1. Politicians in Washington DC will never be able to resolve your problems more effectively than you.
2. Local leaders will care about and be able to solve local problems far better than politicians in Washington DC.
3. Politicians in Washington DC need to be held accountable for their failures.
4. Primary elections provide the perfect opportunity to show displeasure with the status quo in Washington DC.
5. Seeking to make a career out of holding political office should be scorned and ridiculed.
6. Nominate people within your community who do not want to serve to Federal office.
7. Never give a dime to a political campaign for a career politician.
8. Donate to a local charity that addresses the needs of your community in lieu of political donations.
9. Volunteer in your community.
10. Look for solutions outside of politics.
11. Act as if you are responsible for solving the problems in your community.
12. Become the shining light in your neighborhood.
13. The larger the government the more wealth it will confiscate from you.
14. The current system of government in the United States is oligarchic in nature.
15. Dangerous liberty is better than a safe tyranny.
16. Politicians have an incentive not to solve problems.
17. Government programs increase costs.
18. Political corruption should lead to prison sentences.
19. Inflation and taxation are destroying the middle class.
When Lenin was working on his major writing projects he would often pace across the room formulating the ideas that he would write down by saying them out loud. Once he had the idea for what he wanted to write he would often repeat the idea to Nadezhda Krupskaya, who would provide feedback. Once this process was complete he would then write the ideas down.
Here is an AI rendering of what that might have looked like when he was drafting What is to be Done.
This month this community will focus on political subversion. What is subversion? When is it justified? What is the interplay between subversion and agitation? These are some of the topics to be discussed this month.
“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.”
Thomas Sowell
