The Hothouse

Guest Post by The Zman

The sales pitch for the American political system is that it is a robust debate between two distinct political parties. The Republicans and Democrats are coalitions of interests opposed to one another. The groups that make up each party are held together by a shared ideological outlook. The Republicans are the conservative party, and the Democrats are the liberal party. The political process adjudicates the disputes between the parties over public policy and the result is a compromise.

In reality, America is a one party system. It has been since Gettysburg. The differences between the two parties are miniscule. This is why public policy never changes when the party in charge changes. The mild reforms of the Reagan years were followed by a consensus that remains in place to this day. There is some tinkering around the edges to keep up appearances, but otherwise the results of each election have no impact on public policy or the priorities of government.

As for those two ideologies, they are just two faces of a single ruling class ideology that is something like a religion now. There is left-liberalism and there is right-liberalism held together by a common moral framework. Like the old Bolsheviks, the left side of the American ideology is maximalist and radical. It wants to usher in the promises of the revolution right now. The right side is more cautious, preferring an evolutionary approach to ushering in the promised utopia.

Unlike the old communists, the American ideology has always existed in a popular political system, so it is built to sell itself to the public. The main role of the right-liberals is to protect the left-liberals from themselves. They function as barrier between the tenets of the one true faith and any questioning of the faith. The left side is the heart of the beast, driving the agenda and pushing society along from one fad to the next, always chasing the avatar of egalitarian paradise.

This arrangement has worked amazingly well. Perhaps too well. It has been over a century since there has been a threat to the system. Anarchists and communists at the start of the last century started to get some traction, but they were never really a threat to the basic arrangements. Otherwise, it has been smooth sailing for the uniparty system for generations. The left-liberals are free to dream up new social innovations without being disturbed and the right stands quietly at guard.

The trouble is the party is looking like a freak show inside a hot house. For example, the Air Force now has drag shows to boost morale. To normal people, this is completely nuts (pun intended), but to the people in charge it is perfectly normal. In fact, they think it is bizarre that anyone would question it. They are not entirely wrong, as the people who arranged it will never be pressed on it. The politicians all agree that drag queens are who we are now, and the press echoes the sentiment.

Where the ruling orthodoxy finds itself is in a place where there is never a need to explain themselves and defend their positions. The right-liberals never challenge the left-liberals on orthodoxy. Both sides just put on shows where they pretend to disagree, but then kick back together after the show to laugh about it. The right-liberals have insulated themselves from defending their position. They tell themselves that they are simply too good to discuss these things with their critics.

The folks at the Daily Wire are supposed to be the smart kids of conservatism, but they spend their days making sure the hothouse is airtight. Ben Shapiro’s one venture outside the tightly controlled environment of his life ended in disaster. Ever since that public relations debacle his people have made sure that no one can utter a discouraging word in his presence. In fact, that whole scene has become a closed shop, never interacting with anyone outside their hive.

It is not just the pundits who have become hot house flowers. Look at what happens to the military leaders when they go before Congress. This guy went before Congress and told one whopper after another. To outsiders, he looks like a complete fool, but inside that room he is just par for the course. Anyone reading this could have wrecked him with a few simple questions, but no one in the room has the intelligence or the temperament to question anything.

This is the motivation behind the mass censorship and de-platforming. The people inside the political system are incapable of defending or even discussing their positions and they live in fear of having to do it. It is not so much that the critics have great arguments or have superior debating skills. That is a silly conceit. It is simply that the people outside the system, the dissidents, are comfortable defending their positions and discussing them in public. They can take a punch.

This underlying sense of weakness is probably what lies behind the persecution of the January protestors. January 6th, from the perspective of the ruling class, was an emperor has no clothes moment. The torture and torment of the protestors is as much about reassuring themselves that they are tough and in charge as it is about sending a message to the Dirt People. The ruling class revealed themselves to be cowards and now they are lashing out in a fit of petty spite.

All ruling elites have an abundance of sissies and ridiculous people. They are the entertainment and decoration for the serious men who run things. Those serious men are made serious by regular contact with reality. Remove that contact and those serious men become as silly and ridiculous as their retainers. That is where the empire finds itself now, ruled by fops and popinjays living in a hothouse. They live in fear of someone opening the door and letting in reality.

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Norman Franklin

Z-man gets to the nub of why all the censorship and de=platforming. The uni-party is not capable of self reflection and cant stand up for their ideas. They wilt like newly transplanted tomatoes in the 100 degree sun. At least those of us outside the system can debate our beliefs without having a meltdown.

The dems would self destruct in one election cycle if not for their ‘friends on the other side of the aisle’. Imagine someday a second party organized around a few simple principles that 80% of the people agreed with. All that is required is tearing down this digital iron curtain the garbage elite have constructed.

The elite’s foppery knows no bounds and that will be their eventual downfall. At this point the only thing I would bother to vote for is a massive EMP. As horrible as that would be, its looking better than living in this open air prison with the republican walking bosses running around with whips cracking, screaming “Vote harder, we need to conserve conservatism.

Stucky

If both parties are identical …. then why do they hate each other so deeply?

Old Toad of Green Acres
Old Toad of Green Acres

Hollywood or more likely Bollywood, a fake American/ Indian glittering spectacle.
Behind the curtain they slap backs, joke and trade stock tips.
It is all on the level Stuck.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

The parties are NOT identical; they do however work for the same bosses, mostly- The B3RG*/Evil Fuckers.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I don’t think both parties are identical. One party actively pushes for our destruction, according to leftist-globalist plans, in order to wield totalitarian power. The other acquiesces to 90% of the first party’s tactics for financial payoffs and in a futile attempt to be eaten last by the monster they’re allowing to grow.

AL Tru
AL Tru

J Edgar Hoover had the dirt/blackmail on everybody in DC for 40 years. He also wore a dress on the weekends.
Jefferey Epstein blackmailed/extorted the rich and powerful.

it’s how the Game is played.

Time to burn the playhouse down

rhs jr
rhs jr

The Blacks will burn the WDC Outhouse down out of pure urban jungle stupidity when TPTB crash the dollar and stock market and their Welfare has a hiccup.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Z said the Republicans are the Conservative Party; no way; not even close. Conservatives hate the NWO Republican Party of RINOs who teamed up with Democrats to stab Trump and the Patriots in the back for 4 years. Conservatives and Patriots really are not represented by either major Party; sure they vote Republican but that is because they hate the Democrats even more. Perhaps our best action is to work for Conservative Republicans, defeat Democrats and RINOs, and try to return the Republican Party to Conservative Leadership and Principles. One good reference is the PrecinctProject.wordpress.com by Dan Schultz.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

The history of the Republican Party is that of big business loving NE liberals. Papa Bush was a prime example.

It would be nice for the conservatives to have a voice in leadership, but don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen.

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