It's a Bit Late to Start Condemning Beheadings, Globalists

There's a piece over at Quillette by writer Brian Stewart that approves of French President Macron for taking a stand against beheadings of secular Frenchies by Muslim religious fanatics.

Pointing to France’s tradition of secularism, known as laïcité, Macron has insisted that it “is the glue of a united France,” which must be defended against Islamism’s “conscious, theorized, politico-religious project” to subvert the freedom of the republic.

No doubt. and I was just reading Gaetano Mosca in The Ruling Class. He says that in a multi-sect society the ruling class has to develop a unifying ideology so that, e.g. in France, you can be a good Muslim and a good Frenchie.

Unfortunately the time to have done that would have been 20-30 years ago. Instead the French ruling class, like ruling classes elsewhere in the West, have tended to be patronizing towards "victim groups," permitting them to develop ideologies of separation that they would never permit in ordinary middle-class Westerners.

And we know the reason why. Because condoning the primitive tribalist ideologies of the victims has been great for the ruling class on the voting front. Peoples that have not yet succeeded in finding a place in the city's market economy tend to hunker down in sub-national identities, and they protect themselves from the larger society with urban gangs. The job of a ruling class worth its privileges and its self-regard is to encourage by all means the ethnic group to identify with the nation rather than the tribe. 

But not our ruling class. Because, for the time being, they could be the champions of the oppressed, the "allies" if you like, and rule by dividing ordinary Americans.

So it's a bit late for President Macron suddenly wake up and say: Wow, these beheadings have got to stop!

Why, that's almost as radical as a Democratic Party leader getting up and saying "this mostly peaceful protesting has to stop." Yeah. We are a few years away from that happening.

It would be funny, a topic for late-night comedy shows, if it weren't so serious. Imagine a skit about the global elite running around turning up their noses at "patriotism" and "nationalism" and sneering at the populist nationalists from France's Le Pen and Britain's Farage and Hungary's Orbán, and Germany's Meuthen, and the US's Trump.

(Interesting: I didn't even know the name of the leader of Germany's Alternativ für Deutschland. I wonder why, MSM?)

Then all of a sudden the ruling class wakes up one day and decide sthat this beheading thing, that it has basically condoned for decades, Has Got To Stop!

The problem with history is that it is all one step forward and two steps back. And if you are lucky, you finally get a step ahead. That's because your average ruling class just inherited the job from its fathers and it really has no clue how its forefathers created the regime so many moons ago.

Here's a radical idea, you educated-evolved-compassionate ruling class. Start praising the Nation. Start praising the Founders (of whatever nation); start encouraging the immigrants to join the cult of the nation. And stop being snobby globalists meeting up in Magic-Mountain-ville in the Swiss Alps to teach the rubes how to "build back better."

Here's the reason. A good ruling class is always sensitive to the passions of the masses. Its glorious beribboned members dripping with knightly stars and magnificent awards want to know what the plebs are thinking and what is bothering them. Because, after all, the ruling class, every ruling class, lives on the conceit that it knows what is good for the country -- and the world! And it cannot have an idea about this unless it is pretty knowledgeable about what is actually going on in Fly-over Country or the banlieue of Paris.

But you can see what a useless ruling class would propose to do. Hey! I know! Let's get rid of Trump by fixing the mail-in votes in Pennsylvania. That will give us a fabulous mandate to Build Back Better.

Not!

Hey. You know what? For the last four years the US had a president that encouraged Americans to identify as Americans, and he encouraged the marginalized -- you know who they are -- to join the party and be proud of belonging to America. Because the American people are the best people in the world and America is the best country in the world and the best is yet to come.

Golly. You would think that Donald Trump had spent the last ten years reading, learning, and inwardly digesting The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca. But that would be impossible, because Orange Man Bad.