s a quick clue: Ukraine is essential. You are not. Nor are Maui residents. Or East Palestine residents. Do you mean to tell me we can survive without every federal agency operating at full capacity? Shocking, I know. The Market's Reaction Ah, the markets. Those jittery, emotional beasts that react to every headline and tweet. You'd think Wall Street would panic over a government shutdown, right? Wrong. The market has seen this circus before, and it's unimpressed. In fact, some traders might even see it as a buying opportunity. Less government meddling could be a good thing, couldn't it? Right now, the markets are far more worried about how high and how long Jay Powell will take interest rates. Although this would be interesting, from [Reuters]( The publication of major U.S. economic data, including employment and inflation reports of critical importance to policymakers and investors, will be suspended indefinitely should the federal government shut down at the end of this week because of a lack of funding, a government official said. The suspension of the reports would occur across all government agencies such as the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Commerce Department's Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), and leave policymakers at the Federal Reserve, investors, businesses, and ordinary Americans in the dark as they make key decisions. The Real Victims Let's not forget the real victims here: the American taxpayers. While politicians engage in their theatrical disputes, it's the average Joe and Jane who bear the brunt. Whether it's delayed tax returns, closed national parks, or just the general sense of dysfunction, the people are the ones who suffer. But hey, at least we get some comedic relief from watching our leaders make fools of themselves on the national stage. The Silver Lining If there's a silver lining to all this, it's that government shutdowns expose the inefficiencies and absurdities of a bloated federal system. It's a wake-up call, a chance for you to question why the country needs such a cumbersome, intrusive government in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to consider a more streamlined, less paternalistic approach. But who am I kidding? This is Washington we're talking about. Unless 45 becomes 47, that is. I bet he’d like to take a machete to the government after stupidly keeping employed a bunch of Democrats who consciously worked against him. Wrap Up So, grab your popcorn and settle in for another round of shutdown theater. It will be a wild ride, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. And when it's all over, we'll be right back where we started, waiting for the next act in this never-ending drama. Until then, keep your wallets close and your liberties closer. Because if there's one thing a government shutdown proves, it's that the only thing we can truly rely on is ourselves. Have a great day! All the best, [Sean Ring] Sean Ring Editor, Rude Awakening X (formerly Twitter): [@seaniechaos]( In Case You Missed It… The Economics of “The Great Reset” [Sean Ring] SEAN RING Good morning from brisk, autumnal Asti. Have I got a treat for you today! My friend and fellow economic traveler, Thorsten Polleit, gave a fantastic speech at The Property and Freedom Society Conference in Bodrum, Turkey, yesterday. And he’s given me permission to reprint it here in the Rude. This speech is as long as three Rudes, but it’s packed with everything you need to know about The Great Reset, stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and all the other awful things The Cabal is trying to inflict on us. I encourage you to enjoy a big(ger) mug of coffee this morning while taking in this fantastic framework and commentary. Thorsten is an outstanding economist, and his thoughts and analyses are in the ears of many investors. Particularly, I enjoy the theoretical background he gives early on. Everything makes sense once you know that. I hope it excites you to explore the topic even deeper. Onward! All the best, [Sean Ring] Sean Ring Editor, Rude Awakening X (formerly Twitter): [@seaniechaos]( [Thorsten Polleit] THORSTEN POLLEIT Introduction In this article, I will attempt to unearth the political-economic fundamentals that characterize “The Great Reset.” Based on these insights, I will present an assessment of the economic consequences of The Great Reset if put into practice. My conclusion will be that The Great Reset builds on ideological communist-socialist and fascist ideas, which, if implemented, would destroy the freedom and prosperity and even the lives of the vast majority of the people of the planet. That may sound oversimplistic or exaggerated to you. Still, The Great Reset seems to be a Neo-Marxist-Communist attempt to overthrow the existing free society of the Western world (or what little is left of it). This conclusion rests on a simple insight: Namely, people interact in only two ways. The first way is voluntary action. Example: I offer you an apple for $1, and you accept my offer or not – just as you wish; or you invite me to dinner, and I voluntarily agree or refuse, whatever I think is best for me. The second way is coercion and violence. I force you to do something you don’t want to do of your own accord, and if you disobey me, I punish you, or you threaten me with violence if I refuse to give you what you want from me. Voluntary action or coercion and violence are the general principles of human interaction – there is no third option, no middle ground between the two. Tertium non datur. Chapter 1: Voluntary cooperation Liberalism and its logical and consistent form, libertarianism, stand for the path of voluntary cooperation. Libertarianism is based on the principle of non-aggression. It forbids uninvited physical aggression (whether threatened or carried out) against people and their property. The system of free markets, or capitalism, is the economic form compatible with libertarianism understood this way. Capitalism is an economic system in which: - The means of production are privately owned. Unconditional respect for property applies: everyone is the owner of his body (he has self-ownership) and of the goods he has acquired by non-aggressive means – i.e., by “homesteading” of goods not previously claimed by others, by production, and voluntary exchange (including gifts). - People use money for economic accounting and trading, making an advanced degree of the division of labor possible, nationally and internationally. - Markets are free; everyone is free to offer his/her goods, and everyone is free to demand the goods he/she wishes to consume. - In “real” capitalism – which is compatible with the libertarian concept – there is no such thing as a state (as we know it today). All goods are offered in the free market. This also includes the “goods” law and security, roads, education, money, credit, etc. [Will Inflation’s Second Wave Wipe Out America’s Middle Class?]( During the 1970s, inflation lasted for years and came in three separate waves. Each wave was far worse than the last. [Today, the same exact thing is happening again.]( Is the price of food, gasoline, housing and more about to skyrocket even higher? WARNING: The next wave of inflation could wipe out America’s middle class. [== > Get ready for “Inflation’s Second Wave.” Click here now to see my urgent warning.]( [Click Here To Learn More]( Chapter 2: Coercion and violence Now, to the other way of interpersonal relationships: coercion and violence. Coercion and violence have many forms and are the basic principles of many social theories. An example of this is Marxism. Marxism is the political-economic theory founded by Karl Marx (1818-1883), allegedly used to justify a demand for social transformation. According to Marxism, social development is determined by the “material factors of production” (tools, factories, etc.). The progress of material production technology causes an increasing division of labor and creates material wealth. Marx’s central criticism is that the workers create wealth, but it is concentrated in the hands of a few capitalists. According to the Marxists, this fundamental contradiction – the working class produces wealth, and the capitalists appropriate it – can only be eliminated by a revolutionary uprising; that is, by coercion and violence in the truest sense of the words. Marxism demands that the working class expropriate the owners of the means of production and convert the means of production into common property. Communism is built on the doctrine of Marxism – and thus, its foundation is also coercion and violence. It strives for a classless society, a society without rulers. After the necessary collapse of capitalism (which Marxists reckon with) and the violent overthrow of the prevailing property structure – the phase of socialism follows. Socialism refers to the economic and social order in which ownership of the means of production is nationalized – in other words, the owners’ assets have been confiscated by coercion and force. In socialism, a small group of people (or, in extreme cases, only one person, a dictator) determines how the means of production are to be used – i.e., what is to be produced when and in what quantity – and it is also determined centrally who receives what from the goods produced and when. From the communists’ point of view, socialism is supposed to be only a transitional stage, at the end of which stands the classless, stateless communist society in which everything belongs to everyone. As Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 1924), better known as Lenin, put it in 1917: “(T)he working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.” [1] In real life, however, socialists had never broken up the “ready-made state machinery.” The reason is obvious, as Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) noted: “The state is a machine in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.” [2] Another, more subtle strategy to get to socialism is democratic socialism. It, too, is built on coercion and violence. Democratic socialism pretends to maintain ownership of the means of production formally. However, at the same time, it demands that the owners no longer have a 100 percent claim on the profits they make from their property. The owners must pay part of the profits to the state through taxes. Those who resist will be punished, jailed, or even killed. Through parliamentary majorities, democratic socialism ensures that the conditions that lead to socialism are gradually created (increasing taxes, laws restricting private property, spreading socialist doctrines, etc.). Democratic socialism differs only in degree, but not categorically, from Marxist socialism. Democratic socialism typically makes use of interventionism. Interventionism represents the idea that there is a viable “middle ground” between capitalism and socialism: the good of both can be harnessed, and the bad of both can be eliminated. This idea calls for the state to intervene in the economy and society as necessary to achieve politically desirable results. Interventionist measures include, for example, taxes, prohibitions, subsidies, trade restrictions, price controls (maximum or minimum prices), mandatory education, etc. From an economic point of view, however, interventionism is bound to fail. Ludwig von Mises made this unmistakably clear in his 1929 Critique of Interventionism, that interventionism doesn’t deliver on its promises and that if interventionism is pursued further and further to its logical end, it will lead to socialism and even end in a totalitarian system. One outcome of interventionism is fascism. Fascism is a “mass movement with charismatic leaders,” its modern form goes back to the Italian politician Benito A. A. Mussolini (1883-1945). It is characterized by putting the interests of the community before those of the individual (we can speak of “anti-individualism”) and giving the rulers the power to eliminate all competition. Moreover, economic and social life is unconditionally aligned with the goals of fascism. It goes without saying that fascism, in whatever form, is also built on coercion and violence, not on voluntary action.[3] Another outcome of interventionism is Cultural Marxism. Cultural Marxism is a neologism (from the 1990s that first appeared in the US). It is a process of intellectual infiltration through which social and political revolution is brought about. The origins of Cultural Marxism can be traced back to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). He believed Marxism could not be established in the West (unlike in the East) through violent revolution, as in Russia. He argued that a different approach was needed, namely overthrowing the bourgeois system of morals and values: Once marriage, family, property, law, borders, nation, and Christian faith were relativized and discredited, the ground was prepared for a Marxist revolution. Another concept based on coercion and violence has emerged in recent decades, usually referred to as “political globalism.” Behind political globalism lies the view that the fate of humanity should not be left to free markets but should be shaped and controlled by an authority, a central political body. Whether economic and financial crises, climate, terrorism, or epidemics. According to the political globalists, the community of states, ideally a world government that wields all the power it desires, should fix things. Chapter 3: Anatomy of “The Great Reset” Political globalism brings us directly to the idea of The Great Reset. The World Economic Forum (WEF), in particular, promotes The Great Reset. It is not a detailed and explicitly formulated theory or strategy. Rather, it is a conglomeration of thoroughly fascinating visions of the future, scary threat scenarios, and far-reaching economic and social transformation fantasies and phantasms, the economic consequences of which generally remain obscure. Let us look at the most important building blocks of The Great Reset. - Stakeholder capitalism: This means that companies' owners should not only serve their interests but also the interests of third parties. - Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG): Capital investors are urged to invest in companies that bear the ESG label – and a good ESG label is awarded only to those companies that adhere to politically prescribed criteria. - Wokeism: This is the psychological notion of creating conflicts between people, of destroying the peaceful cohesion of people, of instilling guilt and inferiority complexes in people; for example, that they are only doing well because others are doing poorly in return; that it is good and right to desire less. - Climate catastrophism: According to this theory, the earth and its inhabitants will die if capitalism is not abolished. States must be put in the driving seat – and restrain, rein in, and suspend the system of free markets, constrain, even end, individual freedom. - Transhumanism: The idea of expanding the possibilities of human beings through modern technologies, more precisely: “hacking” what constitutes being human, computerizing their spiritual being. - Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR): The technologically driven and politically promoted upheaval of production and society through new technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Genetics), Machine-to-machine Communication, Smart Contracts, Internet of Things, Internet of Bodies, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), the Metaverse – and especially the introduction of “Digital Central Bank Currency” – I’ll get to that in a moment. - Lockdowns: The shutdown of economic and social activity is also part of the Great Reseters’ toolbox to achieve their goals. - Private-public partnership: The state joins forces with (big) companies to achieve specific goals (as far as, say, climate, health, money, and credit are concerned) or big companies (big business, big tech, big pharma, big banking) use the state for their purposes, state and big companies enter into a symbiosis. Of central importance for spreading the idea of The Great Reset is that its representatives point out and dramatize problems – such as climate change, environmental pollution, epidemics, income inequality, etc. – and label them as existential threats to humanity. The possible solutions that The Great Reset representatives recommend to cope with the problems raised invariably recommend state interventionism. Chapter 4: Theoretical Interpretation How can The Great Reset, or rather its building blocks, be theoretically interpreted in terms of the history of ideas? It’s evident that “capitalism is evil” is of Marxist provenance, that capitalism is the cause of the grievances that The Great Reset proponents abhor. The posting of threatening scenarios also has clear reminiscences of Marxist impoverishment theory. As a reminder, to encourage support for socialism-communism, people were instilled with fear that capitalism would impoverish large numbers of people, leave them to starve, and that only very few would profit from it. Whoever did not want that would have to end capitalism and help socialism-communism to break through. It doesn’t take much to realize that this idea is profoundly anti-capitalist and hostile to capitalism; state guidance and control should override what is left of the free market. The Great Reset uses interventionism; it does not openly call for a communist revolution or envisage nationalizing private property during a violent takeover. Nevertheless, implementing The Great Reset agenda will foreseeably lead to a forced change in ownership structures and a de facto expropriation of many private property owners. Consider, for example, that moving away from fossil fuels will dramatically reduce the income and wealth of many people. Real incomes decline, and people become impoverished. For example, many people can no longer afford property in the form of apartments and houses. They have to sell them. This allows large banks and investment firms (which have favorable refinancing costs) to buy up land, houses, and apartments and offer them for rent. Former apartment owners become “rental slaves.” Or: Small and medium-sized enterprises run into problems when the purchasing power of their customers dwindles; they don’t have the financial strength to survive virus and climate lockdowns. They go under, or they get bought out by big companies. Wokeism can be understood as directly aligning with Marxism or Cultural Marxism. It aims not only to destroy existing social relationships to bring about unrest and conflict but also to demoralize and discourage people – because, as we know, this weakens people’s resistance to developments that they would not tolerate without demoralization and discouragement. This way, the state can relatively easily restrict and abrogate the freedoms of citizens and entrepreneurs. Above all, wokeism also ensures that people inwardly say goodbye to the achievement principle, capitalism, and the pursuit of a better material life. The free market system, competition, and the striving to be better than others are discredited. Wokeism even relies (usually not overtly) on the polylogism with which Marxists sought to invalidate, defame, and discredit their opponents. Two examples of polylogism are the claim that there are more than two biological sexes or that “logic” is an expression of “white supremacy.” The Great Reset not only has Marxist-socialist-communist but also unmistakably fascist elements. Obvious, for example, is the harnessing of corporations to achieve political goals (for example, CO2 reduction or food conversion – away from meat consumption to artificial food, including insects). Today’s much-vaunted “public-private partnership” is, at its core, an expression of the fascist concept: private companies become an extension of the state and its interests. This way, the state gains a huge expansion of its financial and personnel capacities; the corporate sector becomes a branch of the government – a regime of “governmentality” is established, the corporate sector as a semi-state functioning on behalf and as part of the state itself. Seen in this light, The Great Reset fully caters to the idea of political globalism, according to which the people of this world should not shape their destinies in a system of free markets. Still, their way of life should henceforth be directed and controlled by a central world authority – a technocratic world elite, a “world council of the enlightened.” Against this background, it is easy to see that The Great Reset contains elements that indirectly or directly promote or (can) evoke totalitarian structures. The most obvious technical tool for this is central bank digital currency issuance. Chapter 5: Central bank digital currency That central banks are working to issue central bank digital currency is not surprising in light of what has been said so far. The Great Reseters predict and advocate that all transactions of daily life will be digitally mapped, all the way to the “Internet of Bodies,” to storing everyone’s brain activity on the Internet. Having everything take place on the Internet also includes adapting money transactions to digital needs and possibilities. In particular, programmable money is of great interest to The Great Reset. One could use conventional fiat money produced by commercial banks for this purpose and in tokenized form. However, central bank digital currency is being advocated because there are tremendous opportunities for control and power associated with the issuing central banks and the special interest groups that seek to harness them for their purposes. Here are a few consequences of the central bank digital currency issue: - Digital central bank money displaces cash. Consumers and producers thus completely lose their financial privacy and become transparent. - Once digital central bank money has become sufficiently widespread, the central bank can increase the money supply in the economy at the push of a button. The possibility of abuse with inflation, which is put into the hands of states and their central banks, is virtually maximized. - The allocation of central bank digital currency is based on the principle of arbitrariness: The central bank decides who gets how much money and when – and who gets none. The policy favors some; others are disadvantaged. With digital central bank money, the overthrow of income and wealth relationships can be achieved more easily than ever using monetary means. - Central bank digital currency can be combined with a social credit score, as in China. Behavior that conforms to the system is favored, while criticism of or even resistance to the system is punished. For example, payment options with CBDCs are restricted if a politically prescribed maximum amount of meat is consumed, maximum travel distances are exceeded, or politically undesirable books are purchased. It is not difficult to imagine what will happen if digital central bank money is even linked to a digital vaccination passport and a digital ID: It would be total control of a kind never before seen in history. The world would become a digital prison – or digital gulag, as Michael Rectenwald put it – compared to George Orwell’s 1984, which would seem like a gentle spring breeze. Chapter 6: Where The Great Reset Leads Us An economic analysis reveals that The Great Reset cannot create a better, more prosperous world. It amounts to a state-directed command economy based on coercion and violence that will predictably produce scarcity, poverty, starvation, and even tyranny. Digital central bank currencies could create a world of total control. Policymakers’ efforts to hide the costs of the transition to The Great Reset from the general population – such as output and employment losses – will foreseeably cause considerable increases in credit-financed government spending. Central banks will buy up the swelling tide of government bonds and put new money into circulation. The result will be ever-rising goods price inflation and the destruction of civil society – especially if and when digital central bank currencies become the dominant kind of money. The fanatical effort to end fossil fuel use, accompanied by a restriction or politically deliberate increase in the price of food, will foreseeably not only pave the way to poverty for many people, it will also pose a severe threat to the survival of a large part of humanity. Chapter 7: Stopping and Reversing The Great Reset Is it possible to stop the advance of The Great Reset, to reverse the “progress” already made? Yes, that is entirely possible. The destiny of mankind on this planet is not pre-determined, as the Marxists would have us believe. Instead, it is a man’s actions in the world that decisively determine his future. And since human action is in the last consequence, indisputably determined by ideas or theories, ideas, and theories are, in the end, the battlefield on which The Great Reset must be resisted if one wants to stop and reverse it. Ludwig von Mises formulated this impressively: Only ideas can overcome ideas, and it is only the ideas of Capitalism, and of Liberalism that can overcome Socialism. Only by a battle of ideas can a decision be reached. [4] … “Human society is an issue of the mind. Social cooperation must first be conceived, then willed, then realized in action. It is ideas that make history, not the ‘material productive forces, those nebulous and mystical schemata of the materialist conception of history. [5] Presumably, however, it is not enough to teach people about sound economics to cut off the water from The Great Reset. Rather, a “new enlightenment” is also necessary. What do I mean by a new enlightenment? It was the philosopher of the Enlightenment and Königsberg native Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) who gave people the ideal of reasonable autonomy. By autonomy, Kant means the ability to lead one’s life in a self-determined manner, according to rules one sets for oneself; and, according to Kant, a reasonable person sets the rules they follow for themselves and does so only after giving himself an account of their general acceptability. Kant’s ideal of enlightenment shows that everyone is called to think for themselves and must overcome their cowardice and take the courage to think for themselves; they are not obliged to follow “expert opinions,” authorities, and self-appointed priests of opinion. Instead, the rule is “Sapere aude!” (Dare to use your own mind!) Unfortunately, man’s lack of courage and, frequently, his laziness to think for himself cause him to remain in the stage of pre-Enlightenment – or even to fall back into it; the latest coronavirus crisis is undoubtedly a point in the case of anti-enlightenment. Fortunately, one result of enlightened thinking can be understood quite easily: No one with the right to rule over others can logically justify such a claim. And the human form of interaction associated with enlightenment is voluntary action, not coercion and violence. However, the world of states as we know it today rests precisely on coercion and violence, not on voluntary action. There is no blessing in that and accepting and tolerating the state (as we know it today) has bad, actually destructive, consequences. The state as we know it today is becoming ever larger and more powerful, relentlessly expanding, destroying civil and entrepreneurial liberties. And even a minimal state will sooner or later become a maximal state, as Hans Hermann Hoppe (* 1949) pointedly puts it.[6] Seen in this light, The Great Reset is nothing more than a concrete manifestation of this (action-logical) insight: special interest groups harness the state's power for their ideological purposes, and the state gains powerful supporters by granting privileges. The State enables something like The Great Reset, which is anti-economic, anti-human, anti-moral, and anti-enlightenment. But once it has been made clear that the state (as we know it today) is based on coercion and violence and that The Great Reset is ultimately only a concrete manifestation of escalating state tyranny, no enlightened person can give their consent to this development; rather, they are urged to stop and reverse it – with the help of sound economics and, by no means less important, new enlightenment. Thank you very much for your attention! All the best, Thorsten Polleit Author, [The Global Currency Plot]( X (formerly Twitter): [@ThorstenPolleit]( YouTube: [Thorsten Polleit | English Channel]( Sources, for your review and edification: [1] Lenin, V. I. (1917), State and Revolution, p. 28. [2] Stalin, J. (1924), The Foundations of Leninism, p. 40. [3] Historically, it should be said here not all forms of fascism were equally inhumane and destructive. Thus, the “totalitarian perfection” of Italian fascism was less than that of German fascism under the National Socialists. [4] Mises, L. v. 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