Posted on 07/12/2021 3:25:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Get ready for Strong Man Populism. The bad guys - the soft elite who think it can hold onto the societal power it inherited, but did not earn, through petty oppressions - will call it “authoritarianism.” Of course, they like authoritarianism when they are the authority - that’s why they feel no compunction about remaking our country and culture without bothering with obtaining our buy-in. But history teaches - not that they would know it, because they have never been taught it - that a backlash is inevitable.
We’re going to turn to someone who won’t be deterred by cultural caterwauling, who will not be satisfied with a status quo ante that is deeply anti-American, who will ruthlessly use his power to reclaim our society for us, and who will wreak vengeance on our enemies.
That last one is important. They must learn never to do this again.
We’re going to elect a Strong Man Populist because the current crisis is intolerable, and because we understand that the Weak (Wo)Man Caucus - think pliable puffball Jeb! and Chamber of Commerce-curious squishes like Nikki!, Kristi! and Asa! - don’t know what time it is.
It’s time to smash the ruling class - an odd thing for conservatives to want, but then we’ve never quite had a ruling class that sucked so much.
Strong Man Populism will come, and dumb people will find this ironic, because we are, at heart, still a free people unwilling to merely survive on scraps as serfs. Oh, some of us are eager drones - the lazy, the stupid, the morally illiterate who empower the mutants against us, or who sit on their moms’ couches playing video games. But the rest of us are getting fed up. We can’t be free when we are cowering in our homes, unable to speak, with our interests left undefended. We will take our freedom back, at the ballot box, because our failed ruling class has, well, failed.
Drug-addled hobos, junkies, and degenerates infest our cities and, increasingly our suburbs. The elite answer is, of course, to destroy the suburbs - equity demands everything outside their gated communities suck equally.
Our teachers, in the rare cases they teach, teach our kids to hate our country. Our warriors, in the all too common cases they war, lose, and also teach our kids to hate our country.
Our establishment scoffs at laws, everything from election rules to regulations against spying on citizens who oppose the regime. At the same time, it lets street criminals run rampant. The law enforcement agencies do nothing, the media does nothing, and the courts do nothing. But when we break their laws, watch out - especially you LEGO insurrectionists.
Our voices are silenced, we have no institutional advocates; the institutions designed to vindicate our rights won’t. That limits our options going forward to opting for submission - that’s the aptly-named David French solution - or opting to burn it all down.
I say flick the Bic.
We’ll be told we hate democracy. Yet, for all the performative anguish about the perilous peril posed by selfie-snapping grandmas in the Rotunda - the best thing ever are the media blue checks insisting the sight of a faux Viking and some elderly tourists so traumatized them that they must see therapy - the elite sure hates democracy. Well, to be precise, it hates democracy when we attempt to participate in it. There’s a high fuss factor out there right now over how uppity we peasants are getting, and the message is clear.
Stop complaining, racist.
Stop complaining, insurrectionist.
Stop complaining, Jesus gun people who like the flag.
Obey.
But people aren’t obeying, and the usual suspects are mortified. How dare we say “No,” but dare we do, and the ruling class can’t even.
So the elite fight back, aided and abetted by the surrender caucus of formerly relevant conservagrifters who take a break from thinking about their pool boys and their wives to come out and explain why True Conservatism™ means absolute submission to whatever the establishment wants.
You can see it in response to the poison that is CRT. According to unserious people, for us to decide what lazy, unionized public school teachers get to teach our kids is some sort of assault on the academic freedom of cheesy, pudgy timeservers. There’s a premise problem here. Teachers have to teach something. The question is who gets to decide. One would think that should be, you know, the people – we sure don’t want democracy dying in darkness, do we?
Yes, they want democracy to die in darkness, preferably painfully.
But when the ordinary ways to have our voices heard are closed off to us, we’ll find extraordinary ones. Trump was one. He was a warning. But he was, despite the mass-micturition of the elite - no radical. He had no desire to lay waste; he wanted to rule, but as a member of what he did not understand was a terminally ill ruling caste. Remember how he was caught up in institutional prestige - this college was great, that company was respected? This, as well as the fact that he showed up without a Rolodex and needed to rely on a bunch of establishment acolyte-kissers, made him too weak to truly use his power. Yet even with his limitations, he did many amazing and consequential things.
The Strong Man Populist coming soon will not have that weakness. He will not hesitate to use his power to clean house, to prosecute the criminals, to defeat our enemies, both foreign and domestic. Some Republicans will recoil in horror at the idea of us actually winning. “We can’t abandon our fundamental norms,” they will fret, and that’s literally true. We can’t abandon our fundamental norms because the establishment these shills flack for already abandoned our fundamental norms over the last five years. Zombie norms will not restrain the Strong Man Populist.
He will unleash the power of “No.”
No, hobos, you can’t live on our streets.
No, criminals, you don’t get to commit crimes.
No, Pentagon, you are going to focus on winning wars.
No, academia, you do not get to take our money and use it to turn our kids into little commie saps.
No, tech jerks, you do not get to decide what we can read and say.
No, climate cultists, we are not going to live in caves because of your bizarre, quasi-religious weather obsession.
No, media, you do not get to be partisan advocates and also treated like neutral truth tellers.
No, Democrats, you don’t get to steal elections.
No.
“No” is the weapon of the Strong Man Populist; it is our weapon. It is a rejection of elite hegemony, and the ruthless use of power to enforce it. And it is coming.
The establishment should have heeded the warning that was Donald Trump. But if it was smart enough to do that, it never would have botched its cultural curation so spectacularly that it made him necessary.
The best part of the coming Strong Man Populism will be watching them cry.
The Left better hope they just get “No” before it’s over for them. They’ll be lucky if they don’t end up getting free helicopter rides.
Nice find.
NCSWC - NOTHING CAN STOP WHAT’S COMING.
NOTHING
I think the republic is dead and that we need to start over. I’m looking for strong action and I don’t care what it takes.
At this point, the Democrats need to lose at all costs.
They were willing to break all kinds of laws up to and including outright stealing an election. The gloves are off.
Yep, but we need to ditch the Marquess of Queensberry rule book and start asking ourselves what we’re willing to do to win.
The gloves need absolutely to be off, that is for sure.
Start learning Mandarin.
Yes, indeed and we won't win with the current GOP leadership which is part of the deep state and will sell us out to the Marxist Dems.
I still can’t find in history an example of commies being defeated by rugged individuals rationally pursuing their own economic self interests, not counting Ayn Rand novels.
We’re not going to win with a population of Dopers...
In Atlas Shrugged, the productive individuals did not politically defeat the socialists and take over. They withdrew from society and let it collapse from the ineptitude of its leaders.
“and start asking ourselves what we’re willing to do to win.”
Indeed.
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Yes, this is fantasy thinking that some savior will come and change everything. That is television/movie thinking, not rational thought based in history.
It is childish fantasy to believe that some sudden event or person will ride in and clean up a mess that has been gathering for decades. That childish thinking is what led us to believe Trump, Sessions, Barr and Q would suddenly bring the left to their knees.
Sorry, but the communists are entrenched and in control. A handful are not going to stand up and say "no" without being destroyed the same way the Jan 6 protesters were destroyed from within. Our side is infiltrated and tightly monitored by the communists who have the full power of the deep state behind them.
Anyone who rises up will be impugned, maligned and falsely accused (Trump Russia). They will plant child porn on their computer. They will fabricate crimes. This is all done to bog down any movement so it cannot grow....after all, who wants to be associated with pedophiles, racists, traitors and criminals?
We need to stop believing in miracles. None will come. I believe in God, but he does not jump in and save us from ourselves. He gave us the tools to prosper or flounder...free will. He does not ride in and "save" us except at the end of time.
Absolutely 100% correct. It's dead as a doornail.
I still have 500 pocket constitutions I never got to give out. Now I never will.
I'm (much) too old to go bushwhacking, as a famous American once said.
But its a good think the only history our rulers have studied is Wakanda, because they will not be able to understand what is coming until it's too late.
I agree, the author is basically just venting and expressing his frustration, but in reality, communism has never been defeated by an economically-motivated “strong man.”
Actually, communism has never been defeated by anybody at the start because it takes over the government and police powers so rapidly that there is then never a chance for any movement or individual to fight back. In this case we also have the private sector (media and industry) joining the communists.
It takes decades of harsh communism before it finally simply runs out of steam because it is so fundamentally unworkable, and people are desperate enough to to get out into the streets, as we are seeing in Cuba now and have seen in the Eastern Bloc countries.
The author is basically wishing for the man on the white horse, but for better or for worse, that’s not going to happen.
In a word “secession”.
Absolutely correct.
Our occupiers will be defeated by a strong leader at the head of a powerful collective or they won't be defeated at all.
It is "freedom" and "libertarianism" that has given them their power. Maybe when we win some of the good in those things can come back.
Are you behind on current events? It's already over.
Look up Pinonchet.
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