The great awakening, which is occurring, is encompassing everything and everyone because it’s about our souls waking up out of the collective dream. We are truly sovereign beings, each of us connected to each other and to all of life. We are individuals AND a collective.
The collective consciousness has decided and declared that we’ve had enough of being manipulated by the cabal. That’s why millions are questioning, while millions more haven’t arrived at the questioning yet, but will.
Division of any kind is detrimental , which is why it is used by the cabal.
Stop allowing any division into your mind.
Every. Single. Institution. Every structure. ALL is in the process of a total and complete transformation. Because we on a soul level desire real and lasting change.
Yippee! What a glorious time to be here on plant Earth!
But until we can eradicate the Hate that the ones who call themselves: MAGA, Christian Nationalists, Rich, Republicans, and more; there’s NO Coming Together!
We are capable of coming together because we believe Every Human has a right to exist and live and live as they want; but THAT’S Not True for anyone WHO labels themselves MAGA or even Republican!
We can talk until we are Blue in the Face, put away stupid Ideologies So we can Coexist with Those Who actually Hate Us or those We Are Accepting Of;
But we will never be Happy doing so!
Cause if it was ever going to Work, it would have worked a long time ago!
Remember the songs from the Past that says to Love One Another? Be Kind? Be accepting? To Love not hate?
Well of course you do; but Those WHO label themselves MAGA, Republicans, & More NEVER GOT THE MESSAGE THEN, so WHY do you think they’d get it NOW?
Sadly, you're, as always, projecting. Not you, in particular, but I see comments from both sides. The Right, reaching a point, having heard enough disgusting and incredibly boundary breaking insults, from publicly murder- threatening blue influencers, vying to see which could top the last with shock and rage baiting tactics, In hopes that some wack would carry out the next senseless assination.
We all know there are many extremist entities planning mass casualty events that will curb stomp sensibilities and bring about Marsha law purge prison states. The Elites (not administration) will make the call and Military LEO will "enforce".
The internment camps will not discern between Red Maga and Blue Berserker.
Only the well-connected will walk. "Bumpy ride" lol.
I love your stack just found it. Can’t pay yet but about to leave NYT and WSJ subs and read them for free though library app ( harder and a bit aggravating but way cheaper ) then I’ll be able to subscribe
MAMDANI was on the ground with actual people. Instead of trying to dig up a clever playbook, slogans & how to reach the masses-he listened. Willing to help solve real life problems for all. Let the elite spend their funds lying to us while others that actually want to SERVE; build it-they will come.
That “LOOK UP” hits—at eye level it’s red vs blue crowds keeping everyone reactive, but zooming out shows the real mechanism: attention capture, algorithmic amplification, and manufactured polarity. The move is stepping above the split, refusing the outrage loop, and putting energy into measurable outcomes—health, family, skills, and financial discipline.
It’s been pretty obvious to me for 50 years that Socialism vs Capitalism is a false dichotomy pitting those who feel that they have “enough” (freedom, money, control) against those who don’t. Come time to talk politics or cast a ballot, we each get to pick a side; one or the other. The two sides speak different languages; cast issues in different terms, and talk right past each other. Unfortunately, reality is not that simple.
That the U. S. has had, since its founding, only two viable political parties, and almost all of us accept that as reasonable - even desirable - strongly suggests that there is someone or something that sees a benefit to nurturing this dichotomy, and has been acting to do so for a long time.
So, who or what is it
that is so committed to having us each choose one of only two sides, and what makes us so amenable to this black or white limitation? Do we, or the media, need to reduce questions of governance to the level of a team sport match?
Just a reminder, that 2 party system had parties that failed & were replaced. Also the current Republican & Democratic parties are a result of a schism of the mid 1800s party - Democratic Republicans.
Just took a primer course in Duverger’s Law. Although I approach conclusions reached by much “social science,” this one makes logical sense to me: Winner-take-all elections favor two-party systems. The implications of W-T-A in so many U.S. elections account for much of the dissatisfaction with “Gummint” which I believe led to the tear-it-all-down mindset that got us into the mess we are in. When a significant part (say 20%) of the electorate has no faith in their representatives from City Council to National President, to even abide by the law, let alone represent or even recognize their interests, W-T-A elections can go horribly wrong, as they have.
I’ve been on the fence for candidates in most elections, because, like many, I see serious problems with most politicians, and great potential in some. I’ve watched Party politics stifle most of the great potential.
I now support STAR voting as a means to modulate the stranglehold that Republican and Democratic power brokers exert over elections and resulting government policies and legislation. If I could see a way to force states into a more proportional assignment of electoral votes, I’d advocate for it. But until elector selection is not under party control in more states, I don’t see a path to that. Suggestions?
Yes. I did read that, and also others of your Rust vs Gears analyses. They suggest a rationale for a doctrinal dichotomy, and a reason for it. But alignment with U.S. political party stances isn’t perfect, is it? For example, stated vs demonstrated stance on various aspects and degrees of Socialism on the Democratic side, and stated and, on the Republican side, stated and demonstrated stance on fiscal conservatism; adding to federal debt.
Well, come to think of it, our two political parties’ may usually each have as much internal doctrinal variation as they do across party lines. Not true recently, of course, given the MAGA contingent.
A third party has trouble finding a foothold. There are some obvious reasons over time:
- focus too narrow
- focus not clear to electorate or not adequately differentiated from that of an existing party.
Why are multiple parties so common in other countries? What makes it so hard in the U.S.?
Now I should mention that voting methods are just one facet of malfunctioning decision-making processes in the U. S.. There is the “Lobby,” of course, and its bag of tricks which includes how legislation comes into being and how election campaigns and individual legislators and their friends and families are financed. On this front, the SCOTUS “Citizens United” decision setting money equal to speech under the 1st Amendment is my personal bogeyman #1.
So, if and when a few more of us come to see the current regime as it really is, and its 3-branch stranglehold loosens … Along with reducing party control of nominations through voting mechanisms like STAR, we must also keep our legislators hammering out ways to turn down the flow of dark money into politics brought about by Citizens United.
There are, and will be more, distraction upon distraction demanding attention. These two big-picture issues will always tend to get buried in the onslaught. Please help me keep them at the surface.
Visionary clarity is what it is Ethan. To focus on what dems did 15 years ago or what reps did 30 years ago is JUST MORE MISSING THE POINT …. but backbiting is exactly how the NGOs, Blackrock , CIA et al want you thinking. Like you didn’t vote hard enough. But can you identify a single time when your voting in the system actually improved something? Ever? Even once? If you are honest with yourself I bet you can’t. We are not animals; Don’t give rein to reactionary instincts BRED INTO US by those telling us to vote harder against the reps/the dems. Let’s agree and focus on real things common to us all. Ethan’s situation resonates with us coz it’s our situation. Let’s not bicker about abstractions.
This article glosses over and omits that absolute recklessness, waste, abuse and corruption of elected Democrats who triggered major inflation and high mortgage interest rates ending home ownership for young people in their massive spending bills during the first two years of the rogue Biden regime. Bringing 15 to 20 million illegal aliens into the country stressed housing and medical services while spending hundreds of billions of dollars of public funds to support them. AOC helped block an Amazon warehouse in NYC with six figure income jobs. To a great extent the free enterprise system is being destroyed and broken by politicians in the Uniparty lead by elected Democrats. Why are small businesses disappearing, mom and pop stores? Massive government spending, legislation/excessive regulation and taxation are harming and impeding small businesses making it impossible to exist.
Socialism of big government produces nothing, created nothing. Capitalism is like a growing fruit everyone can benefit from and elected politicians can stifle it, distort it and corrupt it. The economic engine of prosperity of America created the greatest middle class in the history of the world which is in decline now because big government has grossly abused it for personal political power and profit for themselves and major industries.
You’re listing one political faction as the cause of every pressure I described.
That’s exactly the horizontal framing the article is critiquing.
Inflation, housing costs, wage stagnation, medical debt, corporate consolidation, private-equity takeovers of whole sectors, and algorithmic rent coordination were all rising across multiple administrations — red and blue.
These are structural forces, not partisan ones.
Both parties have presided over the same trends because both operate inside the same institutional architecture.
My piece isn’t about defending Democrats or attacking Republicans.
It’s about stepping outside the left/right blame loop long enough to actually see the machinery that’s squeezing everyone beneath it.
Abstractly stepping outside the left/right divide now is like talking about a ham sandwich without mentioning the ham. As a life long registered independent voting for both parties it is clear elected Democrats have been driving train America over a cliff for generations while Republicans have often been bystanders or joined the Uniparty in ravaging the country in fruitless wars, massive inflationary spending and debt as well as corrosively harmful legislation reducing prosperity for most Americans. You are trying to write rationally while elected Democrats want insurrection, civil war, military coup and a socialist/communist dictatorship takeover of the country.
The Democrats are not doing any of what Henry says here. I think we all know at this CB point that the GOP has gotten us into wars and is now fully corrupted by MAGA
The great awakening, which is occurring, is encompassing everything and everyone because it’s about our souls waking up out of the collective dream. We are truly sovereign beings, each of us connected to each other and to all of life. We are individuals AND a collective.
The collective consciousness has decided and declared that we’ve had enough of being manipulated by the cabal. That’s why millions are questioning, while millions more haven’t arrived at the questioning yet, but will.
Division of any kind is detrimental , which is why it is used by the cabal.
Stop allowing any division into your mind.
Every. Single. Institution. Every structure. ALL is in the process of a total and complete transformation. Because we on a soul level desire real and lasting change.
Yippee! What a glorious time to be here on plant Earth!
💥💥💥☝️👍💥💥💥❤️
Yes we are all connected.
But until we can eradicate the Hate that the ones who call themselves: MAGA, Christian Nationalists, Rich, Republicans, and more; there’s NO Coming Together!
We are capable of coming together because we believe Every Human has a right to exist and live and live as they want; but THAT’S Not True for anyone WHO labels themselves MAGA or even Republican!
We can talk until we are Blue in the Face, put away stupid Ideologies So we can Coexist with Those Who actually Hate Us or those We Are Accepting Of;
But we will never be Happy doing so!
Cause if it was ever going to Work, it would have worked a long time ago!
Remember the songs from the Past that says to Love One Another? Be Kind? Be accepting? To Love not hate?
Well of course you do; but Those WHO label themselves MAGA, Republicans, & More NEVER GOT THE MESSAGE THEN, so WHY do you think they’d get it NOW?
There are good and bad in every person, color, religion and political party. Not just one side.
Sadly, you're, as always, projecting. Not you, in particular, but I see comments from both sides. The Right, reaching a point, having heard enough disgusting and incredibly boundary breaking insults, from publicly murder- threatening blue influencers, vying to see which could top the last with shock and rage baiting tactics, In hopes that some wack would carry out the next senseless assination.
We all know there are many extremist entities planning mass casualty events that will curb stomp sensibilities and bring about Marsha law purge prison states. The Elites (not administration) will make the call and Military LEO will "enforce".
The internment camps will not discern between Red Maga and Blue Berserker.
Only the well-connected will walk. "Bumpy ride" lol.
Make Love Not War
Is that why 51 Senators have decided not to run for re-election? They see the future?
💖💖💖💖✌️I feel it too!
I love your stack just found it. Can’t pay yet but about to leave NYT and WSJ subs and read them for free though library app ( harder and a bit aggravating but way cheaper ) then I’ll be able to subscribe
MAMDANI was on the ground with actual people. Instead of trying to dig up a clever playbook, slogans & how to reach the masses-he listened. Willing to help solve real life problems for all. Let the elite spend their funds lying to us while others that actually want to SERVE; build it-they will come.
That “LOOK UP” hits—at eye level it’s red vs blue crowds keeping everyone reactive, but zooming out shows the real mechanism: attention capture, algorithmic amplification, and manufactured polarity. The move is stepping above the split, refusing the outrage loop, and putting energy into measurable outcomes—health, family, skills, and financial discipline.
Glad it resonated
It’s been pretty obvious to me for 50 years that Socialism vs Capitalism is a false dichotomy pitting those who feel that they have “enough” (freedom, money, control) against those who don’t. Come time to talk politics or cast a ballot, we each get to pick a side; one or the other. The two sides speak different languages; cast issues in different terms, and talk right past each other. Unfortunately, reality is not that simple.
That the U. S. has had, since its founding, only two viable political parties, and almost all of us accept that as reasonable - even desirable - strongly suggests that there is someone or something that sees a benefit to nurturing this dichotomy, and has been acting to do so for a long time.
So, who or what is it
that is so committed to having us each choose one of only two sides, and what makes us so amenable to this black or white limitation? Do we, or the media, need to reduce questions of governance to the level of a team sport match?
I hope there is more to it than that.
Just a reminder, that 2 party system had parties that failed & were replaced. Also the current Republican & Democratic parties are a result of a schism of the mid 1800s party - Democratic Republicans.
Yes, but not more than two for an extended period of time. Why?
Duverger’s Law: first-past-the-post voting leads to a two-party system no matter how many parties come and go
https://goodparty.org/blog/article/duvergers-law-two-party-system
Just took a primer course in Duverger’s Law. Although I approach conclusions reached by much “social science,” this one makes logical sense to me: Winner-take-all elections favor two-party systems. The implications of W-T-A in so many U.S. elections account for much of the dissatisfaction with “Gummint” which I believe led to the tear-it-all-down mindset that got us into the mess we are in. When a significant part (say 20%) of the electorate has no faith in their representatives from City Council to National President, to even abide by the law, let alone represent or even recognize their interests, W-T-A elections can go horribly wrong, as they have.
I’ve been on the fence for candidates in most elections, because, like many, I see serious problems with most politicians, and great potential in some. I’ve watched Party politics stifle most of the great potential.
I now support STAR voting as a means to modulate the stranglehold that Republican and Democratic power brokers exert over elections and resulting government policies and legislation. If I could see a way to force states into a more proportional assignment of electoral votes, I’d advocate for it. But until elector selection is not under party control in more states, I don’t see a path to that. Suggestions?
https://commonsenserebel.substack.com/p/the-word-that-ends-every-conversation
Yes. I did read that, and also others of your Rust vs Gears analyses. They suggest a rationale for a doctrinal dichotomy, and a reason for it. But alignment with U.S. political party stances isn’t perfect, is it? For example, stated vs demonstrated stance on various aspects and degrees of Socialism on the Democratic side, and stated and, on the Republican side, stated and demonstrated stance on fiscal conservatism; adding to federal debt.
Well, come to think of it, our two political parties’ may usually each have as much internal doctrinal variation as they do across party lines. Not true recently, of course, given the MAGA contingent.
A third party has trouble finding a foothold. There are some obvious reasons over time:
- focus too narrow
- focus not clear to electorate or not adequately differentiated from that of an existing party.
Why are multiple parties so common in other countries? What makes it so hard in the U.S.?
Hmmm. No better ideas than STAR voting. Cool.
Now I should mention that voting methods are just one facet of malfunctioning decision-making processes in the U. S.. There is the “Lobby,” of course, and its bag of tricks which includes how legislation comes into being and how election campaigns and individual legislators and their friends and families are financed. On this front, the SCOTUS “Citizens United” decision setting money equal to speech under the 1st Amendment is my personal bogeyman #1.
So, if and when a few more of us come to see the current regime as it really is, and its 3-branch stranglehold loosens … Along with reducing party control of nominations through voting mechanisms like STAR, we must also keep our legislators hammering out ways to turn down the flow of dark money into politics brought about by Citizens United.
There are, and will be more, distraction upon distraction demanding attention. These two big-picture issues will always tend to get buried in the onslaught. Please help me keep them at the surface.
Visionary clarity is what it is Ethan. To focus on what dems did 15 years ago or what reps did 30 years ago is JUST MORE MISSING THE POINT …. but backbiting is exactly how the NGOs, Blackrock , CIA et al want you thinking. Like you didn’t vote hard enough. But can you identify a single time when your voting in the system actually improved something? Ever? Even once? If you are honest with yourself I bet you can’t. We are not animals; Don’t give rein to reactionary instincts BRED INTO US by those telling us to vote harder against the reps/the dems. Let’s agree and focus on real things common to us all. Ethan’s situation resonates with us coz it’s our situation. Let’s not bicker about abstractions.
Holy shit you nailed it!
THE COMMON GOOD MANIFESTO
A society built for people, not predators.
We are at our best when we invest in each other.
We are at our worst when we abandon the vulnerable.
This manifesto is how we return to the common good.
I. DIGNITY AND JUSTICE
1. Release the Epstein files — full transparency, no exceptions.
2. Impeach, convict, and imprison Donald Trump and every handler who enabled his corruption.
3. No federal office for any convicted felon.
4. End the weaponization of the justice system against the poor, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and marginalized communities.
II. DEMOCRACY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
1. Abolish the Electoral College — one person, one vote.
2. Abolish ICE — replace it with humane immigration policy that honors human rights.
3. Ban gerrymandering with a standardized national apportionment method.
4. Two-term limits for every elected office.
5. Mandatory retirement at 70 for all elected officials.
6. Paper ballots only — end the era of hackable voting machines.
III. AN ECONOMY THAT SERVES PEOPLE
1. Restore 1950s-style progressive tax rates — when America was prosperous and fair.
2. Overturn Citizens United — corporations are not people.
3. Eliminate the Social Security payroll cap and tax capital gains for Social Security contributions.
4. $25 minimum wage indexed to inflation.
5. Medicare for All, one unified system — no A/B/C/D maze.
6. Congress receives Medicare, not boutique private insurance.
IV. WORKERS, CREATIVES, AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
1. Big pay raises for social workers, teachers, librarians, artists, and cultural workers — the people who actually hold society together.
2. Universal childcare — because families are the foundation of the nation.
3. Free public university education.
4. Full forgiveness of all student debt.
V. CLEAN GOVERNMENT
1. Root out corruption at every level, starting at the top.
2. Full financial transparency for every elected official, appointee, and senior bureaucrat.
3. Ban lobbying for former officeholders for life.
VI. THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE
We choose a country that values:
• Compassion over cruelty
• Community over greed
• Truth over propaganda
• Shared prosperity over billionaire hoarding
• Democracy over minority rule
• Human dignity over corporate profit
We choose a nation where the common good is not a slogan, but the organizing principle of public life.
And we refuse to apologize for demanding better.
This article glosses over and omits that absolute recklessness, waste, abuse and corruption of elected Democrats who triggered major inflation and high mortgage interest rates ending home ownership for young people in their massive spending bills during the first two years of the rogue Biden regime. Bringing 15 to 20 million illegal aliens into the country stressed housing and medical services while spending hundreds of billions of dollars of public funds to support them. AOC helped block an Amazon warehouse in NYC with six figure income jobs. To a great extent the free enterprise system is being destroyed and broken by politicians in the Uniparty lead by elected Democrats. Why are small businesses disappearing, mom and pop stores? Massive government spending, legislation/excessive regulation and taxation are harming and impeding small businesses making it impossible to exist.
Socialism of big government produces nothing, created nothing. Capitalism is like a growing fruit everyone can benefit from and elected politicians can stifle it, distort it and corrupt it. The economic engine of prosperity of America created the greatest middle class in the history of the world which is in decline now because big government has grossly abused it for personal political power and profit for themselves and major industries.
Henry —
You’re listing one political faction as the cause of every pressure I described.
That’s exactly the horizontal framing the article is critiquing.
Inflation, housing costs, wage stagnation, medical debt, corporate consolidation, private-equity takeovers of whole sectors, and algorithmic rent coordination were all rising across multiple administrations — red and blue.
These are structural forces, not partisan ones.
Both parties have presided over the same trends because both operate inside the same institutional architecture.
My piece isn’t about defending Democrats or attacking Republicans.
It’s about stepping outside the left/right blame loop long enough to actually see the machinery that’s squeezing everyone beneath it.
The vertical axis isn’t about absolving anyone.
It’s about finally mapping the problem correctly.
Abstractly stepping outside the left/right divide now is like talking about a ham sandwich without mentioning the ham. As a life long registered independent voting for both parties it is clear elected Democrats have been driving train America over a cliff for generations while Republicans have often been bystanders or joined the Uniparty in ravaging the country in fruitless wars, massive inflationary spending and debt as well as corrosively harmful legislation reducing prosperity for most Americans. You are trying to write rationally while elected Democrats want insurrection, civil war, military coup and a socialist/communist dictatorship takeover of the country.
You fell for the real trick. Those are the puppets.
The Democrats are not doing any of what Henry says here. I think we all know at this CB point that the GOP has gotten us into wars and is now fully corrupted by MAGA
They are all puppets. Sheepdogs.
We need to look at the shepherds.
Fascinating.
So think vertical when looking for the source of pain
vertical vs. horizontal. Brilliant! Save.
You are an inspirational writer, Ethan! 💜
🥰
Bam💥‼️
Brilliant writing
Very educational you write very well truly appreciated and thank you 🙏🇨🇦