As we are just barely heels-deep into a New Year and with a new administration (fairly or unfairly) now in power in Washington, D.C., it is a good time to see where we stand today and where we think we will stand a year from now.
ConPat co-founder Lynn Vogel made a prediction list earlier that you can read here. Covering things from censorship to oil prices to retirement savings. I highly suggest you read it, file it away and revisit it next year. As we have consistently provided the most accurate predictions of any source over these past years, you will find it a powerful reference source.
I do want to highlight a couple of items in his list. In particular, online censorship. What we have seen over the past several weeks, in terms of social media platforms, such as Parler, being deplatformed by having hosting yanked from their site and then having to use a new domain registar, on top of it. This is just the start of the Deep State’s War on Free Speech.
Now that the Cabal is fully back in control at the White House, we will see a jihad against many, many sites, platforms and blogs that espouse any sort of opinion that is contrary to the Party/Deep State/Media Industrial Complex’s stated narrative. Whatever the subject. While deplatforming has been effective in some cases, it can also cause backlash, as well as opportunity for said platforms to rebuild and potentially attract a larger audience.
To help counteract that, I will predict that come the year’s end, at least one major site, if not many sites, conservative or at least non-Deep State in bent, if not in ideology, will see their domain name seized by the DOJ. This is both the quickest, most effective way to silence dissent. It is basically the Nuclear Option to not only deplatform a platform, but to de-brand it, as well.
To paraphrase Churchill, “From East Coast to West Coast, there is a Digital Iron Curtain descending across the Continent.”
Consider it a Jim Crow-like policy that will mirror the “Colored Water Fountain” signs in the South back in the middle of the 20th Century.
We already have precedent for this action and it is the next and most logical step in the Left’s unceasing efforts to silence any an all opposition. Even more so, since they hold all of the Big Tech cards.
One other thing I want to touch upon is the vast wealth that has been accumulated over the last several decades by workers and their retirement, pension and insurance plans. There is close to $30 trillion in assets in these various plans and that is something that is simply too tempting for politicians, Administrative State lackeys and Leftist special interest groups to just let slide by. Now that they have total control of all levers of government, as well as most all forms of communication, this is the perfect time for them to strike at and start the process of seizing these assets.
As Lynn mentioned, the argument used for raiding these funds will be the Dems old mantra of “fairness” in distribution of funds, (similar to the argument they use for Universal Basic Income), as well as painting any who have a moderate to large retirement portfolio as thieves, who achieved this wealth through greed and corruption. Additionally, they will also use the argument that these funds can “pay down the debt”, even as they have already exploded it by nearly 50% just in 2020 alone and will doubtless top that this year and next.
So, expect a bill on this subject to be written, debated and passed by the end of the year.
Keep a sharp eye out on both Lynn’s predictions, as well as the methods used to achieve them.