From Lyle Johnstone’s Substack, candidate for Dist. 26
249 Years After the Founding, Idahoans Are Still Fighting Oligarchs—But Now They Wear Suits and Push Wind Turbines
Chaos is crisis, to some extent or another. Rahm Emanuel said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” How much of today’s chaos is deception or lies—deliberately designed by elites to force their change upon us? Lies come from one source: the ‘god’ of this world.
As Jesus said in John 8:44, “He was a murderer from the beginning… there is no truth in him… he is a liar and the father of lies.” Yet many, through one deception after another, follow him as the little-g god of this earth.
For those who celebrated and reflected on our nation’s founding this past July 4th—249 years of fighting oligarchs—we remember the Founding Fathers gave their lives, sacred honor, and fortunes so you and I could have a Republic, to live as free men and worship YHWH, the God of the Bible.
Today’s globalist crisis-makers are playing the same deception game, using the Hegelian Dialectic: they manufacture an issue (thesis), provoke an extreme reaction (antithesis), then propose a pre-planned solution (synthesis) that always advances their agenda. When was the last time you saw government actually cut spending? If, for example, we defund DEI or gender-dysphoria promotion, does the money stop flowing? Of course not—it just gets rerouted to another ‘budget priority.’
This is visible right here in Idaho. Consider our state budget chart for FY2015–FY2024:
Idaho’s state spending has nearly doubled in a decade, fueled by both state and federal money. Despite claims of “fiscal conservatism,” spending growth has become institutionalized—no real cuts, just new crises to justify bigger budgets.
Meanwhile, Jerome County P&Z recently met with a division of LS Power about building a 500 kV line through Nevada, across Twin Falls County, near my house, and across much of Jerome County to the North Point Substation. Chaos! This line was originally an Idaho Power project 30 years ago, left untouched, gathering dust—until Idaho Power sold it to LS Power, a company determined to cover southern Idaho with industrial wind turbines.
Ask yourself: Why the sudden rush? Exporting Idaho’s power out of state seems obvious—raising costs for Idahoans, even though we currently enjoy some of the cheapest electricity in the nation.
It gets worse: Idaho Power is at least 23% owned by BlackRock and Vanguard. Do you think Larry Fink’s priority is protecting Idahoans’ access to affordable electricity? Or is it maximizing shareholder profits? Our legislators and officials take campaign cash filtered through corporations like Idaho Power, ensuring citizen representation gets drowned out by corporate interests. If we keep electing corporate operatives, Idaho will be devoured by this machine.
Gateway West and SWIP Transmission Lines Must Be Halted
Idaho’s governor—who seems to answer to globalists more than Idahoans—should stop AI data centers, not create committees to promote them without our approval. Massive AI data centers (Meta, Google) need enormous power and water, both of which Idaho is already short on. These AI servers will gulp our electricity and water—leaving Idahoans with shortages while lining corporate pockets.
Idaho’s cities and state government hand out water rights to new builds and expansions for these corporations despite years of warnings about looming water shortages. Meanwhile, more people, more sewage, more housing, more schools—all while our limited resources are siphoned away. Corporations keep extracting Idaho’s wealth, offering low-wage jobs that barely sustain families, not enriching Idaho communities.
Corporate Fascism or Citizen Liberty?
Our government—local to state—often seems to fight against its citizens to protect corporate interests, instead of fighting with us to keep Idaho free from corporate fascism. For example, Jerome P&Z is letting a 30-year-old special-use permit stand because they’re afraid of lawsuits—instead of protecting citizens, their homes, fields, and public lands.
“For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the DESPOTISMS, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.” (Ephesians 6:12, AMP)
Do we citizens decide to free ourselves from these elected despotisms? Or do we just mumble “I will not participate” while they steamroll our communities? The truth is there’s rarely “I can’t”—it’s that we don’t act.
We are truly back at a revolutionary moment: an oligarchy of corporate fascist kings vs. free citizens. Do we let them run us over?
THERE ARE MILLIONS MORE OF US THAN THEM! The ‘british’ are here lets kick them out again!!!!
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Lyle is running against Rep. Jack Nelsen
