High Plains Populism

The title of this post comes from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  He thought it was a bad idea. Living by lies.

Here’s an example of a lie that we’re forced to live by:

One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions.

Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border.

Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advantage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be new constituents.

Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more Joe Biden and his Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas flat out lie that “the border is secure.”^<1>

This raises several issues.  Number one is “Is this particular egregious lie a ‘collective’ one?”  In this case, over the decades since Ronald Reagan wimped out on immigration, the issue of a wide open border has been something relegated to the dog food section of the newspaper.  

Inssssteeeeadddd . . . (1) Unisex bathrooms, (2) drag queen hours in the government schools, (3) biological males competing in women’s sports, (4) the joys of lesbian parenthood, (5) someone being “disrespected” for no reason at all, (6) homicidal cops,^<2> (7) the path of our ambitious young scholars “from high school to prison,” and, of course, (8) the deliberate under funding of schools in “underserved” areas are the sort of issues that actually scream at us from the front pages of our monopoly MSM. 

We have a duty to educate ourselves it’s true, but if we had an honest, patriotic press, the citizen wouldn’t exactly have to wade upstream into a thick stream of molasses to get to where some of the basic facts are readily on display.  Every bleeping time.

The citizen hears about “asylum” and “political oppression” in dastardly foreign climes and “jobs that Americans won’t do” but never about the cost to Americans of welfare dependency of foreigners — and how they bankrupt hospitals through flooding emergency rooms for indigestion or stubbed toes — or about the jobs that invaders steal from Americans. 

This sort of stuff gushes over the land like some kind river of Ghostbusters slime and the average Muhammad, Ikechukwu, or Mahika in flyover country starts from way back in any effort to figure out what the heck is going on. 

The problem here, of course, is that it’s the fidelity to an astounding lie — our “secure border” in this case — on the part of our federal government and the inability of citizens to make known their vehement objections to massive, unlimited, third-world invasion AND to force any kind of a reversal of this ghastly plague.  No, we have to watch while the, so help me, Border Patrol use bolt cutters to cut through the barbed wire laid by Texas governor Abbott and, get this, waive the invading “migrants” through into our country.

This is how it works in “our democracy.”  Scum-of-the-earth politicians who number from 5 (Supreme Court majority) to 218 (majority in the House of Representatives + 51 (majority in Senate) + 1 (vice president) + 1 (president) decide among themselves make it up as they go along and decide which snipe we’ll collectively all go hunting for.  Voila, the latest national snipe hunt.  That would be saving Ukraine just in case you’ve not been paying attention.  Top priority.  (At least 4,000 miles over the horizon as the bribes fly so minimum requirement for American hysterical involvement is comfortably exceeded.)

Examples of snipe hunts abound.  The necessity of drag queen hours, surgical mutilation of children, porn in school libraries, reparations, white terrorism at school board meetings, BLM, racism, “insurrection,” unprovoked Russian invasion, destroying Syria, murdering Gaddafi, Donald Trump’s “denialism,” ripping Kosovo from Serbia, and playing God among the nations as the “leader of the free world.” 

Pray, what is particularly free about our particular world when you can be prosecuted for exercising your right to free speech or murdered by a Capitol Police officer who then gets a promotion?  But I digress.

PS — the unstated advantage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be new constituents is to replace the white people of America and transform the country into a diverse glop of people with no emotional or intellectual attachment to it.  What these swine have in mind is the obliteration of the grandest experiment in human self government ever known to man.

There you have it.

Notes.
^<1>  “Victor Davis Hanson: Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities.”  By Victor Davis Hanson, ZeroHedge, 10/5/23.
^<2>  Actually, there was one such homicidal cop.  He was in Minnesota. A cold blooded killer.

A debt crisis is on the way. Something big and stupid (in the words of the brilliant analyst Stephanie Pomboy) is coming from policymakers to address the issue. But the solution won’t be a policy and it won’t be a plan. A crisis will just happen almost overnight and seem to come from nowhere.

But it will come.^<1>

If this crisis arrives, as I think it will, we for sure won’t know ahead of time what its specific terms, conditions, exceptions, discounts, rebates, disclaimers, and provisions for exclusive arbitration in Pakistan will be.  Whatever form it takes you can be sure that no one with congressional or executive authority greater than that of the House sergeant at arms or a GS-13 Deputy Rose Garden Weed Control Specialist will have thought for one second whether the course we’re on is rational, sustainable, minimally honest, or simply a gross betrayal of the Constitution and the American people. 

Racking up trillions in debt to make defense contractors, pharmaceutical companies, and Ukrainian civil servants comfortable financially doesn’t seem to bother our elected “representatives.”  They are representative in the same way that the Sphinx cares about people in Nebraska and Alabama. 

The thought of what fundamental economic (or civilizational) sanity would look like free of atrocious propaganda and wall-to-wall betrayal never crosses their minds.  As a consequence, you see national economic, fiscal, and monetary affairs treated as though they are under the direct supervision of a crack addict. 

That, friends, is state-of-the-art political leadership in this declining nation once devoted to the success of a truly grand experiment in self-government. 

Now the piss ants pulling the levers and purchasing their jets and beach properties have the foresight of a Chihuahua and the morals of a Soros prosecutor. To them the Constitution is indeed a “living Constitution” but they think of its being alive only in the sense of “alive with opportunities for totalitarian/plutocratic excess.”

Notes.
^<1> “Something “Big & Stupid” Is Coming…”  By James Rickards, ZeroHedge, 10/4/23 (emphasis removed).

When Republicans threaten to blame Democrats for something, they laugh it off. Democrats backed the mobs that burned cities to the ground and opened the border to an unprecedented mass invasion without worrying what the Republicans would say. But Republicans live in fear of being blamed for a government shutdown. . . .

* * * *

. . . The GOP leadership has concentrated legislative power in the hands of small men like Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Paul Ryan who haven’t the faintest idea of what to do with it except to prevent things from being done that might upset the status quo too much.

“A Broken Congress.  House Republicans have forgotten their mission.” By Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine, 10/4/23 (emphasis added).

I hear Obama chuckling and see the evil forces behind him salivating.

American politics is no longer one ideological system with two party choices. It is now, by hook and by crook, two incompatible systems.

Elected representatives aren’t elected to represent themselves. They have not been elected to be one big happy family. They mix with the enemy day in and day out in the halls of Congress.

“Can’t we all just get along” is a toxic mentality.

The elected Republicans don’t seem to understand that we no longer have one system. THEY don’t feel threatened. It is we the people, who voted them into office, who feel threatened, betrayed, powerless, abandoned.

The objective of this two incompatible systems reality is that one of the systems subsumes and swallows up the other system, thereby removing, making null and void, and utterly inconsequential, the fundamental, most valued privilege and strength of the American citizen – the right to vote.

We’ll be back to a one party system, but it will only have one choice, which means, there will be no choice.^<1>

Commenter “mj” on Daniel Greenfield’s article has put his finger on the nerve.  Speaking to leftists is a pointless exercise because they have precisely zero concern for the dangers of tyranny and are all about extracting the last drop of blood from productive, law-abiding citizens in aid of airy fairy concepts like “compassion” and “equity.”

Actual compassion can mean “tough love” and anyone with a grain of understanding of human nature knows that hedonism, sloth and parasitism will entirely consume most humans unless outside discipline is imposed.  To leftists, however, their most fundamental principle is that responsibility is an alien concept and government doesn’t do enough to enable those defects of character and if a totalitarian government is necessary to “do enough” then that’s just a minor price all of us must pay. 

Notes.
^<1> Comment by mj on “A Broken Congress.  House Republicans have forgotten their mission.” By Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine, 10/4/23 (emphasis added).

James Madison wrote that, “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will come in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” Today this statement no longer seems like a remote risk for the “free world.” Indeed, we are witnessing an escalation of attacks against the foundational values which, not so long ago, we were taking for granted: freedom to travel, free speech, the right to bear arms, etc. Of course, the popular resistance to these infringements is also escalating.

“War: oligarchy’s great silencer.”  By Akrainer, ZeroHedge, 9/28/23.

We are certainly guilty of egregious dabbling in war with Russia but this and recent other military misadventures don’t account for the the assault on our rights that we see every day.  Assault on the taxpayer to be sure and, in general, Akrainer is correct that full-tilt war has historically justified egregious violation of rights.  But we’re not there just now.  Not for lack of trying, let it be said.

Rather, the full-bore attack on our foundational values is coming from our corrupt globalist, immigration-besotted, culturally-depraved, borderless political class.  They have labored long and hard for decades to bring this country and all Western nations to their knees and banish any notion of popular sovereignty or constitutional observance.  The depravity of uncontrolled, mass third-world migrant invasion, deindustrialization, lunatic spending, monetary debasement, and judicial and prosecutorial oppression does not have its roots in any war hysteria.  If you hear anyone talk about “our democracy” now, know that that person is not your friend, war or no war.