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What We Are Fighting For: Adventures that show more than curiosity

I don’t do it often, but sometimes the occasion is right, which is undoubtedly the case here.  I recently did a little article on one of my daughters who had just started a line of coffee that complimented her art business.  While doing the video for that daughter, I talked a bit about my other daughter, who, at that time, was at Loch Ness with her family doing neat things.  Out of curiosity, many people have asked me about elements of my personal life, including my kids.  They must not know what to think about the kind of children I would have raised, expecting something outlandish to come from me.  So, there is a lot of curiosity about the type of people who would come out of my family, not to take anything away from their attributes as individuals.  But to say the least, I am proud of my kids.  Life isn’t always easy, but they handle themselves well and are good people.  I expect that out of them, but given the various doubts about how to have a good family and raise good kids, there are many curious people.  While those questions have been coming in, my oldest daughter returned from her trip to Scotland with her husband and their son (one of my grandsons), and they cut together a nice video of their trip.  And when I say that, I’d say it’s not just a regular home video of their many adventures, but done with a professional flair with the idea of maybe starting a YouTube travel channel kind of show.  They travel a lot, their 7th trip of the year, and spent two solid months on the road going to various places.  Their trip to Scotland, much of it shown in the video, was several weeks in November and was interesting enough to show off here so people could see a bit about my family in a nonpolitical setting to satisfy their curiosities. 

I like my family, and if given a choice, we often travel together.  We were with her on most of the seven trips I mentioned that my oldest daughter had been on this past year.  My wife and I took a few trips, especially regarding competitive shooting schedules.  I have another daughter and more grandkids often included in these trips.  I prefer to have them all come, including their dogs, lizards, and whatever else is part of our family.  Just before the trip to Scotland, we spent the end of September together in Florida at Disney World.  Before that, I had just returned from Japan, which followed several other weeks in places like Mammoth Cave and Land Between the Lakes.  With all that I write here, it’s a small part of my life, as there is always a lot going on, and everything moves quickly.  But I think the pace and the amount of things we all do together showed well in my daughter’s video on Scotland.  My son-in-law and my grandson even excitingly contributed to the video, illustrating what a pleasant, healthy family experience should look like.  When I watched the video, it reminded me of what is essential in all these adventures.  And I was proud of them for living outside the box and showing what a good life and family look like.  Which, as a parent, is all you want for your kids. 

All my grandchildren are homeschooled by their parents, my kids.  And on these trips my oldest daughter views as homeschool experiences.  Even though they were traveling, they still had school on the road.  When they travel in their RV within the states, they often set up a class for a few hours per day in a little room while on the road.  In that way, education is always the key to travel, learning many new things, and treating every day like a field trip to an exotic location.  So literally, as my youngest daughter was doing a video with me about her new line of coffee, my oldest was at Loch Ness touching the water there, as shown in the video, which puts a bit of continuity to the various conversations where little bits of my personal life spill out for the audience to see.  All this reminded me of how inferior the public school experience is compared to what we do as a family.  It always reminded me how little we value the public education graduation experience, as my kids spent their senior years in high school in Europe.  They graduated, of course, but they left school early to get to living life, which has always been essential for me.  They never missed that public school experience, which has carried over into adulthood.  They are unique people, and I would argue they are much better prepared for life than most people coming out of the public school experience.  Additionally, my wife was an honor student in school until she met me.  When we were dating, I told her how stupid the whole school experience was, and she graduated early, just like her daughters, without going to her formal graduation with the cap and gown ceremony.  On the day she was supposed to graduate, she and I were on a road trip, traveling very fast on our own journey during a romantic getaway. 

The point here is this: people assume that my position on things, especially very conservative politics, might produce little monsters of anti-compliance. Instead, I would say my approach to parenting made very thoughtful young people who know how to get around safely in the world.  And to get up in the morning, always looking to expand their intellects.  It’s not always apparent as kids go through their biological progression, but once things settle into their thirties, you see what neat people they often grow up to be.  And in the case of my kids on that Scotland trip, I am very proud of them for being good people in a big world, showing that they are in control and not being swept away by it.  Traveling in that style is no big deal for them, and I think people would be interested in their travel channel on YouTube.  We indeed take enough trips to make it enjoyable.  That was the first time she approached the subject as a travel vlog with full commentary.  Which I thought was very good. But it reminded me of the skills it takes to live such a life and how grateful I am that we did not listen to all the noisy people who tried to get us to raise our children like all the other poor kids running on the treadmill of public school and going through the ridiculous motions of college life.  My kids shown in that video have been married for around 15 years, which often shocks people.  They are good, solid people with good jobs, a good work ethic, a nice home, and the ability to create a functional family.  And it’s nice for me to see them doing good things.  And for the curious who wonder, it’s fun for them too. 

Rich Hoffman

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Getting Away into Natural Bridge, Kentucky: The ultimate kind of Rebellion, Kindness, and Defiance

April is my birthday month and is always a positive benchmark for me. It’s always been my favorite month with all the life that returns from a long winter, and I always use the month as my own gauge into successes that need to be celebrated and things that need to be improved. But as a treat to myself, I wanted to go on a camping trip to Natural Bridge with as many of my family who could go and get off the grid for a few days in a place I grew up enjoying. My grandparents were from that region of Slade, Kentucky; during prohibition, my grandpa and his family ran moonshine, which I respect. I view moonshine differently than drug dealing for several reasons, even though I dislike intoxication of any kind all the time. I like to see independent and free people pushing back against a tyrannical government, and during prohibition, the government was out of control and deserved to have pushback, and that my grandfather and his father certainly did. Currently, we have a very dangerous government that is way beyond acceptable tyrannical tolerance, so for my birthday, I wanted to revisit a state park from my youth nicely nestled in the foothill mountains of the Appalachians and recharge. Over the last few years, my favorite mode of travel has been RV camping, so I wanted to take ours and live out of it for a few days, which is precisely what we did, and it was a wonderful experience. One of my sons-in-law brought their own camper, so we had a nice little family get-together down in the hills of Natural Bridge, Kentucky, and get away from the government for a bit.

Slade, Kentucky, where the Natural Bridge State Park and the world-famous Red River Gorge are located, is unusual because they have a particular hostility toward big government. Many census takers have found it impossible to do their job because the local residents simply don’t like government. So when you want to get away from big government and deal with people in a traditional Christian background setting in the Bible Belt, there aren’t many places in the world better. I’ve been to Natural Bridge a lot over my life, especially as a little kid. It’s been about ten years since my last visit. It’s not that it’s hard to get to; it’s very close to Cincinnati, Ohio, where I live. But my schedule has been busy; since my last visit, I have traveled around the world a few times, been to many countries, and experienced unique cultures. My opinion about the Slade, Kentucky region isn’t for lack of knowing anything else. But instead, it’s because I’ve seen a lot of other places that I appreciate that one of the best travel destinations there is, in my opinion, one that I knew well from my youth, was literally in my own backyard. It was a lucky experience to have, out of all the places in the world I could have gone, to have such a relationship with literally one of the best places there is. Our camping trip was wonderful, we had a nice campsite nestled in the hills, and we lived off the bare minimums and were able to let the world go for a bit, which was the present I wanted to give myself this year for a well-deserved birthday.

My wife and I started RV camping during Covid, and we will likely never do anything else again. I like hauling around my hotel room, bathroom, and refrigerator. It makes traveling so much better to step away from the grid as much as possible. I have a TV in my RV that we can stop and have a snack to take a break from driving and relax. Camper traveling with an RV has been a great experience, so doing that kind of camping at Natural Bridge brought together parts of the world that are favorites. It was all a gratifying experience. A lot of my family was able to come along, so it was nice to be around them and celebrate life while stepping away from the world of problems that traditionally come from government interference in our lives. Living out of a camper for a week in April of 2023 was enormously rewarding and recharged my spirit considerably. As a family, we had a good trip, and we were all grateful to have it. 

My wife and I had an interesting experience, a few actually, but one that reminded us just how good the world is without government in it. And people still live and get along without the stupid government imposing themselves into our lives. People left alone by government tend to do the right things without having a parental authoritarian in the form of government looming over our shoulders. For example, we went into town for some ingredients for smores and other snacks. And one of the items we needed was more firewood. So we were going to pick some up from a gas station down by the Mountain Parkway with a nice store. But the nice clerk there was a mountain woman from Appalachia, of course, and she told us that the wood that the gas station was selling was too expensive and you didn’t get very much. So she told us to go down the road around 400 yards to a tire mechanic with a little shed behind a Subway restaurant. He was selling a whole-wheel barrel of firewood for ten bucks. So we went down there to see him, and he loaded us up with firewood for our campsite. He had a rough mountain man accent; I would have needed subtitles to understand what he said. But we paid him the ten dollars, and he gave me a very large wheel barrel of wood to load into the back of our hatchback.

We couldn’t understand each other, but we quickly became good friends. That region is famous for many campfires, so he has many customers for his little enterprise due to the many campers who come to climb the world-famous Red River Gorge. It’s kind of a hippie culture, the rock climbers. More libertarian than anything. We probably wouldn’t agree on presidential picks or even drug usage. But we all do share a love of independence. Many of them come and camp with four people in a one-person dome tent with hundreds of others who can barely rub two dimes together in their pockets. And I find them refreshing, especially at Miguel’s Pizza, where they hang out. I’ve had pizza from everywhere, and the pizza they have at Miguel’s is a real treat. It was wonderful to pick some of it up and take it back to our campsite, where I had my reading chair set up next to the fire as all the kids played and enjoyed each other, and I had a stack of books to read well into the night as the sun set outlining the mountain tops and the dark sky stars made themselves obvious. It was a nice place to be, and it was certainly a great birthday present for me. No matter how much money you throw at recreation, it never gets better than that. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Need 16 Billion People, Not just 8: The genocide from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum that desire a much lower number

I’m prepared to call it what it is, what we are dealing with on planet earth, and that is a cult of death, a purposeful genocide to kill the perceived enemy over the classic motivation of religious persecution, that is essentially as old as time. And the intent comes from the Desecrators of Davos, the members of the World Economic Forum who have an occult love for Mother Earth and wish to remove any perceived threats to it to satisfy their view of the world. Bill Gates comes to mind when thinking about this subject because he is on record for wanting to reduce the earth’s population to help make a more sustainable world. And this is the same kind of language we hear from the United Nations, a more “sustainable world.” Well, sustainable for who, and who will decide such things for us? Who are they to decide on what is sustainable or not relative to what you or I might think? And what you will find when you ask that question is that Gates and many others, such as the people who built the Georgia Guidestones or created the art at the Denver airport, show an obvious apocalypse. Many of the images that foretold the government’s approach to Covid-19 many years before it happened, as if it were a plot against humanity, the intent by those serving the cult of Earth Worship are purposely committing genocide against the world’s population in all the classic ways that those intentions have been utilized throughout history. And now that it has been announced that there are 8 billion people on earth, those factions are expressing themselves with increased desperation, which has given away their game plan all along. 

Before calling it genocide and the intentional murder of billions of people, the climate change activists behind the earth worship movement are seeking to reduce the earth’s population to much less to take the pressure off the earth and its support of human beings. They view it as thinning the population to benefit earth. Certainly not for the humans who live on it. I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last few years, especially due to what we learned about the Phizer vaccines and the government’s role in forcing its consumption to shorten people’s lifespans dramatically.  (Moderna is no better)  You may or may not have noticed that reported deaths are getting lower, where people dying in their 50s and 60s are increasing in our post-Covid world. There has been a flood of Tik Tok celebrities and other notable young people in their 20s and 30s who are dropping dead for no apparent reason. The media is reporting it as if it were a naturally occurring thing. The perception of saving every life until that life can’t live any longer has changed to deciding how long is enough. If a person gets elderly and is going to put too much of a burden on a country’s health care system, then it makes sense to let them just die with assisted suicide, from the point of view of these kinds of people. There has been a decided shift in sentiment towards life and death by this earth worship cult, and the cover for them has been the bioweapon that Covid was. Remember what I always said from the beginning: Covid was a bioweapon created in a lab in China, Wuhan. It was distributed around the world to control human populations by the governments controlled by the Desecrators of Davos, who hide behind their billionaire fortunes and spend their money on their religion of earth worship and the destruction of threats they perceive are happening to that world. The Covid virus gave the means to inject the population with dangerous medicine that is having an effect on lifespans, and the blame will then go to other factors instead of the actual villain, which essentially is a form of religious genocide that is just as dangerous, and likely, more dangerous than any previous attempt in world history.

My conclusions on the matter have been in thinking about the original dispute over the land of Israel when God promised the people of Moses freed from Egypt the land of Abraham. God had promised the Israelites the complete destruction of the people of Canaan and that he would pave the way for their occupation of the land. And why Canaan? Well, because of the nakedness that Ham had witnessed in Noah for which Canaan, Noah’s grandson, had to pay for the wrath of what looks to have been a sexual assault case of Ham against Noah while the elder was drunk, sons against the father. And so the people of Canaan were forever the target of that wrath by God, and they deserved to be eradicated by any means necessary. From there, many holocausts have occurred that have been justified by religious persecution using the Bible as justification, such as Cortez destroying the Aztecs and Mayas, the foundation of America as a country against the Indians, or the Catholic Church destroying Protestants, or any trace of the Gnostics. And to this day, different versions of the Abraham religions are at war with each other at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. So from that perspective, people who see the human race as a virus to the world energies of planet Earth could easily say they did it, so we are justified to apply the same techniques back in their direction. Which when you talk to those types of people at a dinner party, like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and their cult of doom in Davos, those are the kinds of justifications they have for abortion, for mandated vaccines, and government-imposed violence for which they pull the strings with finance. 

So we must fight them knowing what they intend, and regarding the earth’s population, I would argue that we need twice as many, 16 billion, or even more. The earth is here to serve the human race, not the other way around and our job as a species is to get off the planet before something happens that will destroy the earth anyway, like some naturally occurring cataclysm floating around in space that has killed many planets not just in our own solar system, but throughout our galaxy and others. If Elon Musk’s political attitude has made a noticeable shift over this same period of time, it’s clear that he understands the math. Human beings need to be growing as a population, not retracting. To move into space, we need a lot more humans to expand our economies with more products to make it possible to do such an ambitious thing. And he can see that government-imposed controls will not allow that to happen. So he is working in that direction these days, towards more freedom for more people and divorcing himself from the China model, which has been at the core of the Desecrators of Davos strategy for many decades. The goal of governments is to make things easier on them, which means fewer people to manage, especially if the Desecrators of Davos rig elections and those are the masters they learn they must serve to stay in power. But everything points back to the same essential problem that we must name to gain the ability to solve the problem, its genocide that the World Economic Forum has in mind, and they are looking at history as its justification. Now, I can make an argument in favor of the Israelites and for Christianity in general, and we certainly will in the coming months and years. But for now, understand that the fight of the day is for the United Nations types who worship climate change and, in general, the ancient gods of earth worship, to reduce the world population from what it is now, over 8 billion people. For the pro-growth types, 8 billion isn’t near enough. But the climate change fanatics want the number to be under 4 billion, and they are willing to commit genocide through many methods to get there. 

Rich Hoffman

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How Will Electric Vehicles Pull RV Trailers: Climate religious fanatics want to get rid of gas-powered cars, but electric cars aren’t powerful enough for American lifestyles

Videos like the one shown of Castle Rock at St. Ignace, Michigan, would not be possible without the RV lifestyle that is such a big deal in my family. I like my family, my kids, the grandkids, the sons-in-law, my wife, and our dogs, I love it, and we make several trips a year, generally to some remote part of the country to see what is unique there and to return with some spectacular experience and good memories. Recently we took our various RVs to St. Ignace, which I considered an easy drive from Cincinnati. We’ve been on trips where we would do 600 miles per day, breaking camp in the morning and stopping many miles later only to pitch camp wherever that might be. And we would do that for days on end, especially traveling out West. We’ve been on trips out West where not only my whole family but members of the extended family were traveling together in a convoy of RVs, and it’s quite a cool way to see the world yet still have all the familiarity of home. Campgrounds for RVs are unique places with like-minded people who are there for all the same reasons, so the experience is usually always very good. It’s really a great thing to be able to take your home with you while traveling. But the St. Ignace trip to that region of America was what I considered close. We left in the morning and pitched our camp for dinner while family members trickled in at their convenience. And it was in that way that we were able to go see many interesting things in that local region, like Castle Rock, together. 

Usually, on these kinds of trips, I set up a little mobile office outside the camper because I typically get up way before everyone else. And at that little location, I have a little refrigerator and power for my computers, and I can also catch the news. So during that trip, there was a lot of talk on the news about electric cars and California imposing new rules that by 2035 they would make it so that only electric cars would be allowed on their roads. As I looked around from my little portable office at some of the big rigs, the Class As and Cs, and many large trailers like luxury yachts on wheels, I wondered how that would work. Obviously, the people saying such things about electric cars didn’t understand the “trailer” markets in transportation and how important they were to American life, or they just didn’t care. If you stand along a highway and count cars, you will find that about every 15th vehicle is pulling some kind of trailer, whether it’s an RV, a boat, or landscapers dragging around their lawn mowing business. Trailers are a big part of American life. And electric cars can hardly keep up with the needs of just one vehicle traveling more than a few hundred miles. The technology for electric cars isn’t even close to being good enough to hold a charge for a sustainable distance, let alone pulling  a trailer while traveling. When we travel with our RV, we get around 12 miles per gallon, which many would consider great. Some of the big trucks get under 10 miles per gallon, which climate activists find reprehensible. But Americans who prefer to travel with an RV are quite happy to pay for the bad gas mileage because it gets them off the grid enough to relax. There is nothing like stopping for gas and using your own restroom, getting drinks out of your own refrigerator, or doing like my wife and I did at a Cabela’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when we didn’t want to waste time on the road to eat at a sit-down restaurant, we just ate in our camper kitchen in the parking lot. I had to stop by and get some shotgun primers, and we were eager to get back on the road. The RV lets us live that way, and it’s one of the best ways to travel that you can imagine. 

I think it’s fair to say that my wife and I have traveled all over the world using all possible means. We’ve had a little bicycle cart pull us along in Paris, we’ve flown in big luxury aircraft, traveled in first-class seats overseas, by train, boat, and everything you can imagine. But there is nothing better than RV travel, and Americans, a lot of Americans, love their RVs. Electric cars cannot pull an RV trailer. If California ever does make it illegal to travel with anything but an electric vehicle, they will hamper their economy to ridiculous levels. They obviously haven’t thought things through, or they think they can eradicate the RV market because they hate it and think they’ll get away with it. But that is a terrible miscalculation. The kind of people who travel by RV are willing to get terrible gas mileage to take their homes with them on a trip because they want to be away from liberals and their liberal grid while on vacation. Campsite owners get it; RV campers like to be left alone. They don’t want a housekeeper. They don’t want to interact with people in the hotel lobby; every time they want to leave. They don’t want to be bothered, and any attempt to take that freedom away from them will result in very destructive political discourse.

The way we like to travel, even with gas behind much more than with just a regular car, is far cheaper. Otherwise, we would have to pay to be entirely on the grid of the Liberal World Order, the hotels, the restaurants, the toll roads, and everything we would do while on a trip we’d have to pay for. Then multiply that times the number of people we usually travel with, which is ten or more people, and you’d have a travel bill of ten to twenty thousand dollars. With the RV, a trip to St Ignace is just a few thousand dollars, which is much more practical, especially if you plan to do it several times a year. Liberals, the climate lunatics who make up all these proposed stupid rules, don’t like families either, so if something they do destroys the American family, they consider it a bonus. But before that happens, the people who use RV travel to vacation away from the Liberal World Order, the TSA agents at airports, the womb to tomb hotel accommodations where your personal space is constantly under siege by noisy people, always waiting in line for restaurants to serve you three meals a day for a week or two, and suddenly travel isn’t worth it. And places like St. Ignace would suffer significantly because it’s only because of RV travel that my family would have considered going there for vacation.   Because of RV travel, we can take the family to many such locations that otherwise wouldn’t get any attention. So this proposal for electric cars attacks more than just the gas-powered transportation industry; it attacks the basic needs that Americans have to engage in travel and adventure. To go to places like the cheesy tourist trap Castle Rock. Which would be terrible because out of all the cool places that we went, when the grandkids and my kids think back on the good memories of our vacation together, it will be the spontaneous stops like we had at Castle Rock that they remember most. And that is what is at threat through the stupidity of liberalism most and why their proposals must be defeated in every way possible at the ballot box.  

Rich Hoffman

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The Vote of RV Culture: What it means to future elections

A year ago, my wife and I were at the pool store getting items to open our pool when she convinced me to stop by an RV store to look at RVs, which she secretly hoped to persuade me to buy.  I reported on how many Trump supporters I met at the RV store both in front and behind the sales counter and I learned really quick that due to Covid, election fraud, and a general hatred of liberalism, the RV market was my kind of place.  The people buying them, the campgrounds all over the country, and even the roadside pull-offs where RVs parked together to catch a break were like Trump political rallies everywhere there were RVs.  Now, 10,000 miles later, I can report that I understand the RV culture well, really well.  I have since been to most states in the country and have learned a lot about the Trump voter and the anger behind the movement that transcends President Trump himself.  On one of our very first trips just before the election of 2020 in Ashville, North Carolina, I was a little shocked to see Trump flags on many of the RVs parked at the KOA there and wondered if they might offend others at the campground.  The answer was that very few RVers supported anybody but President Trump.  If there were Biden supporters, they were a very quiet bunch because I would see the same behavior over the next year in nearly every state.  If there were 80 million people who voted for Joe Biden as they say he had in the last election, those votes did not come from Americans.  They came from made-up cheated ballots of dead people, Chinese infiltration, and scandalous schemes of passing out the free crack to voters down and out who didn’t even know there was an election going on. 

Yet I just returned from a massive multistate trip out west from Deadwood to Vernal, Utah, and all kinds of places in between before cutting back across Denver, Kansas City, then back to Cincinnati.  Gas prices were escalating by the day due to Joe Biden’s incompetency or deliberate malice.  And I have seen more RVs on the road than I ever have in my life.  Reporting from the road, I have yet to see a single supporter of Joe Biden anywhere, yet along the nation’s highways, there are many Trump signs, including one just outside of St. Louis saying in big letters, TRUMP WON.  At the start of 2020, after the depressing election theft we saw, after the January 6th debacle where Mike Pence failed to kick the election back to the states and the trouble that ensued due to hurt feelings, and the constant reminder that a Civil War could break out at any moment, my wife and I took to the road to sort things out. I can say after all those mentioned miles; I get what’s going on.  All too well.  I see it clearly, and it all started when we bought our RV with many thousands of other Trump supporters who were preparing for a cold winter in America that would last an entire election cycle.  And this war wasn’t with guns or even protests.  It was with people taking to the road to get away from government in their own little hotel rooms that were out of touch from the infrastructure of the travel industry which government so greatly influenced intrusively. 

As we took these big trips across the nation, gas prices have steadily increased as the Biden administration did its intentional damage.  Those who don’t know RVs get about 6 miles per gallon, where a super-efficient SUV like what we drive gets about 11 miles per gallon.  I had a guy in Texas nearly faint as he pulled up next to me at the gas pump to report he was getting 5 miles per gallon.  I told him that I had the wind to our back at that moment, and I was being pushed along a bit at 70 miles per hour, and we were getting 15 MPG.  With gas prices out West in Utah and Idaho currently at $3.35 and traveling 5,400 miles on just this last trip, you can do the math.  It’s expensive to travel by RV.  Add to that the campgrounds cost about a third of what a local hotel room would cost and the cost between flying and using lodging with rental cars is about the same as driving an RV everywhere.  However, with the RV, you can get to specific places that you can’t get to with airplanes, like the National Parks, and you can take your room with you.  We had the same bedroom in Idaho as we do in our driveway, and there is the sense of always having your home with you that you get with a profoundly satisfying RV.  

Now for our clan, the cost of a trip like that was about $500 per day.  It was worth every penny because the experiences were so unusual.  But what did shock me is that we were nowhere near alone.  I had thought that with the gas prices, fewer people would be with us on the road.  Instead, there were crowds of people in RVs everywhere we went.  Whether it was the World’s Largest Truck Stop in Iowa or Wall Drug in South Dakota, there were RVs around and people willing to spend the high costs of driving them despite the gas prices.  I thought of government manipulators like Cass Sunstein. They have shown that the government says it can change behavior among human beings in the same way that mice are led through a maze in pursuit of cheese, with financial incentives that steered the mind where the government wanted people to go through rules, regulations, and cost.  But after what I saw, I don’t think people would stop using RVs even with gas prices up over $5 per gallon.  The experience of taking an RV on a trip wasn’t about the cost for most people; it was purely about freedom, which is why we had bought ours last year with the Covid lockdowns at the height of their power.   The government had let down so many people that the trust was gone forever, and gone too was the travel infrastructure which had changed politically over the last few years into something nobody seems to have foreseen.

Personally, buying an RV was one of the smartest things my wife and I have ever done.  We didn’t plan when we bought it to take it all over the United States within a year of the purchase—but having it has inspired us to take those long, less apparent trips to places that aren’t so easy to get to by air travel.  The independence from the grid of travel that RVs provide is more than worth the cost.  But more than anything is the sense that we can function away from government regulation as much as possible. In contrast, a hotel room and air travel are just too heavily regulated.  If costs are similar, and by the time you go through the TSA lines, you could drive to most places in America, then the independence of the RV makes them very attractive to the type of people who voted for Trump.  People who value free will and a lack of government oversight.  This, to me, says a lot about what Americans are about, which is not picked up in any poll or survey.  The political left doesn’t understand what is about to happen to them.  That much is clear. 

Rich Hoffman

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We Bought an RV: Finding Trump’s “Silent Majority” where government isn’t

Its always been a thing for me, mobile living. For as long as I can remember, which is well back to 1 and 2 years of age, I have been attracted to the idea of a home on wheels. But life is what it is, and until recently, it just didn’t fit my lifestyle. I’ve either been too busy, or it was just not financially practical to even think about getting an RV. I’ve been all over the world and stayed in some of the very best hotels that anybody has ever made and that has left me hungry to see more of my own country, especially after the terrible way that Democrats have treated it during the 2020 elections. Presently, I don’t know if I ever want to travel out of the country again and yearn to see all the great things that are in America that I haven’t yet seen. And for many of those opportunities I now have grandchildren that I want to give those opportunities to so that has had me thinking of buying an RV for a while now. First on my mind was to save up and get a large Class A, which is more the way I like to live. The trailer RVs just didn’t have the kind of space inside that I expect. So that put the project off for a few years, until my wife and I recently went to Disney World.

That trip was a bit of a scouting trip and after doing the hotel experience there we quickly figured out that if we ever want to bring our larger family along, that the hotels just weren’t the way to go, it was not only too expensive, but getting food and a decent place to sleep just wasn’t’ practical. The hotels in Disney were just too busy for a large family and we came back from that trip looking for options. It was fun for the two of us, but coordinating a large family just wasn’t good for that kind of travel. Then a few months later Covid-19 came along. Regardless of the political motive the government mandated masks and rules of the house at a hotel were suddenly extremely unattractive so that opened my mind up to buying a smaller RV now and using it to get to some of the harder to reach places in the country, places that the larger Class As had a hard time getting to. But for my lifestyle, I need an office where I can work and communicate professionally, so I had to solve that problem as well.

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I went through a similar process about a decade ago when I bought a big cruiser motorcycle and started riding it all over the country packing a tent on the back and camping wherever I felt like when I got tired. It was a good way to see things and I enjoyed it and learned a lot about the motorcycle culture and what kind of Americans they really were. A few years ago while I was off to a very important meeting and couldn’t be late, I was hit by another driver and it totaled my beautiful motorcycle which disappointed me greatly. (I still made it to my meeting even with a broken wrist and a lot of blood on my clothes by the way) And I haven’t yet replaced that motorcycle but now my life is a lot more complicated. My family is a lot bigger and you can’t pack all of them on a motorcycle and ride around. So that drove me to return to that camping life again, but this time with air conditioning, refrigerators and all the comforts of home without the heat of humid nights and no way to lock up a tent. As my wife and I started shopping for RVs we quickly found out where all those silent majority Trump people were hiding. They were camping and buying RVs. And much to my surprise, I learned some new things about people in this process, and I found a much stronger heartbeat to America than I thought was possible.

The RV we ended up getting was perfect for us, the floorplan was great. It had all the big room of the Class A I wanted in the kitchen and dining area, but it was small enough to get down the sharpest switchback roads and most remote campsites. And it sleeps 8, which is something I personally need with my crew. We bought it at the end of May and much to my surprise, there was an all summer long backorder because a lot of people were thinking the same thing I was, they were tired of the overregulation of hotel travel and government mandates and they wanted free of them. So this year has been a record sales year for the RV market and I certainly understand it. We were going to buy one anyway but the timing of all the Covid nonsense certainly sealed the deal for us. I want to be off the grid, I want to see my country, but I don’t want to do it by a lot of stupid rules. I want the fewest burdens possible and I want to share all that with my family. With all that said, the people at Couch’s RV Nation in Trenton were great. I enjoyed working with them and I found more Trump supporters in this process than even I thought were out there. I was amazed at how many actually, not a statistic they are publishing on the news.

What I learned this summer as Covid-19 was used politically to ruin peoples lives and try to keep them from enjoying life was that people did what they always do, what I do especially, they find a way around the problem and that will destroy much of the travel industry as a result—due to government intrusion. But RV sales are way up, travel money will still be spent, just not where it traditionally was and that is the lesson that government should reach as a result of 2020. While much of the world is still shut down I was able to go to Wal-Mart and buy a very unique 30 amp converter because the free market still operates in spite of government efforts, and my life will go on without the government regulated structure of hotels, restaurants or even amusement parks. There are a lot of other things to do, and people are finding their way to them. People will go where the government isn’t, which is the story of the suburbs isn’t it? Protesters trying to attack Trump voters are trying to move out into the suburbs because people are just leaving the cities, and they are finding that the world is a lot bigger than Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. And that’s where you find the Trump voters, in RVs, in boats, at shooting ranges, rodeos—wherever the stench of progressive socialists aren’t. And that experience has calmed my mind down a lot about the nature of human beings. I have met some really good people in our RV buying experience and can see clearly that life on the road will be much of the same, which gives me a lot of optimism for the future.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior

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