History and Culture.

The election of 1980 was one of the most important elections in American history. It was an election of change when the conservative movement finally reached the White House with their own leader Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was once a New Deal Democrat and then he became a conservative Republican by the 1950’s. Back during the 1960's, he opposed Medicare and falsely accused it of being a precursor to socialized medicine. He defended Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Presidential campaign and was the Governor of California. He ran for President in 1968 and in 1976. His 1976 campaign almost won him the Republican nomination. The 1970’s had issues of low economic growth, high inflation, high interest rates, and an energy crisis. On July 15, 1979, Carter gave a nationally televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among the American people. This came to be known as his "malaise" speech, although Carter never used the word in the speech. The Democrats were divided. President Jimmy Carter by 1980 was unpopular and Edward Kennedy ran against him during the Democratic primaries. In the Democratic primary, President Jimmy Carter faced Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Governor Jerry Brown of California, and others. Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter were leaders in the primary. Their campaigns were bitter against each other. After defeating Kennedy in 24 of 34 primaries, Carter entered the party's convention in New York in August with 60 percent of the delegates pledged to him on the first ballot. Still, Kennedy refused to drop out. At the convention, after a futile last-ditch attempt by Edward Kennedy to alter the rules to free delegates from their first-ballot pledges, Carter was re-nominated with 2,129 votes to 1,146 for Kennedy. Vice President Walter Mondale was also re-nominated. In his acceptance speech, President Jimmy Carter warned that Reagan's conservatism posed a threat to world peace and progressive social welfare programs from the New Deal to the Great Society. Edward Kennedy gave a historic, powerful, "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech at the Democratic convention too. In that speech, Edward Kennedy defended liberalism as a philosophy and as a way of life.

The Republican primary had many men who ran like George H. W. Bush, John B. Anderson, Phil Crane, Bob Dole, John Connally, Howard Baker, Larry Pressler, Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Harold Stassen, and Ben Fernandez. Ronald Reagan easily defeated most of the field in the primary. His strongest challenge was from the former CIA Director George H. W. Bush. Bush won the Michigan and Pennsylvania primaries, but he didn’t have enough votes to win. In that time, Reagan was famous for giving the words of "I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green." Reagan defeated George H. W. Bush of Texas, John B. Anderson of Illinois, and other candidates to win the Republican nomination. Anderson later entered the race as an independent candidate with the Democratic Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey as his running mate. Reagan won the nomination on the first round at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan, in July, and then chose George H. W. Bush, his top rival, as his running mate. Ronald Reagan campaigned for more defense spending, supply side economics, and a balanced budget. Carter said that Reagan was a right wing extremist who would cut Medicare and Social Security. John Anderson portrayed himself as a moderate Republican as an alternative to Reagan’s conservatism. He wanted to gain anti-Carter voters. The Libertarian Party nominated Ed Clark for President and David Koch for Vice President. They received almost one million votes and were on the ballot in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. Koch, a co-owner of Koch Industries, pledged part of his personal fortune to the campaign.  Carter saw high unemployment, high inflation, and the Iran hostage crisis. Jimmy Carter ran with his running mate Walter Mondale.  In August, after the Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan gave a campaign speech at the annual Neshoba County Fair on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. He was the first presidential candidate ever to campaign at the fair. Reagan famously announced, "Programs like education and others should be turned back to the states and local communities with the tax sources to fund them. I believe in states' rights. I believe in people doing as much as they can at the community level and the private level.” Reagan’s Southern Strategy approach was racist and disrespectful and it worked to convinced many voters to align with him. The truth is that there is nothing wrong with federal programs helping humanity. Reagan later claimed that he wanted civil rights enforcement by using economic zones to help with urban renewal (when he talked to the Urban League in NYC). The problem is that urban renewal doesn’t work and economic zones are slick privatized entities meant to benefit select corporations not the masses of the people. Reagan made gaffes too like falsely claiming that trees caused pollution. The debate of Reagan and Carter was important and highly watched. Reagan talking about if people were better off four years ago caused his poll numbers to increase among registered voters (from trailing Carter to leading). Leon Jaworski and Eugene McCarty endorsed Reagan plus the NRA. Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois in 1911. The election between Reagan and Carter was close until the only debate among the two men. 

The vast majority of the African American community opposed Ronald Reagan, because of his far right views, his hostility to the social safety net, and his appeals to racists overtly in trying to get votes from them. A small number of black conservatives and neoconservatives supported the Reagan campaign back then like Thomas Sowell, Dr. Nathan Wright (who was a conservative Black Power advocate), Walter E. Williams, and others. Even Ralph Abernathy supported Reagan in 1980 and then he rejected his support by 1984 (because of his record on civil rights and the economy). Mrs. Coretta Scott King took a firm stand against Reagan on ideological grounds. The NAACP and black establishment groups readily wanted Carter to be re-elected. 

These are some of the reasons for the Ronald Reagan landslide. Reagan won 50.7 percent of the popular vote.  Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. In the simultaneous Congressional elections, Republicans won control of the United States Senate for the first time since 1955. Carter won 41% of the vote but carried just six states and Washington, D.C. Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote, and he performed best among liberal Republican voters dissatisfied with Reagan. John Anderson found the most support in New England, fueled by liberal and moderate Republicans who felt Reagan was too far to the right and with voters who normally leaned Democratic but were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration. Reagan, then 69, was the oldest person to ever be elected president until Donald Trump's victory in 2016, who was 70. Carter and Reagan were Christians, but Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority lobbying group used their influence to cause Reagan to win two-thirds of the white evangelical vote. The election of 1980 showed the new electoral power of the Sun Belt and suburbs. Parties became more polarized. Many liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats either left parties or changed party affiliations. Carter’s own aides criticized him for not making an alternative economic plan when people knew of Reagan’s conservative economic plans. Carter’s moderate views and mixed record contributed to his defeat in 1980. The Republicans in 1980 dropped their once support of the ERA. The election of 1980 realigned many realities in America. Reaganism devastated many communities of America including the black community. 1980 was the beginning of not only right wing extremism further running amok in America. It also signaled a wake-up call for progressive forces that you can’t take anything for granted.



There was the recent New Year’s Eve’s “illuminati Ball.” This ball was inspired by the similar Rothschild-inspired ball decades ago. This recent New Year’s Eve ball deals with mock sacrifice, occult rituals, and glamorizing debauchery. This event took place on December 31st, 2018, and it had over 800 guests. This was the similar masked ball held by Baroness de Rothschild in 1972. This December 2018 ball had rituals, fake human sacrifices, and people wearing animal masks. The animal masks are similar to the scenes from Eyes Wide Shut where masked guests witnessed performances that deal with erotic, sexual rituals. This ball took place in The Weylin in Brooklyn, New York City. People in the Illuminati ball selected a mask from the Masking Room and then led to the Doomed Ballroom. They were welcomed by “Baron de Rothschild” or the Pig King. The Pig King stands in a circle of cloaked women. This performance was inspired by the orgy scenes in Eye Wide Shut. With the Pig King was his pregnant wife or the “Baroness de Rothschild” at which point gives birth to a bizarre creature. The pregnant Baroness gives birth to a pig in a gimp mask. The New Year’s Eve ball had rituals and initiations in many rooms and floors. They showed the themes of wealth, love, basic needs, fame, and respect. Some rituals use water like a mock-baptism too. Many people were blindfolded. One character named Kamadhenu or the cow goddess had four maidens walking around as guests milked them and tasted their milk. The New Years’ Eve ball also has a mock or fake cannibalism event. The event has a cake surrounding a person. The Illuminati Ball has their own logo. The rapper Prodigy was once at these balls to perform. Ironically, Prodigy wrote about the Illuminati in his music in criticizing the elites. The Illuminati Ball says that there aren’t the real Illuminati, there are no sex parties, they don’t worship Satan, and they just want to promote nature and positivity. The ball is filled with paganism and occult imagery. Symbols of the occult like the yellow inverted star looking like the logo of the Order of the Eastern Star (or the women’s version of Freemasonry) and other sigils. The website has a weird Commandment which is similar to the views of the Georgia Guidestones (which advocates for massive population control, etc.). The Georgia Guidestones are found in Georgia and was created by  Herbert Hinie Kersten. Cynthia von Buhler created the event. She is an artist and made children’s books. Her paintings have butterfly imagery on them. She is part of a band named the Women of Sodom. The ball is like the UNICEF Masked Ball (with masked people, rituals, and the like). The Illuminati Ball isn’t some quaint thing. It is about promoting the occult philosophies in public view. It is about allowing people to glamorize the myth of paganism as Nature isn’t divine and I rather worship the Creator than the creations of the Universe.



A lot of the new music today is different than music from five years ago. Trippie Redd’s Topanga has much symbolism and it is found in its music video. Like many videos of this generation, there is nothing secret about it. It is overt. Trippie Redd is part of the mumble rappers. These rappers are different from hip hop artists from previous generations.  Many mumble rappers have sincere creative music that talks about issues. Other mumble rappers just do it for the money and have no respect for the integrity of the music of hip hop. Some rap about pills and nihilism. Symbolism is found in the music videos of Lil Uzi Vert and Young Thug. Trippie Reid said that he is eccentric and an individualist. Back in 2017, Redd showed a song called TR666. He tattooed his hand with TR666 (with the All Seeing Eye on it). 666 is found in the Book of Revelation as the number of the Beast (i.e. the Antichrist). Also, 666 in occult circles is a reference as a sun symbol.  TR stands for Trippie Redd. Redd denies that 666 that he uses relates to the Antichrist, but the view of 6 protons, six neutrons, and 6 electrons and then he says that it’s a description about black people. 6 protons, 6 electrons, and 6 neutrons are found in Carbon-12. Carbon 12 is one of the five elements of human DNA. Carbon-12 is the more abundant of the two stable isotopes of the element carbon, accounting for 98.93 percent of carbon. Carbon-12 exists in all living human life. Therefore, the rapper Trippie Reid is referring to his 666 as a number of a man. Carbon is necessary for the development of DNA and living organisms. Redd has the inverted crosses (with the words of Demons at Play) as tattoos as well. An inverted cross has been used as a symbol of Satanism. He wore a shirt saying “Take me to hell, tell me it’s heaven” with a woman hugging the devil on the shirt. Even the album cover called Life is a Trip has symbolism and famous people on it like Freemason Benjamin Franklin. Trippie Redd’s song Topanga samples the 2006 gospel song It Ain’t Over by Maurette Brown Clark. The original gospel song has lyrics praising God. His song Topanga talked about him owning guns since he was a younger person and calling women outside of their names. The music video is directed by fashion photographer Kenneth Cappello. The video have horned animal skulls and Redd holding 2 snakes. Later, there is a scene of an inverted pentagram with candles and he’s surrounded by two women. Candles like this are used in ceremonial magic. These things are used in witchcraft too. Redd starts levitating in the video with robbed followers. Stories and myths of levitation are common among the occult world. There is one illustration from the 1681 book Saducismus Triumphatus showing a child levitating due to witchcraft. One disgraceful part of the video is when a young woman takes acid. Then, the person convulses and holding a snake. The end of the video has people wearing candles on their heads. This is in reference to Saint Lucy Day, which is a Catholic holiday. Redd’s followers have drawn on eyes being forcibly blind. The wreath of candles is thrown to the grown. There is no question that the director of this video wanted to show slick symbolism and advance occultism. Many of these musicians are pawns to advance the agenda of big corporations in order to strife real social change.





The Economist magazine recently showed a special edition that predicts trends for the future. The Economist is an establishment owned magazine. It is partly owned by the Rothschild banking family of England and its editor in chief John Micklethwait has visited the Bilderberg Conference many times. The Economist showed the views of the elite and their agenda in plain view. The cover has tons of symbolism on it. Back in 1988, the Economists called for a world currency called the Phoenix, which is found in occult teachings. The bird in that cover stands on a pile of burning national currencies. The World in 2019 cover from the Economist has imagery too. The article deals with a new Congress, Brexit, elections in various nations (like in India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and across Europe), and other issues. It features information about space travel, etc. The cover is the 33rd edition. The cover has Leonardo da Vinci to mark the 500th year anniversary of his death. The writing is featured backward since da Vinci wrote in mirror writing, so his words looked backwards. Many people theorize that da Vinci had occult leanings. The Vitruvian Man on the cover of the magazine was da Vinci’s famous sketch. It was meant to represent the ‘perfect man.’ The image deals with human proportions. In the occult, it represents the microcosm or the human body as the reflection of the whole universe or the macrocosm. This is about the hermetic principle of “As Above, So Below.” Da Vinci based his views on the works of the Roman architect Vitruvius. The image has the squaring of the circle which is a concept found in Freemasonry. Freemasons praise Vitruvius as an inspiration in their dogma. In fact, Freemason Dr. James Anderson’s first Book of Constitution (1723) uses the Five Orders of Greco-Roman designs which come from the Roman architect Vitruvius. In Masonry, the square is the body and the circle is the soul. Therefore, Freemasonry wants to harmonize the two worlds of the material world and the spiritual world in order to form the “perfected man.” The perfected man is one secret goal of the occult also. The godhood of humanity is promoted blatantly by pagans and New Agers. The logo of Freemasonry the square and compass too. The Economist shows the 2019 with night vision goggles and other objects. There is a baseball, a smartphone, and a leaf of cannabis. These images are funded by drug companies, big tech, and entertainment. The image has a double helix tattoo representing DNA. We know of DNA modification too. His heart has the tattoo of #Metoo. The #metoo movement has legitimately exposed many criminals and sick people while many big corporate powerful people have been exposed (in doing crimes against innocent people). It has a scale with 5 people versus 4 representing the Supreme Court being more conservative. The image has the face of Trump measured. The magazine has Putin, and the Four Horsemen. It has a stork with a barcode in a basket referencing to possibly designer babies. Therefore, the cover of The World in 2019 represents the occult symbolism and the views of the establishment. It looks at the world and pictures what could happen in the future. It wants humans to reach its full potential under the establishment direction and control. The ultimate question is to follow the elite or not. The answer is we shouldn’t follow the agenda of the elites, but the agenda of truth and of the common people. 

By Timothy