Political Chemistry: Organic and Inorganic

Over the last few years a few things have surprised me on the politics front. Why? Because they didn't look like they were ruling-class approved. 

What am I talking about? I am talking about the Tea Party that emerged in early 2009 in response to a call by CNBC reporter Rick Santelli from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a "tea party". Although La Wik wants us to believe that it was a Republican Party thing, my recollection is that it basically confused the GOP bigwigs. And Nancy Pelosi called it out as "AstroTurf," because that's the only politics she knows.

So I say that the Tea Party was "organic;" it was an emergent phenomenon that came out of the natural and organic opposition of ordinary middle-class Americans to the Obama administration's agenda.

But most US politics is "inorganic." It is top-down, regime-approved and supported. You know, like Black Lives Matter.

I'd say that Trump Car Parades and Trump Boat Parades are "organic." They were organized, at least originally, by Trump supporters on Facebook. Now, in the last week, we have Eff Biden chants at college football games. And we have angry moms confronting President Biden at photo-ops. I suspect that these are populist, spontaneous, "organic" eruptions, not GOP-planned and executed.

And I suspect that the January 6 Capitol Hill Riot was mostly organic. I suspect there was quite a bit of FBI informants and lefty activists egging the rioters on. But the guy with the fur cap, the guy lounging at Nancy Pelosi's desk: you would never see a left-wing protest like that. Instead, you would see earnest 20-something women in the House Chamber with placards and a chant.

Any time you see something called a "riot" it is not regime-approved: probably organic. Any time you see something called a "peaceful protest" or even a "mostly peaceful protest" it is regime-approved: probably inorganic.

The point is, of course, that ruling-class supporters all think that the regime-approved street action is the genuine Voice of the People: the "oppressed peoples" of which you've heard tell. But if you are not a regime supporter then you see fake everywhere you look.

I was to a neighborhood dinner a few nights ago and one of the women there had the liberal party line on everything. She couldn't understand how all of a sudden we were all "divided."

Of course. You wouldn't understand if you lived in the ruling-class bubble. But if you were a racist-sexist-homophobe like me, and you believe the following:

1. Politics is division
2. Government is war plus loot and plunder
3. There is no such thing as justice, only injustice

Then you would think that people who have been excluded from the councils of power, people who are on the losing end of government, would very possibly think that the system was rigged against them, and start to organize.

Very likely these people would not be organized by some ruling-class clique, because whether you are Inner Party or Outer Party you wouldn't really know or care what the "outs" were experiencing. As in The Hunger Games, life is good in the Capitol.

My point is that if you are a ruling class worth your salt you have your ear to the ground and you make adjustments to keep the natives from getting restless.

But, it seems to me, our present ruling class doesn't know, or doesn't care, that the natives are restless. Maybe it is because internal Inner Party politics is so fraught right now that the current Inner Party leaders are running scared: they are reacting to the lefty extremists because they fear for their jobs and power. E.g., fixing the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination to keep Bernie Sanders from winning.

All I am saying here is that my ear is tuned to sounds of "organic" spontaneous eruptions from ordinary middle-class Americans.

And I think the volume turned up a notch in the last week or so with the Eff Biden chants at college football games and the angry folks raining on President Biden's photo-ops.

To be continued.