When the underground isn’t at GQ (The Most Radical Dress Socks to Wear Right Now), it’s at Vanity Fair where Graydon Carter denounces Trump (Donald Trump: A Pillar of Ignorance and Certitude) right above a photo of himself taken by Annie Leibovitz smiling smugly from his skyscraper office.
Maybe the resistance is Reed Hastings, the billionaire CEO of Netflix, who used his wealth catering to the tastes of urban elites, to lobby to raise the taxes of the middle class. Hastings whined that President Trump’s moves to protect Americans were “so un-American it pains us all.”
Who are this ‘us’? It might be Warren Buffett, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, with whom Hastings had joined to support Hillary Clinton. Or it might be the CEOs of Lyft, Airbnb and Twitter, to name a few, who have jointed the anti-Trump resistance of wealthy elites.
The “resistance” is a collection of elites, from actors at award shows to fashion magazines to tech billionaires, decrying a popular revolt against their rule. They are not the resistance. They are dictators in exile. They had their chance to impose their vision on the people. And they lost.
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Where as President Trump is indeed a display of popular movement that wants its will done, and not the wishes of an elite. We are seeing the stirrings of actual question of the void that was filled by the end of the Soviet Union that a real sense of communist. These elites assumed an position of authority that came with so many conditions that neither serve well an majority of people nor actually brings benefit to that majority.
how many of the 10 richest people on the planet are anti-trump?
Billionaires for socialism
There are plenty of billionaires against Trump. In fact, most of the multi-billionaires are probably working feverishly against his efforts to restore America because Trump is a Nationalist first and he is vigorously attacking the precepts of globalism.
Globalism is a form of colonialism. Instead of feeding the mother country, globalism feeds the “mothers” who pull the strings. That would be all these multi-billionaires who look for investments, manipulate economies, manipulate currencies, control rare earth supplies, buy legislative bodies and squat wherever they want to squat.
Some are in the nature of George Soros, some are affable Dracula’s like Warren Buffet, some are ideologues like the Koch brothers. The club is largely divided between the geriatric group and the young Turks in the cyber world. The younger set is all full of social justice piss and vinegar; the geriatric crowd is mostly just rapacious, but both groups have insatiable appetites for more, more, more.
The 1910 Aldrich Plan which was the focus of the Jekyll Island Federal Reserve creation; the Robber Barons; the House of Rothschild in the 1800’s; the Medici from the wane of the Dark Ages through the Renaissance and Enlightenment —- all have been accused of monopoly, manipulation and capitalized “slavery.”
But this truly is a different age than the world has ever known. Information and calculations move in nano seconds and credits have long since replaced a chest of gold coins. Globalists and governments would just as soon do away with the currency system entirely.
So, Trump shows up and focuses on something so simple and fundamental as jobs. J-o-b-s, which translates into going to work and getting paid and spending your money according to your free will decisions. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Elon Musk (Space X) are hot to eliminate jobs with automation and robots.
Wile Trump is basically in the services business, he fully understands making steel and growing food. He understands people and how food gets on the table. The globalists may understand it, but they really don’t care.
“The “resistance” is a collection of elites, from actors at award shows to fashion magazines to tech billionaires, decrying a popular revolt against their rule. They are not the resistance. They are dictators in exile. They had their chance to impose their vision on the people. And they lost.”
— When Knish hits it, he really hits it.
— I’d say “missed this change,” rather than “had [and lost] their chance”
— To anybody here who’s a classical history buff:
Is there a parallel period in the decline of the Roman (or other) Republic or Empire?
Opps. “missed this chance”
applebetty,
The parallels between 2017 USA and any other bit of history can only go back to 1789 when our fantastic form of popular sovereignty commenced. It never happened prior to 1789 in the history of the world. Underpinning our culture are the themes spelled out in the Bill of Rights. Granted, some would emasculate the Second Amendment, but I seriously doubt it could ever pass the requirements for any substantial change or elimination.
Obama really did attempt to undermine our culture of Constitutionalism. He capitalized on the murkiness of Executive Orders, he put political “czars” in each department who served his political interests and made sure his wishes were known. The various cabinet secretaries were thus shielded from being implicated and were basically just window dressing. That is why Lois Lerner was not indicted and why the I.G’s were continually thwarted. Of course, Obama had to have soul mate at Justice and have the control of State. He really pitted the intelligence agencies against one another and drove them into protecting their individual blocks of turf.
Had his form of government philosophy been preserved through another generation, the culture of Constitutionalism would have been altered and the checks and balances of federalism would have been pretty much erased. That is to say, The United Socialized States of America would have been established. The socialist dream has changed very little over time and it has failed to take root and survive any number of times. The fact that it often resorts to violence and dictatorship is almost axiomatic.
Lawrence Reed of the Foundation for Economic Education notes that there are five common ideas which constitute socialism: 1.) The Pass-a-Law Syndrome; 2.) The Get-Something-from-Government Fantasy; 3.) The Pass-the-Buck Psychosis; 4.) The Know-It-All Affliction; and, 5.) The Envy Obsession.
Without going into each of Reed’s threads, notice that each one concerns human nature. Simply put, for socialism to work, the controlling agent (government) must organize, direct and ultimately control human nature. That has never been accomplished in a constitutional republic. Nor is it even considered to be the job of government in a constitutional republic.
The media, colleges and universities and Hollyweird are full of themselves concerning how the sheeple need to be community organized by social justice warriors who will be made (forced) to do what is good for them.
So, I humbly submit, if you want a parallel, look at Castro or Hitler or Mao or any other practical practitioner of socialism.
It you are not familiar with the Wannsee Conference held by Reinhard Heydrich on January 20, 1942 in Berlin, I suggest you brief yourself on it. When a government goes deep into socialism, it will go to great lengths to make their “solutions” appear to be legal, sane and correct.
Lois Lerner at the IRS is small potatoes compared to exterminating whole races, but what Lois Lerner did was strictly in accord with “the ends justify the means.”