Guest Post by The Zman
When I was in Dublin, I had a lot of fun watching the BBC and SkyNews, mostly because they were still in shock over Brexit. It was as if they learned that the Loch Ness Monster was real. They just could not come to terms with the new reality. Every segment circled back to the vote and how it was the worst thing to happen since Dunkirk. They talked about Brexit in the same way people talk about life altering tragedies. At one point, someone even said, “I’ll never forget where I was the day I heard the news of Brexit.”
The interesting thing was that they were so sure that Brexit would be a disaster that they were starting to pretend that the disaster was happening, even though nothing had changed since the vote. At the time, the markets were up and the economic indicators were all pointing in the right direction. There was also the fact that the vote changed nothing. It will take years to implement Brexit, assuming it ever happens, which is unlikely. Still, the people on the Beeb were sure doom was at hand.
That’s the power of belief and a reminder that all the flapdoodole we associate with the Left is not based in facts and reason. It is something closer to a UFO cult, where the members, from time to time, become convinced of some great event that is about to occur. When that event does not happen, they go through a period of confusion and sadness, like how normal people mourn an untimely death. The difference is the Progs rally together to recast the event into a new great cause with its own doomsday cult attributes.
You can see that in this hysterical tirade by Mathew Julio Yglesias. He both Voxsplains the current crisis and provides a standard around which his fellow moonbats can rally.
The country has entered a dangerous period. The president-elect is the least qualified man to ever hold high office. He also operated the least transparent campaign of the modern era. He gave succor and voice to bigoted elements on a scale not seen in two generations. He openly praised dictators — not as allies but as dictators — and threatened to use the powers of his office to discipline the media.
You could be forgiven for thinking he was writing about Barak Obama, but that would require a level of self-awareness unacceptable in a religious cult.
He also has a long history of corrupt behavior, and his business holdings pose staggering conflicts of interest that are exacerbated by his lack of financial disclosure. But while most journalists and members of the opposition party think they understand the threat of Trump-era corruption, they are in fact drastically underestimating it. When we talk about corruption in the modern United States, we have in mind what Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny define as “the sale by government officials of government property for personal gain.”
This is from a guy who supported Hillary Clinton. It once again points out a feature of the Left and something you always see with the hive minded. They cast onto their enemies all of the things they fear about themselves. Membership in a mass movement is about self-abnegation. The adherent wants to obliterate his sense of self and replace it with the identity of the cause. The result is all the things they despise about themselves become the first things they assume about their enemies. Their bogeyman is always a reflection of themselves.
What we are seeing with the Trumpening is the same thing the Brits saw with Brexit. These people were absolutely convinced that they were riding the warm thermals of history, like gentle little butterflies drifting from one flower to the next, until they reached the valley of the chosen. It’s not that they cannot accept losing. They did not think losing was a possibility. These events are dis-confirmation of their most important beliefs. It turns out that history has no right side, after all, and that’s the cornerstone of the Progressive faith.
The tantrums and warnings of doom are just a way for the faithful to rally together to support one another as they figure out how to reconfigure the prophesies to fit the new reality. It is no different from what has been observed with UFO and doomsday cults. The believers become convinced X is about to happen and X will confirm all of their beliefs. When X does not happen, they are faced with the prospect of their beliefs being proved false. That was election night for the American Left.
What we are seeing now is the leaders of the cult trying to rally their members to provide mutual support. Focusing their attention on the alleged evils of the other side takes the focus away from the dis-confirmation. If they can muster their numbers, they can will their way through the crisis and reorganize their beliefs to incorporate the dis-confirmation into the narrative. In time Brexit and Trump will become part of the struggle myth that motivates the faithful to keep fighting. After all, they are on the right side of history.
Nickel Thrower wrote an article yesterday about the coming civil unrest/war .This is a good example.How anybody could any find anything good in Obama or Clinton is amazing.It shows us the mental illness that has taken hold of liberals/ Progressives/ leftist of all stripes.You can’t reason with these people and there is no common ground.And if you point out how foolish or illogical their beliefs are they hate you even more.
I was trying to think of even one logical reason to vote for Hillary and came up empty.
History is written by the victors – if it gets written at all. Doubt there are any contemporaneous records of the Cro-Magnon / Neanderthal conflict (if there was one); various times probably saw Indian tribes (Maya, Inca, Aztec, more) fighting each other. The Spanish had written language to record their victory over the Inca, and destroyed whatever Inca records they could find; the early Church rewrote history as they saw fit to record victories over the “heathens”.
Point is, there is no right side to history – there’s usually only the winning side, right or wrong. And if the Crunch turns into WWIII, there may be no written histories left to say who “won” – if there’s anyone left at all.
Mr. Z,
Great analysis from you.
How did we get here? Well, the Brits first…how did they become so
predictably PC and so child like in their need to maintain the yoke
of the EU? How is it that people are blubbering or threatening in
response to HC losing the election? Some people accepted the wayward and
mysterious Barack Hussein Obama, initially at least. Is there something in
the food? or water? Maybe it is our gut…telling their unconscious minds
that we are looking at severe change/our $ to survive is going missing/homeless
people growing in great numbers? It isn’t intelligent to evade responsibility
by blaming other groups for the big trouble. Yet, I keep thinking, “it is the
bankers.” Does Goldman Sachs run the entire freakin’ world?
“The bail-in is another weapon in the government’s arsenal of capital controls meant to reward Wall Street cronies and separate you from your money.
“We’ve long been familiar with capital controls, such as daily limits on bank withdrawals. Add that to seven years of microscopic interest rates cannibalizing savers’ nest eggs combined with planned inflation stealing your money while you sleep. But unlike the drip-drip we’re used to, the bail-in will come upon you quickly, harshly, and with finality.”
“Those laws altogether say your money in your bank account in your name is not your money. Those laws say the bank owns your deposited money, not you.”
https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2015/04/15/fdic-plots-a-bank-heist-involving-your-accounts-000694
New G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND …
https://ellenbrown.com/2014/12/01/new-rules-cyprus-st… Proxy Highlight
Dec 1, 2014 … New G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners …. after the G20 meeting of economic nations where a resolution
Soon we may all be broke…how will we feed the blubbering? How will we feed
ourselves?
Suzanna
Gotta have money at home (locked away someplace subtle, not a cookie jar). Gotta have hard assets at home (gold Eagles or Buffalo, silver coins, bottles of alcohol / tobacco / firearms). Gotta have assets no one knows about but you, located places no one knows about but you. Gotta have food and water for several months.
Keep just enough in the bank to pay a month or two of expenses. Cash out / buy up supplies with the rest. When the bail-in comes, it will come on cat’s feet, so don’t be exposed with tons of cash in a bank when it does.
Most people would rate Trump’s harshest promise to be deporting all of the illegals. I never thought he meant “all” (or even most), and I still don’t. I have to say, though, that if these whiny ass fuckers don’t cool it with their protests and their sanctimony, with their yellow journalism and their threats of violence, then my response will be to dig in my heels and join those who want every last one of the illegals thrown the fuck out. And when they’re loading little Zulema onto the bus back to Mexico, you can blame those deadlocked white rioters in Portland and that fag from “Hamilton”. Fuck ’em!