Today, we will talk about how people are pushing back in big and small ways against the cultural mind controls that are being instilled on us and if this pushing back works?  Announcements Holler Neighbor Livestream – Thursday at 7pm https://youtu.be/YgV_A0TPi78 Kickstart Holler Roast Update My email Tales from the Prepper Pantry Where we talk about storing what you eat and eating what you store. One last round of herbs for winter: lemon balm, mint, comfrey, chamomile tea, (echinacea from Brian??), Mullein, berry leaves Time to harvest sweet potatoes Last round of winter squash for storage Keeping an eye on weather for root cellar set up Featured Forage: chamomile antipeptic, antispasmodic, antipyretic, antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-allergenic activity. sleep aid, treatment for fevers, colds, stomach ailments, and as an anti-inflammatory Harvest flowers Make tea Operation Independence Dig a ditch? Add extra lines Simplification Schedule Main topic: Does Pushing Back Work? I’m not Givin away my SHOT!  In many ways, they are glorifying the violence that it took to make the American Revolution happen. A country born of violence. Furthered by violence in the civil war under the auspices of ending slavery – an institution that was dying even as the civil war started.  More violence. Pushback. And today, we are seeing violence. Violence and the call for the opposite of freedom under the auspices of being against that fascist orange guy and FOR FREEDOM. Because apparently no leader who has come before him was furthering fascism. Just the orange man. And the right screams socialism. And the left fascism. Never caring that both are two sides of the same authoritarian coin. 14 years I dedicated to working in the Liberty movement. FOURTEEN wasted years in many cases desperately trying to get people to just PLEASE TRY to communicate about liberty in a way that grounds the morality of protecting the individual in the why not the what, in the emotional reasons not the data.  In a way that explains why protecting individual rights over collective opinions is the basis for lifting more people out of poverty, finding the means for caring for our sick, and growing both intellectually and spiritually. And the sharpest resistance to this idea, this approach were the most intelligent among the liberty thinkers. Voices were raised. Efforts were undermined. Some really smart people rose like stars in the movement, loved by others who already agree with them.  But the whole time, the targets were wrong.  Convincing people who already agree with you is not how to create enduring liberty. Creating a society that values people and their individual rights doesn’t just happen without an ongoing barrage from those who either want power over others, who are scared to be in control of their destiny, or who simply don’t want to think, they just want to live.  And most people fall into the last category. They just want to live. Hell - I fall into that category -- I want to live the way I want and for people who disapprove to leave me alone. I am not hurting anyone am I? Yet for fourteen years, I did not give up. I pushed. I fought. I scrapped. I politicked. And at the end, I was so tired. SO beat.  I had found some great allies. I had found some folks who were better at furthering my marketing mission than I was. And I saw a coming tidal wave. One I wrote about in the 90s. I missed the deadline. Did not stop the swell and now the wave is peaking.  In Hamilton, people run around the stage excited that they are making history. So much change! A world where an orphan immigrant can become part of the leadership. And he’s not giving away his SHOT! But do you really want to be a part of history? The American Revolution spurred lots of suffering. And now our country has people fighting on the streets. Assassinations. An industrial media complex that falls in line with whatever narrative is needed to keep the masses divided.  A rising generation cultivat