Posted on 04/15/2025 4:28:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Reality is that shoveling trillions in spending to your supporters isn’t enough. You need an enemy.
Back in the day, our good friend Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gave it to us straight. Politics is about friend vs. enemy. You gift your friends; you defeat your enemy. Experts call this the friend/enemy distinction.
In the old days this was pretty simple. A ruler defended the border against marauding enemies intent upon stealing his women and his good rich acres; he gifted his loyal feudal vassals, noble and not so noble, with noble titles and estates.
Ours is a progressive age, and so our leaders, at least in the 20th century, upped the ante from border wars to world wars. But J. Robert Oppenheimer, when he had spare time from relaxing in his vacation ranch in the Sangre de Cristo mountains in New Mexico just down the road from the Ranch School in Los Alamos, put a bit of a cramp on world wars.
So what’s a ruling class to do? First of all, it should ramp it up on the gifting front. And if anyone objects, the Protest Industrial Complex will helpfully go nuclear, like this neighbor of mine.
Basically, it’s HANDS OFF! every program that our liberal friends legislated. Ever.
Reality is that shoveling trillions in spending to your supporters isn’t enough. You need an enemy. But what to do? World War is out, thanks to Oppie, so where do we conjure up an enemy? That’s where climate change comes in.
If Commies and Nazis are a bit scarce on the ground, you must substitute a world-ending emergency as your enemy. This is not new. Religious leaders have been warning about the End of the World for ages.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How many years are left?
BTTT
Two apropos quotes from my profile page.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
— C.S. Lewis
The clowns living in the U.S. is showing the world what it looks like when you are an ignorant, obnoxious slob throwing tantrums and crying all the time while waving signs you learned to make in Headstart and Kindergarten.
Wow. If you had asked me I would have guessed that Menken was also the author of the 2nd quote. I didn’t realize that CS Lewis was such a curmudgeon too. With Menken it was sort of a congenital defect.
We can see how many parasites are currently existing.
Hands off our benefits. The parasite class is protesting.
Notice their isn’t anything written about Hands Off our children.
And a lot more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/89275.Fr_d_ric_Bastiat. It is hard to pick the best Bastiat quote since he has so many gems.
The poster in the article looks like a group project. If you ever see one of these, feel free to add your own stuff, like “our guns”, “our tax dollars”, or your suggestion “our children”, etc etc!
There’s another Hands Off on the 19th.
An enterprising youngster with a couple of cases of Ben Gay could make killing selling to the fossils that attend these protests.
Sums it up nicely. This is literally the ruling class telling us that what's theirs is theirs forever. And that what's theirs is everything we have earned.
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