When The Left is Right.
only The Right is Left...
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“I remember when Britain, was… Leaving London on the last train to England. Remember. When England was England. As Elgar and Housman remembered the England of Hardy; lost flint churches, lanes “deep in sycamore”, and the sun-dappled trout stream, before the age of steam. As Hardy wrote, a pre-Industrial, agrarian land. Squalid and beautiful. Brutish and divine”.
“Peak Humanity”, Peak America, was arguably somewhere between 1965 and 1975- Vietnam Wars, Motown and the timeless socio-economic vagaries aside. Everything that happens now, is just brunch.
Government is tyranny. Institutionalised. Legalised. But it’s much more subtle, insidious than that. Omni-Government- by which we mean “Administration”, petty regulations, overseen seen by pettier officials “just trying to do their job”.
The idea of government gets in the way of the American dream. Indeed I would argue, the human spirit. That is a far more debilitating form of enslavement. As anyone trying to start, let alone run, a SME knows. People give up. Their granite individualism having been worn down, idiotic drip by idiotic drip.
Not “Let’s Do It”, but let “Mr. Patel, Assistant, Diversity Empowerment Team”, tell us how to do it. The person to know how to run a business selling little plastic converters for the rails of bespoke blinds. Or how to educate your children. It doesn’t matter who “Mr. Patel” is, or is not. It’s the same non-job, grandiose job title on the door the world over.
From India’s famously sclerotic legal “Cistern”; court cases blocked as their lavatories for years. To “Democratic Parties”, European Unions, or Public schools, that are neither Democratic nor Public, nor even Unified.
So Let Government Do It. Then you can be manufactured, rather than what you might be selling or inventing. Made Lazy. And, like Obama, not Born in The USA.
But worse, there is a thinly cloaked disdain in the media and Techno-elites. For small town Pennsylvania- the home of my Bavarian-born fathers since about 1740. The God of small things, as Arundhati Roy put it best. “God, Family and Nation”. Order, in that order.
Billionaires Are US.
To survive the future, Go-large America ought to re-remember: “Small is Good”. Beautiful, perfectly formed in fact. It is our nature. Revealed in the Fibonacci sequence writ large. The same pattern in the hexagonal dance of a bee, as in the rings of flower seeds on which it feasts. It is not just bad enough that the bees are endangered. It is that humanity will soon have forgotten, how to be human. Unable to see, the same Pattern on which it also feeds.
Dismissing the populations of 13 States for believing- in anything, but The State God. Or not following the Yellow Brick Road of Science. Or Climate Orthodoxy and worshipping the Golden Calf of Carbon Cults. Today’s billionaires turned Democratic candidates would have been “False” in 1776. False before they invented “Dollars” or Billionaires. False now.
Under Their Breath
World Government lies behind the masks of UN agencies and NATO. The “Committee of 300” and Trilaterals, couldn’t believe how easy it was to lie. And to cull. Club the seals who got too close, too trusting of the men in the Club of Rome.
“The bigger the lie…”, as Mr. Hitler’s spin-doctor Goebbels understood only too well. At Davos one-to-ones agreeing privately, under their breath, that The Public really were as stupid as they were. They want to trust us. For fear of the alternative, the elites convinced themselves. In other ways “The Resistance” to Control, Climate and Digital Currency alarmed them. So they made everything “Mis-information”, so that what was left was the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but a lie.
But I do believe. Because, like voters every four years, they want to be- deceived. And “Herr Schwab” and his WEF protégé, Mini-Me Hariri would no doubt add, need to be.
Today, there can’t be another “Ronald Reagan” elected under America’s rigged electoral system. You don’t need hackable voting machines, made by one of George Soros’s subsidiaries, to snatch election Defeat from the jaws of democratic Victory. You just make Democracy too expensive for the un-well-connected to participate in.
Nothing is as Sure as Change.
Most of the “West” has been mostly, and unusually “lucky” to have had seven decades of relative Peace and Plenty. On the historical time-line, the blue segments marked “Inter-war” or “Peace”, are few and far between. Aberrations, as opposed to red for “War”. Humankind has never lived in Peace: only in a permanent, flicker of “Inter-war” years.
Forty Years Too Late
“British Governments always act decisively facing a crisis. Just forty years too late. The Toffs and The Fools, turning blind eyes to Open Migration, or free-falling educational standards. Not training enough indigenous doctors, car-makers and care workers. So they rip-off the Dark Continents- again. Except no nobody told them, it isn’t perpetual “Dunkirk 1940” anymore. Churchill’s wars are not won by retreat.
The trouble is “white, Caucasian culture” has lost, self-sabotaged its tribal “self-Confidence”. Identity is strength. Mislaid it, you should hope.
Own It
Reagan. The best Prime Minister Britain never had, got The Right about right. Big Government is The Problem, not the problems it thinks it can solve. Politicians have a Saviour complex. False Messiahs- to a woman. Until The Commonwealth of the US. Under the “Simpson Presidency” of 2028.
For all his faults, Reagan never forgot his size as President. Though tragically late in life, stricken with the Alzheimer’s America could have cured by now, had they followed through on his policies, he forget he had been President. A lesson to us all.
Virtuous “Faults”, as perceived by assy Harvard, Leftie economists on 300k taxpayer and Rockefeller grants. Doing Net Zero encouraging genuine enterprise, deregulating strangling red-tape. Or gluing together a Smartphone battery on the line in a Taiwanese factory. “Reagan 1980”, that they forget underpins today’s Silicon Valley first-comers advantage.
Clearing the undergrowth of government-sponsored poison ivy. The forms, IRS/202/20/A12 and licences for doing what you did yesterday for free. Schemes and “Helpful” interventions. All turn the self-reliant into the dependent. Cost that simply makes your widgets, or yoga class, more costly. So fewer customers can pay- unless on welfare.
You’d think this scale of stupidity must have been part of The Plan. But The Great- Socialist- Reset, formulated somewhere in Switzerland has already taken place. Sometime around Obama. A mixture of incompetence and scheme.
As a later US Emperor’s son, President Bush on a visit to the EU, scorned the moribund, red-taped French business sector. It was because the French didn’t have a word for “Entrepreneur”. Classique.
If only the present were as simple, as hurtling towards another episodic, civilisational collapse on the wrong side of the motorway. But the West is doing it, high-speed- in reverse gear. We are going backwards to our future. And most, apart from a few select Jeramiahs and Cassandras, don’t know it. Yet.
As that inimitable Jeremiah of all Jeramiahs, Mark Steyn, noted the leader of the Taliban noted, “America has all the watches: but we have all the time”.
We notice it, again, in small things. Think for example, it now takes longer to fly to the US than it did in pre-747, 1960. Seven hours flight: seven hours wandering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake. Trying not to smile at bored sales assistants trying not to smile, in one vast perfume boutique that America has become. Waiting… Waiting. Permanently in a line. Or a queue in England.
The UK Tax Code is now three times the length of Shakespeare’s entire works. Says it all. Tragedy and Comedy.
Same for starting, let alone running a business. Not making a profit- remember what that word used to mean- for five years used to be a sign of a bad business idea. Not in The All New-Now, new Normal. According to the Venture Capitalist Gods, it’s a badge of honour. Win or lose. Boom or Bust- they, somebody they own, owns you. Lock, stock and Fanny Mae mortgage.
Life itself is less civilised. Whether you spell it with an “S” or Zee. Life on both sides of the Great Black Water, is now controlled mostly by errr… Blackwater and Partners. No lounge cocktail, shaken not stirred, before taking to the skies. Unless you are “Silly-Con Valley” elite.
UK welfare is the State. It distorts free-markets in both private and state sectors. The two are now merged and acquired. Workers literally can’t afford to work. An extra two hours over-time netting £40 after tax, often ends up costing employees £140 in lost benefits. Such is the insanity economics of British Corporate Socialism at work. Or not at work, to be precise.
Circle of Stupidity
So they import migrant labour to keep the indigenous population under-employed or unemployed. And their Nationalised Health Service in a perpetual state of bankruptcy to pay for both. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
Universal Basic Income dependency is already here.
The Statists drug of choice. Subsidising lower wages than state employers or business would have to pay, were the economy not distorted by the Welfare Industry. Europe’s only growth sector.
So is the ever increasing State, and complexity of our present, really all about “Security”'. Or a Great Gig Fat- Excuse?
DIFFICULTY- the brand-spanking new, shiny new excuse for the same old control. By The Few over The Many. The same white powder. The same soft-soap, politician-patricians. Just in a bigger, cardboard box. Star-labelled with a funky, “All-New Formula”. You decide sheep. If they let you.
We’re All in It. But not Together.
News. There is, has never been “Western democracy”. Only lesser or greater forms of small A, autocracy. Not until the Average Joe and Joanna know that “Joe Doe36” is “President Clinton”, listed on Jeffery Epstein’s “Lolita Express” private jet manifest. Or that Bill Gates’, one-off “business lunch” with Eppy happened- 26 times.
That the photos scrubbed from his internet, taken on a tour of Buckingham Palace by HRH Prince Andrew, in which Ghislaine Maxwell was photo’d sitting on one of “Mummy’s thrones”, was taken by a certain, Not Guilty, Kevin Spacey.
History is simply irony written down.
My Bavarian-born, Palatinate forebears arrived in the American Colonies in 1710. Fast-forward 250 years, and my maternal Grandpa returned, courtesy of the USAAF, in his words to “Kick Hitler’s ass all the way back to Berlin”.
Join The Multiculti
Big Tech is the new stifling bureaucratic equivalent of the French Revolution. Creating waves of Non-jobs in which to drown genuine innovation. Jobs whose inly purpose is seeking to justify their monthly pay-checks, by shovelling paper from one In-tray, on the 5th floor of the “Diversity Compliance Office”- to another Non-jobber doing the same in the “Regulation Compliance Secretariat” on the fourth.
The “radical” Libertarian ideas of Mark Steyn, and the other “Last Americans” would, just thirty years ago, have been regarded as “mainstream” in Main Street USA. That rarest of rare species, people with “Common Sense”, is the endangered species across the Western world nobody is trying to save. Do The Right Thing, they persuade- Vote Left.
It’s not that the so-called “Right” has drifted Right, but that everyone else has slipped not even to The Left, the misnamed Left. Society has been sleepwalking in the bright day, into what de Tocqueville recognised two centuries ago in the French Revolution, as a banal acceptance. A dangerous, deadly acceptance. A collective laziness. Letting others think for your-self. That Government knows best, and The Only Solution is surprise… more Government. Carefully masked as “Enhanced Security”. Or something more convenient, that is Good For You. Let people keep as much of their wage in their back jean pocket. Minimize Government, maximise the liberty that “maketh Man”, man.
The Amber Waves of Grain
The “New World Order” is here. Who knew? Sorry to disappoint. For the Proles it will be much like the old. Serfdom, digitized. Serfs, surfing with Government supplied and monitored iPads. Given Approved Freedom only. Grateful and dead, from the waist up or down.
“However far you travel now, wherever, you always meet the same person. I dream I’d liked to be an adventurer or explorer. To know exactly where “Patagonia” is. But trouble is, I like living in “Two N’s, two S’s and two E’s”- Tennessee. And chocolate biscuits from the 7-11 on 5th Street.”- Robert P. is Unavailable.
People Like Us
How can the State, and its made-up laws, confine you illegally for you “stealing” back your society, nation, culture God. When it was already stolen property?
So “society”- small “S”- is now reduced. Like some thick French chef’s jus colis, served in snazzy East Side and Brussels restaurants. where The Plush, The Luvvies wine and dine… other luvvies. Private Dining Rooms of the sticky combo of sanctimonious Pop Priests and media Illuminati like Bono. But not for, You too.
The supercilious in pursuit of the next fluffy, feel-good cause celebre. They get Down with The People, from their third floor NY Dakota penthouses. With the marble wet-rooms imported from India, hewn by the anonymous with anonymous bleeding fingers, via Dubai. It’s not scepticism unless it’s healthy. It’s all part of The Con. Blisters and all.
Perhaps people like us, were right all along. When the Left is right. Only The Right is left.
James Chanel- AMAZON/KDP- Advertising ad nauseum.
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