Posted on 10/01/2024 7:31:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Way back in the near-Pleistocene of 2022, I argued that America is “sick from the top down and healthy from the bottom up.” I think the theme that’s been emerging here over the last few weeks is a variation on that argument. To take just the two most recent examples, what can we make of a high-status former official sitting on a stage in Europe and warning that the First Amendment is a huge problem that impedes government because it keeps them from “hammering” voices that disrupt the mandarins in their exercise of authority, or of high-status idiots in national media announcing proudly that Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff are healing the horribleness of traditional American manhood? And I think it’s this:
America is still America, but American institutions are no longer culturally American.
The people who occupy their higher ranks, or even their middle ranks, don’t have American habits, desires, or preferences. They don’t speak in an American vernacular, and don’t appear to know how. They try to portray an American voice, like a badly programmed animatronic figure: I LIKE DORITOS HA HA HA. They’re acting, badly, on the foundation of a lazy and hazy guess about the thing they’re trying to simulate, which is being American and liking the place. Ordinary Americans, uh…what, Doritos or something? Junk food? Something like that? Hillary always keeps a bottle of hot sauce in her purse, by the way.
A bunch of threads have been severed. They don’t know the country, they don’t like what little they know of it, they don’t wish to be of it or in it. They view it as a thing “out there” that needs to be wrestled out of its dark backwardness and brought into the light. John Kerry is obviously more comfortably at home in Davos than he could ever be in any place between Manhattan and Santa Monica, other than maybe a paired gimme for Vail and Jackson Hole. He spent decades trying to govern a country he’d never been to, despite having performatively traipsed through it. And so, with exceptions, there’s an uncanny valley sensation that comes with watching high-status American political figures. “Hello, human, I am one of you, I enjoy eating the foods of you people. This program will restart in ten seconds.” It’s quite telling to watch them try to tag JD Vance, to my ear the most normal-sounding politician of the decade, as weird.
“I’m gonna get me a beer.”
I assume most people here have seen or read Matt Taibbi’s “Rescue the Republic” speech, but his big finish was by, for, and of the country he was speaking to:
To all those Snoops and Nosey Parkers sitting in their Homeland Security-funded “Centers of Excellence,” telling us day after day we must think as they say and vote as they say or else we’re traitorous Putin-loving fascists and enablers of “dangerous” disinformation:
Motherf[***]er, I’m an American. That sh[**] does not work on us. And how can you impugn my patriotism when you’re sitting in Klaus Schwab’s lap, apologizing for the First Amendment to a crowd of Europeans? Look in the mirror.
He was an American speaking in that last part to John Kerry, to someone with an increasingly tenuous connection to a nation he finds distasteful and strange after several decades in its government....SNIP
You gonna go vote after you eat some DORITOS HA HA HA?
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What I think of John Kerry goes against FR posting terms and conditions.
Unfortunately, we have an inferior popular culture that is more influential than it should be.
One must remember that any entity who ‘serves’ as a governmental employee, be it at the local, city, county, state, national level and collects a ‘salary,’ is, as a matter of fact, a welfare leech.
Those very few (Trump is one) are capable of leading in our system. They won't overstep their authority. They will always have a sense of fair play toward people of other classes. They are rational, understanding, real.
The wealthy who are 'real' are prouder of accomplishments to a greater degree, in themselves and others, not merely high status.
The elite know too many who have lofty status but are really mediocre in terms of wisdom, character, accomplishments, courage, etc. They all have 'Imposter' syndrome and the accompanying profound insecurity.
Indeed they are imposters; they really haven't spent their time learning anything useful, haven't suffered to learn their craft. Society could easily and happily do without them. They are crazed by this knowledge of themselves.
So they do two things: They do ridiculous stunts like pretend to be poor or 'real', carrying around a bottle of hot sauce when that was a fad in the 1990s. Talking jive and exchanging recipes even though they probably don't ever cook or deal with urban blacks.
Marie Antoinette, an extreme example of this, even made herself a hobby farm on a few acres in Versailles so she could get down with the peasant life. She sought some ersatz comradeship with the poor at her farm, but was too clueless and mean to even recognize them as they starved in real life from want of bread.
The second thing elites do to overcompensate is to lash out and make tyrannical rules and enforce them ruthlessly. Horseface showed his horse's ass yesterday in a perfect example of this before the WEF, the perfect audience for such a rant.
Their 'Will to Power' has no normal outlet. They are defective intellects and souls, roving the planet trying to achieve notoriety, power, adulation, even fear from others. They are a real menace if they stumble into politics because they are merciless to those unfortunates who must abide by their capricious and weird decisions.
Where am I going with this rant?
The Jefferson Memorial has this inscription in the inner edge of its circular span:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
It is important to realize that this type of individual is really malignant. We need to enforce our Constitution and laws because these individuals have a natural tendency to run roughshod over them and enslave us.
They would imprison or kill us if they could get away with it; watch how they kill fetuses and infants wholesale because they can. Notice how they start wars of profit that might involve the deaths of millions of innocents: They do not lose a minute's sleep over it.
And especially when you see two odious, despicable phonies like Harris and Walz, who are obsequious with Oprah and other foolish idiots who enable them: They are vicious, deadly, murderous, nasty communist atheists who would dissolve the United States and kill all of us if they could.
Because they can't do so right now, they will continue to bide their time and work with others in the Communist movement in that direction.
Fixed it.
“the current generation cannot rightly judge the past generation until the current generation can be judged by the future generation” L.Star
Well said, Caddie. One also notices how these sorts illustrate how too many rise to the level of their incompetence...and then some.
What you have written is profound and absolutely correct. Thank you.
Over the last 60 years, perhaps longer, our “elites” have (as a group) become less and less bonded to their country and, thus, to their fellow Americans. They, generally, do not see the injury they cause or the responsibility each and every citizen bears in a constitutional republic such as ours. They call their viewpoint globalism and enlightened. We and the Constitution no longer matter to them and that is why we must stand up and do what we know we must.
Thanks for your kind note. Agree about the Peter Principle in these people, who lead and control things they don’t have a clue about.
You are right, our side needs to and will do what is necessary.
I sure hope with a somewhat fair election we can accomplish it through reform.
Our Constitution is SO geared to reform. It is a veritable reform machine.
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