I've been cudgeling my brain over the past few weeks about the Biden administration's two big agenda items: Climate Change and Systemic Racism. What is really going on here?
And I now realize that it is quite simple.
Government has only two jobs: to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic. But today there really are no foreign enemies. And, really, there are no internal enemies. Not like in the old days of bandits and robbers.
So what is government to do? It doesn't have anything to do any more. It should go out of business.
But that would never do, so it has to make it up. It has to make up external enemies and internal enemies, and wind us up into a frenzy of fear and loathing.
That is what climate change is all about: a monstrous external threat. OMG! Not even a foreign enemy: a global enemy. And not even a human enemy but the very planetary climate itself: Gaia, if you like. Really, it is genius. Why, our ruling class does not even have to march into harm's way. It merely has to hand out highly paid jobs to its educated gentry supporters all across the land, and hand out subsidies to its gentry voters for electric cars and solar panels on the roof. And of course all the gentry supporters are down with that. They believe! Oh Gaia, do they believe!
That is what systemic racism is all about: a monstrous internal threat. Imagine: right here in River City there are dark hordes of white supremacists and white oppressors, just waiting for the chance to descend upon traditionally marginalized peoples with their assault rifles and their patriarchy. But government is up to the challenge! It will conduct critical race theory training sessions throughout the land! It will teach the systemic racists a lesson they will never forget. Gentry supporters will have jobs, maybe millions of jobs to be teaching the deplorables and the white supremacists and the systemic racists a lesson. And, when they feel like a rest, they can erect another Black Lives Matter sign in the front yard.
When you think about it, you have to admit: it's brilliant. Strictly speaking we don't really need much government, because in the modern era things are so safe that we don't need no stinkin' government plodding around saving us from enemies foreign and domestic.
But now we have enemies that make the old enemies of the world look like pikers. The global threat of climate change makes all the old enemies, the Nazis, the Commies, the Islamic terrorists, look like nothing. It's not just those human enemies but something far bigger, far more threatening: the end of life on this Earth. Unless we act now.
The threat of systemic racism is just as bad. There is no telling what those shadowy white supremacists and conspiracy theorists might get up to next week. So we must declare war on them, re-educate them, purge them from the public square.
But what do we do about it? Honestly, I don't know. The whole setup is so brilliant, and so tempting for our educated ruling class that I don't think they will give up on it short of utter political annihilation.
In other words, we Commoners have to teach our educated betters that, if they don't climb down from their war on climate and their war on bitter clingers, we will strip them of all their powers and credentials and honors and pensions and make them go out and get a job, like the rest of humanity.
And we may -- just for the fun of it, not from malice -- put them on one-day suspensions from Twitter just to remind them that what goes around comes around.
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