The Green New Deal - A False Promise

The following is excerpted from my book, The Green New Deal versus the Call to Reason. 

The philosophy of the Green New Deal is the philosophy of force against man. It is coercive government hidden under false promises of a better life. More than this it is the idea that force is a practical means for improving society. It holds that the end justifies the means.

Yet, history has shown that societies operating on the principle of force are corrupt and failing. This is the case in every situation where forced sacrifice (fascism/socialism/communism) was the governing principle of society. With that said, it is important to understand the real meaning and consequences of the philosophy that guides both left and right in all parts of the world. That philosophy is pragmatism, the idea that activism (force) accomplishes good.

Progressive policies are failures that lead to more failures that eventually lead to totalitarianism; which is the biggest, bloodiest failure in the history of man. Yet, progressives do not see the illogic of their position. They consider central planning to be a practical form of political power and they blindly advocate more of it despite the evidence of the impracticality of their policies.

The inexorable logic of the progressive position is that once they gain power, their solutions for solving human problems will create a better world. Yet, inevitably, progressive attitudes toward capitalism (that it exploits people and elevates the profit motive) require a fight against any activity that results in market dominance and high profits. These policies are couched under protestations of protecting people against predators while, in fact, the progressives are the predators. Their confiscations destroy the rights and affluence of the people. The eventual wreckage of their policies begins to accumulate.

Inevitably, they blindly advocate more government power in response to the wreckage they have created. They voice the loudest moral certitude that government control will improve the situation against the capitalists while denying all along that it is their forceful policies that are actually destroying society, not the capitalists.

Eventually, they arrive at total force under the false premise that this would accomplish the most good of all. They argue that giving power to technocrats will be more efficient and produce more jobs and affluence – if only the people agreed to work for the collective rather than mere profit. You end up with totalitarianism and everything this implies, poverty, decline, political murders and mass death.

The proponents of the Green New Deal insist that men belong to society and that government is tasked with the responsibility of directing men’s actions and appropriating their property for the sake of the whole. This falsely implies the efficacy of coercion.

If you doubt the truth of this charge against the Green New Deal, consider the attitude taken by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez when she assumed office as a representative of her district in New York. Her local officials were in the process of making a “deal” with Amazon to build new facilities and create as much as 25,000 new jobs in return for some tax concessions. Ignorant of the long-range benefits of this deal for her voters, she voiced demands that moved Amazon out of the deal. Her attitude toward Amazon was applauded by other progressives as a principled stand; but her “stance” could only have been truly principled if she hated the profit motive and its true positive impact on the lives of her constituents. Her communistic impulses could be the only reason for opposing Amazon’s interests. This is not principle; it is nihilism. This is real damage to real people.

The unfortunate truth for progressives, the fact they vehemently deny, is that the more force they exert, the more damage they do to society. You need only look at the results of fascist and communistic societies throughout history to see this. Forget that every new proponent of progressive policies criticizes the cruelty of past coercive societies, while promising that, this time, they will get it right. Forget that these promises merely start a new cycle of cruelty and control. Forget that the new boss is the same as the old boss because it is the principles of centralized government, the use of force in society that keeps being repeated each time.

The Green New Deal requires that men limit or give up their right to use reason. If you squash reason, who in society will create the products that will make life better? Certainly not the government. Certainly not the technocrats. And over time, the more force they use in society, the more convinced honest people become that reason will not be allowed to flourish; so therefore, there is no reason to work hard. What could society expect of the more able people; that they work hard for the sake of the collective? No, they will do what they have always done in the face of oppression. They will pursue subsistence and nothing more. Therefore, altruism and collective force are impractical.

Totalitarian societies always crumble after their mass murders. They crumble because they are killing or suppressing the best minds. Therefore, progressive and democratic socialist societies are fraught with economic turmoil and recession, corruption and theft. They limit and restrict the free use of the mind and they lead the people on a path toward destruction. Force in society does not work.

The idea of “social justice”, imposed by government, removes all restrictions on government’s power. Once the lives of individuals are less important than the “rights” of the collective, the stage is set for ever more stringent exploitation of good citizens. Because force does not create a vibrant economy, because collectivism always fails, the leaders must charge productive individuals with “crimes against the people” to cover up their own failures. So when you hear arguments such as “it takes a village”, “you didn’t build that”, “the rich are not paying their fair share”, “we need more shared sacrifice”, “capitalism isn’t working”, what you are hearing is the call for a society based upon force. You are hearing the call to dictatorship and you can be sure, by the inexorable logic of ideas, that the result will be lots and lots of dead people…most of whom only wanted to live honest lives in freedom.

The Green New Deal is the next step in the incremental movement to increase force against disarmed citizens. At first, the progressives demanded minor examples of force, such as innocuous rules, regulations, higher taxes and government programs to allegedly solve one or more (invented) problem of capitalism. Their goal, however, has not been to fix society but to establish the principle of force which, once established, sets the precedent for ever wider expansions of government. The Green New Deal is only the ultimate expression of a total takeover of the lives of all people by government. It is the ultimate holocaust, the builder, not of new green buildings but of concentration camps fraught with social experiments by ruthless doctors of control. Do not doubt that the Green New Deal will be the ultimate nightmare of death and destruction. That is why progressives like Ms. Cortez are so insistent that it is the solution to all of our problems. She intends to be the slave driver.

In our schools today, future citizens are taught that government can make things better through regulations and re-distribution (force). This means that progressives are teaching our children that government has the moral authority, for the sake of society, to decide when to interfere in peoples’ lives; when to use force. Children are taught that good citizenship involves the forcible re-distribution of their future earnings for the sake of the less fortunate. They are also taught that capitalism contains many flaws that the government is responsible for correcting, effectively teaching young people that force is the preferred and only practical way of accomplishing change. When they take over, they will make sure that the bad people, the capitalists, the racists, the white supremacists, the white people, as a whole, will be punished for what they have done – although what they have done is based on the identity of skin tone. Scapegoating is the new political correctness. This will not be a free society.

Teachers ignore the fact that government-initiated force eliminates the ability of future citizens to think and make unbiased judgments. In a bizarre twist of logic, they think they are building good minds and good citizens...when, in fact, they are creating the busy bodies who will harass the able and the accomplished people in society. Their acceptance of the principle of force in society leads them to denigrate reason in favor of altruistic moral premises. These children are unaware they are losing their critical faculties and learning to acquiesce to government-sponsored theft.

There is always a “broken window” with such measures. Someone must pay for the government programs and suffer losses - but schools seldom teach children about the pitfalls of a government that must take money in order to equalize them. The idea that there can never be a justification for exerting force against the individual is seldom mentioned. This is because children are taught that ideas like the Green New Deal have made things better in the past.

Limited government, restricted to using force only in defense of individual rights, is the only system that liberates the human mind to innovate and produce. It allows people to accumulate wealth, create new products, build large industries and trade value for value. The basic principle of limited government exposes the lie of coercive systems like the Green New Deal. Progressives and other proponents of coercive systems portray themselves as advanced thinkers seeking to improve capitalism (by means of force), but the truth is they are thugs seeking to transform society into dictatorship.

Any system that uses force (by means of economic intervention) poses dangers to society and will achieve the same results as both Soviet communism and Nazi fascism. They are no different from those systems; they represent no serious departure from them and should be feared and avoided.

Any argument claiming that capitalism has failed is categorically false. This is because capitalism is about voluntary trade whose focus is exchanging value for value. In the overwhelming number of cases, mutual benefit to all parties is what happens in capitalism. The consequence of capitalism is an improving standard of living, better products and happiness. This is because capitalism is the only system that eliminates force as a system of economic control.

What we need is the opposite of the Green New Deal. We need a complete separation of economy and government. We need to keep government out of the business of regulating our lives and restricting our choices. When we accomplish this kind of society, we establish the principle that government can make no laws that interfere with the free trade of individuals.

The Marxist claim that capitalism is inherently exploitative, that all transactions are zero-sum, and that capitalism will someday be replaced by socialism are patently false and amount to an effort by the Marxists to create the very circumstances they require in order to take power. There is no mystical movement from capitalism to socialism, no exploitation, no worker’s disenfranchisement and no force exerted by companies who can only survive by convincing customers to trade with them; and by proving to employees that they are providing value in return for value. The lie of Marxism is that capitalism is dictatorship.

Marxism is a series of calculated lies, old-wives-tales, pseudo-science, pseudo-philosophy and balderdash. Anyone who claims that capitalism has failed, that it must be fixed by some form of force, is an anti-capitalist making false charges. It is like saying that a hammer is necessary to fix a computer chip. The idea that you can fix capitalism by violating the principles of capitalism (individual rights and free capital accumulation) should be rejected out of hand…and that means that the entire philosophy of today’s progressives should be rejected as a scam. 

Copyright 2019 by Robert Villegas

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Press Release: New Rational Thoughtbook on Identity

Surprise, AZ – Writer Robert Villegas has just invented a new breed of book called the Rational Thoughtbook. The first book is called "Identity: A Rational Thoughtbook by Robert Villegas

As he wrote on the Amazon description of the book:

“The quest for identity is a human yearning. Each of us seeks to define who we are and what is our purpose. This yearning is the desire to integrate our existence, our knowledge and our purpose. To aid in this quest, the authors have created the “Rational Thoughtbook, a new breed of book that uses vibrant images and essential questions to help you think about your most important issues. A Rational Thoughtbook is not intended merely for reading; but for thinking. You don’t read each page; you think about the questions being posed and take your time answering them according to your best knowledge at the time. Rational thinking is the exertion of mental focus and energy to improve internal harmony and cognitive abilities. Through this book, you will use your mind to “see” reality, determine right action, generate energy and prepare yourself for living.”

Mr. Villegas holds that identity is an individual concept. It has nothing to do with the color of one’s skin or place of origin. Identity is about the individual and what he or she chooses to make of the self. This book is about defining the self, not the group.

Mr. Villegas developed the idea for the thoughtbook after seeing a stunning brochure his company created for a client. This brochure used an image of a lady facing massive waves while standing on a beach. It inspired him so much that he realized how stunning images and carefully selected text could help people contemplate important questions.

The process of getting the idea for the book, and then writing the questions, then giving his graphic designer the liberty of choosing the images was quite exciting and only took about 4 days of phone work and texting. Mr. Villegas hopes this new breed of book, that requires contemplation (rather than merely reading), will be beneficial for the reader seeking answers. He has topics for about five more thoughtbooks.

You can order Identity a Rational Thoughtbook by Robert Villegas at https://amzn.to/2Zr2bQD

Other Villegas books include

The REAL Purpose-Driven Life https://amzn.to/2YG0Xjc

Values and Purpose Workbook https://amzn.to/2YDrYrS

Alcoholism and Addiction – A Secular Ten-Step Program on Amazon at http://amzn.to/2q8eQsB

The Secular Ten-Step Program Workbook http://amzn.to/2pGRx5v

The World’s First Drunk: With Counselor’s Talking http://amzn.to/2r6pCRA

The World’s First Drunk – Patient Version http://amzn.to/2r0EBfr

Robert Villegas is an Arizona Author specializing in fiction, romance, theater and philosophy. He was born in South Texas (Weslaco) but raised in Indiana. He has spent a lifetime in the business world as a UPS executive and also worked in locations all over the United States and Europe. He is an Army veteran who served in Korea as a telecommunications specialist serving in the 7th Infantry Division in Camp Casey, Korea. He was educated in Indiana and earned a Degree through the University of the State of NY (Albany) via an external degree program. He is divorced with three grown children and three grandchildren.

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How to Bring Down the Government of Iran

The Green Revolution in Iran lost its ability to communicate its message while President Obama was seeking his nuclear deal with the government. Harsh and cruel crackdowns that included beatings, decapitations and murder silenced the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom of speech and other freedoms. What can they do now? How can they advance their prospects for self-sufficiency and self-determination? I suggest a Green Revolution of Silence.

To the Iranian people, I’d like to suggest that you starve your government of money, go on strike, and keep from the government the very things it needs to oppress you. It may require short-term suffering but certainly not the level of suffering you have experienced for decades. Here is how it can be done:

1. Stay in your homes after work and refuse to enjoy your free time until the government falls. If you have vacation time available, take it but spend little. This keeps you out of trouble, reduces commerce and yet is a form of protest.
2. Hoard your money, hide it and do not put it in a bank; temporarily remove it from circulation. The government needs a working economy in order to pay for operations. If you save your money and refuse to buy anything, there will be fewer taxes the government can collect.
3. Reduce or stop your production if possible. The government can only collect taxes when surplus wealth is created. If there is no surplus wealth, the government will begin to experience budget deficits.
4. Keep silent and do only what you are told and nothing more. Volunteer no new ideas and act as uf ignorant when you are asked for an opinion or idea.
5. If you can, do only enough to achieve bare subsistence. This should also be done by merchants and factory owners whose taxes feed the economy. If you can sabotage production without being caught, do so.
6. Do not start new businesses or borrow money for major purchases. This will slow the economy and start the process of economic decline that is necessary for the government to fall.
7. If you are a student, learn your lessons and get good grades, but take no position of leadership and show only the support of silence. The entire society should walk in silence without smiles. This is a form of protest.
8. If you are an employee of the government or even a police officer, do everything you can to help the people without being noticed and, if you can, refuse to follow orders. Never ask a citizen to provide you with information. If you can get away with it provide false information to the government. This will be important because the new government, once it is formed, will need good people.
9. Whenever possible, grow your own food and make your own energy but do nothing to improve your standard of living until you are free.
10. If you trade with others, trade in such a way that it is out of sight of government and without reporting. Barter, create your own private currencies and make only verbal agreements that are out of sight of the government. Trust each other and deal only with people who do not support the government.
11. If possible, take advantage of every benefit the government provides so it is spending money on you that it cannot spend on weapons and oppression. Only take a government job if you can sabotage the government without being noticed. Take but never give back.

With a protest of this kind, a silent protest, the government cannot last long, and it will either have to capitulate or fall. Governments need money in order to function and if you can starve them of money, you can win.

After all, you are the highest value in your society; they are the parasites.

Taking Credit

Please note: I am the first person who discovered the significance of the "Dolphin and Anchor" motif as an indication that Titus was the model for Jesus. I discovered this in 2007 and recorded it in a dated document which I still possess. I made one person aware of this at the time and shared the document with him. I published an edited version of this document in my book Unkilling Jesus which I published in 2015. I am also the first person that I know of who has published a suggestion that Peter was actually Josephus, the man who led "the Church" (Really the Titus Cult) in the first century AD. Many of the things attributed in the Bible to Peter were very likely done by Josephus as the first person to recognize the divinity of the Flavians and who went about the empire preaching the power of these three men.

Other suggestions I have made:

• That Paul actually met Titus on the Road to Damascus
• That Paul went to Rome with Josephus as a captive of the Flavians
• That Paul actually wrote many of his works while employed by the Flavians
• That Paul was killed by Domitian not Nero
• That Peter (Josephus) was also killed by Domitian not Nero
• That Paul may have been both Justus son of Pistus and Appolonius of Tyana - the word Pistus is Greek for "faith" or "persuaded by faith" so Justus/Paul was a man persuaded by faith in Jesus - this is not the only clue
• I showed how the timelines of Paul, Josephus and Jesus/Titus were changed, exposed the contradictions in the timeline and showed that many of the acts of Titus were back-dated and attributed to Jesus
• I analyzed the works of Suetonius and found the Christian connections in his works
• I provided a theory on how the gospels were written and why, as well as how and why Titus's name became Jesus
• I exposed the origins of the Last Supper and put Paul on the scene

Other discoveries can be found in my books:

Unkilling Jesus https://amzn.to/2Sw1wKb
Domitian: the Final Messiah https://amzn.to/2Rinrrd
Paul's Agon and the Mystification of History https://amzn.to/2SvxIgM
How they Wrote the Gospels https://amzn.to/2Roa1K3

Jobs or Moldy Cheese?

Have you ever noticed that the richest people on the planet have made millions by improving our lives and work? Yet, they are considered evil because they made a profit. Henry Ford lightened our travel, J. D. Rockefeller gave us better energy to power our machines. Steve Jobs, helped us organize ourselves and communicate better. Bill Gates made us more productive and richer. But they weren't considered good men until they started giving away their riches to people who had not earned them.

The richest men in the world have done the most good in comparison to the do-gooders who claim to love the poor. The rich eliminated poverty by giving us jobs. The whiners created poverty by destroying production. The whiners kept people poor by giving them the money of the rich.

If Bill Gates had taken the money he borrowed to create Microsoft and given it to the poor, would there be a Microsoft? How many poor would there be? So when you hear people saying "Be kind to others" you are hearing the most inefficient way of helping others. The best way to help people is to invest your money in a profit-seeking company. It will also help you too.

I've always said, give people a job not a block of moldy cheese.

Tismaneanu on Nationalism

I am opposed to nationalism. The concept is collectivist in nature and throughout history it has had devastating consequences. It is not possible to put American citizens first and have a nationalist theme. Because nationalism is collectivist, it is a virulent form of putting the individual's importance beneath the nation (dictatorship) rather than free and alone. Eventually, regardless of the intent of the nationalist to save his nation (Hitler also said he was trying to save his nation), the result is a devastated nation, isolated and in ruins. Please, we must challenge this nonsensical perspective. The only proper nation is one in which the individual is autonomous and free. The opposite of nationalism is individual rights. Limited government is the key, not one man rule.

Below is a quote on nationalism from an excellent book cited below.

"Ethnic nationalism appeals more often than not to primary instincts of unity and identification with one’s own group: foreigners are often seen as vicious destabilizers, dishonest breakers of traditions, and agents of dissolution. Nationalism, indeed, sanctifies tradition, once described by Gilbert K. Chesterton as the “right to vote granted to the dead people.” Especially in times of social frustration, foreigners tend to be demonized and scapegoated. A Ukrainian nationalist, for instance, would see Russians (or Jews) as forever conspiring to undermine Ukraine’s independence and prosperity. A Romanian would regard members of the Hungarian minority as belonging to a unified body perpetually involved in subversive and irredentist activities. A Croatian militant nationalist would never trust Serbs, while Serbian ethnic fundamentalists would involve Croatia’s alliance with Nazi Germany as an argument against trust and ethnic coexistence. Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian nationalism are colored by the memory of the Soviet (and previously Russian) occupations of the Baltic states. National discourses not only preserve a sense of ethnic identity but also continuously “reinvent the tradition” (Hobsbawm), regenerate historical mythology, infuse an infra-rational, transcendental content into a sense of national identity. During imperial collapse, nationalism becomes an ideological balm used to calm sentiments of despondency and rage.

“With its shattered identities and wavering loyalties, the post-Communist world allowed delusional xenophobic fantasies to thrive and capture the imagination of millions of disaffected individuals. National homogenization became the battle cry of political elites, for whom unity and cohesion were the ultimate values. The Leninist exclusionary logic (“us” versus “them”) has been replaced by the nationalist vision, which sanctifies the ethnic in-group and demonizes “aliens.” Those who criticize this trend are immediately stigmatized as a “fifth column” made up of “inside enemies.” For the late Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, for instance, it was only the intellectuals supportive of the “national spirit and self-determination” who deserved the name of intelligentsia. All others, he maintained, were just Pharisees. The continuous invention of enemies and hatreds aggravates the climate of insecurity and makes many honest individuals despair about the future of their societies.” - The Devil in History, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Hardcover, University of California Press, Page 187. https://amzn.to/2Q856cz 

Press Release: The Google Problem

New Book Exposes the Google Problem

Writer Robert George has published a book which analyzes the fundamental premises that have created the “Google problem”. The book, called “Corporate Fear – The Google Problem”,  delves into the issues of egalitarianism and diversity policies as discussed in James Damore’s paper which got him fired from the company. Representative chapter titles include:

·        The Individual

·        Collectivism

·        Capitalism

·        Egalitarianism

·        How to Destroy a Company

·        Taking it to the Street

·        The End Justifies the Means

·        Division and Race in Society

·        Equal Pay

·        Customer Service

·        Force in Society

·        The Fallacy of Egalitarianism

·        Corporate Fear

In the Introduction to the book, Mr. George wrote:

“This booklet will analyze the concept of diversity politics in corporate America. As a young executive, working for a major corporation, I observed the issue of diversity as it played out during the ‘70s and into the new century. I’d like to offer this perspective to help us understand what I have come to call Corporate Fear and how it has developed over those decades.”

The book is available through Amazon.com in both Kindle and paperback (https://amzn.to/2wwVF0H) versions as well as other distributions.

Robert George is the pseudonym for a retired former American business executive.

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