Guest Post by Eric Peters
The Orange Man is seen by many as the man who will stop the spread of authoritarianism in the United States. But maybe he’s the man who’s going to legalize it.
Orange Man has promised that, if elected, he will confer immunity from prosecution upon the enforcers of authority; i.e., the police – thereby conferring upon them carte blanche to enforce their authority as much as they like (and irrespective of the law).
In this possible future, if you are accosted by a cop who has no legal right to accost you – a good example of this being the lawful video-recording of cops giving a wood shampoo to someone else who has affronted their authority – and you object to being accosted and quickly find yourself being given a wood shampoo – the cop who gave you the wood shampoo could not be prosecuted for abusing you.
Do you suppose this will result in cops self-policing? Restrain them from administering wood shampoos?
Orange Man no doubt knows you get more of that which you give license to. As for example the license given to thieves to steal – so long as they only steal so much.
Interestingly, the Orange Man complains about that sort of license-giving. Probably because it’s “dirty hippies” – channeling Nixon – and offends his sense of “law and order,” as well as the sensibilities of like-minded authoritarian personalities. It explains why Orange Man also wants to kill people who’ve “dealt” arbitrarily illegal “drugs,” the latter “drugs” being the ones aging Boomers like the Orange Man do not approve of. But Orange Man approves of other drugs, including those he literally pushed on people. Say what you will about people who deal drugs; they never “push” them on people the way mRNA drugs were pushed on people.
And those “warp speeded” (and “beautiful”) drugs the Orange Man helped push have killed many times more people than have ever been harmed by drugs like marijuana – the chief side effects of which include a jones for Nachos, as opposed to myocarditis.
The incongruity of this does not matter. What matters is authority. That authority be obeyed, irrespective of what it does. Because authority is always right – as far as authoritarians are concerned.
They promise order – and many pine for it to be imposed.
The chaos engendered by Leftists serves as the perfect foil for this – because most sane people cannot stand chaos and want it to stop. The authoritarians of the Franco-Peron-Pinochet type (and also the Charlie Chaplin moustache’d type) pander to this. The people – desperate for the chaos to abate and some semblance of order to be restored – beg for it to be imposed.
It was not for nothing that the Italians of the 1930s revered their Duce – who made the trains run on time.
This accounts for much of the Orange Man’s almost sieg-heiling support. The belligerent refusal to even discuss the Orange Man’s authoritarianism. Even when it conflicts with the freedoms most dear – putatively – to those who support the Orange Man, as for example in the case of the bumpstock ban, the red flag laws and the “due process later” dismissal of . . .. the due process rights without which “freedom” is merely the “freedom” to obey, or else.
People hear what they want to hear – and believe what they want to believe. It is part of the tragedy of the human condition. And it is a tragedy that waxes when people feel the world is coming undone around their heads.
Save us! – they cry.
Enter their savior.
But he may just be the antithesis of that.
By implication, if the police are to be given blanket immunity from prosecution, then what stands in the way of government persecution? The enforcers of authority are effectively freed to do as they please, which implies those who sic them on the people are also free to do as they please.
Authority must not be affronted. And subjecting authority to accountability is exactly that – an affront to authority. This is the core tenet of Orange Franco’s beliefs. He wants the restoration of order.
His order.
Now, this kind of order may be preferable in the moment to the chaos that invites it, just the same as the chaos that characterized Germany in the 1920s invited the order that replaced it in the 1930s.
But don’t fool yourself into thinking you’ll be free when this order arrives. It will be authority that’s freed – and you’d better do as you’ve been told.
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