Category Archives: Economic Manipulation

“Nudge:” How The Left Forces Their Agenda On You While Claiming You Still Have Free Choice

I have addressed this book on several occasions. It was written by one of Obama’s henchmen, and it explains how the Left has devised a plan that allows them to force you to do what they tell you to do while claiming you still have free choice.

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.

This is all Progressive ‘word-games.’ There is no ‘choice’ in any of this. You either do what they tell you to do, or they will make it impossible for you to do it. Mind you, it will still be legal, they just make it so hard or expensive, you can’t do it. This way, they believe they can tell the world they didn’t force you to do anything. You had a choice, you just didn’t want to pay the price for it. See, they are good people, you are the one who is too lazy or greedy to do or buy the things you say you want.

Honestly, this goes hand-in-hand with the Progressive’s congenital inability to accept responsibility for their actions.

Now, I know there will be many people who will object: saying that I am either over-reacting, or making this up out of whole cloth. Well, I’m sorry, but there are hundreds of stories that all indicate this is exactly what is happening. Here is just the latest that I have seen:

Pete Buttigieg to Americans: Get used to CRUSHING gas prices until we achieve ‘clean energy’ independence

Under President Trump, America became energy self-sufficient, and gasoline hit prices as low as $1.80/gallon. Oh, I know: if you try to check that now, every source will tell you this is a lie. Only, it is not a lie. I STILL HAVE MY RECEIPTS FROM NOV 2020! And they show that I was paying even less than that!

Biden took office and immediately took action to cut the supply of American oil. The result was predictable: gasoline costs spiked. Now, Biden is making moves that he claims are aimed at Putin but — ultimately — harm the American people by raising gas prices even higher while actually strengthening Putin in the process. And none of this is by accident or stupidity. This is all by design.

How do I know? Buttigieg just told us:

Until you start buying those expensive electric cars their buddies in Detroit want you to buy, they are going to keep making sure the gas prices go up, and up, AND UP!

By the way: this is the same lying two-step they pulled when GE was about to lose a fortune on its CFL investments in China. The American People didn’t want their ‘green’ CFL products so, what did GE do? They paid their government buddies some money in the form of ‘campaign donations’ and BAM! We have laws mandating the use of CFL’s. I mean, this is different this time. It’s not like the government is going to mandate the use of electric cars any time soon:

GM Surrenders To The Green Lobby — Calls On Feds To Mandate Electric Cars

Biden-Harris Administration Mandates Federal Government Purchase ZEVs

Government announces new ‘electric car mandate’ alongside big investment in EVs

Biden Sets Target of 50 Percent Electric Cars by 2030

California Mandates Electric Cars for 2035 and Here’s What That Means

I could go on and on, but why bother. Nothing in the Constitution allows for any of this. Neither the President or even the Congress have the authority to do any of this, but, hey! We have to save the climate, right? Yeah, another lie! But I won’t even bother with that one. No one who cares is willing to do what we need to do to stop this, so the whole world will be drug into this growing tyranny.

Hope ya’ll like eating Soylent Green

ADDENDUM

Nudge: The Final Edition

Now, the authors have rewritten the book from cover to cover, making use of their experiences in and out of government over the past dozen years as well as an explosion of new research in numerous academic disciplines. To commit themselves to never undertaking this daunting task again, they are calling this the “final edition.” It offers a wealth of new insights, for both its avowed fans and newcomers to the field, about a wide variety of issues that we face in our daily lives—COVID-19, health, personal finance, retirement savings, credit card debt, home mortgages, medical care, organ donation, climate change, and “sludge” (paperwork and other nuisances we don’t want, and that keep us from getting what we do want)—all while honoring one of the cardinal rules of nudging: make it fun!

Who Is The ‘Reasonable,’ Moral Person Among Us These Days?

We live in a day and age where few people bother to actually read. I pray this is not my audience. However, for the sake of those who might wish to share my posts with those who refuse to concentrate for more than a few seconds, here is a powerful message presented as succinctly as I know how to share it.

FIRST, A MEME:

NEXT, A 21 SECOND VIDEO:

FINALLY, A QUESTION:

Who is the most ‘reasonable,’ moral person among us: the one who believes and places their trust in these people, are the one who rejects them as what they are: liars, thieves, pedophiles, murderers and psychopaths?

********************

THE POINT EXPLAINED: The People condemned in the meme are the same as the guy in the video. They have to convince you to accept their ideas by lying to and deceiving you, and they have been repeatedly caught in their lies. They are all Socialists of some flavor or another, and all Socialism is theft, which means they are all thieves. A great many of them have been exposed to be pedophiles, which is why nothing ever happened with Epstein’s files, or the accusations toward Hollywood and — now — Disney and teachers admitting to their perversions. They created and used COVID-19 to shut down the world, murdering thousands in the process (yes, all of that is absolutely true, and the proof is in the public square, but their media will not share it with you). This puts them in the same category as Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Now, in this video, one of their public leaders boasts about what ‘They’ are going to do to the whole world. He even admits that they have no idea how ‘Their’ experiments will affect the world, but he knows it will likely cause world-wide upheaval (which will result in many, many more deaths). But does he show any humility or question whether or not ‘They’ should do any of these things? NO! He is actually excited about it, and that makes him part of a cabal of psychopaths.

EXPOSING THE HIDDEN HAND: How ‘They’ Trick You Into Demanding Your Own Poverty

I want you to follow me very closely with this post — please. Have you ever seen the movie, Elysium? The name comes from a Greek conception of the afterlife, but the movie is actually a prophecy about the world that is being made over top of the one they are currently destroying, and this article is actually an indication of how well their plan is succeeding so far.

Now, before we look at the article, let me give you the plot of the movie in a nutshell. If you live on earth, you live in an environmental wasteland ghetto, surviving off the scraps handed down from on high. In this case, ‘On High’ is the space station, where everything is beautiful, and perfect; there is no disease and you live forever. Essentially, the ‘Haves’ — who are superior in every way — doing their moral duty of taking care of the ‘Undesirables’ and ‘Inferiors’ who cannot possibly care for themselves without the ‘Haves’ doing everything for them. Naturally, the ‘Haves’ realize they hold the moral high ground, and expect to be respected for it, so they cannot understand why any of those living in the hell-hold below on earth would ever dare to question them, let alone blame them for their plight. Got the idea? OK, here is the article:

HALF of all U.S. small businesses have vacant job openings!

At first glance you might not see the connection between a lot of job openings and a two-tiered system where the self-appointed elites create and maintain a slave cast to support their utopian lifestyles, but I assure you, it is there. You just have to know a little bit about these elites, how they think, and how they work. But that takes a lot of time and effort, and most of us cannot afford to expend the two together.

This is where I can help. I have spent my leisure hours reading what ‘they’ have written for decades now. I study them (which is probably why I earned my Sociology degree: to assist in my study of ‘Them’). So I am uniquely equipped to help you see what this article actually means. I’ll try to show the threat to you in the easiest way I know how and hope you can do the math well enough to connect the rest of the dots for yourself.

HERE IS ‘THEIR’ 10-STEP PLAN (or, one possible version of it):

*We start with the primary assumptions of all Secular Humanists (i.e. Marx, Wilson, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, etc.): People are only poor because the ‘Haves’ steal the wealth of the ‘Have Nots.’

*’They’ recognize this ‘Social Injustice’ because of their superior intellect or understanding.

*Because of this superior understanding, they have a moral duty to balance the scales of society and save the ‘Have Nots’ in the process.

*Naturally, Communism is the goal (wink-wink), but we have to go through the step of ‘Socialism’ to get there.

*Socialism does not and cannot work — unless the right people do it ‘the right way‘ (remember, ‘They’ are the superiors who finally see how to do it the right way).

*Naturally, doing it ‘the right way,’ takes time, but the people need to be cared for while ‘They’ do the hard work of balancing the social scales.

*Enter the brilliant idea of ‘Universal Basic:’ a basic payment to all people willing to accept and live by ‘Their’ rules.

*But there’s a problem: the Middle Class is too big: they will fight back against any attempt to force Universal Basic onto Society.

*Solution: find a way to trick the people into begging for it.

*Step 1: find (or make) a global ‘crisis’ that can be globally exploited.

*Step 2: Use the crisis to shut down all small businesses without affecting your Corporate Partners.

*Step 3: Use the notion of ‘compassion for those who lost their jobs’ to push unemployment benefits — using money taken from those small businesses through ever increasing taxes — past the point that most small businesses can afford to pay.

*Step 4: Lift the lock-downs, then — when small businesses start to suffer because they cannot find employees — blame the small business for not paying ‘a living wage.’

*Step 5: As small businesses start to fail under the combined weight of paying the taxes that pay people more money not to work than the business can afford to work, more people become unemployed and, thus, on the higher unemployment benefits.

*Step 6: After enough small businesses have failed, stop the unemployment payments, thus leaving millions who now cannot find work because the jobs no longer exist.

*Step 7: Blame the greedy small business owners for refusing to pay more than the government did.

*Step 8: Offer the idea of a basic minimum income of $2,500/month for anyone and everyone who will agree to stop looking for work and just live off the government payments.

*Step 9: The Government becomes the default Master of all, and their Corporate Partners reap the rewards of being able to hand-pick its labor force, knowing they no longer have to offer more than $3,000/month to hire the — unless they want to pay more 😉

*Step 10: Lock-down the system so it can never be changed using cell phones, a Social Credit system and State-wide monitoring to remove any and all privacy.

There you have it: Mission Accomplished!

‘They’ are now deserving of all the praise and accolades you can heap on them. After all, ‘They’ just saved Humanity by re-making the whole world into the perfect, homogeneous society (perfect for ‘Them;’ not so much the rest of us). You will no longer have any personal possessions and you will be happy about it (or you won’t be). It really is all so simple: if only we would just recognize their superiority and bow to their plans (i.e. will), ‘They’ will take care of our every need. All we have to do is just trust ‘Them.’ I mean, come on, looking back at ‘Their’ history, haven’t ‘They’ proven ‘They’ have our best interests in mind by now? Why would any of us possibly want to resist all the good ‘They’ are trying to do to us?

I hope I laid that on thickly and clearly enough that you can see or start to see what is happening. And, please, don’t doubt me. One of the primary goals is to destroy Capitalism, which then leaves the vacuum necessary in order for them to ‘rebuild’ society. Well, Capitalism runs on trade, which means goods. Have you noticed how many things are getting harder to find, and when you find them, they are getting more and more expensive — especially the necessities such as food and energy? Yeah… NOT by ‘accident.’ If they push this far enough, you will eventually beg for ‘Their’ universal basic — just in hope you will have enough money to feed your family.

The de-funding of police, and orchestration of public attacks on the officers who remain to try to serve society? How better to get you to beg for tyranny than to create the conditions of lawlessness necessary to get you to give up your liberty for ‘Their’ promised security.

This is all a planned collapse of society, and they are managing it masterfully so far. You are living in a real-world Matrix, and Mr. Smith is winning — and winning BIG! Our only hope is to red pill enough people before it’s too late. Because, if we can’t, eventually, they will convince you that 2+2=5 — and you’ll embrace it because none of my kind will be left to save you. We’ll all be dead by that time (just research ‘Their’ history and you’ll understand why I say that). 🙂