Violence is, unfortunately,
fungible.
As this society becomes more
and more officially violent, it is probable that unofficial violence will also
increase. In fact, it is almost a mathematical axiom. It is also one not
comprehended by those most responsible for initiating the process.
Police and politicians seem
baffled by the growing disenchantment with their class. They seem to expect
people to behave toward them with respect and deference no matter what they do
– by dint of the fact that what they do is Official and Legal.
Why are politicians – left
and right – increasingly despised by reasonable people? Could it have anything
to do with the fact that they will not leave people alone? That all they do –
at great expense (to us) and with great pomposity – is decree how we will be
allowed to live, what we must do and what we may not do? Most of these things
being precisely none of their business to so order?
But they believe that it –
that everything – is their business, which endows them with an effrontery so
great they’ve lost all of the normal restraints that bind ordinary people. We
have arrived at a point in our history that absolutely nothing is off the
table, beyond the grasping control of these professional grifters – which is
what they are. These are not people who earn an honest living by free exchange
of value for value, as most of the rest of us do. These are people who take
vast sums of money and then dispose of vast sums of money – none of it theirs
by right.
They do so with an entitled
insolence that is insufferable to those from whom the funds are mulcted. The
worst part of it being that the mulcted are rendered legally defenseless
against these outrages. A law is passed, an order given – and they must “stand
and deliver,” as the old saying goes.
If one had a neighbor who
behaved this way, one would bar the neighbor from one’s property and – if there
was no alternative – defend oneself against such a violent busybody.
But what defense is there
against the political class?
The Vote?
That is like trying to plug a
leaky roof with sheets of copy paper. At best, the rivulets will temporarily
lessen. The rain won’t let up.
Instead of protecting our
rights, politicians spend their time gutting them, turning them into
conditional privileges at best – to be further conditioned (or rescinded) at
their pleasure. Nothing of ours is safe. Not our money, not our property, not
our freedom to act and live as we see fit. There is no line over which these
professional disposers of other people’s lives and property and liberties will
not step as they are held back neither by ordinary human decency or legal
restriction.
They have become a ruling
caste, as entitled and arrogant as their feudal analogs.
The glib violence which
inheres in their every act and statement has become so much a given that they
hardly notice it anymore. When a new “plan” or other such is presented, the
fact that what is being suggested involves more compulsion and violence, that
people will have no choice, is never even mentioned. The discussion is
increasingly centered only on the supposed merits of the “plan” – and
alternatives to the “plan.” That is to say, other “plans.”
Resentment grows.
The average honest
wage-earner in the productive economy now “owes” his Lord(s) more than a
Medieval serf owed his Lord. The typical tax exaction – when one includes the
income tax, the Social Security taxes (15 percent off the top for the
self-employed), the taxes on their property and so on – approaches half of
every dollar they earn. The burden has become so extreme that most people must
now earn two incomes to support one family and work until they are too old to
continue working. The oasis of financial security recedes ever farther into the
distance, never to be reached.
The productive class would
like to be left alone – would like for the mulcting to cease. Meanwhile, the
client class (their ranks swelling with Millennial Marxists) demands
ever-more-mulcting for their unearned benefit, which the politicians are happy
to oblige as they receive payment for their services in the form of
ever-increasing power.
Social resentment swells.
As it does, more overt
violence becomes necessary to keep the pressure cooker’s lid clamped in place.
Enter the Praetorians. Or
what is styled law enforcement.
It is no accident that this
term – which is brutally honest – has become the preferred one. Nor that these
enforcers of the law wax brutal. Behave toward the citizenry as occupying
soldiers, barking orders and expecting – demanding – immediate submission.
Resentment of this bullying is
also increasing.
Which has the effect of
justifying a kind of doubling-down by the enforcers – whose mental state is
becoming exactly like that of an occupying army dealing with threatening
partisans. A soldier of the Werhmacht and veteran of the drang nach Osten would
understand completely the fearful bleat of “officer safety” eructed by the
enforcers of the law.
More distrust. Dislike
morphing into hatred, barely suppressed. On both sides.
It is none of it good.
And it is going to get worse.
Because violence is fungible.
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