You've probably heard:

The Republican governor of Iowa has been under fire for a satanic statue that was slated to stand in the state house for two weeks.

She said she opposed the statue and urged Christians to pray. But after all, the Satanic Temple had followed the rules in having it installed, so their statue was a form of protected speech.

Yesterday a former congressional candidate from Mississippi, Michael Cassidy, beheaded and destroyed the statue. He faces a fine and up to a year in prison.

The past and the future were juxtaposed here. "We oppose X, but the rules say X is all right, so there's nothing you can do." That's the past.

The future: "$%#& you, we're taking this thing down."

The so-called neutral public square is collapsing.

It may be just as well, since nobody really believed in it in the first place. 

Appeals to the neutral public square ring hollow these days, because they come from the very people who once pretended they wanted neutrality in things like employment, promotions, education, and everything else under the sun, and once again "neutrality" wound up in practice meaning privilege for their side.

We've got multiple ideologies, incompatible with each other, uneasily coexisting under the same political roof. This is going to be a rough ride.

There are still Republicans who think they can stick it to their opponents by calling them hypocrites, or noting that they're inconsistent in banning speech.

This is silly. The people we're dealing with are not operating on the basis of general principles like freedom of speech or equality before the law or any of those pretty-sounding phrases.

They are operating on this basis: we intend to win, and if that means sticking it to our enemies good and hard regardless of any abstract principle, then we're going to do it.

What this means for you: you're living under a hostile regime, and you're an enemy of the state.

My wild idea: how about we try to navigate this bizarre and challenging situation together?

And here's what I told my other subscribers today:

They'll destroy the value of your money and (1) deny it's happening, then (2) say it's happening but it's a sign of a good economy (they actually did this), then (3) admit that it's bad but blame you for it (they actually did this, too).

After confining your kids in an ideological prison until age 18, they leave them with absolutely zero knowledge of how to navigate the 21st-century economy, and then shrug their shoulders as they gather statistics about underemployed young people with no prospects living with their parents.

They got tens of millions to cheer when you got fired for refusing an injection you neither wanted nor needed.

They're colonizing your kids' minds with crazy, anti-human theories.

Every last thing they get up to is a front in the war against you.

They want you discouraged and demoralized. They want to make you think nobody agrees with you. They want you to think they've won, so you'll just give up.

That's just not me. I don't give up. I don't have it in me. I fight. I have five kids, and they deserve a better world. Moreover, I don't care what people say about me. Anybody who was captain of his high school math team, as the old man here was, obviously cares about things other than popularity.

I want to break us the &#@% out of all this.

I want my community to be successful and secure, so that nothing the regime or its weird economy throws at them can harm them. While other people are arguing on Facebook, I want to combine the knowledge and talents of my community to make us all unbreakable.

You don't have to feel isolated. You don't have to face the 21st-century economy alone. You don't have to make your own lonely way under a system that's throwing everything it has at you.

I'd like to invite you to join the best people on Earth, the community inside my School of Life.

Until midnight tonight I am temporarily discounting the annual membership, something I said I would never do (because it is already ludicrously underpriced in light of the individual attention everyone gets) -- but a certain entity in our society (it rhymes with zederal zovernment) is demanding I cough up a pile of dough by the end of the month, and since most of my dough is in illiquid form, my financial stupidity is your opportunity.

It's never being discounted again, so if you'd like to be a part of the solution -- for you individually and for our society as a whole -- now's the time to get inside, before the clock hits zero at midnight:

https://www.TomSchoolOfLife.com

Tom Woods