I was going to post this on New Year’s Eve, but I got too busy running a salsa taste test and then watching Thin Man movies and re-runs of the Twilight Zone.
Anyway, the big story of last year, the big story of every year since at least the attack on 9/11, is the big imbalance of power between elites and non-elites. I think it was Daniel Pipes who pointed out, in connection with the pseudo-issue of Islamophobia, that those of us fighting against the Islamification of the West were up against the six p’s: police, press, professors, priests, prosecutors, and politicians. This isn’t even all of the forces arrayed against us, as one could include Hollywood, social media, and now even corporations. See the hilarious video at the link here on corporations, and yet, as one commenter noted, “the majority of normies and lefties I come across still sincerely believe that the left are the outsiders fighting the man.”
It is true that there are some entities that are not against us, such as the Wall Street Journal, maybe Fox News, the Epoch Times, Hillsdale College, police in most rural areas of red states, and what not, but they are not powerful the way that the NY Times and Harvard are powerful.
Our only real weapons are elections and boycotting. And after the 2020 election, the power we have with elections is dubious. This means we must boycott, and it worked effectively with Gillette. Unfortunately, too many entities, such as the Salvation Army, paid no attention and decided to commit suicide.
Anyway, the power imbalance means that the elites have no qualms about abusing power. It seems that nearly every day, there is a story of an elite abusing power, or wanting to abuse power. It might be a college denying the college Republicans the right to do what the college Democrats can do. It might be some prominent elite demanding that all the unvaccinated not be treated by hospitals or insisting that everyone wear a mask while they go off on vacation and are photographed not wearing one. Or it might be the ruling-class media refusing to cover important stories or refusing to mention important facts in the stories they do cover. The elites are so used to abusing power and not being called on it that they simply keep doing it again and again and again. That they can abuse power is because they have so much of it, even though they don’t acknowledge it; accordingly, “punching down” against non-elites is not something they are ashamed of, but is instead a matter of pride.
I’ve never once heard any elite warn other elites not to abuse power. It is an idea that is awfully far from their minds because, as already mentioned, they believe that they have hardly any power.
How to change all of this is a big problem for us non-elites, and I don’t have any good ideas about how to do it.
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