This op-ed was originally published in the Substack titled “Brutus” on December 3rd, 2022.

Through basic observation, we all know that certain types of industries attract different classes and kinds of people with different beliefs and politics. The oil, mining, and raw material production industries are comprised mostly of conservative blue-collar, middle-class men.  To the contrary, the tech “economy” is comprised mostly of liberal Subaru-driving mountain lesbians and latte-drinking fem boys. Or more modestly put, urban white-collar liberals.

If you look at the most conservatives states, take Wyoming for example, one of the main reasons they are so conservative is that their economies revolve mainly around natural resource extraction. Montana’s economy used to revolve more dominantly around resource extraction such as mining, oil and gas drilling, and logging. So much so that even on the Great Seal of the State of Montana a pick and shovel is pictured with the Latin “ORO Y PLATA” which means “gold and silver.” Montana has a very rich mining history.

However, after the adoption of Montana’s second constitution in 1972, new language was included that reads, “All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights. They include the right to a clean and healthful environment.” This clause has allowed dark-money funded environmentalist groups to take advantage. They have used the “clean and healthful environment” clause as a means to justify egregious lawsuits removing permits for natural resource extraction granted to private companies on government and private lands. The clause has allowed outrageously strict and outright unreasonable regulations and laws to be created resulting in the suffocation and consolidation of those industries.

Many companies, and especially small companies, do not have the resources and capital to comply with regulatory burdens and taxes. The result of which has been to greatly reduce these natural resource extraction industries to mere shadows of what they used to be.  The federal government also has control of 30 percent of Montana’s lands and has been actively shutting off access to resources from extraction industries. As a result of all this, many small Montana towns economies have been negatively impacted.

Montana’s economy now revolves around something different. It revolves around the tech industry, the tourism industry, the real estate Ponzi scheme, the college industrial complex, the financial industry, and Hollywood.

The tech industry is comprised of Democrat tech worker urban “nomads” that live out of $100k camper vans and work 2 hours a day while making $100k+ a year gentrifying every town they flood into. These unmoored newcomers increase demand on services and accelerate the rising cost of living while not producing anything for the local economy themselves.

The tourism industry, which, unless you are self-employed, includes jobs that are notoriously low wage and unfit for a man to earn enough to feed his family. The tourism industry also plays into the real estate buying mania as the tourists flood Montana every year with many deciding to buy a third vacation home here after visiting.

There is also the financial side of things, which is the root of a lot of these issues, where the Federal Reserve’s financial trickery, manipulation of interests rates, and central planning has induced a real estate Ponzi scheme that has given people the opportunity to sell their overpriced home in California and take their profit from their equity and buy up property in Montana, inflating living costs here.

You also have another huge industry in Montana, specifically in the urban areas: the College Industrial Complex. This industry is funded by federal student lending subsidies and, not coincidently, the two most liberal towns, Bozeman and Missoula, happen to be the industry’s epicenters. 

Let us not forget the Hollywood crowd and their bombardment of television shows and movies they have created putting the spotlight on Montana playing into the tourism industry.

The economic system Montana operates under, as of now, is designed to depopulate rural conservative areas by creating a lack of job opportunities for the young, forcing them to move to urban centers in order to obtain a job. Montana’s economy is designed to keep property ownership unattainable for working class families by keeping them on the indebted treadmill. It is designed to flood Montanas cities with Democrat white-collar workers.

Montana’s economy has been “reimagined” to recreate the same circumstances that are now evident in Oregon and Washington. They want massive urban population centers that outnumber the total rural population in the rest of the state in order to control the state’s political power structure through the popular vote.

With all that being said, it should be obvious the measures that need to be taken to fight back along economic lines. Large tech companies should not be given tax breaks to come here. In fact, they should be actively met with hostility. I believe Montana towns and the people within them have a right to preserve their culture and prevent the settlement of these corporate companies into them.

The amendment placed in Montana’s Constitution in 1972 that states citizen rights include, “the right to a clean and healthful environment” needs to be removed so that the abuse from dark-money environmentalist groups cedes. Strangulating regulations on Montana’s natural resource extraction industries need to be ended.

The college industrial complexes need to be cut off from funding and that includes not giving them $50 million donations like Montana Governor Greg Gianforte oddly did.

The tax incentives given to Hollywood encouraging them to film in Montana so that they can make their little version of a “new Hollywood” need to be done away with. Our tax money should not be going to Hollywood elites.

International corporate land grabs in Montana need to be met with extreme hostility. Property taxes and inheritance taxes on Montana families that force them into financial hardship need to be abolished.

The quiet genocide of Montana’s culture taking place right under the noses of the citizens of Montana needs to be recognized and stopped.