The Democratic National Convention is happily over after four days in which the party elite, their minions and their mega-donor and corporate masters spent trying to make the public forget the disaster they caused over the past four years. They invented a folksy narrative to promote their new representative, Kamala Harris, who is trying to change her deep blue image to centrist, people’s purple.
But that’s mostly beside the point. If she ascends to the Oval Office, she clearly won’t be making the big decisions, just like her dodgy predecessor. Instead, her entourage will haul her onstage with a script when it’s time to put on a good show for the rednecks in the cheap seats. She might even do better than Biden, who can’t quite read the words off a screen.
Given the many important signs of progress in countering creeping authoritarianism, it’s no wonder the Harris-Waltz campaign is hesitant to further sway undecided voters.
If we want to know what a Kamala Harris administration will actually be like, the record of the past four years is a much better guide than the empty promises of universal freedom, unbridled joy, boundless prosperity and unparalleled security we heard last week.
While Harris laughs at us at the table, there is another way to know what we are actually going to get from those powers that be: ignore the apparent powers and listen to the real voices of power who are probably already ruining the country, either directly or through key political institutions and deep state operatives.
With that in mind, let’s examine two key passages from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech.
In his keynote address Tuesday night, former President Obama displayed his and his wife’s trademark arrogance masquerading as a veneer of eloquence.
uttered these words:
To move forward on the things we care about, the things that really impact people’s lives, we must remember that we all have blind spots, contradictions and biases. And if we want to win the support of those who aren’t yet ready to support our candidate, we need to listen to their concerns and learn something in the process.
After all, if our parents or grandparents say things that make us cringe every once in a while, we don’t automatically assume they’re bad people. We recognize that the world is changing quickly and that they need time, and maybe a little encouragement, to catch up.
On a purely superficial level, this language is far better than Hillary Clinton’s infamous 2016 comment, in which she called “half” of Trump’s supporters “racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes and Islamophobes.”A deplorable group of peopleUnlike Clinton, who lacks the eloquence to hide her arrogance, the Obamas’ sentiments are the same. Obama and Clinton’s statements convey that those who support Donald Trump are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and ultimately unenlightened” parents and grandparents who will inevitably “say things that disgust us.” And we will “Automatically “We decide they’re bad people” — after all, “the world is moving fast” and they may “just need some time to catch up, and maybe a little encouragement” — and if, even after we’ve listened to them and tried to persuade them, they still can’t catch up, then our temporarily withheld conclusion that “they’re bad people” was probably right all along.
Michelle Obama, always a little more condescending than her professorial husband, made the point more directly.
In her own primetime remarksHe criticized Trump and his supporters for having a “narrow-minded view of the world.” [that] “They made two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happen to be black feel threatened, and as a result they piled on ugly, misogynistic and racist lies in place of real ideas and solutions that would actually make people’s lives better.”
Professional wrestling is a much better indicator of public sentiment than anything at the Democratic National Convention, but if a self-conscious wrestler advertised himself as “highly educated,” he was almost guaranteed to be booed by the crowd. Not at the DNC. Michelle Obama drew rapturous applause, both from those who shared her smug sense of superiority and from those who enjoyed being set straight.
Yes! Yes! Please scold me some more!
Ironically, right after boasting about his own qualifications and hurling vile accusations of racism and misogyny, President Obama, apparently unaware of the irony, declared that Trump’s tactics “only make us smaller. And let me say this: Getting small is never the answer. Getting small is the opposite of what we’re teaching our kids. Getting small is boring, it’s unhealthy and, frankly, it’s unpresidential.”
Yes… but there’s nothing “petty” or “petty” or “unhealthy” or “unpresidential” about reflexively labeling people who fundamentally disagree with your worldview as racist or misogynist, right?
And it’s perfectly normal to think, like Barack Obama, that truth and justice are on your side and that those who are not yet awakened are just old old men struggling to keep up with progress. They may need time to catch up with the latest additions to the LGBTQIA+ victimhood vocabulary, or to accept developments like allowing biological men to compete against real women in the Olympics, or to support policies that allow dangerous and hardened criminals to go free without bail — while punishing us for protecting them. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants, mostly uneducated and unskilled, flood across the border and get free rooms and board in hotels while our homeless and drug-addicted citizens are left to fend for themselves on city sidewalks.
This is said to be progress. But that is not the only feature of such “progress.”
Protecting Free Speech It’s also “progress” that social media is “advancing” through the censorship, de-platforming, and demonetization campaigns in which Big Tech works with the federal government to carry out their dirty work.
Mandating experimental COVID vaccines against a virus that mutates quickly and consistently outpaces vaccine advances was “progress,” as were extended lockdowns that kept schools and small businesses closed, which caused children, who are at lowest risk of serious infection, to suffer.
Large learning lossesHer parents lost their livelihood and were struggling to make ends meet, Tech giants like Amazon They profited from the closure of small businesses in a market that was suddenly short on supply.
And those who were unable to make ends meet during the lockdown needed government assistance as compensation, meaning more “progress” meant accelerating inflation.
Over $1 trillion Inject public payments into an economy already booming after the pandemic. Over $100 billion The Biden Administration has plunged into the black hole of Ukraine to sustain a war it purposely provoked (if you’re willing to step outside the media propaganda bubble, you can find out the actual facts of that war in Tucker Carlson’s eye-opening book). Podcasts Co-authored with renowned Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs.
The domino effect will cause people’s real wages to fall further.
Labor surplus due to illegal immigration Soaking up taxpayer-funded benefits at the bottom of the economy and fuelling further inflation — yes, you guessed it, this is “progress” again.
All of this, especially the policies that hamstrung people’s livelihoods, increased government dependency, raised the cost of living, introduced cheap illegal labor that drained public benefits, transferred wealth to big corporations, and squandered money on foreign wars, were of course so popular that the election victory of the man responsible for such “pro-working class” policies seemed all but certain. But as wise Obama warned, “the world is moving fast,” and old folks who can’t keep up with the pace of progress “might need a little encouragement to catch up.”
To give them the much-needed boost, we had to make a concerted effort to strengthen democracy vis-à-vis certain backward elements in the electorate. That meant:
- Get Involved A blatant legal battle To divert attention from other party candidates Felonand drain his finances.
- Engaging in more legal maneuvers Try kicking him –And just to be safe, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — will be removed from the ballot.
- The media has covered up the dementia state of the man supposedly leading the most powerful nation on earth, and those who challenge the media consensus have been branded as criminals spreading disinformation.Cheap fakes.”
- When the inevitable public revelations during the presidential debates made the ruse untenable, wealthy donors, celebrities, and elite politicians worked together to remove the sitting president from the ballot, proclaimed him a national hero for having no choice but to succumb to a pressure campaign, and then replaced him with hollow words that no one voted for, all in the name of, once again, defending “democracy.”
Given many important signs of progress in countering creeping authoritarianism, it is no wonder that the Harris-Waltz campaign is hesitant to further woo undecided voters. They have steered clear of unscripted interviews and detailed policy discussions, fearing that such direct intellectual engagement might lose them the election.
Recent Posts As The Atlantic warns, this could threaten democracy.
So, not surprisingly,
White supremacy It is recognized as the greatest terrorist threat in America today. Rural white Americans The campaign has labeled them as a general threat to democracy and avoided engaging in “difficult conversations,” instead sticking to its tried-and-true strategy of labeling its opponents as racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, Islamophobes, or any other name until they are shamed into compliance.
After all, the problem can’t be their policies.
WeIf we set aside our remaining doubts and ignore all our instincts, from rational minds to our intuitive Spider-Man senses, that warn us that this election is not a battle against the future and its stubborn enemies, but a battle against the last breath of civilization and their advancing barbarism, we will witness such rapid “progress” that the older generation Obama referred to will no longer need to be reasoned with and will be cast aside forever. And freed from this burden, we will be able to spend the next four years, to borrow the title of Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Become.”
We will be increasingly “educated” about and ashamed of our outdated prejudices and biases; we will feel less obliged to help ourselves and more willing to depend on the goodwill of government bureaucrats; we will feel less responsible for raising our own children and instead be duly indoctrinated into a sense of intergenerational complicity in the ever-insurmountable Western sins of slavery and colonialism, and we will take pleasure in having our gender and sexual orientation assigned to us by Director Tim Waltz and the US Department of Education.
We have been living through four years of an endless string of infectiousjoyListening to Kamala cackle while America burns,
