I tend to think in images–well, gestalts, of which images are a part. I try to use all my senses in processing things. It is challenging for me to think of any culture without feeling the food they eat, and what their homes must smell like.
Anyway, it came to me that the way through the desert has been blocked. For the better part of a century very motivated people have been making progress through an unmarked space, generally devoid of life. Imagine an armored army flanking an enemy which can’t see them. They travel where no one is, so that when they arrive opposing them will be hard.
This is the essence of the Fabian strategy. Fabius Maximus never actually kicked the Carthaginians out of Italy. He just kept them from winning.
What we must understand, here, is that Shaw and his co-conspirators did fully plan to win, but what they saw is that movement which is invisible can easily be forward, if unchecked. It is hard to measure economic subversion. It is hard to measure political subversion.
Moreover, most people simply do not have the capacity to recognize that there are people capable of evil who are nonetheless genteel, and even jovial, as in Shaw’s case. The prospect of the mass murder of social undesirables made him chuckle, apparently. This means that horrible people, who plan millions of acts of violence which would them a death sentences if done without government sanction, can make progress in open view.
Let’s take one simple example: Bill Ayers and his crowd of cowardly sociopaths wanted to kill some 10% of Americans. Mao said that roughly 10% of the population can’t be “reeducated” (morally murdered, and emotionally gang raped), so they figured they would have to organize death camps of the Nazi sort somewhere in the Southwest.
Bill Ayers is a free man, and he has been teaching our children for 30 years or so. Consider that.
At the same time, this path requires generalized complacency. The complacency is gone. The Left may not want to admit it, but a very segment of the United States population is now permanently radicalized against the Fabian agenda. Their days of slow, steady progress are at an end.
The way is blocked. From now on, they will have to offer justifications of their actual agendas, which is much harder than lying about it.
Intuitions can be wrong, but that is what I see clearly.