In the past, with a focus on current events, it was relatively easy to arrive at topics and concerns for illumination and discussion. However, over the years of writing this blog and laboring on the podcast I have noticed a pattern and what I think is a trap, and it has given me pause.

I’ve often referred to the “pendulum analogy” to explain how events in this country, indeed, the Western world, swing from left to right, communist to nationalist, “liberal” to conservative. Every four or eight years, our nation lurches one direction, then the other. And I’ve tried to show that through it all, again like the pendulum, there is a point high above where the swinging string is tied and where a small cadre of elites, often Jewish, sit and marvel at how easily the population is manipulated and distracted. Thanks to the modern media, it has become all-to-easy. What used to be talking points have become truth to the blind. Our ears are so filled with nonsense that we have become deaf.

The trap is grabbing onto the string and swinging back and forth with it. It has become increasingly obvious that until real change takes place– and I mean stripping the elites of their wealth and influence, redefining what it means to be “free”, and holding those who would dare to assume the mantle of leadership accountable– nothing changes. This was brought home to me recently.

I had an interesting experience last week: I read a book on a subject I knew nothing about because I wanted to learn. Then, as I was finishing the book, I read an article on Counter-Currents that seemed to illustrate one of the very points I had taken from the book. A serendipitous conjunction if you will.

The book in question was A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris. I stumbled across it while looking for something to read, and thought “Hmm. I don’t know anything about Edward I, except for what was portrayed in the movie Braveheart. I wonder what he was really like.” And off I went.

This is not meant to be a book review, per se, so I’ll paint with a broad brush. First, I highly recommend the work. Honestly, for history, it’s a page-turner. I couldn’t put it down and it cut into my sleeping hours more than once. It is history told in a narrative style, which I prefer. By way of a disclaimer or fair-warning, I was unable to ascertain exactly where Mr. Morris was born, he’s described as being “British”, though I suspect he is of English ancestry. I would describe his overall assessment of Edward I as favorable, and people with a more Scottish, Welsh, or Irish background would likely be less so.

Second, as one would expect from the subject, it deals with events roughly from the reign of Henry III (1207 – 1272) through his son Edward’s (1272-1307). As such, it examines the inner workings of the power structure of medieval Britain, and doesn’t spend much time in the mud and fields with the common folk.

But what really caught me off guard was how very much the world, and especially the politics, of medieval Britain was like our own. We have this notion that until recently, Kings were all-powerful and could do as they wanted when they wanted. This was not the case. True, they had an extraordinary amount of power, but it centered around their ability to enrich the nobles around them, and it was how little has changed regarding the relationship of men to power and the societal structures that arose from those power dynamics that caught my attention: again, in short, and to give away the punchline, nothing has really changed.

People have different titles now, of course: Elites instead of Lords, Prime Ministers and Presidents instead of Kings, CEO’s instead of Barons, and of course “employees” and “citizens” instead of serfs and peasants, etc. But the nature of government itself (essentially self-serving) and the methods by which those in power work to preserve and grow their dominance has not changed. Interestingly, even some of the “hot button” issues of the day are still the same: the average British subject in the mid-13th century was concerned about the numbers of foreigners migrating to Britain- only they were concerned with people coming from France, and the undue influence of a very small Jewish minority who produced nothing and made a living on the interest of loaned money and foreclosing on borrowers. Sound familiar? As an aside, one of the things Edward I is remembered for is expelling these moneylenders from England.

In any event, as I said, the King was not all-powerful, but derived his power from those nobles around him who owned and managed their estates and could provide income to the crown. Ownership of land was necessary for the generation of wealth and income, as usury- income from interest- was banned under Edward in 1275. Naturally, the King was always the largest land owner. His ability to grant or withhold land was the foundation of his power.

Of course, someone had to actually do the work of raising the cattle and farming the fields, and at the very bottom of all this landed gentry were people like you and me: serfs and peasants, the difference between the two being that a serf was little more than a slave or indentured servant who worked the land for the owner and given a pittance for subsistence, and the peasant might be nominally free and able to own a little land for himself. But in both cases, the fruits of their labor was paid to varying degrees to the Lord who ruled over them. Think you’re not a peasant now? Try not paying your mortgage for a while, or your property-taxes for a few years, and see what happens. In any event, this power-dynamic resulted in a great of deal of political intrigue. I suppose I’ll have to read about King John and the Magna Carta at some point to see how the constraints on Royal power came about.

And yet, for all the limitations of royal authority and the political machinations from which the King derived his power, the Kingdom needed a King. When Edward was not around things tended to go to heck in hand-basket: Crime increased. Wars broke out between various nobles. Revenue dropped. Etc. A sense of authority and ability at the top of the pyramid was necessary for the society to function. It is the family structure writ large: however capable the other members are, a family needs a father and an ultimate arbiter to guide and focus attention on what matters, and to provide last recourse for disputes.

This inevitably draws one’s attention to the vacuum of leadership in our own government over the last eight years, which has consisted of nothing more than dementia addled automatons strutting about making loud noises and inspiring no one, while the Barons in the background grind the peasants to dust to further their own agendas and build their family castles.

It was this in mind that I read a fun and well-written article by Stephen Paul Foster on Counter-Currents titled, “Biden & Trump: Twin Towers of Senility”. Keeping in mind the issues with an absent king, here is some of what that article said. I think you’ll see why it resonated:

“From January of 2021 to January of 2025, a disturbingly obvious fraud was foisted on the American people: the man occupying the Oval Office was several bricks shy of a load, a hollowed-out fragile shell of his former ebullient, uber-shyster self. From the beginning of his term of office he appeared often in front of cameras to be confused, disoriented, and unpredictably irascible, at times not certain of where or even who he was. He presented the typical symptoms of cognitive decline associated with clinically diagnosed forms of dementia. He was unable to ascend the steps to Air Force One without tripping on the staircase and humiliatingly sprawling, arms and legs akimbo, his rear end on display, sometimes with multiple failed efforts that bordered on the comedic.

In every outing, viewers would speculate whether his next face plant would put him in a wheel chair and wonder who was really in charge.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media was outperforming Pravda from the Soviet era as the Democrat party’s propaganda arm. [Akin to the medieval town crier]. They assured the American people that Biden’s daily embarrassing manifestations of decrepitude and senility were conspiratorial fantasies of Right-wingers. The king had no clothes, but noticing it aroused pathological outbursts of fury from Biden partisans. In March of 2024 MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Scarborough reported to his viewers what had to be a stunning outpouring of unsurpassed sycophancy that signaled temporary insanity or incurable stupidity.

I undersold him when I said he was cogent… in fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically, because he’s been around for 50 years… This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.

Behind the scene, Jill Biden and the White House staff cosseted “sleepy Joe” as if he were a patient from a retirement village memory unit. All that was missing were slippers, a bathrobe, and a catheter tube.

Even prior to his cognitive decline, the gaffe-prone, blustery Biden was a dopey mediocrity never fit to hold the office of the Presidency. An inveterate braggart, serial plagiarist, congenital liar, a widely known groper of women, and an embarrassment as Vice President to Barack Obama, Biden gave off all the malodorous odors one would expect from a guy who spent 50 years crawling around in the mud of “the Swamp.” In the 2020 Democrat primaries he was coming off like your crazy, old uncle and coming in last until he cut a deal with Jim Clyburn and Obama to make a black woman his VP choice in exchange for them muscling the leading candidates out of the race.

By the summer of 2024, it was also obvious to the Democrat Party’s chief Pooh-Baas that the President’s advanced age and undeniable senility had put them in a serious bind. His mental collapse in the bright lights of the June Presidential Debate with Trump was reality crashing through the flimsy gates of the Lügenpresse. Panic ensued. Joe had had no opposition in the primaries, and was belligerently determined to make a second run against Trump. There was not enough time before the fall election to jerry rigg a run-off election so that the Democrats could continue to pretend to be democratic. Nancy Pelosi was assigned to keelhaul the recalcitrant Biden to expel him from the White House. This left the black, Hindu broad forced upon Biden by Clyburn and Obama. Kamala Harris surfaced as an affirmative action buffoon, so incompetent, dislikable, and cognitively challenged herself, that a billion-dollar campaign war chest and an adoring mainstream media could not convince a majority of voters that her entire, incoherent shtick was not an unfolding train wreck.

Enough of those of us who experienced the 2021—2025 Democrat-Biden instigated third-world invasion and the transfer of billions of American tax-payer dollars to finance foreign wars (Ukraine, Gaza) while American infrastructure deteriorated, voted to give Donald Trump an electoral-college, popular majority and a second chance. The 2016 election was “fool me once.” 2024 was “fool me twice.” The “peace” candidate has pulled off the greatest voter-betrayal move in American electoral history. And so, we transitioned from a senile octogenarian with hair plugs to another one with a comb over who can contradict himself in a single sentence—different parties, different styles, both crude and buffoonish, both tools of Jewish supremacists:

[Consider these two quotes:]

Joe Biden:

“I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.”

The Trump appointed American ambassador to Israel, Christian Zionist, Mike Huckabee:

“I consider myself a Christian Zionist… it simply means a Christian is someone who believes Jewish people have a divine right … and a geopolitical right to a homeland that they have lived in for almost four thousand years.”

As if any American struggling to meet mortgage payments, fill up his car with gasoline, or buy groceries gives a damn about [Zionism].

President Trump appears to be ensconced in a world with no connection to reality or his voter base. He has the attention span of a gnat, no consistent plan for execution of foreign policy, and is incapable of expressing himself without sounding like a megalomaniac with a “gold” obsession who emits ludicrous expressions of grandiosity and braggadocio…When not drowning his audience in waves of superlatives—“biggest,” “most wonderful,” “most powerful,” “most beautiful,” “yuge,” etc.—his idiom descends into insult, abuse, vulgarities and obscenities.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account. (Axios)

That white Americans should trust President Trump suggests the punchline to “fool me twice”—“Shame on me.”

The “peace” candidate who promised an end to the Ukraine/Russia war in a day is the war president for as far ahead as the eye can see. The only happy Americans are the war industry captains, Neocons, Israel-first toadies like Sean Hannity, Victor David Hansen, and Mark Levin, and some evangelicals, like Huckabee, who believe “the Rapture” and Christ’s return are forthcoming.

All of this brings us to a question, the complex answer to which should bring to mind a fundamental philosophical question posed by the Roman satirist, Juvenal two thousand years ago: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guardians?”

Our “guardians,” our two major political parties, have given us. . . two in a row. . . senile octogenarians who despise the people who put them in office. Two of the worst, most corrupt, intellectually impoverished men have risen to the top of their respective political machines. Is there greater proof that the federal governance is hopelessly broken, that there is no way for us to vote our way free from the malfeasance of fake conservatives and the treason of communist Democrats? “

Foster’s article goes on to offer guidance and ideas on how we might improve the situation, and I do recommend reading it in full. But for our purposes, it is enough to see that little has changed. When kings are weak or lack vision and real leadership qualities, as with Henry III, the selfish interests of the Lords and Barons are advanced. When kings are absent– as Edward was on many occasions, for example when he was on crusade and his father died, making him instantly King of England, and it took him two years to make his way back to the island, or when he was on the continent tending to his family’s land in Gascony– all bets are off.

The problem, from our peasant point of view, is the system itself. It’s baked into the cake: with a cogent leader at the top, society is more structured and predicable: even if the needs of the working class are still given little attention, there is a certain solace to be found in the-devil-you-know. Without such a leader, the petty interests of the societal elite rule the day and the daily life of those under them becomes even more tenuous and chaotic. In either case, the ultimate goal of the such a society is to preserve the power and privilege of a few, not the well-being of the peasant.

As a National Socialists, we know there is another way. Indeed, thanks to Adolf Hitler, we almost realized that new world vision. So terrified were the existing elites of seeing the duplicitous foundation of their wealth and power exposed that they banded together to destroy the one nation, the Third Reich, that could demonstrably prove to the world that there was a viable alternative. At this point, I see my mission as simply to keep the memory and idea alive until such time as the current system becomes so untenable that a whole nation again looks for a new path forward. It won’t be a fun process and will require a supreme effort to stay focused on the forest and not the trees.

“…it’s impossible to overestimate the need to maintain a healthy peasant class, as the basis of the national community.”
– Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 4.3

Which brings me back to where I started. Viewed through the lens of history, the “current” events of today seem less novel and sadly repetitious: Rulers and nobility fighting for their fiefdoms, trying to shore-up their existing power or extend their will to other dominions. The Lords and the Barons, the elites and the captains of industry, benefit. The peasants? Not so much. The few benefits we do reap consist of nothing more than table-scraps: enough to keep us alive and distracted with Pyrrhic victories, but never enough to prosper.

It is true that the so-called standard of living is higher now than it was in the middle ages, this largely having to do with the benefits of industrialization and the creation of a middle class. But that doesn’t change the true nature of the power structures we have been discussing. If the life of the average worker seems to have improved over his counter-part in the middle ages, the improvement stems not from any sort of appreciation of that worker or a sense of political or social equity, or a sense of tribal solidarity, but from the simple fact that contented workers complain less, are more likely to pay their taxes on time, and make better consumers.

While we pour billions into Israel, Gaza, Iran, Ukraine, etc. ad nauseam, I will spend the next few years paying off the medical bill for my daughter who recently had to spend the night in the hospital. While I struggle to pay my taxes and drop $100 to fill up the gas tank in my truck so I can get to the appointments necessary for me to make the money to pay those taxes, Trump is building a new gold-plated ballroom for his current castle. While we chew through munitions and the ruling elite make record profits, the national debt now exceeds our GDP- the first time since WWII- and the interest alone nearly totals what is spent on Social Security. Soon the interest will exceed the total cost of Medicare. But at least Chevron has easy access to Venezuelan oil now.

The bottom line is: you don’t need me to hammer on current events, drawing your attention to one swing of the pendulum or the other. Doing so actually does you a disservice in that it eventually becomes more noise in the background of your life: an unnecessary and harmful focus on the state-sponsored distractions instead of what really matters.

For myself, I’ve passed through anger and disillusionment, flirted with despair, and now find myself experiencing resignation, and a degree of acceptance, that nothing has really changed since at least the middle-ages, and likely long before. As Americans, we grew up being fed the line that there is no nobility, no royalty, no aristocracy in this country, and that everyone is equal before the eyes of the law. Really? Read the “news”, and read some history. Then tell me how much progress we’ve made.

These are the musings of a modern peasant.

Amerika Erwache!

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