Dems are for the Allies; GOPs for the Commoners

You know me. I see everything through the lens of my reductive Three Peoples theory. Or Curtis Yarvin's Three Layer theory.

But our Democratic friends see the world through something close to another Three Layer theory.

In my theory and Yarvin's theory we have the Creatives or Gentry on top; we have Responsibles or Commoners in the middle; we have Subordinates or Clients on the bottom. This is a descriptive theory.

In the progressive or Democratic theory we have "oppressed peoples" who are championed by "allies" who fight against "white oppressors." This is a moral theory; I call it "allyism."

However both theories are kinda all about the proper role of the ruling class. It's clear that my theory suggests that the job of the ruling class is to provide a helping hand to all three Layers: to help Creatives be creative; to help Responsibles be responsible; to help Subordinates climb out of subordination into responsibility.

The lefty theory proposes a moral war, by the ruling class allies against the white oppressors on behalf of the oppressed peoples. That, of course, is what we are seeing on the streets right now as mostly white "allies" are mostly peacefully protesting against... Yeah, what exactly? The police? The businesses that they have been torching? Or what?

Now I think that both the party conventions have perfectly illustrated all this. 

The Democratic convention was all about young people and their activism on behalf of helpless oppressed peoples. 

The Republican convention was all about... Well, if you ask me it was all about persuading Black Subordinates that they really belong in the party of Commoners and that their struggle and sacrifices are understood and valued and that, if they make the awful decision, and #WalkAway, they will all live happily ever after.

All lies, of course, from both parties. Life is not that simple, and politics certainly is not the answer to your problems. But we humans are social animals, and politics is unavoidable.

So the question is really: how do the Americans in the middle react to all the play-acting? My judgement is that the overwhelming majority of Americans are really Commoners, people trying to Responsibly live the lives they are given and trying to make something good out of it all.

I think that the allies and oppressed peoples narrative is a conceit of the educated Gentry. It makes human life into an opera with the educated Gentry as the stars singing the most glorious arias and the oppressed peoples as the chorus of peasants. (It's amazing how many 19th century operas had a chorus of rural peasants).

My analysis of history is that, ever since the French Revolution, we keep getting outbursts of Creative conceit, that the educated Gentry are going to save the world with politics by bending the arc of history towards justice. And it always ends up with a very large body count.

Although, I would say, in the United States it has tended to result in the repudiation of the Creative Gentry by the middling sort of Commoners.

So here we are, at Labor Day, with another presidential election campaign before us. Will America elect to let Commoners live their ordinary lives or will we empower the educated Gentry to fight glorious wars against systemic racism and climate change?

That is the question.