When
you live in a neighborhood of gangs, you must accommodate the gang that does
you the least harm. And you do, you know. You’ve always lived in a neighborhood
of gangs. You always will. The only question is which gang you accommodate.
If
you live on the right side of Los Angeles, Chicago, or New York, you’ve dodged
the unlawful gangsters. But no matter where you live, you can’t dodge the
lawful gangsters we call government.
All
gangs have this in common: they’re alliances of bullies whose tactics deprive
others of what the gangsters want. There’s no form of intimidation or
expropriation to which gangsters won’t descend to get what they want. And what
they want is dominion. Their tactics depend on the scope of dominion they seek
and the paradigm under which they seek it. Some are petty and brutal. Some are
grand and devious.
None is more grand and devious than government. And when
government goes awry, none is more damaging and more deadly.
The
lust for power’s part of the human condition. The desire for dominion’s
universal. And the historical record’s a litany of potentates and their ploys.
Whether priests, princes, or presidents, the end game’s always the same. Only
the players and the paradigms change.
In post-modern democracies, these are the
players: a political class, a privileged class, an unprivileged class, and an
underclass. And here’s the paradigm: the political class buys the votes of
the underclass; the privileged class buys the patronage of the political class;
and the unprivileged class gets ground beneath the politically-correct
juggernaut.
In
what’s left of the American Republic, the only meaningful political class is
the Federal one. It has usurped the states’ constitutional powers. It has
reduced political representation to a binary choice between candidates chosen
by two private political parties conspiring to exclude all competition. It’s
composed of careerist professional politicians interested solely in maintaining
their power. It’s unprincipled and omnipotent. Its pretext is a social justice
long since segued into a politics of victimization that divides to conquer. Its
appetite is to make us all servants of itself.
There are only two political gangs in
America. One’s the Democratic Party, and the other’s the Republican Party. The
only difference between them is the side of political town on which you live.
There is no opposition political party. In reality, the nation is governed by a
professional political duopoly which merely caucuses in two private parties
with different names. If one party didn't have the other, it would have to
invent it merely to maintain the illusion of a political opposition and a
two-party state. Their aims
are the same: reducing the citizenry to neofeudal servitude on the Federal
estate.
Until
-- just possibly until -- Donald Trump, that is.
Trump
can’t do a fraction of what he’s promising to do. Presidential candidates are
essentially but the leaders of the two private political gangs that monopolize
the nation’s governance. Constitutionally, the Federal legislature is the
republic’s only real governing power. And, if Trump’s elected, he won’t have a
Federal Legislature eager to help him achieve his promises.
But
the real point is this. Trump -- a political interloper -- has already effected
a stunning populist coup against the entire Republican Party establishment.
That establishment detests Trump as much as the Democratic one does. Yet, lo
and behold, Trump’s the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. And, veiled
truth be told, Trump’s polling ahead of Clinton. That’s an astonishing
exception to a century of exclusive political domination.
What that should tell Middle America is
that Trump has energized -- across party lines -- a coalition of the
politically disenfranchised American electorate. That’s mostly white,
middle-class, working men and women whom academia hasn't yet terminally
brainwashed. There are still enough of them to make a difference. But
there won't be after eight years of a Clinton presidency because, by its end,
we'll have another 30 million Latin American, African, and Middle-Eastern
interlopers voting here.
What Trump can do -- if he has the
leadership balls -- during an eight-year presidency is force the Republican Party
to realize its real constituency is a newly energized political opposition of
the disenfranchised unprivileged class. That, and also deny a Clinton
presidency the opportunity to forever overwhelm the traditional American electorate
with 30 million refugees from the world's failed states.
Can
Trump do it? Will he do it? Is it already too late? Nobody knows. But
Clinton sure as hell won't do it, Trump's all the unprivileged class has left,
and the margin by which his popular vote may exceed his smaller electoral vote
is the margin by which the Republican Party may potentially be convinced to
banish its Paul Ryans and become -- for the first time in the last century -- a
real party in actual political opposition.
That's why Middle America should hold
its nose as much as necessary, get off its derriere, and go vote for Trump.
Remember, ladies, your fathers and husbands are men, and half your offspring
are too. Remember, African Americans, your dysfunctional schools and
crime-ridden ghettos are the consequence of a centralized political duopoly
that has made many of you mere dependents of the state. Remember, Hispanics,
tens of millions of your brethren illegally here merely depress the wages of
those of you legally here. Remember, corporate America, when the Chinese stop
buying America’s metastasizing debt, you’re going offshore more than you ever
bargained for.
Otherwise,
we'll all ultimately find ourselves kicking the severed head of our own Marquis
de Launay around our own version of the Place de Grève. And drinking the blood
of our fellow citizens.
The
only reasonable response of good men and women everywhere is it's never too
late.
Until,
of course, it is.
And
then Napoleon succeeds Doctor Guillotine.
As
Santayana said, "when experience is not retained, as among savages,
infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it."
