Is Our Ruling Class Smart, Dumb, or Really Dumb?

American Thinker ^ | 10 Aug, 2021 | Christopher Chantrill

[MtnClimber]

The question that keeps occurring to a confirmed regime opponent like myself in this First Year of the Great Biden Era is this: What is really going on? Is the ruling class executing on a brilliant strategy to transform the political landscape for the next generation? Are they just fumbling along, trying to keep ahead of their wokist crazies? Or are they executing another of Baldrick’s Cunning Plans that will inevitably blow up in their faces?

Let’s look at Option One. The closest thing I have ever seen to a brilliant strategy is Bill Clinton’s 1992 “New Democrat” campaign: nobody here but us moderates. But HillaryCare proved that a lie, and so the voters gave us the first Republican Congress in 50 years. So “New Democrat” was just a tactic to win an election. Then there was the Emerging Democratic Majority from Judis and Teixeira in the early 2000s about the inevitable Democratic majority of the educated, the young, the women, and the minorities. How’s that coming along, dear Democrats, down on the border?

Of course, then there is Sundance’s Fourth Branch of Government theory, that ever since Obama, the U.S. has been ruled by the intelligence community that knows everything about us, and can send a Donald Trump to hell any time it wants. Maybe the lefties and the gumshoes think this is brilliant. I don’t. The whole point of politics is to have a safety valve to avoid civil war. So the whole place doesn’t blow up.

The Biden U-Turn on the COVID rent moratorium and the student loan relief extension and the continued unemployment bonuses suggest Option Two: trying to keep ahead of the peaceful protesters.

[liberalh8ter]

Evil, personified.

[Zionist Conspirator]

They’re psychopaths.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

They’re very ambitious people who think they’re super smart. But, they’re really only dangerous because they are going to take this country over a cliff, and they refuse to see it. And unfortunately, we have not developed a strategy to stop them. We underestimate they’re danger, and are reluctant to take serious action. We seem to be trying to figure out how to protect what we have for as long as we can.