It seems that everything the elites do not like is “hateful,” such as criticisms of immigration, as illustrated by this article:
With the Wuhan flu lockdown, things have been slow around here in London, even knife murders are down a wee bit. But, things are now starting to bounce back, all bad, of course, but what can one expect in a Leftist globalist world. Le Pen has spiced things up a bit with her recent claim that the latest migration pact, designed to catch up the Great Replacement after a slight detour via the New World Order for the Wuhan flu, is European suicide. Yep, more of the same:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/11/marine-le-pen-rejects-new-eu-migrant-pact-as-suicide-of-europe/
“French populist National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen has launched a campaign against the new European Union migration and asylum pact, stating it will lead to the “suicide” of Europe. The new proposal by the European Commission to radically reform the bloc’s asylum policies away from the previous Dublin agreement was put forward at the end of last month and, according to Le Pen, could see as many as 60 to 70 million migrants settling in the EU in the coming years. “It is an organized plan for the submersion of Europe and the nations that make it up,” Le Pen said Friday at the RN headquarters in the city of Nanterre, broadcaster TV5Monde reports. Le Pen went on to state that the new pact “will cause the ruin of our social systems, an increase in unemployment, a housing crisis, an increase in delinquency and communitarian conflicts, the advance of Islamism and terrorist risks and the questioning of the values of our civilization.” She slammed the European Union, stating that it had “entrusted the keys to the Middle East gate to Turkey, which is now blackmailing us in submersion. Today, it is about to open the doors of the House Europe on the Third World. Let’s take back the keys to Europe and France!” Le Pen said that she, along with other members do the populist Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament, would be campaigning against the new migrant pact, and will launch a petition with the goal of getting around a million signatures. The comments come after the Visegrád group of Central European nations — Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland — also spoke out against the new pact in late September. “‘Allocation’ or ‘quota’, to change the name, is not enough. Hungary is against it. The basic approach is still unchanged. They [the Commission] would like to manage migration, and not to stop the migrants. The Hungarian position is stop the migrants,” Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said. “We have to stop migration and the quotas and relocation. These rules are not acceptable for us,” Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš added.”
It is a sure sign of advanced cultural collapse, when even mathematics goes woke politically correct. I have covered individual crazy academics saying all sorts of bat s*** crazy things, but now the madness has penetrated to the upper reaches of the rotten tree of knowledge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/math-association-say-math-inherently-carries-human-biases-citing-critical-race-theory
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/11/mathematical-association-critical-race-theory-necessary-to-fight-human-biases-in-math/
“The Mathematical Association of America recently released a statement in which it pushed back against President Donald Trump’s recent executive to curtail the teaching of critical race theory. The association argued that mathematics contains “human biases” that can only be corrected by promoting critical race theory and other radical doctrines developed on college campuses over the past two decades to math educators and students.
According to a report by Campus Reform, the Mathematical Association of America is pushing back against the President’s recent order to curtail the promotion of critical race theory. Breitbart News reported in September that President Trump issued an executive order to stop the federal government from teaching “critical race theory” during diversity training. Critical race theory is a philosophy developed by law professors in the 1980s. Its advocates believe that many aspects of American society need to be re-evaluated in light of the nation’s history of slavery and discrimination towards minority groups. In its statement, the Mathematical Association of America argued that the math community needs critical race theory to correct the “human biases” that allegedly exist within the history of mathematics. “It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases,” the statement reads. “Until this occurs, our community and our students cannot reach full potential. Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in critical, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community. The time is now to move mathematics and education forward in pursuit of justice.” Breitbart News reported in August that the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health promoted the claim that two plus equals five. The equation is used by postmodern theorists to promote the notion that the Western notion of “objectivity” has been tainted by racism and discrimination. “Statements like ‘2+2 = 4’ are abstractions. What that means is they’re generalizations of ‘something.’ You should always think of these statements as associated with an underlying reality,” one Harvard researcher wrote. “As a data analyst, I love numbers but It’s my job to connect them to reality.”
So, the dreaded white supremacists were the ones in blackface, and dressed as antifa retard Leftoids, burning, looting and murdering. That explains everything:
https://www.takimag.com/article/burn-them-down/
“Giving credence to suspicions that rioting has engulfed the nation for four months now without officials lifting a pinkie finger to stop it because it’s actually part of a Deep State operation to rebuild the nation the way they want it rebuilt, the FBI recently took pains to announce that, no, Antifa was definitively NOT responsible for a spate of Oregon wildfires. Giving credence to suspicions that the mainstream press is merely a PR arm of the Deep State, many high-profile publications have taken great pains to assure us that, no, it hasn’t been Antifa and BLM torching and smashing and beating and killing since late May—it’s been “white supremacists” all along. Their words would lead an unquestioning soul to believe that despite the ample evidence of Black Lives Matter and Antifa “protesters” setting fire to police precincts and federal buildings and fast-food joints and car dealerships and public housing-facilities under construction in cities such as Madison, Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Rochester, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Portland, St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Nashville, Denver, Washington, DC, Madison, Richmond and states such as Nebraska, Ohio, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, these were just white supremacists in blackface and communist apparel. They even want us to know that when rioters and their enablers chant or tweet “burn it down,” they don’t actually mean it literally. Or at least not all the time.
I rejoice in being able to bring you the most juicy, exciting diverse articles of the week, not for the weak, enough to enrich anyone. Why, even reading the URLs is enough, since the contents might require an adult warning, if not rating.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/we-foreigners-now-rape-you-italian-politician-gets-death-and-rape-threats-for-opposing-construction-of-mosque?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_10_09_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-10-09
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-death-threats-man-charged-white-english-muhammad-abdul-basir-b861428.html
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/germany-muslim-migrant-hailed-as-model-of-integration-and-called-ambassador-of-saxony-beats-woman-to-death?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_10_10_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-10-10
The demographic transition theory is usually applied to the Third World. It holds that with increasing affluence, and education of women, population numbers drop as women become feminists, and go for affluence and materialism over traditional roles and religion, and strop having babies. It is basically true of the West as well, with below replacement levels of population in Whites everywhere. Not even a lock down in a so-called pandemic change anything, as feminism is stronger:
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/tory-shepherd-we-did-not-get-busy-in-the-lockdown-australias-fertility-rate-is-forecast-to-drop-to-158-next-year/news-story/42e40be8c9ab7808d9d705baa1aa2b96
“Once upon a time – before the Great Toilet Paper Panic Buy – people thought there might be something a little sexy about a pandemic lockdown. Maybe there’ll be a ’rona baby boom, they sniggered. It wasn’t an entirely daft thought. In disasters people often press on the horn. Look at South Australia’s famous statewide blackout in September 2016, which brought on a little baby bump in June 2017. Turns out being cooped up with our loved ones because of a raging virus is not up there with candlelit dinners after a catastrophic power failure. We did not, dear friends, get busy in the lockdown. Australia’s fertility rate is forecast to drop to 1.58 next year. The Federal Government’s projection that it would hit 1.9 was, well, premature. That’s 1.58 babies per woman, which is well below what they call “replacement rate” and far lower than the 3.55 births per woman in 1961. That fall, on top of the slowdown in immigration, means that population growth will slow to a crawl. (Migrants not only bring themselves, they bring a higher fertility rate because they tend to be in the right age bracket). To get to replacement rate, you’d have to have at least an extra 42 per cent of a baby per woman. Tricky. We don’t know for sure why baby making hasn’t been a priority during the pandemic. It could be the sense of impending doom, the paralysing fear of the future, or simply too much talk of airborne snot particles. Maybe it was because, as a range of studies found, women have ended up doing more domestic labour during the pandemic. Even if they don’t have kids. And I imagine that child caring and homeschooling and working from home all at the same time has a powerful contraceptive effect. So there’ll be no wave of ’rona babies. But the fact is Australia’s fertility rate was sliding anyway, and even that 1.9 estimate was overcooked. We’re not alone – fertility rates are falling around the world. A study of 195 countries published in The Lancet in 2018 found, while populations are increasing in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the fertility rate everywhere else is decreasing. In rich countries like Australia, the more education and the more access to contraception a woman has, the fewer babies she is likely to have. Women are waiting longer to have children, which tends to mean they have fewer, or none at all.”
We have said it all before, so now I merely post links of everyone else catching up. Like here, and we all need to think about this before the Left goes totally kinetic.
https://counter-currents.com/2020/10/yes-we-are-headed-for-violent-civil-war/
“On October 1st, with little fanfare, Politico published an extraordinary opinion piece that may be the most important thing I’ve read all year. Titled “Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins,” the essay was penned by three “senior fellows” at the Hoover Institution, New America, and the Hudson Institute, as well as a professor of “political communication” at Louisiana State University and a professor of government at the University of Maryland (that’s five authors, in case you lost count). Way back in November of 2017 (my, how long ago that seems . . . ) a mere 8% of both Democrats and Republicans held that it is legitimate to use violence to advance their political goals. Actually, there’s nothing “mere” about it. It ought to surprise us that such a sizeable percentage of both parties could hold such a radical view. Also surprising is Republicans running neck and neck with Democrats. Contrary to how they are perceived by Leftists, conservatives are slow to embrace the idea of violence, or any sort of punitive measures against their opponents. Their Achilles heel, in fact, is commitment to “fair play.”
The UN pushed on the policy of “non-discrimination” in the 1960s, it all coming together around 1965. The White Australia Policy look slightly longer to be murdered, but I have seen one MSM paper, dated 1945, when our boys were dying in the jungles of Asia, saying that the war indicates that the White Australia Policy will have to go, as if it caused the war. Ultimately all the politicians, Labor and Liberal, supported the abolition, or worked to undermine it. The link below is the official narrative, but once you read the American story below, you will be able to deconstruct its globalist Left narrative:
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/end-of-white-australia-policy
Here is what they did to America:
https://www.amren.com/news/2020/10/how-a-1965-immigration-law-forever-changed-the-makeup-of-america/
The narrative about slavery is conveniently dominated by the trans-Atlantic Black slave trade, as that is a good political weapon in American culture today. But, if the debate was fair, and all slavery condemned, then the slavery of Slavs, where the very word comes from, and the Irish, should be acknowledged by the Left. Here is material for those who came in late, which is most people. James LaFond, has written extensively on White slavery in America, and here is his convenient summary:
https://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=12544
“Below are some dates and numbers that figure prominently in the Irish Slave trade from the fine article linked at the bottom of the page:
Georgie Anne Geyer, in her book, Americans No More, (Atlantic monthly press, (1996), wrote about Americans: “history is replete with the sagas of great defeats, of peoples wiped off the face of the earth, and of cultures transformed through clashes with others. Across and throughout history, nations fell, disintegrated, lost their nerve, made disastrous decisions, fought wars of self-destruction, and were not wise enough to sustain themselves. But I, at least, have never been able to discover another nation in human history, much less a great and powerful one, that literally willed itself out of existence through lethargy, and worst of all, guilt over things it did not even do.”
This is well seen in the decline of the White population numbers as a proportion of the populations. The US, for example, is set to become non-White majority some think in about 10 years or so now; it was once 2050, then 2040. The whole of Western Europe, and even Australia is on track for the same fate at various times, but all well before 2050. Australia does not even keep track of its racial ethnic profile. Demographer Charles Price used to publish work on this, but that was decades ago. One look at the Sydney CBD shows Australia’s future as it slowly melts away.
The Covid freak-out delayed cinemas getting the latest Bond movie, No Time To die, which may surface in November 2020 according to some reports; other say 2021. Anyway, there was a push for a Black 007, then an experiment with a woman, but it looks like action hero Tom Hardy, of Mad Max fame will take the role, a great White hope:
https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/21/007-heaven-why-tom-hardy-as-the-new-bond-is-too-good-to-be-true
https://7news.com.au/entertainment/odds-slashed-amid-rumours-tom-hardy-could-be-the-new-james-bond-c-1330807#:~:text=Tom%20Hardy%20will%20reportedly%20play,has%20been%20confirmed%20as%20Bond
“This weekend it was reported that Tom Hardy had been cast as the next James Bond. And that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to believe, so long as you’re prepared to go on the say-so of an unsourced post on a Star Trek blog that hardly anyone has heard of. If that’s the case, then we should probably adjust our expectations for the next era of Bond. When Daniel Craig was announced as the new 007, it was via a big-budget stunt where he raced up the river Thames on an assault boat. If the Tom Hardy news is true, then the world will have to remember hearing about it from a 470-word blogpost on something called the Vulcan Reporter, which had to spend a fifth of its word count explaining who James Bond is. Tighten your belts, lads, because it looks like Bond is going absolutely threadbare. Still, this freakishly obscure post has nevertheless been taken as gospel by several newspapers, which means one of two things: that Covid has starved us of real film news to such an extent that we’re willing to believe whatever unsourced speculation gets lobbed at us, or that we’re all excited about the prospect of seeing Tom Hardy as 007. If it actually happens, it would be an interesting choice. It would mean that Hardy is, by far, the most established actor ever to play James Bond. Usually the role of 007 is handed to someone who, like Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig, are up-and-comers with a solid background in TV and a clutch of splashy supporting roles to their name. But Tom Hardy? Tom Hardy is Venom. He’s Mad Max. The films he has made in the last five years alone have not only earned $2bn around the world, but have also won 12 Oscars.”
Here is my latest survivalist video, pick of the week, where Canadian Prepper, a mixed-race guy, and basically politically neutral, argues that 95 per cent of people are not going to survive the coming collapse of Western civilization because they have been made super-soft by consumerism. I think it was Brian Simpson, who is as obsessed with race stuff as I am survivalism, reported on the famous mouse utopia experiment, where mice that had everything, affluence and comfort, ultimately self-destructed. That post is well worth reading again:
https://blog.alor.org/index.php/mouse-utopia-and-this-age-of-plenty-by-brian-simpson
Canadian prepper even admits that racial differences exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WXrbgjcvXU&t=1037s
The Covid Lockdown is a practice run for the big one – the Carbon Lockdown. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is madness will be irrelevant to the new WCO (World Carbon Organisation). To meet UN Paris targets there will be no more petrol cars, diesel trucks, reliable electricity, beef burgers or Christmas ham, but bio-fuelled battleships, hydrogen-fuelled planes and sail-powered bulk carriers will be decreed (except in the BRICS world). Diesel submarines will be scrapped and NATO will mandate battery-powered battle tanks. Pit ponies will return to the mines, and farmers will plough with Clydesdales. Soon they will design a mask that absorbs CO2 from your breath. Mega-cities will be “unsustainable”. You will be confined to your local commune and shop in pedal-powered trikes with battery-assist. You must eat local food and use electric power only when they switch it on for your district (but never on still, frosty mornings). Our obedience to the Covid Lockdown has given them confidence to enforce their Carbon Lockdown. They will track us with microchips and control our travel, food, water and electricity usage via 6G. We are entering the GREEN ZONE.
Here is my latest survivalist video, pick of the week, where Canadian Prepper, a mixed-race guy, and basically politically neutral, argues that 95 per cent of people are not going to survive the coming collapse of Western civilization because they have been made super-soft by consumerism. I think it was Brian Simpson, who is as obsessed with race stuff as I am survivalism, reported on the famous mouse utopia experiment, where mice that had everything, affluence and comfort, ultimately self-destructed. That post is well worth reading again:
https://blog.alor.org/index.php/mouse-utopia-and-this-age-of-plenty-by-brian-simpson
Canadian prepper even admits that racial differences exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WXrbgjcvXU&t=1037s
In our culture, once upon a time, and to some degree the mythos still exists, goodness was associated with light, evil with darkness, something that must go back to our primal past. And, associated with this, is I think the recognition that evil people tend to be ugly. You can have a look at the villains at present on the US stage, you would not be wrong in taking most of them to be demons. A few days back a photo of one popular Left figure seemed to indicate growth deformities on her neck, leading to one wit writing that she was growing gills!
It was the philosopher Wittgenstein who said: “the human body is the best picture of the human soul.” Being a philosopher, he was probably meaning to advance materialism, but there is another mytho-poetic reading of this claim. You can get a rough idea of what most people are like by looking at their faces. Physically beautiful people tend to be better quality people, not always, but at a statistically significant level.
https://www.insider.com/benefits-of-being-attractive-science-2018-12#companies-with-attractive-ceos-might-make-more-money-2
https://www.macleans.ca/society/science/the-mysterious-power-of-attractive-people/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/games-primates-play/201203/the-truth-about-why-beautiful-people-are-more-successful
https://medium.com/swlh/attractive-people-are-more-likely-to-be-trusted-elected-and-listened-to-a0735869d2e8
It seems that along with putting people in concentration camps, organ harvesting and generally committing genocide of the Uyghurs, all facts the Left does not adequately face up to, even if only a passing mention is made of “cultural genocide” …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-10/uyghur-culture-under-threat-in-china-thrives-in-australia/11673636
… there is the treatment of Christians, which is something of a combative sport for the commos:
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/07/communists-warn-citizens-christianity-does-not-belong-china/
Now you don’t even have to say a politically incorrect word; you can say a word in another language that sounds like it, and still get smashed. Welcome to the new Dark Age of woke superstitions:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-09-05-professor-on-leave-after-students-offended-n-word.html
https://campusreform.org/?ID=15580&utm_
“Communications professor at the University of California’s Marshall School of Business is on a short-term break after saying a Chinese word that sounds similar to an English language racial slur. During a recent online class, Greg Patton, who is an "expert in communication, interpersonal and leadership effectiveness," according to his faculty bio, explained the usage of a Chinese filler word for “that,” comparing it to the usage of “like,” “um,” and other American filler words. On Tuesday evening, the USC Marshall School of Business provided Campus Reform with a statement, confirming that Patton is no longer teaching his course. “Recently, a USC faculty member during class used a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English. We acknowledge the historical, cultural and harmful impact of racist language,” the statement read. Patton “agreed to take a short term pause while we are reviewing to better understand the situation and to take any appropriate next steps.” Another instructor is temporarily teaching the class. USC is now “offering supportive measures to any student, faculty, or staff member who requests assistance.” The school is “committed to building a culture of respect and dignity where all members of our community can feel safe, supported, and can thrive.”
This is interesting, discussing the concept of hypernormalism, which for some odd reason reminds me of some sort of over-reactive thyroid disease, but I am probably wrong about that one, having an under-reactive thyroid that makes me the opposite of the Incredible Hulk, the Forgettable Sulk. The issue relates to our concern about why there is so little resistance from the normies, when it is basically open season on them and all they are being picked off like ducks in a shooting gallery at once was the Royal Shows, soon to be the Republican Shows.
https://gellerreport.com/2020/08/bidenriotsblm-threatens-to-rip-president-trump-from-white-house-we-about-to-go-get-that-motherfer.html/
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/29/hypernormalisation-documentary.aspx
“Documentary filmmaker and BBC journalist Adam Curtis has developed a cult following for his eccentric films that combine BBC archival footage into artistic montages combined with dark narratives that create a unique storytelling experience that’s both journalistic and entertaining. His latest film, “HyperNormalisation,” came out in 2016 and is perhaps even more apropos now, as many have the feeling that they’re waking up to an unprecedented, and unreal, world anew each and every day — and so-called fake news is all around. The term “HyperNormalisation” was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a Russian historian. In an interview with The Economist, Curtis explained that it’s used to describe the feeling that comes with accepting total fakeness as normal. Yurchak had used it in relation to living in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, but Curtis used it in response to living in the present-day U.S. and Europe. He said: “Everyone in my country and in America and throughout Europe knows that the system that they are living under isn’t working as it is supposed to; that there is a lot of corruption at the top … There is a sense of everything being slightly unreal; that you fight a war that seems to cost you nothing and it has no consequences at home; that money seems to grow on trees; that goods come from China and don’t seem to cost you anything; that phones make you feel liberated but that maybe they’re manipulating you but you’re not quite sure. It’s all slightly odd and slightly corrupt. So I was trying to make a film about where that feeling came from … I was just trying to show the same feeling of unreality, and also that those in charge know that we know that they don’t know what’s going on. That same feeling is pervasive in our society, and that’s what the film is about.”
Here is a conservative article, which warms our heart, but to which there is a deeper critique. First, here is Professor Andrew Roberts defence of the West:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/no-reason-to-taint-with-guilt-our-faith-in-western-culture/news-story/7dc40163246ca2409986dab554f6ac06
“We all know the joke that Mahatma Gandhi supposedly made when he was asked what he thought about Western civilisation: “I think it might be a good idea.” The gag is apocryphal, in fact, first appearing two decades after his death, but very many people have taken it literally, arguing that there really is no such thing as Western civilisation, from ideologues such as Noam Chomsky to the activists of the Rhodes Must Fall movement at Oxford University who have succeeded in pulling down the statue of the benefactor of the Rhodes scholarships from Oriel College. This belief that Western civilisation is, at heart, uniquely morally defective has recently been exemplified by The New York Times’ inane and wildly historically inaccurate 1619 Project, which essentially attempts to present the entirety of American history from Plymouth Rock to today solely through the prism of race and slavery. “America Wasn’t a Democracy Until Black Americans Made it One”, was the headline of one essay in The New York Times Magazine launching the Project, alongside, “American Capitalism is Brutal: You Can Trace That to the Plantation” and “How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam”. When no fewer than 12 – in the circumstances very brave – American Civil War historians sent a letter itemising all the myriad factual errors in the Project’s founding document, The New York Times refused to print it, yet the Project plans to create and distribute school curriculums that will “re-centre” America’s memory. None of this would amount to much if only schools and colleges in Britain, America, Australia and across the English-speaking peoples were not so keen to apologise for and deny Western civilisation, and to abolish or dumb down the teaching of important aspects of it.
Examining posts from overseas sites, you cannot but notice that their concerns are not about economics, the constitution or other red, white and blue issues, but survival of the engulfing chaos. They are warning us of a savage storm approaching. The wise will open their eyes and prepare now. Remember the story of Noah? 2 Peter 4-6: “For … God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; … He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; … He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly …” That’s something to think about while enjoying the last dregs of Western consumerism/materialism/affluence, because our modernity makes Sodomorrah look sweetly clean by comparison:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/suddenly-fear-social-unrest-everywhere
“Anyone with eyes can see that the mercury is rising across America. The riots that follow the deaths of folks like George Floyd and now Jacob Blake, the current violence in Kenosha, Seattle’s lawless autonomous zone, the movement to ‘defund the police’, the anger behind the surge of ‘cancel culture’ — the nation’s social fabric is suddenly stretched taut and starting to tear at the seams. Is it any surprise that gun sales are up 72%(!) vs last year, with first-time buyers driving a material percentage of that increase: According to a report by the Washington Post, the National Sports Shooting Foundation says that first-time gun buyers played a heavy role in the increase. Women and black Americans have also shown interest in arming themselves this year. “Nearly 5 million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2020. NSSF surveyed firearm retailers which reported that 40% of sales were conducted to purchasers who have never previously owned a firearm,” the organization said in its analysis, which tracked background checks associated with the sale of a firearm reported by the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System. “This is a tectonic shift in the firearm and ammunition industry marketplace and complete transformation of today’s gun-owning community,” said Lawrence G. Keane, a senior vice president at the foundation. “These first-time buyers represent a group of people who, until now, were agnostic regarding firearm ownership. That’s rapidly changing… This rise in public ire is something we’ve been warning of for years here at PeakProsperity.com. While there are many serious injustices that exist in today’s society, we believe the root cause for the majority of them lies in the misguided and frequently immoral policies perpetrated by the Federal Reserve and Congress — policies that reward the already-rich at the expense of the general public. 2020 has revealed this truth clearly in the response to the covid-19 pandemic. With the $5+ trillion unleashed between the monetary and fiscal “rescue” stimulus efforts, the battle cry from our “leaders” has been: Defend the rich! Despite an unprecedented decline in economic activity, asset prices have more than recovered their losses and many are now back at all-time-highs in what has been the shortest-lived bear market history.”
