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Steve Rafalsky's avatar

Dear Rod,

You do a profound disservice to your readers to recommend Chris Koncz's (CK) writings and "visions". And to yourself. You've no doubt heard the saying, "Curiosity killed the cat."

CK has attained what sorcery / witchcraft offers; that is, access into the spirit realm and its inhabitants, demons.

Coming from that background (out of the U.S. 60s and 70s counterculture) of sorcerous drugs and experiences, I still experience the effects of that exposure, and it requires continual warfare to discern and withstand it. Whether via the sorcerous agents/potions (now widely legal in the U.S.) or contact with a sorcerer (φαρμακεύς pharmakeus) it is forbidden. Revelation 21:8 says of such sorcerers (such as CK), they "shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." His information is deep; so is the place from which it comes.

Curiosity has killed many cats.

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Niall Gooch's avatar

Some possible grounds for conservative optimism in Britain (there are no guarantees of course, but hope is not dead yet):

1. Labour's win is broad but shallow. Because of the eccentricities of the electoral system they have gained over 400 seats (out of 650) but they managed barely a third of the popular vote (33.7%). They will face all the same problems that the Tories did - migration, the sluggish economy, housing shortages. They under-performed almost every pre-election poll by some distance, and added only 1.4% to their 2019 vote share. They were far below their 2017 share (40%). In terms of raw numbers, with 9.8m votes, they are below their 2019 (10.3m) and 2017 (12.8m) numbers. They seem to have lost a lot of votes to the left, to the Lib Dems, the Greens and various Islamists. It is quite possible, albeit not guaranteed, that their popularity will fall quickly once they are in office and actually having to make hard decisions. Public opinion in Britain is very volatile just now. Just consider the vote change between the last election and this one - in early 2020, before COVID, the Tories briefly touched over 50% in the polls. Labour touched the same figure briefly in autumn 2022. It's not at all inconceivable that there is another all-change election next time round.

2. From more or less a standing start, with minimal ground game, the Reform Party gained in excess of 4 million votes (14.3%), making them third in the popular vote despite their low number of seats, half a million ahead of the Liberal Democrats, who have gained 71(!) seats despite actually losing voters since 2019. Reform were second in 98 constituencies. I have seen it suggested that Reform are the second most popular party among 16-17 year olds. Reform now have 4 or 5 years to build a proper ground-level political operation ahead of the next election.

3. The election of several independent Muslim MPs on a pro-Gaza platform heightens the salience of immigration, Islamic sectarianism and the failure of multiculturalism as issues. This helps the right.

4. Turnout is way down from 2019 (67% --> 60%). This is a Tory failure, not really a success for the parties of the left.

Possibly this is all just copium, and yes Starmer is going to be bad. But there are strong grounds for optimism.

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