Guest Post by The Zman
The Great War not only devastated the physical structure of Europe, it destroyed the legitimacy of the political infrastructure as well. Once the legitimacy of the ruling class was gone, their authority was gone with it. After all, the war was not a natural disaster beyond the control of the ruling class. It was a disaster created by a ruling class that could not explain why the war was necessary. When they tried, no one could believe them, because they had lied the world into war.
The people, looking around at the devastation, wanted to understand why this terrible thing happened to them. The trouble was the people they would naturally look to for answers no longer had the trust of the people. They had squandered their legitimacy waging a pointless war. Into the void of authority came the liberal democrats, the communists and the fascists, offering their own narrative to explain the past and define a future better than the present. The rest is history.
This is a useful thing to keep in mind as the current ruling class of America counts the votes in the presidential election. Every election is pitched as momentous, but that is mostly nonsense. The choices put in front of the voters are always vetted by the ruling elite, so the results are known in advance. The exception, of course, was Trump in 2016, which is why we have been subjected to close to five years of shrieking by the ruling class about how Trump is a threat to their system.
This election could very well turn out to be devastatingly important. For starters, this is a rare case where both sides are sure they will win. Usually, both sides know what’s coming long before the vote. The eventual losing side may have some false hope, but when they lose they are not surprised. This time, both sides are not only sure they will win; they think they will win big. This is despite an unprecedented media barrage offering no possible way for Trump to win on Tuesday.
Both sides come at this from wildly different perspectives. The ruling class radicals backing the Biden campaign are sure they are the product of a meritocracy that has earned the right to rule. It is so obvious that no sane voter would choose any other system, but the one that puts them at the top. It’s why they remain convinced that Trump won in 2016 by appealing to the dark forces. There’s simply no way that a legitimate democratic system could have picked Trump.
This time they have used every weapon of the system to make sure those dark forces don’t prevail. They have bullied the pollsters that serve the political industrial complex into giving them useful polling data. They have used their media to flood the zone with fear, uncertainty and doubt. The same tools they use in their color revolutions abroad have been deployed here. If Trump wins, then it means the system, at least the rule-based system, is no longer of any use to them.
Ironically, if Trump wins, the people supporting Trump will conclude that the people in charge are no longer legitimate authorities. The polls, the media, the analysis, will all be viewed as an orchestrated lie campaign. After all, the best and the brightest of the system said Biden was a metaphysical lock. The result of a Trump win will be that both sides agree that the system is rotten to the core. The Left will seek to destroy it while the Right will stand aside and let them do it.
As Stalin said, it is not the votes that count, but who counts the votes and it is the people counting the votes who are the issue on the ballot. If Biden wins, most sensible people will assume shenanigans. Joe Biden has spent the final weeks of the campaign mumbling to empty parking lots, while Trump is speaking to stadium sized rallies in the key states. The same observations that lead people to think the polls are a lie will lead them to think a Biden victory is a lie.
It is heritage America that is the engine of the Trump campaign. These are people who get misty when they hear God Bless America. They believe that they are fighting to maintain the greatest system in the world for the greatest country in the World. All they have to do is vote harder and the bad guys will be driven from the field and the America they love will come back to herself. If their monumental efforts fail, then it means the system has failed. Their America is lost.
The irony of the Left making war on these people is that without these people there can be no Left, as there is no establishment to support the Left. Those huge crowds coming out to cheer for Trump are what makes liberal democracy possible. If they are finally cut off from having a say in how things are run, then the system begins to falter. Many of those people coming out for Trump will simply drop out, but many will look around for an alternative to the corrupt system they now distrust.
One of John F. Kennedy’s script writers said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” This is the subtext to this election, as both sides go all in on this election. For the Left, a Trump win means they are free to make total war on the system and the people who support it. A Biden win and the veil of ignorance drops for millions of heritage Americans. One side will decide that peaceful revolution, even peaceful reform, is no longer possible.
The truth of democracy is it makes everything political. Even the smallest act becomes a moral signifier, indicating which side you are on. This is because politics forces everyone to be a partisan. In order for democracy to work, everyone must participate, which means everyone picks a side. Partisanship turns everyone into the enemy of someone, often people they do not know. A country full of enemies is not a country, but a forest full of dry underbrush waiting for a match.
This is an election where one side will ultimately conclude that the system itself is no longer worth respecting or defending. The Biden camp is much closer to that point, maybe even resolved to it, but still pretending. The Trump side is not there yet, but inching closer. There is no result that can leave both sides satisfied that the system worked as intended. Like the period after the Great War, we are entering a crisis of legitimacy, which begins with the election results.
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Political solutions died last night. The only way to win election from now till… will be by force. Voting is hopelessly corrupted, the courts are horribly skewed and the people have let critical thinking go the way of the dinosaur.
Enjoy your last breaths of supposed freedom, because the next few months will be survival of the most prepared. There will be much bloodletting on both sides until this is over.
Pray hard.
I would appear that this issue has gone well beyond the talking stage. Truth be known, it was past that over 12 years ago. We are just now living our poor choices to go along to get along. JMO
Fake news, fake money, fake leaders, fake everything.
This country produces nothing and the economy is a shell game of massive proportions.
The people that do produce are primarily middle-class, middle Americans. They support the shell game by farming, producing products to build homes, concrete, steel, etc.
If you piss off the remaining people who produce things, which in turn generate taxes on such income and goods, and they decide they are done doing those things because they have less or no say in how they can operate, then they stop producing.
Where is all the money going to come from for Obama Phones, Obama Care, Medicare, Social Security, EBT/SNAP and Section 8 housing vouchers?
Do you think our Techno Overlords are going to foot the bill? Will Bill Gates pay for it? How about Bezos? Dorsey?
Who is going to buy all that crap on Amazon when everyone is broke? The next amazing whatever fucking gadget no one needs from Apple?
The Left envisions some kind of weird utopia where everyone just does whatever they want, every day, all day, not having to actually show up and produce anything. Where you just go through life with zero purpose.
This is not how human beings function. At least not successfully. People need a purpose to thrive and grow. Without it, we see what happens. Massive crime, anger, jealousy, rage, destruction. All those protests done by people with nothing better to do with their time. Really. Fueled by stupid white people, mostly dumb middle aged white women with no real job except volunteering for whatever cause du jour is popular. And their dumb 20-something daughters. These women are past their sexual prime, and trying to recapture the glory and attention they had 30 years ago through their dysfunctional offspring.
No one talks about the end game of reparations. Some black people might think they are owed this for whatever reason, but the reality is whatever pittance they get, after the lawyers suck up their 30%, is not going to take away the real problems, or assuage their victimhood.
The East and West Coast liberal morons have built a house upon sand, and it’s fast shifting under their feet no matter who the President is.
California has experienced massive flight from the state, is constantly on fire, taxes and regulates everything into oblivion, and has an illegal immigrant problem. Homeless people rule the streets in the big cities, with drugs and mental illness running rampant and unchecked and poop bombs and syringes everywhere.
NY is run by the Capo Cuomo. NYC is ruined, trash piled up, rats breeding out of control, crime rates tripling. Who would go there as a tourist? To see what? A rat safari?
Public education is a complete and utter joke. We now have generations of Timmys and Susies, as well as Jamals and Shanequahs, that cannot read. They are functionally illiterate. They can read a street sign, but comprehending anything more than a text, a tweet, or a one word sentence is beyond their grasp. “Higher” learning is nothing more than a training ground for more brain-dead young adults with an ax to grind. The complete lobotomy of the American Youth is almost complete via Zoom Class.
Medicine is controlled almost exclusively by Big Pharma and Bill Gates. Think about that for a minute. No longer are your medical choices YOURS. It doesn’t matter what you choose, you will get what they deign to give you and if not, you will be kidnapped and forced to do it, either physically or via loss of work, restriction of movement, or utter public destruction, effectively becoming a “non person”.
One man, with no medical degree whatsoever, has successfully influenced millions of lives around the globe because he knows how to game the system for money.
Books are banned. BOOKS ARE BANNED. Amazon can decide to take away any book they choose, via some hate-this or racism-that. Nazi Germany at least burned them in public.
A very sober, cogent synopsis. We’re heading into some dark times.
‘..The exception, of course, was Trump in 2016, which is why we have been subjected to close to five years of shrieking by the ruling class about how Trump is a threat to their system..’
Nonsense. If the system didn’t want Trump, it would have given him the Ron Paul Treatment, not billions of dollars of free publicity.
As for the shrieking, that’s just Kabuki Theater, smoke and mirrors.
Get with the program.
This is why I love TBP. Comments like this can jolt you right back to logic.