Ruling Class Gotta Have a War -- But What About Us?

American Thinker.com ^ | December 28, 2020 | Christopher Chantrill

[Kaslin]

A couple of weeks ago I noted how your average ruling class “gotta have a war.” And I was right. But, now I am thinking: “how do we play that game?”

“We” means everyone from ordinary deplorables to the charming 19-year-old Sikh-Canadian Rav Arora.

Expressed more politely, “gotta have a war” issues from my Maxim that “The only warrant for government power is existential peril,” whether the peril is Nazis, Commies, mullahs, white supremacists -- or climate change. First you gotta have a peril, then you gotta have a war, then you got the glorious political power that was your goal in the first place.

Whatabout a War on Woke? Maybe, but at this stage of the game I can’t get myself to thinking of the wokerati as Evil. I think of them rather as fools and knaves, stupidly parroting the sacred “narrative” of the priests in the academy. And I put upper-class white women with the #WeBelieve signs in their yards in the same category: fools and knavettes.

Whatabout a War on the Climatistas? Good idea, but I’m afraid its time has not yet come. We must wait until the economy has been wrecked by climate nonsense, and Ford F-150 drivers have got the bloodlust in their eyes.

Whatabout a War on China? You mean like the two wars we fought in the 20th century to keep the Germans down? So now we’ll delay China’s global dominance by 50 years, assuming that our brilliant strategy doesn’t backfire and hasten Chinese dominance?

We could adapt the lefties’ moral framework of “oppressed peoples, allies, and white oppressors.” The lefties represent that the war of the ages is between the white oppressors and their helpless victims, the oppressed peoples.

[Aqua225]

Propaganda and I don’t buy it for a second. It boils down to how the enemy is presented. Don’t you think the Pentagon has examined the Nazis and the Maoists and the Cambodians and raw mental manipulation, and how to get soldiers to fire on the required target of the day?

If you really believe this, then you are naive in the extreme.

Our own children would kill us with the correct set of incentives, and the right narrative.

[snoringbear]

“ If you really believe this, then you are naive in the extreme.”
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Believe what? You’re all over the map. Settle down and compose your thoughts....

[Aqua225]

You’re like a 14 year old. Make a blanket statement then pretend there are many separate subtexts breached that must be individually argued by me, the parent.

So if you are going to act like a teenager whose mind is being filled by both hormones and lack of actual development, so be it. I’ll treat you like one and walk off to leave you to your own belief you are the smartest one in the room.

What it really means is that you cannot defend your propaganda.

[snoringbear]

Well, I can state with absolute certainty that if you and I were the only two in a room I would indeed be the smartest person in the room 😂