Tom Strabo > Quotes

“Modern armies all follow the Spartan pattern. If you want to overcome adversity, you must constantly rehearse encountering adversity. Then, when real adversity arrives, you know how to deal with it, and you are not fazed by it.”
― Tom Strabo, Donald J. Trump: The American Pericles?

“Every American suffers from the fantasy that the “American Dream” is about to touch them with its magical golden scepter and elevate them into the stars, where they will live as gods. Of course, most of them end up in the gutter, in the company of every possible demon.”
― Tom Strabo, National Capitalism: How to Save America

“National capitalism is the ultimate expression of community capitalism. The whole nation is regarded as the community to be served by capitalism. Capitalism is for everyone, not for the 1%. Laissez-faire capitalism, i.e. predatory free-market capitalism, is external to democracy and the elected government. It is run by and for the private elite, the 1%. The 99% are left to rot. National capitalism reverses this. It’s all about serving the 99%. The 99% always come first. Under national capitalism, the interests of the 1% are no priority whatsoever. This is therefore the opposite of the situation that pertains today.”
― Tom Strabo, National Capitalism: How to Save America

“Keyserling said that sport puts an exceptional valuation on the body. Look at how rich sports stars are, and look, by contrast, at how poor academics are. No one puts value on the mind, on intellect. It’s not held in esteem in our society. A society that worships moronic sports stars and loathes intelligent people is finished. The greatest and most powerful nation on earth is the one that assigns more value to intelligence than anything else. Sports stars don’t land men on the moon. Clever people do. Sports stars are just entertainers who are good at performing absurd, arbitrary games, with absurd, arbitrary rules, invented by bored humans, and usually involving a ball, a field and posts.”
― Tom Strabo, The Deplorables: Trump's Army

“Strength is required, not weakness. The bold are required, not the timid. The radical are required, not the liberal.”
― Tom Strabo, Donald Trump: The American Caesar

“The properly constituted State is the servant of the people at all times, the guarantor of the Commonwealth, and the means through which every citizen is optimized. To oppose the State, as anarchists do, is to oppose the People themselves. The State is the People.”
― Tom Strabo, National Capitalism: How to Save America

“Capitalism rules democracy and capitalism is never subject to any election. No capitalist is elected by the people or accountable to the people. Markets aren’t elected or accountable, corporations aren’t elected or accountable, banks aren’t elected or accountable, dynastic families aren’t elected or accountable. Everything that wields genuine power in America is deliberately, intentionally kept segregated by the strongest possible firewalls from elections, democracy and the will of the people.”
― Tom Strabo, Donald J. Trump: The American Pericles?

“Being “nice” is not the bedrock of America achievement. It never has been and it never will be. Being “nice” is what will surely destroy us. Our enemies aren’t nice. While they’re getting harder, tougher, leaner and smarter, we’re getting softer, weaker, fatter and dumber. There can be only one winner.”
― Tom Strabo, The Deplorables: Trump's Army

“If America looks like a plutocracy, has the wealth distribution of a plutocracy, and blatantly operates in the interests of plutocrats, it’s a plutocracy. America has about as much in common with democracy as Communist China, or Oligarchic Russia, or the Monarchic United Kingdom.”
― Tom Strabo, National Capitalism: How to Save America

“Matter and machines make everyone in the world the same. Keyserling saw a process of worldwide conformity unfolding. Things are much worse now than in his day. Soon, everyone will have a smartphone, be linked to the same network (the internet), and be indistinguishable. Nationhood has died. Spirit has died. The soul is missing. Can we ever get it back again?”
― Tom Strabo, The Deplorables: Trump's Army

“Spartans tended to be silent, or say very little. They were encouraged to give answers that were as short as possible, a style called “Laconic” (since the Spartans came from Laconia). The Spartans would have been amazing users of Twitter. Their tweets would have been supremely concise, abrupt and rude. They made short answers into an art form. The ideal was to produce just one-word answers to devastate their enemies.”
― Tom Strabo, Donald J. Trump: The American Pericles?