Trump Bashes Political Correctness, Gold Rush Mascot Banned as Offensive / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2019
The roller coaster presidency of Donald Trump is currently riding high as thestock market races back up to new highs, economic data come in better thanexpected, and Congressional Democrats’ endless investigations come up emptyhanded.
Trump’s approval rating recently hit 50% at the same time asCNN’s ratings are tanking.
Over the weekend, President Trump sent CNNand the rest of the “MSM” (mainstream media) into a tizzy by speaking outagainst the latest Big Tech purge of “far right” voices.
Trump re-tweeted verboten alternative media personalitiesincluding Paul Joseph Watson and Lauren Southern.
He even posted a video from Alex Jones’ Infowars,which has been banned from virtually every online platform at the urging of theMSM.
Regardless of whether you agree with the views or tactics ofparticular individuals in the dissident right, the point is that the sameOrwellian thought police who are systematically silencing them might next comefor you.
In the tweet amplifiedby Trump, Lauren Southern mocked “establishment conservatives who think theywon’t be labeled the new ‘dangerous’ / ‘extremist’ voices when those to theright of them are all banned.”
One side of the political spectrum has determined that it can’tdefeat the other side through reason in a free, open exchange of ideas. It hasinstead committed to silencing its opponents through organized de-platformingcampaigns.
The liberal left of old, which would point to books like GeorgeOrwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 to make the case for freespeech and tolerance of unpopular opinions, is no more. Today’s left isauthoritarian. It is the Big Brother of Orwell’s dystopian novel.
In the name of “social justice,” self-styled “progressives” havebecome the book burners of our time – aiming to digitally erase unapprovedthoughts wherever they find them, whether on Facebook, Twitter, Google, orAmazon.
They’re now trying to make sure people who have been digitallyun-personed for wrongthink also have their access to bank accounts and creditcards revoked.
De-platforming mobs recently pushed Mastercard to create “humanrights committee” to screen customers for ideological conformity.
“A small number of banks controlling most of the financialsector could effectively illegalize legal commerce by refusing to financecertain industries or process certain transactions,” warned Republican SenatorKevin Cramer.
Financial de-platforming is a very real concern not just fordissident activists but also for politically controversial industries such asfirearms and even precious metals.
Senator Cramer has introduced the Freedom Financing Act. It wouldprevent big banks with over $10 billion in assets (which enjoy specialgovernment protections, privileges, subsidies, backstops, and bailouts) fromdiscriminating against customers who engage in lawful commerce.
President Trump has yet to lay out specific policies to stop BigTech political censorship. Some of his supporters are urging him to start byinstructing government agencies to terminate contracts with monopolisticinternet companies that suppress legitimate political speech.
Trump did recently issue an executive order requiringgovernment-subsidized universities to respect free speech on campus. But itwon’t stop university professors and administrators from indoctrinatingstudents with cultish levels of political correctness.
This week, students at California State University Long Beachwill vote on a replacement for their former mascot, “Prospector Pete.” Fordecades, Prospector Pete had stood as a symbol of California’s gold mining heritage.
He was deemed to no longer be “inclusive” enough, particularlyfor “indigenous people,” so administrators torn down his prominent statue oncampus last year. Now the mascot itself will be sacrificed so that thehyper-sensitive and perpetually offended won’t be upset by symbols of theexploitative and greed-fueled gold rush.
The California gold rush of 1849 lured thousands of people fromnear and far hoping to strike it rich as gold prospectors. Through acombination of grit, determination, and sheer luck, some did. But many otherswho risked life and limb prospecting for gold came away with precious little toshow for their efforts.
All told, the gold rush produced about $2 billion worth ofprecious metal. It also helped put California on the map, literally, as the31st state. California entered the Union as a free state whose constitutionexplicitly prohibited slavery.
But to the authoritarian left, the history of gold is “racist,”somehow, and needs to be erased. It’s a goal fiat currency pushers and riggedfinancial system profiteers can also get behind.
Stefan Gleason isPresident of Money Metals Exchange, the national precious metals company named 2015"Dealer of the Year" in the United States by an independent globalratings group. A graduate of the University of Florida, Gleason is a seasonedbusiness leader, investor, political strategist, and grassroots activist.Gleason has frequently appeared on national television networks such as CNN, FoxNews,and CNBC, and his writings have appeared in hundreds of publications such asthe Wall Street Journal, Detroit News, Washington Times, and National Review.
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