The Elites Have Revolted and Are in A State of World War Against Us:
Every day there’s further evidence global elites are at war with the people. Western Civilization has periodically been the exception to the rule that the people ordinarily live as serfs in totalitarianism nations dominated by the elites. Those times when the people have actually had a role in governing themselves have been relatively few, in fact, over the centuries. The signing of the Magna Carta by King John giving up some of his rights to lesser nobles was such a moment. The American Revolution was another. Sooner or later, though, the elites claw back their power as the people are conned into giving them a bit of it back only to see the inch given turn into miles and miles.
This process of decay has reached to the very core of Western Civilization at this point. Free speech is evaporating like a dragster taking off for the hay bales at the end of the strip. Rumble has been banned in France and X chased out of Brazil. The developer and CEO of Telegram has been arrested for not cooperating with government. The UK is jailing people for Facebook posts challenging the government narrative and has threatened to extradite Elon Musk for allowing the same thing. The Biden-Harris administration bullied Twitter into downplaying the significance of the Hunter Biden hard drive during a political campaign.
The mainstream media has allied itself with totally corrupt CIA and FBI agencies. Politicians lie with abandon and tell ever bigger lies with straight faces. The heads of other Federal agencies such as Homeland Security and the Department of Justice make flat out false assertions with no embarrassment whatsoever. The Attorney General refuses to pursue perpetrators of violence against pro-life centers but is willing to put grandmothers in jail for praying outside abortion mills. The main bodies of both political parties have joined forces as a uni-party focused on special privileges for themselves as they bankrupt the country. The President and a Vice-Presidential nominee both appear to be all but Chinese Communist party agents.
The rot simply cannot be denied. Oh, it’s always been there. Woodrow Wilson was a vicious racist who reduced free speech to whispers and even Lincoln arbitrarily took away many basic rights but those were war-time situations and temporary. There was also corruption with the Teapot Dome scandal, Alger Hiss and so many other cases, but it’s never been as deep and widespread as today. France’s Macron refuses to leave office despite being massively defeated in the recent election. The UK’s new leader replaced one never elected and the new one is more aligned with the World Economic Forum than his own country.
The elites are in full revolt — world war, if you will — against us. They are stealing elections now but hope to end them soon. They are pushing self-appointed world government on every front with phony campaigns against ‘malinformation’ (their invented word for accurate information opposed to the government narrative), proposals for digital currencies, 15-minute cities, health care dictatorships and so much more. It’s all in the name of control, control and more control and it’s mushrooming like crazy.
What can we do about it, short of another dangerous and counterproductive French Revolution like the one two centuries ago that ended up consuming the advocates of revolution? Well, the first thing it seems to me, despite my gloomy observations above, is not to despair. There are reasons to hope after all. It is clear, for example, there is worldwide revulsion of the elites who are currently running our institutions not only of government, but everything else that matters as well. There is also a realignment of some nature taking place.
The new divisions are ever less of a left vs. right nature and more a matter of the elite establishment vs. versus anti-establishment commoners, insane folks who wish to destroy the family vs. normal people who recognize it as the building block for any civilization, and wannabe masters of the universe vs. freedom lovers. Each of these divisions is important because they clarify what the problem is and what must be remedied, which can only happen if we talk to each other and abide our differences. Reforming or abandoning corrupt institutions so as to realign on principles are the only ways that can happen.
That’s how I see what’s happening in the political realm these days. The RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard endorsements of Trump are indicative of what I’m talking about. I strongly disagree with both on certain matters, especially on abortion and, in Kennedy’s case also on climate and energy matters. Yet, look what’s happened. Bobby, Jr. unforgivably helped killed fracking in New York. He once stated, too, that he wanted to jail ‘climate deniers.”
But, in recent speeches and interviews, Kennedy has attacked the billionaire green grifter class sucking up all our money on wasteful green boondoggles. How can we possibly disagree? He also went after Anthony Fauci in a way no else was capable of doing. And, he has defended free speech like a lion. He came to Trump because he had no other principled choice, and so it must be with us. We need to unite with one-time enemies where we can and destroy the old divisions ion the way to restoring Western Civilization.
Notwithstanding all this, elections, while mattering greatly, won’t save us by themselves. No one individual can do it and events always intervene, making it extraordinarily difficult in the situation we face, which is a world war of entrenched special interests against those of us who would ask questions. Yet, individuals of principle do make a difference, so it falls on all of us to live by our principles. Chief among them are life, liberty and truth-telling, all of which rest on a foundation of free speech and the elite troops arrayed against are making simultaneous major assaults on this principle on every front.
Free speech is the prerequisite of any truly functioning democratic republic, despite the disingenuous wails of the left suggesting that democracy is threatened by it. They want to separate good speech from bad, but don’t tell us they plan to be the arbiters of what is good and bad. And, what they mean by democracy is anything but the vote of the people. No, what they mean by democracy is no more than the institutions they now control, whether they be government agencies or electoral bodies. They aim to kill true democracy, as in “the will of the people,” to save their captured form of it.
Their so-named democracy lives by lies and, therefore, can tolerate no truth telling. The only way they know to stop others from speaking truth to power is smother it by throwing a wet blanket over all speech on the excuse that some of it's bad. Free speech, though, has no such distinctions. It is mixture of good and bad and it’s only by comparing the two that free people get to make up their minds. The antidote to bad speech in the eyes of the beholders is always more speech. Even if ends in both sides calling each other liars, those observing the debate get to decide where the truth really lies. That is true democracy. All speech must be protected or there is no speech for any of us.
We will not turn back the elite troops attacking us without free speech. If we do not insist upon it, we are doomed. We will be forced to live in city colonies and give up our right to travel. We'll be forced to subsidize the lives of elites by paying for unreliable and pricey energy systems that make no sense but fatten the wallets of grifters. We'll lose the right to farm, to possess our own homes, to vote and to live in a nation of our own making. We will revert to a feudal society.
Let’s all remember this when we vote. Let's vote like our very lives depend upon it, because they do, but more than that we all owe it to ourselves and each other to speak up and challenge each other. That means getting on social media, becoming activists and talking with others, especially with whom we disagree. There can be no running away from argument.
That doesn't mean making everything political or acting hostile. No, it simply means engaging others in a civil way. We must cross the divides and ask questions…lots of questions so those aligned against us might understand us better and vice versa with a view toward identifying areas of agreement. We will not win the war against the elites without making friends of some of our enemies. And, we will not wrestle the beast we have created to the ground alone.
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Spot on. Give no ground to these Globalizing Leftists.
It is amazing what one man - even accidentally - can do to change the world. For good or for ill.
Karl Marx is just one in a long line of self-hating Jewish brats just smart enough to perceive some societal ills, but too stupid to think through them clearly.
That drunk deadbeat who borrowed money with abandon from everyone he could with no intention of paying it back, used his tools of eloquence to bequeath a godless materialist vision which has consumed billions and led to the death of hundreds of millions.
Yet braindead Leftists keep marching to this pointless, godless drum. The "best" part is that 95% of them are so stupid, they don't even know the source of their miserable heathen nihilism which they have been told is compassionate.
The moron running for VP right now thinks Socialist means "being neighborly." Tell it to the tens of millions dead in Pol Pot's killing fields, the prisons of Communist Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, China and on and on.
I really love this essay, even though I differ with the more apocalyptic aspects of it. As you indicate, there will need to be people coming together across divides in order for some kind of decent future to come into being. I used to be in the elite that you're referring to. I don't think I was a grifter or a parasite or a Pol Pot wanna be. I was just blind and unable to see beyond my own viewpoint and that of people around me.
What changed my perspective was running into kind, open-minded people from the other side who conducted themselves with honor. They showed me that my view of the right was wrong. That the line through good and evil doesn't run through political groupings, as some of the comments here seem to believe. It runs through every human heart (Solzhenitsyn).
The folks in the expert governing class believe they can engineer a more perfect future for humanity, and their fear of not getting it fills them with very nearly a sense of panic, which is what accounts for the disproportionate nature of things like TDS. Or at least, that's the way it was for me, when I ran with that crowd. I got tired of living in fear. I would bet the same underlying currents run through the left as a whole.
The world can't be engineered for perfection, even though engineering (as I know you know) is an extremely useful capability for more limited things, like providing a workable energy supply. I think that everyday experience inevitably teaches such lessons in pragmatism. I think most people will be willing to heed, in the long run, and we can then have a saner society than we have now.
It will just take enough of us standing up for the principle that a flourishing society is different than an engineered one. That the unruliness of free speech is a signifier for an even greater principle -- freedom is messy, but it's the only realistic way to be human. And to have peace, even though it's unruly.
I can't bring myself to be in this world based on terror of a techno-dystopian nightmare dictatorship, which is what I find so often in conservative discourse, as I myself become much more conservative. I think that kind of apocalyptic orientation toward life and the future rules too many of us who reject what the left is doing. I grew up under Ronald Reagan, who led the country with a vision of hope, for all of his flaws. We need that hope, not just for our country but for ourselves.
It's one of the things that keep us going in this life, not just in politics. Hope, faith, love. Against an empire based on fear, they are the greatest of instruments. We know this because those human gifts changed an empire once before. They came from the story of miracles not of this world. And the world changed. We have to hope it can happen again, even if we won't live to see it.