OK. I'm not feeling too good right now. What with 10 percent inflation. What with Dems trying to ram trillions in loot and plunder spending down my throat. What with President Biden going to Georgia to wave the bloody shirt on race. What with Dems trying to federalize elections so they can vote by mail and harvest votes at will.
Then there's the stupidity of anti-racism and DEI at our universities. There is even a curious piece about a Cal State psychologist equating Jews and liberalism and how that is not good for non-Jewish whites and should this guy even be allowed to publish. Or there's this CIA-funded extremism expert who, of course, thinks that right-wingers in the US are just a few guns short of an insurrection. Because international NGOs agree.
Look, I get it. The glorious dawn of progressive administrative government that lightened the sky a century ago has become a dull wintry evening drizzle. Or, if you like, the glorious nubile young thing of 1905 has become the monstrous old hag of 2021.
The problem is best illustrated by the race issue. Racial discrimination was abolished in the United States 55 years ago.
That means, sports fans, that it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of race. Does that mean the end of racial discrimination and racial stereotyping? Of course not. But it makes it illegal.
Guess what! That opens opportunities for people that want to make a buck on race. You can lower your wages a bit, so that whites won't show up, but blacks will. Or you can raise your rents so that whites won't want to rent. But blacks, who experience landlords telling them the apartment has "just been taken," will probably pay a premium to get a place to live. OMG! Raacist!
Look, I'll tell you what's racist. Flogging the race issue fifty years after race discrimination was outlawed.
And I get where the lefties and liberals and race-baiters and all the ships at sea are at. There is no politics without an enemy. If you want to strut your stuff in the ruling class you need some enemy to fight against.
Jews? Hell no: literally Hitler.
Welfare mothers? Hell no, it's not their fault.
Black aspiring rappers? Racist!
Corporations? But corporations are all woke these days.
Racist whites? Ah, there's an enemy we can live with!
Climate change? Hoo boy: and then anyone who disagrees with the vital importance of windmills and rooftop solar arrays is an evil climate denier, almost as bad as a Holocaust denier.
Pointy-headed intellectuals? Yes, but that's what George Wallace ran for president on in 1972.
Deep state? Now you're talking.
I tell you, the big thing in the next few years is for the nationalist middle-class leaders to find the right enemy to run against.
The enemy needs to be something of a joke, something or somebody that enables us deplorables to have a bit of fun, but not actually cancel or entrap with FEDS or impoverish with million-dollar legal bills. And certainly not put their heads on pikes.
As I say, the Age of Politics is over, because there really are no enemies at the border, against whom we must unite or lose our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
But how do we civilize politics into a sport, with two teams on the field, league tables, a national championship, and all that stuff. Without actually having a war, and without actually plundering the country for loot and plunder to reward the supporters?
I don't know how to do that, and I wish I did.
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