Our Electoral Serfdom
Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues this Monday evening, November 11, with Richard Ebeling and me. We wrap up our series on open borders with a session that addresses all the common objections to open borders. 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register here.
Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference.  The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. The CAPA conference is apparently now being held online. There is also another excellent JFK conference on the same weekend sponsored by the JFK Historical Group. All three of them are fantastic JFK-assassination-related conferences. I highly recommend registering for all three and then picking and choosing which sessions you would like to attend at all three conferences. The registration prices are moderate and it’s a great way to support three great conferences. I will have some of my JFK books at my presentations at the Lancer conference to autograph and sell at a discounted price. I hope to see you all there!
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Regardless of who wins the presidential election, one thing is certain: We will continue to live our lives as serfs under the welfare-state/warfare-state/regulated-managed economy way of life under which we have all been born and raised. That’s because the only thing we are doing in this presidential race is the same thing we have always done in presidential races all of our lives. We are electing someone who will preside over the system that makes us serfs.
Longtime readers of my blog know that for many years I have strongly recommended a book entitled National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon, who is a professor of law at Tufts University and who served counsel to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Every American who cares about freedom and the future of our nation should read this book. Its thesis is a simple but profound and ominous one: It is the national-security branch of the government — that is, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — that is ultimately in charge of the federal government, especially in foreign policy. That includes the war against Russia in Ukraine, which has brought us perilously close to nuclear war.
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If Glennon’s thesis is correct — and I am 100 percent convinced that he’s right — it doesn’t matter whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is elected president today. Neither one of them will be calling the shots. It is the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA who will continue to call the shots. Whether it is Trump or Harris, he or she will be answering to the national-security branch of the government, just as the Congress and the Supreme Court do.
For example, Trump has vowed that if he is elected this time around, he will do what he
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