It is perhaps a sign of the waning influence of the mainstream media that even though they have been incessantly pumping the concept of “Striketober” for the past month, the majority of Americans rarely mention it. What we do deal with on a regular basis, though, are the constant labor shortages across multiple sectors of the economy as well as the growing supply chain disruptions and stagflationary retail price hikes. The media notion of “labor regaining its power” is a background narrative that they are still struggling to plant in the public subconscious.
That said, the establishment doesn’t really care if the propaganda takes hold, only that they have a useful cover for the very real collapse of the U.S. economy. It’s a kind of vicious perversion of the “fake it until you make it” strategy.
Striketober, like BLM, Antifa, and numerous other Marxist or Cultural Marxist movements has been created from thin air by a combination of news hype and globalist foundation funding. It’s important to first recognize that none of these leftist organizations would have ever been formed had it not been for the ample support of institutions like the Ford Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. BLM, for example, was founded by openly Marxist leaders and got its start using millions of dollars in funding from the Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundation.
Many of the “workers unions” involved in various elements of Striktober also enjoy direct or indirect funding from globalist foundations. The Food Chain Workers Alliance, for example, receives funding from the Ford Foundation, and the National Domestic Workers Foundation gets ample money from the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
As I have said many times in the past, all the evil people are on the side of the political left. All the billionaire elites they claim to hate are feeding them endless cash. Leftist labor strikes only exist because globalists want them to exist.
Of course, leftist labor strikes are actually a minimal problem. In fact, I suspect they are a deliberately fabricated theater meant to obscure the very real labor strikes among conservatives over the COVID vaccine mandates. Let me explain…
We are all familiar with sensationalist worker walkouts like the Netflix protest over Dave Chappelle’s special The Closer which dares to make jokes about trans activists, a highly protected minority of people at the top of the leftist oppression totem pole. Most people have also heard about the worker’s strike among McDonald’s employees over #metoo claims even though there is little to no evidence to support the accusations.
What we don’t hear much about is that the Netflix walkout was actually only a handful of real employees mixed with a mob of career activists that were bused in from elsewhere. We also don’t hear about the fact that the #metoo claims made against McDonald’s are actually from back in 2018, and they are now being conveniently dredged up again as the country faces a labor shortage crisis.
These high-profile strikes and walkouts are starting to eclipse media coverage of the true culprits behind the labor crisis, namely the Biden administration and blue state governments enacting global COVID mandates and vaccine policies.
The source of worker shortages, supply chain bottlenecks and a lot of our stagflationary issues can be traced directly back to the government’s COVID restrictions and the COVID welfare programs. Get rid of the restrictions, the mandates and the COVID checks and over time the crisis will disappear. It really is that simple. However, the establishment does not want you to see it that way.
Marxist groups are working feverishly to make hay with the COVID protests and employee strikes in an attempt to attribute them to “worker discontent” over low wages and “mistreatment” rather than the COVID mandates. This is nonsense.
First and foremost, wages have been rising exponentially in the past year for what I would call “zero skill workers” in the retail and service industries. When a potential employee with no valuable skills can walk into almost any chain restaurant or retail outlet and get $15 or more an hour on top of a signing bonus of hundreds of dollars just for showing up on the first day, there is no unfair disparity for the working class.
When the average minimum wage across the states is around $9 and most service workers are making nearly double that, there is no legitimate problem for Marxists to complain about. So, they have to make things up. To be sure, $15 an hour is not enough to buy a home or start a family on a single income, but people aren’t automatically entitled to homeownership and no intelligent person expects to launch a career in foodservice or retail. That’s why decades ago these jobs were filled by teenagers, not people in their 20s or older.
People are not refusing to get jobs because they feel “abused” in the workplace, but why are they staying home?
As noted, there are two major factors in worker shortages: The Biden vaccine mandates and state and federal COVID stimulus programs which pay people more to stay at home than they would make on the job. This is the reason for worker shortages and anyone that claims otherwise has an agenda.
Federal COVID checks are not over yet, contrary to popular belief; the cash is still flowing through various programs including child credit programs. Also, most states continue to pump out COVID financial aid on top of existing unemployment benefits. This is essentially Universal Basic Income and it’s not over by a long shot. Businesses cannot find enough workers because the government has taken millions of workers off the market.
The establishment is well aware that this program is destabilizing the labor market and I believe the goal is to destroy the small business sector specifically. Small businesses cannot compete with corporations backed by trillions in central bank stimulus. They don’t have the resources to double wages rates for zero-skill workers or to offer large signing bonuses. They also don’t have the resources to police their own employees and customers to ensure these people are complying with vaccine passports and booster shots. Within a year the small business pillar of the U.S. will be a hollow shell.
With the death of small businesses, all that will remain are international conglomerates that will enforce the mandates and threaten people with poverty and starvation if they refuse the vax. All other legal alternatives will be removed and that is exactly what the elites want. Without defiant small businesses, there’s nowhere left for you to work or shop without the vax passport.
What they don’t want is organized resistance in the meantime.
The entire premise of Striketober and the “oppressed working class” is a farce, though the narrative does at least represent something new in the agenda to derail the U.S. economy. For the most part, we have been dealing with AstroTurf protests from Cultural Marxists in the form of social justice warriors funded by globalist foundations. The focus is usually on exploiting cultural taboos or non-existent racism or sexism to create chaos. The Striketober development is a much more classic rendition of old-school Marxist sabotage, and it appears that it was slapped together haphazardly by establishment elites in order to diminish the very real conservative worker strikes over the vaccine passports.
That is to say, from now on expect that if you walk out of a job or get fired from a job for non-compliance on the experimental COVID vax, you might be lumped in with a bunch of leftists. But what is the point of this psy-op?
I am reminded of a story I read when I was a child about a conversation between an ancient Roman General and a Roman Senator. The senator tells the general that something needed to be done about separating and delineating the slave class from the free Roman citizens because often they all looked alike and were sometimes dressed alike. The senator suggested that the slaves be forced to wear black armbands so they could be easily identified. The general disagreed, pointing out that if the slaves were given the armbands, they would finally see how many of them there were, and realizing the sheer size of their population the slaves might then be encouraged to revolt against the empire.
Now, I don’t know if this tale is historically accurate, but I treat it as a parable. In the case of the vaccine mandates and the massive worker strikes among airlines, hospitals, police and emergency services, etc., the more the establishment tries to squeeze the U.S. population with forced vaccination efforts the more liberty-minded people slip through their fingers and fight back. If mass walkouts and strikes are attributed to conservatives and protesters against the mandates, then all the “slaves” might realize they are actually legion. This would be bad for the globalists and their Reset agenda.
So, they are attempting to co-opt the walkouts and rewrite history in real time by creating a fake workers movement through Striketober. And no, it will not end in October, the media will be promoting this idea from now on. That way the resistance becomes convoluted and confused and the mainstream media can say the great numbers of striking workers are actually on the side of the political left, not conservatives and patriots on the side of truth and freedom fighting against COVID tyranny.
We are not supposed to know our numbers. By instituting a two-tier society through vax mandates the establishment has made an error. They obviously assumed there would be far less rebellion against the passports. They obviously assumed that there would be a vast majority of support and the 10 percent or less of the population refusing to comply would be overwhelmed and surrounded by the COVID cult. They figured we would be compelled by peer pressure and the fear of standing out and that we would naturally fall in line. Instead, 30 percent to 50 percent of the population depending on the state or city or industry is in revolt, and we are starting to see how many of us there really are across the country.
Striketober is just another desperate attempt by the power elites to manage optics in the face of unexpected opposition. Their efforts to demonize people that refuse to become guinea pigs for an mRNA cocktail with no long-term testing to prove its safety is backfiring.
Brandon Smith
