Our most dangerous abstractions rule us

November 10, 2025

It’s easy to see why socialism is appealing.  Too many of us have been taught that “unregulated capitalism” is causing inflation; and a whole generation is suffering a unified system of corrupt politicians and businesses working against them.  They are in fact right to blame “corporate greed” and corrupt politicians for our nation’s ills.  And they are right to criticize the misled conservatives and libertarians among us who think that “Public-Private Partnerships” and “privatization” are the panacea.  On the other hand, the conservatives and libertarians who think that Big Government and socialism are to blame, are right, too.  Democrats are right to blame corporations for buying our politicians, while Republicans are right to blame politicians for selling us to corporations.  There is common ground among all of us if we’d wake up to one very simple misunderstanding that has led to catastrophic consequences: Corporations are not humans.  Corporations are, in fact, government.

Corporations are, like government, legal, collective abstractions.  They are chartered, regulated, empowered and protected by government laws for mostly good reasons.  But corporations were foolishly and controversially bequeathed “human rights” in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.  While most corporations are still beneficial, the difference between some corporations, and organized crime, is little more than some paperwork, and campaign donations that are made above, as opposed to under, the table.  And the “Public-Private Partnerships” actually (not exaggerating or making this up) fit a large part of Mussolini’s definition of fascism – the bundling, or fastening of socialism, nationalism and corporatism.  A hand-in-glove crony system of political armed force and greed with collectivized risk and “privatized” profit.  And it gets worse.

A few ominous government surveillance programs like “Total Information Awareness” had been rightly shelved.  But they were then “privatized” with CIA funding and technology in the ominous form of, for example, Palantir Technologies Inc, Google and Oracle.  Dystopic DOD programs have been updated by the sci-fi dystopic Anduril Industries, and SpaceX, as well as the usual “Military-Industrial Complex” and “Scientific-Technological Elite” corporations that Eisenhower warned us against.

Politically powerful Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food, and perhaps most egregiously lately, asset management corporations like Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard, along with a certain foreign government colluding with the “Deep State,” have bought out, taken over, and stolen, our nation’s wealth, health, security and freedom. 

Almost all of us understand that our government is corrupt.  Most of us see the obvious relationship between campaign donations and their results in governance.  Very few of us, however, vote like we know any of that.  And so, only a tiny few of us in any way oppose what I believe is the biggest political threat we humans have ever faced – a very quickly unfolding AI-powered dystopia ruled by a universally global network of billionaire technocrats who espouse a Malthusian, eugenicist/ transhumanist “dark enlightenment.”  Many of the “tech bros” ominously refer to creating the “Antichrist,” “Mark of the Beast,” and even the ancient Golem myth – a man-made slave monster that turns on its makers.  

But, “you will own nothing, and be happy!”

Our new ruling class is, in other words, howling-at-the-moon crazy.

I suggest the following:

1. Recognize that We The People, overwhelmingly, voted for this mess.  We didn’t have to.  And we don’t have to in the future.
2. Vote against it.  Fire incumbents; both the politicians and the parties’ corruption networks, follow the money, and vote for only those who don’t, in very real terms, work against you.
3. Actively search for better representatives; ones who promote sound, constitutional money, peace, and sound technology (e.g., permissionless blockchain, instead of “stablecoins” and total surveillance and control).  Talk them into running, or run yourself.  Use our Power of Peaceful Revolution as intended, at long last.
4. Only if this doesn’t work, should we discuss Plan B. 

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, IN

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USA’s Military/Monetary Hegemony is Over

September 6, 2025

We Forced the World to Unite…Against US!

Freedom, Indiana – Our nation’s founders warned us.  Eisenhower warned us.  Innumerable politicians, economists and even losers like me have warned through generations and decades, against central banks, empire-building, entangling-alliance meddling, nannying, and military/monetary bullying.  Our costs are rising, our standard of living is falling, and the recent meeting of international leaders, and expo of military might in Beijing, presaged that USA’s costly exertions of global domination will end, one way, or another.  As all proud empires fall, so shall ours. 

It’s not all Trump’s fault.  Our century-old fiat currency system and Federal Reserve Bank cabal doomed us to the twin perils of the Cantillon Effect, which made the rich, richer at the expense of the non-Investment Class; and, since the Breton Woods Agreement after WWII, the Triffin Paradox, which describes the inflation and inevitable collapse of the dollar’s dominance as the global Reserve Currency.

But Trump’s manic gyrations of military and monetary bullying, piling on more international sanctions on everybody, particularly after the EU/Biden freezing of Russian assets, and recently, the helter-skelter tariffs and regime change efforts, accelerated moves already begun by nations around the world, to end our empire’s destructive carrot-and-mostly-stick manipulation and subjugation of the planet.  Economic alliances like BRICS and ASEAN, and a new military axis of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, now comprise most of the world’s population, and economic production.  We’ve funded, armed and trained our enemies, and betrayed our friends.  We turned against what made this nation successful, and subjected ourselves to demagogues and plutocrats.  We have literally forced most of the world to turn against us. Who can blame them?

But we can come out of this OK if we do a few things that should’ve been done long ago.

First, stand-down our Military-Industrial Monster, and focus on free trade.  Real free trade.  Now.  Today.  Globally.  We ought to publicly issue a very humble and honest mea culpa that we’re broke, and that we can no longer govern, aid, punish, defend or nanny any country but our own.  Sorry.

Second, End the Fed, and reestablish a sound, and BTW, constitutional, monetary system.  G. Edward Griffin wrote a workable, stepwise plan to do this in “The Creature from Jekyll Island.”  I’m not aware of a better plan.

Finally, and this is the hardest sell, but must happen if we’re to avoid casting our seniors into ditches.  We must phase-out and privatize both Social Security and Medicare.  I’m on SS and Medicare myself, and I’m certain this would be a massive improvement for all of us, not the catastrophe our rulers would have you believe.  This would stop our slide into destitution, and start us marching toward real prosperity. 

If we’d prefer to continue our acceleration toward destitution and the sociopolitical drainpipes of history, we can of course keep reelecting the corrupt millionaire politicians that are protecting the Epstein files and care more about Netanyahu, than you. 

But if you give anything I’ve said above any credit at all, please start pressuring the politicians we’ve been reelecting, AND start looking now, today, for better replacements.  Encourage people that you know would be moral, responsible, constitutional public servants to run for office, and/or run yourself.

We can fix this, or at least clean up a big mess and avoid real catastrophe.  But the clock is ticking, and the USA now has real competition for King of this rock.  And that doesn’t have to be the end of the world.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, IN

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Rally to Release The Secrets

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Contact: Andrew Horning

July 18, 2025

Freedom, Indiana – On Saturday, July 26^th at noon, we will assemble at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis, to demand the release of all information regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and what we have very good reason to believe is a government riddled with corruption and blackmail.

While the proof is withheld from us, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that our government is not merely corrupt, but also largely under the control of international actors.

How can voters vote responsibly, when critical information about the condition and operation of our government is withheld by that government?  On what are we voting if, increasingly, our government knows everything about us, but we know nothing about its reality?

The highly suspicious story of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has been very well-documented by, among many others now, Whitney Webb in her two-volume “One Nation Under Blackmail.”  It’s a story that goes back to at least our country’s first co-mingling with the Jewish and Italian Mob Bosses in NYC a century ago, and it’s not just about the usual sort of carrot-and-stick buyoffs and blackmail.  We don’t doubt there could be an Epstein replacement operating today.  We’ve seen evidence of massive corruption, and our citizens need to finally know about it.

We’ve never had so much evidence of deceit from the self-contradictory mouths of our politicians.  We’ve never been closer to socioeconomic collapse, or WWIII.  We’ve never had a better reason to protest, and demand answers.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

P.S. The event was initiated and is promoted by the Libertarian Party of Greene County But it’s open to all, of course. We’ve all been hoodwinked long enough!

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The Anti-Establishment Establishment

Sorry this is late! I had meant to post this when I sent it out.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

August 5, 2024

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

I want to believe that Trump would, if elected again, “drain the swamp,” as he said he’d do the last time.  Yes, I wish he had kept some other promises as well, but his previous unconstitutional and destructive spending, debt, Israel First/ “Greater Israel” polices and global military violence, like sanctions, assassinations and coup attempts (Iran’s been on our/Israel’s Kill List since 1979), were mere symptoms of a much, much greater disease.  And that disease spans all factions within both of the crony network parties. If I believed he was actually anti-establishment, wasn’t a puppet to his donors and legal bailors, and would end this global crony crime ring we call “our government,” he’d have my vote.

Political corruption and abuse of unconstitutional power are the only issues worth discussing now.  Pick any major economic, social, military or political problem – endless war, inflation, social division, injustice…at the root of each, is corruption.  It’s easy to see corruption in the structure and function of the unconstitutional, self-appointed, inherently divisive and corrupt “Two-Party System” our founders warned against.  Campaign donations, and the multi-billion-dollar influence-peddling industry, tell much of how this puppet show works according to three political maxims: “Follow The Money,” “People are Policy,” and the one I was told often when I won a US House of Representatives primary in the GOP, “Ya dance with the one that brung ya.” 

So, consider the AIPAC (for example, along with Trump’s big Zionist donors like the Edelsons) and other special interest-funded and foreign government-favored swamp creatures Trump has endorsed, as well as the “shadow government,” “deep state,” Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag and otherwise mighty people and corporations now endorsing, surrounding and funding the Trump/Vance ticket:  Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, Jaime Dimon and Eric Prince are the luminaries of Anduril, Palantir, JP Morgan and Blackwater, for example.  What policies are they buying?  Recall Trump’s support of “Pre-Crime” powers (now privatized under Palantir), and the privatized versions of CBDCs, including Bitcoin and stablecoins as promoted by JP Morgan.  Even DEI-promoting Larry Fink of Blackrock has the ear of Donald Trump in matters of global finance.  Trump still supports warhawk incumbents like Lindsey Graham, and endorses sold-out candidates all across the country.

So, Trump is funded, surrounded and staffed by authoritarian, warhawk neocon, global panopticon entities and promoters hardly interested in the USA…or you.  In other words, Trump isn’t tied to only rich financiers, and what Eisenhower called “the Military-Industrial Complex,” as he was in his first term (and as are Democrats), he’s also, like Democrats, attached to the other phrase we should remember from that same Eisenhower speech: “a Scientific-Technological Elite.”  It’s an elite that promotes what Thiel himself described as, “communist totalitarian technology.” 

Yes, there are partisan differences.  Democrat puppet masters hate the formerly-loved, formerly-Democrat Trump, and Trump now hates them back.  If Trump wins, there would certainly be some shakeups, as puppet strings shift from puppets to other puppets.  And I do expect that Trump’s cronies would, quite opposite Democratic Party cronies, do something about the destruction of our energy industries, and the taxpayer-funded transportation and subsidy of aliens across our borders.  I’m sure he wants to punish whatever part of the deep state tried to assassinate him. Good!

But…if Trump tears down half the government, what’ll replace it? Will it be what the WEF, the UN’s Agenda 2030, and the “Technocracy Movement” of the 1930’s have been pushing us toward across the generations? Look at the map. Trump’s already run his mouth about every part of it from Greenland to Venezuela. …The goal has always been a self-chosen elite ruling at least that chunk of the world with the all-encompassing, irresistible force of AI and robotics.

Here’s the blunt truth:

1. However you describe, hate or favor any of our wealthy ruling caste, none of them particularly care whether any Democrat or Republican wins, as long as their puppet show continues with the same divide-and-conquer Two Party Scam.  Trump, his sycophants and coat-tails, aren’t challenging that at all.  If they win, the corruption and global madness continues.

2. Any vote for ANY D or R candidate…even the best ones like Thomas Massie, John Hostettler or Justin Amash, is not merely wasted hope and a wasted vote.  It’s self-immolation.  No D or R politician can fix this mess.  They’ve voluntarily chosen to represent this corrupt crony network.  Like it or not, they’re puppets – even if, like Massie, they point to the strings and puppet masters.  Voting for any part of this says exactly and only, “Attaboy!  Keep doing what you’re doing to us!”  And why would they not keep doing it to us?  All they need is your vote; they’ve already got everything else.

3. Voting for ANYTHING/ANYBODY ELSE demonstrates, at the very least, that we’ve had a change of heart, mind and choice; that we’re done with those tearing us apart, and that we aren’t willing participants anymore.  It says we finally, after many generations of casting our votes like poker chips, instead used our votes as weapons of revolution against the small number of psychopaths running us to ruin.

I’m putting #3 on the ballot.  I’m the only one doing that in Indiana’s 2024 US Senate race.  I can’t make you vote for me, of course.  But please consider what the other guys are already making you do, and let’s talk.  We’ve wasted too much, time, money, hope, peace, prosperity, justice …and votes, to let this go on any longer.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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END the Puppet Show

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

July 4, 2024

The Puppets can no longer hide the Puppeteers

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

After the now-infamous “Presidential” debate, we can no longer deny that We the People have been continuously reelecting a puppet show built on lies, money, censorship, cronyism and illegitimate power.  All the smart people since our nation’s founding tried to warn us against this threat of authoritarianism.  General Smedley Butler warned us.  Truman warned us.  Eisenhower warned us.  JFK warned us, and we should’ve paid attention; particularly when the warnings stopped after JFK was shot.  But the evidence, and even not-so-subtle hints kept coming.  Even Bill Clinton, speaking in Ireland in 1998 said, “You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. … You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.”

The problems we debate and call “issues” are really just symptoms of political corruption under a shadowy ruling elite.  What we’ve been told are two different parties are only a divide-and-conquer distraction from those pulling their strings.

In short, we’ve been deceived.  Hornswoggled.  Bamboozled and gaslit by a rich crony network of corporations, NGOs, INGOs, military/monetary industrialists and globalist Malthusian eugenicist psychopaths for too long.  You know the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me?”  Well, it’s time to wake up, and change our choices on Election Day.

This year marks thirty years since I started writing, campaigning and in every way I could think of, protesting against corruption, and offering the existing, once-revered but long-ago discarded state and federal constitutions, as the solution. 

But I, as a choice on the ballot, am not what any of this is about.  Elections are about voters, and what they want for our society.  Even the best Democratic and Republican Party candidates have voluntarily chosen to represent and sustain the status quo global crony network.  What I’ve chosen to do is oppose this crony network.  So the choice I’m placing on the ballot is simpler than ideology, law, or even money: 

Do voters want to continue re-electing the false hope, wasted money, inherent divisiveness and corruption of the costly, destructive, unconstitutional and self-appointed “Two Party System” our founders and all the wise people since, warned against?  Or do voters want to say NO to all this madness? 

This July 4 marks twelve score and 8 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote, “…that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Our founders had to take up arms against their own government.  But they gave us, with our votes, weapons of peaceful revolution.  We can, in airconditioned comfort and button-pushing simplicity, vote away the corruption, and, at long last, try something proven to be better – owning our own government.

That’s what I’m putting on Indiana’s US Senate ballot for 2024.  Any questions?  Please ask me, and let’s talk, while that is still an option.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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No “lesser evil” in the Duopoly

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Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

April 25, 2024

It’s no secret why politicians “change”

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

Despite their campaign rhetoric, every one of Indiana’s federal politicians has voted for more cronyism, spying, lying, silencing, spending, foreign entanglements, subterfuge and debt…quite the opposite of what most voters want.  Every one of these incumbents, and both crony parties, have robbed you of money, rights, autonomy and opportunity.  No exceptions.  Not one from Indiana, anyway.

So today, a common question on alternative media interviews is, “why do you think politician X spoke common sense before the election, but has now become yet another cog in the status quo corruption machine?”  I’m astonished how few ever answer correctly, when the answer has been known for generations.  It’s corruption – by either The Carrot, or The Stick.

Harry S Truman famously wrote that, “We want no Gestapo or secret police.  FBI is tending in that direction.  They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail… Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.” 

In other words, “knowledge” (particularly of the leverageable, dark sort) is power.  That’s The Stick.  Intimidation, personal attacks and smear campaigns, faked “evidence,” lawfare…and assassinations are quite the inducement to toe the line.

But even before the existence of the “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” that Eisenhower, and even our founders, warned against, behind-the-scenes tyrants like John D Rockefeller and other Malthusian eugenicists bent on global domination, used their money to take over entertainment, healthcare and of course, education.  They created tax-exempt NGOs and INGOs to build the stage and attach strings to our present political puppet show.  Campaigns are expensive – too expensive (that’s an issue I’ll discuss later).  And that makes candidates open to The Carrot; i.e., campaign donations, insider trading, and other corruptions of money and other bribes.  Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum succeeded where the Fabians, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations did not, by assembling a corporatocracy of wealthy corporations and the ultrarich, by what he calls “Stakeholder Capitalism;” i.e., globalist corporatist mercantilism; i.e., fascism or National Socialism, as only dreamed by Mussolini and Hitler.  Their money base includes all traditional media and entertainment groups like Disney, financial powers like Blackrock, of course the whole of our military-industrial and scientific-technological elite including the CIA, FBI, Raytheon, Boeing, Google, Facebook…  The money and power is both immense, and mighty.  So, our visible, elected government, has become a protection racket for a shadow government of ruling class elites.

Fortunately, those of us who’ve been decrying this for decades are no longer a tiny number of fringe voices.  New media, and new documentation such as Whitney Webb’s exhaustively researched, two-volume, “One Nation Under Blackmail,” have detailed the connections from our government’s first employments of The Mob, to the CIA’s purchase of Civil Air Transport, and what really was the story with Jeffrey Epstein’s clients.

The simple fact, and the correct answer to the aforementioned interview question is that…while We The People slept, our politicians sold out, and we kept reelecting them anyway.  We The People have not been the ones supplying either carrots or sticks.  The unconstitutional, inherently divisive and self-appointed Two Party System has over time become only a red-herring smokescreen puppet show diversion from the real powers behind the curtain.  Enough of us now know it that we should stop reelecting this whole system of corruption.  And we can.

We still have the power to tear away the curtain and see the truth.  We still have the power to fire not only the puppeteers, but the entire consortium of kingmakers, bundlers, partisan staffers, corporate cronies, three-letter agents and globalist NGOs.  That is, in fact, the whole point of elections.  Our votes are our weapons of peaceful revolution, and it’s time we use them.  And that’s not all the power we’ve got.  Let’s talk.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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