For the last few
months I’ve had a question in my mind: Just what is George Soros up to? Because
I could not understand why a great capitalist speculator, a financial operator
who makes the Koch Brothers look like altar boys, would be interested in
funding a lefty activist group like Black Lives Matter. It didn’t compute.
But now I
understand. No doubt you readers already figured it out. Alas, I am not so
smart.
The light went
on when I was reading “Progressivism
Goes Global” by John Fonte and John Loo in National Review about the
plans of the progressive global governance guys. The key point is articulated
in a quote from Anne-Marie Slaughter, the head of policy and planning at the
State Department under Hillary Clinton. Her idea is that the “global
administrative state would work through the ‘coercive power of vertical
[government] networks’”:
Vertical
government networks pierce the shell of state sovereignty by making individual
government institutions -- courts, regulatory agencies, or even legislators --
responsible for implementation of rules created by a supranational institution.
Don’t you just
love that? The globalists get the power, and get to pull the strings behind the
national governments, and coerce them into doing their global will.
But first,
before the globalists ascend Mt. Olympus, they need to “pierce the shell” and
destroy the prestige and the power of the nation state; otherwise the national
governments will still have the power to tell the globalist gods to go pound
sand. How do the globalists do that?
It’s obvious.
They divide and conquer. They set the people in each nation state against each
other. They divide them up by class, by race, by gender, by tribe: Black Lives
Matter; La Raza; Human Rights Campaign, CAIR. With one ring to rule them all.
So that is why
George Sauron and all the top-tier foundations are funding groups like Black
Lives Matter. That is why the globalists are all in favor of unlimited
immigration. The more that the people in America think of themselves as black
or white or Hispanic or gay or Muslim rather than American, the easier it is
for the global elite to “pierce the shell of state sovereignty” while we are
all busy fighting each other.
So far so good.
But there is a problem, as the globalists are finding out, to their horror.
The problem with
globalism is what to do when things go wrong, as in the Euro, as in Muslim
rapists in Europe and no-go areas in Sweden.
In the nation
state, when things go wrong, the voters throw the rascals out and elect a new
government. They might elect a Roosevelt over a blundering Hoover. Nothing
changes, of course, unless they elect a Reagan, for the ruling class is still
the ruling class blundering from crisis to crisis; but at least the people have
a new leader and new hope.
What happens
under global governance when things go wrong? Huh? Appoint a committee?
Exactly. You
globalist geniuses didn’t think of that, did you?
That is what
Enoch Powell meant when he said that the European project could not work
because there was no European demos, no European people. You need a
“people” when things go wrong, so the polity hangs together rather than
separately.
Right now, of
course, things are going wrong with the globalist project, and the
result is that the people in the various nation states in Europe are rallying
to politicians that want to re-establish the powers of the nation state to
throw the globalist rascals out. While they still can.
What luck that
the globalist project ran off the road so soon. Given another 20 years of
Soros-funded identity politics, with Muslim Lives Matter making Black Lives
Matter look like a walk in the park, the people of Europe would have split up
into squabbling racial and religious identities, and with things going wrong
and the failure of the globalist elite there would be no demos to throw the
rascals out.
Hello
globalists, progressives, and all the ships at sea. The whole point of
constitutions and laws and separation of powers and elections to secure the
consent of the governed is this. They help stop civil war. The political
furniture that you want to “pierce” is the way for the people to check their
rulers short of bloody civil war.
It is telling
that in the aftermath of the Charlotte Riots, President Obama is burbling
about white police officers learning about discrimination, and Hillary
Clinton is missing in action. It is Donald Trump that is calling for unity.
Of course.
Donald Trump stands for Making America -- the nation state of Americans --
Great Again. Obama and Clinton are globalist progressives. They don’t care
about unity; they care about divide and conquer.
Now, finally, I
get it.
Christopher
Chantrill @chrischantrill
runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also
see his American Manifesto and
get his Road to
the Middle Class.
