Now Fellow Patriots: What Shall We Do With A $100B Mormon Sovereign Wealth Fund?

Just as we required Mormons to give up polygamy so too should we require them to invest in deep state projects.

A Latter Day Saint confirmation c. 1852

One of the things you often wonder about preppers is the extent to which they are causers. After all, one man’s anarchy is another’s fresh start. The deeply indebted man hopes and prays for the jubilee. He might even work to hasten its arrival.

And if you’re prepared for the End of Days, maybe you secretly want them to come a little sooner. I think we often underestimate how many people are drawn to extremist politics simply because their hum drum existence is rather dull, rather pedestrian. That certainly seems the takeaway from the January 6th incident.

I’ve been wondering this state of existence as I consider the sheer scale of the $100 billion squirreled away for the “Second Coming of Christ” and as detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal article which disclosed an SEC investigation into the firm.

Why would you stash that kind of cash? The stated reason is because you’re planning for bad times ahead and Mormons do love being well prepared. Indeed their tithing — 10 percent going to the church, no matter what — should be seen as a kind of taxation for an independent polity.

This $100B is the Deseret sovereign wealth fund — a second chance for the Mormons who resented American domination since Utah was admitted, on its seventh attempt, into the Union.

The Republican Party of 1856 noted the “twin relics of barbarism” — polygamy and slavery — as against the American project and sought their abolition. Polygamy and slavery promote inequality and therefore political instability. “The Mormons themselves call it a theocratic government, and a theocracy is not a republic,” noted Francis Lieber, professor of history and political science at the University of South Carolina. Lieber saw the Mormon practice of polygamy as making the Mormons more Asiatic than European and therefore unfit for admittance. The thinkers of the day feared a “Mormon bluebeard,” who abused captive women and defied the Feds, argues author W. Paul Reeve in Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (2015).

In Reeve’s account and in popular imagination, we’re told that the Mormons ended polygamy and that’s true but I’ve come to believe that what they really did was entrench the power structures within the LDS Church. Mormons traded polygamy for maintaining their social hierarchy and gaining American statehood. The Mormons promised — pinky swear — that they wouldn’t try to overthrow the existing order in the Western states with race mixing or Asian labor and that they might even share its riches with America.

In the racist sentiment of the day, both the Mormon and the Chinese were kicked out of America. Did they team up later?

We wonder: How real was Utah’s admittance to the Union? Did they simply become the white face of “Asiatic influence”?

The boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret (orange with black outline) as proposed in 1849. Modern state boundaries are underlaid for reference.

There is a rougher form of Mormonism that we aren’t really allowed to talk about and which abuts the Chinese empire in the Pacific, the cartels in Northern Mexico and the Jewish and Italian mafia in Las Vegas. Nor do we speak about how it is that Mormons are allowed to evangelize in the Russian federation and whether a relatively naive population is well equipped to handle KGB infiltration that undoubtedly takes place. Is it wise for the FBI to hire all the Russian linguists fresh from their mission and right out of BYU? Probably not. But the need is great and the Mormons are willing and able to pass a drug test. That’s how they took over the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

As I’ve argued elsewhere that America only makes sense if it’s understood as a sort of occupation of Florida, Texas, California and the Mountain West. The tell here is that these states were countries before they were states. Wikipedia is illustrative:

Seeking formal recognition from the federal government in 1849, they proposed calling themselves the “State of Deseret,” a word borrowed from the Book of Mormon meaning “honeybee.” The honeybee remains an important symbol to both the LDS Church and the state of Utah, the Beehive State.

You can see the calculation:

As the West becomes a desert — which is seemingly right at hand — maybe Deseret can rise once more. We cannot let that happen.

We must press the largesse of the Mormon church into investing in that which works for all Americans.

A great nation has a sense of priorities that it seeks to get its enemies and/or supplicants to pay for.

Let me suggest a few alternatives that is consistent with my understanding of Mormon teaching.

• Retake control of Ancestry.com, which started under LDS control. Take it back from the Chinese who currently own it.

  • Putting the Mormons back in charge of collecting and processing America’s genealogical history makes good sense. Mormons have long had a special relationship with the FBI and forensics testing.

• Build a giant genomic database. Mormon patriarch Jon Huntsman Sr. made billions producing cancer causing chemicals. Now his foundation is working on finding a cure for cancer. What if they helped underwrite an American genetics database?

• Invest in next generation biodegradable plastics. Huntsman gave us the clamshell container. What if the corporation gave us a whole new type of plastic?

• Electrification of America’s fleet.

  • Jon Huntsman Jr. is on the board of Ford, America’s deep state car company and which just signed on with a $3.5 billion plant in Michigan.

  • Ford should obviously acquire companies like Aptera, the solar powered car company, and leap frog any would be competition.

Mormonism is America’s most successful religion. It’s time it gave something back to Uncle Sam.