Elections aren’t about finalities,
they’re about processes. They may be about departures. Case in point, the 2016
presidential contests, which feature Hillary and The Donald. If Trump wins, the
process of the November election might start a departure in more than politics.
It could be historic. It won’t be good, however, for the global elites
inhabiting New York, DC, Boston, and San Francisco -- or wherever else ivory
towers, mahogany-paneled offices, pricey secured buildings, and gated
communities are found. Trump’s election would have reverberations overseas,
too, in London, Paris, B
erlin -- yes, wherever else ivory towers, et al, are
found.
A Hillary victory means there won’t be a
departure; merely a doubling-down by the elite, as they act with renewed zest
to secure their interests -- versus the national welfare. The Great Imposition
-- a war waged on average Americans -- will continue with awful consequences.
Impose
and divide – divide to conquer. Blacks against whites. (That’s more Milwaukees.)
Hispanics against Anglos. (That’s more illegals and all legalized). Poor
against rich. (Lots more free sh*t.) Takers versus producers. (Lots more free
sh*t.) Marginalize the working class. (Further cede manufacturing to the
Chinese; shut down coal and domestic energy production, generally.) Demean the
middle classes. (Who knuckle-drag their bibles, guns, and backwater values
through life.)
The
worldview among many of our elite is anti-nation -- dare we say --
anti-American, anti-law and order, anti-tradition, anti-faith (with exceptions
carved out for Islam), anti-durable values and enduring truths, like marriage
between a man and woman, and family, as defined by a man, woman, and children.
The elite, so very cosmopolitan, have evolved past antique beliefs and ways.
The
dangers are domestic and foreign. President Hillary and anti-nation elites
would continue failed policies toward Islamic militants and insurgencies.
They’d serve up more perverse rationalizations for why Islam doesn’t animate
jihadists. More dangers in the offing with rogue nations Iran and North
Korea. Mounting danger in Asia, with China, where the PRC is boldly
militarizing the South China Sea.
All
pose existential threats, to one degree or another. To the elite? Obstacles to
the world they’ve created for themselves. Perhaps to be solved with
appeasements, like tribute (it worked for the Romans -- for a while.). Ransoms (monetary
and otherwise). Accommodations. Retreats. Misdirection and outright
lies.
Peggy
Noonan just penned a brilliant
analysis for the Wall Street Journal. She captured the
global elite, nailing them to a “T.”
Referring
to the nearly million Syrians (disproportionately males) admitted to Germany
last year by Chancellor Angela Merkel, Noonan wrote:
But there was a
fundamental problem with the decision that you can see rippling now throughout
the West. Ms. Merkel had put the entire burden of a huge cultural change not on
herself and those like her but on regular people who live closer to the edge,
who do not have the resources to meet the burden, who have no particular
protection or money or connections. Ms. Merkel, her cabinet and government, the
media and cultural apparatus that lauded her decision were not in the least
affected by it and likely never would be.
Nothing in their lives
will get worse. The challenge of integrating different cultures, negotiating
daily tensions, dealing with crime and extremism and fearfulness on the
street—that was put on those with comparatively little, whom I’ve called the
unprotected.
More
from Noonan:
The powerful show no
particular sign of worrying about any of this. When the working and middle
class pushed back in shocked indignation, the people on top called them
“xenophobic,” “narrow-minded,” “racist.” The detached, who made the decisions
and bore none of the costs, got to be called “humanist,” “compassionate,” and
“hero of human rights.”
So, too, on these shores, our elite aim to
imitate Merkel, from Obama, who aids and abets illegals, and who’s pushing the
import of Syrians, to Paul Ryan (an elitist on the spectrum), who speaks of
compassion and fairness toward illegals and Muslim refugees. Never mind they’ll
be no costs attendant to the speaker. But Ryan isn’t merely being abstract. His
favoring amnesty serves cheap-labor business interests at the expense of
struggling citizens.
Mind
you, a Trump victory bringing about a departure will come with
disruptions and conflict aplenty. Wider political and societal changes
invariably do. The drama of recentering America will play out over years. The
progressives and New Dealers didn’t succeed in remaking society immediately.
Both had epicenters: industrialization, World War I, and Wilson’s presidency
for the progressives; the Great Depression for FDR and his New
Dealers.
Trump represents an opportunity for a
new direction -- a recreation and amalgam of two critical strains. One
nationalist; in other words, a reemphasis on the preeminence of American
interests and the American people. The other, conservative, as defined
practically and politically by diminishing Washington’s power internally
through reduction and decentralization, with much power returning to the
states, localities, and citizens.
And
companion social conservativism, which enlists Middle Americans to vigorously
battle smothering -- elitist -- PC; which pushes for a reinvestment of
traditional values and virtues in the culture and academy and arts; which
counteracts cancerous and nihilistic relativism with bold proclamations for
“eternal truths”… that asserts the right of the faithful to be openly, proudly
faithful.
Ambitious?
Right. We can’t afford not to be ambitious.
A
Hillary win this November assures an exacerbation -- and likely, acceleration
-- of troubles and conflict for a decaying, fractious society. Her victory
would embolden the elite to greater highhandedness, to greater “bullying” and
imposition of its worldview on citizens, who resent the trampling of their
beliefs and values, and resent the elites’ notion that America is nothing more
than an open-air mall, where anything and everything American can be sold,
traded, bartered or discarded… where people’s livelihoods and welfare are
subordinate to a global economy that mostly benefits the privileged... where
nation and patriotism are dismissed as the province of yokels.
A Trump win would mark a departure,
both destructive and creative. Global elites would have to find new ways in a
new world. It’s not what they want. With Hillary, though, the fuse will burn
down and the powder keg will blow sky-high. That’s when, not if. The consequences
of an explosion are surely cataclysmic but, otherwise, unpredictable, with one
exception: it won’t end well for global elites.
