Cheating is a Sign You Are Losing

Our Democratic friends have been stealing elections since -- well since well before Boss Tweed. But never mind that. Let us talk about the cheat-ology going on with our educated Gentry ruling class today.

It's pretty obvious that the Democrats have engaged in widespread vote fraud in this 2020 election. Hey, what else is new?

But what is more important is the whole "fake" culture surrounding it.

It's not just a question of "fake news." It is fake everything.

Why does our ruling class have to lie about so many things?

Why did Hillary Clinton have to set up the "fake" Steele Dossier? Why were swamp creatures like Brennan and Clapper and Comey and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all in on the deal?

Why did the Dems decide we had to have two years of the "fake" Special Prosecutor Mueller investigation to investigate "fake" Russian collusion?

Why did Nancy Pelosi empower Schiff and Nadler for their creepy "fake" investigations?

Why is The New York Times putting out its "fake" 1619 Project proposing that the United States was founded to do slavery?

Why is social media censoring conservative voices?

Why are the liberals screaming about racism sexism and homophobia half a century after race and sex discrimination was made illegal? And after the Supreme Court legislated gay marriage?

Why do liberals believe in the Manichean belief system of good "oppressed peoples" and "allies" against the evil "white oppressors?" 

And whatabout the low-rent nature of the principals? Nancy Pelosi, the 80ish Democratic Speaker of the House, capa di tutti capi of the California political family that features her unimpressive nephew Governor Newsom and the featherweight Sen. Harris. Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader in the Senate: what's his claim to fame?

And whatabout the utterly unimpressive Democratic candidates for president disporting themselves a year ago? The ageing socialist Sanders, the quota blacks and women and gays?

And why have the opinion poll guys been putting out so many "fake" polls?

And why is education a total wreck and force-feeding "fake" critical race theory religion to our children from K through grad-school?

I will tell you. It is because things aren't working for the educated Gentry any more. The world isn't working for them. So they do what humans do when things start to go wrong. They cheat. They can't believe their eyes; it cannot be that their hour in the sun is coming to an end.

Here's an item that has stuck with me over the years. Back in the early days of the Tea Party, Nancy Pelosi dismissed it as "astroturf." Do you see the "tell" here? Nancy Pelosi cannot imagine an organic, spontaneous political movement. Because her entire political life has been about "fake" activism:  trained activists masquerading as helpless victims, marshaled up before the news cameras. It was inconceivable -- inconceivable in Princess Bride terms -- that any political movement should be organic and real. 

In real life, we still don't know how the Tea Party came to be. (Oh yeah, in due course it was hi-jacked by all the usual suspects, but that was after.)

Let us use the "fake" arc-of-history metaphor to describe what is going on. Every life, every family, every community, every empire, every ruling class goes through its history describing an arc: it is born, it grows, it succeeds, it rules, it declines, it cheats, it dies.

Let us say that our present educated ruling class was born with Rousseau, with the fantasy that people are basically good, and it is society that corrupts them. Let us say that it grew with the Educated Youth of the 19th century that gave us Marx and the Fabian Society and the Progressive movement in the US. Let us say that it succeeded with the democratic politicians that gave us social legislation. Let us say that it ruled with FDR and LBJ. Let us say that it declined with the corrupt Clinton and the ideologue Obama. Let us say that it cheats with Hillary, Nancy, Chuck and the "fake" media and the social media moguls.

So really, there is nothing left for our educated Gentry but to die a decent death. Or, if it chooses, an ugly death.

Enough of the past what of the future?

What new arc of history is upon us? What new dawn is breaking with its glorious sun rising with a new and blinding light? What is presently being born and like to grow and succeed?

I would like to think that we are entering the Age of Commoners, ordinary people that want to live honest, responsible, productive lives, and maybe leave children and grandchildren behind them; people that don't need to blaze across the heavens in a glorious arc like a meteorite; people that aren't motivated to great deeds in service of ambition, honor, and vanity; people that aren't just followers of a great leader.

But I could be indulging in wishful thinking.