It occurred to me the other day that the de facto assaults on small business–to the benefit of Big Business–has the political effect of making it easier to turn political propaganda offensives on and off like spigots. The recent near universal and instantaneous “Pride” (another word usurped by the Left, along with, among many others, woke, and the symbol of the rainbow, which was once quite innocent and in my mind at least associated with happy children) offensive in Corporate America is a case in point.
When all the largest corporations can simultaneously begin saying the same things, and pushing the same agendas, they have more or less become fully politicized, and another front in the culture war, one run by the same Generals, and directed to the same ends the agents in media are.
What the Left wants, obviously, is less and less “cranky” small business owners putting signs on their doors that don’t comply with their agenda, which in the end amounts to turning us all into frightened serfs, working diligently for peanuts and various opiates, including violent TV, which I might term vicarious participation in sacrificial violence not different in principle from gladiatorial contests. Doritos, craft beer and CSI is our own Panem et Circenses. We are even paying people to stay home, as the Romans once did.
And the same basic idea applies to police departments. What is happening, more or less is that these cynical, truly evil human beings are denigrating the actual police trying to do their dangerous and in the best of times often thankless jobs. The honest ones will leave. The corrupt, politicized ones will be taken care of and promoted.
The mid-term goal is to use the politics of racial grievance, coupled with the vast increases in actual crime directed at blacks BY blacks, to both push increasingly centralized control of local police departments–another intermediate institution–as well as the disarming of law abiding citizens.
They are doing the same thing in the military. They are doing their best to push out honest patriots, and replace them with people like Milley Vanilley, who is to honest patriotism roughly what that pop band was to genuine artistic ability. Teaching racism is the OPPOSITE of everything this nation stands for, and that is what CRT is. I was watching a video on Front Page Magazine the other day, where people attending a CRT conference in Somewhere, USA were LITERALLY capable of blaming white people for all our problems in this country, then IN THE NEXT SENTENCE denigrate judging racial groups en masse.
That sort of stupidity has to be trained. It cannot occur naturally in an organically sound human being. If they don’t have brain damage, that sort of thing should not be possible. It is conditioned, and the conditioning of course starts with the perversion of words.
In my personal view Milley–who is an absolute disgrace, and yes we do have the right to judge anyone in public office–has done more to damage the reputation of our Armed Services than anyone since John Kerry, who started his career by creating the myth of the fucked up Vietnam veteran, which he himself knew to be a lie when he was telling it. It’s appropriate he too is part of this whole shit show.
And we have the various National Guards, but I wonder how they too are being undermined. Perhaps bringing them to Washington created opportunities for indoctrination. And in any event, they are more or less “temp” soldiers, appended to full time combat units in most cases when they are short staffed; and otherwise used by the States as trained and logistically solid cadres to deal with natural disasters and on occasion internal violence larger than the police can deal with.
So you look at the landscape, and all the possibility for “weirdness”, for local ideosyncracy, is being slowly erased. Roughly a third of small businesses were destroyed by national and local policy, while Amazon and its brethren (whose motto might be Big Business for Big Government) posted record profits.
Most local police departments are being taken over by lunatic Leftists, and ordered to do non-sensical things that are making the streets much more dangerous, the police officers themselves furious, and pushing out all the good people. And obviously the crime will be used to support gun grabbing that is completely counterproductive.
Always remember: more legal guns, less crime. This is fact, and borne out in many volumes of data the world over. And if you want to flip that, you can: more ILLEGAL guns, more crime. Both hold true.
Local media has largely been coopted long ago. Your local newspaper is likely owned by a conglomerate. Gannett owns an awful lot of them. Same with your local TV news.
The internet remains relatively free, for now, but obviously Social Media, writ large, is where most of the talking and exchanging happens, and that too is under relatively centralized control. Facebook talks to Twitter who talks to Google, and if they want to make something or someone disappear, its a few mouse clicks.
I wonder, actually, AT THIS MOMENT what stories have been fully disappeared? We read about ones that are posted and then removed. We don’t read about, obviously, the ones that are killed before birth.
I continue to wonder why there would be hope. But something in me continues to feel that something good remains possible. I don’t know why.
Last night I was dreaming I was on a plane rounding a bend, and the sun came out in a most beautiful way. And we were climbing steadily, and I realized the pilots were competent, and I went back to sleep.