I asked Paki if we could re-post her reflection on her walkaway from the Democratic Party and movement into spirituality.
Galactic Grad School
From the Left to the Light
Paki, Bohemian Buddhist Review, Nov 29, 2024
(https://bohemianbuddhistreview.substack.com/p/galactic-grad-school-05c)
“If you can’t change your mind, you can’t change anything,” quoth George Bernard Shaw. I used to be proud of being a leftie. Now not so much, or actually at all. My journey has not been to the right politically but to the light spiritually, devoid of religious or political denomination. I’ll prolly go into this more next year.
What I want to look at in this particular column, however, is Common Sense, the amazing pamphlet by Thomas Paine that basically galvanized early Americans into fighting the Revolutionary War. Written in 1775, Paine refers to the cruelties and perversities of England toward their subjects here; to my mind, there are compelling parallels with the inhuman injustices which the globalist cabal doled out to our entire planet, with America being a special focus of their malice because we represent dissension in the ranks.
Paine’s pamphlet strongly reminded me of how amazing the birth of our country truly was. “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” We were the first of many breakaways from monarchy (i.e., often pedophilic and frequently psychopathic rulers), as well as other forms of tyranny, including death by taxation.
The warning shots have been fired with our recent election. The cabal’s destructive domination is now on its last legs in the United States. If we are ever to have real freedom and independence, the Rule of Law must be returned to the People. By virtue of the captured Democrat Party — of which I was a life-long member until 2020 — the status quo of America was akin to national suicide.
We’re now undergoing a massive change-up and restructuring of the very function of government. Here’s a great quote from Thomas Paine: “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.” This has certainly been borne out by recent decades; IMHO, we’ve been under malevolent cabalistic rule at least since JFK was assassinated in 1963, but most likely since the Act of 1871, which many Americans don’t know about.
I did a radio show about it on KWMR in California in the 1990’s. The Act of 1871, I discovered, was when the District of Columbia was created as a municipal corporation, meaning that the seat of our government was essentially corporate. The irony of Common Sense is that while Paine advocated for independence from Britain, he may have been unaware of the seditious financial connections between Washington DC and the City of London. Basically we were kept in financial chains even while it seemed we had gained our freedom from the odious and crippling rule of England’s King and Parliament.
Paine decried using the English constitution as a model for our own. He called it “a glorious rescue from tyranny but incapable of producing what it seems to promise.” He goes on to examine the “exceedingly complex” constitution of our so-called mother country, finding it to be “the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded by some new republican materials.”
The first tyranny was of course the king, the second the aristocracy. The “republican materials” were represented by the commons, areas and/or rights supposedly available to “the commoners.” I was put in mind of the unilateral actions of many recent past presidents, of both parties, who felt entitled to declare war without benefit of Congressional approval. The aristocracy could be seen to be people in Congress who have no term limits. They have had free rein to enrich themselves at taxpayer’s expense for decades, while largely ignoring the needs of their constituents, except for pork-barrel politics.
Paine was virulently against hereditary succession. “When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary . . . or perpetual.” What we’ve ended up with in the US is a political system of virtual succession, with predictable results.
I just want to add some of the Buddha’s wisdom on the subject, to the effect that a people will never be happy in a country that is ill-ruled. Americans now have the chance to positively affect everyone’s pursuit of life, liberty and happiness — if we keep our eyes on the prize, still the same now as it was in 1775: personal freedom and national sovereignty.