The Great Purge Ahead

“When a forest grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural.” – Batman Begins

Stalin was better than most magicians.  He really made people disappear.

The Soviet Great Purge started in 1936.  Stalin already had a bad reputation as a Dictator who couldn’t say no – he had gotten rid of millions already in the Holodomor (In The World Murder Olympics, Communists Take Gold And Silver!).  The Great Purge was different.  The piles and piles of earlier dead had been peasants and kulaks (kulaks were peasants that had enough money to own a cow), mainly.   Even before the Great Purge Stalin had the world record for Russian killing, a record he still proudly maintains.

By 1936 Stalin, always paranoid, decided his main opponents were, surprise, still Russians.

Anyone who had been a trusted advisor of Lenin had to go.  Anyone who looked like a threat to Stalin?  Had to go.  The Red Army had troops with guns.  Three out of five Soviet Marshalls were executed.  13 out of 15 army commanders, 50 out of 57 corps-level commanders, and 154 out of 186 division commanders were caught up in it.

The very top of the Soviet Military was decapitated.  But that was a small portion of the Great Purge.  In the end, probably a million or more were murdered or died in the Gulags.  Anyone in politics was fair game, and the more power the bigger the target on their back.  Many of the people who helped Stalin with the Great Purge eventually were victims of it themselves.

What did Jack Nicholson say to his dentist?  “You can’t handle the tooth.”

What was the basis of the Great Purge?  Even though Stalin binged and purged, it wasn’t bulimia, it was Power.  Stalin wanted to keep power.  His greatest weapon?

Fear.

And fear is currently the weapon (predictably) used by the Left today.  They want to push people to the fringes, isolate them, and then purge them.  The first step is making them feel alone.

Of course, there haven’t been executions in the United States.  However, Obama purged 197 high-level officers in the first five years of his administration.  That’s quite close to the Stalin numbers, and perhaps even greater when you consider that the military in 2000s America is far smaller than in late 1930s Russia.

The purge has lately increased.  The current SecDef has made it clear:  “The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies, but we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.”

Just let that sink in.  The current Secretary of Defense has stated that he thinks that the biggest enemies of the United States are in the military, right now.  Today.  The leadership of the military has already been purged.  Now?  The rank and file is in the process of being purged.  Anyone not actively supporting the Leftist agenda will be drummed out.

If you need sink jokes, I’m at your disposal.

They want to purge anyone who is involved in “extremism” from the military.  As far as commies, I certainly agree.  But extremism for a Leftist is mere disagreement with a Leftist.  Don’t agree that having a 9-year-old boy dance as a girl in front of gay men at a strip club is entirely good and appropriate?

Extremist!  Behavior that would have resulted in imprisonment for the mother in all but the last 10 years since 1787 is now considered so sacred that it is impossible to challenge.  Now, speaking out against it is extremist.

Hollywood® is already on the job with this requirement.  Star Wars® was a part of my childhood.  I saved money when I was 12 to buy overpriced dolls action figures.  The mythos of Star Wars© was always one of Good versus Evil, which burned itself into my young imagination.

Now?  It’s Leftism versus the Right.  At every opportunity, the creative element at DisneyLucasFilmStarWars™ has abandoned the production of good movies to produce movies that are water carriers for the narratives of a Leftist agenda.

I grew up loving Star Wars©.  It was fun.  It was escapism.  It was a place where there were good heroes and evil villains.  Okay, I’ll admit, the entire series should have ended when the Emperor© said, “And now you die, young Skywalker™” during Return of the Jedi©.

Luke was late because he had to take an R2-Detour.

The latest is that an actress got fired for expressing mildly Right viewpoints.  Heck, they weren’t even something that 95% of every American wouldn’t have agreed with when Kurt Cobain was still sucking air instead of pushing daisies.

And that is the technique of the Left.  If they can’t directly imprison you, they do their best to turn you into an unemployed, destitute outcast of society.

Imagine 50,000 Leftists watching everything you re-Tweet® to catch you.

But, thanks to me, you can watch the purge unfold in real time.  The Long March through the institutions of the United States is ongoing.  Here’s the current status of the things the Left owns:

  • The K-12 educational system.
  • Colleges and Universities.
  • Most Protestant religious organizations.
  • Most Catholic organizations.
  • The psychological establishment.
  • The American Medical Association.
  • All mainstream news media.
  • All mainstream entertainment media.
  • Most departments of the Federal government, absent the armed services.
  • The general officer corps of the armed services.
  • The courts.
  • Silicon Valley tech companies.
  • Many (but not all) Most Fortune® 500™ companies.

The result in 2021 is that of the institutions of the United States, the Left has or is consolidating control over nearly all of the important ones.  What remains?  Junior officer and enlisted men in the armed forces (at least for the next few months) and the governors and legislators of a few states.

Oh, and at least 80,000,000 inconvenient people.

The idea is to scare Americans about the Purge, to scare them about their place in society.  If the State and the Media can scare Americans like that, they can achieve their ultimate goal:  to make them be quiet.

One of the greatest compliments I’ve had from a friend about this website was this, “If they (the powers that be) were really reading and understanding the things you say, you’d be much, much higher on The List.”

The Mrs. prefers the elevator, I prefer stairs.  I guess we were raised differently.

The reason I don’t feel fear is this:  I’m not alone.  As I said earlier, there are 80,000,000 other inconvenient people on the list.

Standing together?  We can’t be canceled.

Standing together?  We can’t be purged.

Standing together?  We can’t lose.

This isn’t over.  We’re not done.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

55 thoughts on “The Great Purge Ahead”

  2. “The reason I don’t feel fear is this: I’m not alone. As I said earlier, there are 80,000,000 other inconvenient people on the list.

    Standing together? We can’t be canceled.

    Standing together? We can’t be purged.

    Standing together? We can’t lose.

    This isn’t over. We’re not done”.

    What they have is a failure to communicate. They think history will repeat. We have learned from history, and those they will add to our ranks are good additions as they will not Stalin them, just elevates the force against them.

  3. They own nearly ever measure of soft power, they are organized, and they are well funded.

    We own hard power, but we are disorganized individuals with no coherent organization to direct or fund us. If we got our collective act together, we could eliminate the problem in a relatively short time (years instead of decades).

    1. Being disorganized may not be a bad thing, in 4th gen warfare, when it gets spicy, a million hornet stings will likely be a better tactic than a single blow.

      Next, the vast majority of the institutions captured by the left can largely be ignored when the puck is dropped. Nobody will care about the opinion of a professor at NY City university nor an article in the Times explaining that opinion.

  4. John – – Another good article. You emphasized this most important concept: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” (Ben Franklin)

    The Demon-nikRats want a one-party state as you indicated.

    From their employment of Cancel Culture we are seeing where their view (their “truth of the moment”) is the only “correct thought” allowed.

    That is why they attack religions (except Mozlems who have “useful” totalitarian ideologies that reinforce those of the Demon-niks.) because faith in GOD creates beliefs which they cannot control.

    They want us dead or on their slave labor camps. That is their ultimate goal; see: https://ncrenegade.com/editorial/cancel-culture-is-a-dress-rehearsal-for-mass-murder/

    Always remember that “The 1st Protects The 2nd.”

    Guard your rights to bear arms with your life because without the 2nd you will have no life.

    1. Good comment by nitzakhon on the ncrenegade site about the leftist religion:
      “Also, remember that much of what they believe is based on self-puffery. Everything they believe, all the virtue signaling, is predicated on their feeling good about themselves. e.g., climate change, “We’re saving the planet”!

      And thus why it’s impossible to have any kind of a debate with them: we’re arguing not just against their faith but in making any point, we’re undermining their self-perception of themselves good people. Until they’re cognitively capable of admitting they might be wrong, there is no debate.”

      1. You’re not in a debate, and they aren’t making an argument.

        This is an existential war.
        By definition, one side will not walk out of this at the far end.

        Once that reality becomes inescapable, the range goes hot, in both directions.

  5. Most of this purging is an advantage to /ourside/. By forcing out all of the competent people, they do two things: a) the create new enemies as people honorably serving their country in the military or some other vocation are forced out for holding the wrong political beliefs and b) what is left behind is increasingly incompetent. An Army platoon of World War II grunts was dangerous. A platoon of women, overweight men and degenerates in 2021? Not so much. I talk to cops and ex-military guys in my side business all the time and all of them are disgusted with what is going on and none of them seem likely to go after people on /ourside/. It is just a matter of biding our time just a little longer and waiting for the Left to overstep in a critical way. Yesterday was the anniversary of Waco, something similar happening now might blow the whole thing up.

    1. I struggle with pessimism on this subject . They enemy will pick us off one at a time . No frontal assault is in the plans. When was the last time Kyle Rittenhouse came up. An honest person knows it was self defense. But he is still being squeezed. I don’t think that would happen in my little town or even my state. Having the full power of dishonest government fall on you , does give one pause. Blue states and the feds are the threat , but how do we fight the threat? I am at a loss. Please enlighten me .

    2. Unfortunately I’ve read Gulag Archipelago. There was an astounding tale therein about, I believe it was their Olympic team, who had all wound up in the gulags for one reason or another. They needed to be put on tour in another country, I believe America; to talk about how great things were in the Soviet Union. So they were fed, bathed, clothed, and then toured about in one of the free places everyone longed to escape to.

      But they didn’t escape. They went through their dog and pony show, returned to Russia and miserable incarceration, even though that’s what they knew was coming. They didn’t escape when they had all the chances in the world. Our enemy can overstep all it wants, but unfortunately it’s probably not going to turn people *against* them, so much as no longer being *for* them. And that’s not enough to end the debacle.

    3. Yup. And they’ll blame the problems caused by the incompetent on . . . the people they drummed out. So predictable.

  6. Jeez, what happened to that irrational Wilder Saturday morning cartoon optimism that was like a midterm week whippit high while out on a 2 am Pop Tart run? Don’t tell us you’ve been ‘compromised’, JW. When I need scarifying, I read the Raconteur. Yours was always the “Happy Place”, brimming with bad puns and good cheer. Even your Civ War 2.0 Weather Reports managed to put a smiley-face on genocide and dislocation.

    Well, at least the puns are still bad, so we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

  7. Marxists are dominating in social media now in Weimerica, but they don’t realize how weak this power is. There are two reasons: 1) Social media isn’t necessary; it has only come into it’s own in the last 10-15 years. Most of us remember the olden days and can function without it. 2) As more and more get removed, they *must* (and do) turn on themselves. It is a side effect of the way they built their system.

    This can’t go on much longer. The only question is how catastrophically it breaks.

    1. I believe one can have a perfectly nice life without Facebook, Twitter and the rest.

      Social media in general just makes people angrier if they were already a little ticked off or depressed when comparing their lives to the facades their “friends” have electronically presented. It’s not the slightest bit elevating.

      It only benefits the owners.

    2. Yup – you can see how Hollywood cannot function without a show-trial of someone. With Trump gone? The rats will gnaw on each other.

  9. Been watching a multi-part documentary on WWII and I thought I had a fairly good idea of the final tally of Stalin’s purge.

    I didn’t.

    1. Simply amazing numbers. Second most deaths (behind Mao) attributable to any single person, ever.

      1. And when Mao told his wife how many he killed, it’s rumored she said “You didn’t kill enough.”

  10. Purges begin with a list of who to purge.

    As I previously noted only a few weeks ago, Parler was completely site-scraped in January 2021. Now at the end of February 2021, it’s Gab’s turn to be site-scraped.

    https://news.gab.com/2021/02/26/alleged-data-breach-26-february-2021/

    https://www.wired.com/story/gab-hack-data-breach-ddosecrets/

    As I provided before with Parler, here’s the entry point to download all 70 GB of the Gab data dump for anybody that wants start making lists….er, as long as you’re approved by the Left to receive the data.

    https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/GabLeaks

    As I noted before, these leaks / hacks / scrapes are the equivalent of breaking the German Enigma code for any upcoming conflicts of interest between Left and Right. As I said before, the operative word here is (still) “outflanked”.

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  12. People were so scared of Stalin that he was dead for three days before his doctor had the nerve to notify him of his sad condition.

    Great jokes today, John!

    I’m thinking that, as in Atlas Shrugged, things must fall apart to restore our respect for reality. (I couldn’t finish that book, by the way, but I enjoyed the setup chapters.)

      1. Q. What did Atlas do when he figured out he was carrying the entire world economy on his shoulders for everyone else?
        A. Atlas Shrugged

        There. I just got you an A- in sophomore year Poli Sci, and saved you two years of your life not spent reading Ayn Rand listening to the sound of her own voice.

        You’re welcome.

  13. Will they purge the capable before launching their Middle East conquering tour redux?
    Brilliant!
    Hitler thought that conquering Russia would be easy peasy due to all the purging.
    The brown uniformed Nazi party apparatchiks went full cancel execution style on some kulak ethnic groups when they could have been drafted for the battle instead of machine gunned.
    The Russians had female sniper brigades and fighter squadrons. They tied magnetic mines around the necks of dogs and taught them to run under military vehicles. Women and children dug anti-tank ditches and other obstacle pits.
    All military factories were moved beyond the Ural mountains where no twin engined Luftwaffe bomber could reach.
    The soft weaklings of the comfort über alles hive aren’t ready for total scorched earth WAR and really do believe in the magic soil omnipotent mommygov unicorn flatulence fairytales.

  14. Friday it was fence funnies. Today it’s an elevator pun. When you get to the jump rope joke, just skip it 😋

    When in doubt laugh at them. And pull together.

      1. Sorry, but no.

        Losing power is their Biggest Fear.

        Making fun of them is the consequence of that to them, and the reward to us for it, that is their Second Biggest Fear.

        Third Place is that somewhere, somehow, a monogamous heterosexual women gives birth to a baby that she wants to keep, and will stay home to raise it to well-adjusted adulthood while her beloved and respected husband works to provide for them all, and everyone is happy with that arrangement and thrives under it their whole life long.

        That last one makes them sh*t their pants at night in their nightmares, and wake up in a cold sweat of sheer unadulterated (Ha! An Unexpected Pun! Here! Who Knew?!) terror.

        If you can’t do that to them, leave a severed horse’s head in their bed when they’re asleep. It works.

        Or so I heard. 😉

        1. He heh heh.

          You rightly list that power is the goal, and losing it is the biggest fear.

          And who is less powerful than a laughingstock?

  15. Resistance is everything.
    No matter how small, spike their cannon.
    ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ! They are afraid of their own Guards. GOOD!
    They are using POLITICAL COMMISARS just like Bolshevik Communism.
    You Troops should be dropping your EMPTY weapons and walking away from “leaders” who do not TRUST you. Are You going to Give Your Life for THEM?!
    Be AFRAID you USURPERS because we have infiltrated and ARE everywhere.
    Better get a FOOD TASTER while you are cowering in your basement
    FBI (You know the FBI, the SHIT BIRDS that cannot catch the B-urning L-ooting M-urderers on TV) Vetting National Guard Troops in DC Over Fears of ‘Insider Attack’ or Threat From Service Members Securing Biden Inauguration
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/f…biden-inauguration/
    SNIFFER spent 48 years as a gopher and stooge.
    SNIFFER is the SOCK PUPPET for the Bush-Clinton-Obama Cartel.
    SNIFFER took his oath guarded by troops that he doesn’t trust.
    SNIFFER surrounded himself with walls and barbed wire – you know “WALLS are RACIST BIGOTRY”
    A “dictator plain and simple.” hiding inside a bunker issuing EXECUTIVE ORDERS like Hitler in his final days.
    Federal agents who let cities burn all summer are now arresting and humiliating those who had dared trespass in the “Holy Temple of BRIBES & KICKBACKS.”
    The Democommies are making a MARTYR of Trump.
    Did you see that “March of the OOMPA LOOMPAS”?!
    Talk about “SEND IN THE CLOWNS”
    We had Four years of the Bolsheviks putting THEIR PARTY ahead of this Nation.
    “A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. MLK Jr. — and White Males are UNHEARD.
    Obstructing, Lying, and Sabotaging everything that they now advocate.
    HATEFUL travel restrictions? NOW they are GOOD!
    Bigoted Racist Hater WALLS —
    No, wait, those walls are not to protect AMERICA and YOUR FAMILY.
    THOSE walls, tanks, and troops are to protect THEIR ASSES.
    Xiden welcomes Gang Bangers and Criminals escaping their crimes in foreign lands.
    Think – this wall was already made and sitting in storage ready to go up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQU7yljBr8&feature=youtu.be%3Cbr
    All summer B-urning L-ooting M-urdering took place across the Nation and THAT was called “mostly peaceful protest”
    But when some Americans “Dropped in for coffee” at “The PEOPLE’S House” THAT became the APOCALYPSE!
    You don’t give a crap about Citizens victimized by INVADERS why should WE give HALF a crap about you being “victimized??

  16. It’s simple, they don’t have the numbers and their actions reduce that number.

  17. You can’t boss around even one person, much less rule 80 million pissed off people without their consent.

    The censorship is meant to project consent that clearly is not there for close to half the country.

    Removal of consent is the most potent weapon against tyrannical police state governments because there is no defense for it. You can’t even make someone sit down without their consent.

    Removal of consent is the only common variable between all fallen governments in mankind’s history, and it is the most crucial variable to escape what has come out this side of fusa’s color revolution.

    Removal of consent leaves only brute force to bring compliance. That is Real Trad Heritage America’s fear at this time. The less the numbers are that remove consent, the greater the chances are of brute force being applied.

    The Marxist/Moslem’s greatest fear is that their bloodless coup will not remain so. Because they know they can’t win it here and now. And they are acting on that fear (see the district of corruption’s Green Zone and the iron fist of censorship and cancel culture for evidence of their level of fear).

    The greater the numbers of Real Trad Heritage Americans are that remove consent, the less likely the brute force option becomes.

    And commensurately, the greater the chance for peaceful secession and separation of the Clinton Archipelago’s from Trumpland.

    Irreconcilable differences, let’s get the divorce.

    Consent removed.

    1. The censorship is leaky because we’re not playing by their rules. They’re even complaining that we can talk to each other without moderation or fact checkers.

  18. Standing together is a lot easier when physically near other like-minded people. It’s about time to start thinking about moving to one of the states that looks like it is willing to fight back against federal overreach. We aren’t going to win as individuals congratulating each other on the internet for not being sheeple.

    1. I agree it’s easier to stand together when physically near other like-minded people. But I think this can be done from the same state by perhaps moving a few dozen miles.

      Might be cheaper too and strangely enough profitable as people realize their megacities are being run by condescending zealots.

    3. “It’s about time to start thinking about moving to one of the states that looks like it is willing to fight back against federal overreach.”

      Sorry, but just…No.

      I understand the sentiment, but that’s not the way to go about this. How’s it worked out so far? Are, e.g., Texas and Florida now more red today than they were 20 years ago, or more purple? You already know the answer to that, as you know whether retreat makes an enemy pause, or rather embolden them for the next assault. So you also know that plan doesn’t work

      1) The land of my birth is so fiercely coveted and beloved that I’ll not willingly part with a square inch of any of it, and even less so by compulsion or fraud.

      2) Anyone who’ll run when times are easy will leave skidmarks over the hill when times get sporty.

      3) F**k them. Make them pay with blood and kidneys for every last damned speck of dirt, and don’t leave them any safe havens and Green Zones to rest, regroup, and re-arm. They should be in mortal terror of retribution every waking moment, and that moment should be endless, because they’re in too much fear to ever close an eye to sleep, until their heads explode and they die of a heart attack from sheer terror.

      4) Fight back everywhere, and unceasingly. It’s fun, it’s instructive, it’s helpful, and repetition builds instinct. Instinct builds habits. Habits build character. Character builds a civilization.

      5) The best time to get practice doing that is sooner, not later.

      6) Make a practice of slitting any throats you can that want slitting. It builds valuable muscle memory.

      7) After the first one, all the rest are free.

  19. Zorost, spot on about the not winning situation. But never fear, the gotta-have-your-love leftists will realize they are not loved, and will go the rape, rob, and murder route. THAT will get more people moving than all the great internet discussions in the world. People actually have to see it being done before their little pea brains decide to fight. Kind of like normalcy bias writ large, and then the bodies start hitting the floor, something inside snaps, and the ole’ fight or flight basic instinct kicks in. In combat, I watched well armed and trained men curl up in a ball the first time they were shot at. You get them to start using their weapons and voila’! You never have to do it again, and they GET IT. The left will have to resort to their old wickedness before the right tightens up their garters.

  20. Sounds like we the people are sort of prepared for 4th generation warfare from the comments above. They may be retraining to become light infantry as the book says but this time a lot of them are people like us and the morality part of the equation would be a great benefit. Who knows they may communicate with our side or join our side. Would not mind a few bunking at my place.

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  22. Nah, we’re f*ked.

    Imagine telling someone heading for Verdun, “everything will be fine in 40 years or so!” Not much comfort even if true.

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