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A Christmas Parable
kunstler.com ^ | 19 Dec, 2022 | JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER

Posted on 12/27/2022 8:15:10 AM PST by MtnClimber

“The powerful are panicking, and so they should. Their secrets are leaking.” —Miranda Devine, The New York Post

As the Yule log burns down, and the trivialities of the season melt into air, the nation might ask itself how the authorities who run things went to war against the citizens of this land. I will tell you, and, it will probably make you angry: It started when the women of the professional and managerial class watched their avatar, Hillary Clinton, lose the 2016 election against a man who seemed the quintessence of everything they hated about Daddydom.

Donald Trump, flawed to perfection, wrecked the chance of the amalgamated successful women of America to run the national household. Out came the pussy-hats, the shrieking Wiccans, and the celebrities threatening to “blow up the White House.” Out came a savage animus against men generally, and a campaign to feminize them in retaliation — and then punish them for objecting to it. Up rose a social movement, Wokery, that had the earmarks of a histrionic religious mania, with Satanic overtones. Up rose the demons, the Antifa louts, the BLM arsonists, the drag queens.

Thus unrolled a national psychodrama that continues to spool out as every system, every business, every institution in our country now wobbles and flies apart. In 2016, the men embedded in the professional and managerial class tried to chivalrously protect their women’s avatar and her steadfast followers and, failing ignobly that grim November day, then turned to actually attack their adversary, Donald Trump, with the explicit intent to destroy him by all means necessary. In the years-long process, they devolved into criminality, and in so doing they entered a vicious cycle of lying about everything they did to escape the consequences of their ostensible exercise in gallantry.

In effect, the people running things went from a war against a particular person to a war against reality and its twin sister, truth. Now they are deeply invested in unreality and untruth to the point where they have forgotten how this whole fiasco started and all they can do is desperately patch the dike they had to construct against the informational deluge of truth and reality coming at them like a tsunami rolling across the sea. The harder they work at this futile task of defense, the more absurd they make themselves, leading to ridicule, humiliation, and finally condemnation in whatever remains of the legal arena, where their deeds will finally be judged.

The first stage of that outcome for them is to pretend that none of it is happening. That’s why The New York Times and Washington Post ignore the news that the gallant knights of the FBI and several other tentacles of the Intel octopus mounted a ferocious, long-running psy-op through the new phenomenon of social media — which happened to rise in importance through this whole period of national discord....


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: wokeism

1 posted on 12/27/2022 8:15:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

All part of the “Mass Formation Psychosis” known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.


2 posted on 12/27/2022 8:15:21 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hear them roar!!!


3 posted on 12/27/2022 8:24:40 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bankwalker

Just a bunch of angry Karen cats demanding to be fed.


4 posted on 12/27/2022 8:39:39 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: MtnClimber

“In the years-long process, they devolved into criminality,”

...I believe that this started in the 70s/80s with the advent or I should say push of the anti-hero in the movies...who made it ok to break the law for the right cause and get away with it (I suppose you could go back to the 30s when vigilantes were popularized as well...it’s been an evolutionary process).

Makes me think of the character Kirk Douglas played in “In Harm’s Way”...he raped the nurse who then killed herself, realized finally he was in the wrong, and then gave his life finding the Japanese fleet to try to make some amends. Now his character would never own up to being wrong or pay a price.

“mounted a ferocious, long-running psy-op through the new phenomenon of social media”....

This as opposed to the ferocious, long-running psy-op that has been perpetrated through broadcast news and the newspapers since the 60s at least. They don’t talk about it in the “big news” orgs because they are complicit.


5 posted on 12/27/2022 8:44:24 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: MtnClimber

Hillary Clinton?

They think Hillary Clinton represents all that is good in females?

Hillary Clinton deserves no respect.

She is a criminal.


6 posted on 12/27/2022 8:51:23 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: MtnClimber

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7 posted on 12/27/2022 1:11:51 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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