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    Haters: Will Hate This Book
    Haters: Will Hate This Book
    Haters: Will Hate This Book
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    Haters: Will Hate This Book

    By Rick Elkin

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    In this book I look back at several decades in the late 20th Century and describe them as adolescent growing pains. After WW II America was on a winning streak, amassing fortunes from innovations in manufacturing, agriculture, medicine and science. We sent men to the Moon, we saved millions of lives with medical inventions, with labor saving machines, and we learned how to get the best out of the worlds largest and most diverse "Melting Pot" of cultures immigrating from every corner of the planet.

    It hasn't always been pretty, but by the turn of the century, there was no doubt as to which country was the Leader of the Free World.

    But something happened on the way to Nirvana.

    Ever since the attack on the World Trade Centers in New York on September 11, 2001, our fortunes have turned around. The evidence keeps piling up that America has lost its edge, or worse, is teetering on the edge of collapse.



    In 2016, Donald Trump said he would "Make America Great Again" and then 4 years later, challenger Joe Biden claimed he would "Build Back Better" after the COVID Pandemic nearly destroyed the country. Both political slogans illustrate the conflicting cultural impulses of the nation: the Democrats from Jimmy Carter (A Leader For A Change), to Bill Clinton (For People, For Change) have appealed to those who seek change. Republicans from Reagan (Morning In America) to Trump, want to seek greatness. Democrats play on the perceived personal unfairness of their opponents (racism, unfair taxation, discrimination, hatred) while Republicans appeal to the aspirations of the voters to achieve more success (lower taxes and unemployment, lower interest rates, cheaper energy).

    Political slogans have changed little in 75 years, but the public mood has. Instead of working to improve economic opportunities and the quality of life for all Americans exclusive of their race, gender or background, to reduce our national debt, refurbish our roads and bridges, and to make home ownership more accessible for young folks, our political parties are focusing on placating single issue groups, paying off student loans, and rectifying inequities caused by the racist Founding Fathers back in 1776. Instead of unifying our people, they are dividing us into waring factions.

    I think Americans hate being treated like pawns on a chess board.

    The efforts to end racism as we know it have utterly failed and the levels of social and racial discomfort are at their highest since the Civil War. This book doesn't offer all the answers, but if I ask the right questions, maybe it will provoke readers to demand them of our leaders.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 22, 2024
    ISBN9798350951943
    Haters: Will Hate This Book
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    Rick Elkin

    My goal is to inform and provoke. To stir up my fellow Americans' latent sense of responsibility to provide a secure and exciting future for our offspring and to nurture liberty for all. As a lifelong Californian, during my formative years, I spent two decades in ski, surf and golf product advertising and sales. Later I spent three decades in the new home building industry. A diverse career by any measure but one that reflects the nature of our country and particularly the character of California: a state that was built by a strong pioneering spirit and now projects a sense of freedom by promoting outdoor activism and a strong sense of social responsibility. Like my background, my writing is eclectic. I work like a musician. My books are my albums and my "songs" reflect the cultural challenges of our times. I am heavily influenced by my youthful exposure to the 60's Civil Rights Movement, and the explosion of musical diversity that came from the Woodstock Generation. Are you tired of the Mockingbirds in the Mainstream Media? The noise of information overload? Are you concerned about the future of the Nuclear Family and our unique American Experiment? If so you should derive some affirmation and energy from my work. I can promise you, what I have to say will never be heard in elevators.

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      Haters - Rick Elkin

      Prelude:

      The Danger We Are In

      We all know there is a lot of uncertainty in the air.

      Whether it is about the economy, the COVID Pandemic, or the future of Democracy. Everybody is uncomfortable. Everybody is feeling like their clothes are too tight, like their future is in jeopardy, like they’re swimming against the tide.

      Surely there are some people who are excited about their job, their new home, new kids and they have no concerns about the fate of our Democracy. They are probably government employees benefiting financially from government largess in the form of contracts in high tech industries, or the medical field. They are living in a bubble that our monstrous government bureaucracy has constructed for them, spending the nation’s treasury like drunken sailors.

      Some folks are fortunate to be on the right side of the tracks at this time in history. They work on the roads and highways, in education, for the healthcare industry or massive software developers. They work with networking contractors, or in pharmaceuticals, transportation, automotive or energy supply services, or belong to any one of a thousand unions. They don’t need to go outside their bubble for sustenance. Their jobs are relatively secure as are their pensions.

      Then there are those that are running around with their hair on fire claiming that everyone is out to get them. Many Average Joes are independent contractors always scrambling for their next paycheck. They are under-educated, short on marketable skills and have massive unpaid bills. They work in dirty jobs, drive trucks and resent authority figures, politicians and communists. They are often very religious and don’t like being told what to do, and it seems like every time they turn around they are hit with new rules and regulations that don’t benefit them.

      Average Joe is watching the goal posts being moved every month as taxes, fees and inflation undermine his buying power and investments and leave him in a constant state of anxiety and conflict. He watches the three ring circus in Washington and asks does anyone care about the constitution anymore?

      I think there is a war going on and the problem is that few of us recognize it for what it is. We are oblivious to the fact that every aspect of our traditional American open society is under assault. It is a quiet war on our traditions of self reliance, family values and hard work. It is a stealth war on standard definitions of race, gender and equal opportunity. The casualties are mounting: Crime and homelessness is up, education and marriage is down. Birthrates are plummeting while suicide is skyrocketing.

      It is a battle using electronic media as a weapon of mass deception. It has effectively hidden the field of battle behind a cloud of obfuscation. It manipulates the news cycle, its saturation bombs us with entertainment, with political and cultural suspense, and it uses social pressure to draw us into a spider web of mutual intimidation and conformity. There is a ground fog of cerebral stimulation that is unrelenting. It is wearing the Average Joe down.

      My question is, can politics resolve this war? Who is looking out for Average Joe and can he survive? If I am right, and there is a war currently being conducted, can we count on the traditional methods of running for office and passing legislation to find a solution and provide a formal settlement? And because I ask such a question, I am hated.

      The War On Peace and Tranquility involves one of the most important functions of a free society and it may have conferred massive damage on our traditional election system. If we eventually determine the vote casting and counting process has been corrupted then Average Joe has essentially been disarmed. How do middle class Americans fight back if they can’t put their preferred leaders in positions of power?

      Or are they not fighting back because they don’t know there is a war in progress? Is the ground fog of media hyper activity distorting our perception of reality? Are we all being deceived? Is such deception designed to pacify, disarm and disengage us?

      Have you ever watched a pack of dingos stalking their prey? You feel so bad for the helpless little sheep because they have no idea what danger they are in…

      Behind The Curtains

      Everyone is asking Who is really in charge?

      If we accept the fact that Joe Biden did not fairly win the 2020 election, he is not in charge. No one man could possibly perform all of the nefarious duties required to steal a federal election. It had to be a massive conspiracy, a multi-headed beast to corrupt a complicated system that was designed to be safe and redundant. That was at least until the world wide web got involved. Assuming a cabal worked in collusion to change the election outcome, that group wants payback. They had a goal, and it was to change America as we know it. Changing the occupant in the White House is essentially a symbolic measure.

      Joe Biden is the benefactor not the hijacker. If the election was a car and it was hijacked, Biden is still riding in the back seat. He was chauffeured to the White House, but he has little or nothing else to offer. He is a puppet in a road show, and the Puppet Masters remain behind the curtains.

      It makes sense if you think about the motives behind the hijacking of the White House. Putting a designated driver in there is just symbolic. He is a recognized, longtime member of Congress. He is a frail but reasonable persona. His history of liberal activism is solid but not over-the-top. He seems on the surface to be a patriot, and a sincere Liberal, and to many Americans, trustworthy.

      If you had designs on effecting a coup d’etat, wouldn’t it make sense to create a semblance of acuity, a personna of sensibility, a ‘Nice Guy’ image while you quietly take control of the world’s superpower?

      Look at all of the Communist takeovers in modern history. In Czechoslovakia in 1948 the Communists formed The National Front, a coalition of conservative agrarians, Christian liberals and social democrats. They had significant voter support, after branding themselves as patriotic nationalists. They carefully injected their policies into the ministry of Interiors, which controlled the police department policy making. They gained control of the office of propaganda, social services, and agriculture. Then they began a campaign of street violence and union agitation and selective strikes. When the opportunity presented itself they purged the police, essentially turning them into an enforcement mechanism, punishing dissenters.

      In March of 1948 the acting President, after watching militias threaten to assault the Capitol, capitulated. He appointed a coalition of Communists to the Congress and gave them authenticity. The Russian backed Communists had effected a bloodless coup. They held power ruthlessly for four decades thereafter.

      In 1953, Fidel Castro presented himself as a Man of the People who would rout the despotic Cuban dictator Juan Batista. Fidel was a well educated lawyer, using his oratorical skills in many South American revolutionary activities. When he and Che Guevara commandeered Batista’s military he promised The People he would set them free. He was just another Communist dictator for the next 49 consecutive years! Today Cuba looks as if it were in arrested development for half a century. Because it has been.

      Daniel Ortega, using a revolutionary force of 5,000 combatants and playing on the anger of the Nicaraguan Nation after 46 years of repression by a corrupt socialist regime controlled by the Somoza family, overthrew the National Guard in 1979. Once he purged the country of the American supported Contras, murdered or removed all political opposition, he moved aggressively to the left, accepting financial and military support from both Russia and Cuba. Ortega set about rewriting the constitution removing term limits and reducing citizens’ freedoms of expression. He has built a massive military and secret police force and claims to have been legitimately re-elected three times though none of the tiny countries elections have ever been audited or monitored by independent organizations. Ortega has been in complete control since 1984.

      Beginning in the early sixties, Venezuela was increasingly unstable, as vast amounts of oil revenue was leading to widespread corruption. When a coup d’etat, which included a young Army General named Hugo Chavez, failed to overthrow the entrenched socialist regime, Chavez began to build a following as the potential new President who would put an end to the countries near civil war. In 1999 he took office after promising to redistribute the great oil wealth, to nationalize industry to provide new jobs, and to increase spending on social programs. Chavez then went on to forge strong ties to Cuba, Iran and Iraq. In 2009 Chavez passed a highly suspect referendum allowing him to stay in office indefinitely.

      Communism can’t win elections that are free and fair. They have to misrepresent themselves, cheat or conquer. Then once they gain a foothold in the seats of power, they implement Lawfare and social justice pressures to enforce their cultural narratives.

      This is the thing Americans should fear the most: When an election is stolen, so is freedom. And that is what patriots hate to hear…and that is why you hear Communists calling American patriots, like me, haters. In order to maintain absolute political and social control, authoritarians must control the language, and simultaneously, the emotions of their citizenry. They are good at inverting terminology: They will make claims that Our democracy is under assault by their opposition, when in fact the opposite is true. They can’t define Justice or Woman or Vaccine because it would disrupt their control narrative.

      The current favorite Weapon of Mass Coercion is the widespread use of character assassination and political smear campaigns. The technique of destroying your philosophical and political enemies from behind the curtains of obfuscation.

      Hate

      Let’s talk about a word that I hate: Hate. Mostly because it carries so much negativity and anger. But also because it is something intangible. You can’t see it, hear it or touch it. You can’t taste it or toss it over a cliff. In fact, some would say it is immortal.

      In this book, I will explore the usurpation of the basic human emotion. I know we all harbor some form of hate. As defined by Britannica Dictionary, it means a very strong feeling of dislike. Or something you find unpleasant. And why sometimes the word is misused. In fact, it is often used for the exact opposite reason it exists at all!

      Verb: feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone).: the boys hate each other two separate polls confirmed he is hated by the public.

      synonyms: loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, abominate, despise, execrate, feel aversion toward, feel revulsion toward, feel hostile toward, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear/stand, be unable to stomach, find intolerable, shudder at, recoil from, shrink from, hate someone’s guts

      Noun: intense or passionate dislike.: feelings of hate and revenge.

      synonyms: loathing, hatred, detestation, dislike, distaste, abhorrence, abomination, execration, resentment, aversion, hostility, ill will, ill feeling, bad feeling, enmity, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, animus, revulsion, disgust, contempt, repugnance, odium, rancor, disrelish

      Most manifestations of hate are violent, dangerous and growing in frequency. This, despite generations of human sacrifice to try to end it.

      But in the context of social discourse, we should know from whence it came: Distrust fed by ignorance. Humans have an inherent distrust for anything that is different or appears to be disrespectful of the norm. From there the angst is fed by disparity in wealth and contentment. People who are comfortable have no reason to hate. Typically, hatred is the soil in which anger grows.

      Hatred without anger is like film without exposure. It is just waiting to be activated. Counter intuitively, the more light you

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