Are you avoiding the fight?
My appearances on the following shows are mentioned in this piece:
Kathleen and Brian Melonakos on San Diego’s KPRZ (September 6, 2022)
Hrvoje Moric on TNT Radio (September 9, 2022 - Episode 1 & Episode 2)
Andrea Schwarz for the Chalcedon Foundation (September 12, 2022)
There are fights we run from and fights we embrace.
I tend to think that those who move away from places like California are missing the opportunity to be involved in a meaningful way in some of the most important battles of this age. Very few have earned the right to say that they gave it everything they had and that it is just pointless to fight. Much more common is that every single person I see who is putting up the most basic fight is encountering victory after victory. Those who are running from a place like California are running from the front line and at a time in which they are most needed.
Victory is at hand and that victory is all around on front lines like those, yet so many flee, rattling off all manner of excuses to justify that behavior when they could be mattering most.
The bad dudes in places like California are able to continue their hold on power by chasing off the good guys. That has been the way every totalitarian regime has operated.
The more people they can scare off, and the fewer who stay and fight, the more likely it is that the totalitarian regime will have some longevity.
We are living through a war. It is not a kinetic war we are living through, however. There are no bullets flying. It is a psychological war. Demoralizing you enough to render you inactive and harmless is a win for the enemy. Chasing you entirely off the battlefield, to another state, is a further win for the enemy. In doing so, you will have been rendered harmless, and not a single bullet had to be fired in order to enfeeble you.
A common topic I’m getting into these days is how commonly people are running away from fights.
To some degree, I covered that topic in all three of the recent podcasts interviews below.
Earlier this month, I got to speak with Hrvoje Moric of TNT Radio. Over a two hour episode, we luxuriously bounce through a few topics, finally knitting their common threads together. (Listen to Episode 1 by tapping here and Episode 2 here)
Some of those topics were:
•Mikhail Gorbachev (a man Hrvoje had previously interviewed and who passed away that week),
•Vaccine deaths among loved ones,
•How to stand up to authority (even to armed and unhappy police),
•The noble sign wavers of San Jose, California,
•How the narrative has crumbled and why your life depends on you recognizing that,
•Kiwi Farms, the canceled online research community,
•Why candidate Trump was so important,
•Bitcoin . . . and a bunch more.
I usually watch podcasts on 2x speed, which is pretty good, since most people with a little practice are able to listen at 2x speed. After all, lots of people on podcasts speak rather slowly. So, at double speed, you can really think of this as listening to a 1 hour show. Plus, if you skip the commercials, it comes to more like 40 minutes.
With Andrea Schwartz of the Chalcedon Foundation on her show Out of the Question (listen to that here), we get into the topic of how the past two years have been an encouraging wake up call for liberty. Some topics we get into in the 50 minute interview (25 minutes on 2x) are
•Sheep,
•Hyenas, and
•The all important Lions,
•My recent drama at Trader Joe’s,
•Why conservative and liberal do not quite mean what those terms used to,
•Silicon Valley activism, and a bunch more
And on San Diego’s KPRZ, I had the opportunity to speak with husband and wife team Kathleen and Brian Melonakos for a half hour segment (only 15 quick minutes on 2x).
•Why not to run away from California.
•The blue state advantage.
•The awful story of Baby Cyrus in Idaho.
•An arrested Idaho anti-mask mom and the protest that ensued.
•Why we can never let up.
•Why the mass movement hardly matters.
•Finding a good dentist or doctor.
•Mask compliance as a form of moral decay.
As you go through this day, I ask you to be mindful of the fights you are avoiding and the fights you are eagerly embracing. How much this moment needs you embracing every virtuous fight you can handle.
Allan Stevo