ubmitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
I have not been writing much concerning the U.S. election this November, and with good reason - elections are always a distraction from tangible solutions.
They are an anathema to honest debate; a circus of delusions and
prefabricated talking points. They offer the illusion of choice in
order to placate the masses. They are a theater of false hopes.
That said, elections do accomplish one thing very well — they are
great for mobilizing large numbers of people into opposing camps and
pitting them against each other over ideologies and political
celebrities. Sometimes, these elections can lead to internal war. This is where we stand in 2016.
In my article Will A Trump Presidency Really Change Anything For The Better,
published in March, I outlined why I believed that the election of 2016
would revolve around a Trump vs. Hillary free-for-all. The two sides
are perfectly diametrically opposed. At least, as far as public image
is concerned, one is the exact antithesis to the other, and I don’t
think this is a coincidence.
Over the course of the past century social instability and
outright internal conflicts have in most cases been the product of a
specific catalyst — namely various flavors of Marxism and communism.
That is to say, communists attempt to socially or economically sabotage
conservative or free market based systems with civil unrest and
political chicanery, and in response, nations are either overrun by
color revolution or they swing to the other side of the collectivist
spectrum and resort to fascism.
This is often by design. As I have examined in detail in numerous
articles in the past, it is the financial elite that tend to play BOTH
sides of this modern battle between the communists and the
“nationalists,” usually promoting or supporting groups with communist
leanings, radicalizing them and exploiting them to drive normally level
headed conservatives to respond with anger and totalitarianism to keep
them at bay. Of course, these totalitarian regimes also end up
under the control of the establishment. It is the best way to hijack
and co-opt a conservative population.
Today, we have a similarly pervasive communism in the West funded by
the same kinds of elites, only in the form of a more frantic style of
cultural Marxism. One need only examine the cash infusions by billionaires like George Soros and his Open Society Institute into Black Lives Matter as well as other “social justice” organizations.
Under the guise of philanthropy, global financiers exploit mindless followers
and the entitlement mob like a heavy bludgeon, swinging them wildly at
any cultural mainstay that represents the bedrock of the target nation.
Apparently, the irony is completely lost on the social justice
warriors, who completely ignore the fact that rich white guys are
bankrolling their battle against… rich white guys.
It is important to note that while the financial establishment is the
very CORE of the problem and the primary instigator and manipulator of
the public psyche (they have this down to a science), their success in
these endeavors would not be as frequent without so many mindless
followers and academic idiots to perpetuate the momentum of chaos.
These groups share almost as much blame as the elites in the destruction
of civility and prosperity.
In this age of unstable economies and societies, there are
many people who are desperate to be told what to do rather than lead
themselves. However, none are quite as horrifying as the social justice cultists.
These people are, in my view, nearly the pinnacle of the communist
ideal. They are die hard collectivists, and are willing to rationalize
almost any action as long as they believe it is being done in the name
of the “greater good.” Usually, this greater good is based on entirely
arbitrary determinations rather than any inherent moral code, making it
vaporous and easily changeable. A “greater good” without principles
based in inherent conscience or natural law can be shifted on a whim to
suit any evil imaginable.
They believe fervently in the purity of their world view. Most of
them are not open to even the slightest question or concern over their
ethos. Their blind faith is unshakeable, even in the face of extensive
empirical evidence and superior logic. Such people are the ultimate
cannon fodder for the elites.
Social justice cultists act on the assumption that history is
on their side, and that they will one day be seen as heroes for their
deeds.
They not only seek to promote and spread their ideology — this would
merely make them a new form of religion. No, they are not just
evangelists, they also want their own version of a caliphate; an all
dominating cult that crushes any embers of dissent and destroys its
philosophical opponents trapped within its ever expanding borders.
A recent and starling example of this mentality can be found in the following video of a BBC show called “The Big Questions.” The subject of the debate — “Does social media reveal men’s hatred for women?”
Milo Yiannopoulos faces off with a crowd of mouth breathing
true-believers and barely gets a word in edgewise as they do what
cultural Marxists do best: use the mob to shout down their opponent and
attack the person’s character rather than confront his arguments and
evidence:
Though this show is produced out of the U.K. and not the U.S., I am
using it to shed light on the inevitable end game of all social justice
cultists regardless of where they live — to dominate all discussion and
erase conservative thought from society. The attitudes displayed by the
feminists and the rather pathetic members of the audience are truly
frightening. Not only do they argue that Yiannoupoulos has no
right to even be dignified with time to respond, they are at bottom
also claiming the right to assert force of law to ban ideas they
disagree with and even to imprison the people that argue those ideas.
Instead of simply ignoring or blocking the people who
offend them like rational adults, or participating in a free exchange,
they want the power of government to silence opposition. If
their ideas were truly superior in merit then they would have no need
to use force to silence or imprison their opponents. They want to turn
the whole of the web, the whole of the WORLD, into a federally enforced “safe space” for their ideology and their ideology alone.
It is this kind of zealotry that leads to outright totalitarianism and collectivism. This is the kind of evil that is done in the name of the so-called “greater good.”
The fact is, their feelings are irrelevant. They do not matter. Most
rational people don’t care if SJWs are offended, or afraid or disgusted
and indignant. Their problems are not our problems. Our right to free
expression and freedom of association is far more important than their
personal feelings or misgivings. We do not owe them a safe space. If
they want a safe space, then they should hide in their hovels or crawl
back to the rancid swamps from whence they slithered.
A backlash is building against the social justice cult that will be
unleashed sooner rather than later, and so far it is accelerating at the
height of the election frenzy under the banner of Donald Trump.
Social justice warriors seem to find themselves befuddled at
the rise of Trump, but as I predicted in March, a Trump vs. Hillary
face-off was inevitable.
For conservatives, Hillary is the ultimate representation of
political hell spawn. She is a proven elitist puppet, with a criminal
record that reads like a transcript from the Nuremberg trials. She is
also a part of an ongoing trend of dynasties in U.S. politics.
Americans have grown tired of the Bushes and the Clintons. We have
grown tired of the endless reign of neo-cons and neo-liberals. We are
looking something different, or what we hope is something different.
Trump at first glance at least looks like a candidate outside of the
establishment norm.
Beyond this increasing aversion to the status quo, though, is
the growing American contempt for the social justice cult. This will
be a primary driver of the U.S. election.
While many in the cult had thrown their support behind Bernie Sanders
for a time, Bernie showed his true colors by bowing down to the Clinton
machine. This is typical of socialists, who regularly forgo their
proclaimed principles in the name of “unity” and “victory” under a
single collectivist umbrella. Many in the social justice crowd have
quickly jumped on Hillary’s bandwagon, as her campaign now rides solely
on the disposition of her own sexual organs.
That is to say, Clinton is now the new mascot for the SJW crowd, even though many of them don't really like her.
I’m not so sure the “vote for me because I’m a woman” theme is going
to go over quite as effectively as Obama’s “vote for me because I’m
black” theme. The Hillary campaign symbol, looking strangely like a
warped version of the arrowed symbol for “Male” and Mars, is emblazoned
on worshipful feminist posters and cartoons everywhere. A nice
touch was the cringe-worthy display of Clinton’s giant head on the DNC
mega-screen bashing through photos of past male presidents as if
“shattering” the proverbial glass ceiling. Set aside the fact
that over half of American voters are women, and that there is no glass
ceiling preventing women from being voted into office by other women if
being a woman rather than a decent candidate was all that mattered.
The theater of the feminist absurd aside, this election is going to tumble about wildly on all sorts of carnival sideshows.
The so called “controversy” over comments made by Trump against the
parents of a Muslim soldier killed in U.S. service in Iraq is just the
beginning of the circus. To be fair to Trump, the sheer hypocrisy of
Hillary Clinton, a warmonger of the highest degree and a participant
by-proxy in the death of the soldier in question, using his parents as
fuel for a campaign controversy goes so far into the realm of the
disturbing that I might be shocked if I didn’t understand that the whole
thing is a mind game. These kinds of distractions are meant to fuel
the flames and I predict they will become frequent and overwhelming by
November.
To reiterate, it is clear that the Clinton campaign is going the route of pandering to the SJWs.
This is the script, and I as I said after the Brexit referendum vote, I
believe that the script ends with a Clinton failure and a Trump
victory. Pandering to SJWs rarely leads to success. And, a faltering
economy blamed on Trump would be far preferable to one blamed on
Clinton.
My regular readers know well that I personally do not have much faith
in the Trump campaign; I’ve seen too many constitutional
inconsistencies and too many meetings with elitist representatives so
far to give him the benefit of the doubt. If he turns out to be a true
constitutionalist, then I will be pleasantly surprised and happy to
admit I was wrong.
That said, I do understand why the public is rallying around Trump. They
see him not as a candidate, but as a vehicle to push forward a fight
against a social justice juggernaut that has gone unanswered for far too
long. They don’t much care about him as a man, which is why the
character attacks by the social justice cult and the media have fallen
flat again and again. They only care that he might not be the status
quo. They are looking for something radical to counter the radicalism
of cultural Marxists.
I am not here to argue over which candidate is “better,” or
preferable or the “lesser of evils.” None of this matters. I realize
that I am not going to convince anyone to vote in anyway different than
how they have already decided to vote. In fact, I am certain that most
people decided exactly how they were going to vote as soon as the
candidates were publicly finalized.
The zealotry will be evident on both sides. Democrats will accuse me
of being biased in favor of Trump because I outline in articles the
endless parade of horrors surrounding Clinton's career. Republicans will accuse me of "secretly working for the Democrats" because I refuse to throw full blind faith behind Trump. That's just how elections work - follow my mascot or you are my enemy.
I really couldn't care less. I'm on the side of liberty and individualism and I'll fight on this side alone if I have to.
I will say that I KNOW exactly what will happen under Hillary Clinton
- despotism in the name of "equality", leading to outright civil war. I
only SUSPECT according to what I have seen so far that Trump is not a
constitutional candidate.
The danger is that in our search for the counterbalance to
social justice despotism and Hillary Clinton's evident communist
addictions, we conservatives will fall into the old historical paradigm
of fascism in the name of defeating communism, helping the elites
instead of dethroning them. The danger is that we get so caught up in
trying to destroy the social justice mob that we forget our principles.
If a President Trump shows any indications of being
anti-constitution, even in the name of our own “greater good,”
conservatives MUST stand by our ideals and stand against him, or we
become no better than the SJW psychopaths we seek to stop. No man, no
woman, no president is more important than the liberties and heritage of
this nation and its citizenry.
As far as social justice activists are concerned, if they
really want to change this country for the better, then they should
consider dropping out of their little cult and finding something
productive to do. Stop spending your parents’ money on garbage
gender studies classes. Become scientists and engineers. Become
doctors and inventors. Create a better planet through ingenuity rather
than manic ideology. Make yourselves useful or something. You're not
only wasting your own time wreaking havoc with your collectivism, you
are also wasting our time, because now we have to spend it working to
stop you and the elites that fund you.
Become self sufficient instead of begging for handouts or feeding off your family and their savings accounts. Add to the world instead of bleeding it dry.
Help people through personal action instead of trying to micro-manage
their lives and their speech and their thoughts through force of
government.
Otherwise, all you are is more gasoline on a fire that will result in inevitable conflict; a conflict which you will lose.
A conflict which may only serve the interests of the very elites which
you think you are fighting against. Remember, whatever happens, it was
the social justice cult that helped to create the conditions by which
such a conflict became unavoidable. Without the cultural Marxists,
there would be no rationale for any division. If they would
simply leave us all alone to think and say what we feel, to choose our
associations without interference or invasive conquest of “spaces” and
to live in a functioning society based on merit rather than victimhood
and artificial fear, there would be no fertile ground for an election
circus of this magnitude.
And finally, if EVERYONE relied less on political celebrities, if
everyone stopped waiting for a knight on a white horse, or a feminist
icon, or a crusade to fight, or a social justice mob to join and started
determining their own futures; if everyone began looking far more
carefully at the people behind the curtain, then perhaps we could
finally see a change in humanity not seen in thousands of years. Not a collectivist change, but an individualist change, which is the only kind of change everlasting or worth a damn.
At this point, why not elect swamp donkey at large Triggly Puff for President...
