Posted on 05/26/2020 6:23:40 PM PDT by Mount Athos
They can’t?
Yeah, there are Karen’s on every board, even this one.
The way liberals think... I stand corrected — FEEL about this... is like the scene from the Wizard of Oz where the Wicked Witch is found dead. Singing and rejoicing, the whole of Hollywood and Tinsel Town will rejoice in Trump’s defeat. And this Wikipedia thing is just one stone brick laid in he Yellow Brick Road leading to that end. These are not ordinary people in ordinary times... nothing is ordinary on the left. These people are living their movie in their heads where Trump is defeated. They have been told the ending from Hollywood and Tinsel Town and they believe it. How could Robert Di Nero be wrong? Cripes, he’s a GREAT ACTOR! So the narrative in their head becomes religion, becomes the faith, become the sole accounting of all thing on this earth. That’s how important it is. Everything is mentioned about it, it invades all conversation, it underlies sex, underlies food, it underlies going to the bathroom. Nothing is complete in the day without some mention of it and the Holy Journey of the Resist Culture. The Crusades didn’t end in the Middle Ages. They just took a pee break for a couple hundred years and returned in this time. All smart people — think government employees and teachers — will agree with you on this Anti Trump Crusade. They are smart and make a lot of money and would normally spit on you but... they love you because you hate Trump. YOU ARE IMPORTANT!!!! Who knows Hollywood might want you to play a part with De Nero (as in Roman Emperor Nero) where you make tons of cash, wave you ass at the Kardasians and be your lovely obnoxious self. All because you joined the Biden team and got rid of Trump. Ya know, you talked that couple from Deluth out of voting for Trump by waving your ass in front of them. Man, acting is an easy gig. Yup. You’re not a loser but very smart and well informed. You have your North Star to guide you, your compass set on anti Trump. But if he did win, then you might swim to Canada because the aliens have invaded like that movie V — Yeah... yeah... yeah.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This appeared in the October 27, 1989, issue of National Review.Robert Michels — as any reader of James Burnham's finest book, The Machiavellians, knows was the author of the Iron Law of Oligarchy. This states that in any organization the permanent officials will gradually obtain such influence that its day-to-day program will increasingly reflect their interests rather than its own stated philosophy. To take a homely example, congressmen from egalitarian parties somehow end up voting for higher pay and generous expenses for congressmen. We can also catch an ironic echo of Michels's law in Stalin's title of General Secretary, as well as in the fact that powerful mandarins in the British government creep about under such deceptive pseudonyms as "Permanent Under-Secretary.” . . ..
All of which is by way of introducing a new law of my own . . .I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church. The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels's Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows.
- O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.
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