I tell you, there’s not just a “hive mind” in our ruling class, where everyone knows what to think every day. Because.
I find that day after day, the things that are swirling around in my brain at 2:00 am are also swirling around in the minds of the people that I read every day.
What I was thinking at 2:00 am this morning was how to apply the Schmittian friend/enemy narrative against our ruling class.
In other words, to quote that notable political mind, Mao Zedong: “Who are our enemies? Who are our friends?” Given that politics is the distinction between friends and enemies.
So I am reading the Zman and he is writing about chaps at Chabad in New York City and their tunneling. How come our rulers put up with this? And then immigration. What do our leaders really think they are doing? They don’t. Our ruling class is not just a single sovereign, a Putin, directing traffic, or even a conspiracy so vast... It is multi-nodal, “a large distributed network. The nodes on this network are the power centers that wield influence in certain areas.” Plus, “the ruling class is not thinking far beyond one move on the board.”
But boy, do they all know that Trump has to be stopped!
Then Edward Ring at American Greatness writes about “The Inherently Destructive Uniparty Agenda.” The combination of Net Zero and immigration is packing more and more people into cities with less energy and less resources, “engineer[ing] scarcity of every essential resource—land, water, energy, and food” — because saving the planet. What could go wrong?
But why? Because it’s the net effect of all the various ruling-class nodes jostling against each other with their particular power agendas.
Then there is Scott McKay at The American Spectator writing about the corrupt Fulton County, GA DA Fani Willis who is gallivanting around with her boy friend (recipient of $654,000 in legal fees) on the taxpayer dime while prosecuting Donald Trump for daring to complain about election shenanigans in Georgia.
So how do we push back and defeat this “enemy?” Given that politics is all about fighting the enemy and gifting our friends, because Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt.
So who is our enemy? Obviously the multi-nodal deep state — or administrative state or activist community or Woking Class.
The point is that any political elite or ruling class inevitably must be fighting an enemy. Because “there is no politics without an enemy.” Our ruling class is fighting the two-headed monster of climate change and systemic racism. Don’t think of this as a vast conspiracy designed with fiendish accuracy to demolish the ordinary American people. It’s just the multi-nodal elite bustling about like the Keystone Kops and this is what they came up with. And you are in the way.
But who are our friends?
I think they are the people who don’t like the corrupt regime of Soros prosecutors that all seem to be black — Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, Kim Foxx, Letitia James — and the whole universe of race-based everything that we call DEI.
I understand what is going on. It is the way that our Democratic friends have achieved 90% Democrat vote among blacks. I think it is driven by two things: first, the racist demagoguery and playing of the race card always and everywhere; second, the flat-out corruption of black officials, that flourishes because they are Democrats and because they are black and because the policy of Democrats — really since the mid 1960s — is to hose money at blacks in return for their vote.
Our friends are the various non-white communities, most of them aspiring immigrant groups like Latinos and Asians, that don’t get to be corrupt and don’t get to flout the rules — don’t want to flout the rules — like blacks. They don’t get to be handed cold cash in reparations for slavery that was ended nearly 200 years ago, and they sure don’t see why they, of all people, should be paying reparations to blacks.
Anyway, that’s my Commoner Coalition: people hurt by the combination of green energy and high-density cities and lefty urbanism and the flagrant corruption of the favorite sons of the rulers.