Whether you know it or
not, you are at war. It’s not a shooting in the street war, at least not yet,
but it is a war. Specifically, the people in charge have decided to wage war on
segments of the American society. To paraphrase the late historian Christopher
Lasch, the managerial elite has turned their back on average Americans
and opted instead for a ruthlessly cosmopolitan view of life, one that values
rootlessness, internationalism and transience. Increasingly, their ends
are in direct conflict with liberal democracy.
Another
way of looking at this is that the managerial elite has reached class
consciousness in the Marxist sense. Who they are is defined by who they are not
and who they are not is you. Their
class interests may or may not overlap with the interests of society, but their
identity, their sense of who they are as a class, only exists in opposition to
the white middle class. That also puts them at odds with the institutions of
liberal democracy. That’s the point of this
article this article on the new Civil War.
Peter Leyden is a high end
grifter who makes his money telling the managerial elite what they want to
hear. He pitches himself as a technologist, despite having no math or science.
He’s a blend of Alvin
Toeffler and Tony Robbins. Ruy Teixeira is
an old Progressive hand, who has spent his life pushing various political
strategies to help the Democrat Party win elections, mostly by undermining the
white middle class through open borders and multiculturalism. These are men who
know the mind of the managerial class.
Most
of the article is complete nonsense, especially the part about blue state
energy versus red state energy. That’s almost as daffy as framing the
Republicans as the party of the elites and the Democrats as the party of middle
America. That’s the thing though. They did not write the article to clarify. It
was written to flatter. These are people who make their money telling the
people in charge what they want to hear. When Jack Dorsey, the head of Twitter,
is retweeting the post, it means it rocketed around the ruling class.
The
other interesting thing about the piece is the naked hatred of white people. If
you read “Republican” to mean white middle-class, the snarling is not hard to
miss. Much has been written about the motivations of the open borders people.
There’s certainly a money angle, with business wanting cheap labor. There’s
also a political component, as the Democrats cannot win without foreign voters.
The core motivation, that co-evolved with class consciousness, is a
visceral hatred of white America. They really do want to replace us.
This
is why they really hate Trump, despite the fact he is more than willing to sign
off on big slabs of the Democratic agenda. He’s not a threat on social issues
and he will spend like crazy on infrastructure projects, that disproportionately
help Democratic Party constituencies. They hate what he represents. Trump is a
reminder that white people will not go quietly into the night. Again, the
article reads like the authors spend their nights dreaming of genocide. They
don’t want to win, they want to win permanently.
Of
course, the increasingly bold and sophisticated efforts to wall off the public
square from dissent is part of this larger project. The social media platforms
are now using sophisticated analytics to piece together the network of people
they see as the enemy of their class. This lets them coordinate their efforts
to purge dissent from their platforms, without having to go to the trouble of
finding violations. They are using the tools they developed for the Chinese
Communists, against American dissidents.
The
brashness of it is suggestive too. They
are now censuring harmless black ladies because they amusingly
support Trump. After all, all’s fair in war. It’s one thing to censure some
guy, claiming he is alt-right or a racist. No one is going to believe two
middle-aged black ladies are in the alt-right or part of a racist group. This
indicates they no longer think they have to conceal their motivations. We’re a
couple of clicks away from people having their credit cards cancelled because
they live in an area that votes heavy Republican.
That
last bit may sound ridiculous, but we have credit card companies working to
prevent you from using your Visa card to buy a gun. If that is permissible, it
is a short trip from there to shutting off your internet access because you
won’t die fast enough. More important, the fact that the captains of industry,
the tech giants, are sitting around scheming of ways to undermine the very
notion of your citizenship, suggests they see no limits to what they can do to
solve their problems with the white middle class of America.
Again,
this is war and all’s fair in war. You may not think you are at war with them,
but they are at war with you. The longer you stay stupid about it, the
better. That’s why the morons at places like Reason Magazine and Cato get a
free pass. You can be sure they will be celebrating “property rights” when
every bank in America coincidentally stops doing business with gun makers and
gun retailers. What’ the matter? Are you against free enterprise? Start your
own bank and credit card system if you don’t like freedom!
Over the last couple of
decades, many reform minded writers have been doing yeoman’s work, trying
to convince the public, but also the ruling class, that preserving the heritage
of America is essential to maintaining civil order and liberal democracy. Lots
of people in the civic nationalist camp agree with this approach. Just one more
election, one more reform movement. The trouble is, the people in charge are at
war and the only things they want to hear are the time and place of your death
or the time and place of your surrender.
