Nationalism is the Movement to Counter The Dictatorship of the Educated Class

Let us stipulate the cry of the globalists, that their agenda is the solution to all our problems: to subordinate our deplorable selves to educated, evolved leaders that will end forever the battle of race against race, of class against class, of religion against religion. Very well, to subordinate ourselves, in other words, to our all-wise and all-loving godly betters.

But that is not how the reality of the dictatorship of the educated class has worked out in practice. That's because our semi-divine rulers have had to rule just like every other sub-lunary ruler, by dividing the world into Us and Them: race against race, class against class, gender against gender.

But then what's the point? As I understand it, from the days of Marx, our educated class rulers have promised to lead us up from the dusty plains up to the mountain tops. Or as Trotsky wrote:

The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise.

This, of course, is the marching song of the People of the Creative Self, the beating hope within every creative breast that xe will be the One to light the world with their creative brilliance. And then go on to bigger and better things.

Now I say there is a right way and a wrong way to go about the creative process. The right way is to dream your creative dream and then offer it to the world, on your knees. The wrong way is to dream your creative dream and then ram it down the throat of the rest of the world.

So what in the world is a chap like Emmanuel Macron smoking? His idea is that wise educated men like him from the Grande Écoles will get together in Brussels and issue edicts to the ordinary people of Europe. That's the only safe way, you see because the one time we tried something different we got Hitler. Therefore globalism good, nationalism bad.

The only problem, globalists, is the objection of the hated racist sexist homophobe Enoch Powell, who said, inter alia, that Europe could not work because there is no European demos. That's Greek for "European people."

Now Michael Walsh proposes we think of our educated class overlords as the devotees of a cult:

Rather, the demons are the Marxist and other Socialist millenarians who, since the middle of the 19th century, have promulgated their pernicious one-worldism, first as the dictatorship of the proletariat, then as ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer, the Soviet occupation and the fiction of the Warsaw Pact, and finally as the European Union—a kind of USSR-lite, but one centrally run from Brussels instead of Moscow, with an army of bureaucrats to keep its restive member states, farmers, workers, and peasantry in line.

Actually, the one-worlders do have a demos. It is people like them with advanced degrees and with sinecures in the universities and NGOs. For people like that the world is their oyster: they can always get the paperwork to live and work anywhere in the world. Hey, what's yer problem, deplorable?

But let us just think of the educated-class one-worlders as just another religion with a glorious vision of the world as it could be. Only thing is, that if their vision is a religion it almost always involves Us and Them. Matt Ridley in The Origins of Virtue:

[T]he universalism of the modern Christian message has tended to obscure the obvious fact about religious teaching -- that it almost always emphasizes the differences between the in-group and the out-group: us versus them; Israelite and Philistine; Jew and Gentile; saved and damned... Religion teaches its adherents that they are a chosen race and their nearest rivals are benighted fools or even subhumans. There is nothing especially surprising about this, given the origins of most religions as beleaguered cults in tribally divided, violent societies. [ p.191]

So, are we to understand that our progressive friends are a cult that is feeling rather beleaguered right now? But then the fact is that we deplorables are feeling rather beleaguered too, given the refusal of our lefty friends to let us dine in peace, go to college in peace, even elect a president in peace.

See I'd say that the sensible thing for our globalist friends to do would be to keep quiet, exchange their secret handshakes with their fellow globalists and get on with administering the world. We deplorables would never figure out what was going down until it was too late.

By launching their post-modern identity politics religion upon us they are crowding us into a corner, where the options are to submit or to create our own religion of beleaguered deplorability that can fight mano-a-mano with the cult of globalism.

And anyway, the globalists are wrong: they are fools, and maybe even subhuman. The One Big Thing of the last two centuries has been the Great Enrichment through capitalism that has taken us from $3 per person per day to $150 per person today, and our educated ruling-class has been fighting it all the way.

Because here is the amazing thing. If we all just keep our cotton-pickin' hands off politics and surrender to the market we all survive and prosper. Beyond our wildest dreams.

And all it takes is just two things. First, if you have a really cool creative idea you submit it to the verdict of the market; you do not go to your local politician and get him to force it on the rest of us. Second, if the market seems to be going against you, as in threatening your job or the salary you have become accustomed to, then the right thing to do is figure out another way to contribute to society; you do not go to your local politician and get him to keep your company or salary going by government subsidy or regulation.

But you know what? It is the hardest thing in the world for the People of the Creative Self not to force their brilliant ideas on the rest of us, and the hardest thing in the world for the People of the Subordinate Self not to follow some man on a white horse that promises to protect them from the market.

But meanwhile, what kind of a religion can we gen up to oppose the cruel and unjust religion of the educated ruling class, and "the priests" of the ruling class like Emmanuel Macron.

OK. It  obviously involves nationalism. What what else? Que más?