Consider the age of monarchs. Squabbling barons select a supreme ruler – a king or an emperor — to suppress the squabbling. Peace and prosperity return to the land. The king makes policy but he can’t do everything. His minions take care of the details.
Minions mean bureaucracy. The bureaucracy grows. The king grows old and dies. The dynasty continues. The bureaucracy continues – always continues, and always grows. The bureaucracy becomes an establishment kingdom unto itself. The bureaucracy grows in power and serves its own interests. The king diminishes in power. The land grows restless under the increasing regulatory tyranny and taxes. Legitimacy –what the Chinese called the “mandate of heaven” — is lost and so is the dynasty.
Change the names and we are at the end of a similar cycle – a cycle that began with the guillotine. This time it is a world-wide cycle. The modern king is a modern tyrant – Stalin, Hitler, Mao were the worst.
The socialist idea had been kicking around since the 18th century. This seemingly plausible notion shaped the various Marxist evils of the 20th century. The Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Nazism, Fascism, and today’s imperious European Union, are all socialist tyrannies of one degree or another.
Bureaucratic agencies become ideal tools for tyrants. A tyrant can point his agencies in a particular direction and unleash them. They immediately glory in their new power. Horrors ensue. Nazi Germany gave us the Holocaust and war. Stalin used betrayal. Friends betrayed friends. Children spied on parents. During the Soviet show trials of the 1930’s Stalin’s innocent victims were forced to falsely confess in order to save the lives of their families. Fear reigns.
Sound familiar? How about the FBI inducing General Flynn to plead guilty in order to protect his son? Mao injected dark comedy by unleashing hordes of children to humiliate their elders. No one was safe. Fear reigns. Sound familiar? Antifa anyone? Black Lives Matter anyone? Greta anyone? Mao lives!
The United States has become an undemocratic administrative state as well, but only by happenstance. In this country Congress has ceded much of its power to unchecked regulatory agencies, allowing them to write their own laws — regulations which enable them to prosecute, and persecute, anyone who might stand in an agency’s way. The agencies are powers unto themselves — judge, jury, and arresting police altogether. Innocents are often victims.
It isn’t just the regulatory, or administrative, state that is the problem. There is a growing sense that something is terribly wrong throughout society – throughout progressive liberal society, that is. How about needles in the street? How about sanctuary cities, counties and states? How about the ruins of Detroit? How about the weekly slaughter in Chicago? How about suppression of free speech in academia? How about the corrupt liberal media? How about big tech bias and censorship? It seems that our governments, and our intellectual establishments both, no longer serve the average citizen. They serve only a leftist political ideology, and themselves.
Worst of all, the political ideology that the establishment promotes is antithetical to the native ideology of America. America was founded as a society with spiritual values. True America is a society where the family is paramount. It is a society where a person is rewarded in proportion to his contribution. It is a society devoted to the individual where the individual is inherently free because his rights derive from the Creator not from the government. The purpose of government, according to the American ideology, is to serve the individual, not to be his master. The collection of individuals is to be the master of the government. This is classical liberalism – now a conservative ideal. It is the opposite of “progressive liberalism.”
The true American ideology cautions against granting power to any bureaucratic establishment. In its ever increasing hunger for power the establishment has gravitated to an alien progressive ideology – an ideology of ever bigger government and government control. But the bossy progressive Left increasingly forbids Americans to be Americans.
Political turmoil is the consequence. The barons are squabbling. The Left openly advocates overthrowing the Constitution. The Right counters with Donald Trump. The Left politically assassinates him with impeachment. The Right, with centrist allies, will reelect him anyway. The Mandate of Heaven has been removed from the elitist establishment. It is passing to the Deplorables.
It isn’t just in America. The world as a whole is pivoting. The dogmatic socialist established order is ending. We enter the age of the Deplorables. The Deplorables are ascending in America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are the antidote to arrogant globalist socialists. Deplorables everywhere say “from now on we will make our own decisions.”
Hong Kong Deplorables protest extradition bill (credit: Studio Incendo)
What is it with the Deplorables? What gives them such power? Three things, I believe, are elevating them. Deplorables are pragmatic. They are not wedded to any extreme ideology. Deplorables will go with anything that works. It is no wonder that the Deplorables began in America. For, as Americans we inherit the pragmatism of our pioneering ancestors.
Second, the Deplorables adhere to the original American ideology of free individuals. They reject the concentration of government power that has accumulated over the past century.
The third energizer is a technological miracle – the internet. Establishments everywhere fear the internet. And properly so. For the first time we can instantly communicate across the world. We can find like-minded people everywhere. We have discovered just how very many people agree with us.
It follows that Deplorables are no longer just an American phenomenon, the phenomenon resonates with people everywhere. People around the world are much the same. They value their traditions and customs. They value their families, their values, their spiritual heritage. They value their nation. They resent the imposition of intrusive government by strangers, by bureaucratic globalists. They are becoming Deplorables.
Born in the still free parts of America, this new movement seems destined to chart the course for the whole world — for this century and beyond.
The Mandate of Heaven no longer rests with the condescending progressive bureaucratic establishment. It is passing back to the people. It is passing to Deplorables everywhere in the world.
If the Deplorables in the US want to gain any real meaningful freedom, they need to get rid of the Fed Gov and along with it the Federal Reserve, the bullshit military and that lousy piece of paper – The Constitution.
But the vast majority want to hold on to the concept of a huge United States of America with a military that murders civilians all over the globe while they cheer them on as the best fighting force every created. Thank you for your murders.
They won’t want a smaller entity that 50 new countries might provide. No, they want to keep cheering for the flag with 50 stars that guarantees their servitude. The deplorables are too stupid to see where their real interests are. That’s why the current environment exists – because they’re too stupid to have created another.
They vote in a two party system that screws them at every (s)election. They are rabid party supporters because they want ‘free stuff’ that someone else is supposed to pay for. They suck up the line of bullshit every politician KNOWS will work to get them elected.
They want The Constitution as opposed to inventing 50 new constitutions where different ideas as to how things should work can be tried in different regions producing clear winners and losers in record time. They want what they already have, which isn’t working, but too stupid to try something else.
They’re too stupid to want Anarchism – rules but no rulers. They want someone to boss them around and that’s what they’ll always get. New boss same as the old boss, but interspersed with periods of violence and depredations. You can’t fix stupid.
They want The Constitution as opposed to inventing 50 new constitutions where different ideas as to how things should work can be tried in different regions producing clear winners and losers in record time.
We want the Constitution, as originally written, including a small central government with limited powers and 50 regional governments where new ideas can be tried and allowed to fail or succeed on their own. Unfortunately, exactly what is outlined in the essay has happened and the power has been concentrated with the federal government, as the Constitution has been abrogated to fit the needs of the central government.
I do not see any peaceful solutions as too many people have been hooked on the givernment’s handouts, in exchange for votes. Only a full fledged revolution will save us and the results will not be pretty.
So, you want another piece of paper just like the current piece of paper, but this time TPTsB will respect it.
Don’t you see how silly that is?
Gov’t will ALWAYS go rogue in the fullness of time. The US sociopaths are the best money can buy and they and their ilk will control whatever comes next.
You should want to get rid of gov’t, not reform it as reform is absolutely impossible.
If there must be gov’t, because the brain dead want it, then make it as small as possible geographically so any particular group of scumbags has a limited effective range.
I want it cut down in size and scope. Breaking up into 50 regional “nations” would not be good for any of us and you would soon have some of the 50 growing to replace the behemoth. CA & NY already want to dictate to the rest of the states.
I live in W TN, about 8 miles from MS, 50 mi from AR, 90 from AL & 100 mi to KY & MO and used to leave MS in the morning, go through TN, into AR, then MO, cross the MS at Cairo, IL and end up the day in KY. If I had to stop and go through customs and immigration at each state, I would never have made my calls in a single day.
So, you want what’s convenient for you. I’m sorry, but I don’t care what’s convenient for you.
The land mass known as the US of A is to damned big to govern. We need at least 50 new countries for starters to have 50 experiments. When some fail, they’ll be folded into those that succeed.
The EU has no real borders and that model could be used in the US. The whole idea is to get rid of the monopoly that is the Fed Gov and allow for options that people can vote for with their feet.
I want an end to the Fed Gov, the funny money Federal Reserve, the bullshit military and all the asinine laws that can’t identify a victim.
Hong Kong/France/Venezuela/Chile and many other places are getting hot/folks sick of the chains of corrupted systems.Soon,will come to the US,perhaps Virginia is the tipping point.
https://youtu.be/frOc4syoPac
Regarding use of the internet – we better learn how to effectively use private email services (fee based) as well as VPN, dual key encryption, and TOR for browsing. Otherwise, we will look like the Hong Kong protestors, awaiting a falling axe when Red China controls the servers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
When SHTF happens, all communications will be taken down to prevent us from knowing what TPTB are doing. Short wave will be the only communication available and I’m not sure they will not try to block that as well.
Know your neighbors and set up private communications with them.