Understanding BLUE STATE FRAUD

it's existential

In my American Thinker article published today I wrote about the rampant BLUE STATE FRAUD that young kids like Nick Shirley are bringing to our attention. Only AT decided to italicize BLUE STATE FRAUD as Blue State Fraud. What an insult!

But you and I, as we view the coming and goings with our characteristic philosophical detachment, we wonder. Why this? Why now?

First of all is the definitive word from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt that politics is all and only about Friend vs. Enemy. As in:

There is no politics without an enemy — Curtis Yarvin

There is no politics without a handout — Christopher Chantrill

So the point of the BLUE STATE FRAUD is simply that the politicians are rewarding their friends with a handout. That is all.

But there is more. It seems that our Democratic friends are in the middle of a BLUE STATE TAX FRENZY, with California proposing a 5% tax on billionaire assets, with Washington State proposing a state income tax even though it is banned in the state constitution, with New York State proposing to raise the state and local income tax to a max of 15.9%, with NYC Mayor Mamdani proposing to increase the estate tax from 16% to 50%.

And there is more. In Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson is proposing a vacancy tax on office buildings.

How are we to understand this?

My go-to on the Democratic Party moderate-to-extremist lurch comes from Crane Brinton’s The Anatomy of Revolution. His take is that revolutions start with the moderates, as in the French Revolution. Then, as the revolution fails to transform the world and eliminate injustice, the extremists can’t take it any more and they capture the revolution and burn the place down.

Of course, the extremists, as in Jacobins and Bolsheviks and our own DSA types, fail even worse than the moderates. And the reason is simple. Politics is war on the enemy, a total social mobilization that puts normal life on hold while we defeat the enemy that threatens us. And that is all.

We normies may wonder why our liberal friends have totally mobilized against the Trumpian enemy and are determined to defeat him and his billionaire friends with taxes and regulations and anything else they can think of. Because there is no politics without an enemy.

But there is more. Remember when your liberal woman friend was telling you at lunch back in 2009 how pleased she was that the US had just elected its First Black President?

(I voted for Obama, not because he was black, but because I believe fervently that, to keep the peace, you need to change parties after two consecutive terms.)

But just think what it is like for a liberal that thought we had entered a new world of peace and justice after the election of Barack Obama. It started to go wrong almost at once. Remember what happened in 2010? The Republicans flipped 64 seats in the House and we had the first Republican Congress since 1952. And then it got worse with the election of Donald Trump in 2016 instead of the First Woman President.

If you are an Alinsky believing liberal, you start looking under rocks. Or blaming it all on Russian collusion. Just like back in the day when, for Republicans after five consecutive Democrat presidential terms, it was Commies in the State Department.

Now, what is BLUE STATE FRAUD about, mostly? It seems to be about rewarding the street operatives that help get the immigrant vote out for Democrats. Clearly that’s what is was about in Minnesota. And Democrats are desperate, because the ordinary American middle class has been deserting them for the last generation. That’s what the immigration surge in the Biden administration was about: creating new Democrat voters. That’s what mail-in voting is about. That’s what Motor Voter registration is about. That’s what resisting the SAVE Act is about.

Democrats feel that political power is slipping away, and they can’t understand it. They are the good guys: they are fighting the oppressors for the oppressed; they are fighting the racist-sexist-homophobes; they are saving the climate. How could they be losing to a monster like Trump?

I know. Where do I start? But, to make it Real Simple, dear liberal friends, know that politics is always and only about the fight against the enemy. But 97.2% of the time there is no enemy coming over the horizon, and thus no need for politics. So the politicians have to make it up.

But Democracy! But Human Rights! But Climate Change!

I know. Bless their hearts.