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The Elite "Have No Idea" - Society Is Near The Breaking Point
Zero Hedge ^ | October 14, 2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 10/17/2016 11:46:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

What I find most surprising today is that the insiders and the elite have no idea what is percolating just beneath the surface. Okay, maybe their arrogance actually produces its own fog, so it should not come as a surprise that they are blinded. They do not look at the calendar, which, if one really looks, says "1788" on it. Something is close. Very close. Society is near the breaking point.

My own experience is that Hillary’s so-called Deplorables are actually the most reserved, most polite, and most honest demographic in the country. They are more informed, more self-reliant, and among other things, better armed. Regarding their arms, they are incredibly responsible, and not the source of the violence for which the implement, and not the person, is too often blamed. The Deplorables have the longest fuse. It is, however, a fuse.

Alt Left, on the other hand, are the Neo Fascists and Neo Neocons. It is Alt Left that thinks Free Speech means THEIR speech only. It is Alt Left that needs 'safe spaces' and wants to enforce thought crime.

It is Alt Left, and its media lapdog sites, that is heavily into censorship of ideas that diverge from their approved ideology. It is Alt Left that champions regime change and ratcheting up the rhetoric against Russia. It is Alt Left that believes it has an inherent right, even an obligation, to lie and obfuscate if it serves their greater purpose.

Perhaps most significant is that it is Alt Left who so quickly resorts to violence and vandalism when confronted with people and ideas with which it takes exception. Never has that been as clear as in this election cycle.

The Deplorables, however, are not possessed of infinite patience. Like a capacitor, there is a charge building, and at some point it will be released into the circuitry of society.

The media and other insiders believe themselves to be immune. That thought no doubt results from being immersed inside a cocoon where dissonant voices are not allowed. When the levee breaks, or the capacitor releases its charge, they are going to be gob smacked.

Precious few of them are anywhere near as immune as they believe themselves to be. Additionally, what they might think, or hope, is their support, their security, their safe space, doesn't really exist.

Most of society's guardians, whether they are law enforcement or military, are card-carrying members of the Deplorables.

France was similarly constructed in the late 1780s. The elite were isolated only in thought, not in reality. Their protection was of a Potemkin Village nature: not actually there, but merely a facade that gave them false comfort.

They paid dearly for their arrogance and ignorance.

History may not repeat, but it does rhyme. The calendar really does seem to say 1788, so 1789---and 1792--are not as far off as some would like to believe.

This is not a call to arms, but it is a call to reality. Ignore it at your own peril.

Some may see these words as a threat. They are not. They are, however, a warning, and a warning from someone who is a student of history.

Every society eventually reaches a breaking point. Ours is nearly there. Some of those who might feel threatened, the so-called elite and insiders, think that they can buy protection as easily as they can buy a Gulfstream. How naïve! Who are the private security contractors? Who are the various SOGs? Like law enforcement and the rest of the military, they are the Deplorables. The Deplorables will take your money, but you will not take their lives. Better said, they won’t give up their lives for you or your family. The security you believe you have purchased is an illusion. Make that delusion. Best to get that out front here and now.

Some who feel threatened, or nervous, might fall back on the tired adage of ‘We gave them (the Deplorables) everything; what do they think they will do without us?’ Well, the use of ‘we’ is arrogant, because those who have actually produced something of value are few and far between. Industrialists, for lack of a better term, are those who produced for society things of lasting value. There are few true industrialists today, and many who still remain have shipped their production overseas, jacking up the compensation of bonus-based execs, but contributing to the hollowing out of America. The true industrialists did produce the cars, trucks, machine tools, generators, servers and even computers. They produced lifesaving medicines and treatments. They made steel plants and built railroads.

They produced jobs. They even produced the guns that the Deplorables have by the hundreds of millions. The Deplorables recognize that entire contribution.

Mark Zuckerberg, however, is not Henry Ford. Jack Dorsey is not Andrew Carnegie. Mark Benioff is not John Rockefeller. Lloyd Blankfein is not John Pierpont Morgan. (Elon Musk might turn out to be someone of significance, if he is allowed to fail and is forgiven for it. Time will tell.) The old Robber Barons, despite their faults, did produce things of lasting value.

What did these new ‘titans of industry’ give us? Facebook? Snapchat?

Twitter? They gave us banality and pabulum. Some embraced it, despite its triteness, perhaps because all other meaning had already been lost, like America’s exported jobs. These new titans, Neo Titans, did little more than help dumb down society. They made America less productive, less curious, more pedestrian. Maybe they think they gave us the internet, but credit for that goes to DARPA, which is to say the military, which is to say the Deplorables. The Neo Titans gave America nothing, at least nothing positive. Social networking? Gaming? Selfies?

The Deplorables can live without the silly oxymoron called social networking, which, as anyone who looks at it objectively knows, is anything but social. We don’t care what two thousand of our fake friends had for breakfast, or what Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks of the latest Presidential debate. He probably thinks we do. After all, he has ‘Twitter Followers’, whom he assumes live and die by his every Tweet. We can live without that. I wonder if his ego can? He, and those of his ilk, are merely Kim Kardashians without knowing it. They are the talentless dishing out white bread to the emotionally and spiritually starved.

Some might think this is all Trump’s fault. Again, that shows a degree of ignorance and naïveté which characterizes the elite. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He might even be a salve, as the changes he could bring might defuse some of the current anger.

On the other hand, Hillary is a lit match in a room of dynamite. She, like many of the self-important, thinks her very existence is a favor to the rest of us. She epitomizes the absolute worst of what America has become. Above the law, wealthy not through accomplishment, but through influence peddling only, and a bull in a china shop in terms of her effect on both the country and the world---and I apologize to bulls for that analogy. The world is more unstable because of her.

America is less safe because of her. Russia and the US---the two largest nuclear powers---are more at odds because of her. With her in power, we will reach the breaking point at home and internationally, perhaps leading to ‘accidental’ nuclear war, as the heightened rhetoric impacts clear thinking. Society is more stratified because of her. Race relations have deteriorated because of her (and Obama).

There are few current ills in society and in geopolitics that cannot be laid at her feet, at least to some extent. The Great Deceiver to many, who exhibits an astonishing aversion to truth telling, is enough to make even an agnostic wonder if the anti-Christ hasn’t finally arrived for its three and a half years of rule.

A recently hacked email of John Podesta finds him saying “she (Hillary) has begun to hate everyday Americans”. No doubt the same feelings were voiced by Nicolas Ceaucescu. It turned out the feeling was mutual.

Elect Hillary, and continue with business as usual, and it is likely this warning will become an epitaph for the America we know. Society may collapse regardless, because the rot is already very great, but she will hasten the day of reckoning.

The Deplorables have already considered what is coming. They are as prepared as they can be. Years of decline have enabled many to build their survival skills, to make due with less, to build real communities where one man can trust another, to discover what is truly important and what can and should be salvaged from this society.

Outside of that demographic, however, people are stark naked. They are vulnerable in ways they simply cannot imagine. They are unprepared and unskilled for what will matter most. They are cannon fodder living on borrowed time.

History is full of examples of this sort of collapse. We humans have always rolled along a sine wave of progress and decline, of civility and social unrest. We think we have outgrown the sort of mayhem with which the history books are full, but that thought stems from recency bias. Most of history---the vast majority---is not peaceful.

Societies are not, on average, stable and safe. Thomas Hobbes knew that quite well, as evidenced in his most famous quote. Humanity is likely on the verge of returning to the mean, and the mean is exactly that: mean. In case some have forgotten their Hobbes: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Have a nice day.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; cwii; cwiiping; deplorables; elites; gope; hillary; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Elite "Have No Idea" - Society Is Near The Breaking Point

Great article!

41 posted on 10/17/2016 12:27:47 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hard to say what percentage of private elites are preppers. But as someone who lives near the wilderness, I can tell you there are businesses that cater to building refuges for elites. Some have private airstrips and are easily accessible only by air.

100% of congress and high-level fedgov elites have bunkers...multiple bunkers.

42 posted on 10/17/2016 12:30:34 PM PDT by matt1234 (The alt-right is the left's Emmanuel Goldstein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2DV,

Let me ask you this, what are you going to do with your weapons? Possession will be illegal. Most individuals will do what they normally do, turn them in unfortunately. I don’t want to have to see that happen here but if Hitlery gets in and the SC gets one of her lesbos on board, Heller was 5-4, look for a 4-5 immediately on any new cases.

BTW, mine are not going to the smelter.


43 posted on 10/17/2016 12:32:03 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Precious few of them [media and insiders] are anywhere near as immune as they believe themselves to be.

This article reads like Ayn Rand. The so called insiders do not bother with history, obviously. And what happens when they get a permanent Democrat majority?

I stated to hard core lefties that when they get their way, I will go to the concentration camp. But, when I do, they would be there to greet me. They do not get it.

44 posted on 10/17/2016 12:32:11 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The leftist elite WANT a violent response from the well-mannered Trump supporters. The mark that distinguishes marxism from socialism is violence in achieving their ends.


45 posted on 10/17/2016 12:32:38 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>The Deplorables have the longest fuse. It is, however, a fuse.

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.


46 posted on 10/17/2016 12:32:59 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Three words (2 if you’re Joe Biden):

Resistance
Restoration
Retribution

And I am not ashamed to say that I will take a grim satisfaction in the last item.


47 posted on 10/17/2016 12:33:09 PM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: rfreedom4u

IF a state secedes by referendum the the whole states secedes. You can riot all you want but you are now in anew country. NY and CA would never secede they are to pussyfied and hooked to FedGov™.


48 posted on 10/17/2016 12:33:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Travis McGee; Jack Black

Ping; worthwhile


49 posted on 10/17/2016 12:35:07 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mrs Clinton has promised to “talk to white people” about “what they must do” to improve race tensions. Can’t wait to hear that


50 posted on 10/17/2016 12:35:32 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For later.


51 posted on 10/17/2016 12:37:45 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The parallels to 1788 France are uncanny. If elected Hillary will have her two estates, the elites and the media, and they will lock out the common people just assuming they are too dumb to know what is going on. This will ignite the firestorm. The “deplorables” will be the new sans culottes and we should all prepare for times that will shake the foundations of this nation.


52 posted on 10/17/2016 12:37:55 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Society is always near some sort of breaking point, and yet it very rarely breaks. Especially since the Industrial Revolution, the fact is society has a lot of momentum, and most folks to too busy to man the ramparts. People GROUSE constantly, especially on the internet, but that doesn’t mean crap. The fact that so many folks are pretending a second generation super rich guy isn’t part of the elite really shows you just how far society really is from any breaking point.


53 posted on 10/17/2016 12:43:27 PM PDT by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: matt1234

Doesn’t matter if they have refuges in out of the way areas; the hired help will still be there, the hired help is not stupid.
When things get bad enough, the HIRED HELP WILL JUST TAKE WHAT THEY WANT.


54 posted on 10/17/2016 12:44:32 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Talisker

Yup !


55 posted on 10/17/2016 12:45:53 PM PDT by jimt (A free country doesn't need a slave army.)
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To: discostu

You are probably correct. This is far more ‘1984’ than 1788. Television, sports, pornography and drugs sap the masculine energy necessary to even attempt to reclaim traditional America.

But there is a huge disconnect. Just look at Bill Kristol and George Will. They really, truly, believed that there were millions of people who looked to them as gurus and would follow their lead on the GOP presidential candidate.


56 posted on 10/17/2016 12:55:30 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I often think that we Baby Boomers have lived the most care free and charmed life in the history of this violent world, and the time is coming very soon to pay the piper. In fact, the bill is past due.


57 posted on 10/17/2016 12:58:28 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: Truth29
A divided citizenry, no matter how massively armed with rifles and pistols will not prevail against military units and gunships.

If the left thinks they have deconstructed the military and police agencies of this country to the point that they will turn their guns on Americans then they are in for a big surprise.

Deplorables actually take their constitutional duties seriously.

58 posted on 10/17/2016 12:59:18 PM PDT by usurper
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To: jjotto

It’s not TV, sports and porn, it’s life. People have bills and responsibilities and things that need to get done. You expect people to get evicted from their homes because they walked away from their jobs to go be part of the revolution? Really? We no longer live in a version of the world where you can just go alternative in your life, no longer can you build a cabin any old place plop the wife and kids down safely and go fight the good fight. The Industrial Revolution means we have jobs and paperwork that must be respected.

According to various circulation and ratings Kristol and Will have at least hundreds of thousand who pay attention to them.


59 posted on 10/17/2016 1:00:37 PM PDT by discostu (If you need to load or unload go to the white zone, you'll love it, it's a way of life)
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To: Red Badger

Something like this happened in France in the 18th Century and heads rolled! First to die—Muslims who fail to support the USA. Then Newspaper Reporters who have souled their souls to the Progressives—then left wing college professors. Then Hollywood producers and actors who think they can control how we think.


60 posted on 10/17/2016 1:03:45 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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