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Final Thought – January 23, 2026 – The New Blue Fortress, Virginia

pgnewser January 30, 2026

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” – Vaclav Havel

INTRODUCTION

This is an opinion piece written in what MIA refers to as the “prophetic voice.” This voice is intended to express an Americanist spiritual understanding (or an attempt to understand in a spiritual context) the actions this opinion piece is analyzing.

Spirit here simply means a habit of being born from core presuppositions. For the Americanist, that core presupposition is that state and corporate power should be limited by the “right” of the individual to be self-stewarded, not coerced into “belief” as defined by the state and/or the corporation.

I am analyzing the underlying spiritual realities from a primarily Americanist perspective, from the perspective of a people who value individual self-stewardship over protecting people from offensive or untrue thought. I am specifically looking at the dramatic actions by the Democrat Party immediately after taking power in Virgina following an election that openly rewarded calls for political violence.

A. TAKING POWER

Through multiple bills and executive orders, the Insurrectionist State of Virginia hopes to make itself a blue fortress shielding its Progmerican citizens from Federal authority, ESPECIALLY its illegal alien Progmerican citizens, who (to them) are the righteous wrath of the world against the unjust Americans, White Supremacists all.

Lawsuits are sure to follow quickly, but already Virginia is set to become a violent land not unsimilar to California, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, and a growing list of blue-run states lurching into political violence and anarchy, intentionally.

REWARDING POLITICAL DEATH THREATS – In our November 2025 Report, The DNC is Not Yet Dead, we reported on the stunning results of that Virginia election. THIS is what Virginia voted for:

The buzz about early voting initially not going great for the Democrats proved to be a false hope for Americans as the state overwhelmingly voted for violence in politics by electing a governor who wouldn’t condemn it and the highest law man in the land who also openly advocated for it.

Another abortion extremist, Abigaile Spanberger, can now be seen as the face of the white, suburban, female child murderer voter. Her refusal to condemn her fellow party member, Jay Jones, for texting he wanted to murder his republican opponents’ kids in front of him, matched the spirit she showed in defending unborn child murder up to birth. The only people abortionists don’t want you to kill are murderers and rapists. Charlie Kirk? Yes. Child rapist-murderer? No.

Now, Virginia’s Governor and Attorney General have openly advocated for terrorism, yet the DOJ refuses to arrest them after committing such an obvious crime. If you are not a progressive and you live in Virginia, 57% of your neighbors just voted to murder you. Your state leaders support your execution should you dare speak in public against them.

Spanberger beat Winsome Earle-Sears 57% to 43%. Jay Jones beat the incumbent DA 53% to 47%. Voter turnout was 55%, with only 10% being from mail-in ballots. This means, as I stated earlier, Virginia TRULY VOTED FOR TREASON. Virginia may be the first state to openly vote for political assassinations in the history of our republic, a republic they just voted against.

One could argue that the majority of Viriginia’s voters in 2025 openly committed an act of treason against our republic (though not a charge I’d ever support attempting to enforce beyond core leadership targets).

One would be correct in that assumption if they view reality through an Americanist lens. You have no right to vote for political murder as you clearly did in Virginia. This is crime of the highest order.

BUILDING THE BLUE FORTRESS, HOME OF POLITICS BY VIOLENCE – Over two months later, the Democrats have now taken over. They came in under an explicit approval of political violence by Virginia voters. Their reward is a slate of new bills and executive orders that will deliver to those who voted for this dystopian reality the economic and security hardships they certainly deserve. To the rest of Virginians, our condolences for your losses. Let us hope they are temporary.

Here are some of their worst proposed bills:

Softening sentencing rules for robbers.

Eliminate ballot hand-counting to assure easier election fraud.

Ban gas-powered leaf blowers.

Free Education for Illegal Aliens

Ban Arresting Illegal Aliens in courthouses

Add 4.3% Delivery Tax affecting all Deliveries, Including Amazon, Uber, and Door Dash.

“Protects” Transgender children from parental resistance

There are numerous new gun control laws proposed, and abortion will be legalized up to the birth of the child.

You can also expect Virginia Public schools to once again tell children that white babies are born with sin skins to a white race that invented evil. They will also be told that the whole world must come together to end the white devil’s tyranny.

You can also expect Virginia public schools to once again tell children they should ponder what gender they are and what gender(s) they might like to have sex with.

Science is dead in Virginia, as are safe spaces for children, who soon will no longer be safe in their schools as they were when the Progmericans were reined in under Glenn Youngkin. Children will soon longer be safe in their own communities as crime will explode in the cities as local DNC and state DNC insurrectionist leaders can more directly work together to continue to foment arrest in America’s cities (no doubt intentionally).

Expect the professional rioters to thug freer on the streets in Virginia cities once the Blue Fortress of Virginia is established (which should take about 3 months). Criminals are righteous scourges on an unrighteous land to the blue acolyte. This is why they don’t charge them, and when the police do, they release them and fail to prosecute them.

B. A SOBERING REALITY FOR AMERICANS TRAPPED IN VIRGINIA

If some of our readers find themselves in Virginia, we hope you have been building your own hope exits, and, when possible, even your own Hope Castles, for things are about to get tough for you, ESPECIALLY if you have children. Homeschooling might be the only option at this point, for the children of Virginia are about to be set upon by the predators called “teachers” (college-indoctrinated anti-American revolutionary activists), who will now be unleashed, protected by state laws.

If you cannot afford to homeschool, check to see if other parents are having the same problem. This writer assumes there will be efforts to create homeschool networks to allow parents to pool their resources so they can rescue their children from state-inflicted psychological terrorism. If there aren’t, maybe you’re the one to start it.

Virginia is a land filled with Americans who now find themselves behind enemy lines. As much as we can, we hope to offer solutions to those Americans on how to build hope exits right where you are. On July 10, 2026, we are scheduled to release our full Hope Exit Series updated and supplemented.

It contains a breakdown of the essential needs of people and communities and solutions that free you from dependence on a system that wants you dead (and believe me, Virginia’s Democrats WANT Americans dead, even if just through attrition).

Write to us at MIAMailroom@gmail.com if you’re in Virginia. Tell us what you’re doing to prepare and what you might need to help you prepare.

SUMMARY

In the second installment of our Transition series, the Qin Dynasty inflicted a great burden on a people who were rewarded for that pain with security and expansion. But when the conquest ended, so too did the tolerance for the pain being inflicted upon the people. The Han rose on the literal corpse of the Qin Dynasty, preserving the core while destroying the parts that greatly oppressed the people.

Here, the core of the Spangenberger Empire is still Americanism. It is their legitimacy claim to power. They continue to attempt to use language that is outwardly keeping with Americanism even if its spirit is a dagger aimed at her heart.

Their conquest, though, is not over, for they are merely newly gained territory for the Progmerican Empire as a whole, an Empire DYING to shake off its American mask and speak plainly the language of the Prog.

They are the legalists of their time, aiming to use rigid anti-moral moral supremacism to assure no one even THINKS outside the official orthodoxy EVEN in the privacy of their own home.

So long as there is hope for future conquest, those true blues, the true progs of Virginia, will happily endure their temporary hardships, and they’ll happily endure others suffering far more profoundly than them, even up to their neighbors being imprisoned.

The same goes for the MSM-attached TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) Progmericans who still think THEY are the true American patriots because they LITERALLY think we Americans, ESPECIALLY the MAGAs, are LITERAL NAZIS! No joke.

I cannot emphasize enough how psychotic, how detached from reality this class of people truly has become. They are more likely to commit violence than even the true blues, the Antifas, are.

For Virginians, I can’t offer you much immediate hope. Your enemies, your own neighbors, are only going to become even more emboldened, more hostile. But for those outside the war zone, Virginia is about to win over a lot of “normies” who will see for themselves yet another apocalyptic transformation of a state given over to the full blue program, unfettered by the constitution.

For Virginians, there is hope, even if not immediately, but that will come only from the Federal government exposing the DNC-CCP conspiracy that has inflicted this land for decades. This will undo ALL DNC power in this land, for a few generations to come, at least.

Let us hope our leaders find the strength to carry through with the prosecutions necessary to end Progmerica’s reign of terror on America, and thus on Virginia as well.

“‘And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.’” – Genesis 15:16

For our fellow Christian readers, let us remember that vengeance is the Lord’s, and our Kingdom does not advance through violence. A nation that continues to embrace child sacrifice, abortion, must rely on God’s patience, for surely mercy is not given to the unrepentant, but even the Amorites had four more generations of patience given to them before God used the Israelites as a righteous scourge on a child-sacrificing land.

Let us hope and pray first for America’s emergent, consensual repentance, and secondly for God’s patience with our unrighteous land, with the hope that our working out the Great Commandment and Great Commission, through the Holy Spirit, will lead us to that repentance.

Final Thought – January 16, 2026 – One Shooting, Two Nations (The ICE Minneapolis Shooting)

pgnewser January 23, 2026

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Show no partiality in judgment; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.” – Deuteronomy 1:17

The truth claims around a shooting of a woman by an ICE Agent in Minnesota have served to remind us once again that our land is occupied by two nations, Progmerica and America. In Progmerica, the criminals are the people who benefit from the privilege of being white (or white adjacent) and American. Their flourishing happened at the expense of the rest of the world. They invented evil as a means of becoming a cruel master of all.

The white ally is a Jesus figure in this movement, taking on the role of the all-powerful one who lays down their power for the good of the POC whole. The POC, the “person of color,” is both the victim of the white devil and the retribution against the white devil. Individual liberty is a dog whistle for white supremacism. America has committed the WORLD’S GREATEST CRIME against humanity.

What Americans call criminals, Progmericans call righteous judgments of America, which is why they want to defund the police, get rid of cash bails, and give next-to-nothing sentences to violent criminals. Where criminals exist, social injustice exists. Let the criminals force the privileged to become socially just!

In America, the Progmerican is a violent revolutionary who views your children as acceptable targets for murder in the name of liberating the TRUE HUMANITY, the POC, from the EVIL power of humanity, the white race. The moment you remove the white devil narrative, all other claims by the left crumble like a house of cards (which is further proof the heart of their movement is simply racism and bigotry).

What we can now behold after this is the crystal-clear proof there are two nations in this land, and one, Progmerica, intends on MURDERING the other, America, one terroristic planted lie at a time by the DNC hate machine.

On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 9:30AM local time, an Immigration Customs Enforcement Officer named Jonathan Ross, 43, shot far-left radical insurrectionist activist Renee Nicole Good, 37, three times in the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was white, as is the officer.

The circumstances surrounding this shooting were not as important as the narratives that empower the factions competing for the new American order. Unfortunately, the first video that went viral was ambiguous, allowing for anyone willing to read this shooting to fit their narrative to conveniently do so.

At the time of the shooting, nothing was known about the woman, the ICE officer, or the circumstances that led to this altercation. Yet despite that fact, both the left and the right quickly assumed narratives that suited their preferences, though the right’s reactions contained some measure of doubt and questioning while the left’s reaction were sure and wholly militant in their conclusions.

As it would turn out, the right’s characterizations were mostly true, though they claimed that certainty far before the evidence emerged that clearly justified these claims.

The media and DNC leadership have long been intentionally inciting violence against Americans using knowing disinformation, but this time they crossed lines that should lead Americans to conclude American Rule of Law is effectively dead.

Even as their original narratives are destroyed by material evidence, including more videos, including undisputed facts about the insurrectionist and the ICE agent, they appear to be doubling down on knowing lies. They seem to be betting on their audiences not wandering too far off the information plantation.

If you asked two of the leading AI platforms, Grok and ChatGPT for objective facts around the shooting shortly after it happened (even a day after0, you would get a sanitized version of the facts that will lead you to believe it is reasonable to assume the shooting was unjustified. Not only is it reasonable, both AI prophets leaned towards unjustified.

Their characterization of DNC leadership response and media coverage is also sanitized, removing the vilest (and thus most noteworthy) statements made by both the media and DNC leadership. In short, the world the DNC describes is almost the same as the world the major AI platforms describe.

I point out AI results to document what the real new MSM is telling Americans, for ChatGPT and Grok are the new Walter Cronkites for the masses. If they characterize an event a certain way, this is the way the vast majority of people who use these services will come to view that event, for, to most of them, the AI results are “objective.”

In this instance, the AI platforms are acting as agents of insurrection programmed to intentionally disseminate lies that lead their readers to murder Americans. In this they join DNC leadership and their old priests, the mainstream media.

The initial narrative, which you won’t find in AI results, was that this woman was a poet, a mother, and a wife who was simply taking her kids to school when she was callously shot down intentionally by murderous Nazi ICE agents. This narrative went forward by the MSM, AI platforms, and DNC leadership at a time when ICE agents were already seeing thousands of percentages of increased assaults against them by leftist terrorists.

It produced a flood of leftist social media death threats against ICE agents and has produced violence in multiple U.S. cities, including Minneapolis (whose police force abandoned their own downtown to the insurrectionists). So far, while Americans still want illegals gone, their support for ICE is plummeting as the media narratives take hold.

Who knows how many have been killed or wounded by leftist attacks as a result of the knowing lies the DNC machine spread with the intention of triggering a civil war aimed at destroying our constitution? There can be no doubt that the insurrectionists breaking into a hotel with ICE agents with the intent to kill them was triggered DIRECTLY by the DNC machine, its AI platforms, its corporate media, and its party leaders.

What we know now is that the “mother” is a woman who divorced her husband, lost custody of two of her three kids over allegations of physical abuse by her “wife,” and became one of the leaders of a violent insurrectionist movement. On the day of her justified death, the woman was leading a deliberate assault on ICE operations to impede their ability to arrest illegal aliens. In this instance, they were defending pedophiles and murderers, which is on brand for the DNC.

You will not know any of this if you get your news from DNC-controlled AI search results (and yes, Grok is STILL controlled by DNC allies, the programmers), corporate media, or the Democrat leaders that have called for the assassination of ICE agents.

As for the noble sacrifice of the white woman for the cause of the POC, her own white compatriot realizes that their allyship is not redemptive of who they are, worthless whites. The woman claimed that her crying over the death of a white woman “feels wrong,” and that “I feel like white tears are not always helpful or necessary.”

This is psychosis at a level that should get her committed involuntarily to a mental hospital, and it is a psychosis that is common among younger white women who get their news only from America’s enemies, the DNC and its far-left alliance of seditionists.

Yet, the MSM, the AI Prophet/Priests, and the DNC leadership are NOT traitors, they are NOT insurrectionists, and this shooting was COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED…. in Progmerica, but in AMERICA, the shooting was COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED and the DNC machine is an insurrectionist one.

And therein lies the heart of this event, the demonstrably clear difference between two nations, America and Progmerica, which have existed side by side with one another for more than 100 years now. To the Progmerican, America is a vehicle of power for the inventor of evil, the white devil, and that white devil has unleashed genocidal fury on a world now primed to deliver the FAFO season to America.

Every white woman raped by an illegal alien is socially justified recompense for the crime of being a white woman in a privileged land. Every illegal alien that enters America and grifts off our system is socially justified recompense for the colonizing crimes of the white devil, AMERICA.

To them, they have Jews hidden under the floorboards and we are the Nazis trying to find out where the Jews are (despite the fact that NO ONE hates Jews more than leftists, even as wealthy Jews support them).

This is why they are justified in spreading lies that produce insurrection, because the evil they are fighting is worse than the evil they are committing. This is the will to perceive overcoming the actual reality that THEY have been the ones looking to find Jews and kill them the whole time.

To this writer, the continued response by the left, from its rabble-rousing white woman rainbow terrorists to its MSM paid disseminators of info-terrorism, to the party’s leadership now openly calling for Civil War, is consistent with the fact that America is their enemy.

American values are death to their nation, and they are so far removed from Americanism they can no longer publicly hide their anti-American “values.”

The governor of Minnesota thinks it’s perfectly legal to threaten to call up the National Guard to fight ICE agents while he claims it is time to start a second Civil War. His lack of accountability for openly calling for a violent insurrection against Americans is only dramatically encouraging violent white leftist women and their cuckolded white male “allies” (serial rapists and sex pests all) to pull more triggers on guns aimed at Americans.

Even as we speak, DNC operatives and their AI platforms continue to spread the lie that this woman was an innocent mother at the wrong place who was just there to pick up her kids. They continue to lie in the face of video evidence that shows the officer fired directly into the front of the windshield, and not just the side as she passed him.

They continue to tell people the officer deliberately got in front of the vehicle when video evidence shows she turned, placing him in front of the vehicle.

They do so because, to them, it is a noble to lie to protect the Jews in the floorboards rather than allow the Jews to be killed. Only they aren’t protecting Jews, they are protecting criminals who have no interest, no desire to advance the cause of Americanism. They are here to destroy us, not join us, and THAT makes them allies with Progmerica, who wants the same thing, the death of America.

For those of you paying attention, this notion of two nations in one land is one we have been claiming for some time. We hope this incident at least helps the doubtful now clearly see what we mean by two nations in one land.

Progmerica is a nation whose Rule of Law is “Social” Justice, as in justice determined by identity not the facts of the dispute themselves. American Rule of Law is about impartial justice determined by the particular facts on the ground within an individual liberty context. Social Justice is a dog whistle for “OVERTHROW AMERICA!” whenever anyone says it. The individual is traitor to the social.

The separation is accelerating, as Americans identify fellow Americans and the insurrectionists identify fellow insurrectionists they can connect to and begin to rely on during this de facto interregnum.

Based on polling, this writer is assuming America accounts for 50% of the country, though maybe only half of them are fully aware of the two nations within them. Progmericans account for 30% of the country, but amongst those numbers are groups of people who are just as interested in murdering Democrats as they are Republicans, Progmericans as much as Americans, for their Progmericanism is far purer than the version the DNC hopes to exploit.

After this incident, this writer implores our readers to build up your connections to people you identify as American and pull back your reliance on connections to people you identify as Progmericans. Remember Progmericans have a code of ethics that gives them special permission to use violence, deception, fraud, theft, etc., as tools of manipulation against anyone they perceive as not being themselves.

God willing, soon we shall vanquish the Progmerican nation without becoming the monster we are fighting (a very real threat). God willing, the Progmerican will see the depravity of their worldview, repent, and return to the family of man, return to America, where they would be welcome back.

Barring that, let us gird our loins and prepare to fight to defend our children from the serial rape and murder Progmerica not only has in store for them but is already carrying out in territories still held by them. Let us hope for the American Reconquista!

Final Thought 2025 – Clickopoly: The Science of 21st Century Political Power

pgnewser December 19, 2025

Originally published Dec 12, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“We become more polarized, and more polarizing, when we start spending our time in polarizing environments. I have seen it in myself, and I have watched it in others: when we’re going for retweets, or when our main form of audience feedback is coming from partisan junkies on social media, it subtly but importantly warps our news judgement. It changes who we cover and what stories we chase. And when we cover politics in a more polarized way, anticipating or absorbing the tastes of a more polarized audience, we create a more polarized political reality.” – Ezra Klein (Why We’re Polarized)

In our first ever Bellwether Deepdive, we saw the descent into social-driven ideologies across three nations. One of those nations, England, gave birth to the Lockean world of “liberalism,” the notion that bad action should be given free reign until it harms others.

This liberty is allowed for the sake of good action being able to freely take place as well (for no “expert” can perfectly define what “good action” is in the first place).

The other two nations, America and Canada, are direct descendants of the first, the mother nation, Britain. In Canada, they mostly followed the Common Law path like Britain in pursuit of individual liberty. In America, we followed a Constitutionally buttressed Rule of Law. One dramatically slowed down gun confiscations, the constitutional one, and the other two surrendered their guns as soon as the first wave of fear hit the public after a mass shooting event.

In the constitutional republic, while America is the mother of wokeness (with the Europeans building the seed that made wokeness possible), Canada and the UK have fallen far more profoundly than the source for wokeness has.

The ability to dramatically alter government power is an incentive to use mass hysteria manipulation to create more government power at the further cost of liberty. Wherever great power exists, in any institution, the incentive to offer grand promises increases, leaving well-intended, virtuous players with the difficult decision of surrendering their integrity or losing the contest altogether.

Great power attracts just the kind of people who are good at playing such games, psychopaths and psychotics, people less inclined to hesitate in their self-empowering actions even it means hurting, or even killing thousands, or even millions of their neighbors.

Even within America, corporate power centers have created de facto nations within America in which their powers are easily enhanced with a little mass hysteria manipulation. The left and right in America, for instance, are regularly begging the corporate state to censor their opposition on social media platforms.

For a while, this was inordinately a “leftist” problem, but its increasingly a rightist problem as well. The internecine war within the right over Israel alone has produced the same anti-American spirits in them as they originally fought against in the left.

To some degree, both left and right in America are becoming increasingly social-driven in their values as opposed to individual driven. This is happening to some degree in the UK but not so much in Canada. In the UK, the “right” effectively has no voice, but an emerging “Britain for the British and England for the English” group is emerging.

Though the conservatives and reform seem to be unevenly dividing the spoils of the Britian for the British crowd, neither party is remotely engaging pragmatically with the existential occupation of the country by an anti-UK party. The party of the British has yet to be identified, though there are many contenders. The leaders, reform and conservatives, are effectively woke-captured, if not woke themselves.

In Canada, the right is a pause that gives an increasingly small number of Canadians the illusion of enfranchisement. The fecklessness of the right leaves it with no real power to quibble over, though it too is effectively woke-captured. The “Canada for Canadians” crowd forming is not a strong as the “Canada become America” crowd forming in the Western Provinces.

The one who offers gold and blood gets the votes where the state has the power to attempt to deliver it.

In America, the state was bypassed by the corporate state, who then normalized anti-Americanism in the socio-cultural products and services it provided and how it managed the help.

As anti-American “values” become normalized, they become more accepted in our schools, which are also dominated by these same social-driven ideologies, the “woke.” Though it started in the schools, it was only AFTER the corporate state adopted it that it started to inflict real harm on the American republic and the innocent lives of Americans.

Unlike Britian and Canada, ironically, the American corporate state was able to lead the worldwide vanguard of wokeness because it could change its corporate governance the easiest. The same unaccountable power was first found in the universities, where “wokeness” first gained its real territorial foothold.

In an institution with unchecked power, the leaders are those that offer heaven and threaten hell, those that offer gold and blood. Social-driven ideologies are tailor-made for such narratives. It is hard to generalize in individual-driven narratives, for good or for ill.

Initially, the American corporate state was the incubator for social-driven ideologies writ on human flesh at a large scale, but once wokeness infiltrated the governments of Canada and the UK, they became even more powerful incubators. The woke institutions went from indirectly having government guns (through the protections government offered these infiltrated insurrectionist institutions) to having them directly.

These governments lacked first the constitutional bulwark, then the armed populace bulwark. These nations became woke paradises selling fake fear and false hope in exchange for real power they never intend on returning.

These social-driven ideologies imagine that a finite number of individuals can centrally determine truth for the overwhelming whole. They not only CAN but they MUST protect the unwashed from untruths. The promise is always part revenge and part Utopia.

Anything that offends the established preferred social identities is untruth in and of itself. The experts, who inform the state, should be our primary guides in evolving our understanding of what the perfect social is and how to assure the perfect social is protected from subversive action.

They are so certain of their possession of truth they are willing to lie, cheat, steal, assault, rape, and murder to assure their truth is affirmed by their neighbors. Not only are they willing to do it, they feel as if their neighbors deserve it.

As a matter of fact, to NOT support this punishment and to NOT participate in it, is a dog whistle that you belong to the evil outside group in secret.

Social media rose in the backdrop of a generation of college students being quietly “educated” in anti-American thinking, in social justice thinking. These digital entrepreneurs became the first real enforcers of a woke code that, without social media in the first place, would never have been so near-instantly, near-universally, enforceable.

And all it took was no more than a few hundred woke-manipulated college students to grow to become anti-American technocrats now fighting the other centers of woke power for hegemony in a post-world America they all hoped for.

Social media amplified and normalized the woke code not only through its content moderation governance and its algorithms that caused certain content to get promoted over others, but also through its content creators. These creators were incentivized to drive narratives through offerings of heaven and threats of hell, and promises of gold and blood, because strong emotions drive engagement, and engagement makes money.

How to make an agit-prop agent: Control the social media moderation team. Control the social media algorithm machine. Pay for clicks. Watch the agit-prop creators emerge. No training necessary. The algorithm will train them.

Social-driven ideologies are click-baith ideologies, always offering the grandest of statements about the evil nature of this social group and the noble nature of this social group. They always tell the dramatic lie of a dragon versus a small but brave and noble angel who needs corporate and state power to even have a CHANCE at defeating the great dragon who would otherwise consume us all.

Where power is unchecked, social-driven ideologies reign. Where power is checked, social-driven ideologies die. Social-driven ideologies thrive with great, fluid power, but wither within systems that move with the speed of a balance of power checked by individual liberty.

Ever since Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the social-driven ideology has fought to make it back into America, where it found unsafe harbor in a land still largely held in check by individual power. It found oxygen in the universities, who were allowed to thug on woke’s political opposition unchecked by simply shutting the hiring door behind them once they got in.

Once the gates were built, the wokeness spread throughout the departments, with the physical sciences even now boldly attempting to hold out, the last of a dying American age.

Had social media not come along, creating a network of dopamine need fiends dependent on platforms controlled by an elite woke few, perhaps wokeness would have died in American universities. Once it got out in the wild, once social media spread throughout the world, wherever governments had centralized power, wokeness took root like it still hasn’t here in America.

As always, history is complicated, but my somewhat simplified narrative is still essentially true: Educators created technocrats who created platforms where the clickocracy could reign.

Politicians who know that their customers will follow rage bait must either choose to remove themselves from the playing field or start screaming angels and demons and singing promises of blood and gold.

Otherwise, they have no chance in a clickbait world. With social media, and a corporate press to protect you, the woke politician has all the incentive in the world to drive heaven and hell, gold and blood narratives, truth be literally damned.

One could theorize that the clickopoly is the product of social-driven culture and also the perpetuator of it. The less power the corporation, the state has over the individual, the less effective click-bait narratives will be when attempting to manipulate the masses to do your dark bidding. The reverse of that is true as well, and we are living in that reverse world now.

From this reality of power in 2015, we see first the rise of Trump and all the other Trumpians that followed him, from JD Vance to Jasmine Crocket, all products of clickbait or die culture. Hillary Clinton, for instance, only turned to clickbait culture towards the end of her campaign, when she started to figure out what Trump was doing. That’s when she came up with the “basket of deplorables” line.

While Trump’s demon, the anti-American, child-sacrificing DNC, is very much real, his angel, MAGA, isn’t. And now, MAGA is already infighting over Israel, using the same angels and demons narratives against each other that the left once used on them.

As it stands today in America, the remnant is smaller than this writer imagined, but should we find one another, technology is on our side in building our own America within what is increasingly looking like a Progmerica of sorts about to emerge, but one that will be short-lived.

When their world collapses, our world will fill the void left behind and once again we shall resume the American experiment, towards liberty for all through a government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people.

But we must be building now to be the light for tomorrow’s coming dark clouds.

Castle Report – November 13, 2025 – Hope Castle Deferred?

pgnewser November 25, 2025

Originally published Nov 13, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” — Thomas Edison

“Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, ‘Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. You have sown much, and harvested little.

You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord .

You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.’”- Haggai 1:3-11

The path to a sustainably flourishing life is rarely going to be easy, or even as we plan it. The vagaries of life alone can alter plans unexpectedly. As our country experiences the constraining power of the rising progressive nation from within, we will surely have to be creative in dealing with whatever new legal obstacles might come our way.

The results of this last election make me feel good about the castle we bought and the plans we have for it. We have a veritable fortress with plenty of space able to aid not just ourselves but others. At a moment’s notice, myself, my wife, and my brother can meet at the castle (with my daughter and mother in tow) should catastrophe come our way.

This is a comfort in times such as these, but pursuing our Hope Castle dream as of late has largely been deferred, for now, though we have reason to hope that’s about to change.

We are about six months into our purchase of a church that we plan to turn into a castle, Riqueday Castle. It is intended to be our home, our ministry, and our sustainable flourishing model we hope others will be inspired by.

Since our purchase, we have been able to make small repairs to the church, including getting the heat working, the water running, and other minor cosmetic fixes. We have purchased the supplies we need to thoroughly clean the basement outside of an industrial strength steam cleaner we plan on using.

Our small kitchen upstairs has a new refrigerator and a hot plate (stove to come later) so it’s effectively fully functioning. Our downstairs kitchen hasn’t been thoroughly dealt with yet, though we do have the electric oven working well.

All the lights have been checked, bulbs replaced, and doors secured.

But along the way, life throws us hurdles, and these past few months have been filled with hurdles, mostly from major health issues in our family (in my household, as well as my brother’s) that have prevented us from working on the castle as consistently as we were before the healthcare issues hit.

In addition to the healthcare issues, I was in a car accident that totaled our car. After we purchased a new used car, my wife had an accident too that ALSO totaled our car. Now, we are one car down, and that car is a significant downgrade from the cars we lost. Both were Ford Explorers that had all-wheel drive. Our car is an HHR with front-wheel drive.

At present, our plan is to wait a few months to see if the prices of cars come down (they are exorbitantly high right now) to then replace our lost long-distance car.

This new vehicle reality means we can’t go up so often for one-day trips like we could before especially because our car is over 15 years old (though we still love it for local driving). The castle is 3 hours away from where we currently live.

With the winter coming, and our castle being in northern PA, we expect we might find problems getting up there regularly until the spring. Getting the major work done we’d like to do in the basement will have to wait until Spring for this reason alone.

Our new plan given our new circumstance is to start going up every other week starting in January (weather permitting), staying there from Sunday to Saturday. During the winter season, I will primarily be concerned with getting my new studio fully operating so I can work at the castle when I’m there and we can start doing our planned podcast in support of this publication, From the Belltower (which will be livestreamed from our actual bell tower).

Our castle doesn’t have a shower yet, so we will stay at my brother’s house, Bill Collier, the MIA publisher and joint owner (along with my wife and myself) of Riqueday Castle. His house is just 20 minutes away from the castle. He will also be the co-host of our show From the Belltower.

Our friend Joe, our Anglican priest, is working on preparing the sanctuary for Sunday services which we hope to start by the beginning of April. These services are for the household, family, and friends, not open to the general public (at least not for a while).

My wife is chomping at the bit (though she knows we need to be patient now) to get to that downstairs kitchen and start cooking meals for people in need.

We are all anxious to see that space become a blessing to the community around it like it once was.

We purchased the church from people who were planning to convert it into apartments. My wife especially didn’t want to see a community lose such a beautiful church and we were in a position to not only eventually to help our soon-to-be adopted community, but also serve ourselves in our dream to live an extended family household life as opposed to an atomized single-family life.

This is a dream the three of us share, myself, my wife, and brother Bill.

Our castle already has a long history in that community, and many people have shared stories of all the ways that building has blessed their lives, so we are anxious to return it to that community service it hasn’t been able to fulfill since 2022.

In the next issue, we will conclude our series, Detaining the DNC. We will also have more information about what you might expect from us in 2026. We also have news about expanding our extended family home project to at least one more site (and this one is in the family already).

The election was a major setback for America, but we have much to be hopeful for and grateful of. We still live in the freest country in the world and there are AT LEAST one hundred million Americans willing to stand strong in defiance against the rising progressive nation.

If you have a Hope Exit castle you are building, share it with us at MIAmailroom@gmail.com.

Thank you all for your continued support.

FINAL THOUGHT: IF SCIENCE WERE A GOD – An MIA Editorial

pgnewser April 30, 2025

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

Originally published April 25, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“‘Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.’ They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, ‘You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.’” –Psalm 82:3-7

“Why should a change of paradigm be called a revolution? In the face of the vast and essential differences between political and scientific development, what parallelism can justify the metaphor that finds revolutions in both? … Political revolutions are inaugurated by a growing sense, often restricted to a segment of the political community, that existing institutions have ceased to adequately meet the problems posed by an environment that they have in part created… In both political and scientific development, the sense of malfunction that can lead to crisis is prerequisite to revolution.”

–Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

A news item written up in scienceblog.com titled “Conservative Americans Consistently Distrust Science” serves as an example of agit prop worth considering for its effectiveness. This type of agit prop could easily be called “the banality of evil” agit prop.

If you examine the site, you will find no headline screams that this is an overt agit prop site. The articles posted are attributed to various universities. This one is attributed to the University of Amsterdam.

Outside of one article assuming “Climate Change” (man-made climate change that will existentially alter the planet) is an established fact, the other articles are agit prop neutral.

You have to read past the headline and the anon author credit, “Amsterdam University,” to figure out where the subterfuge in this article begins.

If you actually read the article, you will realize the agit prop began with the source of the article itself, the University of Amsterdam, the institution that conducted the “study” showing American conservatives are growing more and more skeptical of science. They are becoming near-lost science-skeptics.

Bastiaan Rutjens, one of the researchers, said, “In America, but also in other countries, conservatives generally have lower trust in science. Since the 1980s, trust of science among conservatives in America has even been plummeting.”

The anon behind the words wrote, “While past research has documented conservative skepticism toward science that conflicts with political or religious beliefs – such as climate change or evolution – this new study reveals that the trust gap extends far beyond ideologically charged topics.”

The conservative is doubting science itself, no matter what the science is addressing. This is what the anon behind the words would have you believe. Yet, the “science” is never defined. Is it the scientific institutions? Is it the scientific method?

The closest they get to recognizing the difference between institution and method is when they quote that same researcher, Rutjens, who said, “Science is also increasingly dismissed in some circles as a ‘leftist hobby,’ and universities as strongholds of the leftist establishment.”

Outside of that, they continue to simply use the word science as the thing conservatives are rejecting, accusing them of suffering increasingly from “science skepticism.”

“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought, for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.” –Hanna Arendt

Hanna Arendt addressed “the banality of evil” through the person of Adolf Eichmann, who was on a train to Jerusalem, where he would be held accountable for his crimes. She noted that he was not a cartoon villain; he looked perfectly banal.

He was the paradigmatic representative of this “banality of evil,” a man who presupposed the world through a lens of “evil” where logic and reason, and even the scientific method, can serve the Reich, where truth dies unless it can calculate missile trajectories.

This, I think, is a spirit that also captures this study’s “findings.” It also describes the underlying spirit, the banality of evil, behind the method this article utilizes to spread a dangerous lie, that conservatives are afraid of truth.

We must reach them with our truth (if we can, and we might not be able to). Science is truth.

The sales pitch, that conservatives are near-allergic to truth in a near-un-restorative way, is not expressed so directly as to obviously appear evil. To assume a whole group of people who fit into a certain belief system are nearly unredeemable is one thing; to also portray them as being a significant barrier to saving the planet would OBVIOUSLY be an evil, dangerous thought. They are unredeemable obstacles to our “salvation.”

But this message is delivered in a “neutral” language game, “the study” language game, that relies on the audience assuming this is truly “science,” determining a whole people are a threat to the planet by merely continuing to exist.

It’s almost as if “the science” allows these partisan militants to cloak their evil in BANALITY, something “the science” has been able to do throughout human history, including justifying slavery and the Holocaust.

Let’s walk this out a little more to make our point…

What does one do when one has a whole class of people who seem to be practically INCAPABLE of facing real truth? What does one do when one has a whole class of TRUTH DENIERS when the world is in danger of being KILLED?!

One hopes you can read where this line of reasoning leads, it leads to the logical and reasonable and even science-based assumption that “something must be done” to rid us of this “conservative problem.”

At least with Cain, the first authoritarian, he openly murdered Abel. He was only shamed by fear of being killed, not the remorse of murdering his brother. These Cains cast their dirty work on others, the tender minds who will eventually get this “study” delivered to them by charismatic “thought leaders” on social media, like Destiny and Hasan Piker (more on that later).

It will go something like this; In the perfectly innocent interest of saving the planet, “scientists” might one day help the world solve the “conservative problem.” Perhaps it will be a Solution that will end all other solutions for good. It seems like a perfectly banal conclusion to matter-of-factly make, come what may.

As Rutjens laments the severity of the problem (of reaching conservatives with “science,” aka “truth”), he remains “hopeful.” He declares, “This does not mean it is impossible, but these short interventions do not work to make science more transparent and reliable for certain groups. We need stronger interventions that make science truly personal. What can science contribute to your life, here and now?”

If this doesn’t tell you that Rutjens is an evangelical scientist, nothing else will. He practically sounds like a Pastor trying to rally his youth pastors to “GET OUT THERE AND PREACH THE SCIENCE!”

But what do you do when your god tells you things need to change to save the planet (and hopefully also humanity), but certain humans won’t go along with the plan, no matter how HARD you “reason” with them? You send out a signal to begin those “stronger interventions.”

This site serves as an academic “signal” to the DNC-allied media to feature stories highlighting conservatives rejecting “science” as a means of further demonizing the non-DNC person, the “other.”

Then, they can keep quoting this scientific study that determined that this fact, that conservatives seem almost biologically allergic to truth, is, in fact, a fact.

It will also be grist for the mill of DNC online Molotov cocktail throwers like Destiny and Hasan Piker, who will cite this “study” as “proof” “conservatives” (anyone not them) hate truth, and there’s LITTLE that can be done about it. WE MUST HAVE A VIOLENT SOLUTION! (And both of them are already doing this anyway).

The intent of the signal is to keep the assault on the non-left going as a means of disrupting and discouraging, as a means of CONTROL. The heart of the problem this piece is addressing is control, or the lack thereof.

They somewhat give up the game when the anon behind the words writes, “The persistence of this distrust poses significant challenges for addressing major societal problems that require scientific solutions, such as pandemics and climate change. When people distrust scientists, they’re less likely to accept scientific recommendations or support policies based on scientific evidence.”

“Major societal problems” that “REQUIRE” nothing else but “scientific solutions” make science seem like something nothing short of a god, especially when you consider this same “science” is now trying to deny basic human biology, that males are men and females are women and the outliers do not justify adding new categories to those terms (or detaching “gender” from “sexuality”).

“Science” is always the people and institutions that fund the “science,” the people that select the researchers that get funded, the people that pass the future researchers (the college professors), and finally and lastly, the researchers themselves.

This is how “science” is gatekept. These gatekeepers ensure only orthodox thinkers with preferred identities get through, get funded, and get tenured.

Under the current “science” regime, this gatekeeping has gotten even more intolerant of true “diversity,” diversity of thought, ESPECIALLY “conservative” thought (like a man is a male, which is apparently now a “conservative” belief).

The gatekeepers allow an increasingly narrower range of acceptable beliefs among its researchers. The questions one can even ask are less and less, and the questions getting funded are mostly intended to produce the orthodox narrative’s preferred result(s).

Perhaps if you asked conservatives simply if they believe in the scientific method, you might get a better response. This writer assumes the leftist would be more inclined to trust “the science” than they would to trust the “scientific method.” The reverse is most likely true if you ask the conservative the same two questions.

Perhaps if you asked conservatives if they believe science can be our source for determining the “oughtness” in our lives, the source of value, ethics, morality, you might also learn of the source in the increasing “skepticism” in “science,” its continued and increasing claims it can be such a source, THE SOURCE for human value itself.

You will find the left is far more inclined to believe this logical impossibility than “conservatives” are (or really anyone not leftist).

As “science” increasingly excludes non-leftist thought in its institutions and continues to allow these institutions to become more about narrative than fact (“lived experience” than hard data), anyone willing to face REAL TRUTH will become increasingly skeptical of “science.”

“Almost always, the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously, these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.” –Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The new people that were ushered in, partly through DEI and other identity-filtering selection systems, have been devising ways to ensure they shut the door behind them so that what they did to the old white cis men that came before them doesn’t happen to them as well.

As these “conservatives” continue to see this happening before their very eyes, this writer believes these “conservatives” will only INCREASE their rejection of “science as god,” and their god, like men, will also die.

“… a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” -Max Planck, from his Scientific Autobiography.

Soon, the paradigm the “science” is now locked in, the paradigm of standpoint epistemology (“lived truth” valued according to the race, gender, sex, and belief of the individual, not the merits of their claims), will be pushed aside by whatever bursts through to replace it.

The “new generation” has already slipped into “old generation” status. The coup is already afoot.

Let us hope their replacements are not activists, like them, but scientists, true courageous pursuers of “truth” grounded in the understanding of the limitations of knowing and the limits of science to presume it could justify organizing humans according to whatever universal “good” it might claim it can scientifically “discover.”

On the surface, this is a reasonable article. It even offers SOME HOPE to the reasonable world that SOME of the conservatives MIGHT be saved from their own ignorance, if they just figure out how to show these truth-allergic conservatives how SCIENCE HELPS THEIR LIVES.

Conservatives clearly don’t know science delivered them their iPhones, clearly.

Underneath, Rutjens gives it a human face, but one protected by the label “researcher,” just a “neutral observer” reporting the facts and drawing logical conclusions. Rutjens is just a banal man reporting banal facts, really…

The heavy lifting, though, is done by anon behind the words, whose very title choice alone will reinforce in those who already hate the non-left that sub-humanizing these “others” more is not only ok, but it’s also morally essential to do so. After all, they simply can’t be reached.

If they read it, it will be worse. If they have the intelligence to remember particular facts, like the name of the researcher and the university, it will be like a bomb thrown into a theater full of already-raging leftists (the types of bombs agitators like Destiny and Hasan Piker regularly throw into their own livestreaming audiences).

However, an agit prop bomb like this, veiled in banality and goodwill, is absorbed in the bodies of the audience members, only to be released later, in some way, when they come upon “the other,” the “conservative,” and they have a chance to hurt them.

It would be morally wrong not to punish the blasphemer of the holy god, “the science,” after all.

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Tolerating or Accepting Preferred Pronouns?

pgnewser April 6, 2025

FINAL THOUGHT, April 28, 2025

Originally published April 28, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.” –George Orwell

“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.” –Voltaire

“Freedom of speech doesn’t protect speech you like; it protects speech you don’t like.” –Larry Flynt

“If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.” –Noam Chomsky

The pursuit of “alternative pronouns” may have begun, in part, as a pushback against intolerance, the intolerance of non-conformity to orthodox expectations regarding sex and gender, but it has since become another spearpoint aimed at the Bill of Rights.

Still, if we live out our Americanism, the idea that individuals can define their own happiness and pursuit of that happiness for themselves, should we YET THEN be tolerant and respectful of those who choose to express themselves through “alternative pronouns?”

The whole pronouns thing may seem wacko, and I can’t argue it can get strange; the positive in the movement is the idea of being your authentic self.

I might argue that changing your pronouns to fit your perception of your gender or for other reasons isn’t the path to authenticity, but I appreciate that it has become visible because I think it does, in part, affirm that people should be free to be their authentic selves and not be FORCED to follow “expected” social norms.

If using alt pronouns is what you need to do to be authentic to your true self as you see yourself, especially if this takes you to a place of seeing that this only scratches the surface, then so be it. I do not judge the heart; I do, however, have a right to my own morals and to define truth, justice, and authenticity according to my beliefs, values, and convictions.

Instead of being easily offended about pronouns, whether you use alt pronouns or choose not to participate, I believe it would be more consistent with our Americanism to have a more live and let live attitude.

You have no right to demand people recognize your gender as being a social construct; you also have no right to tell people they cannot express themselves in this manner.

Being true to your authentic self goes both ways.

Do you believe alt pronoun usage reflects your authentic self, or is part of that? So be it. Associate with people, or prefer people, who agree and will acknowledge that, but don’t become hostile to people who cannot agree on their own grounds (they do not owe anyone an explanation) and who feel strongly that gender is what you are born with, period.

While alt pronouns may be losing some popularity, mostly because some loud people are insufferable about demanding the world change to suit their preferences, I’m concerned the idea behind it, being your authentic self, may also suffer.

For some, using alt gender pronouns is a pathway to finding who they truly are. I think it’s a dead end to stay there, and I also think you can pursue and explore this idea of authenticity without resorting to alt pronouns usage.

I may not agree with the alt pronoun usage, but where the subject is finding your authentic self, we are, to that degree, the same. We just go about it differently.

I do not view using people’s alt pronouns, if they ask with respect (demanding me anything will get resistance!), as an agreement that sex or gender can be a social construct, but if I care for someone and this is their journey, even though I think this is objectively not an effective path to true authenticity, I will respect THEIR worldview and probably use whatever they want me to use.

It is hard to use they/them, however, because it is a total disruption of language, but sometimes I think those using such pronouns are symbolizing a resistance against the soft tyranny of FORCING societal norms, something I cannot not only understand but also agree with.

In other words, I agree with upsetting social norms that go against individual authenticity and that don’t benefit everyone the same, I just think alt pronouns are more surface and shallower and don’t get to the right conclusion in the end. They also disrupt far more than “social norms,” they disrupt efficient human value exchange, existentially, when forced on society as a whole.

It may be that someone using those alt pronouns is on a journey. They know (or think they know) that they do not fit the orthodox categories or roles society assigns them without their foreknowledge or consent.

This writer is also not naïve enough to see that some, especially the late joiners, are playing language games intended to disarm their opposition. They’re not pursuing authentic understanding; they’re using the divisive language of trans and non-binary to isolate, attack, and destroy their competition.

We have limited means to break the mold in terms of our work, how we make a living, and manage other factors in life where we are forced into roles and submission to rules that actually defy our own inner convictions.

I feel this pressure a lot. I also see how limiting and controlling most institutions in our society are today, and I understand why someone would perhaps even subconsciously resort to alt pronouns to try and take back some of their sovereignty.

I know that God has had a lot of grace on me for things I later realized were not His will or plan for my life, so I choose to show grace both because the wrong person may one day see the light and because the wrong person may be me (a general axiom it would be wise to follow).

Ultimately, I think, for many who use alt pronouns it is rebellion and reaction against the stultifying tendencies of societal norms that go beyond civility into outright control of your person, in violation of your individual sovereignty and authenticity.

Rebellion against top-down control like that can often be haphazard, inconsistent, reactionary, and weird, but one must look beyond the pathways people choose to understand a more common goal: the inherent rights of sovereign beings, us, being true to who we are in an authentic way, while being limited only by reasonable rules of civility and mutual tolerance and respect, outside of our preferred associations that follow the same way of life that we do.

Civility doesn’t mean people OWE YOU usage of your alt pronouns; some will simply use the standard norms of addressing you by your visible gender. You are out of the norm here, and if people break the norm for you, it is a privilege and not a right.

What people DO owe you is decency and respect as a human being. For example, they can be civil and kind despite not agreeing to use your pronouns because, for them, using alt pronouns isn’t perceptively being true to their authentic self.

Too often, however, people who believe in things that are harmless to society are treated as if they are a menace, perhaps because of the loud insufferables in their ranks but also due to the inherent tendency in humans towards bigotry.

If someone who is born a guy thinks they are a girl, and if they then choose to live as a girl in their own life and with their own people, they are no DIRECT threat to you. While you don’t owe them usage of alt pronouns, you owe them respect and decency, if not merely for the sake of preserving and advocating for Americanism (the right to self-stewardship, even when you’re “wrong”) as a civic standard.

For instance, you may just avoid pronouns with them as much as possible, and you may explain that you cannot in good conscience use alt pronouns, but you respect their humanity and treat them well regardless.

For me, when a loved one asked me to use they/them pronouns, despite my philosophical and religious beliefs about the permanence of gender from birth, I chose to use the alt pronouns to show them that no matter what “alternatives” from the “orthodox” they choose, even when I oppose it, my love for them will not end.

My usage of their terms is not an affirmation of those terms, but an affirmation of my love for them. To confirm a lie is not loving.

In closing, I suspect the reason the whole alt pronouns thing emerged was a rebellion against artificial societal norms that go beyond a peaceful and tolerant society to become a society that controls and limits the human spirit.

That probably happened because the non-binary “cause” was then picked up by authoritarian, anti-American social engineers who exploited the plea of the needy to trick people into surrendering “rights” for “protection.”

Not so surprisingly, though no less ironically, that “tolerance” has led to “intolerance” of countervailing views.