Narrative Collapse and the Spell of Politics

Awakening from Ideology

Over the course of January and February 2022, the institutional covid narrative seems to have entered a state of free fall. Many of the points I expressed in my December, 2020 article What to Make of Covid and the Lockdowns? have finally broken free from their previous status as misinformation, conspiracy theory, or whatever appellation was once employed to discredit and censor them. These include the admissions that facemasks are not effective at stopping the spread of SarsCov2, and that lockdowns are equally ineffective. In fact, it is increasingly recognized that there is no way to stop the spread of this virus, and the recommendations of the once pilloried Great Barrington Declaration are now mouthed by the very media personalities and politicians who previously condemned them. Early in 2021 they also admitted the virus was likely created and leaked from a laboratory (though for many of us, this fact is not merely likely, but certain).

The institutions of technocratic governance responsible for promulgating the official covid narrative (which I collectively refer to as “The Network”) are even finally admitting that the covid vaccines do not prevent the spread or transmission of covid. In 2020, it was the height of heresy to suggest that covid was about as dangerous as a bad flu. Now, the omicron variant is openly compared to an amped-up cold in terms of its deadliness for most people. What’s more, it has been admitted that counting all of those who have died “with covid” instead of “from covid” as covid deaths leads to a gross distortion in the covid death numbers. Italy recently reduced their official covid death count by 95% in recognition of this. These figures are also in alignment with evidence from my article linked above, which referenced the CDC’s own figure of 94%, quietly released in August 2020 and utterly ignored by the Network.

These realities were already clear in 2020 to those of us who had turned to independent news sources to learn the truth, having recognized that governments, the corporate press, and their affiliated partners in academic and medical institutions were ignoring the facts about covid. In fact, they were promulgating information that simply wasn’t true, while censoring information that was true. In my aforementioned article, I wrote that although the perspectives laid out in it were deeply taboo at the time, I believed they would come to be accepted as true in the future. Some truths are too glaring, too prominent to be denied forever.

I’m relieved and gratified to witness my prediction coming true. While authoritarian measures still persist in countries such as Australia and Canada, many other countries in the world are rapidly abandoning them at the present moment, including (thankfully for me) the United States. It is my prayer that the authoritarian holdouts will fold to pressure soon and follow suit. Phenomena such as the monumental Canadian trucker convoy and protest movement are harbingers of this eventuality.

I do not write this to say “We told you so,” though for the sake of us all, I do wish to say, “Listen to us next time!” Other aspects of the narrative are still intact at the moment, but I believe it is likewise only a matter of time before these facts are finally admitted to and recognized. These include the high degree of efficacy and safety of early treatment and preventative protocols such as the use of Vitamin D, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin; the deadly effects of common hospital treatments such as the use of Remdesivir and ventilators; and the unacceptable degree of vaccine injury and death caused by the covid vaccines (and their limited efficacy in even reducing symptoms). The Network is currently attempting to convince the public that although cloth facemasks never worked, despite 2 years of useless and harmful mandates,N95 masks do. I believe this one will fail as well. One prediction I hope does not come true is that the vaccines will prove to cause long term damage to the immune system, resulting in future health issues for millions—but there is already some evidence that this may indeed be the case.

For many of those who have trustingly followed the Network’s narrative for the past two years, the current condition of narrative collapse may not yet be visible. Indeed, the Network’s next narrative shift will probably be to declare “Mission Accomplished!” and attempt to convince the public that their lockdown, mask, censorship, and vax mandate policies were responsible for defeating covid and limiting the damage it caused. This will work for a while on some people, but I believe we will eventually all look back on covid governance the way we now look back on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—as an indefensible, large scale crime perpetrated by the ruling class with disastrous consequences.

But this won’t happen on its own. Those of us who have seen through the narrative must insist that these policies be recognized for what they were, and further insist that support be withdrawn from those who promulgated them, even if they are too firmly entrenched in power to be held accountable. If this does not happen, our societies will be doomed to suffer through the same destructive authoritarian measures the next time one of our government’s frankenviruses are unleashed on the public—or at any time the Network announces the necessity to reenact authoritarian polices on the populace for any reason they deem sufficient.

Waking Up from the Spell of Politics

That’s what this article is about. In order to prevent another catastrophe of governance like the one we’ve been living through for two years, we need to understand how we got here. In my article How Would You Know, I summarized the phenomenon of mass formation as detailed by psychology professor Mattias Desmet, which has since reached widespread recognition due to Joe Rogan’s recent interviews with Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough. Summarized briefly, the term describes a collective societal hypnosis, one that has occurred many times in human history, marked by elements of rigid adherence to authority, the inability to question or consider challenges to this authority, and strong hostility directed toward those who do so, even to the point of excommunicating them from society and violating their rights. This concept is essential in identifying how authoritarianism can capture a society psychologically, but we also need to understand the mechanism by which it was activated. This mechanism is called politics.

Those who have known me a long time will likely be shocked to learn that I am currently registered as a Republican. After all, I was a vocal leftist for 20 years, and I was well known in my law school for vociferously advocating a far left perspective in class debates. Figures like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders were not far left enough for me in those days, but I strongly supported them and whoever was on the ballot in the Democratic Party—even if they were milquetoast centrists like John Kerry, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton. I was convinced that right wing ideology (and the Republican Party in particular) were grave threats to society and had to be defeated at all costs. I supported whatever had the potential to move policy to the left by any degree or measure.

What could have happened to a committed leftist like me to lead me to such a terrible, ghastly end as registering Republican? Two years ago, in February 2020, I could not have conceived of such a thing happening. I did so for three reasons:

1.       I switched my registration in September of 2021 when Joe Biden announced his vaccine mandate policies. This was a way of voting. Politicos keep track of how many people are registered with each party in every state. It’s like an ongoing public opinion poll. I’ve never been more opposed to any politically viable policy more strongly than these vaccine mandates, and I wanted to register my protest.

2.       There has been zero resistance in the Democratic Party to covid governance since the moment it began. Indeed, both the leadership and the rank-and-file of this party have offered nothing but sweeping approval of these measures—coupled by demands that the measures be increased in severity. I will not be voting for any Democrat again unless that candidate disavows these policies. The same criteria applies to voting for a Republican. But opposition to these policies can currently be found in only the Republican Party. I am very grateful to Republican politicians like Ron DeSantis, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Thomas Massie for the courageous stands they have taken against the authoritarianism that has swept America and the globe. Registering as Republican allows me to vote in Republican primaries and mark the ballot for any Republican who dares to adopt a similar stance. At the moment, I see no chance of finding a Democrat who will do the same, even in the primaries.

3.       Most important, I registered as Republican to shatter the Spell of Politics that held me in its grip for two decades. This spell was deep enough that it was actually emotionally difficult for me to change my registration—or to vote for the handful of Republican candidates on my ballot in 2020 who took a sufficiently clear stance against lockdowns and in support of medical freedom.

Awakening from our collective political spell is the most important aspect of all this. I believe in voting, but voting is a limited and ultimately minor aspect of reclaiming our minds and consciousness from the grips of this spell. Authoritarianism cannot exist without compliance. Regardless of who holds office, the policies enacted will be limited by what the public is willing to bear. Furthermore, especially when it comes to the presidency, our political system is thoroughly corrupted by the Network’s overwhelming influence and monetary control. As a result, every presidential election comes down to a choice between two Network-approved candidates, subject to its control. (Sorry to break the news, Donald Trump fans.) When needed, perhaps if a president gets too unruly, the Network will exercise veto power to select a president through election theft—or through assassination, as was done with Kennedy. The corporate press will then aid and abet the cover-up as I described in my article Mass Media and the Taboo Power. It still makes sense to exercise whatever power is available to us through the ballot. But as citizens, we must wake up from the Spell of Politics in order to withdraw our compliance and reclaim our power as a check against otherwise unaccountable governance.

As part of awakening from this spell, it is important to recognize that registering for a political party does not mean one identifies as a member of that party. Nor does it mean that one supports the party line, or that one will support every (or any) candidate put forward by that party. All it means in a practical sense is that one is able to vote in that party’s primaries in states where one must be registered as such to do so.

A core aspect of breaking this spell is reclaiming the freedom to choose or reject any policy or any candidate, regardless of the tribalistic party-aligned narrative that has held so many of us in thrall. It also signifies the freedom of the mind and spirit to release any allegiance to Left or Right, Democrat or Republican, regardless of one’s vote or registration. It is the reclamation of allegiance to one’s own values, and the recognition that concepts like Left/Right, Conservative/Progressive, and Democrat/Republican have been used for centuries to divide the public against itself in a Hegelian dialectic of control. This frames the contours of public thought and debate in such a way as to protect and maintain entrenched power—and to shield it from the process of democracy. Both political orientations are composed of people who support the entrenched power structure of the ruling class network that controls both political parties. But both political orientations are also home to the sacred values of a free people rather than a ruled people, and life lived in alignment with our humanity.

I am no longer left or right, or perhaps now I am both. I wrote about this in another prior article from 2020, The Sacred Left and Right. I do currently lean Republican in terms of where the parties have arrived at. This is due to the outrageous assault on civil liberties, rights, speech, bodily sovereignty, and democratic principles currently endorsed by the Democratic Party (and the Left in general) through the covid governance regime. There currently exists a foundation of resistance to these measures in the Republican Party—and resistance to the Network and technocracy in general. These issues have emerged as the most important and pertinent issues we are currently facing as a people, both in America and throughout the world. Please refer to my article Understanding Technocracy for a deep dive into the workings of technocracy and the threat this poses to our lives as free people, as well as to our very humanity.

The experience has rendered me very skeptical of the Left’s reflexive trust in government as the method by which to secure economic and social justice in society. I have witnessed government commit the most egregious of abuses over the past two years, accompanied by a complete lack of consciousness on the Left regarding those abuses (excepting, of course, those like me who left the Left because of it). It has been astonishing to witness the Left’s embrace of authoritarianism as a governing principle.

But this does not mean I have joined the Right. I’m equally skeptical of the Right’s insistence on free markets and deregulation as economic policy, having witnessed the rise of great concentrations of wealth and unaccountable power as a result of neo-liberal policies in past decades. Indeed, this economic concentration of power led to the very capture of government and other institutions by the technocracy that has created the mess we now find ourselves in. It is also disappointing that although the Right is able to recognize the importance of medical freedom in terms of covid authoritarianism, it fails to recognize abortion rights in the same way. And while I now believe the accusations of racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice levied against the Right are overblown, they do exist there. I firmly oppose these, and I continue to recognize the importance of addressing ongoing harm that occurs due to these divides, as well as in addressing the legacy of past injustices. In equal measure, I oppose the Left’s embrace of discrimination and segregation in pursuit of equity, and the prejudice I’ve witnessed there.

The main issue of prejudice on which I strongly oppose the Right’s prevailing stance is in regards to transgender issues (the Right seems to have mostly surrendered in its previous fight against gay rights). Prejudice against trans people is still quite mainstream on the Right and is currently on the rise again, fed perhaps by the growing popular backlash against the excesses and abuses of the Left in recent years. As such, I’ve composed a companion article to this one that explores the issue of gender and transgender realities on a societal and spiritual level. It is also an answer to prejudice against trans people that exists on the Right and elsewhere. It disentangles the issue of trans rights and acceptance from the Wokeism and authoritarianism currently prevailing on the Left, and offers perspectives on gender that may be of assistance in relating to the topic in helpful ways that generate understanding and openness.

The Right and Left both have problems, but it’s the Left that has recently come to embrace a rampant, totalizing authoritarianism, the scope and impact of which dwarfs all other issues. As I’ve puzzled over the conditions that led to the covid mass formation we are still living through, I’ve identified that its roots were set in place years before, and that at this time in history, it was the Left that proved to be fertile ground for it. I also realized that I myself had previously been caught in the spell of this preliminary mass formation. The spell was broken for me by covid authoritarianism, but remained in place for most of the Left and has since achieved full flower and blossom.

I have identified this political spell as the primary means by which the Network has activated rigid adherence to its policies and social values of covid tyranny. The magic words that operate this spell are Right-wing, Trump, Racist, White Supremacist, Conspiracy Theorist, Anti-Vaxxer, and Misinformation. All seven of these spell words have been conflated to construct a cartoon portrait of a demonized enemy: selfish, hateful, crazed, delusional, violent, bigoted, and very dangerous. (My article on spell words can provide further context for how they operate.) The seven spell words are successfully deployed by government officials and the corporate press to discredit and erase from consciousness any critical opposition to authoritarian policy measures. In particular, the first two spell words activate the carefully constructed political spell of tribal hatred, while infusing the final five with the power of that spell through association with the first two.

Anatomy of a Spell

To help us avoid falling captive to another spell of this sort in the future, it will be helpful to journey back in time a few years and identify the means by which our current political spell was cast. It happened in my own country, the United States. Due to the global reach and prominence of this country, the spell of American politics seems to have since been exported throughout the Western world. This was combined with the European political spell of nationalism vs. union and projected onto covid authoritarianism to cement mass formation internationally.

Many of the elements of our current mass formation were first constructed in the aftermath of 911, from 2001 to 2003. The primary expression of that preliminary mass formation included demands for complete obedience to President Bush’s policies and the media narrative regarding terrorism and the War on Terror. For over a year, it was socially dangerous even to admit opposition to Bush and his policies. As with covid, the circumstances of 911 itself were lied about and covered up, along with the absurd pretext for the Iraq War. Corruption and hypocrisy abounded, aided by the corporate press, relentlessly beating the drums of war. Civil liberties were curtailed and derided, and the citizenry was subjected to a rollout of mass surveillance that never ended. Extrajudicial killings, arrests, and torture were proudly extolled as virtues.

It was a scary time for those of us who could see through what was happening. I was deeply concerned that Republican rule would devolve into something of a permanent military dictatorship. But the mass formation was ultimately unable to take full hold. Bush’s narrative fell apart in 2005 and the Left finally began to find its footing. But the seeds of the political spell that later overtook the Left and abetted the covid mass formation took root at this time. Many began to feel as I did—that conservatives and the Republican Party were in large part rabid, dangerous fanatics that had to be stopped at all costs. The threat of climate change was added to this narrative when Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, followed by the economic threat of the 2008 financial collapse. Not only had the Left come to see Republicans as poised to end democracy and plunge the world into endless war, the crisis was recast into existential terms. If left unchecked, the Republicans would first destroy the economy and the middle class, and then destroy the entire planet and humanity along with it by denying climate change and supporting fossil fuels.

Looking back now, I can see how the Democratic Party never represented meaningful opposition to the Bush regime and all its excesses. All the leaders of the party—Clinton, Biden, Kerry, et al.—supported the War on Terror and Iraq War. Obama was brought in later as someone who was out of the limelight enough to have opposed the Iraq War when it happened, but that proved to be meaningless after he was inducted into the ruling circles of the party. As president, he continued and expanded on Bush’s War on Terror and state secrecy policies. He also continued and expanded on Bush’s bailouts of the investment bankers and reinstated them as unelected, unaccountable overlords of economic life and official policy. He shielded the architects of the military and financial criminality that prevailed under Bush.

At the apex of both the Republican and Democratic parties, the agenda for unaccountable technocratic control, mass surveillance, and subversion of democracy was identical. But most of us couldn’t see that at the time. Most of us can’t see it now. We’ve been fed phony issues and cosmetic differences on the serious issues, peppered with culture wars and identity politics to disguise the stranglehold global technocratic governance has achieved in the institutions of government, finance, science, medicine, and the press.

The next stage of the spell was set in place through the deployment of identity politics and racial enmity that prevailed during Obama’s presidency and reached a fever pitch under Trump. The corporate press narrative went out of its way to egg on and elevate elements on the Right that opposed Obama from a sense of racial threat. In doing so, the Left was supplied with another element of disgust, fear, and hatred for the Right to add to what had already been cultivated. It also obscured the legitimate criticism of Obama that existed on the Right. The total collapse of the Bush narrative and presidency in 2008 served to awaken many on the Right to the spell they had been under through the War on Terror. Many also awakened to the runaway corporate corruption that had flourished under the cloak of Bush’s of pro-business talking points. Those on the Right who felt betrayed by Bush were able to identify the continuation of Bush’s corporate-state-military corruption regime under Obama while the most (though not all) on the Left were blind to it, or acquiesced to it as a necessary evil.

A major realignment began taking shape during this time. Since the Vietnam War, the Left had assumed the mantle of opposition to the military industrial complex and the national security/intelligence apparatus, along with opposition to corporate corruption and a strong support for civil rights, free speech, and personal freedoms. My own strong alignment with the Left was based in these values, along with the sense of threat the Republicans had come to represent to me during the Bush years. For decades, the Right had been pro-war and pro-corporate, but a significant anti-war and anti-corporate consciousness was taking shape in the wake of the Bush Administration. Meanwhile, the Left found itself reflexively defending whatever Obama did.

As Obama cozied up to the big financial and corporate sectors, the use of military force, the continuation of the War on Terror, and the exercise of surveillance and secrecy through the intelligence agencies, the Left gradually drifted into alignment with him on these stances. In addition, corporate institutions began adopting and then co-opting the Left’s concern regarding civil rights and discrimination, re-branding itself as an ally. A new top-down, corporate-styled approach to identity issues started to germinate. No longer would protection of civil rights be accomplished by ensuring equal access to places of public accommodation, freedom of speech and religion, and equality under the law. Those policies became seen as an insufficient whitewash that only served to entrench systems of privilege under the cover of equality. Instead, people’s beliefs regarding race and identity issues were to be targeted and altered with affirmative force, pressure, and censorship from institutions and social movements.

The Right was getting very fed up with this by now. It had become common on the Left to self-righteously accuse all people on the Right of being racist, while from the Right’s perspective it was the Left that was racist in its ideology of treating people differently because of their race. Only by carefully policing one’s language and avowing the Woke principles now being taught in most universities across the country could a person avoid condemnation as a bigot. The culture war deepened.

The Advent of Donald Trump Activates the Political Spell.

Some who are awake to our current mass formation have speculated that Donald Trump was actually brought in by the Network as a form of controlled opposition. His rhetoric and manner were so divisive and reckless that his movement was able to co-opt the growing populism that opposed the military/corporate/state/finance merger that had captured American (and global) institutions. From Ron Paul to Bernie Sanders, this populist movement was burgeoning across the political spectrum, but was tarred with the brush of fascism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia due to Trump’s never-ending parade of outrageous statements—and through deliberate spin by the corporate press. Opposition to technocratic governance, the national security state, and the disinformation promulgated by the corporate press were made synonymous with racist, right-wing extremism in the consciousness of the Left.

I do not know whether Trump’s arrival on the scene was the result of happenstance—later seized upon by the Network to discredit opposition to their rule—or whether he assumed the role deliberately with their encouragement. Everything related to Trump has the feel of orchestrated theater, from the institutionally-endorsed conspiracy about Trump as a Russian agent working for Putin, to the QAnon movement that insisted Trump was a genius and superhero who was working behind the scenes to expose the deep state and liberate the people. I feel certain QAnon was an intelligence operation launched to influence, co-opt, discredit, and undermine the populist movement that opposes the Network. As far as the tall tale goes about Trump being a Russian intelligence asset with a mission of weakening America, it was openly admitted that this story originated in the American intelligence agencies (although they claimed it was a true story).

Trump may or may not have been a knowing participant in this theater of the absurd. Either way, I eventually came to understand that Trump’s outrageous rhetoric itself had always been pure theater from the very beginning, and that his followers knew it (even though the Left didn’t). It was terribly irresponsible, reckless, and damaging to the American psyche, but theater nonetheless. Trump said racist things, and sexist things, and xenophobic things, and authoritarian things, and just generally outrageous things. Many on the Right knew he was just creating controversy for fun and attention, and they were having a great time enjoying the show. His complete disregard for all the rules of polite society felt like freedom. Conservatives were being branded by the Left as every kind of bigot and fanatic anyway, so many of them embraced the chance to enjoy themselves with Trump and infuriate the Left by breaking all of their rules.

This was not fun for the Left. From the Left’s perspective, a wildly dangerous fascist and bigoted lunatic was rising to power on the backs of crazed masses wearing identical red hats—all too reminiscent of the red arm bands worn by the Nazis under Hitler. They feared America was on course to devolve into an amalgam of the Handmaiden’s Tale, apartheid South Africa, and a banana republic dictatorship. Their sense of distrust, threat, and disgust toward Republicans, established in the Bush years, and exacerbated by the identity politics promoted by the corporate press during the Obama years, reached full bloom when Donald Trump won the 2016 election.

I was one of them. I had no idea what was going on for conservatives at the time, and the things Trump said on the campaign trail terrified me. It looked to me as if half the country had gone utterly insane, and it seemed to confirm every worst fear I’d ever had about Republicans and the Right, and then some. The fears of dictatorship I’d had under Bush returned, but were amplified. When Trump won the election, I cried for hours and could barely sleep for weeks. The whole thing was traumatizing and terrifying. Meanwhile, the Brexit vote in the UK, as spun by the press, seemed to indicate there was a global movement of right wing xenophobia and racism underway. This was accompanied by the intelligence agency narrative about Russia and Putin’s quest to use social media manipulation to convert Western democracies into racist, fascist dictatorships. And I fell for the narrative, hook, line, and sinker. Many of us did. Suddenly there was an explanation that made sense. People weren’t naturally insane or deeply bigoted. They had been manipulated by a hostile foreign dictatorship making use of a new form of communications technology that had spun out of control. This narrative was later weaponized to introduce and justify the social media censorship that later became outright authoritarian under covid.

This marked the onset of what has since been termed TDS, or “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and the foundation for the covid mass formation to come. All the elements of the previous 15 years had come together in a narrative that cast Donald Trump as the greatest danger to the world since Adolf Hitler. Trump and his right-wing followers would destroy democracy, enslave the world to a network of global dictatorships led by Russia, institute a system of brutal racial and sexual oppression, dissolve coherent perceptions of reality itself, and then destroy the entire planet through climate change if they didn’t kill us all through nuclear war first. They had to be stopped at all costs. No method would be off-limits: censorship, propaganda, the violation of rights, and attempts to rig the electoral process would all be fair game in the attempt to save the world from this existential threat.

I was deep in the grip of TDS throughout 2017, but for me it gradually faded as inconsistencies and outright lies promulgated by the corporate press began to add up. In addition, the increasing rigidity of the identity politics movement and its self-righteous judgment, shaming, and “canceling” began to deeply disturb me. By 2019, I had become aware that the alliance of Big Tech, the corporate press and financial sector, and the military-industrial complex were aligning to ruthlessly submarine the Bernie Sanders campaign. It became clear to me that despite their vocal hysteria in opposition to Trump, focusing public attention on Trump as the enemy actually served their purposes of consolidating control, and they would much prefer that he remain president than see Sanders elected.

By the time of Trump’s first impeachment trial in January of 2020, I no longer believed in the Russiagate narrative. I still supported the impeachment based on Trump’s obstruction of the investigations against him, and his failure to divest his considerable financial interests as president—both of which I viewed as unconstitutional. But Trump’s encouragement for the Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden’s suspicious dealings in that country did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. It actually struck me as a legitimate thing to investigate, and using it as the pretext for Trump’s impeachment seemed as much about the Democrats protecting Joe Biden as anything else. The impeachment trial appeared hollow and empty, another orchestrated act in the ongoing farce that had become American political life.

Breaking the Spell

It was at this time, in January of 2020, that the Spell of Politics began to crumble for me. The first awakening came during the Democratic debate prior to the Iowa caucus. I was shocked to my core in watching Elizabeth Warren and CNN collude together in the attempted assassination of Bernie Sanders’ character by smearing him as sexist (with blanket encouragement by the rest of the corporate press after the debate). I had admired Warren for years, and had thought she was united with Sanders in leading the resurgence of the Left to dismantle the corporate capture of America’s political and economic systems. Whichever one of them emerged as the stronger candidate, I had fully expected the other one to drop out and join forces, creating a united front for true change that could win the Democratic nomination and deliver the party and the country from the clutches of corporate oligarchic rule.

Instead, I was watching Warren savagely attempt to kneecap Sanders in collusion with the corporate press, destroying all chances for unity on the Left in the process. It suddenly dawned on me that she didn’t care about the Left at all, she was a servant of power, just like the other Democrats in the party. She was being utilized by the establishment as an acceptable Left-appearing candidate who would remain loyal to their power structure despite her leftist rhetoric. With Sanders now emerging as the choice of the Left, she dutifully fell on her sword for the establishment, viciously attacking him and remaining in the race to undermine his support despite having no path to victory herself.

This was followed by an attempt by the party establishment to rig the election results in the Iowa caucus and deny Sanders the victory by means of manipulated electronic vote-tabulation apps. This ultimately failed, and Sanders won three contests in a row, gaining support and momentum. Then, after Biden’s victory in South Carolina, the media narrative machine kicked into full gear, accompanied by Buttigieg and Klobuchar falling on their own swords to clear the way for Biden on Super Tuesday. Overnight, the entire party dropped all pretenses of competition and united to destroy Sanders. The Trump Derangement Syndrome narrative was deployed in full gear. Every media outlet was uniform in its messaging: Sanders couldn’t possibly win in the general election but Biden could, and nothing was more important than defeating Trump. Therefore, the only possible choice for Democrats was to forget their convictions and policy preferences and fall in line in lockstep behind Biden.

And that’s exactly what the Democratic voters did. There was no questioning this media narrative; it was accepted as fact with no scrutiny. Sanders’ position as the leading candidate evaporated overnight, and Biden, who had been languishing in fourth and fifth place suddenly had the support of 60-70% of the party. To me, it appeared as if a switch had been flipped that activated prearranged programming in the minds of the Democratic rank-and-file. They would dutifully follow whatever instructions were given them by the party establishment and the corporate press. Biden’s numerous boldfaced lies in his debates with Sanders were completely ignored by the media. When Tara Reade went public with her allegations of being sexually assaulted by Biden, she was likewise ignored. Her allegations were at least as strong as the ones that had been levied against Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, if not stronger, but her allegations were not convenient to the narrative like those ones had been. Everything that had been said about “Believe Women,” and the MeToo movement was revealed as rank hypocrisy, not only by the establishment, but by the Democratic voters who threw all of that down the memory hole when instructed to.

The reason I’ve gone into so much detail in the process of how this political spell was broken for me in early 2020 is to demonstrate the process of revelation. For decades I had believed the narrative that the Democratic Party meant well, but was weak and disorganized. Their incompetence was the reason they were unable to oppose Bush’s corruption and the War on Terror, or take meaningful action to protect the people from corporate oligarchy. That illusion was utterly shattered for me by March of 2020. I had never seen such a well-coordinated, brilliantly executed political operation in my life as the one that destroyed Sanders’ candidacy in 2020 and installed Biden as the nominee. The moment they were finally faced with a threat to their true interests in the person of Sanders, they were able to take bold, swift, and precise action, demonstrating highly disciplined competence and planning. And it was all accomplished through media control and unity of purpose among the Democratic leadership.

The spell of political conformity, obedience to the corporate press, and unquestioning allegiance to the tribal narrative, fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome, was then immediately mapped onto the issue of covid when the lockdowns swept the world that March. With my own TDS not yet fully dismantled, I was terrified by the prospect of Trump using this crisis as a lever to install authoritarian rule. This was the moment we had all been fearing since he won the election in 2016—or so I thought. Within weeks, it became clear that Trump was unwilling to impose authoritarian measures and was even advocating for the lockdowns to end by April. I was relieved, but the Left was not. They railed and cried for Trump to use federal force to impose tighter lockdowns and stronger restrictions. I was very confused—I had thought the whole reason we all opposed Trump so strongly was because he was supposed to be a fascist. But it was the Left that was now clamoring for authoritarian rule.

When Trump announced promising data regarding the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a covid treatment, he was pilloried as a liar spreading dangerous misinformation because he didn’t care if people died from covid by taking a fake treatment. Bans were placed on the use of hydroxychloroquine all over the country. Evidence of its usefulness was suppressed and censored. None of this made any sense. It seemed clear to me that given the gravity of covid and the need to find solutions, this treatment should certainly not be dismissed out of hand but carefully examined in the light of day as a possible life-saving measure.

But the mass formation had taken full hold by this point. I reflected on the non-stop parade of stories about Trump’s lies and terrible deeds we had all been subjected to for the past three years. I started engaging with the right-leaning media for the first time to check my perception of reality against theirs. I found that many of the stories about Trump I had taken at face value were revealed as the result of slant and bias when subjected to media scrutiny. I reflected on how after three years in office—and despite his depiction as a dangerous threat to world peace—Trump was actually the first president since Jimmy Carter who had not started a new war. For the first time, I understood the Right’s accusations of the corporate press as constituting “fake news,” having just witnessed its application against Sanders in full force. Now it was being used to manufacture consent for authoritarian measures of lockdowns, mask mandates, censorship, and mass hysteria regarding the danger of covid as a disease. It was only Trump and the Republicans who pushed back against any of this. The authoritarianism feared by the Left was no longer centered in the Republican Party at all, as it had been under Bush. The Left had become the authoritarians.

It became apparent to me that I had been duped. Trump Derangement Syndrome had taken hold of my thoughts and beliefs, creating a warped view of reality. The spell had broken for me, but it was strong as ever in the public at large. In every direction, from Russiagate, to QAnon, to TDS, to covid, the American people were subject to illusion, bias, slants, and outright lies—orchestrated by the corporate press, the intelligence agencies, and the government itself. Anyone who attempted to point this out was branded a conspiracy theorist—and with the merger of TDS and the covid narrative—as a right-wing extremist. I saw that this had also happened throughout the Western World. In fact, it was stronger in most places than in the United States, where a strong conservative movement had been long-awakened to the realities of coordinated media and press manipulation.

In other countries, TDS and the American political drama seems to have been imported as a proxy for their own domestic issues due to the enormous influence of American political, economic, and cultural power. This was combined with Brexit and other European nationalist/immigration disputes and then lumped together in the covid mass formation just as it had been in the US. The final product looked something like this: there is a global movement of hateful right-wing fanatics—motivated by racism, misogyny, and fundamentalism—who deny science, can’t handle reality, and don’t care how many people die or if the whole world is destroyed as a result of their selfishness and self-delusion. The only way to deal with them is to trust our institutional leaders without question, isolate and punish the fanatic unbelievers, and obey every order and mandate issued by our leaders to the letter.

As a result of all this, it became clear to me that both the Right and the Left can be manipulated to serve authoritarian ends, and that both the Right and Left can be a source of resistance to this, in service of freedom, liberty, and truth. It is through the Spell of Politics that each group can be set against each other and deceived into believing the other faction is their enemy. This keeps each side fighting with and demonizing each other, blind to the ruling power structure of the Network that manipulates perception to its advantage and controls the highest levels of each faction from above.

There is nothing unusual or fantastic about the Network or its operations. It is just like any political party—an alliance between people with shared interests, motivated by policy objectives held in common. In this case, the members of the party are the richest members of global society, who together form an oligarchy through combined control of global finance, and by means of this control, most of the largest corporations and governments in the world. They jockey for position with each other, but share a common goal: to preserve their collective hold on power and to prevent the people of the world from uniting and reclaiming their power.

Elements of a Spell: Wokeism

Through the course of March to June of 2020, having already been shaken from the Spell of Politics, the spell was entirely broken for me by inconsistencies in the covid narrative that could not hold together once I put them to the test. In another of my articles from 2020, Lockdown Evoked a Political Earthquake In My Life, I describe the process I went through. I will not repeat that story here, but will instead examine the left-aligned ideology I will refer to as “Wokeism” that found expression in the protests and riots in June of 2020. The inverted McCarthyism that accompanied the George Floyd protest movement was the final factor that shattered the Spell of Politics for me that year. Instead of subjecting suspected communists to blacklisting, struggle sessions, and societal banishment, these punishments were applied to anyone suspected of not being a communist—or rather, apostates to Wokeism and the social Marxism of its racial theory and doctrine.

This movement emerged at the same moment that useless and illogical mask mandates (as now finally admitted by the CDC) were launched all over the world in a Network-coordinated rollout. Wokeism was perfectly mapped onto the social symbol of the facemask. As the protest movement died down, the facemask became the symbol of compliance and obedience to the aspirational communist social order. It erased a person’s individuality by obstructing their facial features, and turned them against themselves by obstructing their own breathing, supposedly for the greater good of the collective. Rather than needing an inquisition to elicit a person’s ideology, good people and reprobates could now be differentiated by the presence of the mask. Wokeism had merged with the covid narrative to form a cornerstone of the operating political spell and mass formation that continues to hold many of us captive to the dream state of politically limited perception.

Wokeism can be described as the ideology that accompanied the shift in leftist thinking in the 2010s. It wholeheartedly adopted Marxist principles as applied to social issues, while simultaneously aligning itself with institutional authority structures in government, media, commerce, academia, medicine, and the entire technocracy and Network in general. This ideology has developed in a very socialist, even communist direction, but seems to have largely abandoned the goal of economic redistribution and collective ownership of the means of production. Instead, it has focused on applying these principles to social relationships, speech, and beliefs, and rearranging society accordingly—by any means necessary.

As such, the ideology has adopted a rigid and authoritarian form, and has deeply divided society along political lines with backing from institutional powers on an international scale. This authoritarianism is most prominent in its institutional censorship, blacklisting, and segregation—and in the social phenomena of “cancelling,” a term I will use to sum up practices that can be captured in words such as excommunication, banishment, unfriending, public shaming, ghosting, and social boycotting.

The most damaging beliefs of the Woke ideology that accompany this authoritarianism can be summarized in two parts: First, in terms of diving people into identity categories of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, ability, political tribe, privilege, and belief (and now vaccination status), and treating them differently in accordance with this. It then projects attributes and intentions onto members of these categories from the outside, and without respect to anything that person has to say about their actual attributes and intentions. Second, the ideology demands rigid adherence to the prevailing tenets of the doctrine. All those who do not agree with these tenets or comply with them are assumed to be wicked at heart—selfish, hateful, predatory, dangerous, and debased. Such people are to be drummed out of society by governmental and corporate mandate (whenever possible), and are in any case to be socially cancelled and disparaged as well.

The tragedy is that the actual values that underlie what has become Woke Authoritarianism are generally positive in their origins. These values are rooted in the desire for a just society with a collective social consciousness, where people are cared for and included regardless of race, sexuality, gender, disability, ethnicity, social class, or nation of origin. It encourages a critical inquiry of history and societal structures to develop a deeper understanding of how these structures affect members of marginalized identity categories. Such values are a longstanding feature of the Sacred Left.

In my observation, the collectivist aspect of these values has been co-opted by leaders in finance and government who wish to use collectivism as a lever to establish authoritarian rule. As a result, whereas the Left previously invited debate and collaborative discussion regarding the best way to promote these values—we now see a rigid, exclusionary, and oppressive doctrine imposed by institutions of education, medicine, science, government, and media control. Due to the success of this authoritarian ideological coup, the Left has become precisely what it once sought to dismantle: a rigid system of oppression, discrimination, censorship, segregation, and prejudice.

The imposition of this system amounts to the establishment of a theocratic society. The only difference is that the theocracy is no longer grounded in a church or religion as normally understood, but is based in a secular materialist doctrine of ideology. These beliefs are assumed by its adherents to be just as infallible and objectively true as any traditional theocrat would believe. As in many theocracies, Wokeism has taken on the mindset of a crusade, holy war, or inquisition. All unbelievers must be rooted out and brought to heel to confess their sins. Failure to satisfy the inquisitors results in the depersoning of excommunication and social banishment. Transgressors must never be dealt with gently or with respect.

Due to the mass proliferation of Wokeism and its rigid doctrines regarding race, covid, vaccines, “The Science,” and gender, it has become impossible to advocate for justice, reason, or healing on any of these issues outside of the Woke system of thought. One is either automatically assumed to represent the conclusions of Woke ideology on these topics, or one is banished and vilified for critiquing those conclusions. As a prime example of this, I’ve described in detail how this process has harmed the cause of transgender rights and acceptance in my article Reflections on Gender, Spirituality, and Society.

Behind all of these social doctrines, Wokeism and the overall intransigence of the Left required an existential threat to fuel its current authoritarian expression. The political spell of our mass formation has employed both terrorism and covid as fuel for this existential threat, but both of these are limited in their scope and appeal. A true existential threat needs to do more than threaten the populace with the possibility of unexpected death, injury, or disease. It needs to threaten them with the extinction of humanity and all life on the planet. It needs to promise certain doom and a dead future for all people without total submission and obedience to the technocratic authorities—the only ones with the power and knowledge to save the human race.


Climate Change as Political Spell and System of Control

Climate change is the narrative that fits the bill. It is true that ecological disaster is underway on this planet, with mass species extinction and habitat destruction, declining water tables, diminishing forests and wetlands, soil depletion, polluted skies and waters, and food with chemical toxins and GMOs throughout. But the entire narrative focus on ecological issues has gone into the singular question of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, as if this one issue alone is the one that will determine life and death for the planet.

There are few greater heresies on the Left than questioning this climate change narrative. The very same refrain that has been deployed to advance covid authoritarianism—“Follow the Science”—was first deployed and cemented in the popular consciousness using the issue of climate change. That’s how the stage was set years ago to encode the following formula for surrendering thought and sovereignty to the ruling technocracy:

1.       Science equals reality. Things yet to be verified by science, or which cannot be verified by science, cannot be real.

2.       Science (and therefore reality) is not arrived at through questioning, debate, and free thought—it is determined by identifying the people referred to as “the experts” by the corporate press, government, and other institutions subject to technocratic capture.

3.       Once identified, these experts are to be obeyed unquestioningly as a civic duty. Debating or questioning anything they say means “denying science” (and therefore reality).

4.       Failure to abandon one’s own thought process and obey the experts not only means denying reality—it means you’re helping to get all of us killed, destroying all life on the planet, and bequeathing an apocalyptic hellscape for future generations to languish in before humanity finally breathes its last.

I was captured by this narrative for many years. It was only in living through the covid mass formation that this portion of the spell began to loosen for me. I witnessed a near uniformity among technocratic experts around the world in affirming a covid narrative that was demonstrably false. I saw how this false narrative was used as a tool to establish authoritarian rule across the planet and transfer trillions of dollars in wealth to the very members of the technocracy promoting these experts. I saw how effective the prohibition and taboo against questioning “The Science” was in stopping independent thought and justifying the censorship that prevented people from accessing the truth. I saw how computer models with future predictions of deaths were used to terrify the public with the certain specter of death by covid.

This tactic of using computer models to divine certainty of future outcomes was the precise method used to terrify the public with the certain specter of a dead future due to climate change. I remembered Al Gore’s chart showing the temperature rising and his predictive maps of flooding coastlines. I remember how effectively that had convinced and terrified me years before. Having seen how the same approach was used with covid to terrify the public into mass formation and compliance with technocratic authoritarian rule, I began to consider the possibility that the climate change narrative may have similarly distorted the realities of our ecological crisis for equivalent purposes.

By seizing on climate change as the one existential ecological threat to the exclusion of all others, we have been presented with a proxy issue for life and death, just as we were with covid. They are both litmus tests for whether we are good, responsible citizens or deranged monsters: dangerous, selfish fanatics with a death wish. To pass the litmus test, you are to trust the experts chosen by the authorities, never question them, never do your own research or reasoning, never listen to other experts who disagree with them, and above all, obey.

They also both provide prescribed solutions that result in the populace ceding liberty to the technocracy while the technocracy continues to carry on with the activities that generated the crisis in the first place. In the case of climate change, the proffered remedy, as articulated by institutions like the World Economic Forum, begins with limiting the public’s freedom to travel by airplane or car. Further carbon rationing is to be enforced by a social credit system linked to central bank digital currencies. Centralized authorities will then be able to deactivate or geographically limit a person’s ability to travel, buy, sell, and invest. This deactivation can be linked to a person’s social credit score, which not only tracks their carbon footprint, but can incorporate credits or demerits based on a person’s speech or political activities—or their level of compliance with public health mandates such as vaccination, mask wearing, social distancing, lockdowns, and curfews. Our autonomously operated gas-powered vehicles are to be replaced by electric, driverless cars, which can be commandeered remotely by the technocracy as needed to limit their use to approved journeys. As was done with lockdowns and vax passports, the free movement of the people can then be restricted and curtailed at the whim of the ruling authorities.

Meanwhile, the ruling technocratic class would continue to travel at will by car and private jet, living in extravagant energy-intensive mansions and estates, exempt from the restrictions that apply to ordinary people. They would also continue their practices of unbridled resource extraction, overdeveloping the natural world, destroying habitats, and converting natural biological life into genetically modified organisms and synthetic replacements. They will continue their practices of geoengineering and polluting our skies and water systems. They will continue their practices of terraforming our land and converting it to mass monocrop GMO agricultural purposes, saturated with hormones, glyphocate, and other pesticides and herbicides.

This process is parallel to the one we see in regards to covid: Ordinary people lose their rights and freedoms while gaining no actual protection from covid. In fact, effective treatments to covid are suppressed while ineffective treatments are mandated, generating billions in profits. Meanwhile, the technocracy continues conducting the genetic experiments that created covid in the first place. They mandate that another product of the very same genetic modification research, the mRNA vaccines, be injected into every human on the planet. They continue their practices of creating human illness by polluting and bioengineering our bodies with synthetic diseases and chemicals created in their laboratories. Then they supply us with mandatory or ubiquitous pharmaceutical products that also pollute and bioengineer our bodies as the proffered remedy to these illnesses.

The unaccountable ways in which this technocracy seizes rights, freedom, and wealth from the people—while continuing to modify and destroy the natural world and natural life—would not be possible if climate change, covid, and vaccines had not been politicized. These technologies, practices, and ideologies are taboo to question from within the political spell that has been cast. As with covid, I have reviewed some of the taboo critiques of the climate change narrative, though not as closely. Despite the complexity and unknowns of covid, it is far less complex with far fewer unknowns than the issue of climate change, not to mention ecology as a whole—vastly larger in its scope and complexity. The arrogance and deception of the technocracy in its proffered covid remedies and suppression of other approaches is on display in the narrative collapse now underway. The consequences of this have been disastrous for millions. With issues of much greater complexity and impact represented by ecology and climate change, there is all the more need to question technocratic arrogance and welcome research and debate that approaches these issues from all angles.

With regards to climate change, the main areas of suppressed inquiry involve the exploration of factors besides greenhouse gasses that contribute to the rise and fall of global temperatures. One area of such pertinent research includes the fluctuations of solar irradiance and the effects of these on global warming and cooling. This issue is summarized in the article Modern Grand Solar Minimum will lead to terrestrial cooling by Valentia Zharkova, published in the scientific journal Temperature. It details the cycles of solar flares and sunspot activities that result in higher or lower of intensity in the sun’s magnetic fields with resulting warming or cooling effects on Earth.

Measurement of these cycles has identified length of solar cycles of about 350-400 years. When the sun reaches its minimum period of magnetic irradiation, these are referred to grand solar minimums with the most recent grand minimum occurring in 1645-1710, producing cooler temperatures of about 1.0-1.5 degrees centigrade and what has been referred to as the “Little Ice Age.” The past 70 years, which have seen temperatures rise by about 1.0 degrees, have coincided with a solar maximum period, increasing solar irradiation. Observations further indicate that we are currently on the cusp of entering the sun’s next grand solar minimum and indeed, it may have already begun. If so, we could see an equivalent decrease in global temperature that persists for many decades.

Does this mean the effects of greenhouse gasses should be ignored? Not at all, but it indicates there are other important influences on the Earth’s climate that have not been incorporated into the climate change narrative. The complexity of factors that play a role in this are varied, and it seems likely that many of them have yet to be discovered, let alone incorporated into the institutional narrative. The electromagnetic system of the Earth, greatly impacted by solar irradiation, is intimately bound up with climate change.

Other shifts in this system also play a role. Earth’s magnetic poles are currently in a state of major shift in location. The magnetic North Pole has been moving at a rate of 34 miles per year toward Siberia for several decades. Understandings of this phenomenon, why it happens, and what its effects will be are not fully developed, and much is unknown. The frequency of the Earth’s magnetic field, known as the Schumann resonance, has been increasing since 2014. Previously stable for decades at 7.83 hertz, recent readings have reached as high as 36 hertz. The reason for this and its implications on natural systems across the planet are also not yet well understood. Some studies have indicated that this field is in interaction with the frequencies of other planets in the Solar System, not just the Sun. These fields form an integrated system—changes in the field of one body yields responsiveness in the others, and so on, in a continuous exchange of feedback and adaptation.

The flow of electromagnetic energies on Earth are understood to greatly influence operation of the plant’s water and air systems. On a terrestrial level, the most important atmospheric factor in regulating global temperature is performed by clouds. Water is actually the most significant and important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, providing an estimated warming effect of 30 degrees centigrade on a planetary scale. Changes in the total degree of cloud cover and the location of clouds geographically at different altitudes alter the warming effect. The factors that effect changes in cloud cover are too complex to be understood with precision through current scientific research, but it is certain that solar irradiation, the Earth’s planetary electrical system, and cloud cover all operate as an integrated system.

The functioning of life and water systems such as forests, deserts, wetlands, and the other myriad factors that a play a role in these relationships are also integral to the formation of clouds and temperature change in incredibly complex ways. What’s more, each of these systems produces changes in the others, so if temperature rises, for instance, it will have effects on the other systems which will change and interact with each other in ways that can’t be predicted with high accuracy, possibly adding to the warming effect, but possibly producing a countervailing cooling effect. These factors are also intimately linked to another highly complex system of thermal transfer: jet streams and ocean currents. The predictive weakness of weather forecasts, which falter in a matter of weeks and frequently prove inaccurate in a matter of days, highlights the degree to which these complex systems confound our current level of scientific understanding, casting into doubt the degree of certainty that can be projected decades into the future in terms of temperature and climate.

I do not know what the confluence of all these systems will yield as they continue to change and interact with each other in the future. The current rise of carbon in the atmosphere, from around 200 parts per million to 400 parts per million, stands in contrast to previous epochs in the Earth’s history, flush with life, when atmospheric carbon reached as high as 6,000 parts per million. Again, this does not mean the contemporary issue of greenhouse gasses should be ignored. This is a different time, with different conditions. But it is perhaps a reminder that the integrated network of life systems, water cycles, atmospheric and ozone composition, electromagnetic frequencies, and temperature are cross-responsive, self-regulating, and adaptive.

Just the sun and other planets are integrated into this system, so are human beings. As natural manifestations of the same Earth that has produced these other self-regulating systems, it may be that human beings are also playing a role in the planet’s self-regulation—one we are unaware of. We have been offered an ideology that views humans as separate from nature, as an out-of-control phenomenon that is life-destructive and antithetical to balanced, integrated, natural systems. But I would offer a counter-hypothesis: if anything exists that matches this life-destructive description, it is the Global Machine and actions that are a product of Machine-thinking. The Machine agenda arrogantly reengineers every component of biology and natural systems, replacing these with synthesized alternatives, and subjecting everything to a program of control. This is the mindset that has created the problems we face, not humans themselves, and it is the very mindset at the core of the climate change narrative woven into our political spell.

Even my own cursory overview of these complex systems—and the current level of scientific understanding regarding them—has made it clear to me that far less is known for certain than we are led to believe by the climate change narrative. We know how greenhouse gasses work to produce warming, we know that pollution from industrial society has increased their presence in our atmosphere, and we know that temperatures have risen 1.0 degrees in the past 70 years, but it is not clear to what degree atmospheric carbon has been responsible for this. Other factors, particularly the solar maximum period of increased irradiation that began in the 20th century and is ending now, may have played a significant role.

The charts shown to us that predict global temperatures rising 5.0 degrees in the next 100 years due to atmospheric carbon no longer seem reliable to me, any more than the charts of projected covid deaths presented to us in March 2020, derived from curated computer programming models just like the climate charts are. Those covid charts were utilized to frighten the world into obeying a technocratic agenda of authoritarian control and the transfer of trillions of dollars in wealth to the billionaire class. Scientists and doctors presenting data contrary to the Network’s covid narrative were dismissed. Since then, the critics of the narrative have been proven correct on point after point.

There are significant parallels to what we have seen with the covid narrative and the climate narrative. In each case we have been urged to panic at the prospect of certain doom, we have been urged to cede rights and sovereignty to the global technocratic governing class, and we have been urged to “trust the experts” and “follow the science” without question. In each case, those who question the narrative and challenge it to a process of scientific debate and inquiry have been censored, demonized, and labeled with epithets like “climate deniers,” “covid deniers,” and “science deniers.” In the case of covid, the remedies offered by the technocracy did nothing to alleviate the harm caused by covid while causing immense harm to people’s lives, health, psyches, and social fabric—devastating the global economy while enacting the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. In the case of climate, the proposed remedies promise to do much the same, with high uncertainty as to whether they will even be effective at reducing greenhouses gasses. Moreover, the monofocus on atmospheric carbon pollution obscures and leaves unchanged the myriad other ways the technocratic order continues to devastate ecological systems across the planet.


Life Outside the Spell

As previously stated, I do not know which policies represent the best choices in stewarding the planetary life systems currently under assault. But I am certain that panic, censorship, demonization, and blind adherence to authority will not yield them. Perhaps with measured respect for others, a return to the free flow of information and scientific inquiry, and a healthy skepticism of authority we will discover the Network’s climate narrative to be true just as they have presented it to us. But in doing so, we will have broken the Spell of Politics that clouds the issue of climate and ecology, along with the political spells interwoven with terrorism, vaccines, Wokeism, and covid.

These spells are all related—they are all of a piece. They have cast a shadow of division and deception over our eyes, pitting Left against Right, Democrat against Republican, us against them. The result is to create a terrified and rageful people, turned against themselves, submitting to authoritarian rule, and actively enacting persecutions against one another. Meanwhile, the technocracy operating the mechanisms of the spell continues to consolidate power and drive the world deeper into the Machine agenda.

The Spell of Politics does the most to keep the other elements of the spell in place. I’ve saved this part till the end on purpose: I anticipate that if any Left-identified reader has made it all the way to the end of this article, there is one question that continues to burn in their mind: “But you didn’t vote for Trump, did you?”

This is the question I hear again and again, anytime I engage in this discussion of shifting toward the Republicans with my friends on the Left (what few will still have me). It demonstrates the visceral power of the spell we are under. In light of all the weighty concerns addressed in this article, from authoritarianism to covid, the most important thing in the minds of many is to not vote for Trump. Trump has been transformed into an icon of evil itself by TDS—enlarged to vast, monstrous proportions. To vote for him is to touch the Devil himself, to wander outside the light of humanity. No issue is more important than opposing Trump along with everything attached to his name by our benighted political spell.

Well, the answer is no, I did not vote for Donald Trump. But I would have, if forced to choose between him and Biden. When the political spell broke for me, I ceased to see Trump as Hitler incarnate and began to see him as an ageing huckster and entertainer, weak despite his bluster, self-obsessed and out of his depth as president—but nonetheless partially resistant to the Network and its technocracy. Trump is corrupt, but at least his corruption is in service to himself rather than technocratic totalitarianism as Biden’s corruption is (and the corruption of so many others).

Part of the reason I didn’t vote for Trump was because I was hoping once he was gone, the spell would break for Democrats and the Left, the fever would subside, and their good senses would be returned to them. I was sorely disappointed in that hope. The absurd and orchestrated theater of the Capitol riot, followed by Trump’s ceremonial deplatforming and the surreal spectacle of his second impeachment—evoking a Soviet or Maoist show trial—cemented the permanence of Trump as a specter of evil in the consciousness of the Left, as was intended. The ghost of his memory continues to drive the engine of the political spell.

But the main reason I didn’t vote for him was because I didn’t support him. He was in no way the figure of anyone I would ever select as a good choice to lead the country. For years, I believed in the principle of voting for the lesser of two evils. I thought that’s what politics was. But since my eyes have been opened, I see that it’s only what politics is from within the cloud of the spell. In another spell-breaking ritual, I declined to vote for either of the two corrupt figures presented to me. I also took a pass on the third party candidates, finding that none of them had come out against lockdowns and in favor of medical freedom as part of their platform.

Instead, I wrote my own name in for president in 2020. This act was performed as a counter spell to reclaim my own power from politics and the Network—an affirmation of my own sovereignty and dignity as a free woman, unruled and uncowed by any would-be tyrant or system of control, or anyone else with designs on my perception and my reality. I recommend a similar attitude to all those who would break free from their conditioned programming and join the movement of free people of the Living Earth, strong in spirit, led by Love.

Despite my offered predictions at the beginning of this article, I do not know what developments lie in wait for the covid narrative or the larger political spell. I feel certain, however, that future developments will be tailored to breed hatred and suspicion, divide and separate the people from each other, foster authoritarianism, smother freedom of thought, shepherd us toward a future of technocratic control, and divorce us from spirit and our own humanity. None of these developments can succeed without our compliance and participation. Above all, we must not make the mistake of joining an ideological movement defined in terms of the ideological movements we oppose. That way leads to the very authoritarianism we’re seeking to exit, and only deepens the spell. With every thought and action originating from our own sovereignty, trust, and love, the spell dissolves a little more. May each of us find guidance and strength from within as we journey back to ourselves.