Maggie's Farm

It’s kind of a miracle that Trump did as well as he did. Consider the forces that the international oligarchs (billionaires, multinationals, financialists) arrayed against Trump: They had their sellouts in the governing class and the bureaucracy undermining Trump at every turn, coupled with academia and media, fabricating non stop anti-Trump narratives. In addition, they had the army of public sector drones, backed up by an army of easily manipulated soap opera women (and men) whose raison d’etre is hectoring, lecturing, chiding and scolding. It was complacency that let Trump slip past the gate in 2016; they were over confident that they had sufficiently neutered the Middle Working people of America, and elsewhere. If you are an American Working person, your attachment to those Industrial Revolution values of hard work, accountability, diligence, fairness, in tandem with your belief in the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, limited government are at best quaint, but more importantly this, coupled with your attachment to a national identity (borders), is an serious obstacle that stands in the way of the skimming class imposition of a top down supranational-government. The end game is to replace legislation with regulation by ideological “experts”, whose chief credentials are toeing the line. Nepotism is a key component. The Biden crime family may have accepted foreign “pay to play” but that is just the tip of the iceberg, many of these people are on the take, in one way or another, by way of the revolving door between government agencies, media, private and public businesses, foundations, charities, NGOs, universities……………including the Pentagon.
Be aware that there is a major realignment working its way through the system. The current public intellectual to make this case is Yuval Harari. I have not read his book, all I know about it comes from a half dozen lectures and interviews he has participated in on YouTube. My take is that it does not bode well for the people in the Middle, or their values, as their power and numbers decline due to contracting employment opportunities. This explains why the Dems had no reluctance to dump Labor, excepting the public sector unions. The question is will American middle class values prove to be archaic in the post industrial economy.

In support of my previous comment, consider the tsunami of hate that has occurred and will continue to occur toward Working America since President Zeros election, Slo Joe’s bilge, not withstanding. It has been a non stop barrage of insults, inflammatory accusations and demeaning ridicule. There has been no push back at all, just eagerness to jump on the bandwagon and reinforce the lies. The minions wouldn’t be doing that if the Normies had any clout. They work for the Man not you. They aren’t capable of empathy for Middle America. Their only interest is clicks and advancing the maudlin narrative du jour. They do not wish Middle America well, in any way.

Oops, sorry mudbug, the above post is not a response to you.