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FOLLOW THE LEADER 2

LBJ did not start the Great Society welfare state amidst the Vietnam war because he was a softy for Negro’s.  He didn’t care about civil rights, past abuses, the plight of the poor, the health of hillbillies or geriatrics.  He wasn’t trying to bankrupt us by doing the whole guns and butter thing at the same time.  He was, simply, continuing the war by bribing the peasants who were revolting.  Blacks rioting in every major city?  Bribe them with welfare.  Any mass protest against anything other than the military draft?  Bribe them with welfare.  It was all a simple bribe.  The draft continued because the military needed its cannon fodder.  That would only change once the war was acknowledged as lost.  But everything else, every group that had a solid base to protest, bribe them with welfare ( once the old pukes saw the young being bribed, not content with Medicare, the greedy bastards, the geriatrics agitated for much more in the way of bribes.  Just in time when I entered the workplace, Social Security withholding went way up.  Enjoying more of my money, you parasitic bastards? If any of you think I‘ll see any of that retirement money in fifteen years, you are delusional.  No way our system lasts that long ).  Now, I’m not just ranting here.  I’m working up to a very important point.  Welfare is not a reward to the ghetto dwellers for being lazy.  Welfare is a control mechanism wielded by the FedGov.  It is as simple as that.

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Our economic engine sputtered out a long time ago and without welfare bribes to almost all of the population, we would have descended into chaos and anarchy decades ago.  You worry about a future where the government socializes all jobs and controls everything?  It is already here.  Ever heard of fascism?  It is the same as socialism, except that the government isn’t bothered with as many details economically.  They control the private sector through regulation and taxation.  The business is still run by citizens, not civil servants, but the government controls the business nonetheless.  Socialism is too expensive, being labor heavy.  Fascism is the poor mans way to socialize an economy, using far less people for control.  Yet, socialism is great for sopping up the unemployed.  Make work jobs are everywhere.  Under fascism, if you aren’t ramping up for or already conducting a war, you need to do something with the poor.  Under our system, we don’t employ them, we bribe them to stay quiet and behave with welfare.  We can’t go back to the Great Depression, with the army of FedGov workers building roads and dams and clearing forests.  We don’t have the physical resources for that.  And we can’t go back to World War Two, or even the Vietnam War, because, again, we don’t have the energy or ore to conduct a war big enough to sop up the unemployed.  Welfare is the cheapest way to occupy and pacify the unemployed.  Of course, all that had a price, in crime and social unrest.  More next article.

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FOLLOW THE LEADER

Back in the earliest days of the Cold War, survival wasn’t all that difficult or strenuous to ones brain.  You went down to your basement and built up a lot of mass against fallout.  A nice couple of weekends carpentry project.  A few Jerry Cans of water, some canned goods and you could relax a little better every time the commie leader started pounding his shoe on the table proclaiming he would bury us.  You could live in the city, most of which were pretty nice places ( as long as you stayed out of certain parts of town on the other side of the tracks ).  You got to keep your job, which was nice, and if it wasn’t so nice at least you got it without going to college and it was Union so paid a living wage.  Then, those dirty sticking Hippies came along and it all went to crap.  Okay, I’m kidding.  Then the war in Vietnam came along and the poor parts of society didn’t go along quietly to the slaughter as they had in times past and actually had the gall to protest and riot.  The nerve!  How dare they stand between the PTB and imperial profit!  And that was the last time the unkempt masses successfully stood up against our leaders.  Not because they had more gumption or sand or moxie, but because they were simply fighting for survival.  Our system changed to where no one had to struggle anymore.

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This is what really, really annoys me about the sanctimonious pricks out there agitating against welfare benefits.  They are usually in the upper percentile economically.  Which means they should have a better education, they have no experience with 90% of how the rest of us live and they themselves benefit from welfare.  Rich people, by which I mean the rich(er), not Bill Gates stupid rich but the lower rich or upper middle class, poor by rich standards but rich by lower class standards, the two SUV driving McMansion dwelling white collar workers, one of the Rawles Rangers, should have been raised by better off parents and lived in a middle class bubble neighborhood with decent schools.  They have gone to college.  Yet, they seem to be rather stupid.  They actually think that America is still free, that hard work will make you rich, that they alone working in a cubicle pushing paper epitomizes a Horatio Algiers rags to riches story and that anyone on welfare is stupid and lazy and if they could only get an electric shock to the ass would go work one of those well paying jobs that are lined up out there.  Hell, lazy pukes, they don’t deserve a well paying job!  They should work two crappy jobs, two of the many waiting out there!  Our darky prez says unemployment is only 6%!  There has to be jobs awaiting the ignorant masses, right?  A socialist Muslim here illegally would never lie to us!  How did these people ever graduate an institution of higher learning?  I guess nowadays college is just like high school.  Show up and you get pushed through.  A diploma mill.

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CHRISTAIN MILITIA TRIBAL CHANTS

Now, while I often diverge from topics doom or gloomy and follow my muse and write some different off the wall stuff, it still amazed me the other day when the leading unnamed survival blog devoted most of its space to all the rants and chants against the legalization of fudge packing/pillow biting and plastic penile pumping/carpet licking.  Granted, that is some pretty screwed up stuff.  It is one thing to turn a blind eye ( don’t ask, don’t tell ) so as to recognize individual rights, even if it does endanger social cohesion ( something Libertarian Rights activists have no conception of, as much as I love them anyway ), but quite another to encourage and sanctify behavior that harms society ( to hopefully forestall any rabid rainbow coalition comments, I’ll remind you that children reared outside a male/female parental unit do NOT make good members of society ).  Still, all that said, why all this hot air on a survival blog?  Do they think this is the straw that breaks the camels back, insofar as “western civilization crumbling”?  Dudes, that happened SOOOOO many decades ago.  Women’s Lib, the welfare state, gun control, the war on drugs, etc.  What made it so irritating was reading a waste of trees book “One New York Man’s Journey To Off Grid Living In Montana” by Rich Scheben, just the night before.  The first fifty out of 175 pages, he is still ranting heavy against political correctness.  He finally gets to his advice on buying land- “it’s okay to get into debt for that”.  Gee, thanks, after you just got done telling me how we are screwed economically.  I go from reading about evil PC’s dudes in a off grid book to reading about evil homo dudes in a survival blog. 

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But, I didn’t get mad.  I actually had an epiphany.  The leading survival blog isn’t even about survival.  That was where I was so wrong.  I get pissy because most of the advice is stupid, when I’m looking at all this the wrong way.  This is THE blog uniting the Christian Militia.  It isn’t about prepping.  It is about observing and maintaining all the customs and rituals demanded for any tribal cohesion.  To any outsider, all customs look bizarre.  To the insider, they are as righteous and rigid as religious dogma, and for a perfectly valid tribal survival reason.  It doesn’t matter if your tribe loves or hates homosexuality, what matters is that loving or hating it makes the tribe stronger.  Applying logic?  Suicidal, if it goes against the tribal customs.  Accepting any dictate without question is what a tribe does.  Not because the rule makes sense necessarily, because they always serve a survival purpose, but also because group cohesion is paramount.  I might think a bunch of holy roller nut jobs are not the kind of neighbors I like, but you have to admire them for being better citizens within their group than the average American.  Looked at from an anthropologic view, their site is not a skills forum, but a tribal gathering place.  Take their advice accordingly.

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A BASEMENT DARKLY

Recently, word has come down from On High ( the new Old Lady spoke ) that it was a No Go on moving out to the boonies.  I’m not pissed, as this actually saves me a lot of money I’d have spent unnecessarily ( my daughter has her wedding planned for fall of 2016 and I’m sending her a monthly stipend to defray some of the cost-between that and food and rent I have close to zero extra dollars coming in ).  I wouldn’t have minded digging into savings to build the camping cabin, if there was a good chance it would have turned into a permanent home, but if there is no chance I see little need for it.  In the original plan, it was an investment to eliminate the rent.  Now, it is nothing but a money pit.  So, that plan is over and done.  The new plan, mainly to keep me busy and to stop fretting over living in town, is to turn the basement into a secondary underground shelter.  The house is around a hundred years old, so all the wood is thick and from real trees ( as opposed to pine and chemicals ) and even without insulation on the ceiling, the basement is even better than the boonies Bison Pit Of Doom for a year round even temperature.  Right now it is great for moving a lot of my daily use items into, and there is a great metal clothesline down there.  Twelve hours is usually all it takes for the clothes down there to dry, so you can imagine my excitement about saving dryer quarters and wear and tear on the clothes. 

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I haven’t really figured out why I’d need the basement, other than perhaps a massive nuclear attack or a nearby asteroid impact, or Yellowstone blowing.  In most scenarios I see time to evacuate out to my property.  But, as I said, it is a Make Work project to keep my paranoia in check and too busy to formulate mischief.  I’m not stocking it for a long term stay, at least not yet.  I’ll eventually get around to that, if all stays on an even keel in the outside world.  For now, I’ll just go for a few weeks stay.  I’ve started with water jugs, those stupid expensive ones at about $1.40 for three quarters of a gallon ( Arrowhead brand, I think-I’m paying the premium for the extra quality plastic jug.  Buying two every grocery trip is painless and carefree.  It keeps the girlfriend from questioning my sanity too closely when I describe it as water in case of a power failure.  She is less keen on all the rice I am buying for her gluten intolerant son in law and grandchild, but goes along with it to shut me up ).  Next payday is low cooking time crap like Top Ramen, Minute Rice, white flour and the like.  Her BBQ grill has a cooking burner attachment and we have back-up propane tanks already in stock ( I sold that purchase as a money saving venture when propane went down to an incredible $1.99 a gallon- we BBQ a lot to keep the house cool ) so the cooking issue is resolved. 

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I just ordered a set of name brand high intensity LED flashlights in a three pack, and some more Lite Tubes.  Remember we talked about the trick on those?  You shine a high lumen flashlight in the Tube for a few seconds and it is fully charged for some time, to the brightness you can read by it if placed on the paper.  There are a couple of metal grate covered windows to see enough by the day ( frosted for privacy ).  There is still a lot of work to be done.  Bringing wool blankets from my place, scrounging for extra utensils, getting disposable plates and cups and such, a way to make coffee.  But I think it is shaping up nicely.  A way to make city living more palatable. 

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AMIDST A SEA OF ASSHATTERY 3

In fiction, any douche bag with a tomato plant and a chicken is somehow able to feed themselves and everyone else is a city slicker with rape and murder on their mind.  In reality, only an extremely small fraction in the whole country can feed themselves without modern Industrial Age Oil Age inputs.  Even the Amish, bless their pea-picking hearts, have only minimized rather than eliminated their infrastructure dependence ( they still work metal, without their own coal and ore mines, yes? ).  We are ALL the proverbial biker gang after the collapse.  Some will fall from grace later rather than sooner, but all will fall.  Even in an area littered with preppers, stocked up the wazoo, they will eventually go on the offensive to remain defensive, and there is only glory in that if you ignore collateral damage.  So, as we know that both country cousin and city slickers will both prey on you, the question remains how much more dangerous is the city than the country.  Both populations will turn feral.  The city is butt hole to elbow packed with potential enemies.  What are your odds in the city?  I think the question is, how safe is the invading army in the city?

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Think of it this way.  In the country, you are into food production.  You also have a road.  I would bet my left nipple that not more than two in a thousand of my readers have no more than a bike path leading to their country retreat.  They have a car road.  And unless you are away from the power lines and away from a water source and probably away from a valley floor, your odds of discovery are good if you are within twenty miles of any departure point.  An unconditioned child can walk twenty miles in six to eight hours.  And any enemy can easily take you out.  A casual recon, a crossbow bolt or arrow to any canine sentries, and a way to ambush you and it is all over.  In the city, on the other hand, you can be mobile because you have no food production.  If you have cached your food elsewhere at the first sign of trouble ( NOT in your home and NOT in a storage unit.  Or, at least in a storage unit or home under a good disguise- a few buckets buried in the dirt under your crawl space, with an outside access, for instance ), at least in the city you have a better chance of not being defeated militarily.  Door to door, three dimensional combat is highly fatiguing and resource demanding.  If the enemy can’t field first world army weapons, or evacuate an entire city with force, you can live in the city.  It is staying in place, in your precious suburban McMansion trying to defend sheetrock and a previous investment in status that will get you killed quickly.  Ideal?  Hardly.  Doable?  You decide.

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AMIDST A SEA OF ASSHATTERY 2

In the United States, living in the city is no more advantageous than living in the suburbs, economically speaking.  The old city centers are either in old Rust Belt cities which have jacked up their taxes in order to survive, or in newer cities such as Phoenix or Los Angeles which were never meant to be a city and have inflated infrastructure cost leading to higher taxes.  The suburbs are cheaper tax wise but once commuting is factored in provide little advantage.  Remote areas, the boonies, usually don’t have either high cost-there is no jobs within driving distance ( I’ve been told of people living in some remote parts down South commuting with gas costs at near $1k a month due to distances between employment.  With this arrangement, making $30k a year is below poverty level, take home pay wise ) and while very few people pay taxes, there isn’t much cost in governing them.  After costs of shelter and commuting and taxes, urban dwellers are usually are as poor as rural folks earning only casual income but with a paid for home.  The trick is to get casual employment.  There lies the rub.  Without that, there is no rural survival economically.  It is my theory that the Survival Blog Rawles Rangers in the Redoubt are mostly those few folks with telecommuter skills that are actually trading up by leaving behind taxes and commuting costs.  Even paying extra for Idaho land, they come out ahead.  They leave zero luxury behind, with less bills.  Well, how else to pay for all the semi-auto’s, right?

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That leaves the rest of us.  The best we can hope for is small town employment ( okay, correction- small CITY employment.  No small towns have any of that any more ).   No matter how you slice this pie, without employment there are no preppers, just poor folks one hospital visit away from starving.  So, survivalists must trade no work in a safer zone for city living and a job.  We can’t escape nearby populations.  I just moved back six miles into town, and while I feel less safe, that is just emotional hysteria, not rational logic.  There will be enough warning to get out, and six miles is nothing on foot if all other transportation options crap out.  Also, six miles is nothing if the town crowds branch out.  Even if the entire town is vaporized by an asteroid that magically avoids wiping me out, I have enough neighbors to pose a danger anyway ( about five times as many as when I moved there-and let that be a lesson to you ).  I was less safe there than before, so moving back doesn’t really magnify my risks all that much.  It just feels like it.  Rationally, there is only zero danger if you have zero neighbors with zero nearby villages, and that is none of us.  We should be maximizing safety, not trying to totally eliminate danger, because that isn’t possible.  Preaching country retreats without recognizing the danger is silly.  More next article.

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AMIDST A SEA OF ASSHATTERY

Living in an urban environment is scary for survivalists.  They are surrounded by a teeming pulsating sea of asshattery.  You have experts advocating nothing but wilderness retreat living on the one hand, and those calling for suburban Bugging In on the other.  Each side is basically clueless, of course ( to set the record straight, 99% of my advice is on surviving the economic collapse.  Beyond that, all is speculation and subject to too many variables.  I try to always include both sides of the argument, even if sometimes space and time constraints preclude such ).  Each presents compelling arguments, but each misses the mark widely.  Look, no matter what you do, it is the wrong answer for something bad happening, just as it is the right answer for other negative events.  All over the world, poor peasants flock to cities as they can’t own their own land.  The city is less than ideal, as each arrival lessons the odds of food and employment for all the rest.  But what choice is there?  Likewise, Bugging In is the only choice for those stuck by circumstance.  Far from ideal, of course.

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I’m not saying you should live in the city.  But I am saying, living in the country is far from a magical talisman for survival.  For every one of you at a retreat, all it takes is a nearby two or three to defeat you.  If you live ten or fifteen miles from a very small town of two hundred people, you are already outnumbered and outgunned.  To proudly proclaim that country boys are honest and freedom loving and help their neighbors is to ignore a crucial question.  “Are those survival traits in a severe resource contraction”.  Of course they are not.  In today’s First World, there are no tribes.  To get from the Now ( no tribes except nation states ) to the Then ( after the messy rearrangement going back to protection of a tribal unit ), you need to get people together, AND either provide for them or have them provide for themselves, and that is a very tall order in today’s economic arrangements. 

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You CAN’T state for a fact your presently friendly neighbors will join your tribe Come The Time.  They could become your enemies.  Come collapse, it is every family for itself, and sometimes every man for himself.  Whatever benefits THEM, not YOU, is what they choose.  The country has more self-sufficient homesteads than the city, and the city has more bastards per square yard.  But country people won’t be moving to the city ( unlike in Third World countries ).  City folk will be moving to the country.  You would have to be very remote to see a population decline rather than increase, in the country.  Whereas the city will see population declines.  Again, I’m NOT saying living in the city is a good idea.  I’m saying the country isn’t as safe and serene as sold.

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