By Ajax the Great
(Originally posted on True Spirit of America Party blog)
WHY A CASHLESS SOCIETY IS A TERRIBLE IDEA THAT MUST BE RESISTED AT ALL COSTS
In recent months, there has been more and more talk about phasing out cash in favor of a purely digital currency, especially a central bank digital currency (CBDC). While the idea does have its benefits, such as making banking maneuvers and electronic transactions of all kinds simpler and almost completely frictionless, there is nonetheless one major, outweighing, and inescapable design flaw to such an otherwise promising idea that should make any reasonably sane and liberty-loving society reject the idea absolutely. So what is this fatal flaw?
In a nutshell: a purely digital currency would be controlled completely by whoever is in power, which generally means the greater oligarchy of government, central banks, and of course the elite "shadow government" who runs both. It can be turned on and off at will by whoever controls it, which means that your bank account, credit cards, and stuff like that would effectively be turned on and off at will by these same oligarchs and technocrats. Next up would be social credit scoring, and so on. All of this would be a very effective way to control We the People in ways that the dictators of old could not have ever dreamed of! And without physical cash as an alternative, there is no way to get around such a scheme (especially once they ban cryptocurrencies next on their agenda).
That more than outweighs any potential benefits of CBDCs. It is inherently totalitarian, and one need look no further than China to see its rotten fruits in action. Or Canada, when they cracked down on the Freedom Convoy and froze the bank accounts of them and their supporters, for an earlier stage of this. Imagine what they could have done if cash no longer existed!
For the record, the TSAP fully supports a Universal Basic Income (UBI), provided it really is done with NO strings attached. Done properly, contrary to the naysayers it will increase the bargaining power of the working class and will actually reduce perverse incentives and dependence on the government compared to the utterly broken status quo. But we will NEVER, EVER support a CBDC or anything else that leads to the elimination of physical cash, period.
The oligarchs may be able control We the People to one degree or another regardless of the monetary system in place. But they cannot control us 100% as long as physical cash exists as an alternative to digital currency. Once cash is gone, all bets really are off!
A cashless society is, at best, a solution in search of a problem. At worst, it is a sure gateway to an unprecedented level of irreversible dystopian totalitarianism. We ignore all of this at our own peril.
Well done, as usual Ajax the Great - You always come up with the answers.
AJAX SAYS: Thank you, Rasa. And you're very welcome. Very well-said overall.
NO MORE EXCESS DEATHS!
While we officially crossed the grim 1 million threshold for cumulative Covid deaths in the USA since the beginning of the pandemic just the other day (based on official CDC numbers of course, which count all deaths "with Covid" and not necessarily "from Covid"), we also reached another significant milestone at the same time that the mainstream media did not seem to acknowledge. According to the CDC's own data, there have not been any excess all-cause deaths at all since the week of March 12, 2022, despite "cases" rising significantly since then (especially in the Northeast) for the past two months thanks to both seasonality and the BA.2 subvariants. Of course, it can take several weeks for excess deaths to be fully counted, but this is the longest stretch of time since March 2020 that we have gone without excess deaths. In fact, deaths are currently running below normal, as the proverbial ferryman already got more than his fair share of money by now.
So what does this all mean? It means that the virus is currently endemic, and that the pandemic is essentially over now. It is basically the new seasonal flu and the new common cold rolled into one. In fact, just before the different-enough Omicron variant hit, actual influenza made a comeback already before being temporarily suppressed by Omicron's viral interference. And with no new major variants detectable on the horizon (only subvariants and sub-subvariants), it is unlikely that the resulting endemic equilibrium will be disrupted enough to create another major death and hospitalization wave anytime soon. Even if there is a "casedemic" wave from time to time, herd immunity will prevail overall.
It is thus no wonder that even some top FDA officials are now finally saying that Americans should treat Covid like the flu. What we at Team Reality have already been saying for a while now, in other words.
Bottom line: Covid is endemic, Zero Covid is a pipe dream, and lockdowns, masks, and NPIs are useless or worse than useless. The vast, vast majority of Americans, including children, have already had the virus at least once by now. We know how to treat it effectively, and the largely failed "vaccines" have been around and available more than long enough to know that they weren't exactly worth waiting for. It is long past time to adopt the "flu strategy" and move on.
UPDATE: We are still learning more and more about how lockdowns, masks, and NPIs have done far more harm than good, especially for children, and also that "immunity debt" is in fact a real thing after all. All for naught. Hindsight is indeed, well, 2020. Future generations will all surely look back with absolute horror and disbelief at the conduct of our "leaders" and their sheeple followers over the past two years!
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