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The other day I posted a video of a “struggle session” – the gathering in Bethesda, Maryland – in which people recited a pledge claiming collective guilt because they were born “white.” As I mentioned, the agitators got a huge number of participants to pledge to submit themselves to a new, totalitarian regime, under the guise of something else. This is how cult indoctrination begins. Cults erase your individual identity and replace it with an assigned collective identity. People succumb largely because they think they’ll be safe from criticism and viewed as “enlightened." But it’s an old trap. If you have the time and interest, here’s a video from more than 15 years ago of the late cult expert Margaret Thaler Singer discussing the way cults work, particularly how they use deception and how easy it is to get people to obey. In those days most people understood cults to be led by one charismatic individual. But once they go global as movements (like communism or even the BLM movement) their leaders are often hidden, organizing behind the scenes. At a certain tipping point, though, a central charismatic figure usually emerges as the leader.

Ignorance is a prime culprit for a lot of what ails us today. Ignorance is very isolating. It feeds mobs and mob behavior. Can you make sense of the video below in which street agitators in Portland charged through a residential neighborhood at 1:00 in the morning to harass residents with their loud and threatening chanting? https://www.youtube.com/embed/b4NvVViCFLo We have the schools and the culture to thank for this insanity. Much of the street theater and violent mob behavior in cities like Portland would not be happening were it not for the cultivation of ignorance in our system of public "education." Educrats have spoon fed students with grievance studies instead of imparting the knowledge and stability one gets from learning about history, government, and the blessings of liberty. The resulting chaos and ignorance primes kids to be alienated, atomized individuals who seek a sense of belonging in mobs. They're clueless, no matter the slogans they spew. They've been programmed into politically correct conformity and compliance with identity politics. Why do they -- and the Antifa rioters -- do what they do? Because they don’t know how to do anything else. They were never taught to think for themselves or understand anything on a deep level. They've been trained to behave this way, afflicted with ignorance. At some level they must sense this loss -- this intellectual grand theft perpetrated on them by venal educrats. To the extent they suffer from it, we should pity them and try to figure out ways to turn it around, if possible. Ignorance is extremely isolating. A lack of common knowledge isolates us from a sense of our common humanity. I believe that it is from this sense of isolation that mob members thrash about looking for a sense of purpose which they think they can find in groups like cults and gangs and mobs. I explore this theory in a recent Federalist piece you can read here: https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/10/deep-inside-rioters-are-angry-that-they-never-learned-anything-but-lies/ Here’s an excerpt: Imagine being trained to “think” only with your emotions. The consequence is unbridled passions and confusion, like that of someone who can’t read but pretends to. The resulting impulse undergirds the perverse toppling of a statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, or the burning and vandalizing of a beloved elk statue in Portland while “protesting” for justice. Could the angst behind such senseless acts amount to the deep frustration of knowing so little about so much?

What's the real purpose of the BLM harassment of people dining outdoors in Washington, DC, trying to force them to raise their fist in "solidarity" with the Marxist BLM trope? They do it in the same manner of the old childhood bully who twists your arm and demands you "Say Uncle!" The difference is that today we have dangerous roving mobs of them who should be old enough to know better. Check it out here: Interesting also how every single one of the mob members surrounding the diner is "white." No doubt because they are products of an education system that cultivates ignorance in them when it comes to content knowledge. Through ignorance and family/community breakdown, we have a generation of isolated people who look to the mob for a sense of purpose and of "community." It's tragic. I wrote about that in my previous post: "At Some Level, Street Agitators Know How Ignorant they are." But this is what the curriculum of political correctness and identity politics teaches. They learn that this is how to get their status points. And they have so little else going for them that they really crave status points. They've been taught that this sort of thing puts them "on the right side of history." Well, it does hearken back to some unsavory chapters of history, certainly not the "right side." How is their mentality any different than the brown shirts of the Third Reich who felt a sense of status when they harassed those they considered to be "lesser beings?" It's not.

I recently posted a piece at American Thinker that examines the growing phenomenon of voter intimidation in personal relationships.  It's an especially prevalent tactic by leftists. I felt compelled to write the piece when I saw a young woman gush on TikTok about how she and her sisters hectored their dying father so that he would vote for Biden/Harris instead of Trump/Pence: All people of good will should be aghast at such abuse of a father's love. This also serves as a reminder that our tradition of secret ballot needs to be revived, if only to cut back on behavior like that.  It’s possible the father voted in secret even though he felt he needed to tell his daughters he voted for their preferred candidate.  Nevertheless, we ought to consider the potential for more of this if we go to universal mail-in voting -- whereby official ballots will always arrive in shared mailboxes of households where dominant personalities can hold sway over others. You can read my whole piece at this link: "How Mail-In Voting Makes Social Pressure so Much Easier." Whether we cast our ballots in person or by mail, on election day or early, we ought to think deeply about the sacred nature of the secret ballot. Let's ponder how changes in our electoral processes are destroying the ability to vote one's conscience in the privacy of a voting booth. Sadly, in states like Oregon, citizens no longer even have the option to cast an official ballot in a voting booth at a local precinct. They must receive and cast their ballot in the mail. The trend towards universal mail-in ballots will definitely allow for more voter intimidation in addition to more potential for voter fraud. Will the voting booth eventually disappear if more states go postal with voting? It seems likely, and that would be a very bad thing. Let's also remember: Unless you wish to willingly express whom you're voting for, nobody has a right to know how you vote. Nobody.

Americans who pay attention to the lessons of history know that the American Republic is at a crossroads. This presidential election has been wracked with processes so flawed and so susceptible to fraud that we will end up with a permanent one-party state if it's left unchecked. Such a state would be led by socialists who (for now) call themselves Democrats. These globalists have made no secret of their intentions to undermine the U.S. Constitution and individual liberties. At the end of it all -- after all of the thousands of unsolicited ballots have been harvested and "counted" and after the courts either accept or reject this coup attempt -- we'll know whether or not the American Republic has a fighting chance to be preserved. Or we will find out if it is on a trajectory to ending. That latter prospect fills me with dread. It means losing our liberties, and essentially becoming slaves of tyrants. So, if we love liberty, we must fight the corruption in any way we can: by calling our members of Congress, expressing our thoughts to others, and resisting the agitprop media. But we must first fight the dread if we hope to be able to fight effectively. We must resist becoming defeatist and demoralized. To that end, I'd like to share some inspiration I found in the 1908 poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. She originally titled it "God Knows." King George VI referred to her poem in his famous Christmas speech of 1939. England was at war with Germany's Third Reich. It was a time of great uncertainty as to what the future held. The fear and dread among the people of Britain weighed heavily on them. (In part because they did nothing to prepare for it when all the warning signs were there. Sound familiar?) 2020 Blind Sight Haskins' poem has since been called “The Gate of the Year.” It’s an apt title as we near the end of 2020. It didn't take me long to dub this year "2020 Blind Sight." (No doubt, I can't be the only one.) That's because every time we think we know where we're going, we hit a blind curve. It's also because human beings tend to be blind to truth while still believing they have the 20/20 vision to know it all. This year should force us to confront such limitations within us. We all want to predict the future. We think somehow a vision of it would give us peace. Some of us endlessly scroll our devices looking for hints that things will go our way. But only God knows where the confluence of events really leads us. So at a certain point, we have no choice but to put our trust in Him, and allow Him to lead us around the pitfalls rather than trying to go it alone. Going it alone without Faith is hopeless. Haskins' message is both counter-intuitive and comforting if you allow yourself to really hear it. Do we really want to know what the future holds before we get there?   Wouldn’t it be better to just do our best while being shepherded through the dark and treacherous terrain by a trusted guide? In fact it’s safer to proceed that way. With both Faith and determination. King George VI ended his speech with the words: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” You can listen to his speech here: And here's the text of Haskins' poem: THE GATE OF THE YEAR ‘God Knows' And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East. So heart be still: What need our little life Our human life to know, If God hath comprehension? In all the dizzy strife Of things both high and low, God hideth His intention. God knows. His will Is best. The stretch of years Which wind ahead, so dim To our imperfect vision, Are clear to God. Our fears Are premature; In Him, All time hath full provision. Then rest: until God moves to lift the veil From our impatient eyes, When, as the sweeter features Of Life’s stern face we hail, Fair beyond all surmise God’s thought around His creatures Our mind shall fill. Minnie Louise Haskins, 1908 -- from collection The Desert By all means, we must fight the good fight. But we must never forget that we can only see through a glass darkly in this world. Whatever happens, the critical element of the good fight is always the armor of Faith. It's essential to doing our best in fighting and overcoming evil.

It’s been a long time since I checked a box for race when filling out a nosy form. I used to find the question merely annoying. Today I find it enormously hostile as well as hopeless. Think about what you’re being ordered to do when you “check the box.” You are commanded to allow a faceless bureaucracy to define who you are. What's your "color?" What's your “ethnicity?” And so on. Well, screw that. Such questions are demeaning and dehumanizing because they obviously try to force us all into identity boxes. They insist you shut yourself into a darker time of history where you are pre-judged and demonized. Forever. I'd feel that way no matter what I looked like. To get a picture of how the "intersectionality" game works, take a look at this youtube video (which will likely be taken down for being politically incorrect) showing how people are "scored" according to their oppressor or victim status: Let’s face it. If we are going to be living under a socialist/communist "Administration" we have to expect to be dehumanized through such pigeon-holing in more and more areas of life. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the re-packaging of an ancient tactic that poisons human relationships by shoving people into roles of oppressor or victim -- or, today, the moniker “ally" which is intended to give "oppressors" a false sense of security. One of the worst things about identity politics like CRT is how it serves to cultivate and enforce hostilities, especially where no antagonisms ever existed before. It worms its way into family relationships and friendships. Today we are being told that if you are defined as “white” you are automatically a racist whether you know it or not. There are no solutions, just false confessions. This is disastrous for any hope of a civil society, for any hope of goodwill or friendship. Don't play that game. The least we can do is to REFUSE to allow others to define who we are based on what we look like. Refuse to check the box So I refuse to identify as “white," and I hope you will too. I will also take to task anyone who casually insists I am “white.” I'll try to be polite, but I'll use their language and flatly state that I'm “racial non-conforming.”  I also reject any other classification such as “cis-gender” or “heteronormative” or any such bullshit.  It’s all poison intended to sow dehumanization and misery and loneliness in society.  No person of good will participates in such things, at least not if they are self-aware. The good news is that we are all human. We have names. We have unique personalities and experiences. If only we could clear the fog to see all of that. Or at least to WANT to see the real people behind the phony labels. I hope you will agree. Imagine how much more joy we could all take in life if we weren’t such pathetic navel-gazers. We could create real art. We could have real conversations. We could build things. We could make real friends. Love would prevail over the hostilities and fear. Isn't that what we all should want?

In my latest Federalist piece I explore a much more profound reason for the First Amendment than we're used to thinking about. It protects your right to form families and friendships. To better understand the connection, try this thought experiment. Imagine being unable to express your ideas to others, while they are unable to express theirs to you. No one may deviate from Big Media's and Big Tech's approved narratives in what they may say or write. Where do you end up in that state of affairs if it's allowed to persist? You end up in a vacuum in which there's no real conversation or thought exchanged. Relationships, and the potential for relationships, drastically erodes in such a vacuum. As does all private life. We end up in a miserable state of social isolation, an isolation that prepares the ground for a more authoritarian state. Here's an excerpt from my essay: Political philosopher Hannah Arendt noted that all totalitarian systems depend upon cultivating social isolation in people. Isolation renders people powerless. So it’s no wonder that freedom of expression is always first on the chopping block during and after authoritarian takeovers. A cursory look at communist and fascist governments in the 20th century confirms that they’re always intent on destroying the entire sphere of private life and relationships. I think if more people understood free speech in this light, they'd be more inclined to protect it. Because no one wants to be alone. You can read the whole piece at this link: How Ending Freedom of Expression Gives Up Your Right to a Private Life

Our Orwellian elitists have developed an ass-backwards argument as a propaganda ploy. They claim that disinformation is a threat to democracy, and therefore they should have total control over the public square to protect it. As we've seen time and again with the record of faceless "fact-checkers" in the media and Big Tech, the obvious goal is to censor any idea that doesn't line up with their narrative. They even hosted an event at the University of Chicago, promoted by President Obama, to make the case. This is nuts. No society can function in the grip of the such political censorship. In fact, it destroys democracy. In my Federalist piece today, I explore the effects of suppressing free speech. It's mentally isolating. It can even lead to mass delusion. There's no shortage of historical examples. Take a look at this clip from North Korea to get an idea of what happens to a population that's stuck in one narrative and totally cut off from any other ideas: Indeed, the only solution to disinformation is free speech. Lots of it. And let's not forget that political censorship causes disinformation. You can read the whole essay here: The Only way to Fight Disinformation is to Fight Political Censorship

A series of excerpts from my book have been running in The Federalist. The most recent is from the chapter I wrote on self-censorship and the conformity impulse: The Weaponization of Loneliness and the Conformity Impulse. Whenever we induce self-censorship we stifle our real viewpoint in the arena of public opinion. In it I discuss Solomon Asch's conformity experiments of the 1950s. Below is a youtube video from a replication of those experiments during the 1970s: And if a contagion of self-censorship grows around us (mostly due to fear of being socially rejected) a "spiral of silence" causes the opinion to take on a minority or even "fringe" status, while promoting the illusion that the propagandized narrative is the majority opinion. This has major consequences for public discourse and public opinion polling. Here's a longer excerpt from my book that ran in American Greatness: Mobs and the Weaponization of Loneliness. In it I discuss the mob in action, the uses of mobs by totalitarian actors, and the elements of mobs. The common denominator is that individuals who join mobs are usually atomized, not connected to strong and healthy relationships in family, faith institutions, and community. They therefore seek to belong to something and are vulnerable to becoming easy fodder for power elites who use mobs to push their propaganda forward. For more, click here and get my book: The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer.

Resolution #1: Overcome any fear of speaking the Truth. (And thereby help build a cascade of Truth.) You can start building awareness about doing so by getting the book: The Weaponization of Loneliness Just click here: The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer

I was honored to speak to the great Laura Ingraham recently about my book The Weaponization of Loneliness. She focused on a chilling development at the World Economic Forum in Davos. One of the WEF speakers promoted everyone's participation in the virtual reality of the "Metaverse." The Metaverse offers a repertoire of such experiences in 3-D. It was promoted at Davos under the guise of "equity" since it allows us all access to the same experiences. Except for the fact that they aren't real experiences. In the Metaverse you can travel and meet others and buy and sell, no matter your location or status. The catch is that you're basically all alone when you do it. You don't have any real mobility, because your travel essentially takes place in your mind. Nothing there is tangible, though the sense of reality can be "augmented" through various accessories. Ultimately, the WEF stands behind a future in which we are completely dependent upon a centralized globalist oligarchy for anything real. In the meantime, we can be subdued through the Metaverse which can act as an addiction. It is both dehumanizing and atomizing. You'll find a clip of the interview above. But you need to subscribe to Laura Ingraham's podcast on Quake media to hear it in full around the halfway mark at this link: https://quakemedia.com/episode/the-laura-ingraham-show-episode-194-featuring-stella-morabito/?type=show

Several months ago I heard about this bizarre architectural endeavor called "The Line." I recently saw the weird ad for it again and decided I ought to post something on it. Sane people need to hear about this because it illustrates just how power-crazed today's billionaire class of globalists has become. Only then can we understand how critical it is to regain a sense of sanity. Check it out: So you cram nine million people into a 100-mile long LINE that's about 170 stories tall and just 650 feet wide. But it's all supposed to be good because you don't need cars. As best as I can figure out from the narrator, there are transports that can take you from end to end covering 100 miles in about 20 minutes. And it's all good because it's all divided into "neighborhoods" whereby you can get everything you need within a 5-minute walk. Or something like that. This is what they call "community." Seems likely the residents would be administered some form of "soma" -- the drug used to keep people docile in Brave New World. But just think of the opportunities for surveillance when people are all herded together in such a vault. This one is pictured in the isolation of the Arabian desert. No escape! I'm sure there are some folks who find this appealing as a cool futuristic existence. But any thoughtful person can see that it's all about dysfunction and loneliness and alienation.