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Has countersemitism, broadly popular as you say, been able to articulate a way to oppose semitic hegemony to achieve political, cultural, and financial sovereignty? What does freedom look like and how do we arrive there?
I haven't even read some of the most prominent countersemitism experts, but there is a wide array of solutions.
I think most are focused on drawing awareness.
For example :
How seriously would Americans take impeachment proceedings if they were aware that a large majority of the key actors all belong to the same tiny minority of the population?
How much less would they trust the Biden administration if they knew how under-represented the average American is?
What's gonna happen to that small subset of the population if/when the economy/Ukraine war/etc come crashing down?
I think there's already been a lot of work done historically, I'm thinking of the yellow hat of the Middle Age or the real estate regulations of the Magna Carta.
But I think that a good starting point would be to simply investigate a lot of these power players just to see what is going because clearly there's been a lot of coverups going on, from Epstein and the other heroes of #MeToo era to even the bankers under Obama and beyond, or the warmongers under Bush.
There hasn't been a lot of accountability in all these rotten events.
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