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.
Thank God some of us getit. If DC collapses(the checks stop coming) just how does a state like Alabama devolve into violent chaos?
Thank God some of us getit. If DC collapses(the checks stop coming) just how does a state like Alabama devolve into violent chaos?
People griping on the internet are so eager to claim it will be the French Revolution. There is another alternative. Want “levée en masse?” Stop paying taxes. Enact nullification. There are avenues to try before weapons, and they exist at the state level. We do that and the Feds will show their true intentions very quickly. Then there will be no choice between whether to fight or go back to sleep.
Good stuff Vet.
I do recall fielding a supposedly rhetorical question from a liberal acquaintance, "What do you need all those military guns for?" "For war," I said. "What else would you need military guns for?"
I agree with the author that this period resembles the workup to the French - and to a degree, the Russian as well- revolution. We aren't talking about state versus state here, we're talking about social class versus social class, with one neo-aristocratic ruling class figuring its excesses are safe and the ruled one finding that it is strong enough, and the stakes high enough, to say "No." That does not promise a happy time. For all that it is a sick, corrupt, and oppressive social order doomed to collapse, it is a social order of a sort and not, therefore, as sanguinary as a social revolution, which we have never had in America. These tend to be brutal, tribal, and cursed with an unending cycle of violence. See Beirut or Sarajevo of recent vintage for examples.
It can be delayed, even avoided, but only if both sides respect the social compact that keeps us from killing one another. All it takes is for one side to discard it. That is, after all, the nature of a social compact. What it took in 1788 and 1917 was for one side to consider that social compact infinitely malleable and merely a form of control over the governed. That is NOT the nature of a social compact, is is a social compact used as a sham, as is ours at the moment. We don't want to start killing, because we're too damn good at it.
——They are as prepared as they can be-—
prepared but apethetic
they will never really pull the triggers
I don’t know anyone who has lived like that-not co-workers, neighbors, and certainly not family-but I don’t live in a city, and haven’t in the past unless I had to because of my husband’s job or military service-life is easier there, I suppose, but I was raised in a remote place, so city life has no appeal for me. And I’ve been ready for the revolution ever since my parents gave me a copy of Atlas Shrugged for my 14th birthday and I read it. I’m ready and willing-bring on that revolution at last...
I don’t know anyone who has lived like that-not co-workers, neighbors, and certainly not family-but I don’t live in a city, and haven’t in the past unless I had to because of my husband’s job or military service-life is easier there, I suppose, but I was raised in a remote place, so city life has no appeal for me. And I’ve been ready for the revolution ever since my parents gave me a copy of Atlas Shrugged for my 14th birthday and I read it. I’m ready and willing-bring on that revolution at last...
You have to add the elites minions; the politicians, news media, educational establishment, federal and state government workers.
These people live in bubble, they have no idea how much the “deplorables” absolutely loathe and detest them.
That would be “Bomber” Harris, the RAF general who claimed killing as many German civilians as possible would end the war. He tried it for about 3 years, killed a few hundred thousand women and children, and accomplished nothing but making the Germans more angry and stubborn. Incidentally, the USAF bombed in daylight so they could see where their bombs were dropping, but the RAF bombed indiscriminately at night because it was “safer” for their crews. That part didn’t work out so well when the Germans developed radar-controlled flak guns and radar-equipped night fighters.
I was a state government employee at the unemployment office for 15 years helping veterans and welfare recipients find work or start businesses.
Even USAAF “precision” bombing was not very precise.
The Strategic Bombing Survey done after the war showed very few bombs actually hit its intended target.
More like “Brave New World” then “1984”. The only thing missing is ‘specially bred castes’.
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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3481632/posts
James O’Keefe’s videos prove this- what we’ve suspected for many long years.
Can’t disagree with that. They deserve everything that’s coming to them. And then some.
The elites and their boot lickers haven’t really understood that there’s a settling of Accounts of truly Biblical proportions headed their way. Their actions, their treason against God, Man, nature, justice and reason has removed any last vestige of conscience I might have had regarding their fates.
Both my dad and MrT5 were career military men-and my 1st husband left the AF after 6 years-when he was offered a position he couldn’t afford to turn down with a large company. All 3 were called hard men by those who didn’t really know them-but it is true that they never expressed any sympathy for an enemy or any hesitation for taking one out-none at all-I absorbed that thinking, and I make no apologies-an enemy is an enemy, whether they come on like a berserker or appear to be all tears and hand wringing. I’m unsympathetic to whatever end their karma has earned them-they would do the same to me in a heartbeat, if given one blink of hesitation...
I’ve been told my attitude is unchristian-and maybe by some standards it is-but Jesus didn’t hesitate to bring a fight to those who defiled the temple-I don’t think God expects us to not fight for what we believe, either...
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