Well, they were arguing about Christian cake bakers at American Spectator yesterday. And the liberal troll wrote:
Jack Phillips (the Colorado Baker) was WRONG.
He should have just made the stupid cake.
You know, it’s usually interesting to read the ideologists. Because it helps to know the Narrative. Yep. Just bake the cake, stupid.
With ideology it’s always black or white. There is no right for a Christian baker to stand on his principles, if you are a right-on lefty. But whatabout the cultural appropriation of white tippy-top girl college students wearing keffiyeh scarves at a peaceful protest? Whatabout Jews wearing their traditional headgear?
Yes, I know. That’s Different.
What I notice is that our liberal friends are really going pedal-to-the-metal on pushing their world view this election season. Maybe it’s going to work, and maybe non-liberals will just keep their heads down.
Or maybe they will get angry and vote early and often.
The point is that in America today liberals get to peacefully protest about anything and everything to the admiration of the regime media, but other Americans better watch out. Other Americans get to do things like stop buying Bud Light or buy sports gear connected with a place kicker who honors wives that stay home and mother their children.
So how does it all pan out? Stay tuned.
I think that my big takeaway is that I am still rather impressed at how insulted our rulers are about the Trump / Meloni / Órban / Canadian truckers / Dutch tractors phenomenon. And how their only reaction seems to be to criminalize dissent, to lawfare their political opponents, and shovel bennies at approved victim classes.
If I were sitting in the room with the globalist executive council I would be advising caution. I would be saying to my tippy-top friends that, hey, we can fight climate change, and enforce diversity, and educate the next generation of peaceful protesters without jabbing the deplorables in the groin. Let’s cool our jets.
In other words, our noble rulers are not being strategic. They are not thinking about what modification of their political formula — that they are the Allies of the Oppressed against the White Oppressors — would put them in the saddle for a thousand years. They are not even thinking tactics, about how to fool the bitter clingers into voting for them again.
No. They are simply playing tit-for-tat. No, not even that. They are simply reacting with a “how dare you” snob act. They cannot think of anything beyond Power, using their Power, in the legal system, in the culture, and above all in politics, to ditch their enemies: to trap them in the coils of justice, to bankrupt them with legal fees.
But I think we are here because the educated ruling class has failed in a basic job of any ruling class: to know what is going on out in the public square, to know what ordinary people want, and to give them enough of what they want to head off a head of rebellion.
In other words, I believe that all the cunning lawfaring and legal beagling ends up as a Baldrick’s Cunning Plan.
And, as always, I’ve been reading a book that explains the whole procedure. It is the Narrative, in Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power that the only thing that Power knows is more Power, breaking down barriers to Power, and demolishing the social structures between Power and the Individual so that there remains nothing except Power and the helpless individual left without protection from Power.
It’s odd to think about the story of Power since the end of the Middle Ages. How back then the kings and the popes tended to balance each other’s Power. How intermediate institutions between the monarch and the individual protected the individual from Power, how explosions of Power like the French Revolution, the German unification under Bismarck, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Maoist Revolution all ended in orgies of blood and heaps of skulls. And chaos.
And by the way, all those revolutions had the same political formula: the Jacobin allies of the sans-cullottes against les aristos; the Bolshevik allies of the peasant and the worker against the kulak; the Maoist Great Leap Forward for the peasant against the Four Olds.
And it all ended in sorrow, and you know why? Because Power is only good for fighting a war. Absent a war against the enemy, humans don’t need much Power hanging around. What they need to do is get together and work out their disagreements: in the family, in the town, in the market place, in the church. All Power is good for is destroying the opposition.
In between wars humans need to work together and cut Power down to a dull roar.
And we don’t need no stinkin’ war against COVID and war against Climate. Because you know what? COVID and Climate are not existential perils that need a ruling class and its Power.