“For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?”
Friends,
This morning I opened my AOL account and
immediately a story from The Huffington Post caught my eye. It
seems that a New Jersey congressman, Bill Pascrell, a Democrat, “has
called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to bar 126 GOP representatives from the House,
arguing that their support for the failed, baseless Texas lawsuit seeking to hijack the presidential election violated the Constitution.” Pascrell “accused the Republican congressmen of
violating the Constitution by seeking to nullify Americans’ votes and instead
choose a ‘dictator’. He cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, enacted after
the Civil War and designed to keep traitors out of government.”
Continuing on Pascrell said in a tweet
accompanied by a statement on Friday: “Today I’m calling on House leaders to
refuse to seat any Members trying to overturn the election and make Donald
Trump an unelected dictator.” [Italics mine!] The “text of the 14th
Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in rebellion
against the United States,” he tweeted. “Trying to overturn a democratic
election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that.”
It’s entirely logical, Pascrell’s demand. It represents the logical use,
the perfect conclusion, once again, of the “gaslighting” and projection
employed by the minions of the Deep State, those robotic members of the
managerial elite who, in fact, run and govern this nation, and have done so,
increasingly, for at least seven decades…despite Donald Trump and his (to them)
“fluke” election in 2016.
The Trump election in 2016 was not supposed to have happened. Everything
had been prepared back then, down to the smallest detail of Hilary Clinton’s
mammoth election night celebration…which was to have been the celebration of
the final and definitive victory of the Deep State, the permanent bureaucracy
that has assumed near absolute power over our lives and destinies.
But somehow the guard posts were ill-attended. Somehow that upstart
billionaire from New York, Donald Trump, rough in manners and uncouth in
speech, and not willing to take all the orders from “his betters,” was chosen
by the electorate. He would mark his own path, at times ignoring those
oligarchs who lurk behind the scenes mostly, but who control everything from
Hollywood and Silicon Valley to our educational system and our corporate
financial institutions, not to mention their iron grip on the media.
And that just was not permissible, not something
that the managerial elites would accept. Even “the Donald” did not fully
realize what they would do or attempt. Not that he had actually staged a giant
counter-revolution. No; all he managed was to crack the door open, as it were,
to let in a little fresh air, just a little light. And suddenly millions of
normal Americans, those of us who live in “fly-over” country between New York’s
Upper East Side swank penthouses and San Francisco and the millionaire dollar
homes in Silicon Valley, began a rocky road to awareness. What had been largely
mystifying to millions of “deplorables” up to then, and only clearly seen by a
talented minority of writers like James Burnham (e.g., his books,
including The Managerial Revolution, 1941; The
Machiavellians, 1943; Suicide of the West, 1964), and his
theoretical amanuensis, the late Sam Francis (e.g., his massive study, Leviathan, 2016,
and also Revolution from the Middle, 1997), all of a sudden came
into focus.
Practically speaking, we were in chains, chains
of a new form of slavery, a slavery far more intense and profound than any
earlier form. It wasn’t so much of the physical kind. Rather,
it profoundly infected the mind, it perverted and changed the intellect, the
very way we live, what we read, what we said and how we talked, what we valued
in life. And, in the end we became like the programmed agent, Raymond Shaw, in
that classic 1962 film noir psychological classic, The Manchurian
Candidate: lulled into complacency and compliance to the ukases of our
new masters.
Most of us did not realize it. Most of us were
content to work our jobs, pay our bills, and raise our families. Yes, we did know
that something was amiss, something fundamental. We had that odd feeling that
we were not really in control. Yet, it took a ruffian like Donald Trump,
himself not fully aware of his role, to partially tear off the fearful mask of
the managerial Deep State permanent bureaucratic class, our new masters and
overseers. And for many of us, for the first time, what we beheld was stunning
in its awful power and terrible symmetry.
For the elites in the managerial class, for the
Deep State apparatchiks, the 2016 election was a major fluke, an unforced error
that they had let slip by…somehow they had not prepared well enough, somehow
they had overestimated their power. And ever since they have desperately
attempted to undo 2016, using the fraudulent Russia Hoax, the Ukrainian Caper,
various impeachment farces. The coming of COVID presented them with a supreme
opportunity. “You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” said former Democrat
mayor of Chicago and Obama henchman, Rahm Emanuel. And for the Democratic and
establishment elites in battleground states, under the cover of the Coronavirus
scare, things could and would be perfected, election laws altered, fraud
generated…many times in full view.
Most importantly, and as we see now quite vividly,
the elites, the Democrats (and many Republicans) beholden to and agents of the
Deep State knew that even if their skullduggery were finally revealed and
discovered, that the malfeasance and rigging of an election would most
certainly succeed this time. No one actually was an enthusiast for that
no-account non-entity, half-senile, inspiring-no-one Joe Biden: he would simply
provide their stalking horse, their Trojan Horse back into full power. He would
be instructed what to do and what to say, and whom to pick to surround him. And
in the end, their preparation for 2020 would bear success. The genie freed in
2016 could be put back and imprisoned once again in the magic lamp.
They understood fully well that after a
completed election (which in fact they carefully prepared for months), that
afterwards no court would be eager or willing to take it up. To do so would, as
one jurist friend complained, “only engender intense and incredible confusion
in the public mind, maybe even unleashing violence like we have not seen in 155
years.” In other words, we are told—like the verdict of the Texas case where
SCOTUS refused to even hear the appeal (with only Justices Alito and Thomas
favoring a hearing)—“the robbery, the theft, has already taken place; to try to
right the wrong now would upset things too much. So, just be quiet and let it
be.”
That is where our judicial system now resides,
at the bottom of the barrel of putrid scum, either afraid to demur for fear of
“upsetting the applecart,” or perhaps also intellectually communing with the
Deep State template.
The managerial class, the Deep State minions,
the elites—however we term them—have learned well the lesson of 2016, they have
taken good advantage of COVID, they have run roughshod over law and justice,
and dared anyone to do anything about it. They understood the innate (little
“c”) conservatism of the judicial system, which is loath to, as my jurist
friend opined, create intense confusion, even civil war.
In 1936 Spain had a General Francisco Franco
willing to rise and lead a patriotic coalition of army units, Carlist
traditionalists and monarchists, and conservative Catholics against a
socialist/communist republic. In 1973 a General Augusto Pinochet was ready to
lead a counter-revolution against the implanting of a Marxist dictatorship in
Chile. Today there is no such force ready-made to lead a counter-revolution in
the United States. The forces of the Progressivist Deep State have made sure of
that.
We are on our own, perhaps headed to a catacomb
far more desolate and dark and excruciating than anything our Christian
ancestors suffered at the hands of an Emperor Nero or Diocletian. But persevere
we must, with faith and determination, trusting in the Lord, while hoping like
Charles Maurras in 1940 (with the advent in France of Vichy and Marshal Petain)
for a “divine surprise.”
History has a way of producing quirks and
entirely unexpected happenings, whether it be a Lenin shipped back by the
German High Command to Tsarist Russia in a boxcar to initiate a Communist
Revolution that would come very close to conquering the world, or its
ignominious end in 1991, “not with a bang, but a whimper.”
For our republic
to be recaptured and reborn its citizens must remember who we are. We must go forth,
handicapped yes, but still into battle. Perhaps our future lies in
secession or separation. Indeed, one thing I can agree with Abe Lincoln on is
this: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” However that may be, our
journey will most likely be painful.
Let us recall as we begin our arduous pilgrimage
of restoration, even as King Alfred the Great in the remote marshes of
Somersetshire (878 A.D.) began his re-conquest of Wessex and of England,
another statement of Maurras: “For
monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of
the people must be wise. Which is more likely?”
Commitment,
intelligence, and a knowledge of our traditions, and adherence to them and to
the firm faith handed down to us from our ancestors are requisite for our
citizenry…along with a necessary prudence and skill. Today in America, for one
half of the people who live in it, that is not the case: they are become as
those artificial robots, those programmed “pod people” of whom I spoke in my
little essay on December 2, 2020,
like the Laurence Harvey/Raymond Shaw character in The Manchurian
Candidate.
The only other path is enforced silence and
defeat, our effective disappearance from the annals of history, and to be
cursed by our descendants.
The Duke of Wellington supposedly said at the
Battle of Waterloo: “May God help us—for no one else will.”
We are there now.
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